What?

This week has been interesting and rough.  Sarah has been struggling in school and it has taken it's tole on me.  I know that she is only 4 and that there is a lot for her to learn but when she is struggling to behave it makes me wonder where I am going wrong.  Yesterday I spent the day just thinking over everything I do and say trying to figure out what I might be teaching her that I didn't want to teach her.  I came to the conclusion that there are a few things I definitely need to change but also in reality our kids don't learn everything from us.  I know it can suck sometimes knowing that they are picking up habits - be it good or bad - from other kids they see at school and church.

I had to take a step back and just do my best.  She was much better today and I had a much better day because of it.  Sometimes being a mom is just hard but it is definitely worth it.  So I'll keep doing my best and adjust when needed and try to be the best influence on my kids that I can be and hope that in the end they make the right decisions when I'm not around to help them choose the right.

Have a great Thursday afternoon.

She slept through the night!

I almost forgot how much I like sleeping through the night.  I thought that I wouldn't have to start not sleeping all night once the new baby came in December but Yana decided to remind me over the last week or so.  She wouldn't take naps and then at night we would have to put her back in bed multiple times before she fell asleep and then she would get up at least once sometimes three times each night.  WHY?  I couldn't figure it out.  It didn't make sense.  She wasn't afraid of anything.  She seemed wide awake.  She has been cranky during the day for the last week or so because of the lack of sleep.

Well last night I decided to try giving her some children's aspirin.  Now before you think I just drugged her to get her to sleep let me explain.  She has one tooth that just broke the skin, one just about to brake the skin and two more moving up.  She doesn't act like they bother her during the day but I can imagine that lying there at night with nothing to keep her occupied might have her noticing that it hurts.  So I gave her the recommended dose and put her down.  She got up once before I even made it downstairs but then slept all night.  I think I found the reason for the not very restful nights.

So needless to say "She slept through the night!"

Why would I do that again?

Thursday was the first day of fall break for us.  Our first.  I took my girls to the "big" park.  This is something I don't see myself doing again without another adult.  It was a lot harder to watch two kids who went in separate directions than I thought.  That might seem weird but I've had to protect my kids from other kids trying to push them off the top platforms.  I really don't my child to go missing or to have to go to the emergency room because of the park.  Yana was content to run back and forth from the top platform on one side to the top platform on the other side.  Sarah likes to climb and go down the slides.  Yana really liked to stop and look out the railing.

 I have multiple pictures of her looking through the railing.

 I finally got her to stop and look at me for a minute.

 I wanted to take them to the swings but couldn't get a hold of Yana so Sarah talked her into going down the slide with her.

 They love this swing and the other one was gone so they shared.

My kids are so easy to entertain sometimes.  They love boxes.  It's great.  It was a boat.

Friday my husband got back from a week in Michigan and my in-laws came to town. It was great.  We picked my husband up at the air port.  Then we did some things around the house.  My husband wasn't feeling very well.  I went and ran errands with my mother in law.  I needed some time away.

Saturday my husband bought me a chest freezer.  Not a huge one because right now I don't want one.  We don't need something that large.  After it ran for a few hours I moved the meat into the new freezer and loved the amount of space I now have.  I made a pumpkin pie and pumpkin cookies from scratch...starting with a whole pumpkin.  We made Jalapeno poppers and pork ribs and had a great evening.

Sunday was sad because we always hate to see the grandparents go.  Today is still fall break and so I decided to go to Joann's to get material for a couple blankets but after I got all the way down to the store I realized I had forgotten my magazines with their patterns.  I was very frustrated with myself.  That isn't a drive I like to make everyday.  So instead we bought material to make a few Christmas tree skirts.  I'll get some pictures taken for you when I start working on them.

Well I still have a lot to do today and I'm not sure how I'm going to get it all done.  So I better continue.  Have a great Monday.

An almost catastrophe!

