Hailie...

Some late Easter pictures... these first few are from the Easter Egg hunt at my mom and dad's church.

Hailie and my dad

Hailie with one of the girls from the Youth Group... going down the massive slide
sittin down.. out of the sun!
eating a hot dog.. yummy!

Not from Easter.. but my daughter has discovered a love of drawing.. This was today. She was so upset when I finally had to take it from her.. She started coloring my carpet! lol.

Hair horror story..

So this post got me thinking about the crazy things I have done to my hair. Here is my hair color horror story!

I had become recently single (that is a whole post to itself.. thank GOD it happened since just a few months later I met my wonderful husband.) I decided to dye my hair red. (Yes, red.) I’m talking bright, almost carrot top, red. I kept it for awhile and it started driving me crazy. So I ended up dying my hair dark brown on top of it to try and cover up the red. Of course - I didn’t know just how bad this was. I met DH later and he fell in love with me, bright red hair and all. I got engaged and my mom and I were both determined that I would have my blondish-brown hair back for my wedding. 6 weeks prior to my wedding I spent over 8 hours having my hair stripped (thank GOD I didn’t have to bleach it!), re-dyed close to my natural hair color, and highlighted. Never again will I attempt again to dye my hair. I will leave it to the professionals.

Here are a few pictures of me with my dark brownish red hair

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This picture was taken a couple of weeks after it was fixed. Not bad, huh?

Life.

This post may be full of rambles so bare with me.

DH forgot his cell phone today at home. So this means I have no idea when he's going to get home, if I should go to the store without him (we usually do grocery shopping together), I can't tell him what his paycheck was (he is paid commission in addition to his normal base salary) or how I am jumping up and down because I was so worried I would have to move money out of savings (I don't, yippee!). I'm not mad.. I just miss talking to him. I enjoy our 1-2 minute phone calls every hour. (He's a delivery driver for a well known ice cream company in the south.. best ice cream ever. HINT: "We eat all we can and sell the rest")

School stuff... I got an A on my Vietnam class midterm! Yippee! I got C's on the other two so I know what classes I really have to focus on. I have a lot of reading to do. My speech last night was SO much better than my first one. Hopefully my group did well.

I have lost another 1.4 lbs! I have now lost just over 7 lbs. I am so excited about it. It's amazing what eating better does for you. I haven't been on the treadmill because of my legs and my trying to rest them so they will heal. I will probably get on today and walk, even if it isn't for very long.

Time to put the little one down for a nap.. she's gettin fussy.

I still haven't worked on my layout.. I swear I will get to it at some point.

Good news..

I am down another 2 lbs! That brings me the total to 6 lbs lost in just a couple of weeks. I am happy about this. On the other hand - we finally figured out why my legs are hurting. Shin splints. Yuck. Let me tell you, it's not a great feeling at all. I'm going to take it easy and not try to overdo it.

So I got back one of my grades for my midterms I took (you know, the day from hell where I took three midterms). It was for my Film class and was the one I was really worried about. I got a C, not bad, but could have been much worse. I just need to get an 87 on my take home final to pull off a B in the class so I am happy about that. I am spending tomorrow up at school (Hailie is spending the day/night with my mom) and I will be meeting with the TA to get some hints for the final. Should help - especially since he is grading them after all.

My big paper for my Crusades class is due on the 11th of April. Part of my plan tomorrow is to work as much as I can on it. If I could even get through a quarter to half of it I will be happy.

My camera has been in the car, but as soon as I can get off my butt and get it I will be posting some pictures from the Easter egg hunt on Saturday. We went to the park today with a friend we met from Bay Area Mommas. Beckey and Madeline were so much fun. We had a good time. Too bad my camera sat in the car. lol!

That's all from here for now. Time to get working on my speech for Thursday.

I have come to a conclusion.

That conclusion is my blog need a total makeover. I've been thinking about it for the last few days and have come to the conclusion it just sucks. I see so many wonderful designs.. I have some digital design capability so I just need to figure out the colors I want. So don't be surprised if you begin to see changes.. they are coming!

Quick poll..
What colors annoy the hell out of you when checking out a blog? This way I can be sure to avoid anything that might actually annoy the few people who do read my blog. :)

Worn out.

So my exercise and eating better took quite the nosedive the last two days. I didn't get on the treadmill yesterday. I was tired and my legs are pretty sore. I figured I would just make up for that today. I got on and ran about a 1/4 of a mile and my legs started hurting again. I've been drinking lots of water, eating bananas (gotta get more potassium), and stretching. Being that Anthony worked 14 hours today and I was feelin a bit lazy we decided to order pizza. I ate more than I probably should've. I only walked about a half mile more before I just gave up for the night.

