Cleaning the garage

I'm holding up my end of the 40 bags of 

Spring cleaning!

So I'm counting both these boxes as 3 bags each. You really can't tell that I made much of a dent in the garage. We have alot of big ride on toys for the boys and lots and lots of junk. We've been married almost 9 years so we have accumulated alot of stuff!

We also had a lil fun In the heat with a water balloon toss!

The neighbor kid came to play too. Lots of fun!

I've been doing great logging my food this week. I've been under cals and have been exercising like crazy!

This meal was 400 calories!

And tonight's meal was around 450 calories. Not bad at all. This picture is missing the fajita burrito made!

I loaded the Nike app again tonight!

And used it for my evening walk! I walked 1.06 miles in 19 mins. Not fast but burned another 107 cals!!

I wanted to post it but it tells my exact location/route that I walked. So that's not happening!

Tonight is Chicago Fire! I'm excited about a new episode tonight! Which means tomorrow is re-run night. Lol

A date night!

The hubs and I were able to get away for 2.5 hours last month for a date! That's very exciting for us, because one on one time for us happens about 3 times a year!

It's sad we don't get out more, it really is! 

We don't have free sitters, so that doesn't help, so once we pay 20-25 bucks for 2 hours then go out to eat somewhere nice we are out about 75 bucks for the night!

But believe me it's worth it! We get to have adult time and feel more refreshed when we come home!

Look at my hot hubs on our last date!

I think we still make a cute couple 13 years later!

I also had one of these!

I forgot to ask for a frozen one, but this one on the rocks, didn't disappoint!

It was a very fun night!

I'm hoping for a date night soon, hey if I'm lucky we might get away with having one date night a month this year!

That would be so nice!

I'd love to go to the Melting pot! We've been once and drained our life savings! And we just ordered dessert! It was over 20 bucks for one order of desserts with milk chocolate fondue! It was great and romantic! I'm not normally a fancy kind of girl, but I like that I can go from the baseball field as a coach to my kids straight into a black dress and heels for a fancy dinner!

I totally didn't make my diet goal ;(

I'm blaming the nasty weather, stress at work, and whatever else I can find to blame it on! I'm quitting the gym, and buying my own elliptical! 

Hopefully this week! Come on tax money!!

I also went to the store and stocked up on diet foods for this week!

I'm getting ready to head to the kitchen now to roast a sweet potato and steam broccoli for tomorrow!

Easter weekend

We had a great Easter weekend! The hubs was off work, kids were great in church! Dinner at the inlaws went well!

This year we hosted an Easter party at our house and dyed eggs with friends and had cookies, then an egg hunt too!

I think everyone had fun! And I got to catch up on girl time with Sarah and Crystal!

This is the outfit I went with for Bre!

I did choose to buy him a peach colored short instead of this one. I would say the one pictures above is more of a melon color. But I wanted his shirt to match EE's! 

I got the shirts at Abercrombie kids, but bought EE's a month prior before I had started thinking about Easter! Luckily when I went back they still had one for Bre!

They looked adorable as always and we had some family pics by the pond at church! Thanks Lori for doing such a great job! 

The sun was out so some of the pictures have too many shadows but I got a great one of the boys and a good one of me and the hubs! Just not a great family picture!

I'm hoping when we get to Florida my friend Beth will snap a few family pics for us!

I would love a huge one over our couch! 

I even had the chance to decorate the DR, but half of my Easter decor is missing! ;( we will find it I hope!

It doesn't look too bad considering I decorated 3 days before Easter!

I'm doing great in my diet so far! I've been walking two miles at work on my lunch and breaks and have been jogging another 2 miles at home in the evenings. Not every night but I did it 3-4 times last week! 

I will post some of what I'm eating soon!

Here is a pic of me jogging on the track!

The hubs and I did squeeze in a date night this month! So that means we only missed March! This is huge for us! In the past we might have gone on 3 dates a year! I didn't have many sitters I trusted to watch both kids and since my dad has died I don't have his help anymore either!

This is a picture from tonight's date! 

We can't get a good picture for anything. Ugh

I'm not looking at the camera an my arm is all weird! Brandon is taller then me, but in this picture he is making me look like I'm six inches taller then him!

Maybe we will shoot for a good picture for our May date!

Thanks for a fun night Crittenden and Frost family! Always a good time!

I've lost 7 pounds so far! My goal is 16 more pounds before vacation! It was really hard to pass up Chili's chips and salsa but I did it! Ha!

Long break

Gosh I really need to catch up!

I fell off the diet wagon! Not even sure why or how now that it's been 3 months later! I'm guessing a really busy life that I love!!!

Back in Jan, I said I wanted to do a date night once a month with the hubs! We accomplished that in Jan and Feb, however we didn't get a chance to get away in March!

Here is a picture of our Jan date!

We had such a fun night out!

Look what I ordered!

Oh my goodness! It was great! I never treat myself to a seven dollar margarita, but it was worth every penny!

Feb's date was to Chili's, we had a great time that night too! I'm sad we missed our March date and April isn't looking great, but maybe we can squeeze in something fun!

