I'm thinking about blogging again :)

So far so good. Sometimes I think this should be easier the second time around, I mean I know what to do and how to succeed but I also know how hard this is going to be. I'm up for it, the end result will be worth all the hard work 

Goodbye 2012

I'm back!

Saying goodbye to 2012...I have a very blessed life and am looking forward to what 2013 has in store for me.

Super Bowl Sunday

So I hear there's a football game on tonight......or for my family more like there's some new commercials on tonight :) we tend to wait 30 minutes or so after the game starts to watch, then we skip thru the game and watch the commercials!!

Last night we had a family dinner with my mom's side of the family. It took a tragedy to get this family back together again, RIP uncle Tom I miss you. This is right up your alley and I know that you'd be right in the middle of it all feeding us your amazing food and making us all laugh. Good food, good laughs and most of all good family!

Bring it on!

I'm ready for Christmas, and have been for a while! well a week or so anyway. I'm not sure I've ever been this ready this early. It'll be nice to enjoy the week the boys have off before Christmas. I think the time will be hard for them....Matty especially. Mitchell askes every day if they can open a gift.....I'm holding on strong! He says I let them open a gift on Christmas Eve last year.....not sure I remember that but we'll see how clean their rooms are :)

We're going to the boy scout summer camp staff Christmas party this afternoon.

I hope all is well with you and yours.

broken record

These days I feel like each day is a repeat of the one before it....but that's A-OK with me. I like it....I know what to expect :)

Today is no different.....so far today I've gone to the gym, did a little work, laundry, wrapped up more Christmas gifts, got the box ready to ship to B's family, did a month's worth of menus.....and made the shopping list to go with it :D GO ME!!

I'm going to stop at Hobby Lobby on my way to get the shopping done....I need.....yes NEED another storage container......it's an addiciton really...but it being addicted to storage containers really a bad thing??

hoping to end my outside adventures on time to pick the boys up from school (and Mitchell from the bus) and head to Steak n Shake for a yummy (and half off) peppermint chocolate chip shake....and yes I do know how cold it is outside.....they're that good!!

XL

That's right......XL, not XXXXL, not XXXL not even XXL just plain ol XL.

That's the size of the shirt I wore today....just one lonely X.

Never Forget

I miss my rings

It's been a few months now since I haven't been able to wear my wedding rings and I miss them. I wore them as long as I could, the day they flew off my finger while folding laundry was the day I put them up. Since I still have 45lbs to go until my goal I thought I'd hold off on having them sized but man this last leg is taking so long.....I'm thinking that maybe this winter if I haven't made some good progress toward my goal weight I'd go ahead and have them sized. I can always size them down again if needed. My mom gave me a pretty ring to wear in the meantime but it's not the same. My rings sitting in my jewlry box is my picture of the day today.

what a CrAzY busy summer....

this has been. It's been full of summer camps, weekend trips and work. We haven't been together as a family since mid June. Now just as school it getting ready to start back up things seem to be slowing down for us. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not. Mitchell started going to the gym with me and seems to be toning up nicely, he has some pants that are literally falling off him! Matty's summer has been full of play dates! In fact he's gone right now. He's wanting to have a small get together with some friends before it's time to go back to school. We're trying to decide what we can do that'll be fun and not cost a lot.

I've been working hard all summer, well up until the last few weeks. I'm packing up DVD's for www.tracyandersonmethod.com and answering customer service emails for www.tracyandersonconnect.com and LOVING it :) I get to work from home and earn a little extra $$....that's always good :)

I've slipped a little on myPOTD project, so I'm kinda bummed about that but find it really hard to take a picture of something interesting each day. But since I bought the pages and album I'll keep plugging away as best I can. But I'm not going to stress about it.

Yesterday I went on a little road trip....Amanda and I went to Indianapolis to do the free make & take's at Archivers. We did some shopping then headed to lunch at Olive Garden, more shopping at a Super Joanns then hit Trader Joe's. I had never been to a Trader Joe's and ended up spending more $ there then at Archivers! I was suprised. I had been to a SJ's before but it was a very quick in and out so it was nice to wonder......OH and I found some art bin cases that I love in lime green!!! score me!!

