OMG!!

Where has the time gone? Where has my blogging gone? Life apparently got in the way of my blogging experience. So, am I gonna make promises that I'll be better? No. Because as you all know life happens AND we're cruising into the holiday season. Am I gonna do my VERY best to keep up with my blogging even with everything going on? Yes. I am because my children have told me I'm being slack, I have a lot of stuff going on that I can blog about AND it's the holiday season and who doesn't have things to say about holidays? So stick with me, I'm trying.....really....and I'll do my best to keep up. I may even talk about things that have happened in the past few months that I haven't blogged about. But until then here is a list of all the fun, exciting wonderful and wacky stuff you may have missed.
- The girls loved their "Camp Grandy and Grammy" trip to New York City
- I was an assistant coach for Hayden's cheer squad
- I've officially changed my schedule so I'm only working 3 days a week. Of course that is a 16 hour day, a 12 hour day and a 6 hour day; but it is still only 3 days a week.
- Hayden made the all state honors chorus
- Hayden made the million word reading level
- I read and finished all the Harry Potter books
- Hayden started reading the Harry Potter books, has fallen in love with them and has now seen all the movies
- Belle is finishing the Percy Jackson series but has fallen in love with the Harry Potter movies herself.
- Andy is refusing to see the Harry Potter movies until he reads the books (insert raucous laughter here)
- We placed a bid on a house and didn't get it....for the second time.
- I've lost almost 50 pounds!! Can I get a Woot woot?!?!?!
- Mean people make comments on FB that make me re-realize that mean people suck.
- My college football team is rocking this year and there is a whole lot of controversy and what-not, including people making my children cry about it (WTH?!?!?). WAR EAGLE!!!

I think that is everything that leads us to this point. I want to try to keep up better. I NEED to keep up better. I'm GOING to keep up better....I hope. I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. I know we did. I am so thankful for my husband, my girls, my family and my friends. In general I am thankful for my life; as wacky and wild as it is, it is indeed wonderful and I am blessed.

Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!!!

So the last time the hub and I went on a vacay sans kids was, well before we had kids. Yes folks that's right 10 years ago was our last adult vacay.

Enter the hub's yearly conference....in Vegas.

After setting the kids up with the Double G's for the weekend, I scheduled my flight out to meet the hub in Vegas!!! And tomorrow is the day!! I've never been to Vegas and I'm not really one to gamble but the chance to have 3 whole days to ourselves is too good to pass up!!

As for the kids. Well I'm not too worried about them. The Double G's, better known as Grammy and Grandy have this amazing weekend planned for the girls: The Double G Magical Mystery Camp. They haven't told the girls a thing about what they're doing. They've given them clues as to what to pack and clues as to what they might be doing. The girls are over the moon excited so this weekend is definitely a win-win for everyone!

So Viva Las Vegas!! And Viva DGMMC!!

A couple of things

These two things are soooo totally unrelated but here goes!

First of all I just finished the Harry Potter series. I never quite understood all the hype....I do now! Great writing, great stories. They pull you in! I couldn't put them down and was actually sad when they ended. How sad is it that the past two series of books that I've thoroughly enjoyed (HP and the Percy Jackson series) were read because I wanted to read them "with" Hayden? How much sadder is it that she hasn't read them yet and I want her to read them so that I (I mean WE) can see the movies?

Second, I have to say that A/C is one of the greatest inventions known to man. I really don't think I'm exaggerating when I say this. I don't think you fully appreciate it until YOUR SYSTEM DIES!! That's right; just about this same time last year we replaced the one on the main floor and now....well now it is about 90 degrees upstairs and the A/C guy is on his way here (2nd one for the day) to give us an estimate to REPLACE it! Arrrrggggghhhh!! Needless to say since it is about the average temp of the surface of the sun upstairs the girls can't sleep up there. Where are they sleeping you ask? In MY king size bed. And where are the hub and I sleeping you ask? In the QUEEN size bed in the basement! Double Arrrrggggghhhhh!!!

Dear Lord, please let the Coolray guy fix the A/C ASAP so I can sleep in my own bed before I have to kick the hub to the floor cause he hogs the bed. Amen. ;-)

School's out for summer......

WHOO HOO!!! Things are now finally starting to slow down. Thank goodness!!! The girls are complaining that they are bored (already; after only 2 days) but I can't help but want to relax for a little bit!! So here's a quick run down of what's been happening the past month:
-I celebrated my 9th Mother's Day

-Andy and I celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary; including dinner out by ourselves.
-We found a new baby sitter who our girls absolutely LOVE! This has been a wonderful find and she is such a great kid which makes it even better! This may not sound like a big deal to you BUT considering she is only the 2nd person besides family or close friends to watch the girls it's a HUGE deal to us!!

-I celebrated my 40th birthday with a surprise bday lunch with the girls,dinner with my parents, Andy and the girls and a surprise bday party with a bunch of my friends.

What a great way to celebrate turning 40!!

-After 4 years of being the PTO President I turned over the PTO Presidency to the incoming President. I'm not going to lie it was hard and sad but it's getting better.

-We had 2 field days, a 4th grade talent show, an Arts and Tech night, a piano recital and cheerleading fitting day.

-Hayden was on the All A Honor Roll and also received the 4th grade Technology Award. Whoo hoo!! She is now officially a 5th grader. Her class put on their end of year play for the parents. You can read about it on her blog, Hayden's Highly Hilarious Hijinks.

-Isabelle was on the All A Honor Roll and is now an official 2nd grader. This means that for 1 brief year (until the 1 year it will again happen in high school) my 2 girls will be in the same school. This should be interesting!

-In addition I've been walking/running lots of miles, have tried Zoomba (loved it!) and a couple other workout classes AND I've lost a total of 25.6 pounds!!

Now it's time to do all the things that I haven't had time to do for the past month and fun, fun, fun. There will be some cleaning and purging but for the most part I want to be on the dock, in the sun playing with the girls. I want friends to come play. I want to go on some trips.
So bring on the summer!! Cause I'm soooo ready!! Happy Summer everybody! I hope you have a great one!!

And the verdict is....

I tried Pilates this morning. The balance queen I am not. I'm not even the balance princess. More like the balance jester! There were only 2 major falls off the ball. I'm talking fall totally off the ball and have the ball roll across the room. Minor falls there were more of. A.lot.more. Other than that it was good. I feel like it could definitely strengthen my core, make me stronger and more balanced.....with some time.

The only thing about it was that I felt like I needed to do an aerobic exercise as well; something to get my heart rate up. Soooooo after an hour of Pilates I did a 2.2 mile walk.

Heart rate up: check. Aerobic activity: check.

Feeling it all over after both activities: priceless.

This should be interesting....

I'm going to be trying Pilates in the morning.

I was told to bring one of those giant balls to balance on.

Yeah, this should be really interesting!

SU-Weet

Hot diggity; dog diggity!!

21 total pounds down!!

4 pant sizes down!!

Back up to 5.5 miles (walking at this point but can running again be far behind?!?!)!!

Those are definitely numbers I can deal with!!!

Can I get a woot woot!!