Weekend Goals" June 1-2, 2013

I'm going to be having a busy weekend, and along with these chores to do, I'm going to be wiped out.

Household:

• Organize Closets and Dressers
• Clean bathrooms
• Give Adalyn's room a makeover
• Organize Kitchen (cabinets, spices, pantry)
• Deep clean master

Kids:

• Plan next 5 weeks of Samantha's school
• Plan kindermusik trip

Personal:

• Work on cookbook
• Exceed 650 swagbucks
• Organize recipes

Yard:

• Burn more tree debris

Happy Birthday Cayce

Yesterday was Cayce's 23rd birthday. We didn't do anything special. Cayce had Budd over on Saturday and celebrated a little bit that way. We didn't have nothing special for breakfast, just leftovers. We watched TV before Cayce had to leave for work. I did make him a special dinner. I made a slow cooked pork butt with taco seasoning. It was DELICIOUS. It sucked that he had to work on his birthday, but we will be going out this weekend.

I made him a french vanilla cake with cinnamon roll icing. One of his co workers who bakes cakes on the side, made him one with pecans. Her cakes and icing are always so moist and yummy.

We have been dating since he was 17 and I was 16. 6 years of dating and I can't wait to celebrate more birthdays with him.

I love you baby.

Memorial Day Celebrations

Yesterday was a great day. Cayce didn't have to work, so it was a 3 day weekend. We had a lazy weekend, and it carried on into yesterday. We let the girls stay in their nightgowns all day. They played games and watched tv. I was going to give Sammy the day off from school , but ended up doing it anyways, since she will have all next week off. We did Memorial Day crafts along with school. During their naps, Cayce and I sat outside and I got a little tan on my back. I need to work on my tan before the lake on the 15th.

Playing candy land with daddy

working on memorial day crafts

included ariana in the activities

look at this GORGEOUS baby

MY BEATIFUL GIRL

 

We didn't have anything special for breakfast or lunch, but we did have BBQ chicken, fried squash, and whole wheat macaroni and cheese.

Lose the Weight Challenge: Week 11

*Exercise:
   This week I WILL:
        -Step higher, walk faster, pull harder and add extra reps to my cardio and strength training
        -Move reps to 20 per exercise and extend my segments to 1 minute.
        -Add more moves to my abdominal routine
             Double knee tuck
             Double knee tuck with arm swim
             Pretzels

*Diet:
    Eating at resturants
       Only 1 trip to the buffet
       Ask for grilled chicken or fish
       Get salad dressing on side
       NO CHEESE
       SKIP FRIED FOODS
       Send bread and chips back

*Attitude:
     Write down 5 positive things about your weight loss progress and post them on bathroom mirror.

**EXTRA CREDIT**
      Search for healthy menu items for resturants online.

Previous Weight: 258.0
Current Weight: 256.6
Pounds Lost: -2

I'm slowly going down and it is better than nothing. I keep telling myself 56 more pounds to go, then a new weight loss goal.
      

Weekend Goals May 25-26, 2013 Update

We got everything that we wanted done in yard. We still have alot more trees and leaves to burn. Our garden has taken a beating from the heat. The plants are growing slowly. The girls are helping me with their room, and it is taking longer than expected. We have been lounging around all weekend and enjoying the 3 whole days with daddy. I'm going to get everything else done during the week. Cayce goes back to school and work tomorrow. So, early mornings will grace us with it's presence until Saturday morning.

Household

• Give Samantha and Ariana's room a makeover
• Organize closets and dressers
• Clean bathrooms
• Give Adalyn's room a makeover
• Put DVD's in order
• Organize Kitchen (cabinets, drawers, spices, pantry)
• Give master bedroom a makeover

Kids

• Get Samantha's curriculum organized and ready
• Plan Kindermusik trip
• Plan trip to Congaree National Park
• Plan trip to Aiken park and museum

Personal

• Work on few recipes for cookbook
• Exceed 1,400 swagbucks
• Organize coupons
• Organize recipes off Internet and Magazine cuts
• Plan Cayce's 23rd bday menu

Yard

• Clean out underneath porches
• Start burning tree debris
• Put out moth balls
• Get rid of ANY yard trash

Menu: May 26-June 1

Here is this week's menu. We did some tweaking to the menu on Friday and ended up putting it for this week.

Sunday: Leftover BBQ pulled pork with rice
Monday: BBQ Chicken
Tuesday: Hamburger Helper
Wednesday: Cayce's Choice (BIRTHDAY)
Thursday: Leftovers
Friday: Tilapia & Shrimp
Saturday: Sausage Lasagna

I tried something new tonight with our vegetables. I boiled some corn off the cob and let it cook. I drained it and took a half a can of Campbell's Broccoli Cheese soup and mized it in with the corn and it was DELICIOUS. Cayce gave it two thumbs and two toes up..lol.

