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.