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its quiet, a little too quiet!

Last week Summer started school, I was sad because she goes all day now, so its longer that I have to go without seeing her happy little face! It took me a week to get use to Summer being gone all day! BUT NOW... this week Brayden started preschool... he is only gone for 2 hours so its not too bad but the house is quiet! Too quiet! Last year Brayden entertained me and kept me busy while Summer was at school, just to keep my mind off of missing her and the few hours she was gone, flew by so fast! Now, the morning drags on! Im BORED!!! Im SAD!!! What am I going to do on these days when both of my kids are gone to school? Its a good thing for them, they like going to school and being with their friends but they are just growing up too fast! Why do they have to grow up so fast? Ugh... at least I get to see their happy little faces when they get out of school! :) I cant wait!!!

Wow!

So things have just been crazy lately! I cannot believe how fast time flies! Summer starts school on monday, yes you heard me right, I said MONDAY!!! WOW! Thats like 4 days away! Ugh.... Im so sad, yet proud as hell! :) She is just growing too fast for me! She is just a shining star, always has been always will be! I knew that when she was born that she was special... I sure was right! :) Summer told me the other day that she didnt want to take her PRINCESS towel to her BFF's birthday party cause its "embarrassing".... SERIOUSLY? Get what Im saying, she is growing up too fast!
Brayden is growing like a weed too! It seems like just yesterday that you couldnt understand a word he was saying when he talked, now its hard to get him to quit talking! LOL He is the worlds BEST interrupter! LOL He interrupts, but only when you are carrying on an important conversation with someone! LOL He will just repeat himself 10 times louder until you finally tell him to shhhhh! LOL I cant believe that he is going to preschool this year! WOW!!! He starts on monday the 30th of August... and we get to go meet his teacher next week. AWESOME! Im a little excited for him, especially since he will make tons of friends plus he needs to learn to play with other kids and to stand up for himself! He is too damn nice sometimes... he lets people push him around... So we gotta teach him to not take that crap from other kids!
Brian had another birthday the other day... He is 28 yrs old now.... I think its hot! I mean seriously, Im married to a 28 yr old man! ;) It cant get any hotter than that... at least not until next year around this same time of the year! LOL We are doing good... I have been sick so I havent had much energy to do much at home... and my house lives to agree! LOL Its like a tornado and a hurricane ran straight through my house.... LOL

Anywho... I really need to get some shut eye... Soooo sleepy! Love you all!

Life is sure great being in my shoes... even when everything is a mess or when I cant pay my bills.... As long as I have my family, Im happy! :)

The best 8 years of my life!

Eight years ago tonight (technically last night since its after midnight!) I met Brian... Actually he was Tim, Tom, Brian at the time! LOL We have officially been together for 8 years and married for 2 years! :) Im a happy wife and a proud mother! :) My family completes me... we may not have it all together but together, we have it all! :)

I love my life! Things are good!

My family is amazing!

Things are good lately... Just nuts! Bills are stressful cause Brian isnt working much... UGH! But other than that, we are good! The kids are growing growing!!! Summer is just an amazing daughter, she helps me so much and is very very understanding! She is fun to hang out with and I am enjoying spending the summertime with her while she is out of school! I cant wait to have a mommy daughter day with her! She made a "bucket list" of what she wants to do this summer before she goes back to school, I will have to post it sometime, its cute! AND we are gonna do it all! :)
Brayden is just as amazing, in different ways though- of course! He likes to give kisses at the most odd times... LOL... and he constantly talks about farts and poop! Stinker! The other night I asked him if it was okay that I called him boogie.... he said "yeah, you call me that cause I like to pick my nose!" LOL I thought that was pretty funny! Then today Summer and him were playing with their dogs, Summer named hers Amber and Brayden named his Fart! LOL Summer was cute, she wanted to name her dog after me! awwwww! and Brayden named his after..... his fart? LOL What a silly little boy!
Anyways... Brian is good... He actually is all into some computer thing lol... I try to get into it too but its more complicated than you can imagine... especially since I have little knowledge on computer lango! LOL Oh well, its keeping him busy and happy, and Im happy if he is! :)
Im doing okay... wish that I would get my butt off this chair more often and into the family room working off this flab! LOL Excuses excuses... Im sick of giving myself these damn stupid excuses!!! I just gotta stick to a routine more! Its been a challenge, but I gotta do it! Swimsuit ready by August, I gotta be there! Scary to me, especially since I have been slacking, I cant slack anymore.... I gotta do it! I have less than 2 months away... WOW... I better get going.... gotta get working out and then some shut eye! Night all!

