I'm whooped

After yesterdays "robotic workout", my muscles are a little bit sore... not too bad. Today I went back and the workout was a little bit harder for me to do since my muscles were feeling it already. I tanned afterwards so that when I am a skinny mini I will also be a hot tanned goddess!! ;) Then I got a wild hair up my butt this afternoon to go ahead and walk the trail at the park. I walked so fast and hard that I was only able to walk about 1 1/2 miles, but that was better than nothing.

I am really anxious to see if there will be a difference when I get on the scales at WW Thursday. I sure hope so. I also got measured today at Tan and Tone. After they take a measurement they will measure from that spot down to the ground so that when the measure next time they can be sure to take the measurements on the same exact spot. I am pretty disgusted by what today's measurements were, but hopefully there will be a nice difference with that soon too!

Tagged again...

Kristin tagged me!
She totally took this off of Heidi Swapp's Blog - What better person to steal from, right?!?!

Four jobs you’ve had in your life:
The Cutting Edge... my dads computer store. I built and repaired computers
Medex Home Health... Administrative Assistant/Office Manager.. I was in charge of it all!!!
Hospice of Central Oklahoma (HOCO) Same title as above... I loved both of these jobs!!!
Urocor... Hated that job, actually loved what I did, but I was doing a higher ranked job and getting paid for the lower one, ughhhh. And the boss, that was NEVER in the office was a b*tch when she was there!

Four movies you would watch over and over:
8 Seconds
Pure Country
Dirty Dancing
Stepmom

Four places you have lived:
Oklahoma
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Texas
(and back to Oklahoma)

Four TV shows you love to watch:
Friends
ER
CSI
CMT videos

Four websites you visit daily:
Reading my daily blogs
Just 4 Keeps
Two Peas In A Bucket
Ebay

Four of your favorite foods:
Chicken Enchiladas
STEAK
Manicotti
Chicken Fettucini Alfredo

Four bloggers you are tagging:
Erin
Sasha
Shanna
Steph

I am so motivated

Not only have I been doing Weight Watchers for 3 weeks now ( and losing), but I also joined Tan and Tone today. I am so ready to lose this weight! I can tell that I have just had a workout and I am sure that as I sit around I will be able to tell even more later!

I can't wait for the new me!

TAGGED

Kristin and Steph tagged me! I am feeling the love....

The rules for this particular tagging are as follows: Remove the blog name in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add yourself to the bottom slot.

Dawn
KKT
Steph and Kristin (since I was tagged by both)
Christina

Then you get to select five people to pass the love on to:
Erin(Sparkly)
Gretchen
Sasha
Erin K
Natalie

Here are the questions.

What were you doing 10 years ago?
I was anticipating the birth of my first child and Working for my dad at his computer store.

What were you doing 1 year ago?
Anticipating the birth of my 5th son and playing mommy and wife.

Five snacks you enjoy (in no particular order, as all snacks are created equal)
Triscuits with whipped cream cheese
Pretzels
Tortilla chips (with or without salsa)
Fruit
Crackers with Shrimp dip (Thanks Nat!)

Five songs to which you KNOW all the lyrics
How about nearly anything country or a nursery rhyme... lol

Five things you would do if you were a millionaire
Retire my parents and inlaws.
Buy houses for my family and my siblings.
Go shopping until I couldn't stand it anymore.
Donate to needy charities
Put money aside for each of my children to make it through college and be financially secure if need be in the future.
All of this could only happen if I got lucky enough to win the PowerBall though. That sucker is up there in money right now.

Five bad habits
Spending money.
Spending too much time on the computer
Major procrastinator!
Too hard on myself.
Forgetting everything.

Five things you like doing
Reading.
Taking pictures.
Scrapping.
Playing with my kids.
Spending time with my husband.

Five things you would never wear, buy, or get again
Store brand or cheap toys. They just aren't worth it and don't last in this house.
Veggie burger from BK. Stupid me didn't realize it was a vegitarian burger... Ewww
Cinnamon Roll Cappucinno... Yuckkkk
I am sure that there is much more, but I can't think of anything else at the very moment.

