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If you were to hang out here in our offices and observe the daily happenings, here’s one random thing you might notice: we have a lot of nicknames. 🙂 To make things easy, we’ve always used our first initials… so you’ll often see us refer to each other on Twitter or here on the blog by saying “A” – “D” – “M” – “C” – or “K”. And then there are the more random nicknames. For example, here are just a few of my nicknames through the years: Kimee (of course), K-dog, K-frog/K-froggie, KW, KDub, Kimee-cat… and then there’s my MOST recent nickname: “Cadbury.” Wondering how I got that one? Well, that one was actually given to me by a Parisian gal we met while sitting at a cafe. We were all sitting at this place in the St Germain district, and one friendly gal just walked up to our table and started chatting with us. We all introduced ourselves, and she had a fun association with everyone’s names… when Ashley introduced herself, this gal said: “Oh, like Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen!”… to Marissa she said “Oh, like from the OC”… and then as she was leaving, she went around the table and said, “Goodbye Weston, Marissa, Ashley, and Cadbury.” As she was walking away, we all looked at each other and started cracking up. Apparently “Kimberlee” sounded a lot like “Cadbury.” Funny thing is, Cadbury eggs used to be my favorite candy when I was a kid! Haha! So, the nickname has stuck, and around here, it wouldn’t be abnormal if you overheard someone say ‘Hey, Cadbury!’ So feel free to call me Cadbury the next time you see me. 😉 Happy Tuesday, everyone! Hope you’re all having a wonderful week!

PS… We honestly can’t BELIEVE that we still haven’t posted pics from Paris. There are just SO many photos, & it’s such a huge project, that it just keeps getting pushed back (especially w/ all of our shoots, workshops, big projects, and speaking programs that we’ve got going on… the to-do lists just keep growing!) But in the meantime, here are a few random ones from one of our sight-seeing days in Paris:

Kimberlee’s got a boyfriend! Well, she has for awhile. But I finally got to spend some time with this guy and I approve. So now I am officially announcing that she has a boyfriend even though she has already said so here and there. She may have even twittered it at one point. Lol. Sorry Bitner you know that’s funny. So I know that I am grown up and all but I still can’t help but feel like a school girl and want to gossip about it. So there. Consider it gossiped! 🙂 Eric, you’re dating a girl in the blogging world, so be prepared to be plastered on this blog! It just comes with the territory.

I have to admit that one of the huge benefits of having a biz partner and staff as wonderful as mine is knowing that stuff is still happening while I’m gone. When it was just me and Weston running the biz I couldn’t help but feel like everything was at a standstill when I traveled or took a few days off. For instance when we backpacked through Europe and purposely didn’t take a laptop I was crawling out of my skin, ready to get back to work. Now this isn’t something I am proud of. I tried to overcome it many, many trips and I just couldn’t. But problem solved now! Us Divas and Divettes are quite a team and I can leave and still feel like my special little photography world isn’t at a standstill. Ahhhhh!!

Weston and I just got back from Vegas. Which I love. I love the shows, the perfume that my second home, The Venetian, pumps into our room, I love giggling at the prowling cougars at the pool, and over eating at the insanely good restaurants. Sushismaba I looove you! I also realize that I love Vegas because I am Gemini. I love extremes. I am a yoga going hippie one day and high heeled Diva the next. Although sometimes I want to be both at the same time which only frustrates me.

So now that I am home from Vegas I am loving spending some quiet time with me and my journal. I try to do devotionals everyday, although there are times that no matter how much I promise myself I will ahead of time, I always seem to slack on vacations, Disneyland days and Sundays.
Whew, I don’t typically talk about myself  THIS much. Or at least that’s what I am telling myself while I write this. But I am on vacation and really haven’t talked to another human being besides my hubby in days, so I find that this sort of time spent with myself creates an intense inner monologue. Which who better to share with than our blog readers! You! Thanks guys.

On the Freedom Tour with Showit K and talked a lot about making sure that you know where you are going with life and career before you set out on your journey.  I probably do this too much, but I love having my course spelled out for me. So today I charted it out yet again. Ah, I can’t tell you how much better I feel. I can’t say that this is the best way to do this but I like to divide my life into different categories. The categories that are most important to me. Then I list below what is important about those categories and what are regualr activites I want within those areas.  But at the same time you don’t want to be so strict with yourself that you stress yourself out. Balance is important. For instance I loooove yoga, but I am not going to say “attend yoga two times per week,” because then it kinda feels like a chore. So I am going to say “*Enjoy Yoga at your heart’s content.” Although  I am much more strict with my business goals.

I am sure that a lot of you have done this, but if you haven’t I think you need to spend some quiet time just relecting on your life. Slow down, turn everything off, and explore your life and where it is at. Where you want it to be. And before you know it, all the pieces start to come together. But it wouldn’t be fair without saying that a huge part of that recipe is praise, gratitude and prayer. And if I hadn’t blurred it out a little you would see on my journal that that is a definite area that I want to work on more. Being away from home and your daily routine is really the best way to dig deep. October workshop attendees we really suggest that you do this while you are in your hotel room here in SD. Okay guys, time to go do something fun. Maybe a bike ride!?