First time at the Lake 2010

This past Saturday was our first time as a family down at the Lake! It was nice and relaxing! I am so happy that we were able to get out of town even though it was for 24 hours! We go down to our friends' Adam and Paula's lake house! CAS owns a travel trailer that we have brought down there to stay in. It is so much easier to stay in with both of the kids! Lots of room and then I can put them down for a nap and have it be nice and quiet in there. We did not bring down the boat this weekend though! We are wanting to have a bow-filler cushion made for the boat this week, so we did not bring it down. I did however bring down a big sprinkler ball! It was fun! C had a ton of fun with it!

We are going down this coming weekend, from Thurs- Tues! Jory took a few vacation days for it! It will be fun times!

My best memory's as a child and growing up, was of our family and our friends camping every year! I am hoping to make these kind of memories for our kids! Lets see if it works!?! Enjoy a few pictures!

First Hair Cut and Mothers Day

Well last Saturday was Lily's first hair cut! She did awesome! She sat real still and let me razor cut the back of her hair! I only cut the back b/c she was getting a little mullet, and we all know that I will not have a child that has bad hair!! Needless to say she is as cute as a button again! Well she was always cute now she is just mullet-less! LOL



Mothers Day was great! I had a really good time with my family in the morning and late afternoon! I had to work NTS graduation in the nursery this year, and I am glad that I was there, because we had almost 20 kids in the nursery that day!
We went to church that morning and then we came home and Jory made me lunch before I had to be back at church. He grilled some really yummy corn quesadillas with chicken and cheese in them! Oh boy they were yummy! After I worked at church, I came home and got the rest of the fam and went over to my parents house! My dad grilled up some supper yummy ribs and we had that for dinner! I got to see my Uncle Dan too! That was a perk!
I got some really awesome gifts too! My mom had the kids make me a stepping stone with their hand prints in it and Christian decorated it! It is beautiful! She got me a necklace with the kids birthstones and a cross on it! Jory and the kids got me some of my favorite flowers! I love them all! It was a really great Mothers Day!

Me and the Little man!

Mama and Me
My Little Angel baby!

Just say NO!!!

HA! I thought that was a funny title to this post!
I am just saying NO to pasta and bread now! I feel great and have lost a pound or two! I also have been running/walking on the treadmill everyday. WOW what a difference just changing your mindset on a few things will do! I am going to be swimsuit ready soon! I know it will take time, but I can do it!
What brought this on was someone last week asked when I was "due", yes like baby due! Oy that hurt! I have been asked that before, but it still hurts. So that was a light bulb moment that I HAVE got to do SOMETHING about this! So I have decided to cut out the things that I love the most, besides my family, and that just happens to be bread and pasta! I HAVE to cut them out cold turkey, otherwise I won't do it. I have been eating a lot of turkey, some cheese, nuts, and green veggies! Dinners I just don't fix the potatoes or rice. It is just meat and veggies. I will eventually add them back in, but I have to "cleanse" my body of them. I hope that I never really want them anymore! They have been the biggest problem with me trying to loose weight! I have about 40lbs to loose, and I am going to do it! So that is what is going on with me these days!
Ciao!

Omaha Zoo

So this last weekend we took a quick trip up to Omaha! It was a short little trip, but a fun one! Scott, Jory's Dad lives up there now, and so earlier last week I told Jory I would like to go to the zoo and lets go to the Omaha Zoo that way we could see your dad too! (not that he is IN the zoo, but IN Omaha)!! I was not expecting Scott to be able to go to the zoo with us, but he was able to! The kids really enjoyed seeing him.

So I have never been to the Omaha Zoo before, but I have heard that is one of the best zoo's in the country. #3 to be exact. I liked it, but I did not like how it was laid out. It had a lot of dead ends and there were no signs directing you where to go. I did however like the exhibits of all the animals! They had a beautiful butterfly dome, and an AWESOME aquarium! C liked that the best! The Aquarium had a walk through tunnel that the sharks and fish could swim over-top of you. It was my favorite as well! I LOVE the sea and all the creatures in it! They also had one of the biggest Cat complexes that I have ever seen. They had a TON of cats! They also had one of the most beautiful male Lions that I have ever seen. He had the most beautiful manes ever! All in all the zoo was great!

Another cool thing that we did at the zoo was the "Teddy Bear Experience". What it was, was a"teddy bear" hospital for your child's stuffy! I am SOOO glad that we had Moo Moo with us!

Christian was able to get Moo Moo a flu shot and some X-rays. He got his heart checked out and got some new stuffing and stitching. It was SO cool! They gave Moo Moo a hospital band and C got a matching one so he could pick him up after his surgery! It was the cutest things that I have ever seen! All the workers were dressed up like medical workers! It was cool!

