Butt Fly and the Slander Party

I actually feel like blogging today. I haven’t had alot of time to lately. I posted the other two posts cause they made me laugh so hard. Most of the videos are so such crappy quality that youtube will probably laugh at me for posting them, but I might anyways.Heres the Snowboarding one.

The title is one of the funnier parts of my week. We looked after Elijah and Janaya on Saturday. They are 1.5 and 4 yrs. That was the day Emily learned her first 3 syllable word.”Butt Fly”. So what if she turned it into a two syllable word. it cracked me up. She says it better already. I’m a bit sad that she does. Her second 3 syllable word was “cheerio”. The while playing all day Janaya played with Emily’s little phone and was pretending to talk to her friend Asia. Lucky for Janaya because she got invited to Asia’s “Slander Party”. I looked over at Morgan and said “I’ve been to some of those, they’re awful”. We are still laughing about it and thinking of throwing our own “Slander Party”.

You haven’t lived until you’ve had a Diaper explode in the washing machine. How it got there I’ll never know, but what I do know is that I had to re-wash everything and pick up a “butt load” of the jelly diaper stuff. I’m just glad it wasn’t a poopy. icky icky icky.

I’ve started running with Morgan. I was going to do the podcast for running about 3 months ago, but that never happened. I’ve been waiting to blog about it unlit I actually made it into the second week of running every second day. The podcast has techno music to run too and a guy that tells you when to run and when to walk, so you don’t have to look at your watch. its called from the couch to 5K in 9 weeks. We are on week 2 which means we run for 9 minutes already. In intervals of 1minute and 30 seconds with a walk in between. It sounds easy, but when the guys says lets speed back up for the 5th time, you want to kill him or at least make him wax his legs or something. I’ve been walking everyday too. A couple of times I’ve finished my walk and gone straight into the creek.

We walk and run with Emily in the jogging stroller. She loves the running, but sometimes gets bored with the walking. She sings to herself while we are doing “The Loop” around town. Man we would love to be back at the “8″. Running the lakes would be so much more fun. I want to get one of those behind your bike style baby carts. I think you can get them cheaper at a MEC gear swap. I’m hoping we can pick one up soon because I love to ride my bike.

I’m getting my wedding ring and engagement rings soldered together this week. I talked to my jeweler and they think its a good idea to do. The two rings rubbing together can make them wear down really fast. I’m not sure I’ll like them that way, but here’s hoping. She said she didn’t recommend I get that done if I only wore my wedding band to work or something, but I always wear both. I guess I could see it if I wore rubber gloves all day or something like that. My engagement ring would be to sticky outey for that. I can pick up my rings tomorrow. I feel nakey without them on.

Em is waking up. I think we’ll walk down to the library and check the mail. The Library has cardboard books for Em so I think we’ll pick some new ones up today. Oh and Em got some new Robeez today. They are so cute(brown w/hearts). She changed sizes again. We picked some new ones from the catalogue (white trainers)and they’ll be here next month.

ON

I think they are through! Well at least one of Emily’s top teeth is through. What a whiny crappy thing to have to go through just so you can chew stuff. Haha. My little toddler is sleeping away her blues while her teeth come in. She has practically slept all day for the last two and slept most of the night. She gets all whiny at about 6:30 am, but manages to sleep still. Lucky for mommy. I slept better last night so thats good. I’ve felt like quite the insomniac for the last two weeks. I really haven’t slept well at all.

I have a really tough decision to make. I’m kind of nervous about it too. I need to get a hair cut. If I don’t I’m going to look like a snow beast. Im thinking of going for shoulder length and thinning the crap out of it. It will probably look like a shih tzu(see*) got murdered on the floor of the salon, but I think it will be worth it. It’ll be nicer for the rest of the summer. I think the thing I’m most worried about is how lazy I am to do my hair. I think I need to make a pact with myself to not wear bandannas ever again. (except when dressing up. All good pirates need bandannas) . I’m also pretty worried because if you read yesterdays blog Roxy got her hair cut and well it turned into a mullet. I’ve already told Morgan that if I get mullet-ed I’m shaving my head. No ifs ands or butts. Next week Morgan works afternoons so I think Ill book a chop chop.

I am officially ON. We aren’t going anywhere for the next little while and my house is free of crappola food so I am ON. I’ll admit I am having a lack of interest to going to the gym, but I can actually go next week so I’m going to go. I’ve decided this very minute that if I go to the gym 5 days next week I’m going to get a present! Maybe an album from itunes or something. Yeah! Wish me luck or wish me determination or something.

I’m going to go do laundry.

Heres a hair cut I really want.

