Before I'm 30

1. Skydive
2. Take the kids to Italy
3. Finish my degree 
4. Go to Ireland with my man
5. Go up in a hot air balloon 
6. Face my fear of heights & go Climbing
7. Own our own home
8. Take the Kids to Disney World
9. Move to PA
10. Learn how to crochet again
11. Get my masters
12. Solve this damn Rubik's cube   F**K YEAH
13. Start a small photography biz on the side
14. Attend my HS reunion 
15. Renew our vows
16. Reach my goal weight
17. Speak French almost fluently 
18. Teach the kids French
19. Vacation in St. Lucia
20. Take Koda Bear to a beach
21. Go on a roller coaster other than Talon @ Dorney
22. Road trip with friends
23. Buy a Nikon digital SLR or an Olympus PEN
24. Take a photography class
25. Do the breast cancer walk in NYC with my mom
26. Buy a sewing machine
27. Have a job I love getting up & going to
28. Take the kids on a family trip to Maine with my dad

So I've only lost about 3 pounds since my last "weight loss post" which isn't really all that great, but I'm happy with it. I haven't been able to get a good workout in a while. I've been waking up earlier and earlier but I'm finding that when I do the kids also wake up earlier... I feel like I'm fighting a losing battle but I don't plan on giving up so wish me luck. 

Last night for dinner I made turkey burgers and homemade sweet potato fries. Ashleann loved them so I guarantee you will too seeing as she doesn't love much food at the moment. She's at that chicken nuggets & hot dogs phase. 

Here are the fries....

All I did was slice up a sweet potato, evenly coat the slices with cooking spray (pam) *don't put too much though* and add a tiny bit of salt. Easy right? I put them in the oven @ 350 for about 25 minutes and turned them halfway... if you like them crispier just keep them in a little longer, problem solved.

Now go and make some.... because they are delicious.

last minute

I am awful when it comes to packing ahead of time. We are leaving Friday night for 3 weeks & my house is a disaster, nothing is pulled together or packed, nothing is washed for that matter. The only thing I have worked out is who is house/pet sitting. I'm the type of person who an hour beforehand starts panicking and throwing things into bags. I wish I wasn't but hey that's me.

You are probably thinking to yourself.... GET OFF THE COMPUTER & PACK! O but if only it were that simple. I'll start packing then something will distract me whether it's the cat humping the dog, one of the kids crying, an old picture I found while hunting for clothes or worst case scenario a spider in the house.

Maybe this time will be different. Maybe I'll clean the whole house today and do the laundry as soon as I'm done here. Who am I kidding after I click post I'm headed straight over to pinterest, then it's tea party time with Ashleann. When nap time rolls around I'll do it. I'll do it for sure. That's a lie I won't I may think about it & I mean really think about it but I'll most likely watch some episodes of The Office.

Until next time

good morning to you too

Dakota aka "Koda Bear" is my almost 4 year old Shiba Inu. She drives me insane has quite the personality at times, but of course I love her to pieces.  This morning I woke up to something along the lines of this...

 Too cute I know... now get ready for the play by play. So then I get out of bed (I know what an interesting way to start my day), hop in the shower, sing a little bit... and right as I step out... I find her & the floor covered in baby powder... awesomeness. Then I pull out my bag to attempt to start packing and she get inside of it and sits down. It was cute though. Later on she chewed up no lie about 20 pieces of my daughter's plastic play food.
Needless to say even your best of friends can drive you a little crazy.

p.s torn up plastic food hurts a lot when you step on it.

day one... try two

I haven't posted in such a long time... which isn't a good thing since my goal was to at least post weekly. I call fresh start.... clean slate. 

So lets call this day one try two lol. I weigh 179.4 pounds today. I just finished my turbo fire workout for the day... by finished i mean i did about 3/4 of it before coughing so hard I fell. I've been wicked sick for about a week and although I feel much better I just can't seem to shake this cough.

I haven't purchased shakeology yet.. it's been put on hold for the time being due to all of our money being out towards our car troubles.  We were told the other day that our Escape is totaled needs a new engine.... WHAT?!? A real crappy situation if you ask me... so we are currently looking at a 2012 Jeep liberty (limited jet edition) what a sexy car. The salesman told me he agreed but couldn't say sexy so he simply called it grrrr haha.

Any-who back to the losing weight aspect of this post.  Even though this is my first workout in a good week I feel like I'm making progress. I just have to keep telling myself that it's all going to be worth it in the end. Sounds easy, but I'm struggling. My husband ordered pizza with his friend the other night for the football game.... I had a slice two slices. Not the best I know but I'll get there.