Mariners game with the fam bam!

In June went to the Mariner's train night! It was felix train car night and Dad has been collecting the entire set so we have gone for the last couple years to get our cars! SO anyway we all drove up there for this game....all three grandkids in tow. It was surprisingly successful with two new babies and a 6 year old (not to mention the grown children we had with us, love you all hehe) anyway felix was a snot and didnt sign and autographs (last year Jared was able to get one of our train cars autographed by whoever it was I cant remember. Anyway here is the night in photos....ENJOY

Life Happenings a big girl and a little man

Its been a few....it has been a busy summer so far and thankfully it is slowing down! So many big things in my two babies lives happened so far already this summer! Hailey learned to ride her bike without her training wheels while camping with my mom an dad a few weekends ago!!! This is HUGE after bugging her for months to start riding it so she can learn to ride a two wheel bike! I am not going to lie I may have cried a tad bit when we pulled up and she was zooming around the campground like no ones business :) it was awesome! Ill have to post a video later my parents have all the goods!

Oh but that's not all! before her camping trip she got to go to the beach with Nana and Papa where she spent about 97 percent of the time in the pool. Which is amazing because she just finished her first stage of swim lessons right before summer started. She was not exactly comfortable in the water and then this happened while she was gone.....

she was a complete fish! I have several other pictures also and a cute video here ya go!

Oh and then where was my little guy Mr JC! first can I say HUSTON WE HAVE A TOOTH!!! hehe this happened on July 30th it poked through barely noticeable but of course I had been checking 651465416 times a day and poof there it was! SEEE you have to look really close haha

I mean REALLY close lol

 

 

So for his 10 month birthday he got his very first tooth....here we are a month later and that is still the sole tooth he has.

In other news, I just decided to share a bunch of our pictures from this summer so enjoy have a wonderful night my friends!!!

he loves his sister!

 

Daddy and Hailey fishing!

 



M's game yay!! Ill post a more detailed post later about our game!

We went and spent the weekend with Auntie Chelle and Uncle Frankie! Jackson was just fine

Hailey lovin on her couson GIO

Scooter rides!

Summer soccer with cousin Anna

Watching sister play soccer

 

4th of July! S'mores

oh yep and this happened also!

water fun!

more soccer

we love cousin Gio!!!

 

 

Bountiful Basket adventure

I have been meaning to get back to this for a while now and finally had a second and I'm not to tired to care here I am! So I have been looking at Simply Organic and following them on facebook now for a while but never was brave enough to try it. Well I was introduced to another similar program call Bountiful Baskets and they had a pick up location in Shelton unlike the other so I thought I would give it a try. I LOVE IT! We didn't know what would be in our basket but for $25 this is what I got...

Fennel, Green Onions, Kale, Celery, Apricots, Grapes, Tomato, Plums, Nectarines, Corn, Avocado, Cantaloupe and Cucumbers!

My tomatos are a little soft but I'll use them in my salads for lunch the next couple days so they wont go bad hopefully! I will deffinitly be particiapating in this again so worth it. The only thing I really dont know what to do with is the fennel but that is what google is for right!

Kitchen wars Part 1

It has been a struggle lately to cook meals after work and get to tball practice on time soooo I had a brilliant idea to make a huge (two) batches of soup to keep in the freezer for those nights. I forget how difficult Jackson can be when I don't have Jared to hand him off when I need to get something done so lets just say cooking was an adventure when I finally had a chance to stop the spinning I just laughed at the mess I made :)

Jackson wouldn't eat for me while I am also trying to cook two huge pots of soup so I just gave him the bowl and spoon to play with....it was worth the pictures and it kept him occupied for about ten minutes

I haven't blogged for so long I thought I would just post a few pictures of our life the last few weeks....

Meet Buster..our now 10 week old yellow lab  and below is Hailey bugs first day of tball this year!

Six Months and counting

My little guy is 6 months old already. Tonight he tried bananas and DIDNT like them!!! SERIOUS haha we will give them to daycare and try again tomorrow but I cant believe its been six whole months. He is precious and getting his little personality which is the best part of having your own children to watch them change and grow. He really has changed so much, he went from a wrickly old man(first born) to this cute grown up looking little man. I had to share a few pictures from tonights attempted photo shoot.

Life after 21

Life after 21 has been same ol same ol....not completely back to old eating ways but certainly not as disciplined as the challenge. I'm fighting to make this lifestyle change for the better but having resistance doesn't make it easy. You need that support system and partner in crime so to speak to help with the struggles and the successes. I find it very difficult to plan and prepare meals because I’m the only one who really wants this life style and so I am running out of ideas and motivation. I can only cook chicken breast so many ways ha ha. I really think getting the cook book that goes with the challenge would be a great gift (in case you needed ideas for me lol). I think meal planning needs to become a priority and I need to not worry so much about other people’s input and just cook what I cook and whoever eat will eat. I want my daughter (currently 5) to stop asking if we can "go out" to eat, I was it to be a given that we will be home eating in the evening. So I have been looking into seeing a nutritionist because my insurance will cover it and I could definitely use the education, I mean this is an appointment id make so I would HAVE to make time to do it.