I don't want to get lazy. I have been doing so well and have felt so good. CAN'T GET LAZY (that's me yelling at myself). If only I weren't so sore. I could do so much more. I will be super careful with what I eat over the next couple of days and give me legs some rest. Hopefully they get better. Hopefully I haven't done anything too bad. GRRRR. Yes, I'm quite aggravated at the moment.

On the school front.. spring break is almost over. I have read one book (378 pages!) and read part of another (I've read about 150 and need to get to about 328 if I remember right). I've gotten 2 lectures for next week already watched. Did some research for my paper last night. I've been semi-productive. I should get more done this weekend.

Easter should be fairly uneventful. Taking Hailie up to my mom and dad's church for an Easter egg hunt tomorrow. Sunday we are supposed to go to church with Anthony's mom.. although I think I am going to just let Anthony and Hailie go since I have so much school work I really need to work on. (I know, I'm bad.. I should be in church. But in addition to the ton of school work I have to do there are just some underlying issues I have with churches in general at the moment. Maybe one day I'll go into that. It's a long and drama-filled story that ended badly... and me vowing to never step foot again to another church. My beliefs haven't changed.. I just have issues with churches themselves.) Enough of that though. That will be a LONG post.

Happy Easter everyone..

Easter picture!

We took Hailie to get her picture taken with the Easter bunny.. She was so good, quite amusing actually. She wanted to play with the bunny's mouth.

Wordless Wednesday... Me through the years

Random music video among other things

It was a nice and relaxing day. Hailie and I went with my MIL to get her Easter dress.. It's so cute. My mom and I are taking her to get her pictures done with the Easter bunny on Thursday. I will have lots of pictures to share then. Other than that I laid around and did nothing. It was NICE. Now time for school work. Bleh!

Anyway - yesterday while Hailie was taking her nap Anthony and I were watching Fuse (music video station). The video below was played and I just can't help but laugh when I watch it. I have no idea what the guy says but it's just amusing to me.

Enjoy it - it's Vampire Weekend - A-Punk

The Return of Jezebel James..

So anyone who knows me knows that I am obsessed with Gilmore Girls. I own all the seasons on dvd.. and have even decided if we have a girl her first name is going to be Lorelai.

Anyway - the creator of GG, Amy Sherman-Palladino and her husband are doing a show on Fox called The Return of Jezebel James. Starring on the show is Parker Posey and Lauren Ambrose. I dvred the first two episodes and watched them last night and I LOVE IT! There are some appearances from some of the actors from GG, most notably the actor who played Max, Rory's high school English teacher.

Parker Posey's character Sarah finds out in the first episode that she can not have children and asks her crazy. free spirited little sister CoCo to be a surrogate mom for her. I love the banter back and forth. It reminds me a lot of the conversations between Lorelai and Rory.

Great show - I hope it gets picked up. I haven't laughed that hard in a long time.

Anyone else catch it?? I have almost given up on Big Brother this season - it's been pretty raunchy and I just don't have the time to watch it like I used to.

Funny moments at the worst time.

So reading this entry over at Mommy moments brought back a memory that I hadn't even thought about in a long time. Now it seems hilarious, but at the time it was a little more than stressful.

The night I had my daughter my water broke at about 11pm. I had been up all day and had just laid down to go to sleep. We got up, called our parents, and were rushing around since I hadn't backed completely and we were both SO tired. We were going to take my car. We already had the carseat set up. We get the car loaded and I had gotten my big fat pregnant butt situated and Anthony went to start the car and it was DEAD. Completely dead. Talk about timing! Anthony drove a truck at this time (that we got rid of back in August.. killed us on gas!) We had to move everything from the car to truck and then I had to crawl my way into it. Pretty amusing now, but damn it sucked that day!

Stress relief and more of my ramblings!

So over at cr8buzz tonight in the moms forum our topic of the week is stress relief and what you do to relax and unwind and escape from all that unwanted stress. For me lately it has been running. I get on, crank up the ipod (usually something along the lines of Breaking Benjamin, Crossfade, basically something I can rock out to) and just go for it. I feel free and when I get off it feels like I have a huge weight lifted off my shoulders. In addition to this reading is another activity that helps me to relax. I get lost in those pages and become oblivious to the outside world. I can escape, and I love it. I also finding writing stimulating as well - getting my thoughts on paper. Sometimes the thoughts in my head are so jumbled that getting them on paper (or in a blog entry) is the only way that I can make sense of anything. I think a lot of that comes from my overanalyzing everything.