(*)ok so Leah and I went to see the fish guy at the pet store. Remember the guy with the puberty voice. And we wanted to buy some fish, but we went to look at the puppies. While we were looking the fish guy comes up and says those are “shizzoo multipoos, very adorable. I don’t like to say the shhh part” (include voice cracking for effect and realism). Ok so after we picked ourselves off the floor and died laughing extremely discretely so as not to offend we got our fish. Leah Fish and Courtenay fish to take with us to college because we would miss each other. End of odd story…

You Are a Credit to Your Race.

This week is still going good on the Kick my Butt plan. I slowed a bit in the last two days, but that would be due to me drinking less water and a delicious London Fog. I’m drinking alot more water today so thats good. I really wish it wasn’t raining. I want to take Emily for a walk sooo bad, but its so yucky out.

I just put her down for a nap. She was starting to get whiny and came up to me saying “nigh nigh” over and over again. It was so cute. Needless to say she fell asleep really fast and Mommy is enjoying some down time. Wahoo! So I put some laundry in and snagged a bottle of water from the fridge and came upstairs to type away. I turned on itunes, but didn’t really feel like listening to anything in particular so I decided to enjoy the silence. Definitely weird for me.

Relay For Life is coming up next week. I’m not doing as good as I was hoping on my fundraising. I’m at $285 right now. I usually hit $400. I guess I have one more week to go, so we’ll see. It’s probably because I didn’t just have an o-so-cute baby this year. Thats ok with me. I’m glad I didn’t. Cause then I might look like I did in my last years pictures. I have come so far. I decided I was going to post my last years Relay picture along with a recent picture. Its hard to look at, but one does need to every once in a while. I was still me, but there was alot more of me to love last year. 48 pounds more. Kinda makes me shudder.

I’m trying to decide if I should take this running challenge I found out about. Its a podcast that can get you from the couch to 5K in like 10 weeks. I think I’d like to do it, but I’m not sure how Ill be able to time wise. I guess I managed to make time for the gym so maybe…hmm. It’d be neat to be able to run 5K. I never thought running was worth doing unless you were kicking a soccer ball, but now I see it as a time to get outside and enjoy where I live. And I’d get a chance to be alone! gotta take those chances when you get them.

Ucky

Emily’s first time Colouring. “Not in your mouth, on the paper!” She loved it.

I Quit the Bean.

Well its working. I’ve been kicking my own butt. I lost the extra I gained and a couple more too. Grand total = 8 pounds until shopping spree. YAY! I find my new scale really encouraging. even knowing I lost .02 is encouraging to me. It really helps that we are starting to get into fresh fruit season. There is not much better than a juicy nectarine or some uber sweet pineapple. Ive been eating salads and fruit like they are going out of style.

AND I quit drinking coffee. a whole week know and I don’t really miss it. I’ve been drinking lots of tea and trying to switch back and forth between rooibos, green and earl grey when I want a nice cuppah. I’ve become the master of iced rooibos tea. Thanks Pluckymama! And no more pop for me either. I think thats making a big difference too. Pop = junk food. Water = healthy food. Simple math right. Its way easier to eat good without adding those into my diet.

I learned to make gyoza dumplings(kinda like wantons without the soup) at the community kitchen. They are awesome. I only ate 3 cause they aren’t diet awesome, but I made a whole bunch for Morgan and he loved them. I just keep adding to my repertoire of Asian cooking. I love the community Kitchen. It rocks my sox.

We thought Emily had chicken pox this week. She got all spotty and grumpy and scratchy and…well mostly grumpy. We took her to the Dr. and she said it was most likely a virus that was giving her a rash. YAY! lucky us. I was figuring it would be our luck to be the 1 in 100000000 parents whose baby after getting the chicken pox shot would get the chicken pox. I guess it wouldn’t be too bad because we all had it growing up. At least she wouldn’t remember it.

This morning Em woke up at 5 and cried for a bit and then again at 7. I finally got her up at 7:30. I was not impressed with my tiny tot for waking up so early. She even went to bed late last night. She normally sleeps until 9:30. Looks like we are in for another schedule change. seriously…every time I think I figure her out it changes again. That’s the way it works I guess. I’m hoping to keep her schedule a bit later still. That will work the best with our schedule. Plus I don’t want to give up my gym time before she gets up. Its way harder to go if she’s up. It will work out ok I’m sure.

Hot guy sitting on the beach with a diaper bag. Do I know how to pick em or what?

Kick my own butt.

