What a nice weekend :)

My weekend started with a Ladys Night down at the church of one of my best friends. (Tammy), I went with my other friend who I will refer to as my hooker (Christina). It was really nice meeting all those other women, it was a pot luck type thing. After eating we all gathered together and had worship and then My Friends MIL led a cermon (sp?). Though Im not one to go to church, it was a great time and I plan on going once a month to this womans Night. After that My hooker and her boyfriend came and hung out over at our house and spent the night due to the fact they had errands in Denham the next morning.
Saturday My cousin (Kayla) came over to get some audio of children talking for a class she is taking for Speech Pathology, I invited Tammy over with her kids becuase if you know my kids you know their shy as they come at least my talking child is (Nick) Luckey Ryleigh has no problem and within 10 -15 min. Kayla got what she needed. :) That night my husband and I got a babysitter and got to go out on a date which was WONDERFUL! I havent been on a date in, I dont know how long! We dont live near much babysitter options and this was my first time getting someone who I know but not on a personal level to babysit & it went great! Emma Slept the whole time and Nick Loved playing Mario with Brittney. Jeff and I went to Toys R us and Academy to get some Birthday Stuff for Nick. We FINALLY got a trampoline for Nick I have been wanting to get him one for so long now. I cant wait to suprise him with it for his birthday! After all that we went to Zeas but the wait there was and HOUR!! no thank you I was hungry. So none the less we went to our reliable old Coplands, every date we ever have we ALWAYS end up at Coplands, haha. Im not gonna complain though I LOVE that place!! and I had a really nice night with my husband.
SUnday we woke up and got to talk to my Brother In LAw (Matt, who is serving in the Navy in Japan) on skype. Its so nice the kids still get to see there Uncle, I wish he was here with us though, so does Emma last time we talked on skype with him she said "Matt come home" :( . After that The kids and I got up and ate Pancakes and waited for Jeff to wake up ( I did a little catching up on BRothers & Sisters). When Jeff woke up we went outside with the kids, it was SOO beautiful today. Jeff even fixed Nicks Power Wheels that has been broken for quite some time now! I am impressed new ways every day with my husband. I love being married to such a handy, smart guy. :)
So all in all I had a pretty great weekend! Tomorrow I plan to go "full blown diet" Im not excited but I have to do this for myself. I really want to be healthy and I really want to make my goal. So till next time, BYE!

Melanie :)

Its Been awhile.....

I have been so busy, I havent posted in a while, not that anyones reading to my knowledge but its more of a way for me to just get some stuff out. I have been busy, I went back to work and I really enjoyed it at first. Being back at work, working with the children, making up lesson plans....but then I really started to miss my own kids, then I missed Nicks (my son) Halloween party at school (preschool ) and that made me really sad becuase I was room mother last year. I was the one planning the parties and then this year im not even being able to make them. :( I have always wanted to be one of those moms that are very involved in there childs school functions & I couldnt do that while working. I also could not keep up the house I was always tierd, NEVER remembering to send Nick to school in his Blue shirt on Fridays. I just had to admit to myself it was too much at this time. I decided to come back to being a SAHM and am really happy though it does get boring at times, I just have to find a hobby or ways to keep us busy. I have been thinking about going back to school when Nicks in Kindergaten next Fall to get BA in EDU then I could teach a higher level than preschool. It would also be easier to find a Job that wasnt tied in with a preschool so I could have school holidays and summers off with the kids.
While at home this time around I find myself being more organized with the house and routine. :) and if you know me Im really adhd with that kinda stuff! I even made a household binder, which if I ever start to get any followers I would be happy to show off :) I am also getting back to the diet since the last time I dieted on this blog I lost 20 lbs and only gained back 5 of that, I plan to lose 40 LBS by my 26th b-day ( May 27th) . I think I can do it, if I can just stick to what I did last time. Im having trouble getting started and Im one of those people who have to start on a monday or first of the month and if I dont all goes to hell and I stop IDK why im like that ???
Anywho, I guess this will have to do for my first post back, im making 15 bean soup and its beeping so I need to go stir it and add some spices.
-Melanie

WHO FRIGGEN DAT!!!

OMG! I can't believe were ACTUALLY going to the super bowl. I am so PUMPED! I hope this isn't a sign the the world truley is ending soon :P

This weekend went by pretty quick, quicker then I would have liked. Even though I dont work anymore I still can't wait for the weekend becuase I get to spend more time with Jeff, theres a chance I might get a break from the kids and its just a feeling of relaxation. Anyway...

