Snow, seriously in March?!

Yup it's snowing again. After the beautiful weekend we just had! Yesterday it rained and I was alright with that. It was in the 70's Friday and Saturday. John and I took the kids camping at Citico Creek. They liked it when we got there on Friday but soon after lunch they weren't to thrilled and were ready to get back to the house! I guess you can't really expect little kids to have enough patience for camping yet. We also didn't catch but one trout which is disappointing.



Yesterday John and the kids went with the in-laws to Indian food. I couldn't eat it, even though it smelled so good, because of this Almased plan. After that we went to go see my brother, Jon, at the store and we got tons of good things for all the new recipes I'll be trying. Today I'm just writing out the recipes I'll be using so I'll have them on hand. I plan on getting a workout in and who knows what the kids and I will do! It's finally stopped snowing/raining at least for a little bit!

We get to find out orders within the first week of April. I'm so anxious. I really think that John will be getting Washington, his first pick, and if that's the case he said we might be out of here by August! I wish there were more to report! Maybe soon there will be.

Not mentally here

Recently I've been preoccupied with my weight goals and my body issues so I haven't been on here much writing about our daily lives. When I started this blog I wanted to include everything in my day but then decided that my body goals shouldn't be part of what I do with my kids or family. I've encouraged you all to look at the other blog if you are into nutrition and my weightloss stories. I wont go into many details about that stuff but I will say that 7 days ago I started the Turbo Protein Diet/Fast with Almased. I've had ups and downs. Today is my half-way mark and I am proud to say that I'm 7 pounds down and hoping to lose more inches than pounds in the next 7 days.

This past weekend we took the kids to Chuck-E-Cheese, which was crazy. Then John had to go ship off a guy to bootcamp so I took the kids to the gym's play place and got a quick workout in. Then we had to go to Walmart and get some things and then head home. Other than that....it's been raining for a while now and we haven't been able to get out. I am ready for spring to come around so the kids can go out on the deck and we can leave the doors open AND so we can start going for walks.

We have the kids party coming up soon. I am ready to spend the day with our friends and for the kids to celebrate their birthdays with those they care about. I'm sure their'll be more news to share in the upcoming days and weeks! Till then my friends

Long time No post!

So I've been lazy lately! There hasn't been much going on since I last wrote. The kids are having their usual on and off days, John is having his usual crappy time at work and I am doing my usual complaining about not getting any help around this place. I really wish I had something better to say on this thing. I told one of my girlfriends when I started reading her blog (before I started one or two of my own!!!) that blogs are really only for people who have lives exciting enough to fill their blog with the tons of cool things they did in the day. And because their life is so much more interesting they are able to write everyday!

I am going to have to do a run through of my blogs and update the posts that required pictures I was too lazy to load at the time. I'm sure that eventually I will get my blogging act together and do what is suppose to be done to make my read more interesting.

On the old news front, John and I took Phil and Tara skiing this past weekend. It's
the end of the season and we wanted to get one more good day in up there before it closed for the Summer sessions. And we thought how much more fun could it be than to go with our friends? Well it turns out that it wasn't as much fun as we all thought it would be. Phil and Tara, who had never been skiing before decided to take lessons that were suppose to be only one hour. That ended up being about 3 hours and they didn't get much ski time in with us. John and I found a new slope that we didn't know about before and it was cool going down when the snow was more icey instead of slushey and before all the people found the same slope! I also saw an old boyfriend of minr from highschool. He completely tried to ignore me which just made things ackward. And to make it even more uncomforable, Tara wasn't having a good time and by the middle of our day pass the place was so packed the medics were out trying to clear paths for the skiers coming down the hill to get through! Seriously it was rough.

Also a few weeks ago I might have posted about taking the kids to the TN aquarium in Chattanooga. It is suppose to be the #1 aquarium in the nation but I have to say I wasn't that impressed. It is located in two seperate buildings and one is so small that is doesn't even seem worth walking through and the other is so large it is just a hassle to drag two small kids through on the weekend! We didn't get to take many pictures but here are some that we did manage to get.




Let me see what else......John is taking his first class test tomorrow. He has been studying for the past two days so the kids and I have been forced to stay upstairs while he and Ray did practice tests. I will be glad to return to some sort of normal tomorrow after his test. Also we get to pick orders on the 11th. It will be so wonderful to see what is open and hear what John put in for. The only crappy thing is that we don't get to find out right away what we will get. John told his dad he won't know until about May but he told me he wouldn't find out what he got until April. So I'm not sure which is true. I'm assuming we will find out around Chelsea's birthday and the 1st week of May will be the latest. I'm just really anxious to know where we will be going.

I have Christie's baby shower to go to this Saturday and also Tara's little girl, Aly, is having her birthday party this Sunday. It will be nice to be busy for once! I hate being stuck out here in the middle of nowhere because we never get out of the house. I miss living in Knoxville, so close to everything. I miss being able to pick between 2 or 3 different playgrounds instead of only one that is 40 minutes away. It's hard.
I was talking to Rachel the other day online and she's having a rough time too. She and Eric are sick, Trent is stressed to the max between school, interviews, home-life, etc. I feel their pain and I wish we lived closer together so we could be miserable together! At least with her close she could bring Eric over and get some relief. Tag-teaming when it comes to kids is much easier than just watching tons alone! Plus she is my best friend and I really enjoy her company. I hate living so far away from her. Well I have to go get the crying baby. That's the end of things for the night. I hope to get my act together and get more regular with the blog.