I’m feeling like a bit of a defeatist today. I’m trying to figure out whose will power I was borrowing for the first two months of the kick my butt weight loss thing. Cause obviously I had to take it back. I’m doing ok, but Id really like to keep kicking my butt. Now is when I cross the line from doing ok, to doing awesome. Something Morgan said that I’m trying to keep in mind “This part of your race will only be won by self talk”. I’m finding this part of the journey the hardest. I keep wishing someone else would do this for me. Like when you are at the theatre in the best part of the movie and suddenly you have to pee really really bad. Thats when you wish someone else would go for you. Ok so back to motto one.”I have to do what I should do before I do what I want to do.” Motto two. “My body is not a trash can.” I need to stop treating my body like my tastes buds are the rulers and only they matter.  There. I think I just needed a little pep talk. Maybe I ll print some awful pictures of me and stick them on the fridge so I can see how far I’ve come.

I don’t like to record what I eat. I find it tiresome, but I think I need to start doing that again. I had a free version of FitDay online and I used to use that, but then I bought the more advanced version, and it was way more work to keep it updated. Maybe Ill start the freebie again. Recording what I eat keeps me oh-so-accountable to eating great. I don’t like to write down bad stuff so I don’t eat it. Alright enough “maybes”. I’m just gonna get my act together.

Starting now! Emily is waking up so I’m going to go make her a superb dinner and then I’m going to remember that I deserve a superb dinner too and make it! AND I’m going to drink a butt load of water! AND we are gonna go for a walk! so there.

No pics today. First day without em. Cant be too predictable.

Goal-pdate

Croc-xperiment day 2.

I cut it close to wearing my crocs out in public today. They are just so darn convenient to slip on if you have a baby/diaper bag/purse/anything in your arms. We’ll see how this goes.

Ok and on to Goals…dun dun dahh.

Goal 1: “Keep fit and have fun” (thank you and Hal Johnson & Joanne Mcloed…dang now I’m going to have the body break song stuck in my head). The last 2 weeks have been somewhat disastrous in the eat good department. I think if it hadn’t been for a series of unplanned exercises Id be…well larger. I had my first real gain since I started in January. Added a nice 5 pounds back on. Grr stupid ice cream. but I’m back to normal life, whatever that is and back to the gym. I got a new scale that is digital and reads to .02 of a pound. Its encouraging because you can tell if you even loose .02. I loathe the scale at the gym its so inaccurate. If you stand on it funny it reads screwy.

Goal 2. Growing in my relationship with God. Being a real god chaser. I just got back from a steady stream of conferences. Sometimes those moments are real thrive and dive things. This year it really felt like a solid upward movement. I had some really awesome words spoken over my life. All really consistent too. The words “adventure” and “artist” kept coming up. All from different people. It was a cool thing for me. I had shelved a few thing to work on other things and so now I’m back in the groove.

Goal 3. Get organized in 2007. My oh-so-thoughtful-in-law’s got me these awesome hangers and shelving units. They have revolutionized my closet space. Its awesome. We switched from the drawer system to the hanger system and I’m loving it. Its working out rather well. Morgan and I are even sharing(miracle) one dresser for sox and skivvies too. Its super. Next we have to work on the basement because Morgan was being helpful while I was away and reorganized stuff into the walkway. Thanks hunny.

Poop Smith

I’m taking a breather from packing to blog. I’m trying to get loads of things done for Avalanche this weekend. I’m soooo excited though.

I have a great Emily story this week. We had our friend Elisha come over and take pictures of us down at the park. There were so many mosquitoes that we couldn’t stay long so we went back to our house to just relax and play with Emily. It was bed time and so Emily had just finished her bottle and I took all her clothes off to let her run around in her diaper before putting her jammies on. It has been so hot this last week, so I decided Em could run around nudey buns for a bit cause she is all done her”business” bybedtime, plus I could take the opportunity to take some good nudey pictures for her baby book. About 5 minutes after I had taken her diaper off she turned and looked at me with this look that said “Here I go” and gave a super grunt. I hucked the camera on the couch and ran for the diaper bag. I grabbed a diaper and didn’t really even unfold it much before franticly trying to put it on her while she was standing up. I had exactly 1 second to spare. I just made it in time for Emily to poop a gooder. At that point Auntie Leesh says “I’m never having kids!That was sick!”. Anyways. It was pretty funny. I think Ill think 2 next time I decide to let Emily run around nudey buns.

Well I should get back to packing and getting last minute details all done like dinner. Catch ya on the flip side! Oh and I finally broke 170!! Its 169 for me.

It's Gonna Sparkle

I’m getting so excited for Avalanche. Its this youth conference we go to in Kelowna. We leave Friday morning. I didn’t get to go last year. It was this whole “have a baby while leading a youth trip” thing that wasn’t so good. I turned out I had Emily like 6 weeks early so that was ok. anyways. I’m really excited to go this year. We have a huge group to take. Until last night we were short a guy chaperone and a van. Then this guy we know phoned with both. YAY!! I’m really sad that Morgan cant go because of work. It would have been so great. I hate it when you cant get holidays when you need them. Most of the jobs I had would let you have time off whenever you wanted it. Never paid time off, but who cares so long as you don’t miss something. Actually I remember missing Avalanche several years ago to work. Morgan and I worked at the same place and so only one of us could go. I drew the short straw. Haha.

