Catching up!

Wow, what a long few weeks! It seems like since we were sick, I've been struggling to catch up. Catch up with laundry, catch up with cleaning, catch up with working out. Not easy to do! Hopefully today will be the end of that, and I'll be able to go to sleep tonight knowing that I'm all caught up.

Caleb is having quite a few play dates these days. It is so cute. His best friend is Osten, and they get together every weekend! Last weekend, he stayed for dinner even, so this weekend, she is coming here and they are going to make pizza! Fun! Here's a picture of the 2 of them from a couple weeks ago! They are so cute, they just sit and hug each other all the time!

The "Sickness of 2006" as I fondly think of it, really screwed up the workout schedule. UGH! Even when I was finally better, my body was still so weak that I just couldn't get to the gym. We finally started going late last week, and it felt really good. Going today too. I'm down about 25 pounds now, not where I was hoping to be because of being sick, but still pretty happy with that.

Hershey is doing great too! We were trying to take him for walks, but he was just too strong and was pulling too hard on the leash. We got him a new training collar, and it's like night and day. He walks right next to me now, and when I stop he sits. And that is just so cool! It is actually fun taking him for walks now, so that will help for the weight loss too!

Gotta go now, but now that things are bcak on track, I'll be posting more!

Rough week!

This has been a really bad week. I haven't been back to the gym since my mega-workout last Friday. When we got home, Caleb was complaining that he wasn't feeling well, and by Saturday he was running a fever. It got even worse, and Noah got it Sunday. By Monday, Chris was real bad and Caleb was back at school. By Tuesday, I had it real bad, and Caleb was home from school. Yesterday, we were ALL home with it. I passed out in the shower. Washing my hair and feeling a little lightheaded one minute and waking up in the bottom of the tub hurting the next minute. It was the strangest thing. And I couldn't move either of my hands, they didn't hurt, they were just "frozen". Very wierd. So we all went to the doctor yesterday afternoon. We got some antibiotics and stuff, so we're all feeling much better today. YAY!

Even though I haven't been working out, I'm still losing weight! YAY! I am down another 12 pounds, for a total of 20!!!!! I am so excited. I didn;t feel like I was looking that much different, but Chris and I took pics and compared them to the "before" pics, and there is a noticeable difference. He's down another 15, btw, for a total of 25. I am 33% to my goal. I want to lose a total of 60 lbs by June. Sooner would be better though. But to hit the June 15 mark, I've got 40 pounds in 14 weeks, so that's only 2.8 pounds per week. Shouldn't be too hard! Gotta figure that I've lost an average of 5 pounds a week so far, and I haven't really even been pushing myself that hard, AND I've had a whole week almost off of walking. So I'm going to start pushing myself a little harder. Going to go to the gym 4-5 days a week instead of 3. I don't know why I kept putting this off, I thought it would be so hard. I guess I was just lazy, and didn't want to put forth the effort. It's not hard at all. So if YOU need to lose weight at all, just start! I got tired of thinking I would never be thin again, and that it was harder for me to lose weight than other people, but it's not true! And I am having fun doing it!

OK, that was my speech/bragging for the day! Gotta go finish the laundry (anyone wanna come help?) No, really!

WHEW!!!

I did it! I got rid of my headache, and made it to the gym! Good thing too. I walked 5.5 miles on the cross country track, and burned over 800 calories! If I could make that goal everyday, I would be at my goal weight in NO time!

It was soooo hard to stay up for the Pistons game last night. I actually fell asleep in the last quarter, and woke up just in time to see Rip sink a shot to win the game with only .2 seconds left. They had to be tired, it was after midnight out time by then. Thats gotta be hard playing west coast teams like that. We play the Lakers tonight, another late game.

I'm going to spend a little girl time with Emily today. Gotta run some packages to the post office, and Chris has an install, but us girls are going to go get some groceries and play a little at Hobby Lobby! =)

Great big headache

That's what I have today! A great big headache!

Today was a loooooong day. We ended up not making the trip to Detroit yesterday. The kids had a snow day so we stayed home. We went today instead, and of course I had to drive the whole way, so now my head hurts. I hate driving. I've gotta get rid of it, or I can't go to the gym.

So, the Pistons lost. I'm willing to forgive them though, provided it doesn't happen again! We're still 2 games up on the Spurs and the Mavs. We play Seattle tonight, but not until 10:30, that's going to be hard to stay up for after this day! I think we'll win though! LOL (Portland is 22-36).

Anyway, nothing else going on, just another VERY LONG day that I wish was over so I could go to bed! =)

Busy day today!

Wow, today was busy! OK, not THAT busy, but busier than usual. Got up and got the kids off to school today, then came home and researched a bunch of stuff on the internet, and fillled out some paperwork for some "stuff". Had lunch, then went to the gym for a couple hours. Didn't go as long as I wanted to, but we had to leave because Chris's blister was getting bad. Came home, got adjusted at Docs, got the kids, got THEM adjusted at Docs, took Emily to piano. Came home, went and picked Em up from piano, came home again. Went to the store for steak, came home yet again! Now I'm home for the night, and changed into my sweats to relax!

Pistons play tonight! YAY! Hope they win!

Gotta make a trip to Detroit tomorrow. Don't really want to, but it's one of those necessary evils. UGH! We're going to leave first thing, so hopefully, we'll be back by 1pm. Nothing worse than being gone all day doing stuff you don't want to do! Going to take my gym stuff and stop on the way home if we have time!

Nothing else interesting, today was just another day!