BIGGEST LOSER!

Ok for all who have not already read Julies blog.... This is what happened on Thursday night at Book club. Here we are trying to enjoy a nice book club when the girls from Biggest Loser walk in. I am sitting next to Julie who has a nice perfect shot of them coming in the door. I can just see her face and knew something was happening but kinda just thought she saw another person she knew. If you know Julie she seems to run into someone she knows where ever she goes! So when I realize her facial expression is a bit different and it was truly the Betty Sue and Ali from one of my favorite shows I kinda was a little teeny bit excited. The other girls really had no idea what we were excited about because they have never even seen the show! We talked for quite some time and got lots of info on the show and how things work and what people really are like there. Alot of what was said and a few pictures are not really supposed to happen until the show is over soooo maybe I will post that later hahaha. It was a great experience and I just wound up liking them more than I had before! So vote for them when the time comes!

Back to school!

Well school started again on Monday. I have officially seen the craziest teacher at MCC. She actually answers her own questions and cracks herself up. Lots of my time wasted in her class with her tangents and stories. I sure hope she gets on the ball. I hope this semester does not make me as crazy as the last. Towards the end of the semester I was not even myself. I felt like I was pulling my hair out and could not go on much longer with the days where I never sat down until I got to bed at night. So far I have not even studied once NOT GOOD. I really need to get in the mode of school again but the little break I had was so good it is hard to realize it has ended and time to step up to the plate again.

I am a bit worried about this semester. I have very little time on my hands and have way to much on my plate to begin school. My PTA position has been OK. Has not been to bad but of course we are just beginning a fundraiser that we thought was going to be easy but turned into a LOT more than we bargained for. Then we are also in the planning stages of the Carnival we are having! This is no easy task. We had a meeting for all parents who were interested in helping and it was pathetic. I mean like 5 people other than the board. Mind you we have 600 students at Porter. Where are all of them? UMMMMM not helping us I do know that.

Not only do I have my school I have 5 kids in school, a toddler, Soccer, Dance, Gymnastics, two book clubs, SIAC (another school committee), Title 1 parent involvement, A Scout position and am a wife hmmmmmmmm. I love to give my kids the chance to get out and try new things but I sometimes wonder if they really need all of this???? Anyway thanks for listening to me rant.

My running update is.... Last Saturday I ran 40 minutes and totaled 3.9 miles. I know why not 4 but I did not measure the distance before my run. I got home feeling like I was on top of the world and got in my car to measure it and about fainted. I could not believe I actually did it! That night my ankle started to hurt me:(. I had no idea why. I had not fallen or twisted my ankle so what could be wrong? I felt like it would go away so I took a day off running and hoped it would be fine. NOT. So off to the Doc I went. It was not my normal doctor and they took an xray and told me it was not broken. DUH! I knew that but I wanted them to tell me if I injured it or not. If it is only sore who cares I will still run but if it is an injury I will rest. So I think they thought it was tendinitis. Told me to rest and take Ibuprofen and to go see my real doctor. Thursday my foot was not to much better so I thought I would go see my Doc. Well they pretty much told me the same thing. Ice, rest and Ibuprofen. So I went running last night to see how that affects it. If it was not worse than I was going to continue to run. If it made my pain worse then that was my clue to rest right? So this am I get up and my ankle is HUGE. I feel OK though. So where does that put me now? I have no clue what to do. I have signed up for a 5k run this Sunday and I have not made a decision what I should do. I really think I will run it but it won't be the best run. I really wanted this to be a great thing to accomplish but somehow doing it while not 100% takes alot of the fun out of it.

Best update so far...Running that is!

Ok I told you all I would post if I did it and today was the day! I ran 20 minutes straight no stopping!!!!!!! We have a neighbor who's son died almost 8 years ago. He was an officer and they are having a 5k run for fallen officers in January. I actually plan to try to attempt it. If there is anyone who is as slow as a runner as myself I would love some company???

Running Update.

