10 Minute Trainer Update

I started the workout regiment yesterday. You are suppose to start out just doing one video a day and work up to three. However, I have good endurance because I run and get on the elliptical so I went ahead and started doing three. So yesterday I did the Cardio, Lower Body, and Abs videos. The Cardio wasn't too bad. I was huffing and puffing by the end, but I could finish it. The Lower Body was a little hard because I have hardly no muscle mass anywhere. The Abs was HORRIBLE!! :) It killed me. I could barely do it at all. I don't know if it's because having a baby separates the abdominal muscles or if I'm just weak! Don't be afraid to tell me I'm just weak! ;) It was hard. Today I am doing the Total Body Workout, Cardio, and Lower Body. Wish me luck!! My legs feel like jelly!!!

Fun Tag

Rules: just go to your picture file, open the 6th folder, and the 6th picture! Tell a story and then post it and tag 5 friends.




This is a tag that has been going around that I saw. Nobody tagged me so I thought I would just do it anyway. ;)

This is when Claire and Kenna were littler. We used to go over to Grammer's a lot more than we do now so that the kids could play together. There's nothing really else to say about the picture... Claire doesn't look happy though. I wonder what was wrong with her???

Awesome News

I am so happy and relieved to tell everyone that my sister-in-law is finally in remission. She has been fighting this cancer for about 2 years. There have been some frustrating and scary times during this ordeal for Ashlei, but she was and is so strong and got through them. I'm so proud of her, and am excited that she can finally get some normalcy back in her life.

Don't you just HATE plateaus!!

Everyone knows that I have been trying to lose weight for some time now. So far I have lost 61 lbs bringing my weight from 215 lbs to 154 lbs. Well, because of all this evacuating, eating like crap, and not exercising, I have gained back 4 lbs in about 2.5 months. UGH!! So I have to try something new. I have started trying to jog a mile a day. I want to beat my best time. In high school my fastest mile was 9:48. Slow, I know, but I have and will never be a fast person. I can live with that. I've been running them in about 12 minutes, but Monday I did it in 10 minutes flat! I was so proud, only 12 secs slower than my fastest. I'm getting there. I also ordered Tony Horton's 10 Minute Trainer. It's a Beachbody Program. You do a 10 minute video everyday except for on off days. It comes with a calendar to tell you what video to do on what day so that there is muscle confusion, and you won't hit that dreaded plateau! You're suppose to lose 1 jean size in the first 10 days. I'm excited to get it in and get to work! It should be here by next Friday, so I'm going to start it on that Monday, October 20. I'll keep you posted and let you know how it's going.

Family Home Evening

I asked my mom a while back when I should start having Family Home Evening with Claire. She said, "Uh, when you brought her home from the hospital!" :) Well, I didn't know that. I mean, what would she get out of it then? Anyway, we had Family Home Evening for the first time as a family this evening. It was really good. It was just kinda thrown together. We just had an opening prayer, we sang songs and talked about families, we played hot potato (super fun! Claire loved it), and we had closing prayer. It was awesome! I'm definitely going to keep this up!!

Home Sweet Home

The street where Kev was at all day

White House look alike in Irving, TX

Texas Stadium

The picture speaks for itself

It's so good to be with my baby again!!!

We are back home! These past couple months have been so busy. We evacuated for two hurricane, then we had to clean up after Ike, and now we went on this business trip. It's so great to be back home with my beautiful little angel, Claire. I missed her so much! I never thought I could miss someone so much. It was like I left a piece of myself.

So the trip home was more fun then the trip up by far. We were not in any hurry to leave. Kev finished his classes Thursday afternoon, but we decided to stay until Friday since our room was paid for until then. We woke up about 8am and went down and ate breakfast. After we ate we loaded up the car and headed out. Nick, my father-in-law, often goes on business trips and stops in Corsicana at the Russell Stover Candies Factory/Store. He usually comes home with tons of chocolate, and Kev and I thought he must spend at least $100 each trip, but when we called him to see if he wanted anything he said he only spends about $30. We were shocked until we went to check out with a whole cart of chocolate, and our total was only $27! Crazy!! I wished it were a little bit closer to me. They have candy for all holidays, and it's cheap!

After spending about 30 minutes there we got back on the road and headed to the Outlet Mall in Conroe. It was a pretty day, not too hot. It was nice to walk around with my honey holding hands. Kev bought a new church shirt, and I bought some new Nike's, an outfit from Van Heusen, and some other stuff. We were there for about 2 hours. When then cut across to Cleveland and went to my parents house to pick up my little girl and eat dinner. My mom made us Taco Salad. Yummy! Thanks Mom!!!

We got home at about 7pm last night. I spent that night putting clothes away and getting the house as organized as I could. I feel better now that everything is back to normal, and hopefully we don't have to go anywhere for awhile!

I got my first tag...

Here are the rules:
1. Link the Person who Tagged you.
2. Mention rules on your blog.
3. Tell about 6 quirks of yours.
4. Tag 6 fellow bloggers to do the same.
5. Leave a comment to let them know.

My sister-in-law tagged me. Her link is http://akhaynes.blogspot.com

1. I have OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) bad! Right now my house is so unorganized because of the damage to our house from Ike. All of Claire's stuff (and she has A LOT of stuff) is in the Guest room/Nursery along with all the stuff that was in that room to begin with. She's sleeping on the futon poor thing. she doesn't seem to mind it though.

2. I can't stand when people don't put a new role of TP on the holder. Come on! Is it really that hard to put the role on the holder?!?! I can't stand when people sit put the TP on the holder...

3. I don't like to shop. I know, I'm a girl and therefore I should like to shop, but I don't! I guess it's because I grew up poor and never had the money to just go shopping.

4. Sometimes, when I'm really tired or if I've been thinking or stressing about something in particular, I talk in my sleep. So Kevin tells me... but I'm innocent until proven guilty. Where's the evidence!! ;)

5. I'm deaf... Is that a quirk??? Well, it is now. I am pretty much 100% deaf in my left ear. I have had tubes put in my ears a couple of time, and I've had 2 surgeries on it. If you look close enough you can see that, in an attempt to get more sound waves in my ear, the doctors made my left ear canal about double the size of my right one. No one has ever noticed it though so it doesn't bother me.

6. I don't like to drive. Neither does Kevin. He's such a gentleman though, so he doesn't make me drive. He always drives when we got places together. He's so sweet!! He's the BEST EVER!!! I love you, Kev.

I tag: Mom, Abby, Becky, Melanie, Brianne, and Ginger!