Awesome day today. Thx Heather for letting us drive you crazy Lol!

Omgosh!! Theres no a/c at the dojo. *sweating profusely*

So freaking proud of the 14 yo all-star players!!

Feels good

To know the hard work I've been putting in at the gym isn't going unnoticed. Just this week I've gotten two great comps from people who hadn't seen me in a while.
To know someone else can tell a difference is awesome. :)
My hubby is a great encouragement to me, he's never failed to love me and my body, no matter my size. He loves seeing me take care of myself though.
I want to continue in my pursuit of a better body. I want to be one of those ladies you can't imagine they've ever had ONE kid, much less 6. :)
A friend said the other week that I couldn't expect my tummy to get back to looking like it dis before kids (as in looking kinda flat) and I accepted that as a challenge!! Might take me a year or more, but I want to be proud of all of me! To know I've done my best, KWIM?
7 months in and I'm down almost 20 lbs. Can't wait to see how it continues!

The little things

I can drive my car as a stick shift instead of an automatic. My iPod has given me a new enjoyment of music. My carpet is clean(er). Hubby will be home tomorrow. Canaan's all star team is going to state. I enjoy my gym time.

:) potty please!

On our way to a completely potty trained house...well, except for the dog. I've been changing diapers for almost 15 years!!

Sigh

I really do wish the foot pain would go away. I've gotten pretty good at ignoring it, but I'd rather it not be there in the first place.

Lol

Hunter just asked me if I was fixing a "real egg with the syrup inside".

Yawn

Waaaaaaay top early for me to be up, but gotta get the kids to camp.

I got to compliment another mom today on how well behaved her kids were. I always love when people tell me so. It really made her day and her smile was huge!

Hot

Not me but the weather. Summer is summer as usual here in the south, but man, I do enjoy those days when it's only in the upper 80s.

Weeeeee!

Now I can update from my iPod so maybe i'll actually remember to do it! :)

WOOT!!

 I got some awesome news today! OMG!
ok, to start with, last week while at the gym, when leaving I weighed myself (as usual) and it came up 158 lbs (these are the typical sliding dr type scales). I was surprised, but chalked it up to a fluke cause my home scales weighed me at 163 that morning, obviously just something flippy that day.
well, today when leaving I weigh myself and it came up 155!! I reweighed myself like 5 times! then I turned to Ben (gym owner) and said "Ben, I'm starting to like your scales better than mine cause they weigh me less!" so he asked if the gym scales were zeroed out. he checked them out to make sure they were set correctly and they WERE!!! so I'VE MADE MY GOAL AND DIDNT EVEN KNOW IT!!!!!!!!! I was smacking him on the arm saying "OMG OMG! do you know how awesome this is???!!!!"  he was laughing at me. LOL! needless to say I was bouncing out of the gym today and called hubby to tell him too!
I get to set a new goal now, but do you realize all the weight I've lost?? WOW!!! I DID IT!!!!!  I'm so freaking proud of myself and not out of vanity or anything, just knowing that I stuck with it and even enjoy it and actually DID it!!!!
I'm going to leave my ticker as is for a while just so I can enjoy it.  gotta think of what I want my next goal to be now.

for some comparisons, I'll post measures I've got. 
the first ones are from 2005, the last time I was this size

5-15-05
weight: 155
bust 41.5", ribs 33", waist 34", hips 38"

my heaviest this time around (weight is from home, but the gym scales were 3 lb heavier then. weirdness!)

2-9-10
weight: 174
bust 41.5", ribs 34.25", waist 37", hips 39"

and my current measures that I just took this morning (using the GYM scale number)
6-21-10
weight 155
bust 40", ribs 33.25", waist 35", hips 37.75"

my goal for my waist is 34" currently. long way to go, but closer than I was! my bust/rib measures flucuate so much each week it seems. can be .25" to .50" difference sometimes. :P I might set my new weight goal for 149, just so I can break that 150 line, KWIM?

so I'm a happy camper! happy happy happy! and I needed it too after the crappy morning start. LOL!
 

 so I've been kinda productive today! I finally planted my two mater plants for outside and my basil for the kitchen. then I went looking for scone recipes and found an easy one with high ratings. they're really good! I had 3 I think and Garret had like 4. Sarina ate one. got a whole plate for everyone else! I think the recipe says it makes 8, but heck no! I got at least 16 and these are big ones! triangle shaped sized about 4" long, 2-3" across at the widest part.

when I make them for K's party, I'm going to use a small cutouts (thinking of using my alphabet letter cutouts) for them. they puff up too and putting a smidge of strawberry jam on them? yeah baby!

tried a cucumber mint recipe for tea sandwiches...  so not doing that one! sticking with things like the chic salad, egg salad, etc!