Ahhhhhhhh.....

Tonight I actually did it! Ive been thinking about it in my mind for the past few days but thats all I have done is thought about it! LOL So tonight, I popped in a workout dvd and got busy! I tried a new one called 10 minute solution quick tummy toners... it includes 5 ten minute workouts and I did them ALL which killed me! Ugh.... I was sweating my ass off by the third workout and wanted to give up but I didnt! Yay! :) I think that when Im testing out a new dvd its not the most effective workout I get, cause Im new to it but Im trying these out to find a few good ones that I can build a routine with them! This one was okay... It is one of the first that made me sweat my butt off, but usually when I workout I get those muscle twitches... this time I didnt get them! Then again, I only worked out my stomach so that could be it! I have done other ab workouts that I liked better but this one was okay... It was a 5 on a 1-10 scale, just cause I felt like I have done better ab dvds, it did have hard moves too though so... I dont know! Anyways, tomorrow night or sometime tomorrow I will be updating you again on my next dvd workout! I need to get back into the routine of working out! Oh yeah I forgot to mention it... I ordered a waist trimmer from avon... just something you wear when you workout to help sweat more or something... but I am supposed to pick it up tomorrow night so I will update you on that too when I get it! :) Have a good night everyone!

Things are getting better....

Okay so my last post was a total downer... Things are getting better, well.... lets just say Im finding ways to LOOK at things in a better way! Since Summer is out of school it frees up a ton of time, so Im actually getting time to hangout with the kids instead of running around all the time! Last week I felt bad though cause we have been BUSY BUSY, with the yard and dr appts and such, this week is the first that we can actually do stuff! Yay! Tomorrow though, I have a dr appt, nothing big so I hope its a short one then maybe the kids and I can run over to murray park and see how things are going over there with the flood! Wednesday night summer has a rehearsal for her dance performance this weekend... I really need to start exercising too! Im thinking about taking the kids hiking or something, then again Im nervous about my ears... Maybe we can just go down town and hangout, although I HATE downtown. I know that the kids would like it though and sometimes you just have to go outside your comfort zone to make your kids happy so if I gotta then I gotta! :) Well I really better get to gettin... I got a ton to do before bed and I invited my mom over for coffee early so thats it for tonight! C-ya!

Im feeling completely overwhelmed! Ugh!

Not in the greatest of spirits tonight... just overwhelmed with bills and such! I wish there were a better way of dealing with this! I hope over this Summer we can catch up on all the credit cards and eliminate our debt! I wanna refi the car but I dont think anyone would let us at this point! We have another 2 years of paying it off but the payments are through the roof! Ugh! Next month we have to register the nissan... we need new tires before it will pass! ugh... cant this crappy stuff just go away already? Well I should get some sleep! Night all!

Ouch!

So I know that I didnt update last night... wait... I mean... for sunday morning, when I got home from work and exercised, but I did exercise! I did the SHAPE video workout... Im starting to just LIKE some of it but I LOVE LOVE LOVE the ab parts! Today my abs are totally giving me proof that I worked them out good! :) I love that! However, Im not gonna workout right now, its early, I just got off work and I plan on working out tonight so Im just gonna go to bed for now! However, I think that I need to make some major adjustments to my eating habits! I eat toooooo many sweets and that WILL hold me back from loosing what I want! So I gotta work on that! Night yall!

measurements....