Five favorite toys
Digital Rebel XT
Cell Phone
Computer
Scrapbook schtuff
IPod. I don't have one, but that will be my next toy.

First time you got kissed: How was it?
That is all it was, was a first kiss. I had a crush on this boy that was a year older than me. He was in High School and I was in Junior High. My friend and I walked from our neighborhood to his and hung out in front of his house. Before we walked back, he brought me to the side of the house and kissed me. I wish now that it had been with someone more special. But I will never forget 'ole Craig Burney now.

First time you drove a car: What kind of car?
My own car? A 90something geo prizm, red. This was in 1994 I believe.

First time you scrapbooked: When you look at your page do you love it?
The first time I scrapbooked was at my friend Natalie's house. You should see the pages we came up with. After that we went to a Creative Memories weekend thingy and learned all the basics to it! Those pages still weren't all that great though.

First time you went on a date:
Believe it or not, I never went on an actual real date until I got married.

First time you fell in love: How did you know?
I just knew.

First time you cooked for someone: Was it yummy? What did you make?
Oh wow.. I have cooked so many times since then, I don't recall, but I am sure it was absolutely delicious.

First time you got on a plane: Where did you go Were you scared?
The first time was probably when I was about 4 or maybe 5 and I believe we were coming to Oklahoma from Connecticut. By myself? would have been when I was 13 and my Uncle paid for me to stay in Rhode Island an extra week while my parents and siblings drove home. That was a big big thing for me. I thought I was pretty damn grown up. It wasn't too scarey though, there was an attendant that made sure I got where I needed to go. I felt pretty safe.

First time you shaved your legs: Did you cut yourself?
Wow, I don't even remember this, but I don't think that I cut. I don't usually cut when shaving!

First time you put on make up: Looking back how did you do? Did you look good or like a clown?
I wasn't allowed to look like a clown, it had to be pretty subtle. Now, getting older and experimenting with MORE makeup... Yup, probably clownish.

First time you moved out of your home: Was it an apartment, house, etc?
Townhouse with 2 roommates.

Weight Loss

I can't believe that I have not posted about this yet. I am quite excited actually! I kept thinking that my clothes were feeling a little looser, but I kept telling myself "Shut Up Christina... Don't say a word! "

I got on the scale yesterday and in a weeks time I have lost 5lbs 13ozs!!!

YAY!!! Now to just keep it up... I have a lot more to keep losing, but if I can lose like that every week, It won't be long until I am down to my goal weight!

And another that I thought was cute....

My other nephew ;)

My nephew

Man, I can't wait until my PhotoShop Classroom in a Book gets here. These pictures could definitely look better with that added touch. I'll get it soon enough though!

A day with Nana....

Nana played hookie from work today so we went over and did a little visiting and shopping. Jonathan was just having a ball with Nana. Zachary of course was being ornery little zachary but decided that he needed to go ahead and pop his head in for a photo op too.

Duck, Duck, Goose

Just a few pictures of the ducks at the park.

Beautiful FREEZING day at the park....

So, I get the bright idea to go to the park one morning while the older boys are at school. Amazingly Don agreed! When we actually go outside though, it was Freezing and so Windy! We stayed long enough for Don and Sadie to get some playing in and then we headed out. Here are some of the pictures I took!

Chicken Tortilla Soup

Yummm... Along with my new menu planning weekly we are also trying out new recipes. Thursday nights dinner was Chicken Tortilla Soup. It was really a lot better than I expected it to be. Don absolutely loved it, Noah loved it, Tyler tolerated it, and Zachary & Nicolas refused to even eat it. We crushed up tortilla chips in the bowl first and then piled on the soup with a dallop of sour cream and salsa. Here is the recipe....

Chicken Tortilla Soup

1can Cream of Chicken soup

1can Fiesta Nacho Cheese Soup

2 soup cans milk

1can (4oz) chopped green chilies

2 chicken breasts cooked and diced

Tortilla chips

sour cream (optional)

salsa (optional)

Directions...... Mix soups, milk, chills and chicken in slow cooker. Cover and cook on low 5 - 6 hours. Place a few tortilla chips in each serving bowl. Ladle hot soup over chips. Serve immediately..