Today I haven't done much but rest and enjoy the family.

This is what Sunday's are are all about

reward!

Mitchell had his retainer stolen out of his backpack on Friday. On a whim I went to the 3 classrooms in his hall and offered a $20 reward for anyone who found it. Low and behold this afternoon 3 kids came to claim the reward, retainer in hand!! WOO HOO!!! I still can't believe it! Yeah I know one of them probably took it, but hey it's better then paying for a new one! Mitchell has had a hard time this weekend, he blames himself for it getting stolen, no matter how many times we've told him it's not his fault, he still can't understand why someone would go thru his stuff. He sure has had some hard lessons to learn this year.

Memorial Day

Thank you!

Chicago - Field Museum day 2

Here Matty is trying to move a block the same size and weight that were used to built the pyramids.......he said he got it to budge just a little :)

Saturday was back to the Field Museum! we were starting our day off with the Real Pirates exhibit. This is a traveling exhibit about the Slave Ship turned Pirate ship Whydah Galley. SOOO cool!! I highley recommend seeing it if it comes to your area. No pictures were allowed but you can get more information here just so happened that evening the special was on tv so we got to learn even more about the Pirates. The boys loved the Egypt exhibit so we went thru that and the Earth Evolution again. Very cool place!!

Chicago - Field Museum day 1

On Friday we spent the day at the Field Museum. Brian was speaking at a conference there so the boys and I had a great day exploring. We had never been before. Sue was uber cool!! We saved the two special exhibits, The Real Pirates and Underground adventure for Saturday. So we went thru Earths Evolution....that was the COOLEST!!! We learned so much!

Chicago-MSI

I had planned to post pictures and blog all about our trip each night while we were still there....well you know what they say about the best laid plans. My card reader didn't work....and not thinking I didn't get another one until we got home. This trip couldn't have come at a better time. The boys have had a rough school year (which makes mama have a rough school year) and things were pretty bad the week we left. The Harry Potter exhibition had just opened at the Museum of Science and Industry and if you love HP (like me), and you're bummed the story is over (like me) and you can't wait until July 15th (like me) and you keep re-reading all the books (like me) you won't want to miss this! They have all kinds of original props from the movies and the setup makes you feel like you've entered Hogwarts and you WON'T want to leave! The boys just love MSI and having the traveling exhibits is such a bonus!

NSD

I went to a NSD crop over the weekend at Creek Bank Creations it was a GREAT time! they had some amazing prizes...but I didn't win....well not a prize anyway but since I got 48 pages done that makes me a huge winner!! here are some of the pages I got done. I worked on a lot of older pictures of the boys it was nice to remember these trips and events.

MS walk

the boys and I participated in the local MS walk. Our PTA raised $930 to present to Helen.....GO PTA!!! it was a gorgeous day and the boys had a lot of fun! here is my POTD for yesterday

Impromptu photo shoot

On Friday as the boys and I were walking out the door going to school I grabbed the camera.....on our backporch I got these...or I should say the boys got them......each taking the others photos. I think they turned out pretty darn good! I hope they always remember how much I love them.

NSV

That's Non Scale Victory for those of you who don't know....I just found out myself when my friend Amanda refered to it .....I had to ask what it meant :)

For a while now people have been commenting on how lose and baggy my clothes are. I just didn't really think they were THAT baggy and sure didn"t want to go out and spend money on new clothes but since I was going to a 2 day NSD (National Scrapbook Day) whew lots of acronyms in this post!! anyway out buying new pants......I went to the local goodwill store and had a hard time finding something in the size I thought maybe I could squeeze into but there weren't any...so going down a size and another and ANOTHER until I found a pair of capri pants, thinking well trying them on will at least give me an idea of how close (or far away) I am to that size still a long way off in my mind......I wish I had a picture of my face when they slid right on!! I had even picked up a pair of button shorts....feeling pretty good I decided to try them on too and OMG!! I got them bottoned!! WOW what a moment I had in that dressing room!! So I bought both pairs! So I'll leave you with the picture of my new capri's on top of my old pants.....this was a happy day!!