High Five for Friday....

 

Hey-lo so today I am doing the link up with Lauren Elizabeth & Katie. Check them out!  Just a link up to reflect on your week and remember some of the favorite things about it!!

 

1. I actually worked out everyday this week NO EXCUSES

2. Even though I worked out everyday this week so what if I had a second helping of shirmp alfredo

3. I let my family eat cereal for dinner.  I think this is awesome. Cereal is the BOMB!

4. Spent some extra mom & daughter time with kiddo's playing outside in the sandbox instead of doing laundry. :)

5. Went to the store on Wednesday with the intention of buying only one thing (toothpaste) and ended up buying some fab shoes and nailpolish!

 

So gonna try this I love Minnie Mouse!

 

So there you have it 5 fab things about my week. 

 

On the weekend front....
Gonna have a non fab garage sale and clean out my garage party tomorrow. Everything goes!!! We are moving and don't want to have to move all of the stuff that I haven't touched in 6 months or more. My daughter talked me into letting her have a sleepover this weekend. Yes I am out of my mind! So hopefully we will get some stuff accomplished and it will be a totes awesome weekend!

 

Love Ya Mean It....

 

Finish the Sentence with Jack & Holly

Hey all today I am doing the Finish the Sentence Linkup with Jake & Holly....

 

 

 

1. I laughed so hard I cried when... my mother-n-law had a little too much to drink at our wedding reception and she took her teeth out and was trying to kiss (gum) everyone.  Yes she went there.

2. My high school...years were awesome but I was a band geek but we had the best group of friends and this one time at band camp.....
3. It really pisses me off... how nasty women's public restrooms are....I just don't understand how we women can be sooo nasty you guys know what I am talking about.
4. In ten years... my youngest will be 13 holy cow and I will still be dealing with a teenager I am working on being that MILF I know I can be. 
5. If I could erase one thing... would have been to wait to get married at 19.  I know at the time no one could have told me different but I see now how foolish it was.
6. In 1999...  My first child was 1 and I was totally still rocking the big hair do.  Curly lion mane and all, hug ass bangs.
7. Honestly... Can't we all just get along. In light of the recent boston tragedy just wish we could all just get along and not live in fear and worry.
8. To me, Sushi... is scary looking sometimes but AWESOME!!
9. Someone really needs to invent...a handheld fat vacuum that we can use at home and just get rid of that unwanted underarm fat.  Am I right we all could use a little less flap. 
10. The first time I drank alcohol... I was 15 and my mom and dad left us with my uncle and he fell asleep and me and my friend took a bottle of Boons Farm lol and drank too cups and felt SICK and puked everywhere LOL. And No it didn't keep up from doing it again.

11. The one question I would ask God is... why do you have to take those so young.
12. Lindsay Lohan... needs to eat some carbs!

So there you go! Hope everyone has a great Friday eve!

Love Ya Mean It....

 

 

Weigh-In Wednesday

 

 

Happy Hump Day everybody! I honestly don't have a whole lot to post today. I weighed in this morning with a loss of an additional .6 pounds LOL I am now down to 177.4.  Woohoo now this might not seem like much to you but this is freaking amazeballs to me!! I have been stuck at 178 FOREVER!!! So maybe I am on my way to more lossage?  Is that a work hell who cares it is to me.  So this morning around 4:30 am I get but lazy ass outta bed and decide to bust out Day 3 Level 2 of the 30 Day Shred.  I don't know if that was brilliant or stupid.  Which by the way it is possible to yawn and exercise at the same time its called muti-tasking.  So anyways that outta the way I have the rest of the day for everything else. I have been feeling pretty good that I haven't given up.  The 30 DS is tough to me now it may be just because I am uber out of shape but I sweat balls profusely every time and afterward I feel awesome like I have really done something.

 

So the next few weeks are going to be crazy and packed with company, we are moving into a bigger house and I am totes excited, but that means packing and I am not totes excited about that.  My youngest will turn 3 in a couple of weeks I can't believe it. I don't know where time has gone.  Maybe I should feel old but I keep telling myself you don't get old you get better.  Tonight is bowling night with the hubs so I am super excited about that.  I hope I do well but better yet just want to have a good time.  :)

 

On a blogging note topic whatev you want to call it.  How do you all prepare for what you are going to write(post). Do you just sit down on they day and bust out a post or do you all prepare ahead of time? What do you use as inspiration? 

