Pictures

Bryanna went to Schlitterbaun water park with her friend. She snuck my camera along for the ride. I didnt find out she took it until I was looking through the pictures...sneaky sneaky!


We celebrated Oliver's birthday at Lupe's Tortillas.


Bryanna and Lennon, she takes such good care of her.


Kaela's turn


I asked Jonathan to take let me take a picture of him at his last game...this is what I got.


The Razorbacks. Summer ball has ended. They really improved this short season. Jonathan got to play infield so much.

Birthday boy...

Oliver turns 3 today! He is a rambunctious little boy who we all love to death! We celebrated his birthday on Sunday at Lupe Tortilla’s. I have never heard someone scream as loud as he did when his cake and candles were carried into the room – it was too cute! The guys at Lupe’s sang to him and he even got to wear the sombrero, he loved it!

Happy Birthday Oliver – WE love you!

This week

It’s been a busy week, I was drained by Thursday and I know the kids and Carlos have been too. I am glad it’s Friday for sure although we have no plans this weekend except to celebrate Oliver turning 3! I am actually excited to see them on Sunday; I haven’t seen them since my birthday which seems so long ago.

I thought we were done with sports for awhile once baseball ends Tuesday but not quit. Bryanna has informed me she wants to play soccer. Of course I would not tell her no, I want my kids to be as active as they can be but I was hoping gymnastics in the A/C! We have never done soccer so it will be new and I am sure it will be fun to watch. She has great legs and loves to run.

The Firm is kicking my ass, it is a lot harder than I thought but I feel good after I complete it. It claims you see results after 10 days so I may weigh myself on the 10th day just to see if it’s those kinds of results. I need to measure myself just to see where I stand so I have something else to go on other then the darn scale.

I mentioned I would post pictures this week but I honestly have none to post. I haven’t taken any in while. Maybe I am subconsciously boycotting my camera because I want a Nikon D60! It’s a pretty expensive camera but I love to take pictures and would totally get my money’s worth! I even went to look for one at a pawn shop this weekend just hoping someone REALLY needed some money and would give that up. No luck though.

Yippie, Woo hoo, Eek!

SO as you can tell I am super excited, did you ask why? I got on the scale today, just because I was curious as hell at what I weighed 7 weeks later. I started at 174 and now weigh 167...7 pounds less which equals out to about a pound a week which is fabulous to me! Just wanted to share my excitement!

Kid x 5

We went from 3 to 5 children within a couple of days. My parents are out of town in Oregon visiting my brother, his wife and Maya so Carlos thought it would be a great idea to bring a few cousins to town to hang out with our kids. Carlos brought Teddy who is 10. He doesnt have a fatherly figure around often and clings to Carlos a lot when he is in Seguin visiting. Last time Carlos was visiting he asked to come down, his wish was granted. We also have Kyla who is Bryanna's age and LOVES the girls. Honestly if it were up to Carlos we would have brought 5 more down but we had to draw a line somewhere! Its been crazy but a fun week and we are glad to have company for the kids. We have spent lots of time at the pool hanging out...its cheap fun because when you have to feed 5 growing kids it can get expensive, we found that out fast!

Jonathan started his baseball camp at Rice University today. He loved it and got so lucky to have Clark in his group. He and Clark became really good friends during spring ball and he hasnt seen him since the season ended. He is looking forward to going back tomorrow although he said "Mom all we did was play baseball". HELLO sweetie, its BASEBALL CAMP did you think you would play basketball?!

It's week #8 on the working out/losing weight for me. Like I said earlier, Mom is out of town so I didnt walk. Walking by myself just creeped me out BUT I finally got THE FIRM in today so I started that instead. I havent done a work out video in a long time and I have no doubt that I will be sore tomorrow. It is a 5 day a week work out plan so I am hoping to see some more results in a couple of weeks.

I will post some pictures this week. Until then, have a great week!

Howdy

Our week was busy, baseball consumed 2 nights last week, 2 nights this week, 3 nights next week! Actually baseball has been dreadful – the team straight up sucks, well there are about 4 kids that are great players THANKFULLY one of them is Jonathan. Up until last night I hated going to watch them, it was very sad to go from an awesome team in the spring to a team that doesn’t even know how to hold a bat. Last night’s game was different though. The kids have learned a few things, they actually made plays together, and it looked like a real team for the first time in 2 weeks. I cheered and yelled like a normal parent should – it was fabulous and I left the game very proud of everyone.

The kids have wanted new bikes lately and if you know me I don’t just go out and buy my children things just because, they have to earn it or work towards it – that’s just how I roll. So last week I decided WE could all work together and have a garage sale, whatever we made would go towards bikes. Kaela getting the first bike because frankly she needed one the most, poor child was way too big for her bike and it just looked silly, then Bry and then Jonathan. We started Wednesday night getting stuff together for the garage sale; everyone had to find things to sell from their room etc. At first I didn’t think we would have enough to make $100 but man we just keep pulling stuff out of who knows where. Kaela and I got up at 5:30am Saturday morning to set up shop; we were ready for sale by 7am! Long story short, we ended up making $296 from the garage which was just enough to buy 3 brand new bikes from Academy. We went last night to purchase them and they were so proud and excited. (I will post pictures of them this week; my camera is dead at the moment)

This is our 7th week walking and doing the ab coaster. I am still waiting on my dvd set, The Firm to arrive. I am anxious to start it. It’s a 5 day a week routine so it will be interesting! Still haven’t weighed myself, I am honestly to the point where I don’t want to know right now what I weigh. I feel as though I have lost inches and that makes me happy and at peace for now. Maybe at the end of the summer I will jump on a scale but maybe not! Scales are not meant to be friendly – at least not towards me!

Happy birthday to...

ME! It’s my birthday today, yup my last year in the 20’s!

I have a problem with infomercials right now or maybe I am just 100% committed to losing weight by my 30th birthday. So I was laying in bed Sunday morning watching yet another infomercial about weight loss, this time it wasn’t a machine like the Ab Coaster I bought it was an actual set of dvd’s. I think I get hooked when I see people and their results. Some of these women were huge and are now a size 4 which is pretty amazing. I know that they had to do more than just the exercise tapes but I was hooked…hmm I bet I wasn’t the only one either! Anyhow the set is call The Firm it was 2 payments of $29.95, I honestly didn’t want to pay that but I was willing before I purchased I decided to get on eBay to see if anyone was selling it and YUP of course you can find everything on eBay. So instead of paying $60 + for it I got it off of eBay for $22.99! I hope I have it by next week so I can start it. I will continue to walk with mom in the morning and do my Ab Coaster right after and then pick The Firm up in the evenings. They claim you see results after 10 days, we shall see. I will keep you posted.

By the way – I did not weigh myself this morning like I had planned. Mom cooked a fabulous dinner for us and a Paula Dean cake which was to die for…maybe on Friday when I have been a good eater all week! This is our 6th week too.