Home will no longer be where the army sends us

In just 3 short months we will be leaving Fort Sill Oklahoma and headed for a mystery.  We have no idea where we will be and what we will be doing. I was born into the Army and married my bff who became a soldier.  It's sad to think the army life is all I know.

   The past 3 years we have been renting a home off base so ive learned how expensive utilities are and know that it will be a easy transition, the only thing that truly scares me is health care insurance. Where to look? How much it will cost?

Moving every 3 years is something I've goy very use to and grown to love, so staying in the same home for any longer will be strange.

I am however very happy to be able to have my hubby home safe. Deployments are horrible no matter how long they are, how many times they go, it sucks either way. Having lost my dad in Iraq my anxiety is horrible and I'm glad to not have that feeling anymore. I'll miss seeing him in uniform that's for sure. 

Army is in my blood and I will always support our troops and families.

Wonder what ill change my blog name to?

Sewing machine for $7.99.... SCORE!!!!

I love saving money. Have you seen extreme couponing? I want save like those women. Do you realize how much $$ could be saved if you did not have to buy shampoo and toilet paper or toothpaste for a year? I actually dislike grocery shopping so for me stocking up on items means less grocery sopping for me. I'm slowly learning how to coupon, its much harder then I thought and takes a lot of time and with the boys, I find a little time during naps and quiet time.

Last week I went to Dollar General and they were having a sale 50% off on already clearance items, so I found a few things.

 

Regular $36 Paid $13

         I found a sewing machine at goodwill for $7.99 that works and have been sewing on it that past few days. I'm new at sewing and have lots to learn but here is what I've tried and done so far.

                              
                              

 

Bib

 

Little Bag

 

Pair of pants for Mason.

 

Fabric on sale for $2.99 instead of $6.99 at Joann's.

 

A drawstring bag for Aiden from his PJ's.

 

 

 

Getting books from goodwill for the boys is also a great deal. If you really look you can find really nice books. Got these for $3.50.

 

 

 

 

 

How do you save money?

Happy Anniversary

 

July 12th 2003

 

10 years ago today we started dating, we were on my family camping trip. We had to sleep in separate tents, ha got to love dads. It was such a fun week. Germany has some of my favorite memories.

 

 

5 years ago today we had our wedding, it was beautiful and one of the best days of my life.

The past 10 years have been amazing, we have been through a lot and still going strong. I love you so much babe and I truly look forward to the next 10 which will be a adventure for us both for sure. Happy Anniversary!!! I LOVE YOU!!

 

  

Life

Life. Life gets really busy with kids, working out, cleaning, husband, baby, laundry, friends, family, bills, and more. I can definitely repeat kids baby kids baby kids baby all day. I love being a mother. My boys are everything. I'm not sure if it's just hormones but most days I'm head over heels for my boys even when they drive me crazy, then there's some days where I feel like I could just cry because I need a break. Hopefully this is normal in every mother feels this way.

  

       In the past few weeks I've only worked out a little but I still I am excited about my first 5k Color Run in October and I'm sure that I'll be able to run most of it just have to push myself.

     On July 12th Danny and I will have been together for 10 years. The love of my life he has made my life an adventure and I look forward to the next 10. Hopefully we will be getting tattoos as gifts to each other sometime in August. I love you babe with all my heart.
I'm really excited for August to get here. The last time we were on a family vacation was about 6 years ago and that was not really a vacation it was more get out of town kind of vacation. Danny was in Iraq my dad had just passed away in Iraq so it wasn't very much fun but we needed a stress free environment for a few days. In August even though its only 3 days my family including my mom and sisters and nieces and nephews will be in a RV headed to Corpus Christi then to Sea World in San Antonio. Even though we had a yard sell to save up for it it's going to be totally worth it. All of us in RV is going to be quite an adventure. I've never been in one before so I'm really excited.

So Danny and I have found a new hobby its called geocaching. Geocaching is finding containters with logs and finding little trinkets that people leave behind. In other words it's like treasure hunting. We started over the 4th of July weekend we have 32 finds so far.  I really enjoy it because we go as a family and it's something that we are doing together. It's getting us off the couch so I'm all for it. Here's some pictures of what we found.

