12 Pounds... 1 Month.

I started this blog as a tool to help me stay motivated, and to keep me accountable and I think I've strayed from that. A lot. 

I have gained 10 pounds from 9/2013. 10 pounds. That's unacceptable. I can tell you exactly what happened though. I stopped going to Curves, I stopped watching my portions and I stopped watching what I was eating. I fell back into every. single. one. of my old habits. It's like I'd been sober for a little while from some horrible drug and started using again last month. I feel horrible. Now we're about to go on our 1yr anniversary to the coast, and instead of being 138, which I was, not too long ago,.. I'll be 151, and feel swollen in everything I wear. Seriously, I already gave away all the clothes that didn't fit me, so I have nothing to fall back into. I refuse to buy 1 size up because I got lazy for a month. O_o

Lea Anne has set a goal for me to be under 140 at this time next month.

I was 152 yesterday, this morning I was at 151... It'll be hard but I think I can do it. Hopefully Allen's schedule works out this month and I get to Curves more than 4 times. 

I only burned 740 something calories yesterday. All of the lights stayed Orange on the little machines because it's been so long since I've been there. haha how lame of me! UGH...

Oh.. yesterday I almost killed someone..

driving down the road, going 45, and some douche bag pulls into my lane (he was driving super slow in the lane to my left) and he didn't bother to alert me to him changing into my lane with a blinker or anything, because, why use a blinker?! I had to slam on my brakes and hope the person behind me didn't run up my ass. So I honked my little heart out at him... throwing my hands up in the air...and he didn't acknowledge me one little bit. ugh... So, then he proceeds down the road at a smooth 30 miles an hour, and starts pumping his brakes. From where I'm sitting it looks like he's just freaking sight seeing which pisses me off too, so I get into the turning lane to turn and then he cuts me off... again, with no blinker going 10 miles an hour now. Then he decides.. 'Nah... I don't want to turn yet." and whips back out of the turning lane, but still going 10. 

How do people like that even have a license to drive?! 

My posts might be a little shorter lately.. I'm going to try to get back to my weight loss and the goals I have set for myself with that. I'll still post about my kids... just also more about my weight loss. More like my "Weight Gain" .... gah..

Bummed Out, Rick Rollin...

My stupid IPod is trying to bum me out. 

I was listening to some awesome jams while doing laundry.. it was on random and now I see I should have just put it on my running play list... Nothing but Fall Out Boy, Justin Timberlake and Ludacris. haha

This random shit is playing crap like Fleetwood Mac, The Eagles, Baillie and the Boys, and Heart.

Yeaaaaahhh. I just Rick Roll'd you bitches. 

 Stupid shit my dad and I used to listen to while we were driving to my Grandma's house, or to school in the mornings, or on random trips to the Mc Donald observatory or fishing in Brady on long weekends. We used to do quiet a bit of crap when I was between the ages of 12-16. Then we had a rocky relationship for the next 2... After the age of 18 I had basically no relationship with him at all.. He showed up to my high school graduation and I just remember crying.  And then nothing again... I saw him one time while I was pregnant with Jacob... he wasn't there when I had him though. If he was I must have been on some pretty awesome meds because I don't remember him being there. Lord knows he wasn't at Hailey or Ethan's birth either. 

He did show up to my first marriage. I was very surprised. That's back when Jacob was 5 months old. I remember because he learned to sit up for the first time that day.. I didn't see my dad again for another year or so... when I decided to finally move to Austin and be Jacob's dad. My dad came to my house, helped me move all my stuff onto a U-haul... and drove it for me all the way to Austin. He then helped me unload everything off of it and then I took him home... We talked a bit over the next 2 years... and then nothing. When I met Allen, one weekend we came down to Angelo, and he asked my dad if he could ask me to marry him. 3 years later, we're getting married and my dad doesn't show up to the ceremony.. Even though I had called to make sure he was going to be there a week before. I shouldn't have been surprised though... Oct 4th is my birthday.. and he didn't call or anything that day... our wedding was the 11th, so yeah, if he can't remember my birthday... why would he remember my wedding?

Maybe it's because I'm a girl... I'm easily upset about stuff. I don't know... It pisses me off that he can let a birthday go by without a phone call. I even got a call from my brother Chris. He's the black sheep of the family I guess, but at least he remembers my birthday... He thought I was 3 years younger than I am.. but that's why I love him. haha 

"Yes.. I am turning 25 again. You're right."

Actually the convo went as follows...

Chris -  "How old are you now? 25?" 

Me - "25? yeah... try 28!" 

Chris -  "Holy shit! you're getting old!...*silence*... well I'm 33 so I guess you're right!" 

Me "..... yeah..we're getting old... " 

My oldest brother Randy... I don't know if he remembers it or not.. He's gotten to the point to where he seems like he doesn't care about our relationship either.. which is super weird too because back when he was in the Army, when he'd come to town, he'd take me out to eat, we'd go to movies together, and now our kids go to the same school and are in the same grade, even the same CLASS and if I see him while he's picking her up... I don't even get a head nod. It's like I'm a stranger to parts of my family and it sucks guys. Two of the guys I was closest to growing up, act like I don't even exist. Pathetic. 

Ah hell... I guess I need to stop worrying about it like everyone tells me.. I know he's the one missing out... Missing out on these awesome kids, missing out on being a grandpa...and a dad.. But it still hurts. Maybe some day I'll be able to grow a thick ass skin and say it doesn't bother me. Till then, my Ipod is going to be able to bum me out by just playing a few songs. Bastard. 

OH... If you're still with me, and haven't clicked the little X at the top yet... I might be able to keep my stupid Curves membership! Allen's on the New Mexico crew, which SUCKS FAT BALLS... but at least we're prepared this time. It's not like they're like "oh by the way, in 2 days you're going to New Mexico for a week". I sure hope he's home on Halloween though. O_o Anyways, yeah so I'll get to keep my Curves membership I hope. He'll be working a weird schedule on that crew. It SHOULD be a week on, a week off. But his boss isn't sure yet. If that's how it is, I'll be able to go to Curves on the weeks he's home. Thank GOD. 

I'm up to 148. I blame my birthday and ... me. I had a banana split... and have done minimal working out. Remember when I said I was going to start running? 3 miles a day till we went on vacation? That was a lie. A nasty dirty little lie to myself. I want to workout.. I really do.. I just can't make myself get off this damn couch. .... Guess I better do that now then huh?... FML. 

Kids kids kids....