I got my cheshire cat drawn today, now to cut it out and paint it 

S and G have been good today. a few meltdowns as is normal, but good. found a preschool game for G on the puter and he's been enjoying that. Sarina too, though she does like clicking random things too often so I'm closing out odd computer windows. 

the days gone rather slow. I guess cause I didnt have to go in town (preschool) today. seems like I have a ton of time. LOL

I've been painting my kitchen this week! finally decided the colors I wanted to go over that awful flower crap on my wall! got it done tonight and I'm super pleased with the results! I feel like we have a grown up kitchen now LOL! I do have pics, just gotta unload them and upload. next I'll finally start on my bathroom I think. I got the drywall tape this week so I can at least get the strips off my walls and fix those. I want to do the bathroom in lite blues and greens, like an ocean feel. 

so update on the week. hmmm, it'll probably be skippy, but here goes: C had 3 games yesterday! 2 first with the high school in the city. they lost both, but got back in time for me to pick him up and run him to the park for the park game (they got a late start). they ended up winning that one (yay, their 2nd win!!)

yesterday we also had an unexpected animal visitor. katlyn about tripped over a raccoon in the back yard!  it was during the day too. so odd! I got pics of it as well, not often you see a raccoon in the daytime. of course something had to be wrong with it to be hanging out like it was. seriously, it woulndt run from us or anything. I tried calling animal control, but they left at 3 (it was 4 by this time), sheriffs office was working on getting a cage when papaw got off work and just brought his pistol over. the sheriff did say distemper was going around really bad in the raccoons right now and obviously this little guy had something wrong with it. I was really worried garrett would try to go grab it or something (it was that lethargic!). papaw took care of it for us. sad yes, but cant have it hanging out here waiting to die, KWIM?

tomorrow katlyn has a band concert that I'm going to have to miss because I'm scheduled to work stupid concessions at the high school field at the same time.  freaking figures! she'll be basically right beside me cause she'll be at the HS gym, but man.

dh is having issues with one of his bosses at work. this guy really needs his head checked. everybody down there thinks he has a split personality and he's been giving his Mr. Hyde to dh lately! dh is laying it on the line tomorrow with all three bosses. we'll see what happens. he has places to go if he loses this job and I'll support him. no reason to deal with people calling you a liar and that you're wrong about your job 90% of the time, especially when DH is the one 90% of contractors ASK to work for them!  whatever it takes, I want my man happy in his job. 

I'm sure there's more, but that's the highlights I guess. oh, FIL is to be in tomorrow sometime. not sure how long he's staying, probably just through the weekend.

only one week of school left!

dh got home tonight! he has to go back next week for a couple of days.

the rest of this school year will be interesting! the kids were informed yesterday (and parents) that they'll be going to school on 2 saturdays! the 15th and 22nd! wow! I've NEVER had a saturday school day. of course they're complaining "I'm not going!" it'll be interesting to see how many kids actually show up on those days. 

C has a baseball tourney tomorrow all day in the neighboring county. gotta have him at the school about 8 am. he and dh are at a varsity game tonight.

in fun news, when losing weight its one thing to see it on your scale at home, its another when you see it other places! at the gym yesterday I've dropped 7 lbs from my highest I've weighed on them since I started going!! that felt GOOD to see tHAT scale go down!
then on the Wii today I did my Wii fit checkin and it was -5+ lbs since my last checkin.  that was the first time I met a goal on that thing  of course it tells me I should weigh about 132 and yeah, I weighed 135 in high school, but I just dont see that happening in this body now : but as long as I'm moving down on the scales, I'm happy!

tonight was a true test! we went to eat Chinese food! ack!! LOL! I stuck to meats and veggies, didnt get any starches and had jello for a dessert, water to drink of course. I'm full, but I didnt leave there feeling like my tummy was about to explode! and it was only the 2nd time I've eaten today, so hopefully it wont set me back.

flooding

thought I'd post that we're doing well up here. we were hit with the same rain as Nashville that caused the flooding this past weekend, but we got about 12" while the Nashville area got about 15", plus with them being on the Cumberland and all...

we were out of school for 2 days due to impassable roads and flood conditions. We have at least two major creeks/rivers that I can think of running through our town, so flooding was pretty bad in several areas. I dont think anyone was hurt or lost in our area though, thank God.

Nashville area was not so lucky. If your local news hasnt been talking about it, look it up and see the damage, its terrible down there! a lot of loss and disaster and still waiting for the waters to go down.