Friday I went to get some Coffee with Brandolyn and Stacy when Jeff got home from work. Saturday Morning I got up with the kids and wanted to do my wii fit but could not bring myself to actually getting up and doing it :( so I didnt. But I did go out to the Farmers Market, Produce Market and to walmart. So I guess you can say I walked a little...lol. And becuase I couldnt refrain I got a king cake....BIG MISTAKE!! I think any weight that I did lose over the week I gained it all back eating almost 1/2 a king cake by myself :O Speaking of losing weight, I lost 0.9 LBS making it a total of 5.5 pounds. I know I messed up this weekend and I didnt keep it under 1200 like most the week, but My goal is to lose at least 3 pounds a week, and 5.5 in two weeks is almost averaging 3 LBS a week. So im still doing ok, I just really need to keep counting calories and getting in my exercise.

Anywho, Saturday Night I went to see the Lovely Bones with Tammy. It was a very beautiful and sad movie. It was very well done, I remember when I read it and some of the things I would picture as I read it were VERY diffrent then the movie but in a good way! lol I just imagined her like sitting on a cloud watching her family, but they had it made as like a WHOLE world. Her Heaven was gorgous!! But anytime I watch movies liek that I cant help but to think of my children and if someone did that to one of them. I cant even imagine the type of perosn I would be after something like that. How much hate I would have and how much loss I would feel. How everytime I walked past their room I would have a pain in my heart. I know thats something no one could get over...EVER.

So besides going to the movies and the Bayou Boys going to the SUPERBOWL!!! nothign else exciting happened this weekend, it was pretty chill and today im just straightening the house back up and doing some laundry. sooooo

TILL NEXT TIME!

Fire houses and puppets...

Yesterday was a busy day, Me and Emma dropped Nick off at school and got baby Trent from Tammy. She had a doctors appointment and I got to watch my little godson for the first time! lol . When we got to the house I put Trent in the tummy pouch thingy and Emma in her stroller and we strolled around the WHOLE neighborhood. Both babies were angles! When we got back I took some cute pictures of them and they both had a popcycle and we played some. After they both had lunch and their milk they drifted off for a two hour nap :). Couldnet ask for a better morning.

AFter picking up Nick I got to get Emmas bag from Snicker doodles. I had it monogrammed, it turned out really cute! After that I took Nick to the Fire house and it was nice, he got to see inside a BRAND SPANKEN NEW truck, but I have to say the fireman could have been a little more enthusiastic :(. I am going to bring Nick to My brothers FIre department in Lulling ...I didnt want to make the trip but I wanted to get some better pictures and some video footage to make a montage to play at his party. plus my brother will make it so much more fun for him.

Later that night we went to the puppet show at our local library. It was cute the kids did a craft adn got a book mark with what animal their year they were born is. I think we will try and make it to that once a month.

Today we kinda just hung around the house, I was tierd after all the stuff we have done this week. We did go out and play on the play ground a little ...well nick did. I got in and hour and 11 min on my wii fit. I am looking forward to mondays weigh in, I have been eating at least 100 more calories a day this week and hope it doesnt affect my weight loss. I feel good though, this is the longest I have stuck to a diet as pathetic as that sounds lol. But I feel really good about this one, I dont feel like im missing out on any kind of food.

Now im just waiting for my husband to get home so I can go have some coffee with the girls and chat about this and that. :)

TILL NEXT TIME :)

Library and such :)

So yesterday Me and Emma went to the grocery after we dropped off nick @ school, I love those times with her. WE walk through the store camely with out hearing I WANT THIS I WANT THAT. *dont get me wronge I love My Nicholas, but holy tamato does he drive me CRAZY!! in the grocery. I also love playing with her and making her laugh while we walk around. Its the one of the times were I can just pay complete attention to her and only her :)When we got home Emma went down for a nap and I FINALLY CLEANED MY CAR!!! lol it was GROSS! I was just picking up garbage by the handfuls! Yuck :P.
Anyway, After that I got Emma changed and ready to go pick up brother(nick) from school. He got a little tree to plant for Arbor Day, so thats cool. After that we went to the library with Tammy, Ryleigh and Trent. Nick picked out several books and a movie and I Picked out a couple for me to read to them and a couple cds for Emma to listen to and a book for myself. "The boy in the Striped Pajamas" So what if it was in the YOUNG READERS!! im young! lol . I saw the previews for the movie and thought I might wanna read the book first.
When we got home I got on my wii fit and worked out for an hour and 15 mins. though this was the first time I have done it with EMma awake and it was hard! she kept fussing over stuff she wouldnt have fussed over normally but just bc I was busy.

