Today was day 1 of "changing my life" project. I have to say I am having the hardest time getting motivated to get going this time around. The last time I tried, which was around August, I had no problem jumping in head first and being determined to get all the weight off and get healthy habits in place. 4 inches and 15 pounds later I was feeling on top of the world. Then for no apparent reason at all I quit. I didn't want to follow the exercise any more. I didn't want to eat right. I just quit. So here we are again. All the hard work from last time is gone. And I just don't want to start over. I know I don't like the way I look or feel. I need to get going for my own health and well being but the desire is just not there. I feel like today I am just going through the motions. Hopefully this will change as we get farther into the routine. (hoping)
I did do my workout today. I am starting with the Jillian Micheal's Ripped in 30 video. It is a great video. I am just not wanting to hear it or look at it. So I plugged in my music and turned to TV volume down and went to work. I made it through the whole workout but of course had my interruptions as a baby who liked to climb on my when I had to do push ups or sit ups. :) Or my daughter who liked to dance around me to the music. And the occasional text and phone call.
I am also following my progress on My Fitness Pal. I really do like this app. It works quite well. The only pain is plugging in all the recipes. But once their in there you are done. So far on a good track for the day as far as that goes. So if you want to try that app look me up. I would love the company. :)
I am also following up all this with lemon water which is suppose to be a natural detox for your body. I am using lemon essential oil. I really like it in the water. Just make sure you stir it up before you drink each time. And taking some Doterra Slim and Sassy oil in capsule form to help with the appetite.
So that is my report for today. Wish me luck through dinner and no dessert. Although I have had a Lindor truffle. :)
Monday, January 7, 2013
Another year...hopefully more up to date posts!!
The worlds BEST blogger here!! How many posts did I do last year?? 2??!! Yup. I ROCK!!!
So let me spill the same old dribble...I will be more active with my posts (ya right). Well, at the very least lets see how long I can keep my word.
As part of my commitment I am adding 2 different "diary" postings on here.
The first one is my goal at loosing weight and getting healthy. This is mostly for my benefit. It will be a sounding board for my frustrations and victories. I am hoping if I can go back and look at how things are progressing I will want to keep it up. Especially since my last attempt lasted 3 months and I lost 15 pounds then went off for the holiday season and tada their back! Also, some words of encouragement might not hurt either. :)
The second one is a Pintrest review. I let myself get sucked into the world of Pintrest. Tom thinks it is a blessing and a curse. I have been "creating" allot of the items I find on there. From food to crafts to gifts. I have noticed at I create my masterpieces that there are notes that I would like to add if I ever decide to do it again. I figured the best way for me to do that would to write a review of my adventure. That way I have a reference to go to and others might be able to find my advice helpful if they decide to try them as well.
There we have it. More posts on family life, health diary, and Pintrest reviews.
Yup. We will see! :)
So let me spill the same old dribble...I will be more active with my posts (ya right). Well, at the very least lets see how long I can keep my word.
As part of my commitment I am adding 2 different "diary" postings on here.
The first one is my goal at loosing weight and getting healthy. This is mostly for my benefit. It will be a sounding board for my frustrations and victories. I am hoping if I can go back and look at how things are progressing I will want to keep it up. Especially since my last attempt lasted 3 months and I lost 15 pounds then went off for the holiday season and tada their back! Also, some words of encouragement might not hurt either. :)
The second one is a Pintrest review. I let myself get sucked into the world of Pintrest. Tom thinks it is a blessing and a curse. I have been "creating" allot of the items I find on there. From food to crafts to gifts. I have noticed at I create my masterpieces that there are notes that I would like to add if I ever decide to do it again. I figured the best way for me to do that would to write a review of my adventure. That way I have a reference to go to and others might be able to find my advice helpful if they decide to try them as well.
There we have it. More posts on family life, health diary, and Pintrest reviews.
Yup. We will see! :)
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Little Riley's Arrival
Our special delivery came on January 30th 2012 at 11:07pm.