So, Hailey has been in trouble lately, and let me tell you why... My kids are extremely spoiled and all 3 have TVs in their rooms with DVD players.. (only Jacob has actual cable.) Anyways, Hailey has been watching a DVD when she goes to bed at night because she's going through that 'I'm scared of the dark' crap. She has a timer on her TV, so I've been setting that at night so we don't have to worry about the TV staying on all night. This little hooker has been getting up and turning it back on after it goes off... So, we'll get up in the morning and her TV has been on all stinking night. That makes our electricity bill go up...

That makes mommy angry. 

You won't like mommy when she's angry.

So she has had her TV unplugged at night the past few nights and she's been doing...okayish... crying a little at night but eventually falling asleep. Until last night..

Last night she felt the need to have a sleep over with the cat. She got out of bed, opened her door, walked around the house till she found Skeeter, got him to go into her room, and shut the door behind them. Cute right? False. 

Not cute. 

Cat's apparently have bowels, and those bowels need to be relieved at points during the night. Skeeter decided that, because he was locked in this little girls room, it's be a GRAND idea to shit behind her curtains. I'm talking... a Mountain Lion sized shit. He even smeared a little on her curtain for good measure. Like an "I'll teach you to lock me in here you little idiot." 

Thanks. 

So, that's all cleaned up and the curtain is in the washing machine as I type. Hailey knows that if she EVER gets out of bed and gets Skeeter in her room again at night, mommy will turn into the Hulk. 

Yesterday I was doing laundry, and Ethan comes up behind me and taps my leg.. So I turned around and he had his hands tucked into his armpits like when you do the Chicken Dance... and he goes "Look mom... I got chicken wings!" The he started flapping them around like a crazy man. I honestly have no idea where he picks some of this stuff up. I've never seen him do that before. 

We still have no idea what Hailey and Jacob are going to be for Halloween. I know ET is going to be the Hulk. He won't have it any other way. We're gong to find some purple shorts, and paint him green. BAM! done. Maybe buy him some little hulk hands at WalMart. 

I'm sure Hailey wants to be either Sophia from Sophia The First, or Rapunzel from... Tangled. The only thing she doesn't like about the Rapunzel costume is that it comes with a wig, and she doesn't want to put it on her head. I'm pretty sure Jacob will be a Ninja again.. for the 3rd time. 

Tomorrow is my birthday! I got a birthday card yesterday from Allen's aunt. Hilarious. 

That was by far the best Birthday Card I've gotten in a while. 

I can't believe I'm about to be 28! I feel so old. I never EVER thought I'd have 3 kids. Ethan STILL wouldn't be here if that stupid Birth Control wouldn't have failed. Oh well,.. He's a giant freakin momma's boy so I guess it's alright. Anytime Allen gets on to him, he runs to me, or calls for me from his room,.. If I get on to him, he'll cry and then try to say "I want kisses mommy" to get me to come to his room. 

Time to get ready to go to the dentist. Ethan and Hailey have to see the dentist at 1030, and then Jacob at 11. I kept Jacob home today so I didn't have to drive across town 34 times today. Dang it. 

Starting today, I'll be running on the treadmill everyday till we go to the coast. I'm making that a goal. 3 miles every day, no matter what. 

Tomorrow we're going to see Gravity! woohoo!

Pretty Random, A Bit Closer to the Birth Day....

I'm not doin too much... That's why I haven't updated. I've been "under the weather" lately, and haven't moved much in the past 2 days. My birthday is in 5 days. 4 If you don't count today! I told Allen I don't really want anything other than some flowers, a card, and a new travel coffee mug since Ethan knocked mine off the table, AGAIN, and broke it for good. A WEEK after buying it. Little jerk.

My coffee went everywhere. the lid broke off the top and coffee spilled all over the floor and side of my couch (luckily it's leather). Here is what happened the same day during lunch time.... Right after I told him.. "DON'T SPILL YOUR JUICE."

yeah.... now the grout is stained reddish brown in those areas. Which means I'll have to get on my hands and knees with a damn tooth brush to clean it. Yay! I'm so excited. 

October 11th Allen and I will be on our way to Port Aransas again! yay for 1 year wedding anniversaries! I can't friggen wait. 

It's always been a joke that Allen is the chosen one... and last year I took this picture of him and it made me LOL. 

It looks like the heavens are placing a halo on him... the Chosen One. 

We had so much fun those few days we were there. I'm sure we'll have just as much fun in 2 weeks! <3 I'm very VERY excited! 

The drive there freaking sucks balls though. It takes for freaking ever. 

I love being at the beach in the morning when the sun comes up. We get out there when you can still see the stars. and as soon as the sun is up about like this, we start combing it. Last year we found a few pretty weird things. I couldn't really get much in the water though... since I had just gotten a tattoo on the inside of my right leg. I didn't want to mess it up or have the salt water burn it! haha I don't know if that would have happened or not, but I also didn't want to find out. Plus.. there were jelly fish out on the shore line like no bodies business. That's all I wanted, was for a damn jelly to wash over my foot and sting the shit out of me. Can't wait to take some more pics this year. We both sure love the beach. If I could live in Corpus I would! Maybe when we're older and the kids are out of the house and doing their own thing, we can rent a little efficiency room on the beach for a month. Provided Allen doesn't have to work for the rest of his life. 

THIS is what I want for my birthday... some day. A little English Bulldog girl puppy. I will have her a pink bling collar and I will name her Lola. I think they're the cutest things I've ever freakin seen. Even as wrinkly slobbering snoring adults. They're freaking precious. And they're AMAZING with kids. I'd put her in a tutu and she could be a princess for Halloween. That's how she'd be treated. Just look at that face! 

Flippin adorable I tell ya! I know they have some health issues... but that comes with the territory I suppose. Thats why Vets have jobs. Plus... I think Skeeter would be ok with a dog as long as we got her as a puppy. When we almost got that other cat Bacon, he was ok with it... Bacon was the one being a freak. Jumping walls and junk, growling at the kids... thats probably why Skeeter didn't like her. She was acting weird towards the kids. haha

So....

You guys have no idea how hard it's been not to turn this blog into an "I hate president Obama" blog. I'm not fond of him or any of his policies. Especially when he's causing my health insurance premium to go up. Dumb ass... I'm probably on some kind of watch list.. IDGAF. The president is a freaking MORON. 

Can't Stick To Anything.

I'm sad today. 

