I've always sucked at this!

Keeping up on blogs that is! hahah. Whew times have changed sense the last post.

The biggest is that we are moving. We were out in Colorado visiting our family for spring break when Jesse got the call....the Army is overstaffed so they are letting some recruiters go back to the main line early! Sweeeeeeetttttttt!!!! We HATE recruiting. I've said before I'd rather him be deployed. Crazy statement I know, but until you've lived in the hell we call recruiting you cant fully understand.....I know I didnt.

So we were all excited, wondering where we'd end up. We were pretty sure we'd end back up in Ft. Sill at least for a little while, figured Jess would go back over the big pond to the sand box within 6 months of getting there...we were fine with that...at least it wasnt recruiting! So we waited...literally for months! (spring break was in March) They gave us our choices Ft. Lewis, Ft. Hood, Ft. Sill or Ft. Bragg if he went to Korea first for a year. We didnt want to have him leave here directly to a year tour over there so we told them we'd take Ft. Sill. This was at the beginning of April. So we waited again, thinking that when he finally got orders they would be to Ft. Sill for sure. Boy were we wrong. Finally in the beginning of May we heard back from them. He was going to Korea no matter what...boo!

So now he's scheduled to leave sometime in November, although he's trying to get his report date moved up sometime in October. The kids and I are headed to Colorado the beginning of August to stay with my parents for the year because as of right now we dont know where we will be going when he comes home and probably wont know until he's about 1/2 way through his tour. Gotta love it.

Anyway thats all for now lol I started writing this hours ago and I know there was more I wanted to say but I cant remember what it was anymore haha.

Yay for taxes!

So I've been on a massive spending spree the past 2 days sense our taxes came in. I dont think I've EVER spent this much money at once on myself (well ok so the diapers are technically for Logan, but really he doesnt care how they look or what prints they have so they are mine too LOL).

One of my biggest single purchases is my sewing machine! I havent touched one sense high school so it's been interesting to say the least (as of right now we have a love/hate thing going on!). So far I've managed to jack up a few projects and make a few usable ones lol. The usable things are a soaker for Logan (it's a fleece diaper cover for you non cloth diaper people), about 15 double sided wipes made out of CUTE monkey flannel, and a pillow for Bekahs baby cradle lol. The cradle actually used to be mine when I was a little girl (I think I got it when I was about 6 or 7) and it still had the same fabric on it from 20ish years ago haha. Needless to say it was in dire need of being replaced. I still need to make the fabric that covers the "mattress" but that wasnt a task I was undertaking with Logan awake haha. I'm also crocheting her a blanket that matches the new pillow and "sheet".

Sadly now pretty much all my money is gone lol except what I've put aside for clothes for myself (We need to pick a shopping weekend Amy!). Thats ok though, it feels good to know that I've finally gotten to get the stuff I've been holding off on for so long!

Anyway I think I'm gonna go veg on the couch and crochet while I wait for Jesse to come home!

Round and Round we go!

Thankfully things are finally starting to look up here. Our renter FINALLY paid for the past 2 months rent, our state taxes came in, and hubby gets a pay raise for being in the Army for 8 years! YAY!

I stepped on the scale today and from when I started eating less, limiting my snacks and only allowing myself one soda a day I've dropped 9lbs already! Now once I get my butt in gear and actually start working out it will be even better haha! I plan on buying a Wii fit with some of my portion of the federal tax money, I cant wait! I think part of what makes my motivation lack is the fact that to me working out isnt FUN, especially out in the garage where we are really limited on what we can do.

There are quite a few other things I look forward to buying hehe. Like more cloth diapers. It's amazing how much taking a break from cloth did me (I took a break for about a month or so) because I was so burned out with dealing with issues (stink and wash) but now I've found the love again. Although I do wish I hadnt sold over half of my diapers in the process. Oh well, at least it made it so I was able to buy Christmas gifts for people that didnt come out of the bank account.

Doug is having issues at school again with his behavior. I really dont know what to do about it, it's not something his medication would cover...thats to help with his focus. His behavior is a whole other can of worms that I'm not sure how to deal with. I dont want to put him on more meds, but something has got to give. Dont get me wrong he HAS improved, but I think thats due more to maturity than anything else. I guess I can hope that he'll eventually just out grow it, but it's not easy talking to the princaple of the school and hearing that your 7 year old is throwing hissy fits on the level of a 2 year old.

There is a father/daughter dance at the end of the month that Bekah is soooooo excited about. I think we'll go dress shopping this weekend. This is the first year that she's been old enough to go (It's for K-5th grade).

Ok enough babbling. I need to pick up the living room while Logan is still napping so we can go do our running around when he wakes up!

Pink eye

So Mr. Doug has pink eye. Ugh! Couldnt get him into the doc today so we have to wait until tomorrow...which means he misses today and tomorrow for school (they have to be on antibiotics for 24hrs before they can go back to school). And that means that he'll have missed 4 days in the past 2 weeks! He NEVER misses this much school....I dont like it when they miss school grrr.

Tomorrow is going to be HECTIC in the morning. First we have to go to the tax place at 7:30 to finish our taxes (we forgot some paperwork last week and we had to wait on other things), then Doug's dr appt is at 8:45, but we have to be there at 8:30, and THEN the housing people are coming at 9 to fix the stuff they found at the last inspection. Hopefully we can manage to pull it all off.

I've also decided to start my spring cleaning. That should be interesting, and if I'm smart I'll put it off until after the housing people come lol last thing they need to see is the house all tore up because I'm "cleaning".

Going to run some errands as soon as Logan wakes up here in a few, then come back and get some serious cleaning done!

Ok so...

I havent posted sense October! Eeek! I also decided that this will not only be a weight loss blog but just an every day blog. Sometimes it's nice to just blog about whats going on in my life.