We started our journey a few weeks before. I have had a history with pre-eclampsia so the doctor monitored me very closely with my blood pressure and protein levels. we had just finished our second round of 24 hour urine tests and was in the labor and delivery department doing our twice weekly fetal stress test when the news came that we were staying and going to have a baby. We had made it to 38 weeks so technically full term.
The train got rolling about 11:00am. I had the feeling the day before that today would be the day and low and behold I was right. They took me slowly at first because for the first time I came back Strep B positive which meant they needed to get 2 doses of the medicine into me 4 hours apart from each other. Well, by the end the had managed to get 3 doses into me. Yes is was that long of a delivery.
About 4pm I asked for my epidural. That's right no natural stuff for this girl! I had asked them at that time if there was anything they could do about my IV because my hand was starting to swell and it hurt more then the labor pains. They decided they would try to put in a new on on the other hand. Yup they did it, blew right through the vein! So that nurse went and got another nurse to try again and she blew through the next vein! After that no more trying to replace the IV. I will suffer with what is working. Once we got that settled it was time to get the epidural done. The anaesthesiologist gets me sitting up on the bed crossed legged and hunched over to get me in the right position for the medication. She injects the numbing agent which is the most unpleasant of stuff because of the stinging sensation it gives you as it numbs you. Once that is done she is ready to insert the epi. Of course my body decides to not cooperate, my spine is to curved at that spot and so she had to start over again up a little higher. Which means more unpleasant numbing medicine and another poke with a needle. I felt like the human pin cushion at this point. 45 minutes later the epidural is in! Then the icing on the cake, my IV decided not to run anymore and in order to get it to work we had to keep twisting the needle and pulling the tubing and positioning my hand just right and try to hold it still once we found the right spot to keep it running. Now this is about 6pm when we figure all this out so I still have to baby this IV for the worst part of labor which at this point is not going to end for what seems like forever!
At this time I am dilated to a 7. And there we stayed for the next 3 hours. All the time getting told by the nurses that they think it should be only another hour or so until the baby is here. That talk started about 4 in the afternoon. Little did they know that Riley had other plans.
About 9 o'clock I am checked to see what is taking me so long and they discover that the baby is facing face up instead of face down. In order to try to get the baby to turn they position me on my side with my far leg flipped over my body and held up in the stirrup. Tom described it as forcing me into a pretzel position. While in this position the epidural wears off. They have to call the anaesthesiologist back in to give me a direct injection of more medication. Right after the second dose takes effect they decide it is a great time to switch sides since the baby is not turning. Now trying to turn when you are numb from the waist down is great fun! Let alone trying to get a dead leg up into a stirrup.
Finally we are dilated to a 9! About a half hour after that it is time to start pushing! The baby still hasn't turned so she is coming face up. And at this point she still hasn't dropped all the way into the birth canal. I am pushing and pushing and she is not moving! The doctor uses the vacuum to get her out. Turns out there was a good reason for her not moving on her own. Apparently the little stinker was doing somersaults inside me because she had managed to get the cord wrapped around her little body and neck about 3 times. The nurses where amazed at how tangled she was. Luckily she was never in any trouble with it though.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The big 5 for Jaycie
I don't think anyone looks more forward to their birthday then my Jaycie! She is so excited to turn that one year older. This year she even tried to skip over being 5 and told people she was now 6! We managed to convince her that 5 is old enough for this year.
The one thing that she was the most excited to get was her balloon bouquet with the Tangled balloon as the main attraction!
The one thing that she was the most excited to get was her balloon bouquet with the Tangled balloon as the main attraction!
The Holidays
This year we got to add the Elementary School Sing In on our list of to-do's. Chesney was so excited! I wish I could remember the song they sang but for the life of me I can't. I know I was so distracted by trying to figure out how the new camera takes video and if it was working (which I totally didn't do right) to even really pay attention to what they were singing. She spotted Jaycie and me in the audience fairly quickly. When she walked in she looked like she was in panic mode trying to find us. Then when she was done she spotted her daddy in the back who made it just in time to hear her class sing. That made her whole day!
