Happy Halloween!

Today was my daycare halloween party! Some of the parents brought treats, and Cole and I made cupcakes. This was the first year, I asked the kids to bring their costumes. The kiddos ate a few treats, dressed up in their costumes, and watched a Halloween movie. I think the costumes were their favorite part even though, they were in them total probably 20 minutes! But, they loved every minute of it!

I love dressing up for Halloween but this year, the hubs and I didn't end up going to the halloween party we had planned on. Boooo. There is always next year, and I'll probably be thinking about our costumes until then!

Our trick-or-treat was this past sunday, so we don't have any big plans for tonight. I wish we were able to trick-or-treat on halloween, and in the evening! That's how I always remember it during my childhood. Yeah, it was freezing....but it was fun!

                                                        My babies in their halloween shirts!

                                                                            Yum!

                                                             My boys in their costumes!

                                                        Daycare kiddos in their costumes!

                                                                   Happy Halloween!!

A random, all over the place, kinda day

Well.....Drew has yet another double ear infection, and Cole has a sinus infection. This means my little Drew is going to have to get tubes in his ears! I was hoping we could avoid this, but doesn't look like that's going to happen! Hopefully they work for him!

Today is an odd day! Just about every school in the area is closed, so you know what that means for me....more kiddos! I am down 4 kids today due to their moms being teachers, so they are at home, but gained a few other school agers, who don't normally come. Cole's preschool was even cancelled today!

My hubs worked an extra shift last night, since he's off today. I've never understood his reasoning. "I'm off tomorrow, so I'll work more today" WTH....just be off for once? But, I guess it's ok since I'm sure he was needed last night with the crazy weather! He BETTER stay home today/tonight though....or this mama might lose her mind!!

I have been thinking it's wednesday all day...but I'm sad now that I have realized that it's only tuesday because that means Duck Dynasty is NOT on tonight! Yes, I love that show. I may have giant crush on Willie! It's totally redneck, and it reminds me soo much of my hometown, and my cousins ! lol

I have no pics to share, or any mind blowing topics to change the world today either. Just a very random, all over the place, out of routine, kinda day for me! What's your day like?

Trick-or-Treat Weekend

Yesterday was our Trick-or-Treat! It was a miserable day! freezing and raining! Wind was blowing like crazy, umbrellas turning inside out, kids soaking wet, parents soaking wet, and just a plain old miserable time! But........we went anyway! Drew didn't join our wonderful trick-or-treating experience. He stayed home and passed out candy with Grandma and Grandpa. Both my kiddos have a cough, and runny nose....so you can imagine just how much the weather helped with this! booooo. (both going to the DR. today...AGAIN)

Cole LOVED his costume, Drew HATED his costume!!

                                                                         Officer Cole
He looked so cute!! He was definitely in love with his costume! I'm glad.....he wore it all day yesterday!!
Now for my not so happy lion.......

He hated his costume!! He also doesn't feel well, so that didn't help! I didn't get one picture of him in the costume without crying!

                My sweet babies!! Maybe next year Drew will have more fun! :) Happy Halloween!!

Halloween Fun

Yesterday, I received a letter from Cole's preschool teachers. It said something along these lines.....
RE: Halloween "party" I forgot to put this in the newsletter, sorry.... but our halloween festivities will be tomorrow Oct, 25. You should bring a treat for 15 kids, and please stay to help your child pass out the treat.
WHAT???? Awesome. Tell me the night before that I need treats for 15 kids! I had some things planned, but I had them planned for NEXT week on Halloween. Nice of them to tell us the day before huh. That's some serious poor planning if you ask me! Anyway.....off to pinterest I go, for an emergency treat! I decided on witch hats, and brooms! Mainly because there was no baking involved, and it's something I could make quick! I had in depth frankenstein cupcakes, and mummy cookies planned for next week. Guess I will try those for our daycare party! So here's what we came up with....

Cole wanted to sample them the whole time we were working on them! :) I thought they turned out cute! They were super easy, and quick.....seeing as I had less than 24 hours to get something together! Here is a pic of Cole all ready for his party today! They are not allowed to wear their costumes, only halloween shirts....LAME!

I'm not sure what's up with the new "smile" lol. But, he's still cute!! ANNNND since we got to help with the halloween treats today, I got to leave the house for a little bit!! Holla!!!

Our neighborhood does something we call "boo" each halloween. You get a halloween bucket, fill it with goodies, and then after dark you put it on someones doorstep in the neighborhood, ring the doorbell, and run! Inside the bucket is a picture of a ghost that says "Boo to you" ....you put the ghost on the front door to show that you have already been "bood" You then make 2 copies of the instruction sheet, 2 copies of the ghost, and make 2 buckets of your own....and "boo" 2 more neighbors within 48 hours. We received our "boo" on tuesday night! So last night Cole and I filled buckets so that we could go "boo" our neighbors!!

Cole had fun taking them to our neighbors! He thought it was even cooler that he got to go walk around in the dark with Daddy :) It's a fun little tradition! Our neighborhood is only 4 years old, and full of kids, we do lots of fun things like this! Exciting for the the kiddos, and well, me too! :)  Carving pumpkins was postponed until tonight! So that should be a good time!!

Pushing Through?!?!

I had it in my head this morning, that I didn't want to do my workout. I knew I had to, but I reaaallllly didn't want to. I'm not even sure why...just didn't feel like it today. I missed yesterdays, because I had too many kids....and didn't have a free moment to get anything done...let alone a workout. Wednesdays are supposed to be the easy day for my workout DVD. It's only a 1 mile day! But, since I missed yesterday...which was supposed to be 4 miles....I thought I would do those 4 miles today. Makes sense right? Well.....like I said I didn't want to work out AT ALL today...let alone 4 miles. But, I was gonna do it anyway!