This morning started off with an almost catastrophe!  Ok so I get up every morning with my husband and after he leaves I stay up and get things done around the house.  Well today when he left I just had NO energy so I decided to go lay back down.  I would get about 15 minutes of sleep before the alarm went off...that is if I even fell asleep.  I knew it wouldn't be much but a little rest would be better than nothing.  So my alarm went off and I hit snooze...or at least I thought I hit snooze.  The next thing I know the alarm is going off and when I look at what time it is it reads 8:05...which for us is when we have to start heading towards the car to get Sarah to school on time.

NO!!!  Ok so here's what I did.  I got out of bed and didn't bother to change out of my sweats and t-shirt and went straight to wake up the girls.  I get Sarah dressed and down the stairs in like 5 minutes (which is a record for us).  I put some fruit loops in a bag and milk in one of the sippies.  Then we went in the garage and opened the door and it is raining so back in the house I go to get her rain coat and a jacket for Yana.  Then I run Yana (still in her pj's) to the car and come back for Sarah.  Thankfully Sarah can buckle herself in so all I did was hold the door for her.  Once in the car and both girls had their bags of fruit loops and sippy's with milk in them we headed to the school.  Only 1 minute later than we actually needed to be.  Not too bad.

Then on the way there the rain followed us but luckily it wasn't down pouring yet.  After we dropped her off at school and headed home it really started to rain.  I mean I had to slow down because I couldn't see type rain.  Once home Yana and I sat in the car for a minute before I put her on my lap and counted to three and then made a mad dash for the garage hoping not to be too soaked.

Fun and hectic.  Lets just say I don't ever want to wake up that late again.  Have a great day.  Ours is going to be great despite the rushed start.

Our weekend

Well my husband got home from Texas right after I hit the submit button for the last post on Friday.  It was nice.  I wasn't expecting him for another couple of hours.  Then we did some running around after nap time.  We bought the rest of the material I need to cover my seat cushions.  I'm really glad that he came with me because we ended up buying material we didn't even look at the last time we looked at the material.

Saturday we went to the temple with the youth and then when we got home we worked in the yard.  I mowed and he weed eated.  Then while he started to work on the brick I put weed killer and grass seed on our yard.  Then I helped with the brick.  I took off the top bricks and packed dirt in between the lower bricks.

Then I got cleaned up and went to the Relief Society dinner and yearly broadcast.  It was very good and I loved it.  It is good to get away and spend time visiting with friends and learning new things.

Sunday was the primary program.  It was the first for Sarah.  She was great.  All the primary kids (ages 3-11) sat up in front and sang songs and had lines.  Sarah's line was "I can follow Jesus by being good."  She did really well.  I was fun to see her.  She kept waving at everyone.

After church we had a soup social with the ward.  It was fun.  I made a big batch of Borshe and had taken our crock pot to the church earlier.  We tried a few different soups and visited.  It was a lot of fun.

After that we just hung out around the house with our girls.  I finished cleaning the kitchen after all the cooking from that morning.

Today I am about ready to start cutting out material for the seat cushions.  I haven't had time before now.  I've taken Sarah to and from school, went grocery shopping, filled the car up with gas, cleaned the bathrooms, filled snack bags, and updated the calendar on our wall to October.  I love dry erase calendars.

Well I need to get a moving before I sit too long that I fall asleep and get nothing done.  Have a great afternoon.

Cool Clouds

We just thought that the clouds here yesterday morning were pretty cool looking.  I remember after we first moved here not really knowing what tornado clouds looked like and asking my husband if these were them.  He was at work in his basement and had no idea what I was talking about.  Now almost 2 years later he finally knows what I was talking about.

 I love clouds.  The only problem is that here I have to worry about what might come with them.

I hope that you all had a great weekend.

Catching up

Last week kind of got away from me before I realized that I hadn't blogged all week.  Sorry about that.  I'll recap a few things and share pictures since I finally put them on my computer.

