Restart

So, Remember way back when I started the couch to 5k?
it was a couple months ago. and No, I didn't finish it, I got about 3/4 done with the entire program before I gave up. What had happened was I had reached my prepregnancy goal which was 145lbs, then things came up like vacation, and rain and so on... I just wasn't motivated anymore.

So Madison is 9months old now and I'm actually down to 137. Which is awesome, but what isn't awesome is that I don't FEEL in shape, and I don't feel like I have a lot of energy, and I haven't worked out in 2 months.

So today I decided I would get off my butt and instead of taking Madison on a walk in her pink car buggy thing, I would bust out my old friend the jogging stroller.

It didn't go so well. I went from being able to run 3.5 miles straight in about 25 minutes to making it only a few blocks and wheezing for air. WHAT HAPPENED!?

Thus I need a new plan of action, and a new goal.. one that I wont get too bored of like couch to 5k.

I'm going to sign up for a class once a week to take at the gym
I'm going to work out a minimum of 3 times a week.
and my new goal is to tone up and get down to 131lbs, which brings me to a very healthy BMI of 20.5

I'm going to give myself until October 1st, wish me luck!

workin' it.

I went back to my old job at the Inn to talk to the manger about going back to work
As much as I like staying at home, I do miss the extra $$$ and it can be quite boring at times.
I'm pretty sure I'm going to wait 3 more months until Madison is at least 1 year old.

I need to find a good daycare provider or babysitter to watch her for a few hours about 4 days a week.

Secondly I need a mode of transportation.
The army only pays to ship one vehicle overseas during a PCS (permanent change of station) and when Matt was about to deploy to Iraq we sold our jeep. A week before his deployment date his orders got cancelled, and now we were down to 1 car. We wanted to buy another car but we don't want to go through the trouble of buying an selling it again to avoiding paying $3000+ to ship it wherever we end up next (which is only a year away).

Matt was really close to buying this motorcycle today (Motorcycles don't ship through the army like cars do, they ship them with your household goods for free) but after looking at how much insurance would cost we decided that it didn't seem that great of an investment.

So.... what's a girl to do?

well, since I only work a few blocks away, I'm thinkin' I might have to invest in one of this babies

I may even decide to rock one of these guys on the back.

Dorky, huh?
Well I just may be able to pull it off and people will think I'm all for saving the environment when really I'm just cheap. Haha!

Well I still have 3 more months of being a stay at home mom, I may keep my eyes open for a good deal on a used car. We'll see.

9month old and Paint = messy father's day gift

Matt's getting the new iphone which counts as his father's day gift.

but that doesn't come out til the 24th so in the mean time Madison made daddy a little something to have the day of..

Since this is Matt's first father's day i thought it would be a cute idea to make him a keepsake box to keep all the cards and little gifts Madison will be making him over the years.

I decorated the top of with paper letters and one of my favorite pictures of the two of them, then I let Madison do the sides of the box.

I bought some non toxic finger paints and took her into the bathroom. It got a little crazy, that's for sure. the both of us were covered in paint.. as well as my bathroom mat and tub... but it was well worth it.

surprisingly it wasn't that difficult to get her to paint on the box at all. In fact she did most of this herself, but when she had finished with the box, it was hard to get her not to paint the tub and eat her fingers. Thank goodness for non toxic completely washable crayola paint.

and tada!! :)

random

sometimes i get in these weird moods where I have to remind myself that the whole world isnt out to get me.

I hate it.

"My diaper is full.. full of shiek"

So Matt and I were watching tv together when the new Huggies diaper commercial came on advertising the new limited edition denim diapers.

We couldn't believe what we were looking at, we were laughing so hard.



Later that day Madison decided to crawl up the stairs for the first time when I was upstairs grabbing a hairband. So we needed to get her a baby gate.

When we went to the store to grab the baby gate, what did we see?

IT WAS TRUE!, THEY ARE REAL!

denim diapers, we couldn't resist (and they were the same price as regular) so we grabbed a pack.

Now madison can cruise the house in style on those hot days.