New Year goals not Resolutions

This year I'm not making New Year Resolutions.  I'm making goals, goals that are attainable, yes you can still fail at them but I feel like if you make it a goal then you are more apt to attain the goal.  Here is a list:

1.  Exercise at least 3 times a week.  It doesn't matter if its 10 mins or 30 mins, I just need to get moving.

2.  I would like to lose at least 10 lbs by March 17.  It will be a bit of a challenge as I'm having surgery sometime in between now and then, but it I watch my diet and at least walk if nothing else it should be attainable.

3.  No more fat talk.  My kids and husband think I'm beautiful so that is all that matters.

4.  I would like to spend less time on facebook and games when my kids and husband are with me so I can make sure they get the quality time that they deserve with me and have my full attention.

5.  Keep a cleaner house.  I think this will be more possible since I'm now a stay at home mommy and have more time keeping up with the daily chores.

6.  Cook healthy meals for my family every night that is possible.

I'm sure I have more goals but can't think of them right now.

Happy New Year to you and yours.  I hope you all have a happy, healthy, and prosperous new year!!

Stay at Home mommy!

Today was my 1st day as a stay at home mommy!  Both of our kids are in school, but with all their activities and them not being at the age to stay home alone Shelby and I feel that the time has come that I stay home and be here for them when they need me.  I can go to all of their activities and I don't have to ask anyone if I can.  I want to be at all of their events and this will make it easier for that to happen.

I'm ready to get myself into some kind of at home routine as soon as this week is over!  We have been busy running back and forth to Enid for the Emmanuel Baptist Church's 40th Christmas Pageant that the kids are in.

More later....

1-10-12 A cook emerges!

Lately I have been in the mood to cook.  I've been cooking my family dinner every evening that I've been home.  For a change they are getting home cooked meals.  I think they like it, and I enjoy doing it!  Today I made the Pioneer woman's roast and carrots and her creamy mashed potatoes!  I really liked her mashed potatoes.  They are delicious.  Before the roast though, I thought I wanted to bake some desert for them too.  I found her recipe for the best ever chocolate sheet cake.. It is for sure heavenly!

 The cake before I snagged the 1st piece.  I mean really what kind of cook would I be if I didn't try my food before I served it!!!

And then, me working off those extra calories from the cake I just had to have!!! It was worth every calorie!

Have I mentioned I LOVE being home more now!!!

1-9-12 Bright Sunshiny day!!

It's a bright, bright sunshiny day!  Who would even think it was January unless you already knew.  This weather has been so mild this Winter.  It has been nice to be outside in short sleeves or just a light jacket.  It's nice to be able to get outside and let this little fellow run off some of his energy, and let me tell you he has a lot of energy!  He wants to follow him around on his bike so I can watch him.  He races around the house faster than I can keep up.  He loves being outside and riding his many wheeled toys.  His favorite is his cars bike.  It's been nice to stay home and play with him and enjoy him!  Both of my kids for that matter!

Can you tell he is ornery?

Jesus Calling

This is a very good devotional that I am reading daily this year.  I have never really been good about reading a daily devotional and saw this one and thought it looked good.  The author wrote this as if in each daily devotion Jesus is talking directly to you!  It is very good and each day so far I can relate with what I am reading!  It's so good that I actually can't wait to read the next days devotion.  If you haven't ever read this devotional I would highly recommend it to you!

1-7-12 Cousins and American Girl Dolls

After dance today I picked up Jaedyn and Mya to bring them to Mema's house to play.  Jaedyn and Mya got an American Girl doll for Christmas and Summer has had her for a few months.  The girls always make sure that when they see each other that they bring their dolls so they can play with them.  Summer and Jaedyn played with the dolls for quite awhile.  Mema even asked if she could call Kael and tell him they were all there and Jaedyn said not for a few hours were playing dolls.  They played very nice and even shared the doll clothes with each other.

 Summer busy dressing her doll!

Jaedyn wanted no part of the pictures.  She kept telling me to get out!

1-6-12 Facetime with daddy!

Today I worked late.  I didn't get home until about 7:30  When I got home the kids were just lounging around waiting on me.  Summer was watching a movie on our television and she thought it was funny that I was going to take a picture of her.

