Inspire Me Healthy

Okay, it's that time again....it's the weekly healthy check-in!

I'm totally not lying when I say that I didn't want to get up and do Insanity Wednesday morning, but I kept thinking, no way! I will have to admit on my blog that I didn't follow thru and I don't want to be a loser in the blogosphere.

Now that's motivation.

But then I skipped this morning...you win some, you lose some.

So, I'm on my second week of Insanity. It still kills. I regret to inform you that I also skipped Tuesday morning. I would like to blame it on the fact that I slept through 3 {THREE} alarm clocks and 2 different texts, but obviously I could have done it Tuesday night and I didn't.

I haven't lost any weight yet. It's so frustrating. But I have known all along that eating is my weakness. I like to blame this on my {I eat every 3 hours} husband, but it's more my fault for having no willpower and for loving all things sugar.

So, I am taking control!! Everyone always says planning is key so that's what I did last night. I planned out my lunch and snacks. And then I made cookies for my kids and husband and DIDN'T EAT ONE. I ate greek yogurt instead. Now that's crazy folks. {please take notes, cause it might now happen again.}

All in all, I'm happy with my progress this week. Not {I can't believe I lost so much weight} happy, obviously, but I am proud that I haven't given up. Lord knows it took me more than a couple of weeks to get all this weight on me, so it's gonna take awhile to get it off.

Have you tried to follow my blog? Check out what I realized the other day........

Now go check out the other blogs that linked up and Get Inspired!!!

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I Think I Feel Gray Hair Growing

My kids are now 4th graders.

They are 9 going on 16.

This means I have exactly 9 more years until I can kick them out. Kidding.

The worst part about back to school time is the traffic in the mornings. We have to go through 1 school's traffic to get to our school, then get through the traffic in the pickup line. Luckily we live about 6 minutes from the school, last year we lived about 45. I'm not complaining.

The girls were super excited.

I get the mom of the year award for realizing last night that their uniform shirts from last year don't really still fit them. They have a combined total of two shirts. Awesome. Looks like I'm going to be doing a lot of laundry.

The first day is always very tiring. Kate was already yawning during pictures.

If she is yawning like this already, I can't even imagine what she is going to do when she sees the homework load for a 4th grader.

My kids hate pictues. Actually, maybe I should say my kids HATE pictures. I blame this on my Instagram obsession, and maybe my blogging. Either way, it's hard to get good pics. Not to mention they were trying to watch TV over my shoulder while I was taking pics. {Something about "18 Kids & Counting" that you just can't stop watching.}

FH was just home from work and I made him get in the pictures too. You would never know he had been up for over 24 hours. Something about that man, he never gets grumpy when he hasn't slept. I'm a total different story.

Then we had to move outside to take pics. You can never get too many. I mean you only start 4th grade once {cause if you fail a grade, Momma won't be happy enough next year to take more pics}

Check out those new tennis shoes! Kate made me make sure that I got her new shoes in the pic. She is pretty proud of them as you can see them both turning their foot a little so you can see them. Wonder at what age it is that girls learn to love shoes? It's obviously pretty early.

The girls were super excited that their BFF is going to their school with them this year. Her mom and I are BFF and we went to this school many {MANY} years earlier. So glad they finally get to all three go together, but I am also scared for our sanity. These three are T-R-O-U-B-L-E when they are together.

I can see many many sporting events in our future with us moms embarassing them! That's what we are here for though, right?

Today marks a big day in our lives. I feel like every time they move up a grade, they are slipping away. I know it won't be long before I am just Mom and not the coolest person they know. Enjoy it while it lasts, pretty soon they will be wanting to ride to school with some boy!

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I'm Such a Moron

Okay, so all this time, I've been thinking I'm a loser because I have no blog followers really. I mean, I network. I follow at least 1,257,422 different blogs and I usually comment on most of them. I feel like I know these bloggers but they know nothing about me....I have 4 puny followers. Now, did the fact that my BFF was not a fan of mine throw up any red flags for me? Umm no, I just thought she read it all the time or something, I don't know! So, finally, I had her fix something on my blog {cause that's what friends do} and she realized that there was no link for people to follow my blog!