While Grandpa and Grandma were here my girls decided to put Yana's diapers on her head and run around.  It was pretty cute and funny.

I admit that I sometimes put diapers on their heads when they are babies...not the pull up kind but my girls had fun.

 Yana is in this "I can dress myself" phase.  See how well that worked.  She puts them over her head and then around her waste.

 Sarah has been in swim lessons for 2 weeks.  My girls are fish and can't seem to get enough swimming.

 She is really good at floating on her back.

 Here is Yana at swim lessons.  Entertaining herself.  Poor kid wants to swim but I can't let her out of her seat or I'll have to chase her all over the place.

 Sarah actually loves to swim under water.  She is really good at it.  One of the reasons for the swim lessons is to help teach her to swim with her head above water.

 Yana at the office.  She loves to pull the doll stroller over to the coffee table, sit in it and look at books.  It is so cute.

This weekend, since we couldn't really work in the yard, we worked in the garage.  My husband made me a quilt rack.  He's been telling me about it for a few months and now I have it.  I love it.

 It holds four quilts and it has a shelf.  I haven't decided what to put on the shelf yet.  I'm thinking Russian dolls or something.

 I should have split the two middle quilts up so you could see them better. 

Sarah just loves this quilt rack.  She has told me several times today how much she likes it and that it is so pretty.  I can't agree with her more. 

Well that pretty much should catch me up on everything. 

This week should be interesting as well so I'll do my best to keep you posted.  Have a great Monday.

It was good

How was your weekend?  Ours was pretty good.  My in-laws were here so we got to spend some more time with them.  We decided on Saturday since the weather was beautiful that we would buy the brick to finish the other side of garden.  My husband also filled the holes in our room above the windows from the curtain rods.  Now I just need him to hang the rest of the pictures.

My girls got to play with our neighbor's kids.  They had fun riding bikes together.

Sunday we went to church and then after the kids went to bed we got out the electric cars and had fun playing with them until the batteries died.  It was a good weekend.

Other than that not much else happened this weekend  This week, however should be interesting.  Today Sarah's friend is coming over to play during nap time.  So I wont be sewing much today.

Today was the first day that Sarah decided that she didn't want to go to school.  She was too excited for her friend to come over and thought that if she didn't go to school her friend could come over sooner.  She is glad that she went though.

While I was dropping her off we were reading in "The Friend".  It is a magazine that the LDS church puts out for children.  It has good stories on all sort of topics.  Today we read about how to be a good friend and about keeping a journal.  I'll be honest...I haven't kept journals for my children at all, ever.  But I had this feeling that I should start.  So while grocery shopping I bought two little notebooks and when Sarah got home from school I had her tell me about her day and I wrote it down for her.  I think this will turn out to be a good thing.

Well I think I'm starting to ramble.  I'll type at ya later.  Have a great Monday and a wonderful week.

This morning....

This morning I was sitting her at the computer getting things done when Sarah comes down the stairs and rushes over to me and says "It's and emergency".  So, although I know that her definition of an "emergency" and mine are different I paid close attention to her.  "You have to come see what Yana did to my rug!"  Her rug is not very big and it is actually my husband's.  It is fur and was given to him when he was a kid.  It is like 1 ft X1.5 ft in kind of an oval shape. 

Anyway, I go upstairs to see what the "emergency"  I'm thinking to myself that I left the bathroom door open and I'm hoping that Yana didn't throw the rug in the toilet.  So I ask Sarah what happened.  "She pooped on my rug!"  That is one sentence I never thought I would hear.  Instantly inside the door to their bedroom I see that Yana actually threw up on the rug and surrounding area sometime last night or early this morning.

Ok so that was first thing this morning. Now I"ll preface this next story by telling you that yesterday we went to Best Buy to look at camera's.  While there a lady brought my children a very cute balloon animal flower arrangement.  There is a guy there who makes balloon animals for the kids.  It is really cute.  There are three flowers standing up out of a balloon pot.  Sarah just loves this balloon.

