Nick Graduates from Preschool (yr.1)

Nick graduated from his first year of Preschool!

This year he was in Busy Bee Preschool.
He loved his teacher Mrs. Bybee and all of his classmates.

He learned lots of fun things, and enjoyed every minute of learning!

Congratulations Nick! You're Such a BIG boy!

Girl Scouts Awards Dinner

Sophia really enjoyed her first year of Girl Scouts.

As a Daisy Scout she earned petals for:

Honest & Fair

Friendly & Helpful

Considerate & Caring

Courageous & Strong

Responsible For What I Say and Do

Respect Myself & Others

Respect Authority

Use Resources Wisely

Make the World a Better Place

&

Be a Sister to Every Girl Scout

She earned many prized for selling cookies (the best and most unhealthy part of Girl Scouts)!

She had a lot of fun with her friends!

*Sophia with her leader Mrs. Bybee.

CONGRATULATIONS SOPHIA!

The House Burnt Down

I feel like I was in the proces of building a home, and the night before we moved in it burnt down...I haven't ran for 5 weeks, my marathon that I had trained for and was READY for is next week....I wont be participating, and it makes me so mad!

When I started this 'running' thing, I never knew the obstacles that would get in my way.

Yeah it was hard conditioning my body, but then my body started falling apart and I seemed to be more sick than I ever remember. I had so many obstacles and issues, I could have never imagined that I'd get such a serious injury, one that would make it impossible to continue and finish what I started.

Since I'm new to this, not sure how it will be once I can run again. Will it be like I'm starting all over? Will a mile feel like 10? I almost now can't believe that I was running up to 20 miles at a time...just 5 short weeks ago. I was in such a groove with running, my body woke itself up each day at 5am to go for a run. I was on running auto-pilot, and looking back, I loved it...

Early Yoga Practice!

Before I got injured (going on week 4 now), I was doing Yoga at least twice a week.

I was LOVING it! I started doing a 'hot' yoga at the YMCA, and it was awesome to sweat during Yoga, something I had never been able to accomplish before.

The other day the kids and I were swimming, when they both started doing 'down dog'! It was too cute!

Looks like I've got some future yogies on my hands!

Never Before Have I Agreed More!

I've probably seen this popular poster around for a few years now, and come to find out it's a saying that was published back in WWII.

It's just now that I'm like "AHA- I agree!".

It's been 2 weeks since my groin strain...still painful and still not walking normal, let alone running. But there is light....I will be seeing a doctor on Monday.

The light will really shine bright if I can start running again.

The marathon is 3 weeks away....

If nothing else at least I can say I trained, and had I been able to, I would have ran a great race!

I ran 20 miles a few weeks ago, and had it been marathon day, I could have done another 6 miles. My body was THERE....So I have to be proud of myself, and all the training I did.

There will be other marathons, other opportunities, so for now I will carry on and try to recover so I can be the best ME I can be!

Happy Mother's Day 2011

Happy Mother's Day!

Thank you to these three perfect children for for allowing me to be a MOM! Though I am not perfect, I try my best each day! I am grateful that children are so forgiving and loving! If only they knew how much I loved them! They are my world!
Thank you to this amazing husband for allowing me to be a MOM!
Thank you for helping me make those babies of ours! If it wasn't for you, I couldn't be living my dream! I LOVE YOU!

Mother's Day to all the Mom's out there!

Sometimes I have TOO much going on...now is one of those times!

This picture does NOT give even a hint of what my life is like right now

(and I hope venting will help it seem calmer)!

Besides my usual, 3 kids, Hot Husband, Self-Employeed "BOOMING" Business, Home & More, I've taken on a few other 'things' these days:

-Training for a Full Marathon- June- San Diego Rock N' Roll.

-Trying to lose weight-8 pounds down, would love 2-7 more pounds to go.

Training and losing weight requires me to exercise anywhere from 1-3 hours a day, plus know exactly (measuring spoons/cups, scales) I'm putting in my mouth. Nothing (almost) goes in without me disecting it's contents first!

-Healing an injury, that is putting a HUGE stop to my training and even weight loss, this is very stressful! I pulled a groin/leg muscle...walking is painful, running is out of the question for at least a few day, up to two week possibly...this is NO GOOD!

-Budgetting our family's finances- we make money, we should spend and save wisely, right?

-Trying to fiqure out how to have my whole family eat healthy- I am so concerned what goes in my mouth, but then turn around and feed my kids chicken nuggets and tater-tots...that isnt' right! Researching ways to make their food just as healthy and good too!

***WOW! It's times like this that I just want to be lazy, fat, and broke!***

BUT there is always good in every situation right!

Things to be excited about today:

1) I think I am healing, I can sort of walk normal today!

2) went grocery shopping for the week. Only had $60 (our weekly budget for groceries is usually larger than this, but we have a thing called renters...and they don't always like to pay on time, so the first week of the month is tight) in cash to spend (trying to stay within a budget, remember?!?!). I usually can't walk out of any store, let alone the grocery store without spending at least $100 something. So I went into the store with a list, avoided all the 'fun' isles that make me wish I was born skinny, and ended up spending only $43! My bill was cut in half since I am a 'loyal customer' and inputted my phone number at check out! Gotta love a savings card! I was pretty proud of myself! Now I am hoping to not enter a grocery store for another week. This will 1) help me stay on budget and 2) not tempt me with things I cannot have.

3) My kids are healthy, happy, active children, my Hot Husband LOVES his job, and is great at it, and I have a roof over my head and a pool outside my door! LIFE IS GOOD!