I think I'll have to give up my Curves membership. Since we moved across town, I put 40 miles a day on my car dropping off and picking Jacob up from school every day. So going to curves would be another 20 miles a day! I'm terrified that I'm going to explode again. I've done that workout Lea Anne gave me, and HOLY SHIT... My legs, apparently, have never had a workout before. I'm going to throw in some push ups, crunches at the end. On days I don't do that leg torture, I'll do some arm workouts with my dumbbells and run on the treadmill. I have to do WORK to make sure I don't get fat again. We don't have the money to buy me new fat clothes... I done got rid of all my other ones. hahah

Speaking of clothes, I have 2 weeks to get rid of some inches before we go to the coast. Time to suck down the water, and super watch my portions. Speaking of portions... I'm doing super good with that shit. Yesterday I had some cheesy broccoli rice and some garlic chicken... and 1 cup of prepared rice is 200 calories... I couldn't do a whole cup. That is a lot of freaking rice guys... Plus the broccoli and chicken... gah... So I just did like, 1/2 a cup. my 3oz of chicken and broccoli and it was delish. 

Today was a 600 calorie day... and I gave that up already. Hence the name of this post. I just can't do another day of it. My ovaries are kicking my ass and putting me in a murderous mood... and paired with only 600 calories I'd for sure go off the deep end. That wouldn't be good for anyone. 

Here is an example... This morning dropping Jacob off at school.. I pulled into the drop off line and stopped like 4 foot short of a sign that says "drop off" and there happened to be a teacher standing out there... Jacob took off his seat belt and out of the corner of my eye I see the teacher waving at me to pull forward... There were no cars behind me. I've dropped him off right in this very spot 2039 times before. Don't ask me to inch forward because you don't want to move from the sign to open the door or whatever. I ignored her, said my goodbyes to Jacob and pulled away while she gave me the stink eye. I'm sure her whole day is ruined now that I didn't pull up 4 foot to the sign that said "drop off".... THAT little thing, irritated the SHIT out of me. 

The reason I shouldn't do the 600 calorie thing anymore. For now anyways. Maybe I'll do it again later, but not right now.. for the sake of humanity. 

So... it's what? Like.. 9 days or something till my birthday? How exciting. O_O I'll be 28 or something. Unfortunately I hate to admit that I already forget my own age. I can't even tell you how many times I've asked Allen "How old am I?" Pathetic. I bet I get that from my mother. 

My mom is going to keep the kids the night of my bday so Allen and I can go see that "Gravity" movie with Sandra Bullock... I really want to see it... but I'm slightly scared that it's going to be an hour and a half of Sandra Bullock and George Clooney floating around in space crying and crap. Thats what it seems like on the trailers anyways. I guess we shall see. I should say we MIGHT to go the movies... depends on our $$ situation. Lots of awesome bills are coming out of our check tomorrow. O_o L.A.M.E. 

I hate being a grown up...  

Till whenever I decide to blog again guys.... see ya! 

So Much Going On.

I haven't posted in a few days, and there has been a lot that's irritated me over the past few days, so please, bare with me. haha 

First.. My Amazon store is GROWING! I have tons of stuff in there. Check it out for sure. Also, If you're looking to make a little extra money by doing nothing other than sitting on your computer, sign up with Survey Savvy. 

This is the link...

You basically take surveys for money. They don't flood your mail box with trash and crap either which is my favorite part. I get like, 1 survey a week or sometimes go a week without getting anything. You take 5-20 minute surveys for 50cents up to 20$. The surveys are about random crap.. shopping, electronics, online shopping vs. store shopping. Simple things. I've got about 28$ saved up in my account so far... You can request a payment whenever you want, and they send it in the form of a check to your house. I'm not cashing out till I get 100$. 

Yesterday we went to get Hailey some new shoes, and I've come to realize that she's definitely the diva I never was. After trying on about 14 pairs of shoes she finally decided on 2 she liked. A pair of Minnie Mouse sneakers, and the most sparkly pair of little flats she could find. 

Yep... and here it is, 7:59am and she's already wearing them. It came down to either these, or a pair of bright pink boots. She's already informed me that when daddy gets paid, we have to go back and get the boots. ayy yi yi. 

ok... 

So... if you haven't watched the last season of Dexter, I suggest you not read this next paragraph.. Because there may be some spoilers that you don't want to read or see. 

I'm so freaking disappointed with how they ended this series. Allen got me HOOKED around season 4. We watched 1-4 on Netflix and then kept Showtime around on the months that Dexter was showing... I feel like this last season was a giant waste of my life. Seriously. I mean, To end a series is one thing.. I understand wanting to go out while ratings are super high... but why do it in the lamest way possible? They were saying "it's going to be emotionally satisfying" well I call bullshit. Nothing about that ending was satisfying. To kill off one of the BEST characters in the damn series!? SERIOUSLY?! not happy. I feel like they rushed it and didn't really give a lot of thought to the fans. O_o

So, I got my second dumbbell yesterday. Somehow I had lost one in the move from the old house. So I haven't been able to start the workout Lea Anne made for me. I'll start it today though. I'm pretty excited. As of the other day I was down 3.5 pounds. Pretty crazy what a new diet can do for you. This 600 calorie diet is not easy... Thank God it's only 2 days a week. Tuesdays and Thursdays are my angry days. hahaha 

Yesterday Allen and I cleaned out my SUV... It's only been a year coming. jeez. It wasn't too bad. It's amazing how dirty kids can get leather though. Also... The other day, Allen, the kids and I were walking around at WalMart picking up a few food things we needed, and 25 mins into the trip he comes to me and says "You know whats funny?" we're at walmart... I'm thinking he's about to point someone out to me. "What?" I said.... and then he goes "Your shirts on inside out." 

Hilarious. 

I was going to just try to hide it by taking my hair out of the pony tail and hiding the tag in it... but there was also a tag on the side of the shirt. Moral of the story... Never put clothes on directly out of the dryer when you're in a rush.. and NEVER count on your husband to let you NOT look stupid in public. Thanks for that. 

Oh! yesterday I got the prettiest birthday gift ever from my mom and step dad. It's a sterling silver necklace with a sand dollar pendant on it. The sand dollar is a cast of a real sand dollar too, but with original artwork done by the guy that makes them here in San Angelo. It'll be the perfect necklace to wear when we go to the beach in a few weeks. <3 

Jacob lost his first big front tooth the other day! He was so excited! There was quiet a bit of blood so he was a little.... iffy at first, then about 5 seconds later he realized losing a tooth means money! Apparently the tooth fairy has deeper pockets now too... She gave him 5$. I used to get 1$. Damn inflation. 

arg.