So, the moral of the story is....I'm not a loser. I actually can make bloggy friends and I can {hopefully} get more than 4 followers.....I'm just a moron when it comes to technical stuff. Hallelujah!!

Love my new blog look?? The BFF did that as well. She's quite crafty, and I don't just mean compared to me. #everyoneiscraftierthanme Pin It Now!

Postcard Pretties

I am so excited to join in on this fun link up idea! It will be great fun to switch up postcards with someone I don't know "in real life"...now I just have to figure out where I can buy a postcard nowadays.....

Follow the link to join in!



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Weekend Update

Oh what a great weekend we had! It was our last weekend before school starts back so we had to take advantage of it!

I can't really remember what we did Friday night, so I'm going to start with Saturday. I mean, Friday was a really long time ago, don't you think?!

Saturday morning, I did my Insanity workout. Well, actually, Alex woke me up at 8AM (yay for sleeping in!), and asked me if I was ready to do my workout. #thanksfortheguilttripkid She even already had on her workout clothes! So I told her I would do it eventually but I wasn't ready yet. She settled for putting a different workout DVD on in her room so she could work out. Did I mention she told me that she wants to lose 50 lbs?! She currently weights less than 70 or something. I'm not positive but I'm thinking that might be a pretty extreme goal. So when I went to go take a peak at her working out {i.e. take a picture for Instagram}, she was working out and Kate was sitting there watching. Kate said she wanted to do the video too but Alex said that she didn't have on the right clothes.....poor Kate! After that guilt trip, I did Insanity. The only thing that kept me motivated was knowing that Sunday was my rest day!!!! Then, after that hour workout, I went out to cut the grass......that was killer. I spent 1 1/2 hours cutting. Now that's a workout! We then went to eat and do a little shopping......and we played this game at the restraunt (obviously we were eating at a classy restaraunt) and FH won a DSi! How is that even possible?? Alex got her pictures put up on the machine for winning (because I guess FH didn't want his pic up, I totally would have!). Turns out the box was empty and you have to mail it in, so it will be awhile before we get our DSi, but it was free so that's all that matters!!!

Alex also tried sushi for the first time! She loved it....SHOCKER. This kid eats everything. She gets it from her Dad because I am super picky. Thank goodness she has FH to take her to eat food like that or she would never get to eat it with me!

We were suppose to go to a friend's surprise 30th birthday party Saturday night, but I pulled something in my neck so I was not moving for a good two hours. I was sooooo sad that we missed it! But I knew that I had to rest some or my neck would be killing me. Combine a sore neck with me going non-stop with working out and cutting grass for 3 hours and yeah, it just wasn't happening.

We felt bad because the girls had cute outfits all ready to go to the party. So, we told them to get dressed up cute and we would go to dinner. We went to eat at a local burger joint......again, classy. The girls looked so cute in their new dresses. They also look way too old...

9 going on 16. So true!

So, there are lots of games at the burger joint. We obviously like to stay entertained while we are waiting on our food. Well, there was one of those stuffed animal claw machines, and one animal had a $20 bill attached to it. I tried to get it, failed. FH tried to get it, failed. Kate tried, and suddently the entire place heard screams of two little girls. One of those little girls was Kate, because she got the $20 prize. The other little girl scream was none other than my husband. He was pretty excited for Kate. I was so embarassed.

Please note the fake smile. She was really sick of me taking pics by then!

