Insanity

So this is my 5th week of Insanity... Check back with me after the next 4 weeks to see hoefully good results.. I'm sticking with it and now drinking the Shakeology Shakes they recommend with the program.  I've lost only 2 pounds, but probably some inches.  They say the real weight lost happens in the 2nd month... I'm committing to 6 days a week now. Before I was only doing 4-5 and maybe running on the days I skipped. I've incraesed my water intake that had been lacking.. We'll see.

Also, my sister wants to do the White Rock 1/2 this year with me. She said she'll fly down in December and do it, but won't by her plane ticket until I register! LOL! I've been wanting to do a 1/2 for years, so since she's motivating me, I'm going to suck it up and start training in July like most training programs for the White Rock which is now actually called "MetroPCS".  So that's that.

One bunk bed is up, but realized we will have to move rooms in the house for both beds to fit better. So we have to take part of it down and move it and then build the 2nd one. It'll be a moving room weekend... Along with my husband playing golf Saturday and me taking the boys to ANOTHER birthday party... 

Other than that, Mother in Law left last weekend, but nothing too big going on. Preparing for my Dad's side of the family's reunion in Little Rock the following weekend... Road Trip with the family. We are renting a suburban with my mom, dad, and 15 year old niece and nephew and maybe my Brother! HA!!  Luckily, its only 6 hours tops!

Should be fun to see some of my cousins....

Although, I may be taking a short Vegas trip for a friend's husbands 40th. We'll see! Have to find the cash......

Big overtime check hopefully coming in soon next week , you know from the strike that my husband worked. Should help bunches!

Today at work , I lead my 2nd call to the clients (AT&T). Wish me luck! I was so nervous 2 weeks ago and then we had July 4th break, so now hopefully, I'll be more relaxed! Love it though! :)

New Beds - New Room

Happy Friday!! My husband is finally done with the strike! It's over!!  Now he's back home in the evenings! Hallajuah!!  The boys really miss him.

 I've been consistent with my Insanity workout and eating plan over these last 3 weeks. I've haven't lost much weight, like 2lbs, but I think i've lose inches, hoepfully! I am going to stick with it b/c I KNOW it will pay off. I've stopped my sodas and other sweets and I've tried to drink more water.

I finally got the Tropical Strawberry Shakeology Shake to taste good and not SO grainy, so I'll be using that now for meal replacements :)

T-ball has been going alright, they just need more practice hitting off the T.. We need to buy one at home, but hey, it's their first time ever playing, so I will cut them so slack. :) 

So we are getting the IKEA bunk beds for the boys next weekend. So, you can flip it over to be a high bed, or a low bed until they are age appropriate! We are also getting the cute tents that go over it. Can't wait!  It was supposed to be this weekend, but my stupid Passat window broke and now is sliding down automatically. It won't stay up, so now we have to get that FIXED TOO!!! Along with the Catalytic Converter.  So ready for my new/used car in December.... So over it, but I still love that car despite its flaws!!! LOL!

I'm also going to decorate their room in a Spider man theme. That's what Preston and Chase want. They said, they want a spider man bed, tv, rug, sheets, pillow and clock! So hilarious!!!!

So that's my next product once I get some more money! :) Other than that, just trying to survive the 102 degree heat and go swimming as much as possible. I did recently pruchase 2 new swimsutis from TJMAXX , Score!! So I'll be wearing one saturday at a friends daughters water park birthday party on saturday.

And tonight is all about MAGIC MIKE with the ladies! :)

Have a great weekend!! :)

Vacations-Workout-Random

Hello Blog world!

Family Reunion July 20th - I started a weight loss challenge with my 2 sisters and mom. Winner gets $$$$... So I borrowed Insanity from a coworker. I start tonight. Started eating right today.. I HAVE to stick with it.! :)

Weekend- Went swimming at the community pool with my 14 year old niece and my boys. Had a great time! We also took them to see Madagascar 3 and they actually watched it the whole time. :)
Got a pedicure, went to the boys T-Ball game and got them haircuts Friday night

Work-- Good. Still training per se. I lead a call starting June 28th. EEEK!!! Reporting on sales of the marketing division. Nervous, but this is what I wanted to do, just got to get through the first time.

Workout/Eating- Chicken Fruit Salad from Panera and soup, Oatmeal for breakfast and Yoplait LIGHT yogurt for snack. Crystal Light and Water ....

That's all for now. Stupid post. It's like bullet points

The differences between a boy and a girl

I leave my boys with my mom Sunday, so I could go get a pedicure. Maybe I shouldn't have told them where I was going(as I pointed to my toes and said I am getting these painted) because Preston says, "Mommy, I want to paint my toes??" Ugh, what am I supposed to say to that? So I say, "Only girls get their toes painted" and he gives me this sad face :( , but then I say "Maybe we could put some clear polish on them later , okay?" Preston says, "Okay" and goes off and plays with a smile on his face.