Last night before we went to bed I noticed that one of the three stems had lost it's air.  The flower was fine but the stem was dead. 

Ok so this morning after cleaning up after Yana we came back downstairs and Sarah sees her balloon and is devastated.  So what does she do?  She takes it to the bathroom and waters it.  She helps me water my flowers every day and apparently thought water would help her poor balloon flower grow back.

I was laughing a lot at that.  That was a wonderful way to start the day.

Anyways today I will finish the free motion quilting on my quilt (so long as Yana takes a good nap).  I'm excited for this.

I hope you all have a great day.

Weekend living

Saturday as a good day.  I woke up early and went for a bike ride.  It was wonderful.  The weather was perfect.  Then after breakfast we took Sarah for her bike ride.  My husband rode bikes with her while Yana and I jogged along behind.  Then after that it was time to change the fluid in my transmission. 

 Yana just couldn't stay away.  She just loved playing under the Yukon helping dad.

 What one does the other generally does too.  Sarah followed Yana under too.

 I think I mentioned back in May that my husband had made me a jewelry holder for Mother's day.  Well here is the finished product.  I have been using but he hadn't had time to put the padded material into it until this weekend.  I love it and it works great.

 This is the finished product of the dresses I made last week.  My girls love them and have so much fun wearing them.

They wore them to church yesterday and twirled a lot.  They just love them.  They were so much fun to make and I'm thinking that I'll start making them for all the holidays.

Well I have sat down and have written out a list of projects that I need to get done before our vacation and it is manageable.  I'll be fine there so long as I don't get distracted.  Then I started writing down a list of projects for when we get back from vacation. 

I have had 4 requests for a purse I have been making so that will be first on my list and then I need to get the chair cushions covered.  I have a quilt that I want to make and sell so that is on my list too.  I would also like to get a few table runners made for upcoming holidays.  It looks like I'm going to be busy. 

If there is something you want let me know and I'll get it on my list to get done for you.

We had a good weekend and hope you did too.  Have a great week.

Oklahoma hates me and Idaho taunts me

If you know me than you know I HATE the heat.  I don't say that lightly.  I really really don't like the heat.  I never have.  I love snow and 70 degree weather.  Water in Idaho is cold no matter how hot it gets and we are used to it.  When I put in my papers to serve my mission my dad teased me that I'd end up in the Sahara Desert or New York city.  Heat and big cities aren't my thing.  So I was sent to Russia (which I loved and miss very much).  It was super cold in the winter and I loved it and super hot in the summer and although it didn't seam like we lived in big cities we did.  So I got both but didn't mind so much.

Now I am living in Oklahoma and I thought we were doing well.  This year it seemed that June was having mercy on us.  Last year it seemed sooo hot and this year we have loved the weather....until yesterday.  100 degrees!?!?!  Who is in charge of the thermostat here?  All week of 100+ weather.  All I can say is "I'm sorry Sarah we will not be going for bike rides often and I'm sorry you will be stuck indoors where we wont have heat stroke."  It is supposed to get to 105 today.  Ya so I'm making plans for my girls that don't include much heat.  Like going to the library. 

I say that Idaho taunts me because they are still wearing long pants and sweat shirts in the morning and at night.  It hasn't gotten up past 80 as far as I know.  We are planning our vacation and so I'm getting a little homesick and the nice weather back home isn't helping.

Sorry about my tangent.  I've been up for a while, still feel really tired and when I sat down to write this, this is all that I could come up with.

Don't get me wrong I like Oklahoma.  The people are great and it is pretty even without mountains.  I just needed to vent about the heat and now I'll be fine.

I hope you all have a great day.  If you are going outside please drink lots of water and be careful.

Rain and random thoughts

I love Rain.  Random I know but I do and right now it is raining.  I've been hoping for it all week.  Everyday I wake up and it is cloudy and I think maybe it will rain today and then it is just windy.  I love the sound of it.  Home in Idaho I love the smell of it.  If it hasn't rained in a while and there is a lot of dust when it starts to rain.  Do you know that smell?  I love it.  I'm weird that way.  I also love the smell of spud cellars.

