at least it wasnt a month

i have to work tonight, which is great i need the money, but its a great day out id love to go to the park with the boys instead for sure.

My niece is due at the end of Nov. and hopefully she'll be able to carry full term, she was born at 30 weeks gestational herself and a very pettite girl. We all just want a healthly baby.

Softball starts next week so i need to get my butt to running again so i dont embrass myself, lol.
Well gotta get ready for work.

Okay Okay....

It has been well over a month since i have had time to sit and play on the computer. Both boys are in soccer which is 3xs a week between the both of them, Im back at work aaagggghhhhh, I forgot how much i hated work. Wish we could win the Lottery, but then again you'd actually have to play the lottery lol.

I found out yesterday that my niece is expecting her first baby, not for sure the due date yet. I am totally excited about having a new addition to our already very large family. Hopefully the baby will be here about Christmas that would be the best ever!!!!

I am also getting ready to start co-ed softball again on wednesday nites, which will be awesome. Since i havent been doing very well on excerising lately, got sick and just have been plain ol lazy.
I am still down 25 lbs but kinda just hanging out there. I have to start running again, it will hopefully warm up soon so i can just take the dog and jay with me to the park.

My 9th wedding annv. is coming up on the 21st, its a little crazy to think of myself as "old enough" to have been married for 9 years. I wouldnt change a day for anything in the world, we are truely still IN LOVE with each other after almost 13 years together. He makes me laugh still almost on a daily basis depends on my day (lol). The best father any mother could ask for, he cooks and cleans.... my wonderful husband!!!!!

Well headed to bed, hoping i will be able to get on more soon... until later

So lots been going on...

last week I had to go home to help my mom out with a minor medical issue. While there I got to spend the days with my mom and the nights with all my girls, I drank, relaxed and had a wonderful 2-3 day "break". Now I'm back home and back to working out everyday. Just finished with a 5 mile run and then I played volleyball with some friends for about an hour. I feel soooo much better!!!!!!!!!!! Now I need a shower and gonna relax til its time for bball practice tonite. Also my husband (is the best ever) has decided that we can get a small "lap" dog. A friends sister's dog just had a puppy, she is really little and furry and I cant wait til we get to bring her home. Just have to find her a name I like Piper, N likes Izzy, J likes Lily, and dad's says we'll decide when we get her. Cant wait:) I'll post pics as soon as we get her.

I NEED OUT.....

i have been home not leaving once since monday, people im going crazy!!!!!!!!!! I miss excerising, running and walking the outdoors period. I'm hoping that tomorrow will bring lots of sunshine and melt this crap away....

What a Beautiful Day....

its only noon and its already almost 60 degrees outside, So im headed to the outdoor track and hopefully put in 6 miles today :) Hope everyone has a wonderful day!!!!!!!!!!

wednesday

I got my 5 miles in today again WOO HOO but im still tired and really dont want to do anything else except shower and chill so I think thats what the plan is for tonite. And watch a little colleage Basketball. Have a great day to all :):)

It's going to get easier right????

i have been really good these last three weeks with excersising and watching what i eat. It does get easier tho right??? Im soo worn out from my workouts everyday, I guess y they call it a work out but gosh im still sore. I always feel better (on the inside) after my workouts, I just thought it might get a little easier soon. I did 5 miles today, and i have lost a total of 22 lbs so far but i cant wait for it to get easier :) wishful thinking i know

WOOO IM POOPED....

i have started to excerise everyday (well atl least 5-6 times a week), i started last monday on the 5th. I did really well for my first week, was walking at least 2 miles aday by weeks end i was walking 5 miles aday. This week i started walking 5 miles and today i RAN 2.5 miles and walked another 2.5 miles so i still made it to 5 for the total but i tell ya im sooooooo exhausted, my legs hurt, it took almost 30 minutes for my "red" face to go away. But Im happy that i have stuck with it everyday :)