Tomorrow I have my breakfast and lunch all planned out already. 

For breakfast I'll have 1 scrambled egg... and my coffee. 

for lunch I'll be having a chicken breast with a small potato.

and I have no idea what I'm eating for dinner yet. Allen's work schedule

sucks fat balls this week and he works from 10am - 5 or 6pm. It doesn't sound like it sucks, but he

has an hour drive out there, and then an hour drive home. so he wont REALLY be home till after 7 sometime. 

Holy crap... I just did my calories for yesterday... and I ate 2162 calories for the day! Damn that Logans lunch!!!! That alone was just about 915 calories! Breaking it down like that makes me want to barf. ugh. No wonder I was so bloated afterwards. O_o

Hoodie weather is on it's way! We walked outside this morning to a brisk 55*! Time to bust out the kids small jackets and get some feety pjs. (for them... not me. That is not cute.) OH and I need some damn boots with fur. I found some I want so bad.. they're water proof and they're pink and furry... perfect for slipping on to drive Jacob to school in the mornings. Speaking of driving Jacob to school... I almost hit this freaking moron walking across the street today and he flipped me off... There was a crosswalk about 20 foot away from him yet he decided to cross in the middle of the block. Did I feel bad for almost hitting him? NOPE. Did I slow down at all? NOPE. I was super tempted to stick my arm out the window to slap his face. I don't have a good enough temper in the mornings to deal with that kind of shit. I just flipped him off and honked. I hate people in the mornings. Especially ones that do stupid shit and try to act like I'M the one to blame. lol That's what wrong with Murica these days. Everyone wants to act like little freaking idiots and blame everyone else. I can't wait till Obummer is out of office. He's the biggest freaking idiot of them all. ACTUALLY.... The people that VOTED for him the SECOND TIME are the BIGGEST freaking idiots of them all. Damn morons. 

Look....

Say you have a fantasy football team, and your guys not doing too great the first 4 games... are you going to keep him around for another 4? or TRADE HIS ASS?! 

Exactly. 

Way to go Idiots. 

600 Calories Today... Not Too Bad

Allen and I went yesterday to San Antonio for his Great Grandmother's funeral... It was a nice service. I was slightly annoyed at one point, and I don't know if it was just me... or if anyone else was annoyed by it as well... I sat in the front next to Allen's Grandma... it was her mom who passed away... She asked me to sit with her because Allen was asked to be a Pallbearer, which was super cool... Anyways... so the service was over, and the people would line up and pay their last respects to Agnes... and then walk over to the family and give condolences and whatnot... well Allen's Grandma's brother was first in the pew, then his wife.. and then Allen's Grandma. They'd walk to her brother, his wife, and then turn around and leave. Now... I know that a lot of the people that came were from Her brother's wife's family... and I understand that her brother's wife was very close to Agnes... but shit. It was HER mom too. It just kind of rubbed me the wrong way. Other than that, it was a very nice service... the burial site was super nice minus the 390 air planes that went over in a 20 minute time period. I'm aware they can't control air planes... I'm just sayin... 

Like I said earlier, Allen got to be a Pallbearer. He said it was very hard to do it, but he was happy to do it at the same time because he got to be apart of her service. He for some reason, wasn't able to attend his Great Grandpa's funeral so it made him feel really good to be involved in this one. Plus he got to leave his boutonniere on her casket when it was lowered down.  

OK... enough of that, 

Foggy Smoggy San Antonio

Today is a 600 calorie day... and I have a plan this time. I had an egg for breakfast, 80 calories. I'll be having some chicken breast and a small potato (no butter or anything) for 210 calories, and then some pasta and marinara sauce for dinner for 300 calories. I'll be sittin pretty at 590 calories for the day! Tuesday when I did this I lost a pound. Yesterday I kind of ate shitty... but It was unavoidable considering the circumstances. 

Allen's mom has a super cool coffee maker... she's got one of those Keurig machines. It looks nice... makes coffee fast... has neat flavors... but I can't hang. I need my regular coffee pot guys. LOL I like putting 6 scoops for 5 cups of water... We've been told our coffee is so strong it could stand without a cup. With my kids... we need it like that. haha I'll stick with my Black and Decker 25$ machine that I have to do everything with. I'm ok with that. Don't get me wrong, the Keurig is fast... and pretty cool looking.. and less to clean up it seems... but those little cups are... well... little. haha 

Ethan is wearing undies right now... and he better get up and use the potty if he needs to. I'm so dang tired of diapers I could scream. This kid will be just at 3 months. He's stubborn and lazy and I'm annoyed. Hailey needs to get the heck out of diapers at night! She thinks it's ok to just sleep in diapers for the rest of her life. O_O NO... no it's not. My money needs to go to other things other than diapers. Like you know, food and gas. Gas isn't super expensive here right now... we paid 3.14 a gallon yesterday... But I remember when it was 2.14. gah dang man. 

I remember when putting 10$ in my car would give it half a tank. 20$ would just about fill it up. ugh

Jacob is about to lose his first top tooth... it's super freaking loose. I'm thinking maybe,.... 1 to 2 days max. Especially if he keeps jacking with it the way he has been. We'll see I guess. He's being really brave about this one too... no crying or anything yet. haha we'll see what happens when we're actually pulling it. 

Life Alert, Unicorns, and Sitting On Jacob.

Today is my 500 calorie day... I don't think I've posted the new diet I've put myself on yet... It's pretty simple. The sugar thing was kind of a bust. 25g of sugar is really...really hard. Maybe I'll give it a try another time, but right at this moment, I'm not strong enough to do that. So... Here is my new diet. 

I'm allowing myself the original 1200-1300 calories a day... Except on Tuesday and Thursday, where it drops down to 500. I know a lot of people are going to be like "That's not going to work..." or "That's not good for you" but I've done a lot of reading on it... and I've heard some personal testimony from people so I have high hopes. I'm giving it till October, and I'll reassess what I want to do, but for now... This is it. Today is my first 500 calorie day... I'll be throwing down on some celery and lettuce till later, where I'll have an amazing Subway sammach that's only about 460 calories. woot woot! 

I will tell you this though... Making food for the kid's breakfast was hard. I want some cereal so bad. or these new Bagels I got... they're lookin so tasty right now. Bastards. I'll just drink my water and immerse myself in house cleaning and getting ready for mine and Allen's road trip later. We're headed to San Antonio today to attend his Great Great Grandma's funeral tomorrow morning. We weren't sure how it was going to play out for a few days... I'll tell you why...

