Our newest additions

This last Saturday, Heidi and Amy's school had their carnival. We went and supported it and came back with 3 new pets. How hard are goldfish?? Well, we have already lost one. Thank heavens they are cheap to replace. I love this pictures because you can't see Kelly expect through the bag!! That cute little tummy! The fun part about the fish is that Alex LOVES them. As soon as he wakes up, he says, fsssshh, well something like that LOL!! Here is Brighter (Heidi's), Bisor (kelly's name), and Goldie (Amy's now dead one).

New Goal

At the beginning of the summer I was getting fed up with my lack of energy, fitness level and over all state of my body!! I know from past experiences, and from my education, that I needed to get going. When I was younger I would exercise all the time. Not in a conventional way though. I played sports, lots of sports, and I played them quite a few times during the week. Because of this, I never really stuck to running everyday, joining a gym or even videos at home. I did pretty good at staying fit and trim, and it was nice. I liked that way of exercising. It was fun. Well, I got married, had 4 kids and got old. UGH!! I now have to reshape my way of thinking about exercise. I am not able to go out and play volleyball and basketball like I used to. First of all, I always played with boys. Now that I am married, it is more of a challenge. It feels weird. Plus, boys are weird about that too. So, it's just weird. Second, I don't know that many people that play on a weekly basis right now. Lastly, I am so out of shape, I wouldn't want to make a joke of myself as I pant down the court. I know how important it is, heavens, I studied it for 4 years. I feel that I do okay eating wise, okay, I do need to improve there somewhat, but not too much. I just am LAZY.

Well, I was talking with a good friend of mine (Kristin) that had just finished a half marathon this last spring, and I thought, heck I could do that. It will kick my tail, but I can do that. This way I have a goal. I need goals to get things done. The only problem with me and goals, I procrastinate. Yep, I am a GREAT procrastinator. I still keep the goal in mind, but it just takes me a while to get there, HAHAHA!! Well, my goal is to run a half marathon sometime next spring, for my mom. My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer about 5 years ago. It was a very upsetting time for me and my family. I don't think to many people knew about it, it was something that we just dealt with and my mother, thank heavens got better with surgery and radiation. They caught it in time to do something about it, and it was a fluke they caught it. Divine intervention was the only reason for this, I know that to but true. But, breast cancer is something that runs in our family. It is something that I have to think about for my own history and my daughters. So what better goal then to run for a good cause. So, the great procrastinator has finally taken her first steps towards her goal, ummm, just 4 months later then I wanted to, and ran this morning. It felt good, and it was not as hard as I thought it would be. The true test is to keep going and going and going. Thus this blog entry. I need to be checked up on, for my own laziness. I need to do this, and I need to get it finished. I have 9 months to do it. I will blog about my progress so that I can journal my ups downs and hopefully the accomplishment. I have everything in place, the only thing stopping it is me.

Only one more to go!!!

I feel like I have not posted too much lately about this beautiful little girl. She is truly an amazing kid, and I have not given her props for a huge accomplishment that she has performed lately. SHE IS NOW POTTY TRAINED!!! I only have one child left that is in diapers. It feels awesome, and boy, has it saved us some cash, yippee!! She was so good at it too. When we went school clothes shopping for the big girls, she came with us and wanted to buy something too. So, Eric's mom said that she would buy her big girl undies if she would use them. Oh, YES, she said. I will!! She picked out her favorite person of all time, Elmo, for her undies. We started her the day that school started, big steps for everyone that day, and she did so well. Of course there has been some accidents, but not really huge ones. She is even staying dry through the night too, she has had only two accidents at night. She is truly getting so big.

She is so much fun too. Right now she is my little shadow when her sisters are at school and I am actually enjoying it. She has a lot to tell me, she helps me out around the house when she wants too :), she loves, loves her little brother. The nice thing is, Alex loves her too. She tells me all the time that he is her baby, not mommy's. So sweet. I have to celebrate Kelly too, she is pretty awesome.

Sometimes these two are the worst of enemies, then the best of friends. But, they do love each other.

She is just a sweetheart when she wants to be.

She has the best smile. I just can never seem to get it on camera. This one is the closest.