My Boys

Just a few pics to share of my boys. July 4th, Brytan ran in the Green Street Mile which is a race held every July 4th in Tupelo. This was his first time to run it and he won 2nd in his age division. I am so proud of him and I hope this sparks his running even more.
On another note Tucker is 4 months old! Time just flies by. He will be grown before I know it. We tried cereal for the first time. He didn't act like he hated, but he spit half of it back out because he hasn't learned how to work his mouth with a spoon yet. He went swimming for the first time today and it was so precious. He loved it, we stayed out there about 2 hrs without him crying any except for when my fingernail and his nose accidently collided and it scratched him. Anyhoo here are some pics.

Man how time flies!!

It is crazy how fast time flies with these children. Tucker is getting so much more personality these days, and is really starting to get to that fun stage where he is laughing and smiling and discovering the world. He will be 4 months old on the 8th!!.Here are 2 recent pictures of him. I just think he is the cutest thing ever!! But I could be a little biased.

Keeping the roads and everything else hot

I am glad to be home tonight. Are there ever enough hours in the day? I left the house at 0930 this morning and didn't come back until 9:30 tonight. In that amount of time I went to a craft day at church where we scrapbooked, and learned about photography basics by watching a presentation by my MIL, ate lunch, attended a baseball game, got a dead car battery, got jumped off, bought new battery which took 20min for it to work right,in the 94 degree heat, and went to a housewarming party/guitar hero playing party. Man what a butt long sentence. Anyhoo, I am tired after all that. Tomorrow my eldest son is getting Baptized at church, and then we are off to the Columbus Air Force base to see the air show. It should be another fun but tiring day. I am getting ready for a day when we have absolutely nothing to do. On another note, I've been enjoying starting to work out again and starting slowly. I'm not so sore I can't walk and I even had fun. My eating still has a lot to improve. Anyway. Here are some recent pics of the chilren.






Melting

Week 1 recap

Well I made it through the first week of my new diet without completely starving to death. There were moments though when I thought I could have eaten my couch cushions. I did manage to add a lot more veggies into my diet . I also started back running. I am doing the Couch to 5K plan. It is really frustrating to know how fast you can lose fitness if you quit. My goal this time is not to quit. I also managed to work arms, legs and abs this week. Yay. Maybe I can keep it up. On another note today is Mother's day and I woke up to this courtesy of Brytan ........


complete with desert. Happy Mother's Day to all.

174!!!

That's right, it's in type now. 174lbs. That is what I currently weigh and for me that sucks. I weighed 164 at 9 mos pregnant with my first child. Granted I just had a baby 7 wks ago, but I initially lost a lot of weight and now I'm stuck. I gained way more than I wanted to with this pregnancy.I had even started back running a couple of weeks ago and of course in my usual style I tried to do too much too fast and my knees were killing me so I had to take a break. So now I'm starting fresh and gonna take my running SUPER slow and start back with walking, then gradually start back . I am going to try to start eating healthier, just not gonna watch my calories strictly. Due to the fact I cook a lot it is not easy to figure out calorie counts for things like that. So I'm gonna try to increase my veggies, decrease fats, eat good breads, water, water, water. I also am gonna have to learn to work in my workouts with a 7 week old that is not always cooperative. We'll see how it goes, I gotta do something. I can't fit back into my old clothes, and maternity are a lil big. I refuse to go out and buy a bunch of clothes to fit me now when this is not the weight I want to be at. I think I'll post my weekly weights on the sidebar as sort of my journal. Later

Lot's of new things

It's been a while since I've blogged. I've been quite busy around here with baby Tucker. We had him on March 8th. We had decided not to find out whether we were having a boy or a girl until delivery. I was very surprised. Everyone that I knew thought I was having a girl. We thought it so much it almost seemed that it was fact. I even have girl clothing hanging in his closet. He was a boy though, and he couldn't be more perfect . He weighed 7lbs 3 oz. 19.5 inches long. Of course we had to get lots of pics taken courtesy of my personal photographer/wonderful mother in law. Here are a few of them.









photos by bridgetsharpphotography.com

2009

I haven't blogged in a long time which is something that I'd definitely like to change in 2010. Here's my year in review.