My mom decided Sunday afternoon, that she and my step dad wanted to go out riding on their Mule in the pasture. (You know, those big 4-wheeler type things but, better.) Well... she saw something she wanted to go look at or something, got out of the Mule, and ended up slipping on some mossy cement and bashing her face into the ground. Hard. My step dad said it looked like someone had dropped her body out of an airplane when she hit... So he runs to her aide and ends up slipping on the same mossy area and lands on his back... I know right!? Old people....*Shaking my head....* so, he gets her up and shes ok for a second, then he said she started acting funny and said she felt sick. Long story short, She thought it was Christmas, ended up staying over night in the hospital so they could watch her brain just in case, and now has a super super super bruised face. I was pretty worried... I mean, she's old. haha! :) I told her she needs to come up with a more... interesting story than "oh I was walking and fell on my face"... O_o Maybe something like.... She was being chased by Big Foot and she tripped over a baby Unicorn and fell on her face. 

I know what she's getting for Christmas... Life Alert and a Helmet. :) 

Anyways,... she is home now.. She's got a concussion and like I said before, a pretty bruised face. But she'll still come over this afternoon and watch the kids for us so we can get on the road. We're going to make sure the kids are bathed that way she won't have to worry about that. At least we'll be in San Antonio earlier than midnight... like it was going to be pre-fall. 

Side note... I have my own Amazon Store now... the link is over under my BIO.. Freaking sweet right? I think so. 

OH so... I'm up to 147lbs. That's right bitches... Gaining weight like crazy. I think it's because I had kind of given up. I stopped drinking water as much, I started ignoring my portions... I kind of lost sight of what I wanted and WHY I wanted it. I want to be healthy, and I want it for me. I have a great trainer that gives me AWESOME advice... The last time I did what she told me to, I lost 10 pounds in a month... I don't know why it's so hard for me to just suck it up and do what needs to be done. The worst part, is that I KNOW what I'm doing... and I know it's not what I need to be doing. Pathetic. Lea Anne has written up a workout I can do at home on the weeks I can't go to Curves because of Allen's schedule... It should be excellent. O_o

It's called the Magic Eraser... 

Dumbbell Lunges x 15 each side. 

Squat Press x 15

Burpees x 15

Dead lift Rows x 10... each leg

Mountain Climbers x 15

Jump Squats x 15

Chair Pose Hold for 30 seconds.

"Repeat this badassery 5 x's " 

Sounds excellent right? Shouldn't be too bad.. I'll start it Thursday. 

well... I think that's all for now... My kids haven't really done any shenanigans lately.. 

Nothing that stands out at me as freaking ridiculous anyways. 

Their favorite past time.

Sugar Challenge Day 3.

So, here we are... day 3 of the sugar challenge. It's not going too bad. I was under goal yesterday by 5g. I'll probably bust today though... I broke down and had some Strawberry Mini Wheats.. 8g of sugary goodness right there my friends. I'm full though, and didn't have to cook.. so it's more of a win / win in my book. 

mmmmm delicious. 

We have a funeral to go to Wednesday. Allen's great great grandma passed away yesterday morning. They said she took one last big breath and then just, passed. Which is cool... Thats how I want to go. Peacefully and in my sleep. We'll have to leave Tuesday night around 8:15pm.. which is AWESOME O_O.

We'll be driving to San Antonio and staying with Allen's mom.. we probably won't even get there till... midnight. I'm thrilled. THRILLED!

Hopefully we don't die on the way considering Allen falls asleep driving almost immediately.. plus we're taking his truck so not only can I not drive because I can't see at night, but I can't drive his truck.. so it's up to him. 

You're probably thinking "So.. just talk to him the whole time, or play games or something." yeah.. Been there and tried that. This is the same man that can fall asleep 2 minutes after putting his feet up in his recliner. While we're in the middle of a conversation. 

While the kids are screaming.

Talking is not going to work.

My birthday is in like... 21 days or something... I don't know.. I'm not really counting... :)

If anyone wants to get me anything... I'll take a freaking Kindle case... they're cheap on Amazon. Thats where I got Allen's. My poor kindle screen is getting little scratches and crap because I had to take the screen protector off. Well.. it's been off for a few months, but it was getting all... stupid looking. My case has been gone since I dropped the whole thing in the toilet. LOL I'll tell ya what... Kindles are pretty resilient.. I've dropped it several times and even submerged it in water... and nothings wrong with it. It still works just fine. At first it was a little... jumpy, but after it got dried out.. everything is A-OK. I'd recommend Kindle to anyone. and Samsung. Allen says my cell phone looks worse than some peoples work phones. haha I'm just klutzy... I drop stuff a lot. It's not my fault.  I'm joking... You don't have to get me anything. 

I'd be ecstatic with someone keeping my kids for a day. haha *this does not apply to family... MOM*

Eh... considering we'll be headed to Port Aransas on the 11th, I'm not TOOO worried about what I'm getting for my birthday. haha I would really much rather have my toes in the sand... and kids 6 hours away for 4 days. :-D 

OH OH OH!!! Last year, Allen and I got to go on the Lexington's haunted house thing.. "Haunting on the Blue Ghost" and they're doing it again this year on the 12th of October. I'm excited. Last year I basically hid my face in his back the whole time screaming and taking tiny baby steps. One of those scary bastards even said to me "LOOK AT MEEEEEE!!!!" .... yeah... totally not looking. 

I don't know what gets me about that crap. I know it's all fake.. duh. Some of it is so fake it's cheesy.. but I just can't get over it. I'm spooky I guess. 

I don't know if I ever put this up here... but a few weeks ago I got a random text message from a number I didn't know... Here's what happened. 

They were not as amused as I was. 

Lunch time! Hope you all are making healthy choices! 

Sugar Challenge ... fml

I'm doing a Sugar Challenge this week. Starting today, Lea Anne, Shea and I are only having 15g a sugar a day. Considering my usual cup of coffee in the morning has 3 tea spoons of sugar, which equals out to 12 lovely grams of sugar in one awesome cup of coffee. Probably why it makes me so happy in the morning. Today I had 1/2 a teaspoon... which makes about 2g of sugar. I'm off to a good start! Right?! ........

These kids are TESTING my patience already too. So far there has been screaming, door slamming, fit throwing, and refusals to eat breakfast. Thats pretty damn amazing for before 8:30am. 