Saturday night was finished off with some TV. FH and I were so excited to catch up on our DVR....and we were so mad to find out that every single show that we had recorded were re-runs! Dang Olympics! {Please note, I love the Olympics, I'm just equally obsessed with all my normally programed shows.}

Sunday, we went to church. And then shopped. And shopped. And shopped. It was fun! FH needed a new wardrobe so we bought him about 4,362 new polos and some new tennis shoes. The girls got a few items of clothes and some new tennis shoes. Their tennis shoes are a women's size 6! Oh, I had mixed feelings about this. Part of me was super stoked thinking about how in a few years, we will wear the same size so I will have a million pairs of shoes to wear share with them. The other part of me was in denial. How are my babies in women's shoe size?!?! Not. Even. Cool.

We ended Sunday with a stop by Target so that I wouldn't feel left out on the shopping extravaganza. And then home to watch {my all time favorite obsession} Big Brother!!

Whew, that was a long weekend and a super long post!!! Check out some other weekend updates at the link below.

Now bring on Monday. Ready or not, here it comes.


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Smell the Roses

What a cute link up idea thanks to Jessica at Lovely Little Things blog. I KNOW that I need to take time to smell the roses so I like the idea of this link up. Today's task is to write a letter to yourself in five years. Here goes nothing.

Dear 35 year old YOUNG self,
You aren't really that old. I mean, just 5 years ago, you were turning 30. 30 is the new 20, in case you haven't heard. I'm sure you don't have gray hair, at least none that you can't see because I'm guess you are still highlighting it blonde anyways.

I hope you are content with life. Above all things, this is what I wish. I hope that you have learned to be comfortable in your own skin. I hope that you don't judge yourself so harshly and that you have finally mastered the eating healthy part of life, still keeping up with your workouts.

I hope you have a baby, because we both know that 35 is the cutoff for this. We don't need no old mommas around here!

I hope you are working hard and enjoying life. I hope you are spending lots of time with your husband and kids, yet leading a successful career. I hope you still appreciate every time your husband does something thoughtful for you, he loves you more than anything.

Never ever forget to stop and smell the roses. There are lots of them around you.

Love,
Your Younger (but I'm sure not hotter) Self

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All Aboard the Mommy Train

Guess who got a new car?? That's not a Lamborghini or the color orange?? THIS GIRL! We drove around looking at cars for awhile Wednesday night. We saw lots that we liked, a few that we loved, but only one that we bought. It took forever....but we drove it home just in time for FH to turn right back around and head to work. #nightshiftproblems

{can we please stop and notice that this is two blog posts in one day?! my fans my husband is going to be so excited!}

ok back to the new car. It was love at first sight. I'm not sure if any of you have ever experienced this, but it does exist. With cars, at least.

So, we took it for a test drive. The owner just gave us the keys and sent us on our way. He didn't ride with us or anything. Which was pretty trusting. He didn't even know our name. FH said that we left our car there so he obviously knew that we weren't going to take off......pshhhhhtttt! that's the car that has NO AIR CONDITIONING. Yep, you read that right. The day we went to look at new cars, the air went out. In memphis. Did I mention that it was at least 982 degrees outside? No biggs. So yeah, that man should have known that if it weren't for my guilty conscience that we could have easily high tailed it out of there. But my momma taught me better unfortunately. Since it was only the 4 of us in the car, we didn't have to watch what we said. I immediatly said "this is my car!" and the girls started talking about how much they loved it. We told them not to mention that when we got back. Don't let him know how much we love it because we want a good deal. "ok, ok Mom, WE KNOW!" {insert whiny I-know-everything-and-you-know-nothing 9 year old voices here}.....so we get out of the car and what happens?

Kate walks right up to the man and goes: "We don't like it, WE LOVE IT!"

Good job Kate, thanks for using that poker face. Well done.

Meet Tori. The newest member of our family.

She's got everything you need. The look of a car and a SUV in one. The inside of a minivan. The room for a new baby {eventually}.

The girls love the inside since there is so much room.

Although they both have a really tough decision on every ride....deciding which seat to pick. It's a tough life being 9.

And the inside driver area is pretty nice too....

Please note FH's camo shorts. I'm trying to make him country.

So there you have it, the StYoungs are now riding in style! And there will be no fast food eating in this car, so don't even think about it mini-mes!
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