Oh my goodness!! Can someone please tell me how I'm supposed to answer future more personal questions with my boys?!! I am not prepared! Help! :) 

They are so freaking cute though! LOVE THEM!!!!!!! :)

Update on things

Well as I type this post on my new iPad.....:) I've wanted to give an update on what's going on. My husbands company is on strike. He isnt but he has to fill in doing an odd job while they are striking. He now works 10-10pm shift 7 days a week! We are in the 4th week of this! We really thought this was going to be a week long thing but nope! So needless to say ive been a single mom in the evenings for the past 24 days. He did take like 3 days off over the time period but other than thAt nope. Just me. I'm realizing that single moms have it HARD! Although I'm thankful for extra money we are getting a week, I really want him back home! I had to eliminate on my 5am workouts:( I'm just too tired. I am going Saturday though. I wouldn't have this iPad this soon if it wasn't for the strike, soo yeah. Once the strike hits 31 days we will awesome get time and half money to us that he's worked over the month so that's even more money. We have so much stuff we are knocking out more quickly because of this. Ex: brakes fix on Honda, new catalytic converter, a/c fixed in VW, medical bills paying off, new vacuum cleaner(ours broke) and new beds for the boys. On another note, Preston and Chase are starting t-ball in June. First practice is tonight. A couple of the kids in their school are also on the team so it'll be fun because I'll know them. We plan to move e boys in August to the school in our neighborhood. It's close to the elementary school they will be going to and they will meet some of the kids that will be going ire also. Same school just different location.:) That's all for now.

Happy Mother's Day to me!!

 SOOOO.......

I've finally got it you guys... One of the "want" items on my list since the day it hit the market.  It's my baby, my love, my go to guy.. He'll tell me everything I need to know just by asking. I can play with him, I can read him, i can take him anywhere.  He will play with my kids. My kids will learn things from playing with him. He'll teach them things too and he'll read to them.

I'm sure yal have figured it out by now. His name is Kobe(I already named him) and he's is the NEW IPAD and he's white. :)  He's ready for me to pick up him up at the store.  I plan on getting him at lunch time and he will come to work with me for the rest of the day. I could never leave him alone. He's too precious..

Thank you Preston , Chase and Reg for such an amazing Mother's Day gift. I try to be the best mom I can and I know you(meaning husband) put in a LOT of hours at work for me to get one.

I love you boys!! You're my joys, you make me smile, laugh and cry(sometimes) and I appreciate you all.

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers, God mother's, Play Mothers, etc...  You deserve it!

CIAO!

WHAT A WEEK!!!

Sooo... I was almost a single mom all week M-Sunday last week.  My husband works for a company that has UNION workers and they went on strike last week.  He got chosen to work 12 hour shifts in lieu of this. So he worked 10am - 10pm every day last week.  So I worked and was at home with the boys every sing week night and then ALL DAY Saturday and Sunday! OMG!! NOW I have a taste of being a single parent with two kids is like. It's so freaking hard! And I didn't even take them in the morning. Husband was still able to take them. Talk about tired! So good thing is that he got paid for 84 hours last week. I don't know HOW people work 80 hour weeks. It's so funny though. On Saturday and Sunday mornings, I would walk out the room or try to run up to the store and my boys would be like, Where's Mommy? Where is she going and I'm like, ummm I've been with you every single minute when we were at home, and you still want me around? What about daddy!?? LOL!! Unfortunately, they have NOT come to an agreement, but they are still on strike. Luckily, my husband said they told them what days the needed off this week and he is not working Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, so I'm cook with that. Hate to say the money ain't bad and we NEED it. :)

Yesterday was our 6 year anniversary and he wasn't even home. I had planned this weekend for us to go to the Zoo with the boys Saturday and then have my parents watch the boys on Sunday for a nice dinner.  What ended up happening was I took the boys to my parents house Saturday and then I cooked pot roast on Sunday with no hubby home to eat it fresh. IT Sure was good though.Mother in Law recipe. :) I did on Saturday get a mani/pedi, so that was relaxing...

I was able to get a few things done when they were napping Sunday, like organize their drawers , clean up my room, go through the mail etc... We went to Target and later I took them to the park where another one of their classmates was there, so they started playing with her and I started chatting with the mom. :)

I'm starting my 3rd week at my new job at the Marketing Agency and I simply love it! I also loved the 2 week "fat" check I got today also. Loving this new job and the raise! :)

Well soccer is coming to an end with 2 games left and on to t-ball in June. Today is the last day to sign them up, so that is what I'll be doing on my lunch break. I also need to call the swimming lesson guy today on when I can sign him up for that. It's basically for two weeks M-F and then M-Th for 30 minutes. I've heard this one of the best ways to go! They learn so much more and faster if you go every day and not once a week or twice a week etc... And he only does 2 per class, so it's perfect for my boys!! We got many recommendations for this guy, so I'm excited.. We'll see how they do and I'll keep you posted.