Letter Curriculum: Week 5

This week, we did the letter D. She kept calling it a B and I knew that we would have that problem because I got my letters mixed up as a child and Cayce did as well. But, at the end of the week, she pronounced it correctly.

On Monday, We listened to a new composer and music. Our internet was acting up all day and our music player kept stopping constantly and everytime it stopped, Sammy got so upset and kept telling the computer that she needed to do her school to get smart. I love my child. She is so funny.

These pictures were taken on Tuesday. The top photom she is doing her workbook page and the bottom photo is the numbered days that we were on.

On Wednesday, she did a craft lion for her bible study. We read about Daniel and the Lion.

She did great and it is beautiful.

It seems like alot of work for a 4 year old but she is comprehending all of it. She is learning and is able to answer any question I give her. She learned about distance with a ruler and when I ask her about a dozen, she points to an egg carton. When I taught her the social studies lesson, I decided to do a comparison with her. Dentists Vs. Doctors. I told her that dentists work on teeth and doctors work on arms, eyes, ears, boobies(long story on this one) and legs and feet. She understood it and we laughed. She remembers things if we laugh and make jokes about it.

 

On Friday, when Cayce got home, he taught Samantha and Ariana how to dribble a ball. They don't do that well at it, but they are catching on quick and have been trying to do it all weekend.

 

I'm thinking about giving her tomorrow off from school and do Memorial day stuff with her, or do school along with Memorial day stuff.

Weekend Goals: May 25-26, 2013

I have alot to do this weekend. This isn't what I planned to post but I haven't started on my project yet. My morning is going to be super early in the morning. I'm going to be getting up at 5:30 with Cayce because he has to run into town to do some errands and I will be getting a jumpstart on my chores.

Household

• Give Samantha and Ariana's room a makeover
• Organize closets and dressers
• Clean bathrooms
• Give Adalyn's room a makeover
• Put DVD's in order
• Organize Kitchen (cabinets, drawers, spices, pantry)
• Give master bedroom a makeover

Kids

• Get Samantha's curriculum organized and ready
• Plan Kindermusik trip
• Plan trip to Congaree National Park
• Plan trip to Aiken park and museum

Personal

• Work on few recipes for cookbook
• Exceed 1,400 swagbucks
• Organize coupons
• Organize recipes off Internet and Magazine cuts
• Plan Cayce's 23rd bday menu

Yard

• Clean out underneath porches
• Start burning tree debris
• Put out moth balls
• Get rid of ANY yard trash

Samantha 2013-2014 School Schedule

April 22-27, 2013 : Alphabet Intro
April 29- May 3, 2013: Letter A
May 6-10, 2013: Letter B
May 13-17, 2013: Letter C
May 20-24, 2013: Letter D
May 27-31, 2013: Letter E

June 3-7, 2013: WEEK OFF

June 10-14, 2013: Review Week: A-E
June 17-21, 2013: Letter F
June 24-28, 2013: Letter G
July 1-5, 2013: Letter H
July 8-12, 2013: Letter I
July 15-19, 2013: Letter J

July 22-26, 2013: WEEK OFF

July 29- August 2, 2013: Review Week F-J
August 5-9, 2013: Letter K
August 12-16, 2013: Letter L
August 19-23, 2013: Letter M
August 26-30, 2013: Letter N
September 2-9, 2013: Letter O

September 9-13, 2013: WEEK OFF

September 16-20, 2013: Review Week K-O
September 23-27, 2013: Letter P
September 30- October 4, 2013: Letter Q
October 7-11, 2013: Letter R
October 14-18, 2013: Letter S
October 21-25, 2013: Letter T

October 28- November 1, 2013: WEEK OFF

November 4-8, 2013: Review Week P-T
November 11-15, 2013: Letter U
November 18-22, 2013: Letter V
November 25-29, 2013: Letter W
December 2-6, 2013: Letter X
December 9-13, 2013: Letter Y
December 16-20, 2013: Letter Z

December 23-29, 2013: Review Week U-Z
   December 25, 2013: DAY OFF

December 30, 2013- January 3, 2014: WEEK OFF

January 6-10, 2014: Vowel A
January 13-17, 2014: Vowel E
January 20-24, 2014: Vowel I
January 27-31, 2014: Vowel O
February 3-7, 2014: Vowel U
February 10-14, 2014: Review Week

February 15, 2014: Graduation Alphabet Party

Lose the Weight Challenge: Week 10

I am so late posting for my week. I have been doing my workouts and keeping to my menu and eating my 3 meals a day.