Next came the party the kids look forward to the most. Santa's visit at Grandma and Grandpa Simmons' house! Oh how they love sitting on Santa's lap and telling him what they want for Christmas! Oh how nervous mom gets that they are going to change their mind from what they have told her they were asking for. So far that hasn't happened but one day....
This year Santa gave the kids all the cutest/coolest hats! I wish I had been smart mommy and got a picture of them in them but alas.
We took our family tradition of taking the kids to Thanksgiving Point to ride the horse carriage through the Christmas Light display. Chesney and Jaycie were all excited until we got started and sat right behind the horses and low and behold allergies took effect! Both kids with runny nose and eyes and coughing and sneezing. They were miserable. We finished the ride and got in the car where I could see to give them an allergy pill but by that time both were one the verge of tears. It was so sad. We were going to take them to their favorite restaurant for dinner but since they were so miserable we picked something up and went straight home. Note to self, next year dose kids with medicine before the ride and try not to sit so close to the horses.
Then the big night was upon us. Earlier that day Chesney, Jaycie and I made the cookies for Santa. Many fun colorful cookies with lots of sugar sprinkles! And that night we set some out for the big man himself. We had no problem getting the little stinkers to bed and they even got up no earlier then 7am so that made for happy parents. And spoiled they were! For a change this year we had time to open our Christmas at home first. Then we got dressed and took off for Grandma Dunn's where the biggest gift was finding out my sister, Angela is expecting a little girl!!! After a while off we were to Grandma and Grandpa Simmons' for dinner and gifts. It was a GREAT Christmas!
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Black Friday Experience
So all of you who know me know that Tom and I will wake up semi early on black Friday every year and start our Christmas shopping. We both consider it one of our favorite "date" days. Mainly for the fact that we get to be just the two of us for several hours. We get to enjoy each others company and relax to a nice meal out sometime during our store bouncing adventure. We usually will hit our first store about 6 or 7am and we usually get everything we set out to get. Well this year we took it to an all new level. This is the story of my first ever black Friday opening.
This year we decided to get a xbox with kinex as the family gift. The only reason why we picked that item is because Walmart was offering it for black Friday at $200 with a wireless controller, a game, and a $50 Walmart gift card. So it was like getting the whole thing for $150. Which is a great deal! Usually the console and kinex are $300.
Well Walmart started their sale at 10pm Thanksgiving night. We arrived in line at Walmart at 8:30pm. We learned that they had 270 units at the store. When we got ours there were 50 left. So we made it right in time. We got our ticket meaning we got one as long as we stayed in line to collect it at that time. Easy right!
I also wanted to see if I could nab a scooter for Jaycie's birthday and some Tupperware they had on sale for myself. Walmart had those smaller items like that on pallets in the middle of the isles, shrink wrapped with a sign saying what time they can be opened. It was a sight! People had started to form circles around the pallets with their hands on the items that they wanted. This is still an hour before the sale starts. We saw the video game pallet it was at least 5 rows of people deep sitting on the floor with hands on games they wanted and more people over the top of them reaching with all their might to get those games. I wandered the store for my other items. Once I located the pallets I went back to Tom. I was not waiting guarding the pallet like others. About 15 minutes before the sale started I waddled myself back over to the scooters and staked out my place around the pallet.
Next thing I know the whistle blew and all hell broke loose! It was like the ball scene in Jingle all the way! Total mayhem! The shrink wrap was off the pallet in less then a second and scooters were all over the floor! You felt like you had about 1 minute to get what you wanted out of the pile before the sea of people started to push you away from your destination. Luckily I got the color of scooter I wanted and was off for the Tupperware.
The Tupperware was on a pallet toward the entrance of the store and the cash registers. Here was the point of no return. People were finished already and heading by the handfuls towards the cash registers. Now this was maybe 5 minutes after the sale started. You literally had no choice but to ride the wave of people in the direction they were going. I got over to the Tupperware and that was a mad house too. A young man was the first of his group to get to the pallet and started tossing the Tupperware up over his head into the air for others to catch. All I could do was laugh! I got the set I wanted and floated on toward the front of the store. Slowly making my was to the side so I could duck down a side isle to get to our meeting spot. The only place in the store where you could move was the center. No one was there!