Starting over

Week 3 and 4 Update:

               Everything was going great. Walked 6 days, and was feeling great. I was even seeing the scale finally move down. That went down hill real fast. Woke up Sunday with throat pain, so first thing that morning went and got some medicine and vitamin C to drink, I had a busy week ahead of me and being sick was the last thing I needed.
     Within a few hours, just throat pain turned into chills, body ache and hot flashes. I slept the entire day, all I did was get up to nurse Mason and Danny took care of the boys. Monday came and I was feeling just as bad even ended up having a fever, which I've not had in forever. It hurt so bad to swallow that I did not eat much for the two days and lost 4 lbs. That was probably the only plus side.
        I really wanted to feel better by Wednesday because Danny was having his no more babies surgery and would be knocked out from the drugs. So on Tuesday I did a walk in clinic and they tested for strep and it was negative, they told me it was probably nasal drip into my throat causing the pain. I ended up sucking it up because its a week later today and it still hurts to swallow, not as bad but still irritating. The only highlight to my week was going to Texas for 4 days, which was a total surprise to my mom, wish I felt better but still had fun. One week flew by because I was sick and I did ZERO walking.
        It depressing how fast your progress goes out the window. I could not walk today because my poor dogs got fleas and took them to the vet and have been cleaning my house around the clock to keep the fleas from getting nasty in the house. Only thing left to do is mow the yard and get pest control out here.  Hope to get my butt back on the track soon.

Skinny where are you?

Week Two to getting healthy, in shape and SKINNY.

 

 I keep thinking about biggest loser show and how amazing it must feel at the end of the season. Wish it was the of the season already for me.

 

The week started off great, got up early and we were at the track by 8:00. Our pace is still at a hour, which I think is great since we seem to have a few stops to adjust the kiddos. However Monday  afternoon the weather got bad and continued through Tuesday was not able to get out. Monday ended up being a day where lots of prayer was needed. About one hour north of me Moore Oklahoma got hit with a F5 Tornado.

 

 

 

 

It happen so fast, still praying for everyone who was apart of this horrible Storm.

 

Wednesday:  Up early, hit the track and since I missed a workout on Tuesday I did zumba after walking the track. I realized today that I did not use excuses like before because my son had a doctor appointment at 9:30 and this to be before meant that was all I had to do that day. This time I made sure I was up and got the track done early, then straight to the doctor and soon after make the 10:30 zumba class. I felt accomplished for sure.

 

My little booger is 12lbs now, growing up so fast.

 

 

He took a bottle for the first time this week and Daddy was able to feed him.

 

 

Thursday: Woke up with a very intense migraine. I still got up and got dressed, even got mason ready but started feeling worse by the minute and ended going to the ER to get a IV of medicine to help. Migraines is something I got sense I was in high school, but sometimes they are really bad and nothing helps but the cocktail IV they whip up. Missed another walk.

 

Friday: Woke up refreshed and ready to go. My hubby has a four day weekend so he joined me in the walk and took Aiden to the park while Mason and I did zumba. I feel that getting two forms of workouts in one day makes up for my missed day. I afraid I'm going to start slacking because I did something to my knee and its kicking my butt. I have a doctors appointment next week so going to try and tough it out until then.

 

 

How yummy does this salad look? 

 

 

Salad with pineapple. strawberries, mandarin oranges, and this particular one had creamy poppy seed dressing and the noodles since I ran out of pecans. SO GOOD!!!

 

This week we also redid a jeep for Aiden. What do you think?

 

 

 

 

Aiden thinks it's cool.

 

 

Thanks for reading about my little world, Have a beautiful day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1st week doing the 3 mile track.

My main goal for 2013 is to become fit. I signed up for a color run 5k in October. This is my first run ever and I want to run it not walk.

So I'm going to share my journey .

The week of May 13th I walked a total of 15 miles. Even though it was walking it's something I'm very proud of. A friend and I even threw in a hour and a half Zumba class one night, it kicked our butts.
   
Slowly I'm trying to work on what I'm eating,why not lose weight at the same time. The first thing I've done is givin up soda. Even though I  gave up soda before and lasted almost 2 years my pregnancy had strong cravings so I'd started again. Once the caffeine headaches are over it's not so hard.

The new thing I'm trying are salads, I've always had salad but have covered it with ranch and it's such a heavy dressing I thought I'd try something new. The salad from Panera Bread and Atlanta Bread are really good and much lighter. So I went online and found the recipes. They are so yummy. My favorite part of the salads are the strawberries and the mandarin oranges.

Now that my first week is over I lost 3 pounds. However on Friday I caved in and had a burger from Sonic and I'm back up one, crazy how fast that happens. I'm really happy to have a friend walk with me it gives me more motivation, and when my husband walks with me he pushes me to work harder, I'm very grateful.