Lord help me make it through the day without beating anyone. Amen.

So, today is the 12 year anniversary of 9/11. I would love nothing more than to watch the news this morning. However, Mickey Mouse and Doc Mc Stuffins and Sophia The First will dominate the freaking TV till lunch time where I change it to my Fox News to watch Live! With Megyn Kelly. I watched the retard we have as president give a speech last night on why we should bomb Syria... and he had a booger up his nose whistling the whole time... I asked Allen... "Is it just me, or does he have an Eagle in cave one?" ... We watch too much The Love Guru apparently. It was funny though. Anyways... He keeps talking about how he doesn't want to put boots on the ground over there, but what he doesn't realize is that there will be boots on the ground. Most likely over here though. If we bomb them, they're probably going to do something to retaliate. Whether it's against our troops who are already fighting overseas, or against US here at home with people who have been living here like those little Jack Asses who did the Boston Bombings. Unfortunately the only way to bomb them and not have them retaliate is to drop a damn atom bomb on their asses. I mean, what would us bombing them do anyways? Other than kick the ant hill and piss them off at us even more. It's not going to sway the Civil War they're having... Whatever we decide to do, that civil war is going to continue, and it's none of OUR business. ...... OK I'm done with that.

So, I got on the scale this morning and I'm down to 144.4. which is AWESOME considering Monday when I got on, It was 145.6. I burned 739 calories yesterday at Curves and then we had Subway for dinner... and for some reason, I felt the need to get on my treadmill after dinner.. So I ran 1.3 miles. That shit is like running in sand. The belt slips a lot when you are running, so it moves forward a little before it goes back... yeah, A LOT like sand. Allen and I have decided that we're going to run in the afternoons on the beach too. Not in the mornings because we like to walk on the shoreline and pick shit up. haha I'm so glad our Hotel is RIGHT ON THE BEACH. We'll be able to wake up, have our coffee, and be out on the sand before the sun comes up. I can't even stress how excited I am to be going back. If we could live at the beach like, permanently we would. Allen has even been talking to the company men he works with in the oil field about positions open in other areas... there are a few positions open in Corpus, but he needs a little more experience under his belt before anything like that happens. Like 2 more years of experience. ugh...

Well... I have to get off here now.. I have to do some Maid Of Honor recon. 

Looking up bridal shows and getting stuff lined up! 

Exciting! 

The Treadmill is Back.

Ran a mile today. Tomorrow I'll run more. Later I'll be going to Curves to hopefully burn another 1000 calories. We'll see... Depends on the time I get there. I had one of those Kellogg's To Go shakes for breakfast this morning... for 180 calories they're pretty filling. They have 10g of Protein and 5g of fat. I had it about 3 hours ago, and my stomach is already growling though. Even after my cup of coffee. Can't wait for my Curves Meal Bar....O_o How stupid. For dinner I'm making Spaghetti Squash. Even though Jacob hates it. Maybe I'll make him regular noodles. Maybe he'll get lucky. 

Jacob has started his first fundraiser for school... and this PTA must think us parents are made of freaking GOLD. I'll be ordering some because, he's my kid... but damn. Lord help me when Hailey and Ethan start selling crap too.. We'll be broke as a joke. 

This year he's selling all kinds of stuff.. including magazines, gift wrap, home decor stuff...snacks...

If you want to help Jacob raise money and get some cool prizes, you can go 

HERE

His Student Online ID is 22DPMLL after you hit 'next' on the left side of the screen are all the options of crap you can choose from. Magazines are up at the top... and the good stuff, like the home decor and gift wrap and jewelry.. 

We really appreciate any help he gets. Thank you in advance to anyone who purchases anything through his ID! :-D 

OK... I'm done whoring my kids fundraiser crap out now... 

So, this morning... everyone woke up SUPER happy.. which was weird. I should have known it was the calm before the storm. This is the first day since school started that I've had to take the kids with me to drop Jacob off, because Allen's schedule has been stupid and he's been home till later in the morning... Anyways, He went to work at the normal 4am today so the kids had to go with. They were super happy and singing songs in the car on the way home, so I thought. "Holy crap it's going to be a great morning!" 

WRONG. 

I came in the house, made them their cookies and creme cereal they wanted... and then shit hit the fan. 

Ethan offered Hailey a spoon. 

CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT SHIT?!

He had the audacity to OFFER HER A SPOON FOR HER CEREAL!?!

HOW DARE HIM!

............... -_- ............

She FLIPPED SHIT for a good 10-15 minutes about it. Long enough to make her cereal soggy. And like the Texas weather, almost as quickly as it started, it was over. 

I'm shocked a lot more than I should be sometimes by how these kids act. Hailey's attitude amazes me sometimes. Yesterday while we were at HEB doing some grocery shopping, Ethan decided to use his head as a weapon of mass destruction against Hailey's face. He busted her lip good and hard. There was blood going everywhere and Allen's all "I need a napkin Stephanie!" .... 

Let me just pull one out of my ass really fast in the middle of the pasta isle of HEB. wtf. 

Luckily I had a random napkin in my purse of mom shit. 

I still had to take her to the bathroom so she could rinse her mouth out... There was blood everywhere. People were looking at me like I punched her. I wasn't even next to her when it freaking happened. 

When we went to the bathroom, the water was HOT. So I turned it all the way over to cold and waited for about 3 minutes... and it kept getting hotter. yay... so when we walked out, I saw a water fountain she could use. SIKE! It didn't work. I ended up having to buy a bottle of water so she could rinse her mouth out. UGH. 

Well... that's all for now. I'm going to get lunch ready for these demons and them put them down for a nap. All I can say is PRAISE JESUS Allen comes home at 1 this week. 

Coupons And The Treadmill.

We finally brought in the treadmill yesterday... This better be the start of something. I've noticed lately that I'm getting a little fluffy again. lol Not really, but I feel like I am. I'm still around the 145 mark... This is the hardest freaking 15 pounds I've ever lost. Seriously. I can't believe I was down to 139 not to long ago.. and here I sit... a few months later... 145... lame. 

I'm scared I'll end up this fat...unhealthy... gross person again. I was so unhappy with everything about myself in this picture. Gah man... 

Not to mention I've already gotten rid of all of my "fat" clothes and we can't afford for me to buy new anything right now. lol Gotta focus on the kids winter/fall clothes and crap for Christmas! 