Needless to say I beat Tom with the lines so I met him back at the game spot. We collected our item and made our way to check out. We got in line at 10:30pm an hour later we finally got out of the store! But we made it! We got everything we came for!! Sad thing was that we picked the only check out line that had a group of ladies in matching t-shirts that said "I love to shop" and had every ad with them and price matched every single movie that they picked up! Which I must say was at least 30 minutes of our check out time!
Once to the car we decided that we might as well keep going. Kohls was starting their sale at midnight and was right across the street so we headed there. Yeah right! The line to get in was wrapped around the building and still a half hour till opening. So we thought we would try our luck at Toys R Us.
Once we got there Tom headed straight for the check out line while I did the shopping. We went there for the Santa gift the kids wanted. We got 2 out of the last 3 they had. YAY!!! The line for check out was 2 hrs. long this time. We went through every isle from the back of the store back to the front entrance of the store to the check out. The only thing that made it worse was the two old ladies that were behind us complaining the whole time on how terrible it was. We already knew it was bad. We don't need to hear it from you!
After that we went back to Kohls thinking that the crowds had died down by now. The one we went to didn't have the main item I wanted there. But they did have plenty of the other items I wanted except some picture frames that I was hoping to get for the house. So Tom did the same thing and got straight in line and I shopped. Another hour and a half to get checked out again. So far the whole night was trying to get out of the stores!
We finished up at 3:30am. The only other store I wanted was Joanns so I could get my birthday present. They didn't open till 6am. We thought we would get some food and wait but low and behold the only places to eat that were open was Dennys. And there was even a line around it to get in to eat!. We then decided to go home and wait. I decided to get go on their website once we were home and discovered I could order it online for the same price. So I did!
So at 4:30am we turned in for bed. Got up at 10:30am and went out for breakfast and decided to try Kohls again for the items I missed. We got to Kohls at 12:30 and I got what I missed the first time around!
So needless to say our experience was one to be remembered and we got everything we wanted to get!
I must say that everyone should experience a store opening like that at least once in their life because it is hilarious!
This year we decided to get a xbox with kinex as the family gift. The only reason why we picked that item is because Walmart was offering it for black Friday at $200 with a wireless controller, a game, and a $50 Walmart gift card. So it was like getting the whole thing for $150. Which is a great deal! Usually the console and kinex are $300.
Well Walmart started their sale at 10pm Thanksgiving night. We arrived in line at Walmart at 8:30pm. We learned that they had 270 units at the store. When we got ours there were 50 left. So we made it right in time. We got our ticket meaning we got one as long as we stayed in line to collect it at that time. Easy right!
I also wanted to see if I could nab a scooter for Jaycie's birthday and some Tupperware they had on sale for myself. Walmart had those smaller items like that on pallets in the middle of the isles, shrink wrapped with a sign saying what time they can be opened. It was a sight! People had started to form circles around the pallets with their hands on the items that they wanted. This is still an hour before the sale starts. We saw the video game pallet it was at least 5 rows of people deep sitting on the floor with hands on games they wanted and more people over the top of them reaching with all their might to get those games. I wandered the store for my other items. Once I located the pallets I went back to Tom. I was not waiting guarding the pallet like others. About 15 minutes before the sale started I waddled myself back over to the scooters and staked out my place around the pallet.
Next thing I know the whistle blew and all hell broke loose! It was like the ball scene in Jingle all the way! Total mayhem! The shrink wrap was off the pallet in less then a second and scooters were all over the floor! You felt like you had about 1 minute to get what you wanted out of the pile before the sea of people started to push you away from your destination. Luckily I got the color of scooter I wanted and was off for the Tupperware.