*Exercise: Interval training
     - Need a clock or timer. Cardio segments are 30 seconds with strength training for 15 seconds.
     -Strength
1. Bicep Curls
2. Shoulder Presses
3. Tricep Extensions
4. Chest Presses
5. Bent over rows
6. Bent over flies
7. Sqauts
8. Single leg lunge (15 each side before cardio)
9. Deadlifts
   -Cardio
      -jog in place, knee march, jumping jacks, jump invisible rope, football runs
      -abs
           Perform without cardio interval

*Diet: STAY AWAY FROM NUTRITION BARS
    -Stick with water, fruit, and a multivitamin
*Attitude:
     -Replace reward food with something else that will make you feel good.

**EXTRA CREDIT** Set a weight loss goal for this week, and write down a reward to give yourself.

Previous Weight: 258.6
Current Weight: 258.0

I have maintained my weight. It's good.

Weekly Menu

Very late posting my menu for the week, but it's going up.
I'm going to add what we had tonight (Sunday) for supper, so I feel like I completed it and didn't half ass it. I hate leaving things undone. It makes me feel very unorganized. But, it is my blog, an I can do whatever, so here we go.

Sunday: Porkchops & homemade mashed potatoes
Monday: Shrimp Salad
Tuesday: Rotini with cabbage and spam
Wednesday: Chicken Broccoli Rice Casserole
Thursday: leftovers
Friday: Cayce's BBQ chicken
Saturday: Slow cooker pulled pork (Cayce's bday party)


Planning my family's weekly menu's is taking alot of stress and weight off my shoulders because I don't have to rush. I hate that I stopped doing it the first time because of our move into our final home and Adalyn's birth, but I'm going to make it final and keep it going no matter what. It gives me a happy moment because I know that I will have food on the table for my babies and they will be fed and won't be hungry. Now to get the rest of our lives organized will be the hard part. We have to get school organized and our social events going.

Letter Curriculum: Week 4

This week was about the letter C. She did great and the sign language is coming along. She can do A, B, and C together and it is amazing. She has done 21 days of school so far and can't wait to get to 100th day for her big 100 day of school party.

She loves sitting at the computer and listening to the music

I'm in love with this workbook and definately will use it with Ariana and Adalyn.

This was Tuesday's page in the workbook. We had some issues at first because she didn't understand, but she caught on.

Coloring her Creation book for our bible story. The story for this week was the Creation.

She was doing her math lesson in this picture. She was classifying the objects by color and then by number.

She was doing it all by herself. No help. I'm so proud.

Playing catch with daddy.

Her math lessons were classifying and counting to 31 with a calendar. Her science lessons included learning about a crab and a cardinal. She needs help pronouncing the word cardinal. For her social studies we learned about castles. I didn't take any pictures of her doing these lessons, but it was fun doing it with her than documenting it.

Letter To My 16 Year Old Self

I often think about what I would do differently with my life. It usually happens when i'm having bad days or days when Cayce and I just don't get along. I always tell myself that I will soon wake up from this drean, and it hasn't happend. So, I want to list some key points.

If I am able to go back to my 16 year old self, I would tell myself that the guy who knocked you on your butt the year before and was dating your best friend at the time, will be the love of your life and you will have children with him. I would tell myself to take the relationship slower and wait for the intimate stuff, and focus more on school. I would stay home and not move in with Cayce. We would graduate high school, and I would go to Newberry College. After college, we could get on our feet and build a house on the land we live on now, and work on starting our family. I would tell myself that I HAVE to work out and exercise everyday, and begin a healthy life together and have the job that I want. I would still decide to homeschool my children.

I'm doing the best I can with what we have but I'm always wishing that our lives would be better.

NEW Weight Loss Goals

I redid my weight loss goals for myself when I fell off the wagon that week. Since writing these down, I feel motivated to get this done and become healthy for not just me,but for my girls. So, here they are

1. Focus on eating healthy and the right portion sizes
2. Schedule exercise time before Cayce heads to work or school
3. Drink more water
4. Keep up the menu planning
5. Start doing my food journal again
6. Cut back to weighing self once a week.

The menu planning is not just helping with my weight loss, it is also helping us not waste food.

I will lose this weight and get down to 200 by my birthday. Thats 58 pounds to lose in 7 months.

I CAN DO THIS!!!!!!

My Mother's Day Celebrations

My day started off early. Cayce got the girls up and changed. He washed a load of dishes, and made breakfast. He made chocolate chip waffles with pumpkin cheesecake filling. We always put that on our waffles and he cut up some fresh strawberries... YUMMY.

It wes delicious, and I wish I had some right now. After we got through eating breakfast, I took pictures of me with my precious babies.

I love my Adalyn.

My little smart butt. Our 5th mother's day

My lil mini me.

I will never get enough of her brown eyes. Just like her daddy, got me crazy.

She is just the cutest thing. I think you can tell that she is my favorite. Yea, I know i'm not supposed to pick favorites, but she is my special baby.