 

Everyone have a great hump day love ya mean it!

  

Link UP & Boston

 

It's Tuesday Y'all, I couldn't even bring myself to write Happy Tuesday because like everyone else in the nation we are mourning and saddened by the tragedy in Boston. I won't pretend that I am a runner or a person that will be running a marathon anytime soon but I am an American and my heart really hurts for those people and their families who has been affected by this truly senseless tragedy.  I am really scared for my children's future. For the thought of not even being able to watch or be a part of an event that should be an innocent gathering of families and friends.  I just think all we can do is get on our knees and pray.

 

 

 

On the exercise and fitness note I am on level 2 of JM 30 Day Shred and let me just say it is a love hate relationship!! I hate the work out itself I am not good with all the planking and I probably look like a hippo with a broke leg doing all the exercises.  When I am done however I feel empowered and I feel really good about sticking with it and completing it because I can tell you half way through it I just really REALLY want to quit.  I sweat major bullets the entire time and when I am done I feel like I just rocked that shit. I guess that is how outta shape I am but as hard as it is and as tired as I feel I also feel some pride in myself. Proud that I didn't give up and I continued, proud that I am at least feeling results maybe not scale results but I am noticing a change in my clothes which is AWESOME!! There is nothing worse then not feeling comfortable in your clothes. 

 

I only have 15 more days left on my diet bet and I have to lose 3.8 more pounds.  I don't know if I will be able to accomplish it but I can tell you it has kept me motivated and has kept my goal in the forefront of my mind. 

We have a pretty eventful next few weeks coming up.  My mother-n-law is coming to visit and maybe most not be excited about this but I love her and we always have a great time. Then a week after she leaves we are moving, which I hate by the way.  But, I am excited because the house we are moving too is bigger and has a lot more room, we have outgrown the house we are in so it will be nice to have a little breathing room. 

Hope everyone has a great Tuesday!

Love Ya Mean It...

 

Weekend Recap & Hubby Jacks Giveaway!!

Hey all well another weekend has come and gone to fast I might add it seems like it was just Monday yesterday.  So anywho the weekend was busy and full of a lot of driving.  On Saturday we got up bright and early my middle child Melayna had a bowling tournament in Fort Lauderdale.  Which is awesome and I was so excited for her but I wasn't however excited about the driving and the weather was supposed to be crummy but it ended up being an ok day just a little overcast.  Also Zoe (she is 2) is not a good car rider she is very impatient and has a tons of energy so needless to say I spent a lot of the ride trying to entertain her. We got to the bowling center about 11:00 am and checked in and got seats which was a miracle seats are like gold at these things and you have to practically beat people to get one but we ended up pretty luck and got a whole table to ourselves. Here are some pictures I took of us waiting to start and then of Melayna bowling.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

She did really well she had to bowl 4 games and her average is about 93 she bowled 120, 129, 139 & 149.  Weird I know that they were all in order like that but we were super proud of her. Needless to say Zoe couldn't hang and even though there were pins and balls being thrown around everywhere and it was super loud she gave it up!

 

So that ended about 3 and we decided since we were here we wanted to get a late lunch/dinner and maybe do a little shopping. The hubs wanted to go to The Bass Pro Shop here in Fort Lauderdale.  I don't know if any of you have ever been to one of these but they are huge and he can spend HOURS here but they had a restaurant and it was super yummy!!! I probably didn't stick to my diet very well but all in all I didn't do too bad. I had a grouper rueben which was super yummy and some ranch flavored potato wedges!! Here was the awesome fish tank that we got to look at while we were eating the kids were like obsessed with it!

 

After we stuffed ourselves we decided to do some shopping.  The hubs got a swamp people shirt (love this show) and the girls got some really cute stuffed animals. I was in need of a new pair of sunglasses mine actually broke on Friday so I invested in these awesome pink realtree sunglasses.  They were a little pricey but what the hell you only live once right?

 

So needless to say by the time we spent the cash got back in the car and headed home it was about 9:30.  Everyone was exhausted we didn't waste too much time and went right to bed. 

 

Sunday was a very uneventful day I did talk the hubs into going to the grocery store for me!! Which was AWESOME!! We just hung out cleaned and did a whole lot of nothing. Oh yeah we did get caught up on Duck Dynasty which I am in love with!! If you haven't watched it you should!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 On another note Hubby Jack is doing a give away!! Please click on the button above and vote for me! I am in need of a blog makeover and the one with the most votes wins. SO yes I am begging for votes!!!
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE!!!