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 so we do have school today!  they had to reroute for some neighborhoods and areas and are going to work with those that dont feel safe driving in still. still a number of impassable roads here and even a few neighborhoods that have water in or up to the houses. 

if anyone is interested, I linked a friends photos in my FB of pics around nashville. dh got pics on his camera yesterday going back to work, but he's heading to SC today and I dont think he left his camera here, so I'll have to get them this weekend.

yes, I'm here!

no, I've not fallen off the face of the earth, just been caught up in mom business and been updating on Facebook and kinda bypassed my blog. for anyone who would like to find me on FB, just send a message or leave a comment. if you know my last name, just find me. LOL!

we got to go to Chattanooga last week for the kids spring break! it was great! that was our first vacation since I was pregnant with Hunter (so that'd be 2002). we went to the Chatt Zoo (small but nice) and Lookout Mountain. found a nice playground up on the mountain in a neighborhood called Fairyland. no kidding! all the street posts were wooden with the arrow design of story books with names like Alladin, Wood Nymph, Cinderella, etc. so cute!

the weather was beautiful and the kids even got in the pool (them, not me!). we hope to go back when summer break hits. :)

Canaan is playing high school JV baseball this year, and Park League baseball as well. so we're back and forth with practices or games every weekday and part of the weekends. keeps me running! (him too, but that's good for him... keeps him out of trouble. LOL).

Hunter is still taking kung fu, he loves showing us his new moves. I love seeing how dedicated he is to it and how intense. :)

Gavin is waiting for soccer to start as far as sports go.

Katlyn is into her artwork and music. what can we say, she's just not a sports person and that's ok. can't say mommy ever was growing up!

Garrett is loving preschool now, he's made so much progress! I think he'll be sad when summer break comes.

Sarina will be TWO tomorrow, the 15th! our little Precious celebrating her 2nd birthday with us! love it!

from baby girl to big girl, we sure do love her!

 good weekend, but dang if it didnt go so fast. *sigh*

dh came in on friday night. saturday morning he and C had baseball stuff. that took til about 3.
as soon as they got in me and the girls had to rush off to the city for the movie. we got there just in time, about 40 seconds of the last preview played before the movie started when we sat down  we seen Alice in Wonderland. it was good, I was skeptical about it, but I did like it. (not love, just like ) I guess it grows on you. the base story was the classic good vs. evil, just very colorfully done. I do think they should have put a PG-13 on the rating though. some of the images were not what I'd want my little ones to see. 
got home about 8:30.
we stayed home from church yesterday since we'd not had any family time yet. we had to take old furniture to goodwill, couldnt pick up the table, and dropped off the compaq at best buy AGAIN. (if I close the puter it goes into standby mode and wont wake up with out taking out the battery. plus the Windows key is different and it wont verify it and wont let you change it!) so its off to the hospital again. thankfully the toshiba is behaving perfectly for me.

lily went to the groomer on saturday, they cut her hair waaaay too short.  I wanted to leave her long til it was warmer, but she has a summer cut now. poor thing has been shivering all the time. she looks half her size though I didnt realize she was still so small! her hair is pretty darn thick now! which is awesome cause when we got her it was all scraggly and thin, I think due to the care her previous owners gave her. so she's quite healthy now! 

garretts burn place is looking very good!! no open wounds anymore, the skin is growing over it now and its getting much smaller I'm so glad! I'm hoping by the end of the week he wont need a bandage on it. 

I'm down some more weight!! I'm down to 170 and I've dropped another inch this past week! I'm starting to feel a difference in my jeans more often which I love! havent been to the gym since thursday so I'm looking forward to going tonight!

canaan has a scrimmage tonight with the HS team, so he'll be late getting home.

here, barely 
started with the sickies yesterday. head cold, achy crap, fever type stuff. been dosing up on the vit D3 and Vit C and feel better today. no fever, no aches, no sore throat, but I'm still a bit fuzzy. at least I can function though, right?
been running like a loon. seems my only down time is after I drop G2 off at school.
C's ball practices have moved to 6-9pm each night. dont they think of families when they decide these things? ugh. so with dh out of town (and supposed to be out next week as well) its up to me to be taxi service all day. I've been in town 3 times just today, that's a 14m round trip each time  maybe I should invest in that VW sooner rather than later. LOL
I did get boys laundry done today. hm... well, its washed. still gotta move it to the dryer.

we got our tax refund back on sunday!  we're paying off the one small CC bill and ALL the other smaller bills that have been a thorn in our sides the last few months. one I wasnt expecting was just over 1100.00, so that bit a good chunk out of the refund. still have enough to do all we planned, just not as much left over for getting insulation for the garage like dh wanted.

Sarina says I love you now!  she came up to me today and for the first time said "I loo loo"awwwwwwwww!!!! she told mamaw that on sunday after mamaw'd said it first. so sweet!!

I'm sure there's more cause I know I Thought of something a bit ago I wanted to tell, but darned if I dont remember now! drat!

oh, one thing though! I finally lost weight this week! only 1.5 lbs, but at least it went DOWN instead of up!! 

gotta meet FIL about 8:30 am tomorrow in a neighboring town to drop him off some stuff on his way through. gotta have G2 ready for school in case I dont get back here til drop off time. at least no kung fu tomorrow, so the kids will all ride the bus home, just have to pick up C when he's done. I feel like I have a part time job with all the time I'm out of the house anymore.

my laptop is still down. should hear from best buy this week that's its back from the 'hospital'. hard sharing puters with the kids when I'm used to my own. I know, I know, wah wah wah LOL!