 Then daddy called us from his ipad.  My phone has facetime and so does his ipad so we can call each other using facetime while he is away and the kids and I are still able to see him and he is able to see us.  The kids really like to be able to do this and it helps them not miss him quite as much.

 Here they are both talking to him.  Gunnar likes to hog the phone when he sees daddy on it and he moves it around like crazy and makes daddy get sea sick lol.

 This last picture makes me laugh.  Every night Gunnar finds something in his room that he does not want in there while he is sleeping.  Tonight it was all of his shoes!  The bag and tractor were from the night before!!  

Two kids and a messy car!

For the last 3 years I have practically lived in my car, driving back and forth to Enid.  I had my fair share of messiness in the front seat, but my goodness, you should have seen the back seat.  I didn't know that 2 kids could cause so much stickiness, gooeyness, and clutter.  The clothes, toys, trash, etc. was starting to pile up.  It was down right embarrassing, but today this  momma made use of her time off and the beautiful weather and cleaned that car up.  I could now actually have a back seat passenger.  I hope it stays clean longer than it normally does. ha

As you can tell I had lots of help vacuuming the car!

Reading with daddy

We are always trying to get Summer in the mood to read.. She has to have the AR points plus we want her to keep improving on her reading skills, which I might add she is an excellent reader.  So tonight daddy asked Summer to read with her and of course Bub had to go get his book and read too.  It's always good to start them young I guess.  It was very cute and they got to spend some quality time with their daddy.

Siblings

My kids are like most siblings.  They get along most of the time but they also have their battles!  Today after school both kids were being so quiet so I had to go see what they were doing.  Summer got home from school and Gunnar was in her room watching Chuggington.  He loves choo choos.  Summer sat right down with him and watched his show with him.  I thought it was a sweet sight.

1-2-12 Don't mess with this girl!!!

Shelby took Gunnar and I out to shoot today. I shot 3 different guns! I got a glock, an AR 15, and a 22. Gunnar even shot the 22. He had a lot of fun and he is so interested we are making sure he doesn't know where we hide these guns. He loves them. He has a toy gun that he carries around with him all the time. I guess it's the boy in him. It was fun to get outside and enjoy some fresh air with my 2 favorite boys! Here's the pics.

Well I don't know what happened to the pic but it took so long to upload I'm not going to do it again. I'm cooking dinner for my family. Something I haven't been able to do for the last several years. So no time for fixing the photo now. Oh well!

Happy New Year 2012

Bring on the new year! I think 2012 is going to be a great year. Shelby and I get to celebrate our 10th anniversary this year in March, and who knows what else is to come.

I'm once again going to try and do the a year in the life of pictures. Maybe this year since I won't be working much I will have the time and energy to keep up with it.

Here are my 1st pictures of the new year. Gunnar absolutely loves his rock star mickey. Tonight he was mimicking whatever mickey would do. He even went and got his guitar so he could be just like Mickey. Gunnar is such a sweet boy that loves to cuddle and such a mommies boy. We love him more than words could explain.

Motivation

Today I'm at work and here my text message sound goes off on my phone, I look and it's Shelby telling me that Summer was able to do 10 minutes on the elliptical. Yesterday she was telling her daddy how much longer she could go then me. So today after work I came home ate supper and decided it was time to get on the elliptical. My little cheerleader (Summer), came in to watch and I just had to show her that I could make it 10 minutes also. She kept saying how much longer mom, are you going to make it. She is such a funny little girl.

Then I have decided it would be good to take a cool down walk afterwards and have been walking up our dirt road. Today she went with me and we got to have a little girl time together. On the way Summer showed me up and jogged the whole way. Until, we get to the top of the hill and a see a SKUNK!!!! I yelled for her to not move any further as the skunk had his tail up as if it was going to spray. I kept watch and had her run down the hill to me. Luckily we didn't get sprayed. The rest of the way home we just talked and visited about lots of different things and she asked if she could walk with me every night. Of course she can. It was something that we can do together to have some girl time.