Lily slept most of the time we were at the zoo. We forgot our storller so we rented a wagon to carry Lily and the diaper bag. We put Scott's jacket and her blanket under her. She kicked back and realxed while we pulled her! She feel asleep shortly after we got there! She was still so cute! When she was awake she did not really care about the animals!

The Weather was GREAT!!! We had lots of sunshine and low 60's. PERFECT!!!! All in all we had a great day/weekend! Here are a few pictures of Moo Moo getting checked out and of the train ride!

A few things...

Well I promise I have not forgotten about this blog, I have just been REALLY busy lately. With Easter over and summer coming I have a little more time.

We had a great Easter Sunday. We had all of our family and friends over. I just love having everyone in my house all together celebrating the most important holiday in our Christian faith. Lily was a doll that morning, she was dressed so pretty and Christian was just as handsome as ever. We had a great worship service and everyone showed up to help in the nursery who was supposed to be there. After church we came home and I got lunch ready and we ate and ate and ate! Christian and Chase then went outside to do an Easter egg hunt. Chase got bored and so Christian was just finding the eggs! He got so excited each time he found one. Lily was sleeping through all of this! She was one tired chick! Christian was hyped up on sugar that day too! Boy was he a fun kid that night!

Well I had been doing this workout program called P90X. I was doing a great job with it too! This past week and a half I have majorly slacked off. I now feel sluggish and yucky! I have just been SO tired and I just seem like I cannot get into it! I NEED to get my butt in gear! We are almost to swimsuit season and I am a big fat whale that needs to loose at least 40 lbs! Why is this such a problem for me to loose? I have struggled with this for 3 years too long. I want to be my skinny self again. I WANT to feel good about my body and have my hubby be proud of me. Why is eating such an addiction to me. I don't have problems with drugs and I am not an alcoholic. FOOD is my addiction!!! I HATE THAT!!!!! Do I just not know what to eat to help me loose weight?? NO, I DO know what to eat, it is just that I LOVE the food that I am not supposed to eat, like pasta, bread, pasta, candy, pasta....you get the point, I LOVE pasta! Jory hates it! Ok so I am going to change things....I am just not going to eat! LOL just kidding, I am going to do the slim fast shakes and cut the pasta and bread out. I am just not going to eat it anymore. It will be hard, and I might falter, but I think that I am more worried about how I look in a swimsuit than my love for pasta and all things bad for me. I want to look like my friends Paula and Janell! They are beautiful and healthy! Ok DYAN get your rear in gear! High protein here I come!!!

On another note, Jory found out that he is allergic to Gluten and Cows Milk. So hubby is going to help me out with this new way of eating, since he HAS to do it, it will be easier for me to get on the bandwagon. It is funny we need to find someone to watch the kids some night, so we can go on a "Whole Foods" shopping trip. We need to really look at labels and make sure that it is something that Jory can eat. Date night at Whole Foods!!! LOL!!!

Here are a few pics from Easter! Enjoy!
Ciao!

Okay Okay I am BACK...

Okay ya'll, I am back t blogging. Lets see how long this lasts! LOL Okay do Facebook has taken the place of my blog, but I have had requests to start blogging again so here we go...

So last time I blogged I had just had Lily, she is now 9months old now. She is crawling and pulling herself up on the furniture. She is trying to keep up with big brother. She also has two teeth. She is a big girl now! She eats pretty much everything that we are eating plus some! Hehe, I am making her baby food so she eats that and some of our dinners too! She is such a happy baby, nothing seems to bother her...ever...I love her so much! She is just growing like a weed!

Christian is now 3 1/2 and is such a smarty! He loves his new bike that Santa gave him from Christmas this year, and has finally made it outside! He is loving having a baby sister and he thinks that he is her protector. He sometimes gets annoyed with her when she destroys his trains, but other than that he is loving having someone to play with. Now that she is crawling she can keep up with him a little better.
I am looking to maybe put him in a tumbling class this coming fall. We are going to hold off on putting him in Pre-school, until next year. He will be a late start kindergartner. I think that 2 years of Pre-school is a waste of money for us. He is excited to start something tho next year.

Both of the kids had their first time spending the night together in the same room at Grandpa and Grandma's house a few weeks ago. Lily did not know what to think. She did not know where she was, and so she did not sleep well for my mom and dad! I felt so bad, but mom said it was no big deal! Oh well we will have to try it again! Hehe!!

Jory and I are about the same, no big change here, except I am another year older now. I just celebrated my 27th birthday on March 12th. It was fun! We had family and friends over to celebrate with us!

This is the first year in a long time that we have not taken a vacation in the winter. Jory is itching to get out of town. We are going to go to Branson the last weekend in March, just to get out of KC. It will be fun! There is lots to do down there with the kiddos! We are looking forward to it.

I think that is about all that I have for right now, I will try and keep you updated more often! Here are some Family Pictures that we had taken recently, enjoy!
Ciao!