Anyway, you'd be proud of me.  Yesterday I spent most of the day in my sewing room sewing strips of material together and then when that was done I cut a lot of material.  I'm not done cutting but last night after Young Women's I brought down what I have and laid it on the floor and started pinning.  It is going to look really cool.  I can't show pictures yet because this is a gift to someone who might read my blog.  I can share pictures in about a month.  I know, I know that is so far away to be waiting for a picture.  It will be worth it. 

I love sewing quilts.  I just need to make more of them.  I told you a while ago that I bought froggy material to make a quilt and it is still sitting in the bag upstairs in my sewing room.  I plan on starting it when we get back from our vacation later.  I'll keep you posted on that.

On a side note does anyone know where I can find instructions for a really old Singer sewing machine.  I kind of inherited one and other than a tune up I can't even figure out how to load the bobbin.  I've tried a lot of different things and it doesn't seem to like me.  I thought if I could find something online then maybe I would have to have it tuned.

Well I need to get back to work.  If I work hard today I should have the top of the quilt (minus the boarders) sewn together.  That is my goal.  I wont it to the point that I can sandwich it this weekend so next week I can start free motion stitching it.

Have a great day.  I hope it rains wherever you are if you need the rain like we do.

A good life

How was your weekend?  Hows was good.  Thinking back I don't actually remember everything we did.  My husband only worked half a day Friday and we spent the rest of the day out in about.  We looked at boats, bought a fishing pole for my husband, took the girls to see "Madagascar 3" (which is really cute).  We planned where we would be moving our shed, swam in the pool, got Sarah addicted to riding her "big girl" bike and just enjoyed the time together.

The weather here has been nice compared to last June.  The evenings are wonderful.  We are spending a lot of our evenings out side just enjoying the cool breeze and the nice weather.  My girls are so full of energy and I'm trying to keep up. 

Monday I officially passed into the second trimester and am doing good.  The baby is wiggly; according to an ultrasound Friday.  I'm not as tired as I was but still tired.  I've been spending more time in my sewing room and have had a request for two more purses.  I've been reading when I can and playing with my girls when I can.

There never seems to be enough hours in the day but at the same time I'm out of energy by the girl's bedtime.  Right now things are going really well and we are just loving and enjoying life.  Well,  I'll try to post some pictures tomorrow.  I need to get in the sewing room now so I can spend nap time working on a quilt I need to get finished.

Have a great afternoon.

Wednesday

It is Wednesday and it really isn't any different from any other day except for one thing.  Today my garage door decided to let me know that it doesn't like me.  When we bought the house we could see that the top panel was slightly bent but it worked just fine.  Well today when trying to park in the garage I didn't pull in far enough and it stopped on my bumper and then went back up.  Then it wouldn't go back down no matter what I tried.  It bent and crumpled a little.  I had to call the garage door people and it was so nice because they didn't think he was going to be able to come until tomorrow and he came within 30 minutes. 

Turns out he didn't install this garage door.  The past owner must have bought it at Lowe's or something and traded out the doors.  The garage door guy helped me get the door to close and is going to come back Friday to replace the door.  I feel so blessed that he came when he did because I was starting to worry about a night with the door open. 

Other than that not much happening today.  I didn't make it to the sewing room because of the garage door issue but it has been a good day so far.

Have a great hump day.

Zoo time fun

A little over a week ago while my husband was in Texas I took the girls to the zoo.  I've been trying to get them (us) out of the house more often and they have a new seal exhibit so we went.  The girls had a blast.  Sarah took her camera and took lots of pictures. 

 Here they are looking down on the seals from the spot above the water.

 They have a place where you can look at the seals from under the water and it was fun.  We missed the show by a few minutes but they were still a lot of fun to watch. 

