Motivation...Or Lack of

I have been telling myself every day for the past couple of months that I need to get up and going in the exercise area of my life. Then I eat something not so healthy and I tell myself "oh you messed up today what is the point in exercising, try again tomorrow". Don't get me wrong, I know full well that that is all the more reason to exercise but my brain is tricky. So this morning I told myself that today is the day i'm going to get on that treadmill. Well I knew I would be having pizza for lunch (my department won a contest and the prize was a pizza party)..that doesn't help the waist line. I decided salad was going to be my dinner. As I was driving home I was thinking about that treadmill and remembered that my headphones for my ipod is broken so I splurged and spent a whopping $5 on headphones so I can run to my music. I keep telling myself that even if I just run for 20 min (if I can last that long) I will feel so much better about myself and it will motivate me to keep getting on that treadmill every day. Well here it is 8:30pm and my brain is being all tricky again and telling me that I ate pizza what is the point in getting on the treadmill. So here I am documenting the fact that today is the day that I over power that tricky part of my brain. As soon as this post is completed the knee braces are going on, the tennies are getting tied, and the hair is getting pulled back as best I can and I am going to conquer that stupid voice in my head. Wish me luck!

Let's Try this AGAIN!!

My darling husband informed me a couple of weeks ago that I haven't been blogging and need to do better. So here I am AGAIN to say i will try to do better. I decided that I would wait until Allie's 6th birthday to do my come back post. Can you believe it?  6 years old!  So here we go....Allie turned 6 yesterday. We had a birthday party for her on saturday. She let me know that she wanted a smurf party and she wanted to be smurfette. Being the most fabulous mother that I am I set out to accomplish her smurf desire. I got online and looked up all the info I could on smurf parties and prizes and decorations and games and the list goes on. I found a wonderful lady on ebay who made these darling invitations. I then went on amazon and found a smurf movie (old school), smurf reading books, smurf stickers, smurf rings, and smurf coloring books (prizes covered). Then there were the Smurf hats I wanted to make for each child at the party. They turned out cute. I went to the copy center and this wonderful lady helped me create the decorations and the details for the gift bags. In the gift bags went a blue jump rope, blue balloon, blue push pop, blue airheads, blue mike and ikes, a sheet of smurf stickers, and a box of crayons which as you know contains a blue crayon. I made Allie a white tutu for a different spin on smurfette's dress and a white t-shirt went over a long sleeve blue shirt and a pair of blue leggings under the tutu. I cut out brainy smurf glasses for a trivia game. We had a smurf bingo game, and played pass the present, which we did to the smurf theme song. then it was time for smurf cupcakes with the rings on top that I got from amazon and a blue squeeze it juice. I think that it was quite a success. That night when Allie was a sleep I blew up 25 balloons and trapped them between her door and garbage bags so that in the morning when she opened her door the balloons would fall at her feet. It didn't work out as perfectly as I had planned but she still was suprised and loved every minute of it.
Also this week, allie started first grade.




Allie opening gifts

Gift bags



Decorations

My brainy smurfs

Cupcakes

Having refreshments

 

1st day of first grade

Milestones

The Kids in our family are starting to reach milestones and I am sad that they are growing up so fast. The week of Christmas Gracelyn started to crawl and get to the sitting postion on her own. I think those go hand in hand. Now she is pulling herself up and walking around the furniture. I took her in for her 9 month check up (9 Months...where does the time go?) she weighs in at 15 lbs 7 oz  3%tile  and is 29" tall  90%tile. WOW!!

Grace standing

Crawing

Allie just lost her 1st tooth today. She told me she kept wiggling it and it just falled out. Now she is happy not only cause the tooth fairy will be coming tonight but because she can eat food now without her tooth moving and hurting her. We have been working very hard today to get her tooth fairy pillow sewn together so the tooth fairy won't have to fish around under her pillow and risk waking Allie up and blowing her cover.  

Cute smile

Tooth fairy pillow

Trevor has been trying his hardest to go potty in his big boy potty. He is doing a great job. Every once in a while there will be an accident but for the most part he is making it. He gets rewarded with chocolate milk and cheetos.

Big boy

He loves to vaccuum

Hello Again

I keep saying I will do better at blogging but by the looks of it I lied. I will try to update you with our summer and fall and add pictures after.

 Allie had lots of fun playing her soccer games. At the end of the season she got a medal. she was very excited for that. She started kindergarten and is learning lots. we are working hard at getting her to read sight words. she likes to look at the pictures in the book and guess at what the words say instead of sounding them out. She went on a field trip and got to ride the bus to hee haw farms in October. She dressed up as a greek goddess for halloween, but i'm a bad mom and forgot to take a picture of her in it.  She was at her uncles and was riding a horse and the horse reared back cause she was screaming (she screams at everything) and she got bucked off. We took her to the dr to see if her arm was broken (it was very swollen) she had x-rays and we found out it wasn't broken, thank goodness. She did have to wear a sling for a couple of days to help with the swelling and pain.

Trevor turned 3 on October 3rd. It seems like he was 2 for the LOOOONGEST time. I am hoping that now that he is "older" he will lay off being michevious (wishful thinking). we have had fingernail polish on our walls, markers on my mattress, crushed chips in the carpet, etc, etc, etc. He is learning lots of new words and makes me laugh at the things he comes up with.. His favorite word is probably Treat. That is what I hear from him first thing in the morning, when I pick him up from the babysitter,  before he goes to bed, and all the time in between. He loves to help me cook and needs to see everything I am cooking. I made him a lightning McQueen costume for halloween. He liked it up until he had to wear it and walk. I had to tell him that if he didn't wear it he wouldn't get candy. Trevor went to father and sons for the first time ever and had lots of fun playing with the binoculars.

Gracelyn is now 8 1/2 months old. She now has 2 almost 3 teeth and her very first ear infection. She is now sitting up on her own and loves to be tossed in the air. I had planned on dressing her up as a pumpkin for halloween, but didn't quite realize that she was bigger then the costume and it didn't fit, so I ran to my costume reserve and dressed her as a lion. once again i forgot to take pictures. the only reason i have one of Trevor is cause i took it a week before halloween.

Christopher has a friend who was growing a huge pumpkin to enter in a contest and we went to see it for FHE. The guy was nice enough to let them sit on the pumpkin to get their picture taken.
We had our family pictures taken recently and I love them. I kept telling Janeen (our photographer) that I only wanted pictures of the kids, but she told me that i should just get a few with myself and christopher in them and i'm glad she talked me into it.

I have been doing lots of sewing. I decided that in order to save money (since i am now learning how to budget) i would make some of my kids christmas presents. I think i have become addicted to making things for my kids. My next project is to make gracie leggings from my old t-shirts...I just might have to go shopping for new clothes for me if I keep this up. I dressed up as a paperdoll for halloween. I was very crafty this year with cardboard.

Allie waiting to get her arm x-rayed.

Allie on the big pumpkin

Allie's first day of school.

Riding her big girl bike she got for her birthday.

Riding a big slide a Hee Haw farms

Trevor on the big pumpkin

Trevors Halloween costume

Trevor on his bike he got for his birthday. He refused to look at the camera.

Trevor at father and sons

Trevor cooking

My halloween costume.

These last pictures are a few of our pictures we just got taken.