So back to Heroes. Last nights episode was good. It ended good too. Now only 1 more episode till season finale. What to do what to do? hmmm enjoy the summer thats what I’ll do. I pretty much watch nothing now anyways. I never have time for T.V. ok. one more YAY! for Tivo. I think it needs its own category. Yep. I’ll have to add that.

I’m still going to town on my house. Its gonna sparkle…or at least look good. ooo I just remember I was gonna clean the fridge. I’ll have to get to that. We might go take pictures today with Leesh. I hope so. I need more pictures of me that actually look ok. I have this awful picture of me on a mouse pad. Well Its actually a good picture of my cousins and I, but I’ve lost so much weight that I think it looks yucky/not healthy. Its a good reminder for me of where I’ve come from.

People keep asking when I’m gonna get pregnant again. I don’t think people will ever run out of awkward questions to ask at social gatherings. At least I don’t get asked what I’m gonna do with the rest of my life anymore. I hated that one. My dad’s like, old and he still doesn’t know what he’s gonna do with the rest of his life. As for the answer of when I’ll get prego again…I need to get healthy first. I want to start a pregnancy at a good weight with better eating habits. I’m not into being sick for the whole thing and not being able to walk at all because of my S.I joint. I cant imagine doing that with Emily to take care of. So no, not for a while.

Thought I’d do a Gracie Montage!

Final 10!

I got halfway through a post yesterday when Emily woke up and the rest of the day was shot. I went back to my post this morning, but found it to be rather boring so I deleted it and we are starting fresh.

Emily has the worst attitude today. Its crazy. She keeps freaking out over dumb stuff. Dealing with Toddler temper tantrums isn’t very fun. I’ve read so many different ways to deal with them, but I haven’t found something that fits us yet. Thankfully its nap time and I get a few moments reprieve. Grr. I think she’s waking up again. What is this?? AHH!
I have been overhauling my house. It was in serious need of a good cleaning. I’m going away for the long weekend and my in-laws are staying with Emily so I wanted to make sure the place wasn’t icky and cluttery. Man its relaxing to walk around in a clean house. I think I’ll even clean out the fridge today. I spilled a box of baking soda everywhere and I’ve been putting off cleaning it up. It looks like it snowed in my fridge. Or like a snow globe that has yet to be shaken.

Perfect segue into…

Sylar on last weeks Heroes. Its ok if you didn’t see it cause Sylar went psycho and killed his mom. Who does that. Seriously. I’m stoked for Heroes tonight. Only 2 episodes left. This is the only TV show Ive ever watched that I haven’t missed an episode. YAY for Tivo! Thats not true. Morgan rented the first season of 24 and I watched all of that. Loved/Hated it.

Oh yeah and guess who won the challenge at my gym. ME! I lost the most inches at the gym in the last 2 month. I won some candles. oooo. Plus even tho the last 2 weeks didn’t go so great I still lost a pound. I’m in the final 10 baby yeah!! I know everyone says those are the hardest, but I didn’t do so great on the last ten and now I’m back in the game. I’m pretty excited about it. Yay Me!

Way Back Machine

You have to check out the Way Back Machine. so cool. It caches web pages from forever ago. I found quickdot and my old web page. Morgan was looking up CNN’s page from September 11. Its pretty cool and man my old page was ugly!

We are going road trippin again today. It’s my Gramma birthday so we are going to Loon Lake. I’m stoked. Morgan has to work so thats sucky. I’m going to take some more cute pics today. It looks to be another gorgeous day for picture taking.

I’ve been “camping out” in psalm 119 for the last few days. I’ve been really enjoying the things I’m learning. My favorite part so far is in verse 107 where it says “…the willing praises of my mouth.” Its cool because very often its easy to praise God because its a good idea or because you should, but not always in the “…the willing praises of my mouth.” I don’t know I just found it intriguing.

Yesterday I was complaining about not getting to do enough cardio at my new gym so Morgan suggested I run to the gym, only a few blocks from here. So I did yesterday. I ran for 5 minutes and then walked for 3 and I was there. It felt great. I walked back because I wanted to listen to a podcast and podcasts aren’t good workout tunes. I think I’m going to try to run at least a couple days a week. It’s a good run too because It’s totally uphill. Nothing like being good and sweaty.

Well I have to get Emily up and get ready for Loon Lake. So I’d best not dawdle.

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