In other news, still no job. I went and applied a few places today, no luck tho. But im just trying to stay postive about the whole situation, the excerise is really helping in this area. I know we'll be okay its just been so long since i have went w/o a job, feeling a little uncertain. I really wanted to just pack everything up and move home for that safe feeling, but my husband and i have had sereval long conversations about all of this and have decided to just sit on our tax money this year, which means no vacations like i wanted but oh well right?....hopefully we will be able to find us a house here this summer and really settle in. I want to be able to go back to school next semester for pharmacy tech. There is a school in Springfield, which is about 45 minutes from here, i hope i get accepted that way i have a career and not just a job. Well thats all for now i think.

Lots of decisions??

I recently turned in my notice at work for a "better" job.... come to find out the day before i start the "new" job I get a phone call that they're just going to bring over another girl from another hotel for the winter instead of filling the postition that they advertised!!!!!!!!!!!! So uggghhhh I have already quit my old job and now have no job because i had orenitation papers and a schedule of when i worked so of course i turned in my notice at the current job and today was my last day there.

Which brings me to all these decisions #1 do i "tough" it out thru the winter and enjoy the time off with my husband and kids and get a job in april when everything starts hiring again ( cause i live in Branson where jobs are seasonal)? #2 pack up and move home to where i have a job and thats where our families are from?

Pros to moving> family, job secerty, my boys love it there, i miss my friends that i have been friends with for 20+ years, that will always be "home" to me,i dont get to see my nieces and nephews grow up, nick has friends there, etc....

Cons to moving> its the middle of the school year, "we" as a family seem happier here, we have made lots of new friends, the tough part is only til april ( but this will happen every year!), we wouldnt only be near my family but his too, which seems to be 1/2 our agurements, our marriage is the best that has ever been since we moved here, its alittle more expensive to live there than here, much less drama here, etc....


Not for sure which we'll choose, just going to try to make the best decision for us as a family. The boys opioion compeletly matter in our decision.

sorry for the rabbling just needed to write it down....

MY first blog of 2009

SO Happy New Year to everyone!!!!!!! I'm totally looking forward to Thursday night, the BCS National Title Game GOOOOO SOONERS! A few things have changed already this year, I got a new job ( I start next monday), i have offically lost 18lbs since Thanksgiving, for those of you that dont know me personally i have struggled with my weight for the last 9 years, in 99 i was at my "skinnyest" point shortly after that summer i got pregos with my oldest son and then life started and i let it get away. Never again will i weight over 200 lbs and yes this is huge for me, i have two sisters that are personal trainers so i get "the talk" about how lifes not getting any shorter but moving faster everyday, so i decided to start 2009 off right with a weightloss goal of 50 lbs before June 1st.

My H.S. reunion is this summer which is always a great motivater, i havent seen lots of these people in also 10 years and i dont want to show up FAT!!!!!!!!!! So hopefully i can reach my goal and be thin again, i dont need to be "skinny" just a healthly weight. So one of my friends and i went walking today we walk alittle of 2 miles in an hour and we're gonna meet up tomorrow too.

Even though i feel horrible (i have that stupid "head cold") i will get up and go walking tomorrow again m-f for one hour and on the weekends me and the boys will get outside if its not too cold for them. We have a great workout place here it only cost a dollar to walk for as long as you want indoors on a track.

We had a wonderful christmas with all the family. Now im looking forward to a "girls night" back home with my girls. I miss home everytime i go but we as a family are soo happy here. The trips home also make me very appericative of my family and friends everyone is always happy that we're there and we usually have a wonderful time, instead how it used to be feeling like a chore just to go out to my parents i dont mean that in a bad way just when we lived there it was only 45 minutes so we would litterally go every weekend i didnt realize how different i could feel about going back to that small town in Okla. out in the middle of no where. lol..... Hope i feel better in the morning so i can get more out of my walk :)

haven't been on for awhile....