March was my dad's birthday. So hard to believe he has been gone a year already! We sent balloons to Heaven for him!

Lately I've been working on "40 bags of spring cleaning" I'm trying to get rid of 40 bags of clutter. I've done pretty good so far! I've got rid of about 8 bags so far! 

We are in full swing of baseball and we love every minute of it! Both boys are playing this year! EE has already hit his first HOMERUN! And Bre got two hits with no tee the first game! 

I'm back to dieting. My wonderful hubs bought me a elliptical and spent the afternoon putting it together! It's nice, just a little stiff! I just need to work up my speed and time on it!

Here's to hoping the next post isn't another 3 months from now!

36 hours to my final weigh in

Yikes! 36 is hours isn't very long at all! I really don't think I will reach my goal ;( we shall see! I've been doing some of this!

I'm by no means excited about this time for my virtual 5K, but I was very excited that I could run .70 miles without stopping and then.the rest of the miles were very slow! That time is 11 mins longer then my best 5K time! Oh well I wasn't out to set any records just to complete the run!

I haven't been running at all, I've chose to do the elliptical, it's much easier on my knees, and I burn twice as many calories as I do in the treadmill! 

I'm hoping to get back into running once I hit my goal weight!

Monday night I did the 30 day shred, an I plan to do that workout on the days the hubs works, and I can't get to they gym!

Tuesday I did the 5K! 

And tonight I went to the gym and got on the elliptical for 23 mins. 

Dinner tonight was a taco salad for 438 cals! 

That bowl was huge, it has two white corn taco shells in the bottom for 120 calories, it has 1 cup of pinto beans for 220 cals, and the sour cream adds 40 calories, I also put one tablespoon of rice on top and counted that around 50 calories. Not a bad dinner at all? It was very filling. I didn't count the lettuce, salsa or jalapeño peppers, they don't add that much!

This was me after tonight's workout!

I love this shirt! My hubs got it for me for Christmas and its a size large, I honestly didn't think it would fit! I was surprised when I tried it on! 

I will weigh in tomorrow morning just to see where I'm at on the scales, hopefully I can post that tomorrow!

My hubs and I had a wonderful weekend! We got a date and I'm thrilled, it was so nice to spend time together! We don't get to do that nearly often enough!

That's one goal of mine for 2014, to plan more dates with him! 

A big thanks to the Crittenden's and Frost family for inviting us to dinner, we had a great time!

I will post details soon!

Caffeine almost killed me!

Ok that title might be a little exaggerated, but in all seriousness I had chest pain all weekend. Like super sharp shooting pains!

Being in the healthcare field, I know chest pain is not something to play around with!

I've had chest pain all my life starting around age 16! 

I've been checked out several times, 12 leads, stress test, blood work and all!

This weekend I was frantic to stop at the nearest store to grab aspirin, as in real Bayer aspirin 365 mg worth! EE had a ballgame and the hubs was at work. Both sets of grandparents were going to be at the game so I even had a plan of what to do if I had to go to the emergency room! IT WAS BAD!!!

I told both grandma's so if I needed them it would be no surprise! Finally about 20 mins after the aspirin kicked in the shooting pains stopped!

I'm not suppose to have any caffeine, like none. That's hard to do! But I finally went thru the headache withdraws and got over it! McDees sold caffeine free diet cokes. PERFECT!

Then came the day they replaced that with coke zero! So I went back to drinking diet coke.  And like 2 a day! 

Umm that's 3.38 per day in diet coke, and 101.00 bucks a month! YIKES!

That's totally crazy and insane, and I knew I was drinking way too many of them a day!

I had a diet coke from McDees sat but after drinking 1/3 of it, the chest pain started. It lasted thru Monday! I took ibuprofen and got over the headaches, and no more chest pain! That 1/3 of a diet coke was the last!

I've been caffeine free since sat afternoon!

The headaches are mostly gone. I did take another ibuprofen today and hoping I don't have to take anymore 

Meds for that anymore!

I'm pretty sure I can find something better to spend a 100 bucks on, then diet coke!

There are a few places that have the fountain drinks that offer a 100 choices. I know Qdoba and Burger King have it, as well as Speedway so those are my options for now! Along with my tervis tumbler that I'm taking to work filled with my CF diet!

So crazy how much caffeine really affects  my heart and chest pain! 

Glad to be totally off of caffeine for good!

Great deals and puppy hunting!

My BFF called today to tell me a consignment store in town was having a dollar rack sale!

When I went inside, I couldn't find the sale rack. I asked the cashier and she told me, all the clothes and shoes were one dollar today only!!

This is what I got!

My oldest is outgrowing clothes like crazy! 2 items are for my youngest child, I got all 11 pieces for 11 bucks! Can't beat a sale like that!

All the jeans are Gap or RL! And I got him a new pair of cleats too! Such a great deal!

Thanks Staci for letting me know about the sale!

We also went to the animal shelter and I found this baby! I think she wants me to be her mommy!

She was very shy and timid. She acted very scared like someone has mistreated her! They gave me a hot dog to feed her and she was scared to take it from me! She finally warmed up to me after about 20 mins!