These were from 05/07/10
Weight: 140 pounds
Waist circumference: 29 inches
Hip circumference: 39 inches
Thigh circumference:
Left: 25 inches
Right: 25 inches

Today 05/15/10 they are
The same, other than the weight, I havent checked it yet but my thigh circumference is 24 inches for each side! :) Yay!!! Not much of a difference but then again thats for one week! So I think its progress and its good! :) It sure made me smile! :) Its paying off! See ya! I better go workout! :)

Its raining its pouring.... when will the sunshine come back?

So yesterday while doing yard work we noticed that a pipe that goes from the power box into the ground was broken because it was rusted through. I called rocky mountain power, they came out and told me that we were responsible for fixing it! Ugh!!! Another thing that we have to mysteriously pull money outta thin air for! The guy said that its not a must fix today thing but he would suggest fixing it in the next week or two at the most! Ugh.... how on earth are we going to have time or money to do this? Im just a little stressed out today, if you cant tell! Ugh!

05/13/10

Okay so we are scrambling around trying to get everything done! We have ONE WEEK left to get things done or we get hit with a hefty fine... Ugh! So today Im not working out... I shouldnt need to after the many many many hours of yard work I did today! My butt is SORE from it all... pulling weeds, lifting logs and much much more... so Im skipping the workout tonight... I just dont have the energy in me and I need the sleep, I gotta work tomorrow! Night all!

I just had an AMAZING workout!!!

So this is the first time that I tried this dvd from SHAPE... its a sculpt your abs dvd that I just love love love!!! I worked out for about 40 minutes and loved it! I didnt know how to do the routines very well of course, but Im sure that once I do this dvd enough, I will LOVE it even more and get an even better workout! :) Heres a pic of the dvd, just in case you wanna look further into it! Its a goodie! Im surely gonna do this one more often! PLUS it has a few really killer good ab workouts that will leave you burning! :) Thats a good sign... :) Well Im off to bed! Have a good one everyone!

Workout for tuesday night...

I didnt get a chance to really workout tonight! My asthma is extremely bad so Im taking a breather and skipping tonight! I will be back to it tomorrow, if I have to I will prepare by doing my breathing machine early in the day! Have a good one! :)

exercises for monday night

So I did about 15 minutes of the dance yourself thin... which I didnt like! And about 45 minutes of dance the inches off hip hop party... I like that one but think I need more practice! Gotta get some shut eye! Night all!

When it rains.... it pours....