Spring Break we went to Disney World










In May we went to the Bahamas





Why take 2 big trips so close together? Because we had plans...



20wks..



24wks...



28wks...



We took 2 trips because we planned on getting pregnant and knew it would be a while before we could do something like that again. Brytan was at a great age to take to Disney and we never got to take an "official" honeymoon so off we went. We are definitely looking forward to 2010 as we will be having big things happening.

It's been a while...

I've not been a very good blogger. I don't know that anyone even reads this, but if they do I have let them down. I've been busy with life and just haven't had the mood to write strike me. My running has been horrible. I am basically having to start all over at it and run 1 mile at a time due to some shin splints/muscle strain, whatever. This makes me mad being that about a month ago I could run 5 miles without stopping. Oh well. I am going to rededicate myself to my running, my blogging and maybe that will hold me accountable and I'll actually succeed. I also am on a quest to become more organized so that i get more things done around here. We will see.

Busy Busy Busy

Been really busy lately. and will be for a while. I am finally back on the running wagon. I plan to run the Gumtree and the Coca Cola Classic 10 k's this year. I think I've finally found my problems with my running why I hurt. It's all in the form which now I am trying to correct. DUH, It took almost a year of running to figure that out. Sometimes the simplest things get ya. Anyway I'm off to go lay on the couch for a while.

All things Xbox

It's official. I'm hooked. We got xbox 360 and Guitar Hero World Tour for christmas and I'm totally hooked. I even signed up for xbox live and now I have a whole new obsession. I have only played 2 people online so far. One a friend from work and another person it matched me with that bailed. Apparantly if you are not good no one wants to play with you. That's ok though b/c I'm getting there. I do like the online experience though. I'm already on the hunt for a new game to play. I think most games are made with guys in mind. I'm not real crazy about shoot em up games. I'll find something. Later

Catchin up

Haven't posted in a long time, not that many folks read this anyway. I guess blogging is just another one of my hobbies that I have ADD with. I have so many interests in my life that I will get in to for a while, buy all this stuff, get completely gung ho in it for weeks, maybe months, and then all the sudden something else will take its place and I'll shift gears to it for a while. Most of the times I pick back up where I left off at some point. It happens with all kinds of stuff- crafts, scrapbooking, running, cycling, swimming, BLOGGING. I have termed it Hobby ADD. Anyway in an attempt to not have many resolutions this year I have 3 main ones, keeping them simple and general. 1. Get it together more-this applies to organization, equal attention to all hobbies, areas in life. 2. Use my wellness center membership appx 2 times per week or lose it. 3. Don't let fears and worries stop me from doing the things I want.

That's all I got for now. Later.

Reminder number 1,239,975,4545

As if I should have to be reminded this many times. I don't know if it's just me but I can be on a roll (for me anyway) of running consistently, exercising, etc, etc, then I fall off the wagon and its like starting all over to get back started. I ran today, which I haven't in about 3 wks a lot of which I have been sick, or knee pain. I thought I was going to die. I started out at about a 9:32 mile which is like lightening fast for me, my legs felt awesome like I could just run forever, then I felt like my lungs were going to catch on fire due to the cold weather, and that I was going to drown in my own snot. Now that's a pretty thought. I wound up walking probably half the way. Oh well I at least got back started in some form.

I hate being sick....

I have really felt like a lazy bum this week. I haven't ran due to knee problems, and for the past few days I have had the vomicking(that's how a lot of my patients say it). I am holding down food today, I just can't stand up for over a few minutes or I get sweaty and dizzy. I did reach this week's mini goal. I am now under 140lbs. There's always a silver lining.Nothing like a stomach virus to kick start a diet.