I started out weak....just not into it today! Then, everything that could go wrong started going wrong! Kids were not willing to let me have a free second today...I had to stop at least 3 times. I was missing steps to my DVD, I was slower than I was supposed to be...just EVERYTHING! I just wasn't having it today! I did 2 miles....2 very weak, poor, shameful miles and stopped. I still worked up a little sweat! (sad huh) but nowhere near what I usually do....and instead of feeling great after I finish....I feel awful....like I have failed for the day! Ugh! Not a good feeling!

I guess a lot of working out is mind over matter. Usually even if I don't want to get moving, after I do....I get into it and then I'm glad I did it! But, today I just couldn't shake that "I do not want to do this today feeling" Does this ever happen for anyone else? 

My fuse is very short today too! I of course didn't get much sleep because well Drew hates me I never do! I'm just not in the mood for anything today! BLAH! Hopefully I can make the right choices at lunch time....because if I don't, I might just lose my mind! But, what I really really really want is a nice cold pepsi!!! AHHH I need to shake this bad mood today, or it could be a very long day! On a happier note.....tonight we are carving my kiddos pumpkins! Cole is going to have a spiderman pumpkin, and I'm sure my hubs just can't wait! The template looks like lots of fun.....bahahaha :) And I think Mr. Drew is going to have an elmo pumpkin!

I hope all of you are having a good day....send me those good vibes to kick this negative nancy attitude!! Who knows....maybe at nap time I'll be able to do those 2 extra miles I slacked on....maybe even 3?

Blogging Addiction!

My name is Kristen, and I believe I have a blogging addiction! This past friday was the first weekday that I haven't blogged since I started my blog 2 months ago! It was on my mind all day...but I only had one extra kiddo to watch that day, so we just stayed upstairs in the house, and didn't come down to the daycare. Which was wonderful! I got a lot done! Cleaned a little, cleaned out both kids closets, and didn't feel as bogged down with things to do this weekend! it was sooooo nice! Friday evening...I did sit down and read all the blogs I follow..I couldn't take it anymore! But, I didn't write.

I haven't had much to say lately. In a weight-loss rut, and in a "coming up with interesting stuff to say" rut. I am however reading more and more and more blogs, until I'm having trouble getting my work done!
This weekend we FINALLY got Cole a Halloween costume! If you have looked at my blog AT ALL you'll see that my hubs is a firefighter. Well this is the costume Cole picked out.....

Uh oh! you're right that is NOT a firefighter! "I just be a police-man Daddy, it's ok" Cole doesn't say policeman...he makes it two words....pretty cute! Daddy almost shed a tear right there in Target! Haha....no not really. In fact, Daddy wants to be a policeman part time and a FF full time! Yeah, like he needs another job....and I'm totally against him becoming a cop. For many reasons! That could be a whole post in itself! He did say to Cole however, "you're breaking daddy's heart" but he was joking....I think.

Drew graduated to 18 months clothes! He's 7 months old! Big boy! He barrel rolls all around and gets up on his hands and knees. He looks like he's going to crawl, and we all cheer, and squeal....then he drops like a ton of bricks, and rolls! I think he's messing with us! He is detroying everything in his path these days. His favorite thing to do is to knock down all my picture frames on the shelf of the tv stand. Usually one time is not good enough. It's usually 3 or 4 times! :)

Hey, it makes him happy....and gives me a chance to wash bottles in peace, or pack lunches! I'm not sad about the fact that he wants to be more independant!!

And, remember how I said I didn't come down to my daycare friday? It wasn't planned. I actually found out about 10pm on Thursday that I was only going to have one kiddo. So I wasn't prepared to not come back down to the daycare for the rest of the weekend. But, I didn't think about that then.....and this is what I came down to at 6:30am this morning.....

Yep. Disgusting, gross, yuck! There were 5 bags total in case you were wondering. So after multiple trips up to the garage to throw trash away...I think the smell is gone! Yikes!

Happy Monday Kids!

Getting Moving!

I bought a new workout DVD on tuesday night....and started the workout wednesday morning. I'm 2 days in, and so far I love it! Feels good to be moving! I am praying that I make myself stick to it! It's a walk DVD that incorporates aerobics as well. It focuses on different areas each day, and is a different workout each day. It's based on a 5 day week, which works for me! I can do it while in my daycare, and it's out of the way before evening. I love that. Here is what the workouts are set up like:

Monday: 3 mile walk, and ab session
Tuesday: 4 mile walk, and arm session
Wednesday: 1 mile walk and leg session
Thursday: 2 mile walk and chest & back session
Friday: 5 mile walk and full body stretch

Obviously, since I bought it on a tuesday night, my workouts are a little off schedule, so I'll need to do it on saturday, and sunday this week to get on the right track. Today, I did 4 miles and an arm session. I'm sure it's no 30 Day Shred....but it gets me moving! 2 days ago I wasn't working out at all, and yesterday I worked out for 45 min and today an hour! So I'm happy with that! I'll take it!

I've been trying to clean up my diet again too. Yesterday I wanted to claw someones eyes out  a coke because I had a horrible headache! I got one, but only drank half, and put the rest in the refrigerator. I figure, if I'm gonna do this....I can't completely deprive myself, or I will cave....AGAIN. Here is my breakfast everyday this week so far....

And of course you can't forget the unsweet tea!! It's baby steps....but I'm trying to make that change! I said I wanted to lose 15 pounds by November 3. I don't think I'm going to meet that goal seeing as it's 2 weeks away....but maybe we could shoot for 10? I'm not sure that's even possible. But, I'm gonna try! I feel better....and hope to be moving in the right direction! C'mon results! I need to see you to keep going!!