Things have been tough lately... We were starting to catch up and get a side stash of money set up just in case and then one morning when we let our dogs out to pee (they live inside cause we dont have a fence around our yard yet!) the neighbors cat, we believe was in our yard (cause it always is) and our dog chased it back into its own yard and our dog got ahold of it! Didnt kill it, but got it pretty good! The thing is, we usually watch the dogs out back cause we knew that there were cats in the neighborhood, but brian turned around for a second and then heard the neighbor lady screaming! He ran outside and she was saying something like, "get me a gun!" and yelling at brian cause apparently our dog "ate" her cat! First off, a dog cant just gobble down a cat and secondly, why is her cat outside? We dont have proof that her cat was in our yard and lured our dog over to their house, but with the fact that brian took his eyes off our dogs for about one minute shows that something had to lure our dog over there! Cause usually they will stay in the backyard... unless they have something lurring them out, like when my dad would come over and if we were out back with the dogs, they would try to run around front to jump up on him! Other than that, they knew they couldnt leave the backyard! Well anyways, the lady wanted to kill my dog cause she got ahold of her cat! The cat ran off and we all looked for it for hours... when we did find it BRIAN was the one that tried to get it out of a tree and when it jumped down from the tree and ran, the owners just watched the cat run off, they didnt try to catch it at all! I guess later that day the cat showed up in their garage and they took it to the vet... about $300 bucks later, their cat is okay! We paid the $300 because we couldnt prove that the cat was in our yard! Still to this day though, their cats, they have like 4 of them, roam the neighborhood and my yard on a daily basis! Its kinda irritating that we have to keep our dogs inside and on leashes when they are outside, yet she can just let her cats roam? What the hell? Since that all happened, we have taken MANY pictures proving that their cats are ALWAYS in our yard and once a fence goes up, if my dog gets their cat again, IM NOT PAYING FOR ANY VET BILLS!!! That $300 was part of our just in case fund, which we could definitely use right now! Brian hasnt been working much, so its hard at the moment to make ends meet with the income we do have coming in... Plus rumors have hit at my work that they might just lay off a few people cause we lost out on a big deal that was a HUGE part of our sales. If that hasnt made things even harder, last friday we got a letter in the mail. According to the city of Taylorsville, we have until May 21st to de-junk our yard! First off, I must say, we dont have the prettiest yard at the time being... BUT its a huge step up from what it was like when we moved in! The lady that lived here before us, left TONS of JUNK, so much that we are still sorting through it! Since we moved in this house we have had a ton to do to it and we just havent had the time to do the other things that we have intended... Brian has two trucks that he intends to fix one up and use the other for parts until one is in good condition, then he will scrap the other one... those are his "babies" we just havent had the extra time to fix them at all though! So right now they are sitting on the side of our house, yes on the grass (ugh)... which one day we plan on cementing, but they are sitting there on the side of the house! Its just so frustrating sometimes though cause we have all these things that we planned on doing to make our yard and our house better but then life happens and we end up having to use our saved money for something that came up... like my neighbors stupid cats vet bills! Ugh.... So now, we are met with these deadlines that we have to have two trucks either registered and parked on the driveway or gone as well as a rusted old swinging lawn chair that was left here for us to deal with (ugh), and an old go-cart frame! On top of that we have to put up a fence in the very near future because we have a pond and a trampoline in our backyard and the neighbors dont watch their kids very well (they are the ones that let their cats roam the neighborhood as well) and they often wonder off into our yard, which Im worried that they are gonna end up in my yard, hurt! Ugh... plus we have to put up a fence because at the moment our dogs are living in our house, Im allergic to them, :( and they are ruining my walls and floor in the basement... And my house is starting to stink cause one of them for some dumb reason refuses to potty outside! ugh! PLUS... this house didnt have a pantry, so brian built one which is almost done but not quite... so we have our whole garage torn apart with all of our stuff and all the junk the previous owner left behind! Cant I send her a bill for having to remove her junk from the property? I mean seriously? This house has been one thing after another since we moved in... In the almost 11 months that we have lived here we have replaced a main side entry door, a water heater, pulled out 2 rose bushes, 2 dead trees, put on a new roof and installed a pantry and we still have a ton more to do in less than two weeks just to make the city of taylorsville happy... even though half of our bills say we live in west jordan and the other half say we live in taylorsville! Ugh!!! Im just a little irritated right now! Time for my workout! Hope it gets rid of some of this stress~

Im sure tuckered out!

Mothers day was AWESOME!!! I got to sleep in... brian made me my favorite yummy breakfast food, biscuits and gravy! The kids and brian got me some pretty flowers and some roller blades, which I cant wait to test out! Then we went outside and got busy in the yard... Summer got a burn on her shoulders, we spaced the sunblock, but she seems to be okay and brayden... he somehow avoided the sun! :) Brian got a killer headache... :( He was awesome and dug up a HUGE chunk of my... well a huge chunk of grass where we plan to put flowers and make it cute cute! Its tough work but we will finish that this week if it gets nice! Then jeramy, josh, heidi, my mom, my dad and nick came over... we did a choke/chicken night... LOL We cooked artichokes and chicken, well some of us did! Yum... Everyone stayed over for quite a while and we all got to chat and hang out, which was really nice! :) Summer was ATTACHED to jeramy the WHOLE time! It was cute... I got pics that I will have to post when my camera is charged and ready to upload to my computer! Then after the kids got ready for bed we sat on the couch and I read about 8 books to them, until they fell asleep... I too fell asleep! LOL I woke up, put them in bed and now am off to bed myself... Im not working out tonight because of a few reasons... #1 Im tired! LOL #2 its mothers day and I wanna relax before my busy week starts and #3, I already worked out today.... at about 5am this morning! LOL So Im good for the day! Until tomorrow! :) Well I hope you all had a wonderful mothers day... I hope this week gets nice, we have a deadline to make... the city sent us a letter saying that we need to do something with brians trucks, register them or get rid of them! Ugh... plus we have to dispose of some yard work scrap! Like branches and such... we just havent had a nice enough day to go to the dump or anything like that! Ugh... I hope this week is nice for at least a day or two! Have a good week everyone!!!