I've got to start Couponing. I've been reading blogs about it... but apparently Texas has some pretty stupid Coupon laws... HEB seems to be my best bet as saving any amount of money though. They do their regular store coupons plus manufacture coupons plus when things are on sale... I'm sure if I pay attention I can get some good deals. 

Key words here... "Pay Attention" hahaha

HEB has a policy called "Fresh or Free"... if you find something on the shelf that's expired, and take it to the cash register, You get a free fresh one of whatever it is. Milk, Yogurt, stuff like that... bet yo ass I'll be checking my stuff now too. You only get one free item per trip... so I'll be looking for important things like Milk...Eggs,.. Cheese... stuff we use a lot of. I swear we buy a gallon of milk every 4 days. 

Sucks balls. 

Jacob was yelling "I can't breathe!!!!" and Hailey said.."Yes.. you can." 

She's so mean. 

No idea where she gets it. 

Probably her daddy.

Plateau.... You Suck.

31 days till my 28th Birthday!!!! 

I'm so excited. Now that we have the tax crap taken care of, Allen and I are planning our trip to the coast for our 1 year anniversary! :-D Everyone says the first year is the hardest.... seriously? It FLEW by! I guess when you're married to your best friend it's not much work. 

Here is where we're staying!!!!

I'm extremely excited! We usually stay in a little motel that is right next door to this place, and every time we pass by we talk about how "Someday" we'll get to stay there. I had no idea it was so inexpensive during the Fall Season! I almost wanted to call them and ask if they were joking on the website. It'll be an efficiency room, but it's got a full kitchen set up, which is what we really need. I don't want to eat out the whole time we're there. So we're going to hit up the local grocery store, buy a few things we need for a few days... milk, eggs, salad stuff..chicken... maybe we'll catch some fish or something?! who knows! I'm just excited that we can actually go! 

We HAVE to change the oil in my vehicle before we go, and hopefully get the stupid suspension fixed...finally. 

If not, We might have to take Allen's work truck because I really don't want my freaking wheel flying off while driving on the interstate. The dang tool to press the ball joints into place is almost as expensive as all the parts we need. O_o It'll pay for itself with the first suspension side job Allen gets, but that's IF he gets one any time soon. 

I'm super annoyed right now the the lack of weight loss going on. I'm not over eating, I'm not cheating on my diet... a lot. (a few oreos a day to kill my sweet tooth, by a few I mean like 3.) I'm eating a lot more healthy, and drinking a lot more water,... Not to mention I BUSTED ASS at Curves last week. I went EVERY day... and burned a SHIT ton of calories! I made Lea Anne check my body fat and I've lost a pound of body fat... but my actual weight on the scale is going from losing one to gaining one. I can't freaking break this dang plateau. I don't know how much I'll get to go to Curves this week since Allen's schedule is really freaking stupid. He goes in at 10, (meaning he leaves at 8:45) and gets off at 6 (Gets home around 7:30.) So, unless my mom comes and sits with the kids I'll not be going. He's off on Friday.. By the Grace of God... unless they decide to pump this weekend... then he'll be working this weekend again. O_o NEXT WEEK though, He goes in from 5am-1pm so I'll fa SHO be going every day next week too before I have to get Jacob from school. I have to weigh and measure on the 9th-ish so I need to squeeze as much in between now and then as I can. I just don't know whats going on with this stupid ass plateau. I haven't even been drinking my sweet tea like usual! 

Well... I have to get to the bank.. get out the other half of rent and take it to my landlord. Better get off here and go deal with putting the car seats back into the car. O_o blah. 

100 Posts!!!

This is my 100th post! 

There is an awesome kid story at the end of this blog too... 

I had a goal of burning 1000 calories at Curves... and I hit it. woot woot! Now I have to keep it up. Hopefully! Allen's schedule is SUPER FREAKING STUPID the next week for sure... Not sure how long it's going to be yet. He'll work 10-5 which means he'll get home around 630 so I probably won't be going to Curves unless my mom comes to town. Hopefully I can get him to GET THE FREAKING TREADMILL INSIDE like he was supposed to do LAST week... 

My mom is keeping the kids tonight, which is SUPER because Dexter only has 3 episodes left, and I want to make sure I hear EVERYTHING that happens. It looks freaking intense and I have no idea whats going to happen... I love Dexter.. I wish this wasn't the last season. He's the coolest serial killer ever. Plus he's a ginger. The cutest ginger I've ever seen that's for sure. On the show they always have him in some kind of pastel button up shirt and tan or khaki pants. Brooke and I usually bet on what color he's going to be seen in first... purple? pink? light blue? maybe even light green?

Michael C. Hall is awesome.

I have a few theories on how the season is going to play out.. I'm hoping that Dexter gets Vogul on his table... She deserves to die so much... and I want Deb to shoot the Brain Surgeon so she feels like she's done something good by getting back on the force. I sort of want Deb and Quinn together again too.. They made a weirdly odd good couple. If that makes sense. I don't really care if Hannah McKay lives or not.. But I want Dexter and Harrison to get away to Argentina. Like he planned originally. 

If you follow Dexter you know what I'm talking about right now, if you don't... you're probably confused and bored and losing interest. haha sorry.. 

So we played the lottery again last night because Allen found 2 pennies on heads yesterday, we got two numbers. Which means nothing. 2 numbers basically means "you suck... thanks for the money." ugh.

I've been a little discouraged lately because I gained a pound last week... but I checked my body fat and I'm down a pound in body fat.. so hopefully it's muscle that I'm putting on. I'll take gaining weight as long as it's muscle weight and not FAT. Fat sucks. 

I'm currently at 145. I know I'm bloated and probably am retaining water weight... which sucks. I'm supposed to weigh and measure with Curves around the 9th of September so I guess we'll see wtf is up then. I know I busted ass all last week. I'll try to bust some serious ass this week too.. I need to start doing my Yoga again... I felt more...in sync with myself when I was doing that on top of my work outs. I did a 2 minute plank the other day and thought I was going to die. That shits cray. It doesn't seem like doing that position would do anything really... but damn. after 45 seconds I'm ready to just lay on the floor and take a nap. 

Today for lunch, I'll be having some chicken salad that I made last night.. I'll be having it with some Crackers.. I love the way the apples make it all crispy. Allen took some with him for lunch today too. He didn't think he'd like it at first.. then I made him try it. Jerk. ha ha. I've also been eating my Curves Meal Bars.. I had one for lunch yesterday, and I had one for breakfast this morning. I couldn't even finish it though. Which is crazy. I thought to myself.. "I'll end up eating some frosted mini wheat's after this.. " hell no.. I couldn't even finish the whole thing. I'm still pretty full and I had that around 8:30am. Score. 

