Road Trip

Another rainy Saturday. We started off the morning being really lazy. Why not? By the afternoon Abby started to get a little restless and wanted to go to the playground (I bet you couldn't of guessed that). Instead of going to McDonald's we headed down to the mall. She played for a little bit and then she decided that she wanted to ride the escalators. This was a good opportunity to get away from the playground and head over to Barnes and Noble to grab coffee, read some books and let Abby play with there train set. She was real nice and didn't steal a train from anyone. Then we headed home and had a yummy dinner.

When Abby and I got up Sunday morning @ 6:15 I decided that we were not staying in if it wasn't raining. We have been home the past few weekends and it was time for a road trip. While daddy was still sleeping Abby and I layed around, read some books and in honor of the snow this week we made some snow flakes.

All our markers are dried out except for the green so we couldn't get the cool tied dyed look. Oh well!!

We finally went and woke up daddy around 8:30 and told him that we were ready to go on a road trip. We decided on going to Charleston and off we went.

Here are a few pictures from Folley Beach:

After gathering tons of seashells we left the beach and drove around downtown. We didn't get out because we plan on going back in a month or so. And before we left Charleston I had to go to Whole Foods because we don't have one in Columbia. We grabbed a few things, had a slice of pizza and back home we went.

Week 3 Diet Result

This is going to be short and to the point.

Results:

Kristina -2
Austin -2

Not so bad. They say that you are only supposed to loose 2-3 pds a week.

I have some bad news for everyone. Austin slipped up and smoked today. We have come to an agreement that the patch is not working and he is going to need wellbutrin. He has been having some emotional issues over the last few days.

Snow

ABBY'S FIRST SNOW

It's was fun while it lasted

Express yourself

Let me first say "I love heat". We finally got our heater fixed after it being on the edge of blowing up for the past two weeks. The first heater guy told us that we should just start saving our pennies because we needed a new machine. I had a funny feeling so after talking to my cousin's ex-husband (who is a heating/air man up in DC) we decided to get a second opinion. And you know what? They were able to fix it. Just in time, it is very, very cold here in SC. I moved back South to get away from this kind of weather.

Since it was cold and rainy we spent just about all weekend inside (except for the occasional trip to the grocery store and to McDonald's for Abby to play).

Here are some of the highlights of the weekend:

Painted our nails with a purple marker

Daddy made Abby a tent

Paint, Paint and Paint

Daddy was in charge of craft's this weekend and his motto was "She needs to express herself".

And some how Abby talked Daddy into giving her this after breakfast today

Then she was doing flips and bouncing off the walls

I think Daddy is a sucker for his little girl :)

Picnik

Yesterday I stumbled across this fun photo editing website Picnik. It's free and it has a lot of cool features.

I love photography and would love to have Photoshop CS4 but at this time I cannot afford it.

Here is a before and after photo's I did using there website:

Before

After

Check it out. See what you can do with your photo's.

Week 2 Diet Results

Ready?

Here are the results:

Kristina -1
Austin -1

Not great but still a loss. I am especially amazed since Austin who quit smoking this week actually had a loss. He was eating everything under the sun.

Diet Sabatoge

Last night while I was watching the previews for the next Biggest Loser they showed one of the contestant eating a donut. I thought to myself boy a donut would be so yummy and I would love to have a rasberry filled donut. But I know I wouldn't go out of my way to get one so I wasn't worried.
But to my suprise this morning when I called into work late my co-worker said "You better hurry b/c M is stopping by Krispy Cream because the "Hot and Ready" sign was on". What? I couldn't believe it.
Guess what? I had two...

Yippie

Today Austin quit smoking. I really hope he goes through with it this time. He quit a few years ago for about three months and decided to start back up because he was going to a friends party.
You ask why I didn't quit with Austin? Well, I don't want to be divorced after only being married for 4 mnths. My time is coming real soon.

Crazy Diamond

Did anyone get to see the moon last night? They said it was going to be the biggest moon of 2009.

Austin and I were very excited to see it. We got our camera's and headed out. But to our disappointment it was to cloudy for us to see the sunset.

Later that night Austin went out and took some video of the moon. It was real cool. Since I was already in bed I kept asking him to take my camera and take some pictures. I could hear him and he was not going out. So I jumped out of bed and grabbed the camera. I've never had success taking pictures of the moon and was to lazy to get the tripod but I figured I would give it a try.

These aren't the best pictures but I thought they were pretty cool to share.

Getting back into the groove

After being out of work and daycare so much the past two weeks it was real hard to get back to normal.

And guess what? My sweet little princess turned into a monster.

The week started off with her stealing trains from a one year old at Books-A-Million. She was feeding the family dog just about everything. If we were not watching she would tell us that Cassey ate her food. Then she would want us to discipline Cassey. And through out the week her favorite word was NO....In one week she stole, lied and talked back.

By the weekend things calmed down. She was my sweet little princess again.

Abigail spent her time:

Reading



Doing crafts



We made this for Daddy since he was out painting for a guy and because he is going out of town for work this coming up week.

And just being sweet.



But when I turned my back

And no, she is not on a stool.

Week 1 Diet Results

This week was all about the simple changes.

Here is what we accomplished:

*Cutting down on sodium
*Portion sizes
*Quick healthy meals to prepare during the week after working all day and toddler approved
*Less soda
*And lots and lots of water

And the results:

Kristina - 2
Austin -1

I think were off to a good start. I know we need to start exercising. I did have every intention but enough with the excuses.

The Dryer Shrunk My Pants

No, it really didn't. But that is what I kept telling myself over the holidays. Now that the holidays are over I need to get out of my dream world a get with it.

Since one of my favorite reality shows is starting tomorrow "The Biggest Loser" Austin and I are going to start our own contest at home. We did this before and I kicked his butt. But lately both of us slacked off and after a year and loosing 35 pounds I gained 15 pounds in the last four months. And before is spirals out of control we are going to put a stop to it.

So what are we going to do?

• We are going to start going back to the gym. We are paying for the membership, so why not go.
• Eat healthy.
• Try to quit smoking.
• NO MORE FAST FOOD.
• And develop a "Healthier Lifestyle"as Austin puts it.

Each Friday I am going to post how much weight we lost for the week. I am going to do this because I believe this will keep us motivated and keep at it. Anyways, hopefully by the end of this year we will loose a tremendous amount of weight.

Last night I made Austin take some "fat" pictures so we can reflect back on how we looked at the beginning of our contest.

Here we are:

Pretty dorky, huh!!!

Happy New Year

LOOKING BACK AT 2008

Goodbye 2008

May 2009 bring us as much happiness and joy