Boot Camp = Pain

Me and 2 other girls I work with decided the other day we were going to go to a boot camp class at the gym today. I had been to the class before, but it'd been about a year. It whooped our tails . It's bad when you are anxiously waiting for the ab exercises just so you can lie down. I managed to survive 45 min of it and then go run 1 mile on the treadmill. Tonight the pain has set in. I feel like I've been in a car wreck. So I am off now to go get in my hot tub and let my motrin kick in.

Didn't just fall off wagon, I'm being drug by it.

I am really bad. I have been so terrible the last few weeks about my running and my eating. You'd think I'm storing up food for winter the way I eat. I also feel tired no matter how much sleep I get. I think I feel so bad b/c my diet and exercise have been so bad. I feel so much better when I'm doing good and on track, and then I fall off the wagon. But I'm hopefully back on. Ate bad today but I did get up off my but and ran 4 miles, which was the first time I ran this week. I am trying to look on the bright side. This is an improvement since last year. Until this year the only way I was running was if something was chasing me. All I know as it's a work in progress. Maybe it'll all click one of these days. I so wish to be one of these peppy, workout addicted people. That's who I want to be when I grow up.

Gravel hurts.

Well I knew it would happen, most say it always does. I had my first bike wreck today. There have been a few close calls with the clipless pedals but today it happened. It was not the pedals, or the shoe's fault . I started off on some gravel and my tire slipped, and down I go. Thankfully no broken bones. I do have a little rode,well gravel rash to my lower leg and a sore shoulder. More than anything I was embarrassed and I scratched my bike and my pride. And here I have been scared a dog would make me wreck.

It's time to get serious.....

Ok so I am really motivated right now. I really really want to eventually do a marathon. I have really been sporadic with my running as of late. If I want to do a marathon I've got to get on a PLAN. That's right smack dab on some paper plan. I have picked out one in April 09. We'll see. I got to do a lot better before I actually pay the fee. I'm gonna give myself about 3-4 more weeks before I decide whether i'm doing the full marathon or the half marathon. I'm doing one of them. It is time to get serious. I've been lazing and grazing for too long. I always thought "Hmm you never see any fat runners". I just may be the exception to the rule if I keep eating. I guess I'll just take it one bite oh I mean step at a time. He he

Oh and Shannan, if you are reading, thanks for following. I don't know if I remember you or not. I tried to click on your blog title under the comments, but there are no posts or pics. I'm good with faces, and names, but not necessarily together. I'll have to bust out the yearbooks.

Tired but proud.

Very tired at this point. Me and dear hubby rode 17miles on bikes Tuesday and then 22 Thursday. This left us with very sore rumps, but a sense of accomplishment. I'm surprised, but my legs aren't even sore. I hope this means that I'm getting stronger and will be looking lean and trim in no time.Now I gotta just make it through 2 days of work and I'll be off for 3 days.

Childrens Mansion 5K

2 Words.........NOT PREPARED !! I hadn't ran in about 1.5 wks and ran the Childrens Mansion 5 k Saturday and was not prepared for hill after hill. My hood I usually run in is flat. My weak self had to walk them there hills. Oh well I guess I learned from this to start running up some hills here and there. And I forgot my Ipod. Anyway, I did make it through it. Brytan ran the whole thing and loved it. We both had fun. Between that and going to Ole Miss game that night and being up and down in the stands I think I've done the equivalent of about 400 lunges. My legs are killing me. That's what I get for takin a week or so off. Time to get SERIOUS about this fitness business. No more slacking. Anyway here's some pics.












I don't know what this goofy look was all about

Riding, Running, Resting

Pretty boring day today for me. Trying to rest. As much as I want to ride my new bike I rode it 15miles yesterday and am afraid if i ride it much today I will be too sore for tomorrow's 5k. So I'm resting. Trying not to eat down the house. Hope I finish the run tomorrow. Haven't run in like 1.5 wks or so since I got sick. Feel like a total runner loser. After the run tomorrow we are going to head to Oxford for the Ole Miss game. Busy day ahead. Maybe I'll go to bed EARLY tonight.