My battle to lose weight had quite the victory today, and I couldn't be happier. I have lost exactly 4.6 lbs this week! I don't know how that is possible. I have been on the treadmill every day, have tried to run around more chasing after Hailie, and even doing some hardcore cleaning around the house. My body already feels so much better. I can't tell you how nice it is to see some progress. I know that I'm not going to be seeing these types of results every week, but it definitely helps keep me motivated. More importantly, I just feel SO MUCH BETTER! I already have more energy and I feel happier. I know that I have to keep this up not only for the next two months, but I want to continue working out and staying healthy while I'm pregnant. If I do that losing the weight after the second baby is only going to be that much easier. I have a goal - and it's to be back down to 140. I have a long road ahead, but I have the motivation and support of everyone around me and that helps.

On a completely different note - I just have to say my little girl is growing up so fast and I am just amazed at how fast she learns. She has begun speaking quite a bit more, not all coherent, but we are definitely hearing her trying a lot more than before. I was worried for awhile because she wasn't saying much other than mama and dada and who's that (sounds more like whosdat in a whisper). She is such a beautiful little girl and I am just so blessed to have her, even on those days I just want to put her in her crib and run away. I better get to studying... It feels great to be blogging again more often. Here are some recent pictures of Hailie.

School and exercise.

Well I am officially on spring break. Although - this spring break isn't really going to be a spring break. I have my paper for my Crusades class and my group speech to work on. On top of that I also have a ton of reading to catch up on. I also still need to watch a few of my lectures. I'm trying to get ahead on those so I have more time to focus on my reading and my paper.

On a good note - the only grades I have back so far are my crusades midterm and the prospectus for my paper - Bs on both and I got an A on my first speech. Should have my remaining midterm grades back after spring break. I did okay I think - at least Cs in everything. I was never behind with reading/lectures and I studied like crazy but taking three midterms in one day I think really hurt me.

On the weight loss front - I have lost about 3 lbs in a week! Woohoo! Gotta keep it up.

Off to read and catch up on everyone's blogs.. I hate being MIA!

Frustration.

So we got the blood work back from my doctors appt.

The good news is my cholesterol wasn't too high. Most of the issues we were already aware of. However, my blood sugar levels were elevated and there was some fatty liver issues. Both of which, my doctor seems to think, can be taken care of by my losing weight.

The metamorphine she gave me for my insulin resistance should also help. I've hit the treadmill and have made some eating changes. I'm frustrated to some extent - because I'm overweight - but I'm not obese by any means. I'm in a size 14! When I say frustrated - it's more with myself than anything. I could've helped some of it. I'm trying as hard as I can to lose weight but who knows how successful I will be. She didn't give me a number so I'm hoping to just lose as much as I can.

Wish me luck - I need it.

Update and our big news!

So it's almost 11:30 and I had to take a break from studying. I just wrote 2 1000 word essays in just under 5 hours for my world civ class. We were given the topics TODAY and have to turn them in on SATURDAY with the our midterms.

So our big news is... we have decided it's time to start trying for baby #2!
I went to the doctor on Tuesday and am having all sorts of blood work done, thanks to my PCOS. I was put on Provera and Metamorfin for the time being. My doctor wants me to try and drop some weight and in two months if I haven't gotten pregnant she will start me on clomid. I have to go on a low carb diet and can only drink water. The metamorfin should help with my weight loss - since it seems like with my PCOS it is impossible. I am going to start getting on the treadmill and walking a lot more. My hope is I can drop about 10 lbs before my next doctors appt.

We have picked out names - William Andrew for a boy and Lorelai Nicole for a girl. Andrew is Anthony's cousins name, and Nicole is his sister Erin's middle name. :)

I am so excited.. I just hope it doesn't take too long.

Happy Birthday Anthony!

Today is my DH's 27th birthday.. Happy birthday baby, I love you!

Tuesday is our two year wedding anniversary.

Studying for midterms continues - I'm STRESSED.

School..

School has me running around like crazy. I have one midterm down, my speech done, and only three more midterms to study for. I will take all three next Saturday. I have lots of other big news and pictures to share. As soon as life slows down a little you all can expect a LONG update! Leaving you guys with a couple pictures from our adventures at the park last week. It's orange because it was taken inside of one of those tunnel slides. Don't you just love that statically charged hair?? We were cracking up the whole time. I have it on video too.