One good thing about this extra money is not only do we have extra to pay down our debt, but my husband offered to give some of this money to FINALLY get me and IPAD!!! I was so shocked because he has been all about paying off debt which I am too, but I think I'll let this one time slide and take him up on this offer! :) We are also getting a MUCH needed kitchen table. That's coming from my paid out vacation from my old job....  I have some really cute pics of the boys we took a month ago. I finally got the cd back this Saturday. I'll try to post them this week!  Happy Monday

Adios!

Children's Books

I need more Children Books for the boys.. Does anyone know where I can purchase cheap/inexpensive Children's books for my boys. I've been slacking on reading to them at home due to NO new books, but want to start back stocking up.  And now pay like an ARM and a Leg at B&N etc..

Also, I've never taken my kids to the library. Mainly because I don't go anymore and my boys talk so loud!!! Anyways, when is a good age to introduce them to the library? I know they have events there for toodlers and mostly these are held during the day for Stay at Home moms... Anyone have any ideas?

On another note, this weekend was super busy and it wasn't really intended to be, but geez did DFW have great weather.  I ran in the FW Zoo 5K, which was fun, but i didn't do very well. Next time. It had been a year since I competed... Then the boys had they team soccer pics at 10am and then a game at 11am, where Preston cried like 7 times. He's only cried in one other game. What happened was that the other team had very fast boys and they pushed Preston all over the place and the Preston would push back and then he would start crying. It was a mess!!  We only have 3 more games.  This was the MOST aggressive team we've played. I'm ready to move on to T-Ball where there isn't man on man contact! LOL!

Then we met a friend and her twin boys at Legoland in Grapevine. What a great place. It's not very big, but the boys LOVED It! Their favorite area was the build a lego car and race in down the ramp! :)

That evening we had some other friends swing by with their little girl. We hadn't seen them in like 2 months.

Sunday, some moms from the boys daycare met at a local park for a picnic. It was a nice park, that I hadn't been to. Had Volleyball (sand), basketball and a great "age appropriate" playground. It was nice b/c there were so many helpers with my boys and one of the girls brought sand stuff, so all the kids went down and played in the sand. Needless to say, the boys needed a bath afterwards.. :)

Then they napped in the car on the way to see "A day out with Thomas the Train". This is where they have a real train , but with Thomas's face , that you can ride for 25 minutes. They were already sold out, but we got to enjoy other festivities.

We plan to take the boys on a train here in DFW. Either Dallas's or FW's, just for fun. CHASE really wanted to do the BIG train. I felt so bad.

Our 6 year anniversary is April 29th. We were going to go out to the zoo(since I got a free ticket from doing the zoo run and the boys are still '2 years old' ;) hahaha. But we'll see. Maybe take them to this new restaurant in FW called "The Wood Shed". We'll see.

Gotta get through my 2nd work week! :)
Pictures to come next post!

Adios!

New Job and the weekend

My new job! I do love it! I like what I'm doing. I love the whole Marketing industry. Well I guess I love my job this first week! :) hahahaha... People are nice.. I just like it. I don't regret leaving my prior company at all..  
With this job, there is more flexibility. I can work from home again easily. My manager is a working mom with young kids and said she totally understands when there sick and I can work from home those days no problem.  Of course more pay is always nice. :)

I'm running the 5K in the FW Zoo Run tomorrow. I'm targeting 10.5 min/mile, so wish me luck! It's supposed to actually be kind of cool in the morning, which is good.

Then the boys have soccer pics and a game at 11. Then heading off to Legoland with the boys. They are 2 still, so i can NOT pay for them. It's expensive!

Then we have some friends stopping by Saturday evening.

Excited about the weekend. I think my husband and I are going to do a movie tonight and drop are kids off at the Kids Park thing close the theater. It's affordable adn the kids a TONS of fun. Since we will only be needed it for 2.5 hours at the most.

Happy Weekend! Oh and Happy Earth Day Sunday

Ciao!

Necessary Endings - New beginnings

I've left my current employer last week and I am moving on to a new position at a Marketing Agency! So excited! I wasn't looking intently, but just put my resume out there and was contacted by their recruiter.

Anyways, I have this week off, so I'm TRYING to do work around the house, clean , Organize etc... I hope I can atleast get 50% of it done.

SO today was Chase's first day in Preston's class. He's finally potty trained, so yay!! Only pullups at Night time... It's greatness!!
 I can't believe I never posted this last week, but here it is!

So I love it here so far... Learning about the Marketing Industry is great! I also have the ability to work from home too and my boss is super cool about working moms and how they can get sick and stuff comes up. 

I post more later.