You can see her camera as she is just watching the seals.  It was a lot of fun.  We didn't see all the animals because we got a late start but we saw a lot and they had fun. 

Have a great day.  I'll be back to share pictures from caving this last weekend. 

Life

Life has been so hectic lately.  Yesterday was good.  I got into the sewing room and almost finished the project I was working on and then brought an alteration downstairs to pick while I watched Sarah play on her ABC Mouse program on the computer.  I just need the right type of thread to finish the alteration.

Today has been good.  Girls are still waking up way too early for my taste.  I'm going to make some dark curtains for their room so it wont get light so early.  We drove to Tulsa and had lunch with their dad and Sarah drew him some pictures for his office.  It was fun.

Today I wont have much time to sew because Sarah has a friend coming over to play for a couple of hours and then we need to go to the store to get a few groceries for tonight and this weekend.

I hope you are all doing good.  Have a great day.  I wont be posting again before Monday because we are going camping and leaving tomorrow morning.

Home again

I love going on vacation and seeing my family and the state I love but it is always nice to come home.  t is good to be back to our routine, not having to depend on others for the day's activities and not having to worry about not spending enough time with anyone.

It was odd going home this time.  I was born and raised in Idaho.  I love it there.  I love the weather, the mountains, the rain, the snow, the sunshine, the dry air, hunting season, snowmobiling, my family, my friends, the familiar, the fact that it takes longer for the world's trends to reach us there, the vocabulary, the fact that there is no tornado season, hurricane season or earthquakes, the open spaces, the fesqu grass, the spud cellars and the smell of the potatoes, the slower pace of life, the bugs (the bugs here in Oklahoma are plain scary looking compared to the ones I grew up with), the fact that most of the steeples you see are on LDS chapels so you always know where there is a ward family, and so many more things.

With all that I love there it is still so nice to come home.  We have our routines, our belongings, not living out of a suitcase, not rushing to visit everyone.  If people want to see me they can come see me.  I can do anything I want since it is my home (including make a batch of cookies and then eat half the batch in 24 hours).  I don't feel guilty when I let my girls watch tv so I can get something done.

Don't get me wrong I love vacation and I miss my family and Idaho already but I'm glad to be home other than the fact that it is Tornado season here.

I'll tell y'all a little secret.  When I married my husband I told him we could never live anywhere that had a tornado or hurricane season...the very first project was in Texas and it has both.  Luckily we now live in Oklahoma and only have to worry about one of them.

Anyways I'll stop rambling and just say that it is good to be home and to have my home in order again after unpacking and cleaning again.

Such a big girl

My children are continually amazing me.  My husband and I just finished making another bed so Yana who is now 15 months old would have a bed to move into.  We turned them into bunk beds.  Sarah loves her bed.  She loves the ladder she gets to climb every day and the fact that she is just on the top bunk is just too cool.

Yana even loves being on the top bunk.  Scary enough she can actually climb the ladder.  She doesn't, however, know how to get back down.  She runs back and forth trying to give us a heart attack.

Well, we decided two nights ago to see if we could get her to sleep in her new bed on the bottom bunk.  Sarah was 18 months old when we trained her in one weekend in a hotel because we got tired of not sleeping because she was sharing a bed with us.  My husband lay down with her until she feel asleep and then left the room.  It took about a half an hour.   She was still in her bed at 8 in the morning when I went in to get them up.  It was awesome.

So yesterday I tried to get her to take her nap in the bed.  Ya, not so good.  She kept climbing off the bed and crying so I just put her in her crib.  She slept good.  Last night was a different story.  I lay down with her and an hour later she is still wide awake and has started trying to play.  I lost my patience and left the room.  She started crying and my husband came in to see what was going on.  He told me to go ahead and go for my run and he would lay down with her.  So I did exactly that.  When I got back he was downstairs but he didn't stay til she fell asleep either.  When we checked on them later she was asleep at the foot of the bed but still on the bed.

