If you happen to be reading this, Love, then you better tell me how nice my ass is looking ;)
My friend Kelly directed me to a blog recently that I have really enjoyed. It is called All & Sundry http://www.sundrymourning.com/ She is quite witty and I can relate. Last week one of her posts talked about her exercise/fitness successes. One of the things that she has been doing is Jillian Michaels- 30 Day Shred. I read the responses to her post and was inspired, but even moreso when Kelly told me that she was doing it. I looked it up on Amazon and was impressed with the ratings (I always look at the ratings), but didn't want to wait for it to be shipped. You have to strike while the iron is hot IMO. So I found it at Best Buy yesterday and have completed 2 days of my Shred. I haven't been this sore in a really LONG time, but it's that good kind of sore, where I know my bootie must be shrinking because let me tell you I am very aware of it right now. I was so fired up last night that J.R. and I even took a long walk after our dinner. The reason I am sharing this is because I believe in accountability so the more people I share this with, the better. Hold me accountable. I am ready to make a change and feel good about myself again. I am not alone in my endeavor. My friends Heather, Sharri, Kelly(our leader), Kirsta and I are all doing this together. A girl has to have some friends to complain too about our achy muscles.
Oh one more thing, I haven't told J.R. that I am doing this. I am doing it on the sly. I figure I'll let him in on my little secret soon enough.
And my plug for Jillian
All you need for this workout is a DVD player, a workout mat or carpet, and some 3-5 pound hand weights. Start with the 3 pounders. Trust me!
Coryn's favorite statement these days is I two. We have been working on it so she can answer that question "how old are you?". I two! Of course I also use the "am", she just kind of leaves that part out. So today is the REAL birthday. 2 years ago we met our sweet Coryn. She came quickly into the world greeted with love by so many people. She was 6 lb and 18.5 inches long. So tiny and so absolutely perfect. We really have been blessed with our three girls. Here are some pictures from her party that we had on Sunday.
And also from previous birthdays:
We also hosted an engagement party on Saturday night for our friends Lori and David. We are so happy that they found each other and are excited for their upcoming wedding on October 10. We enjoyed getting to know a lot of their other friends better. Here are a few pictures from our evening.
Lori is in the middle
Me and Angela
David with Lori's sister, Lisa
Warning: Do not continue to read if you do not appreciate whining.
Next Tuesday my sweet, darling, precious child will turn 2! And lo and behold the terrible twos are here. Full Force! She's my third. You'd think I could handle this with my eyes closed, hands tied behind my back, but no I am not handling this. I am at a complete and total loss. She far exceeds anything that Ella and Tara EVER threw at me. Maybe I am just too old to remember, but I am coming here because I figure that writing it out and venting is better than the other option; which is to ship her to my friend Kelly in California(although that is still an option).
Here are just a few snippets of my day so far.
* She threw Tara's Nintendo DS from the top of the stairs onto the hardwood in the entryway, breaking it. This is a DS that we JUST got for Tara last month for her birthday. Tara is going to be really mad and we are going to have to replace the overpriced toy immediately.
* As fast as I can clean things, she is dragging them back out. Imagine that you have an office job...now imagine as fast as you are working either on your computer, writing something out etc, there is a little elf who is deleting it, or coloring over it with a Sharpie marker. I am not joking...THAT is what I feel like.
* As I cleaned a toilet just a few moments ago, she was on my back squealing WEEEEEE! cause we all know how much fun it is to clean a toilet, now add the monkey. NICE.
* And finally just this....mommy, mommy, mommy...me: what?...no reply then....mommy, mommy, mommy! ALL DAY LONG!
OK excuse me while I go try to hide the bald patches that are now visible on my scalp!
P.S. She peed on the carpet after getting out of the shower. The day just got so much better.