I did it again!

So I worked all night long and when I got home I exercised... yeah Im crazy! LOL Today I worked out to my Turbo Jam Lower Body Jam dvd, which I LOVE LOVE LOVE!!! It was awesome! Its about 30 minutes long and then I did one tummy exercise on my own for about 2 to 3 minutes and then I did TWO different workouts from the 10 minute solutions dvd... Im sweating like CRAZY right now so I better go shower and hit the sack! Im so happy that Im actually sticking to this workin out stuff... So far its only been about 4 days but I can already tell a difference! I try to workout for at least 30 minutes because I know that I can make time for at least that, but it seems that every time I start working out, I dont wanna stop at 30 minutes, I try to do more! LOL Well I really better go! Happy mothers day everyone! Hope you have a great day, I know I will... I took the day off work! :)

One more thing....

I saw this on yahoo.com this morning!
Check it out!

Enter The Hollywood Trainer, Jeanette Jenkins, with jumper cables. "People get into an exercise rut," says Jenkins, whose students have included Queen Latifah and Christina Applegate. "You can go to the gym for 30 minutes and burn 300 calories. Or go and burn 600. You can literally double the amount."

Here, she shows six ways to do that——techniques she perfected for her new super fat-blaster DVD, "Bikini Boot Camp." "In my other DVDs, even I dilly dallied—I put down the weights, took a little breather. But on this one, there's not a moment to think about resting. It's boom, boom, boom, next, next, next. We maximized the calorie burn for the time spent. And you can definitely do that with your own workout."

1. Combine upper and lower body: For example, instead of standing there doing biceps curls with dumbbells, add simultaneous stationary lunges.

2. Shuffle with your walk: During a 30-minute power walk, include 5 intervals of side shuffles lasting 60 seconds to 2 minutes each.

3. Insert cardio blasts: Instead of resting or texting between sets on the weight machines, do 25 to 30 jumping jacks, alternating knee lifts, or front kicks.

4. Wear a weighted vest: This will double your burn while walking, hiking, running, or taking a cardio class.

5. Do drop sets: For weight training, start off each set with the heaviest amount you can lift for 10 to 15 reps; then drop the weight 50 percent and continue to 25 reps.

6. Bump up your weights. While taking a sculpting class, push yourself to use 2 to 3 pounds more than you normally would. "It will make an incredible difference," says Jeanette.

Exercise update for the morning of 05/08/10

Okay so I know that I said that I was gonna try the exercises that I saw on my SELF challenge but I didnt have enough room to do them AND watch them! So I changed my mind for now... Maybe I will do those at my friends house next week! :) Today I did 40 minutes to the 10 minute solutions dvd... I dont really like that dvd too much... I like rockin body more but Im testing out all my dvds first and seeing which is best to me! I think that I just dont like the 10 minute solutions because I get sooo lost on it since I havent done it much! Maybe if I practice it more then I would do better, who knows! I did a few of the workouts but the one that I really knew was the ab blaster... Hope it works cause my flab.. I mean my abs, LOL, need blastin'! LOL Well its off to bed so that I can get up and go shopping with my mom! :) Night all!