As you can tell I suck at this whole blogging thing. Life gets away from me and I am either frantically trying to get things done so I can go to bed knowing I’ll be waking up every couple hours that I forget to stop and make time for myself. We forget how important making time for you is. I have forever been so focused on making those around me happy that I rarely think of myself and I mean never. So doing the challenge was the first thing I had done for myself in a long time. For those of you mommas that find time to work full time jobs, this includes you stay at home Mommies also and carve out time for you in that busy day is a miracle and I’d like to know your secrets. For me my dream would be to let go of my guilt enough to find some time to work out again, I have always craved activity and these days it just seems like there are not enough hours in the day for it all. I feel guilty if I spend the few precious hours in the evening away from my kids because I'm gone all day so those hours are golden to me. Then waking up an extra hour early although I could do it seems impossible and silly at this point with getting an average of oh I don't know say 3-4 hours a sleep a night. This alone is killing me and I know it is only temporary but it is a struggle none the less.

I have goals and dreams and I think I am more sentimental now because I have been watching One Tree Hill again these past few weeks and let me tell you is sure makes me miss the "good old days" you know the high school and college ones where you see and talk to your childhood friends every single day. You play sports and involve yourself in activities galore. All the time in the world for you. You hold hands and show PDA without a second thought.(I am a sucker for a good love story...real or fake and yes I do watch the Bachelor haha). I have thought a lot about who I was in high school wishing I was more outgoing and friendly....missing those I spent my time with and those were mostly seasonal friends as I switched from sport to sport. I never really belonged to a group and guilty for the ones I treated poorly even if it was one time or just plain rude because I wanted to be. I have sense because a quiet reserved person uncomfortable in large groups and so thankful for my hubby who can do the talking for us. Staying home is my specialty :) I sure am thankful for a group I am included in on facebook because I am more talkative and participate in conversation way more than I ever would before, probably because we all have common interest and I feel comfortable with most of the members.

I had coffee with an old classmate a few weeks back and it just made me wish that stuff happened more often. I have to thank her for asking me to join her because it was great. Something I would have never done myself but glad she did. It makes me want to ask others out to catch up to see how life is. Anyway, duty calls but I wanted to start something a little different after each blog post Ill end it with my future goals. When I come back to write again I will update you on those goals and see how I do following through

so here it goes

Goals:

make more time for me in day. read a book, go for a walk, sit in a quiet room and relax.
clean out my closet (this is seriously a huge problem)

until next time my friends....

 

The end of the beginning

Well I've finished my 21 days...it was a rough go. Especially the last few days our household got hit with a major head cold and all I wanted was comfort food...Probably one of the hardest things I have ever done....did I make it 21 full days noooope did I try my hardest YES! I honestly did give it a good effort and this way of eating I am going to try and stick with just not as strict. I like honey in my tea and other small things like that. I give props to those peeps that have to eat like this for one reason or another! It's hard work... Over all the most valuable thing I learned was the beginning of a skill in cooking! This is something I have been wishing I was better at always saying "I wish I liked to cook" or could cook but I tried some things I would have never tried and it got me started on learning! I officially have gifts for the next oh I don't know...5 years for birthday and Christmas all kitchen utensils and supplies haha :) 

The most disappointing part was how expensive supplies are. Good food should NOT be impossible to afford! I mean for goodness sake why should I have to choose between feeding my family whole healthy foods grown organically without chemicals and crap or paying my electric bill!! It just makes me angry because we both have good jobs and make enough to support our family but spending up words of $300 a WEEK to eat healthier is so so sad! Granted I'm sure there are tips and tricks you pick up the longer you live "clean" ...I've said it a millions times before but it just makes me want to move out into the middle of a farm and become a farm lady :) if you knew me before this I can imagine how that sounds haha but it just has recently become one of my passions. 

I have thought a lot about continuing this blog or stopping after my 21 days and after a lot of back and forth I have decided to keep it going. Bettering myself is really a life long journey and this just seems like a great place to keep my thoughts. I want to continue to become healthy as my children grow, being as athletic as I was in my "younger" years it blows my mind I even allowed myself to become this unhealthy...now I could give you all about ten million excuses but I won't bore you. I will probably not post every day or even ever week sometimes but I will turn to this as an outlet during the good times and the bad because I love my food especially when I am stressed or sad or bored or maybe I just like food a little much!! I will try my hardest to live with the saying "eat to live, don't live to eat" 

Until next time my friends...