While Alyssa was in her appointment, which takes about an hour, I decided to spend my time wisely ha ha. I actually went running this am. It was the coldest I have ever ran in and it makes it a bit harder, I think. I am so excited I have really come a long way. When I started this I could barely and I mean barely run 90 seconds. I now can actually run two 8 minute stretches and it has not been as hard as I expected to do. I am supposed to be able to run 20 minutes straight after today UMMMMMM YEAH RIGHT! If I actually can do it you will definitely see a post here. Otherwise assume I never made it. This really has been so hard for me to do and has been a great goal setting experience for me. When I started this I really could not have imagined ever being able to do this. I still have my doubts that I can do it all the way but it has made a huge difference to actually meet a goal and then set a new one and achieve that one and so on..... I will keep you posted on how far I get.

BRACES!!!

Today Alyssa got her braces on! She was so excited until this afternoon as they start to "hurt".

Well as you see here He is back in braces too. His teeth are very straight he just has a huge overbite they want to correct.

Here they are together. So cute. I love that they really do enjoy each other and this gives them one more thing in common. So for now yes, I am officially poor. We have no dental insurance that covers Orthodontics, just cavities and check ups. We usually save for these kinds of things but this year we have had a really hard year in regards to cars breaking down and things relating to owning a home. If I good just get a hold of a money tree we would be fine right???

CUTEST KIDS EVER IN BRACES!

The funniest visit to Santa ever!

We have a real life Santa who lives close to our house. each year he sets up his entire yard and sits out front from 6-8pm until Christmas eve. So every year we get to go and have our annual visit FREE! This first pic is of My 4 year old. She has told Santa two times she wants a Dora flashlight which I can not find anywhere. HELP.


This of course is where the story get absolutely hilarious. OK maybe not to everyone but I thought it was so funny/embarrassing! Santa asked my 5 year old son what grade he was in... his response 4th grade! Umm the truth is he is in kinder! Then he asks him what do you want for Christmas.....? I want a bazooka and a machine gun! NICE!!! Where does a kid get something like that? We are pretty strict on what he watches and have no clue where he learned that! I asked him why he said he was in the 4th grade and he said because he wouldn't bring me that if I told him I was in kinder and I would not be big enough. Oh like a 4th grader needs those either? He will always be my one kid who makes me laugh!
The BIG kids!

Apparently my 2 year old liked this Santa because she will not even get close to any other Santa we have ever been around. She said she did not want to sit with him and then at the very last minute she went over and did it. I do not think she liked it much and was very shy but I think the candy cane she got took care of any fear she had!

This is what I have been up to!

Alright, so way back in August my daughter had her 10th birthday and I bought her this comforter set. Her room was the blue color you see in the bottom corner of one of the pics. So knowing this was in no way going to match I promised her I would redo her room. Well as you all know I have been consumed with my semester of school, which might I add started the same day as her birthday. I never got to her room. I told her the day I finish school I will do it. Well I kept my promise here it is. I can not believe I took this project on while being in the middle of Christmas but if it was not now it would be another crazy time in my life.
I do not know why one picture looks much pinker than the other but it came out perfect. Well after a ton of work that is. You see I got the pink from Home Depot, after one coat it was so bright it blinded my eyes to look at it. I was off to the depot to get another gallon of a much lighter color when my brilliant hubby said to just add white. Well half a gallon of white later this is what I came up with. Today when I put the comforter up to it is was an exact match. I of course have to do all the baseboards white now but that is to come after I get a hold of Christmas. I have all the presents for the 6 kids and my husband and a few friends to get wrapped. I hope to not be up alllllll night, every night until Christmas eve wrapping but I am afraid that is my reality.


Before I had time to finish this project today, I had to trek across Arizona at such a convenient time. You see my mom and dad live in California. They go way alllllll out at Christmas for my kids. Tuesday afternoon I get the call from mom saying "how would you like to drive to Yuma"? Ummm not right? No I really did go. I woke up at the crack of dawn (6am) and got two kids out of bed to go with me and drove all the way to Yuma. That is the half way point we decided on. I was actually home by 1:45 after meeting "Santa" in the McDonald's parking lot and going to get some I Hop. It was not as bad as I thought although the timing was not the greatest. I still have a few things to buy and a huge amount of organizing to get done. So I am off to get some of it done catch up more later!