Also don't foget to follow my blog!!
Thanks yall have a great week love ya mean it!!

 

Freakin Friday Finally!!!

Hey yall!!!  We finally made it to Friday.  It has been a week of good and bads.  I feel like I am getting closer to my girls and my husband and I have made some awesome progress in our marriage.  We have been discussing things without fighting that other wise in the past would have ended in a big blow up.  I consider those things huge successes in my life.  I was thinking as to maybe why this is and I really think it has to do with my self image.  Granted I have a looooooong way to go and a lot to accomplish but I have come a long way in the last month or so and I feel better about me. So maybe it is true that when you feel better about you self when problems or troubles arise you are able to look at them a little more calmly than if you have those things on your mind.  Plus I think that working out gives me that ME time that I need.  I don't have a lot it seems that we are ALWAYS on the go with the kids or work or whatever.  So I feel like when I am sweating it out I have to reflect wether it be on being a better mom or wife.  

On the weekend horizon we will be headed to Fort Lauderdale tomorrow.  Melayna has a bowling tournament and we plan to totally do some shopping at the awesome Sawgrass Mills Mall holla!!!! I am super excited.  Spending time with my girls and maybe even an lunch at an awesome fancy smancy restaurant!  Then tomorrow night the hubs and I will be having a little us time. The rents have agreed to watch the kids and the kids are super excited. I am looking forward to a little us time we don't get that much and I know in previous posts I have complained about him but even though we have our ups and downs I love him dearly.

Also tomorrow I start Level 2 of the 30 Day Shred Holla! I have made it through the first level and I still have the desire to continue.  That is a huge accomplish for me.  It is tough for me sometimes and I am easily talked out of stuff like oh I can work out later right now I will do........what?!? So I have realized that there are NO EXCUSES!!! If you want it bad enough you will do it!!!!

Just wanted to give a shout out to those that are following my blog!!! You guys are totes AWESOME!!

I leave you with this quote!!!

Love You Mean It..........

NSV Link Up!

 

It's totes Thursday ladies woohoo!  Today I am doing Non-Scale Victories Linkup with Lex & Katie! These girls are awesome by the way click on the above links to check them out. 

 

Ok so non-scale victories. I feel like sometimes when I sit down to write (especially after reading some awesome blogs) that my life is pretty boring & normal. So I will try to keep you captivated through my entire post! As you have read on here before I have 3 kiddies (girls) so you know that it is TND (Total Nonstop Drama) 24-7 here at my house.  One of the things I have been trying to do is along with getting healthy incorporate more health wise activities for the kids.  I used to rush home rush in the door get started on laundry, dinner etc because I just wanted to get it done and relax.  I realized not to long ago my kids are growing so fast and one day I am going to look back and say where did all the time go and I want them to remember their child hood as a happy time.  So this week I decided that I was going to come in the door and spend an hour doing something that they wanted to do.  Of course being that there is 3 of them I will have to take turns since they range from 2 (almost 3 May 1st) to 15.  So Monday when I came home I decided ok lets go outside and do something. They all looked at me like I had 3 heads. My middle child said really and go the biggest smile on her face. We just spend the hour out in the yard the youngest one on the swing set and me and the middle one and my oldest talking and laughing and reading(they are bookworms).  Tuesday and Wednesday were much the same and last night my middle daughter said to me mom you may not be smaller yet but I am liking this healthy you! That made me feel so good. So even if the scale doesn't reflect a loss this week I know I have been victorious because my kids are happy with the new and improved MOM!

 

 

I will leave you on a funny note here are some things I came across this week that cracked me up!

 

 

Ok I know hotdogs aren't great for you but lets face it hotdogs and hamburgers are a summer time staple so I found this hot dog slicer for my 2 year old with a ketchup (or any condiment) holder on the front! Loved it and I had to have it so cute!!

 

 

Yes you aren't seeing things that's right those are condoms.  Brief side note I work at the county Health Department and we are rolling out a new campaign (Safe Sex & All) and these are the new condom packets.  I almost died when I seen them.  There were more but these two killed me. 

 

Hope everyone has a great Friday Eve!!  Love Ya Mean It....