After our walk, we came back in and make a fruit smoothie. Banana (too much), peach, pineapple, apple, and apple juice. It was pretty good, but it could have used a little ice to make it colder or something.

We are trying to be healthy around here and with the motivation of my little princess I think we can keep up the good work!!! I even had the energy left to do the dishes. I'm feeling good so far!!!

Gotta get in shape!

Lately all I have been thinking about is getting an elliptical. I want to exercise but I am somewhat limited as to what exercise I can do. I wanted to be a runner but after 2 failed attempts of couch to 5k, I have found I must find a different means of exercise. It's not that I failed because I quit trying, no its because 2 times I have fracture my knee/leg in the same spot. You see I'm only 31 and have osteoporosis. I took meds for a year and thought my bones would be back to normal so I tried running again. Well not the best idea I ever had. Fracture that same knee/leg in the same spot. The Dr. told me I should never run again, unless being chased. He told me that swimming, walking and elliptical would be a good way for me to get exercise.

I have been looking at this one the past couple of months

So last night my wonderful husband took me to Enid to purchase it and then spent the whole evening putting it together for me. He sure does spoil me.

So tonight when I got home from work, I used it for the very 1st time. I was only able to go about 7 minutes, but I'm sure I'll be able to gradually work up my time. Afterwards, I felt like I needed to do a little more so I walked about 1/2 mile. I turned around because I live in the middle of no where and I saw a truck sitting at the corner and got scared. lol

Now I think I will make a smart choice on my dinner and and eat a weight watchers meal.

Baby steps!!!!

Yuck!!

Today I was out feeding our horses and Barney our "old man" horse was eating. He started coughing so I decided that I should check on him. When I got up to him he smiled at me and BARFED all over me. Chucks of chewed up food everywhere. It was so disgusting. I was just going to go in and change clothes, but I looked in the mirror and it was even in my hair.

I wanted to make sure my clothes didn't stain so I immediately went in and washed them out and sprayed them down and I was thinking to my self, this shout sure does smell like cleaning spray. Sure enough I sprayed my clothes down with 409. What an evening.... Moral of the story.... Don't get to close to a coughing horse!!!

Day 6/My little Man!

Almost forgot my daily pic, so I grabbed a couple of shots of G-man playing in his room before bedtime. In the 2nd picture he was saying cheese at the camera. He's so precious to me!

Day 5, Welcome Princess

Today we welcomed in a new member to our family. Meet Princess!! Princess is 12 yrs old. She is a calm horse that is lazy and really doesn't like to work. Which is a plus for me, because I'm not comfortable enough yet to just take off on a horse. We are hoping that the addition of Princess will help Summer gain more confidence with Barney. We've had a few mishaps with Barney and it's kinda gotten Summer a little on edge. With having a second horse now Shelby or I can ride along side Summer.

Project 365 Day4

Tonight we watched the premiere of Live to Dance. We have a little mimic in our household. Anything you or anyone else does, Gunnar will mimic. The first picture is him just dancing, the 2nd is him trying to spin on his head like the kid was doing on TV. It's very cute to watch.

Grabbed this picture real quick of Summer and Gunnar playing. Summer likes to dress Gunnar up in pink. The other night she had him dressed in her princess dresses lol. I'm sure he won't appreciate this someday but it's too cute to pass up and its neat to watch the two of them to play together.

Project 365 Day 3/Time to Skype

Today I couldn't pick just one photo. We got an awesome Christmas gift this year. A new Imac. We just set up a skype account so we could skype with our family in OKC. Tonight the kids got to talk to Jackson, Elizabeth and Aunt Jen Jen. It was so cute to hear all the giggling going on. As you can tell in the pictures the kids were making silly faces at their cousins. Gunnar enjoyed it just as much as Summer. A little later they got to talk to their Grammie also.

Making Funny faces!!

So Exciting!!

Project 365/Day 2

I recently took up knitting and Summer requested she receive the first scarf. I had enough yarn left over so I decided to attempt a hat. I was very surprised and delighted that it actually turned out to be a hat. lol I didn't know if I would actually be able to accomplish that, but I did!!! It was fun. Here's a pic of Summer sporting her new duds.