Studio Pics & Other Nonsense :)

AHHH YOU GUYS!!! As I am writing this it is the day before the studio has it’s first day of classes (Sunday night) and I just can’t even believe it!!! So much has happened this week, I don’t even know where to begin! Moments of shear fear like totally woke up in the middle of the night a couple of times and was like “what am I doing??!?” and moments where I am so excited I forget to breathe (turns out that’s a thing). I feel emotionally psycho, totally all over the place!! To describe how I am feeling I am going to tell you guys a story that’s kinda TMI/ kinda whatever….

A few months before Tomas and I got married I went on birth control. People who know me know that I am a pretty emotionally consistent human being. I tend not to have extreme highs and lows; I am basically always the same aside for a PMSy? moment from time to time. Well let me tell ya, that stuff did a number on me!! I literally was so psycho, I was scaring myself. I would start off laughing about something and immediately start crying ten seconds later for no apparent reason. I would get pissed over the stupidest things and Tomas did not know what to do with it. Poor guy he was probably like “what the hell am I getting into”… I remember we went to go view a house we were interested in renting and I asked him to bring a camera to take pictures and he forgot to charge it. I literally flipped a s***!! Like you would have thought I watched him murder a puppy. I was just yelling in this huge empty house about how inconsiderate he was for not charging it. OMGAHHH I‘m cringing as I remember this #realtalk. Needless to say I went off of it for all of our sakes but it was a rough few weeks…

I tell you all that to say I haven’t felt as extreme as that but there is definitely a hint of it. It’s crazy how much our emotions control us but it’s also crazy how much we can control our emotions. So anyway, all that to say that the highs and lows have been there for sure! My true perfectionist-self comes out in these types of situations where I want everything perfect and a certain way and when it doesn’t go that way I get SOOO frustrated like I annoy myself frustrated, like why is this such a big deal, it’s not, and I just need to get over myself. Hopefully you guys can relate and you’re not sitting there shaking your heads dialing some psycho hotline to have me committed because this would be a really bad/great time 😉 .

Well things have come together and it is unreal! Everything was done by Thursday (studio wise) and the grand opening party was on Friday and it could not have gone better! Shout out to Stephanie Garrision who planned and ran the whole thing flawlessly, like a freaking art! She needs a medal and a crown (tiara?)! There were so many people, SOOO much food, great music, and just a great time! I LOVED every second of it and it made me so excited about what’s to come!

The studio has come a long way for sure! To be honest when I got it, it kinda looked like a small groups conference room for a jail. Like wasn’t as bad as a jail cell but not much better. The paint was old, it was a blank room that just looked cold even though it was 100 degrees out. SLLOOOWWWLLYY we made improvements but everything really came together this past week to where I REALLY REALLY love it! It is exactly how I pictured it in my mind and I get so excited when I walk in! It’s so crazy to see something you dreamed of come to life, I know it will be a big deal to see our kids for the first time but this felt relatively close (is that weird?). I wanted to show you guys some pics so you could see it! I should have done a better job at “before” pics but it just didn’t happen so here are the after! Let me know what you think!!!!

By the time you guys read this we will have already had a couple of classes… AHH! Thank you guys for supporting me through this whole process… being able to share it has been pretty awesome. Of course there have been moments of “am I really writing this?” but it has been more then worth it! I know there has been a lot of “studio” talk lately and that will chill out, I just know a lot of you are pursuing your own dreams and it’s nice not to know we are not alone in the process! Dream chasing is hard!!

P.S. The winner of the give-away is Ashley Page!!! Ashley contact me for your free class pass! 🙂