Exercises and my 2010 SELF Challenge...

I signed up for the 2010 SELF challenge! This is day one and I havent done anything other than sign up! Im gonna try to do this workout when I get off work in the morning. Check it out!
Im sure its gonna be quite the butt kicker but Im excited to try it out! I think that it will get easier once I start doing it more... We will see! I will update you after I do this workout! This is the Jump Start diet!!!

Wednesday night I worked out. I think that I did about 40 minutes of Rockin Body workout videos. Focusing mostly on my lower body! And Im dying two days later! LOL But Thursday night I did 30 minutes of quick fix pilates abs and about 20 minutes of rockin body dvd rock it out! which was mostly ab exercises! Im getting ready to work today, but when I get off work in the morning Im totally gonna try this exercise out! Im keeping a food diary too... I really gotta lose this weight! I promised Summer we would go swimming this year and I wanna have a nicer body to do it in! :) Update you all later! Have a good night!


Oh wait! Here is another exercise that is for the month 1 fitness plan for the SELF Challenge! Check it out! :)

Bored!

THE NAME GAME
1 . YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet & current car)
Bear Mazda 6
2.GANGSTA NAME: (fave ice cream flavor, favorite cookie)
Mint Chocolate Chip White Chocolate Macadamia Nut
3. YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: (first initial of first name, first three letters of last name)
APET
4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favorite color, favorite animal)
PinkMonkey
5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city where you were born)
Cherie Salt Lake
6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first)
Petam
7.SUPERHERO NAME: (”The” + 2nd favorite color, favorite drink)
The Black Mai Tai
8. NASCAR NAME: (the first names of your grandfathers)
Paul Valdon
9. STRIPPER NAME: (the name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent, favorite candy)
Sweet Pea Hersheys
10.WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mother’s & father’s middle names )
David
11. TV WEATHER ANCHOR NAME: (Your 6th grade teacher’s last name, a major city that starts with the same letter)
Greer Gainesville
12. SPY NAME: (your favorite season/holiday, flower)
Summer Christmas Daisy
13. CARTOON NAME: (favorite fruit, article of clothing you’re wearing right now+“ie”)
Strawberry Tank Top
14. HIPPY NAME: (What you ate for breakfast, your favorite tree)
Mini wheat maple
15. YOUR ROCKSTAR TOUR NAME: (”The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”)
The Crochet Rain Tour
16. YOUR CELEBRITY COUPLE NAME: (half of your name, half your significant other's name, mixed together in whichever order sounds best.)
Ambian LOL

ABC's

A. Area Code: 801
B. Bed Size: Full... Not even big enough... especially when the kids have those scary dreams! Ugh!
C. Chore you hate: Laundry!
D. Dogs name: Missy and Tyson
E. Essential start of the day item: First off I gotta run water on my face... kind of a waker upper!
F. Favorite color: Pink!!!!
G. Gold or silver: Silver all the way!
H. Height: 5'8"
I. Instruments you play: none
J. Jobs: Tablet Compression Machine Operator
K. kids: We have 2... Summer is our oldest sweet helper and Brayden is our younger little trouble maker!
L. Living Arrangements: Just bought our first house almost a year ago! Yay! Im lovin every minute of it!
M. Mom: My best friend!
N. Nicknames: Babe, Amburger, miami, momma, amberinasaurus rex LOL
O. Overnight hospital stay: Well I was in the hospital when I had my kids, I think it was 3 days each, so 2 nights each! Ugh!
P. Pet peeve: when people chew with their mouth open! man thats the worst!
Q. Quote of a movie: Fat guy in a little coat... fat guy in a little coat! LOL
R. Righty or Lefty: Right
S. Siblings: 3 brothers
T. Time you wake up: Not early enough! LOL
U. Underwear: Yes
V. Veggie you dislike: Asparagus
W. Ways/reasons you are late: Cause I never wanted to go in the first place OR Ive lost something, including track of time! LOL
X. Xrays you have had: teeth, ankle, chest, pelvis
Y. Yummy food you make: hmmmmm....french dips or manicoti
Z. Zoo animals you like: all of them!