180 calories and like 15g of Protein, with 7g of Fiber.

Score. Score. Score. 

OMG we were at Walmart shopping on Friday afternoon... and Hailey was sitting in the little seat thing in the basket.. and I'm pushing her around, we're just about to leave but I forgot cereal, so we're headed to that area... and We passed some Halloween stuff and she was talking about Halloween and junk. Then she goes "Mom! there's a witch!" not thinking anything about it I just said "Yep... theres a witch!" and I guess she could tell I wasn't fully paying attention to what she was saying, so she said "NO! mom! Theres a witch!" so... I said "Where? theres no Halloween stuff around here." and then, the most embarrassing thing ever happened. She pointed to a lady that was walking behind me pushing a basket full of groceries... and said "RIGHT THERE!!! PUSHING THE BASKET! A WITCH!!!" .......

and then I died. 

Turned onto the cereal isle... 

and died. 

Kids suck... the end. 

On A Roll!

I busted ASS yesterday while I was at Curves. My calorie burn is climbing like crazy... and that damn thing keeps increasing my strength. I swear it should be decreasing it. haha Check out this awesomeness...

Ignore how I had nothing between July 18th and Aug 14th. Must have been a few busy weeks of Allen getting off work late or something. Anyways... 947 freaking calories burned in about 45 minutes! Right on! I should bust my plateau pretty quickly if I keep this up. I plan on going again today... if my ovaries let me. Stupid little bastards. I really don't understand why I still have them considering they give me so much pain. Just take those bad boys out man... So I'll have to take a pill for the rest of my life? so what? I'm down. At least I won't be glued to the couch and heating pad for 3 to 4 days doing absolutely nothing but crying and eating! Damn. 

I've been letting myself "cheat" a lot more than I should. Which is incredibly stupid. Considering I'll be in a wedding come March, I need to stop that shit. We have to go shopping Friday for groceries and junk and I'm going to be getting lots and lots and lots of healthy stuff again. I need to drink more water too... If I'd just do what Lea Anne says and drink up, I'd keep losing. I'm not drinking soda or anything, I just don't drink. period. Which is stupid. 

Well, I gotta make some chocolate milk for this little boy who's already awake,... and get some strawberry mini Wheats for him to eat. Kid loves those. 

First Day Of School...and Another Zoo Trip.

Yesterday we made one last road trip to Abilene to take the kids to the Zoo. They LOVE it there. They just added a lot of new animals too, so it was extra cool this time. Of course I got some awesome pics too! haha! Also... today was Jacob's first day of 3rd grade. He's getting so big. He didn't even want me to walk him to class this year. I don't know how I feel about that. I guess it's ok... considering I hadn't brushed my hair or really put clothes on. I just threw on some random crap that was laying in the floor when I got up. 6:45am is early guys. Like, way early. 

He was way excited. I went in to wake him up this morning, and he was standing in the hallway already dressed and going to brush his teeth. When I asked him if he was excited, he just looked at me and tried not to smile, because GOD FORBID he's happy or excited about going to school. Dork. 

I hate his lunch box. He wanted this stupid lunch box/backpack combo.. where the lunch box clips onto the backpack. That thing doesn't hold ANYTHING. I'll have room for a sandwich and a box of juice. Period. Nothing else will fit. The thermos we got him won't even fit if he's got a sandwich in there... Which is stupid. And then I don't know how I'm supposed to keep it cold, because the ice pack won't fit. THANK GOD my mom got him a different one that's like the one he had last year.. Except it's Iron Man and not Mario. At least I know it'll fit everything I put into it!!! Stupid Igloo crap. 

This week I'll be going to work out EVERY DAY... Minus one, we may be going to a funeral sometime this week. Only time will tell. Allen's great great grandmother isn't doing well at all... Anyways, It'll have to be a day trip, which also sucks. Hopefully my mom can watch the kids or something when we go. If it happens this week... We'll know later today sometime whats going on. 

ALSO... I have a little more motivation now too! I've been asked to be in a wedding March 29th. Thats long enough for me to get where I want to be. If I do what I'm supposed to do. I did a minute and a half plank the other day and I'm almost positive I almost died. I need to work on my stupid belly fat and my arms. Those are the two things I hate. Not for long though. :-D 

At some point today Allen and I will be moving in the treadmill too, FINALLY. 

So, here are the zoo pics. 

These Flamingos are so pretty. The last time we went to the zoo, this grey guy had just hatched! He was a lot smaller and super poofy! Look at him now!  

Jacob and Ethan were so happy. Hailey was being a giant turd because just before this, Ethan had sat in her spot on the wagon we rented. So, she wanted nothing to do with the sea turtle picture. She's a butthole.

These fish!!!! They're crazy! They have fish food you can buy for a quarter and feed them, and it's like they KNOW. They follow you from side to side of the bridge and there are hundreds of them! It looks that way anyways! There are a few gold ones that make an appearance every once in a while too. Their lips crack me up.

The Lions! It's hilarious that even big kitties sleep like this. This is how Skeeter sleeps a lot of the time. haha 

Here is Alex the Lion. Thats what the kids call him anyways. From Madagascar. Look at those paws!

This is the kids favorite part. When Melman the giraffe eats his crackers they crack up. Here pretty soon they're supposed to have a new giraffe enclosure where when you feed them, they're eye level. THAT will make the kids day. FOR SURE. 

For it being in the 90s yesterday, the animals were out doing stuff! The monkeys were climbing around like ... monkeys. 

Look at this guy! Giving me the stink eye! What's that about? Owls are my favorite birds for sure. and this guy is looking at me like I look at my kids after hearing them say "mommy" for the 498234rd time in a day. This is basically what I look like at the end of every day. 

The peacock! He's so pretty! I wish I could have gotten him parading his feathers out. He kept following Ethan around and freaking him out. Pretty funny. Can't wait to get my peacock tattoo.

Turtle! 

All three kids, acting as normal as we could get them.

Hailey after being told we were leaving. She was not happy. What a turd. 

Allen will be off this week, and I've already gotten him to do one thing on the Honey Do list... I have a few more that need to be done. I'm sure I'll have to start doing it before he takes over because I'll be doing it wrong again. :) 

So... recap... 1st day of 3rd grade for Jacob, being in a wedding in 7 months, possible funeral, zoo trip... gah!