This morning was very productive I got up cleaned the house did some laundry, worked out and took a shower, all before 1pm :) The kids have been great! I wanted to take Nick to the Fire house today to get a tour, but the weather is so weird today one min. its sunshine and the next its raining! WHILE ITS SUNNY?? So I didnt want to chance going out and getting cought in a daylouge', not that I'm afraid of rain but I just didnt want to deal with it today, well probably go tomarrow after he get out of school. As for the rest of the day Mrs Liz (jeffs mom) is supposed to come over for a little bit. Right now she is at the hospital with Jeff. He has been having back problems and he had to get an MRI yesterday. The results of it came in today and he has a Herniated Disk, which I hope can be fixed with some meds and exercise. PLEASE God No surgeries.

TILL NEXT TIME!

A trip to Tarjea!

I would like to start off by saying, I LOST 4.6 POUNDS!! YAY....Pretty good for the first week....I hope I countinue it for weeks to come :).

The first half of the day was spent doing Laundry and playing with the kids,I also watched a movie called "post Grad" with crap...whats her name...the chick from Gilmore Girls...lol anywhosel it was a cute movie. Then while Emma Took her nap, I went on the wii fit for and hour and 15 min.

After Emma got up from her Nap we all got dressed and went to Taget. Nick needed some nighttime pullups and I wanted to get a nice hamper for the master bath. I ended up getting Emmas Thanksgiving and Christmas Dresses for next year for $4.50 EACH! What a deal :) why pay so much for something they wear once!

So that was a good find. I also found a really cute comfortable looking pair of sandles for Nick, I got them a size bigger then he wears right now in hopes they will fit for when we go to Disney World in May. Im not usually the type to do "advanced clearance shopping" as I would call it. lol I have just gotten to many clothes from people that are BRAND NEW tags still on becuase they got there kids something in hopes it would fit when the time came and it didnt, so instead of saving Money...which is what they THOUGHT they were doing they actually waisted money. But I did it this time and well see how it works out.

So the rest of the day was pretty much spent sitting around with the kids and cooking dinner. I made some Freash corn tonight and OMG was it good!! All I did was boil some cobs of corn for about 20 min. NO SALT NO SEASONING NO BUTTER and it was AMAZING!!! :) Same with the sweet potatos, all I did was add about a tbs. of margrine and it was good to go! anyway. After the Kids went to bed I had plans of straightening the house back up before it becomes a monster mess, but I got side tracked and went on the computer instead then Jeff came home and I knew I wasnt cleaning up tonight. Oh well...its not messy just need to be put back in order.

After I spent some time with Jeff I walked for 2 miles and downloaded some stuff off itunes...if anything send us to the poor house it will be itunes! Just Joking. BUT SEROUSLY!!! Lol I got The clueless soundtrack and the Romeo and Juliet Soundtrack. I used to have those on cd when I was about 16?? 17?? idk, but I LOVED the music in both of those movies.

Now im just a bloggin it and then im hitting the hay! sooooo....

TILL NEXT TIME!

Jeff painted the Kids Bathroom today, which makes us one room closer to a completly painted house. I am just going CRAZY seeing white everyday. I dont know if I would be as bothered with it if I worked and wasnt home all the time. but oh well thing are the way they are and I am sick of WHITE WALLS! ANywho back to the Kids bathroom, I picked a color called Orange Crush, its the color of a rubber duckies beak, THats what the bathroom is done in by the by ;)

Other than that I kind of just played around with the kids folded some laundry and STraightend up the house, which I am so Proud of my family and I, we kept the house descent throughout the WHOLE weekend :) (usually its a wreak by sunday and I have a HUGE mess to clean on monday) I also was able to get in about and hour and forty five min. of exercise today. I did and hour and eleven min. on the wii fit and , well, we tryed a new place to eat tonight, Bucks Pizza and after that I decided I should walk two miles. So I went to my trusty ON DEMAND and did the 2 mile walk they have on there. I was proud of myself :) Tommarrow will be my first weigh in, im excited to see if I lost any weight and how much if I did. I will be happy with at least 2 or 3 pounds.

Now back to Bucks pizza. I'll give a quick review. It was alright, but I think I could have gotten a reb barion pizza and it would have tasted the same. DEF. was not worth the 40 bucks we paid for it. I ordered Chicken strips for Emma and I will say THOSE WERE AWSOME! very tender! But when ordering Pizza I think well stick with DEath VAlly.:)

*Oh I almost forgot, On Friday night Nick was complaining his ears hurt all of a sudden so I looked at them and Fluid was leaking out of them :( This is what happend in Nov. When he Popped an Eard drum, so I knew that must be it. So the next morning I brought him in and sure enough thats what it was. So Now hes on Antibiotics and steriod ear drops. Oh God Please dont let this happen a third time.*

Well...nothing intresting today. I just got out the shower so im playin around on the computer, watchin youtube and facebookin it. ABout to go to sleep. Some time this week I want to bring Nick to the Fire House and get some Video footage and make a montage for his Fire Birthday party :)

TILL NEXT TIME!