One more thing....

Lately Ive noticed that Brayden doesnt know very many kids songs... he doesnt really pretend much like I thought he actually did! Example the other night at gymboree, we were making pretend cookies... I was playing along trying to get brayden involved and having fun... he just looked at me and said mom, you are silly, thats not cookie dough, its a circle... it was a circle piece of foam but he was not pretending at all! Then when we were making pancakes he kinda gave me this look like, are you kidding me? you dont know that those arent pancakes and that we cant eat them! LOL His facial expression was just the funniest... it made me feel really dumb! LOL But I continued playing and eventually he came around and opened up a little with his imagination! LOL Anyways, after noticing other kids who were younger than him in his gymboree class singing the abc's and other kid songs I felt like I was slacking on my part because I obviously am not teaching him these things or exposing it to him enough! So while we were on our way to picking up Summer from school, I was telling Brayden that I was going to buy him a CD that would be just his, that would have some fun kid songs on it like the ABC's and I started asking him to sing the ABC's... he got clear to G and stopped.. he told me... " mom, I dont know this song! But I do know how to play games on Summer's DS. You should get me a DS and a sonic game so I can play that!" LOL Are you kidding me? My 3 yr old wants a DS? Thats it! I told Summer tonight that Brayden is not allowed to watch Hannah Montana or those other dumb non educational shows with her anymore... Instead if he chooses to watch TV its gotta be educational like animal planet or like it, dora, diego, word world, super Y, wiggles, etc... something that he will learn things from! Not some TV show that doesnt do anything good for your brain! I think that too much TV just isnt the greatest idea for kids but he is are gonna watch it at all, it better teach him something good!!! I need to start encouraging him to use his imagination and to sing more often! Well night all.... Im sleepy!

Boy am I outta shape!

So tonight I started working out, again! LOL I made a promise to Summer that I would take her and Brayden to the pool this year, in a swimsuit... so I gotta get swim suit ready! Ugh!!! I worked out for about 40 minutes to my rockin body dvd and WOW... it sure kicked my butt! LOL I need to start exercising more and eating better! Ive started emailing a friend of mine, letting her know what exercises Im doing and when I do them, that way I cant dog out on exercising! Im pretty damn good at giving myself excuses, however, my friend is not so well at believing mine half the time so I figure why bother! LOL Plus she is working out and why let her get skinny without me? I mean seriously? I need this... I made a promise to Summer and I DONT BREAK PROMISES... so skinny or not, here I come swimming pool! LOL I just hope that Im ready when the time comes! I really wanna invest in some roller blades, I know that I would use them, I wanna go on the jordan river trail with Brian and the kids... they can ride their bikes and brian and I can roller blade! Its a killer workout for your lower half and thats just exactly what I need!!! Well I guess one part of this whole making better choices, eating and exercising, I should add one more thing to that list of better choices... sleep! Making an exception on the weekends when I work, but other than that... I need to get my rest! So Im off to bed... I got about 6 1/2 hours to sleep and then its off to a crazy day! LOL Have a good night!

Funny stuff...