After our pictures, we went to my parents's house and spent some time with my mom. I gave her a topaz pendant necklace and she got one of the sweetheart picture frames. We took some leftovers to them.

When we got back home, Cayce went stright to getting supper ready. He cooked steak, steamed potatoes and green beans, leftover cornbread, spanish rice, and homemade whole wheat mac and cheese. It was so good, that after I got through eating what I could, I took an 1.5 hour nap before my Sunday shows came on. Overall, this mother's day was a great one.

Don't it look DELICIOUS!!!!!!

Enjoying their supper. Instead of steak, they got hotdogs.

2013

 

Lowe's Field Trip

On Saturday, Cayce took Samantha and Ariana to the Lowe's build and grow clinics that they dor for the public. I have been seeing it everywhere online, so I decided to do some research and get all the info. It showed what the girls would be constructing and I thought it would be great. It turned out to be a wonderful idea and we are going to start going to every one they have from now on.

This build and grow clinic was building for mother's day. They got to build two heart picture frames. Samantha gave me hers and we decided to give Airy's to granny (my mom). I stayed home with Adalyn because she isn't old enough to participate.

So Cayce took them for a field trip or daddy-daughter bonding time.

They had so much fun.

look at my baby. so cute

I love it

Every moment they get with him is precious. I love this pic of them together. Addy will be able to join soon.

WAY TO GO ARIANA

Banging away. You go Samantha

Look at them styling with those goggles. So professional looking.
Now here are some after pictures.

Samantha's certificate.

Ariana's certificate. I can't wait to put these in frames and hang them up.

Samantha's apron.

The picture frames. They are gorgeous

These are their patches to go onto their aprons. We have to wait for the next clinic to get Ariana an apron because Cayce didn't know that he had to ask for one. And when he did, they only had one left, so Samantha got that one.

I can't wait for the next clinic. There are going to be three clinics next month. June is going to be a busy one for the girls.

Lose the Weight Challenge: Week 9

I am motivated for the week. Last week, I had to refocus myself. I redid my goals and I had to motivate Cayce to go back to school this week. Needless to say, we had an off week.

*Exercise: Gut Buster
    - 2-3 sets with 15-20 reps of each
        1. Lunges w/ bi-cep curls
        2. Squats w/ wood chops
        3. Crunches
        4. Alt. opposite arm/opposite leg
        5. Reverse crunches
        6. Corkscrews (each way)
        7. Double knee tuck
        8. Side bridge crunches (each side)
    -Perform this 2-3 days and 3 days at cardio
*Diet: Eat sensible snacks
     If writing in journal, notice snacking trends
*Attitude: JUST DO IT
     - Prioritize exercise as the one thing you have to do, no matter what.
     - Enlist help of partner to make sure this happens

**EXTRA CREDIT** Plan week day by day how you will exercise

Current Weight: 258.6

Taking a week off from exercise and dieting and re-evaluating my thoughts really helped. I didn't gain but losing 1 pound is still good.

Cayce and I screamed at the top of our lungs this morning "BYE BYE 260. WE WILL NEVER SEE YOU AGAIN" I will never be at the number again in my life.

Happy Mother's Day

I have been having a good day. I had the day off from all chores and I got some much needed time to myself. I got my Swagbucks done and relaxation. We went to my parent's house for a few hours today and Ariana gave granny her gift. I have to get the rest of Samantha's school work ready for the week. Right now, I'm catchin up on my shows, so I'm gonna leave ya'll with this weeks menu.

Sunday: mother's day dinner( steak, potatoes and green beans, spanish rice, mexicorn cornbread, and whole wheat mac and cheese)
Monday: Chicken Burrito Casserole
Tuesday: Penne Mozzarella
Wednesday: Turkey Sliders
Thursday: leftovers ( if no leftovers, mac and cheese with spam)
Friday: Chicken Stir Fry
Saturday: Hamburger helper

Letter Curriculum: Week 3

This week went by quicker than last, probably because I had a routine down and didn't take as much time to get everything set up. Every day we made the lesson last from 45 minutes to an hour and a half. She did great this week.

She had more theme words this week. The composer for this week was Beethoven. She does really good with classical music. It has me thinking that I should get her started on piano or musical instrument lessons.

Holding her Beethoven flashcard. She learned about blue birds, buttercups, and bakeries for her science and social studies lessons. For math, I told her a number and she had to tell me the number that came before that one. We read the story The Tower Of Babel, and she colored a picture of a tower and built a tower from jenga blocks on Friday morning.

I got this workbook from Walmart and I'm in love with it. I have her do a page everyday on the letter for the week. I have another workbook for her to work in on the review weeks and the other also has math lessons in it.

This board is my lifesaver. I wish I had this when we were doing the prep curriculum. Everyday, this board is filled and when all the words are gone, Sammy knows that the school day is over. We had a field trip today and that will be another blog post.