I have been picking up extra shifts at work, to make all the christmas wishes come true. I am sure that it will be a wonderful day. I know that thats not the "reason" for the season, but my 8 yr old has been asking lots of questions about santa.... "how does he go all around the world in one night?" "reindeer cant fly" etc, etc, etc. So when we're not around lil brother, i let him ask ?'s and try to be as vauge as possible with my answers (haha) so after the holidays, we will probably have "the talk" . But i dont want him to "ruin" it for my lil one (he's only 4). So i have tried to fulfill the Santa list this year, but anyways i have lots of packing to do before we leave on tuesday, and i havent even started laundry yet. Im soooo tired today, i hope to get some energy this afternoon so i can get motivated to get everything done. Just wanted to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, safe travels for everyone.

In the mind of a 4 yr old....

So im in the kitchen cooking dinner a couple of nights ago and over heard the boys talking in the living while watching t.v.,
J: N your not the toughest kid in the world!

N: Whatever J ( eyes rolling and completly ignoring his brother)

J: Wanna know why???

N: Why J ???

J: Cause I am...
Are your friends mean to you at school??? Do they make you cccrrryyyy??? (LOL)

N: No my friends are nice to me

J: Well let me know if anyone is mean to you at school

N: Whatever J


I was literally cracking up in the kitchen. The four yr who is half the size of his big brother just needed N to know "he's got his back" too funny, he comes up with some of the most hilarious things, What an imagination....

Im ready...

for tomorrow night, its the Big XII Championship game WOO HOO. I cant wait really, i picked up a shift in the morning so just about the time i get home and cook dinner i will be sitting down to dinner and OU football.

Several of our friends are going to the game, its gonna be really cold. But i totally wish i was going :) Beat Mizzou and then it the national championship game, that would be awesome. Even though every year we make it to a BCS game we have lost the last like 3 or 4 bowl games, it's really frustrating..... but this is our year i think to go and win our bowl game and Sam Bradford for the Heisman. That would be ideal in "my" world.....:):) thats really all for today, im extremly tired and really ready for bed but i just put the kids to bed so i have about an hour of peace and quiet then ill prolly head to bed.

I'm Back...

i got that horrible stomach virus that is going around, OMG it was horrible. I feel better today but this has been a three day thing, almost everyone else was only sick about 24 hours, but not me i catch and it hangs out for a while, not to mention the boys already had it. So as im truely feeling like im on my death bed, i realize what they had to go through before me and it made me feel a little worse. We have our fingers crossed that the hubby wont catch it. So my week basically has been spent in bed or in the bathroom floor with the windows and doors open in my house, and yes it freakin cold out but i tell ya if it was above 50 degrees around me i was puking up everything. When i get sick or dont feel well i CAN NOT get hot or i will start throwing up it might sound weird but that's just me. So Tuesday was my worst day and the hubby had to work, so i had both boys all evening by myself, i literally couldnt lift my head off the pillow. Luckily my eight year old learned how to use the microwave that night he made hotdogs and chips for him and lil brother. Go ahead i know its horrible but every time i got up i threw up, i tried two times to stand in the kitchen for approx 3 minutes to help get everything out and and talked him through the rest. He liked it cause he got to "make" dinner (what a healthly dinner too). But im feeling much better tonite i was still weak and icky feeling today but i did go to work and made it thru the whole day. So for everyone that has had it IM SORRY and for everyone else just hope it skips you this time.....

IM SOOO HAPPY

... that my Sooners won again. YAY!!!!! I have already had a woo hoo to my sis (she's a huge cowboy fan). They actually got to go see the game live, she said it was great. But we'll have to wait to see if its us or Texas to play Mizzou next week. This week should be interesting at work, I work with several Mizzou fans, guess that goes with living in Missouri lol but theres always a great Monday morning conversation about football. Which kinda makes me sad a little its almost over..... BOOMER SOONER i couldnt be more PROUD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!