I'm a mother to 3 kids, who are the light of my life. I've been married to an amazing man for 8 1/2 years. I have a small number of friends in real life, but the ones I do have are amazing and I like it that way :).

It takes me a while to open up to new people, I've been burned a lot by people in my life so I'm not so quick to let people in anymore.

I have two dogs and a cat (well 2 cats at the moment but the 2nd one is temporary) whom are like my other babies lol. I'm sure I'll blog about them too sense they take up quite a bit of my time as well :)

Umm thats pretty much it for now, I hear the baby so time to jump off of here and go get him.

Back on Track

Time for me to get back on track. Between being lazy, then getting sick, I've been slipping! Time to kick it back into high gear though. As soon as the baby lays down I will be jumping on the treadmill and then either lifting weights or doing one of my many video's.

On a plus side I did drop 3lbs somehow lol. I'm not sure how it happened but I'm happy about it :D I think it's probably because we dont really have junk food in the house so nothing for me to munch on really.

I got to meet Amy yesterday for the first time face to face! YAY! I had a blast and cant wait until she gets out here next month for good! She can be my workout buddy lol motivate my sorry butt if I start slacking :)

Ugh!

Ok so apparently I need to get my butt back in gear...including posting on here. I've pretty much gained back everything I lost! But I've also been REALLY bad and havent worked out this week at all...BAD! I need to get back on track!

Hopefully today I'll be able to squeeze in a workout. I promised a friend of mine I'd do some running around with her this morning, and Doug has an appointment with his behavior specialist this afternoon so I really dont know *when* I'll get to work out.

On the plus side, I have still been eating breakfast! It's become a habit now and if I dont eat I start to feel sick. But doing half of what I said I was going to do isnt going to help me loose the weight! Time to kick it back up again!

Whew

My body is extremely sore today lol. Then again working out 4 days in a row will do that to a person...especially a someone who previously hasnt worked out in about a month. I'm happy with it though, makes me feel good to be doing something finally! And I cant help but love the motivation that I seem to have now.

I meant to blog yesterday, but just spaced it with all the stuff we had to do. Between working out, cleaning up the house and then having friends over for dinner it just slipped my mind lol.

I got 2 new workout dvd's from walmart yesterday. One was a dance one, and the other I cant remember haha. I do know that it comes with a huge resistance band, so hopefully it works! I plan on doing at least one of them today, so I'll have to make a post about how it goes.

I've been getting a lot of headaches lately. I'm pretty sure they are caused by the fact that I'm not drinking anywhere near as much caffeine as I used to though...so hopefully my body gets used to it soon and the headaches stop! Because nothing gets rid of them and that is never fun!

I did step on the scale today....went back up 2lbs :( but I'm not TOO worried about it. I've still lost over a pound in only a couple of days, and it's also possible that the reason it even went up is because I've gained muscle. As we all know, muscle weighs more than fat! That and I'm still below 160, so that makes me happy haha. I still have over 5 weeks left to reach my 6 week goal, plenty of time!

Anyway gonna run for now, gonna finish my coffee, eat some breakfast and kick the kids/daddy out of the living room so I can go work out haha

Melts like butter

Part of me wants to think my scale is broken lol it's either that or this whole eating in moderation and cutting some stuff out is working a lot better than I expected. Yesterday I was at 158.8, today I was at 157.4! That means I've lost over 3lbs in 3 days! How is that even possible? LOL

Worked out this AM for a little bit. Probably should have done more but I also know if I go all out every single day I'm just going to burn myself out. So I just did some time on the treadmill today, and I'm thinking about doing some palates when the baby goes down for another nap. I'm definitely feeling the workouts though! Even bending over to pick something up makes my abs hurt haha. Ate 2 eggs and half a bagel for breakfast with just a tiny bit of cream cheese (usually I put a ton of cream cheese on my bagels!) Now just trying to decide what to have for lunch. Tonight should be interesting sense I'm making spaghetti...thats one of the main things I over eat on! Hopefully I do good controlling it today.

I think I'm actually going to stay away from the scale for a few days. I know the first time the number goes up instead of down it's gonna be a blow. We'll see if I can actually do it though lol I tend to be a bit obsessive when I'm trying to loose weight....as in stepping on the scale 4 or 5 times a day.

Part of me cant help but kick myself, because so far it's been super easy to start dropping weight...if I had started when I should have, I could be really close to my goal weight by now!

22lbs total left to go!!

Woot!

Ok so yesterday when I got on the scale it said 160.8...hence why I put 161 in my last post lol. I got on it this AM and it said 158.8! Now granted my weight yesterday probably wasnt accurate sense a) I weighed myself around 1pm, after I had already eaten a couple times that day and b) I just got off my period hehe so that could have dropped me about a pound as well. Either way it's nice to see the scale BELOW 160!

So this morning I had one cup of coffee, a bottle of water and 2 pieces of toast :) I also just spent 15 min jogging/walking on the treadmill, plus another 20 min lifting weights! Yay me!

Talked to Jesse last night about my plan, and this blog. He of course is totally on board with it (he does love me for me, but he knows I'm not happy about the way I look) but I can also tell he doesnt think I will stick to it. Cant blame him really, because I also said that when we got our treadmill and weight bench 6 months ago I'd be out there at least 3 times a week...yeah that worked for maybe the first 2 weeks...and then it went to once a week, once every two weeks, once a month ect. I think it finally got to where I went a whole month without going out there at all. So yeah I cant blame him at all for not believing me lol. Only way to change that though is to prove him wrong :) That and I know the more I work out, and the more the lbs and inches melt away the more motivated I will be!!

Anyway, off to shower! I am all sweaty and I still need to accomplish the other part of the promise to myself....which would be actually getting dressed, fixing my hair and putting on makeup :)