Sour cream and Salsa can be dalloped on top of soup if desired.

Photography Class

So, photography class is Wednesday. Have I actually sat down to do my weekly assignment? Of course not! I so need to get on the ball. I have had no problem taking my camera out and doing other things with it, but not actually what I HAVE to do with it.

Somebody kick my rear into gear!

Weekly Dinner Menu

I don't know why I didn't think of doing this before. I saw a thread posted on Two Peas about what was on everyones weekly menu. I got to thinking that this might actually be something to make my life easier. Lord knows I can use some added simplicity.

So I sat down and made a menu for the week along with ingredients for each meal and recipes if needed. Today was so easy, I went in to the kitchen simply grabbed all the items for my meal and prepared it ahead of time. Because it was so easy, I even got my kitchen cleaned up after dinner and Dessert made. Woohoo... Another great thing about menu planning is that when I am planning meals I can find new ideas for dinner and new recipes.

Now too see how well I can continue this and stick to it.

My scale was soooo wrong

We all know that I am on this major kick to lose some major weight. I bought a new WW scale to weigh myself a few weeks ago. I was so upset by the weight it told me. Don weighed himself and he was even a bit shocked. Well over the weekend the scale died. I guess the batteries that were in it weren't really lifetime batteries like it stated. Don came home with some new batteries for it tonight and we all weighed ourselves. I am happy to say that it was wrong by about 28lbs. What a relief that was. Now I don't have quite as much to lose to get to my goal weight.

Photo Tile Picture

I am trying to decide which of these pictures I want to use on a photo tile if any of them. Any suggestions?





Picture 1




Picture 2




Picture 3

My honey.....

Weight Watchers

I was going to head to Weight Watchers today to check out a meeting, but low and behold, they only have early morning meetings on Saturday, none on Sunday. So I suppose I will be heading that way Monday late afternoon or Tuesday Early morning. Ah Well....

I have been trying very hard since the first of the year to watch what I am eating. I have been eating things like yogurt with granola, vegetables, or crackers for a snack. I have been eating salads more often, although I seem to have a hard time digesting them for some reason. I have also tried to cut out pop. I have not completely cut it out of my diet, but I have sure cut back tremendously on it.

As for portions, I know I eat a much larger portion than I should, heck, so does most of the US. I have been trying very hard to eat less and keeping in the back of my head the thought that my brain will let me know in 20 minutes that I full so go ahead and stop now!

It's going to be tough and take a lot of work on my part, but I am up for it! I want a happier healthier me for 2006!

House hunting

Well, it has been since August that we have house hunted. We had found the perfect house for us and then the deal fell through. We were heart broken. After that we kind of just chilled for a while.

After some of the more recent events of things taking place in our neighborhood we decided that we will not be waiting until after the school year to find a new home. I have been looking at houses online and have just not found anything that jumps out at me yet. I think that I am comparing everything to "the house we almost had" and that is making it quite difficult. I have not contacted my realtor yet because we would rather have our broker give us the 100% approval go ahead first so that nothing will pop up on our end to stop us.

I really can't wait to move. All the houses that we are looking at will have at least one more bedroom, possibly 2 living areas and usually they have a separate dining room. The number 1 thing is that we will be moving from a almost 1100 sq ft house to a house anywhere between 1800 - 2300 sq ft home! That is a huge difference. The school districts where we are living are absolutely wonderful! This will be a wonderful thing all around!

It is kind of scary purchasing a home. We will be spending a bit more money on a house then we are now, but we obviously have to for what we are wanting/needing. I am going to have to sit down and do a budget and learn to stick to it.

I will try to post about our home buying journey. Hopefully we will start looking at houses next week. I am kind of scared to fall in love with another house and make an offer on it though. I don't want to lose another one, but I know that all things happen for a reason!