The Tupperware was on a pallet toward the entrance of the store and the cash registers. Here was the point of no return. People were finished already and heading by the handfuls towards the cash registers. Now this was maybe 5 minutes after the sale started. You literally had no choice but to ride the wave of people in the direction they were going. I got over to the Tupperware and that was a mad house too. A young man was the first of his group to get to the pallet and started tossing the Tupperware up over his head into the air for others to catch. All I could do was laugh! I got the set I wanted and floated on toward the front of the store. Slowly making my was to the side so I could duck down a side isle to get to our meeting spot. The only place in the store where you could move was the center. No one was there!
Needless to say I beat Tom with the lines so I met him back at the game spot. We collected our item and made our way to check out. We got in line at 10:30pm an hour later we finally got out of the store! But we made it! We got everything we came for!! Sad thing was that we picked the only check out line that had a group of ladies in matching t-shirts that said "I love to shop" and had every ad with them and price matched every single movie that they picked up! Which I must say was at least 30 minutes of our check out time!
Once to the car we decided that we might as well keep going. Kohls was starting their sale at midnight and was right across the street so we headed there. Yeah right! The line to get in was wrapped around the building and still a half hour till opening. So we thought we would try our luck at Toys R Us.
Once we got there Tom headed straight for the check out line while I did the shopping. We went there for the Santa gift the kids wanted. We got 2 out of the last 3 they had. YAY!!! The line for check out was 2 hrs. long this time. We went through every isle from the back of the store back to the front entrance of the store to the check out. The only thing that made it worse was the two old ladies that were behind us complaining the whole time on how terrible it was. We already knew it was bad. We don't need to hear it from you!
After that we went back to Kohls thinking that the crowds had died down by now. The one we went to didn't have the main item I wanted there. But they did have plenty of the other items I wanted except some picture frames that I was hoping to get for the house. So Tom did the same thing and got straight in line and I shopped. Another hour and a half to get checked out again. So far the whole night was trying to get out of the stores!
We finished up at 3:30am. The only other store I wanted was Joanns so I could get my birthday present. They didn't open till 6am. We thought we would get some food and wait but low and behold the only places to eat that were open was Dennys. And there was even a line around it to get in to eat!. We then decided to go home and wait. I decided to get go on their website once we were home and discovered I could order it online for the same price. So I did!
So at 4:30am we turned in for bed. Got up at 10:30am and went out for breakfast and decided to try Kohls again for the items I missed. We got to Kohls at 12:30 and I got what I missed the first time around!
So needless to say our experience was one to be remembered and we got everything we wanted to get!
I must say that everyone should experience a store opening like that at least once in their life because it is hilarious!
Monday, December 12, 2011
Thanksgiving and a wedding...oh my!
I must say that time flies by way to quickly. We have made it through Thanksgiving and another birthday for myself has come and gone. We are already 2 weeks before Christmas! Time is passing way to fast!
For Thanksgiving this year we were at my mother's house. It was very nice. We even go the rest of my siblings there this year. The stars must have aligned just right. Sad part was I didn't get to see my Laine or Kaylee. But I guess I need to get use to that.
Shortly there after a big event in the Simmons/Yates family finally arrived...On December 3rd Cristi Yates became Cristi Bailey! It was a beautiful day and the reception was absolutely beautiful! Congrats to them both as they start their lives together!
Chesney and Jaycie were so excited for the wedding. Not only did they get to wear their pretty new dresses, they got to dance and party. I think Chesney danced more with the bride then the groom did! One of the best things of all for Chesney was that she got to wear her new "high" heel shoes with her dress. So grown up! It was beautiful!
For Thanksgiving this year we were at my mother's house. It was very nice. We even go the rest of my siblings there this year. The stars must have aligned just right. Sad part was I didn't get to see my Laine or Kaylee. But I guess I need to get use to that.
Shortly there after a big event in the Simmons/Yates family finally arrived...On December 3rd Cristi Yates became Cristi Bailey! It was a beautiful day and the reception was absolutely beautiful! Congrats to them both as they start their lives together!
Chesney and Jaycie were so excited for the wedding. Not only did they get to wear their pretty new dresses, they got to dance and party. I think Chesney danced more with the bride then the groom did! One of the best things of all for Chesney was that she got to wear her new "high" heel shoes with her dress. So grown up! It was beautiful!
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