Now, for the amazing and hopefully not a fluke announcement.....I put her on her bed today for her nap and left the room and she cried a little, crawled around a little, but fell asleep on her bed.  Not at the foot but in the middle, with her bum in the air.  So cute and so awesome.  She is still asleep and I'm loving it.  I hope she is in that bed for good.  Right before we go on vacation.  This will either help us or vacation will hurt her big girl bed training.  We shall see.

Have a great day.

Monday's recap

Today is Tuesday for anyone who wasn't quite sure.  Sometimes I wake up and I am just not sure what day it is.  I have to keep looking at the calendar to remind myself.  Tuesday's are usually that day for me.  Monday is the beginning of the week so prettty easy to remember and then Wednesday's I have Young Women's in the evening so it is pretty easy to remember but Tuesday's don't usually have a lot.

There that is my random thought this morning.

Well yesterday was really good.  I did get into my sewing room and got most of the the pull over bibs cut as well as the ribbing for the neckline.  After that I didn't really want to us my serger while my daughter was napping.  Although it isn't too loud it is still louder than my sewing machine and does wake Yana up.  So I decided to work on the cute pants for my girls that I started a week or so ago.  One is almost finished and the other has about 2 steps before it is finished.  I'm really excited.  They are super cute.  As soon as they are finished I'll have them model them so I can get some pictures to share.

After nap time and snack time we went to the park and then came home, grabbed the basketball, some water and jackets and went back over by the park to the basketball court.  We were going to play basketball for Family Home Evening.  My husband didn't even get off work until 5:45 last night and by then we were getting really bored.  Don't get me wrong it was fun and Sarah and I chased each other all over.  We also had to chase Yana down several times to keep her from putting the nasty garbage that is strewn all over, in her mouth.  She also wanted to suck on the rocks.  So we left and went for a walk until my husband got home.  Then we went out for dinner and ice cream and came home.

After the girls went to bed I went for my jog and almost over did it.  I decided to do speed work.  So I set my phone up to have a 5 minute warm up followed by a 30 second fast run, 1 minute steady run, 45 second fast run.  That was supposed to be followed by another minute of steady but for some reason the 1 didn't stick so it went straight to another 30 second fast run.  I had it repeat 10 times and then had a 5 minute cool down.  I was exhausted and felt like some of the contestants on the Biggest Loser.  I wanted to leave my dinner on the side of the road for about half of the work out.  I kept going though even if I was getting a little slower and slower with every repeat.  I still ended up getting my 3 miles in with and average pace of 10:30 minutes per mile.

Then as soon as I get home we start playing musical furniture.  When that is all said and done we cleaned the kitchen and went to bed.  At some point before cleaning I laid down on the floor and did my 100 crunches for the day and almost couldn't get myself back up.

I am still exhausted this morning and still have my Biggest Loser workout to do.  But the number on the scale went down and although I'm tired I feel really good.  It is going to be another busy day with phone calls and running around town. 

Have a great day.

Dentist's apt

I'm going to the dentist's today.  The going to the dentist part isn't scary at all.  I've spent a lot of time in the dentist's office growing up.  I also spent a lot of time in the orthodontist's office.  They pulled a lot of teeth and straightened the rest of them.  The only thing that makes me nervous is the fact that I haven't been to the dentist since before I met my husband.

I went after my mission but before I met my husband.  Things were good but after we got married we didn't have dental insurance and going to the dentist's office when a college student isn't cheap.  Part of it also was the fact that I just never made time for the dentist.  I remember having some of the nurses in the dentist's office who were so nice and kind and patient and others who just made you feel horrible because you didn't brush or floss perfectly and that you even had a need for the dentist.

That is where I'm at today.  I'm nervous because my teeth haven't been cleaned in over 5 years.  I'm sure the nurses are nice but it is still there in the back of my mind.  I've heard wonderful things about the people at this office.  I'll let you know how it goes.