I hit the jackpot in the husband department. Seriously he is awesome and I am not just writing this because he might read it, although I doubt my blog is interesting enough for him ;) Anyway he just called and asked me to set out some cream cheese so that he and the girls can make fruit dip for their Monday Night Football snack! He's so thoughtful and loving and just the perfect father for little girls!
And while this is an old picture of J.R. and Coryn, I never get tired of it.
OK first of all at this very moment McCain and Palin are just minutes from my house and I am not there :( I seriously considered taking Coryn and standing in the rain to hear them, but figured Coryn might not appreciate that. But seriously with her pigtails and blue eyes and sweet smile...she is a politicians dream. I may be just a bit biased though. Ella really wanted to go too. Oh well I will have to watch the recaps on the news like everyone else that wasn't there. I really want this shirt but know that J.R. would make fun of me relentlessly if I actually ordered it:
Moving on...I finally finished Coryn's coming home from the hospital shadow box. Sometimes, something relatively close to a crafty side seeps out of me. I was pleased with how it turned out.
And here is the sweet girl herself:
For Tara's birthday she got a butterfly house. It has been an amazing experience and about the best $20 investment we have made. Actually it's closer to $26 once you send off for your caterpillars. We learned so much about painted lady butterflies during this whole process. We received five caterpillars and ALL of them grew into amazingly beautiful butterflies which we released yesterday morning. We had to coax them out of their nice little butterfly home, but once we did it was pretty exciting to watch them fly away. One of them immediately took a dive into the grease pail we have under our barbeque grill. We saved him from his ill fated dive, but he was looking pretty bad around noon when we checked on him yesterday and was the only one who had not left the deck. I am wondering if he became a birdy snack during the day because he was gone in the evening. Anyway if you have young children this is such a great learning experience. There is also a ton of information, videos and pictures on the internet that you can use with your kids. We are ordering the tadpoles next.
Here they are in their chrysalids:
Here is one of them the day they came out of their chrysalids:
And yesterday during their release with Tara:
I was so fired up about her last night as I watched her speech. I am amazed by this woman who is so poised and articulate! I haven't been this excited about an election....well in forever. I am even more excited to see my man, McCain take the stage tonight.
And in my total nerdiness I get even more excited to watch Jon Stewart after the speeches. Although his show is a day behind on what is happening at the RNC.
Also check out Meghan McCain's blog. I love it! http://www.mccainblogette.com/
That is what I am all about, empty promises. I promise pictures and then I don't deliver. Oh well. If you know me at all, you know that I hate loading the pictures off my camera. I hate Photobucket even more. I am not quite sure what happened to that site. It used to be so easy and quick to use and now it just royally sucks. On to brighter things....
Ella got her ears pierced. We took her to Claires a week ago and amazingly the same girl that pierced Tara's ears was there. Her name is Tara too. She agreed to do Ella's at the same time with the other worker girl. Ella was so extremely nervous. I could tell she wanted to back out, but I encouraged her to follow through. I stood behind her holding her hand as she squeezed all the blood out of it. And this is the face I saw when I came around front after the piercing was done:
We'll definitely save that one for the wedding slide show ;)
We had a fairly good Labor Day weekend. Nothing too exciting. I did make this awesome fruit salad. I bought Kiwis for it and when I cut into them discovered they were yellow kiwis. Weird. I wanted green ones. The yellow ones just looked like they had gone bad even though they tasted exactly like green ones. The little sticker even called them yellow kiwis. The fruit salad was easy and yummy and quite pretty if I do say so myself:
Ella, Coryn and I went shopping yesterday and let Coryn pick out her birthday presents which I am hoping she'll forget about before her party. We were at Toys R Us and she picked out the cutest flip flops.
Her feet are so adorable. She was so excited to have shoes like her Sissies. She kept saying "shoes get". How could I not buy them for her. She is going to be so spoiled.
And just for good measure here is a picture of Ella and Tara and the rest of the family on their first day of school. They are loving it, their new friends and their most awesome teachers(I am seriously in love with them).
At least for today some promises have been fulfilled ;)