Just had to quickly get on and share a few funny things...
Today Summer was walking around the house singing "all the single ladies, all the single ladies... if you like it then you shoulda put a ring on it... " anywho, Brayden was walking around singing, "I see the ladies, I see the ladies..." LOL funny boy! He also thinks the song, tonights gonna be a good night by black eyed peas goes, "Tonights gonna be a good fight!" LOL and the "imma b, imma b, imma imma imma b" song, not sure who sings it but brayden thinks its "applebee, applebee, apple apple apple bee!" LOL Kids are funny stuff! Plus tonight we went to Summers school to play outside and on the slides and play soccer and stuff... there was a teather ball on the pole and we were playing, Summer looked at me and said, "are you really ready to play teather ball?" and "are you ready to really play yet?" LOL Like she was trying to scare me into thinking that she was gonna whoop my butt! LOL same when we were playing soccer! LOL She has quite the kick, guess its a good thing that she wants to play soccer this summer! :) Today I went to the ENT up at the U of U hospital, the dr that diagnosed me with Menieres Disease... He said that it looks as though things are getting better... it wont ever completely go away but its getting better controlled... I have to continue with my meds (the diuretics) and I have an appt at the hearing and balance center next month for balance therapy. Things are getting better though, it seems that my ears dont hurt quite as much and that the symptoms arent as often! Yay! Also an update on my pantry, its comin along, Brian is doing such a good job on it! Just a few more things to do and then it will be done. Yay Im super excited! Well I better get some shut eye! Sweet dreams! :)

I must be tired... Im babbling!

Good morning... Im so happy its monday, monday has to be one of my most favoritest days of the week, just cause its the farthest day away from having to return back to work! Ugh! I dont hate my job so bad that I rather be jobless... its a job, not a horrible one but not the worlds best one either! It pays the bills, its only 3 days of hell and hey, I make pretty damn good money for what I do! :) This weekend was a crazy one, you can tell that by the look of my house! It looks like a giant tornado came through it TWICE! What else is new when you have a weekend where we are either constantly going going going or we are just not feeling up to cleaning and making the kids clean! Summer got her dance pictures done over the weekend, I think they turned out pretty good but we wont know for sure for a few weeks! Im excited to get them though! :) Jeramy came up from southern utah this weekend, which was cool but at the same time it sucked cause we didnt get to see him at all this time around! We just got too damn busy and I had to work... last night I was talking to him though and he told me that his son, Lynn, was (in southern utah) jumping on the trampoline doing flips and he landed on his head and broke his neck in three places! Wow.... that would suck! No fun at all! When my kids get bumps or bruises I feel horrible... once, brayden, well I think it was him, well one of the kids had a bruise or something on their eye... I didnt wanna take them to the store with me cause I didnt want people looking at me thinking that I beat my children, that I gave them that bruise LOL like I could ever do such a thing anyways but still.... Imagine taking your kid to the store when he has a broken neck... how horrible would that make you look? LOL parenting is sure something else! I wouldnt trade it though... I love being a parent... I like being able to tell my kids... "because I said so, thats why!" LOL Being a parent gives you all access to uses of phrases like that... Its great! LOL
Well I better get going... Im gonna make Brian some coffee and get some shut eye, see you later! :)

Welcome to our world!

Brian and I have recently dropped having a facebook and myspace account. However I have decided that I need someway to tell all the important people in our lives about all the things going on with us! So here I am... blogging! I hope that this page keeps you all posted and up to date on the things going on with us, Im not the greatest at updating things daily but I hope that I update this site as often as possible!!! Either way, please keep in touch! Even though we dont have facebook or myspace anymore, we do have email, our blog site and our phones! :)

Kids do and say the funniest things! Just wanted to add these real quick before I head off to work!

*Brayden showed me a bruise on his leg and he said, "Look mom, Im turning black!" LOL Silly little guy!

*We were all betting on dates that Summer would loose her very first tooth.... Summer thought sooner than anyone else and bet two days away, which happened to be Easter this year! I didnt think it was gonna fall out that soon but told her it could happen! Easter came and her tooth wasnt near the point of falling out. That night we went to Kevin and Amy's house for easter egg hunts and to hang out. While we were there, Summers tooth got knocked out! LOL She was playing in the girls room when a drawing board fell and hit Summer square in the mouth, right where her loose tooth was! LOL It knocked it out and Summer won the bet! LOL Good way to loose your first tooth eh? LOL

*Brian is doing an awesome job on the pantry... it should be done soon, depending on if he has work next week! We will see! Either way, when its done its gonna be huge and totally cool!!! Yay!

Good bye for now! Have a good weekend everyone!