weekend getaway

As I mentioned in my p90 update the last 2 weeks were crazy so we had a weekend getaway this past weekend.  We didn't go far just up to Cartersville (about an hour away to the north).  It was nice though Cartersville is not considered to be part of metro Atlanta (which is ~100 square miles - 50 miles in each direction from the center - which is crazy and sick!) because we were out of the city it was actually dark at night (yay stars still do exist!), it was quiet AND my lungs loved the clean air!  It was perfect.  Bill was awesome and got the kind of room I like (one with a big tub) at the Hilton Garden Inn.  Our room was great I loved the colors dark brown and a teal green.  I was so excited when we got there that I climbed right in the tub:

Isn't that just a beautiful picture of me? - you can see how exhausted I really was from the events of the past few weeks. 

Friday we went to Chili's for dinner and I had the best appetizer there:

 Oreo molten cake!  Ooooo yummy!  Go try one.

On Saturday night we went to the Appalachian Grill.  I had rosemary roasted chicken and it is delicious!  It was really nice to eat somewhere with a chef not just a cook.

Our weekend was perfect and did just what it was supposed to do.  We both felt so relaxed after just spending time together doing pretty much whatever we wanted (which amounted to having snacks and watching tv).   

p90 update

The last 2 weeks have been CRAZY at our house.  ER trips, Dr visits, vet appointments and crazy work hours.  That being said and considering I only power90ed once last week I feel pretty good about where I am.  

I did weigh and measure last Monday (the 20th) before I did the routine (the only time last week) I was up 3.2 pounds and lost half an inch.  

Today (after a week of not working out) I was down 1.6 pounds from last week no inches this time, but hey for not doing much of anything I think that is pretty dang good!  My body is definitely used to working out now and all of my muscles were happy to get back on track again.

new jammies!

Bill sent me a pajama gram for Valentine's day.  He picked out super cute and comfy jammies!  I love them - they have cute little ruffles at the end of the legs and the sleeves. 

week 5! already?

Today starts week 5 of my p90 routine.  It seems to have gone by really fast.  This week I am down 1 pound and a total of 6.5 - yes six and one half - inches!  I think that is pretty good.  Also today I started using the blue resistance band (4-6 pounds), I had been using the yellow resistance band (2-3 pounds) up to this point.  I will admit I was a little nervous about using the blue band and so I had both bands at the ready.  I am happy to report however that I used the blue one for the whole routine, on many of the exercises I did less reps (10 or 11 vs. 15) than I had been but I stuck with it (and that is what really matters).  Between the pushups and the blue band my arms are nice and tired!  

In other news these:

 are delicious!  Dove dark chocolate and cherry swirl.   OOOO Yummy!  They taste kind of like a cherry cordial minus the goo and the NASTY maraschino cherry.

Also in the world of yummy is this:

 

a conglomerate of things we had that we tossed in the crockpot one day last week.  I can't tell you exact measurements on it but this is what was in it:  

cut up chicken tenderloin

chicken gumbo soup

like 3 handfuls of rice

green beans

corn

water

a packet of gravy

cumin

black pepper

It was awesome.  We ate it with some hard rolls and we ate it again for lunch the next day.

Maybe it is kind of silly to blog about food in the same post as my p90 update - but hey it is my blog so I can do what I want ^^.

v-day roses

While sitting at the computer this morning checking my stuff (email, blogs I read, Scentsy workstation &  etc.) the FedEx guy came.  FedEx?  We haven't ordered anything that should be coming.  Open the door and get a ProFlowers box put in my hands.  I asked Bill, "Did you order flowers?"  "No."  After last years ordeal I am not surprised (paid extra to make sure they came for Valentines day - nothing showed up even 3 days later and had to fight for a refund....it was through a different company though - ugh I remember "why do you want a refund sir?" "um because NOTHING SHOWED UP!" anyway).  

I opened the box and found these beautiful roses:

from who else - my dad of course.  Thanks Dad - I love you.

Dorky Gifts

I made my husband 3 different dorky gifts for Christmas this last year.  We are both pretty dorky though so it is ok (remember we did meet playing an mmorpg FFXI). 

The first thing I made for Bill was this fancy-schmancy key chain:

ugh!  blogger rotated a few pictures that it should have....

I really wanted to write "I love you most, forever" on the back in binary code - but it was 2 lines of 40 characters and quite honestly I cant write that small.  So I just wrote it on the back with a silver sharpie then put a thin layer of modge podge on it so the words wouldn't rub off.

Remember in my last post I wrote about always wondering about that one present under the tree - well for Bill the present that drove him crazy was this key chain.

I am glad that my dad helped teach me to warp things creatively - sure adds to the puzzlement.

The next thing I made for Bill was a photo cube - computer geek style.  Silly blogger turned this picture for some reason too...

I just took 6 old 3.5 inch diskettes and hot glued them into a cube (though it takes a little tweaking as you do this because they are not square).  After I built the cube I took a 1 inch sponge paint brush and gave it a thin coat of white paint.  Then I took our pictures that we had taken in October and cut them to the size of diskette labels and modge podged them into place.  To finish it off I gave the whole thing a coat of modge podge.  I used 5 pictures in total and then used an actual diskette label on one side and wrote a message on that one.

The 3rd thing that I made for Bill is the present that made him cry when he opened it.  I made him 3 little signs:

The first one says "we met" and has a map of Vana'diel, the world in which we "met."

The second one says "we married," and is a satellite view of the Draper Utah LDS Temple (to read more about temples go here).

And the third says "we live" and is a satellite (thanks google earth) view of our apartment complex.

I bought the wood signs and hearts and paint (it is "french white" not just white) at hobby lobby.  Painted the signs and hearts with my handy foam brush.  I ended up painting 6 hearts and gluing two together for each because I liked them better that way.  Printed the pictures on white cardstock, cut them to size AND (I hope this doesn't shock you too bad) modge podged them to the hearts.  Next I hot glued the hearts to the signs and the very last thing I did was write on them. 

I wrapped each one individually then placed each in a brown paper lunch bag and numbered them and then stuck them all in a bigger box for Bill to open.  I did tell him that just because the "we live" sign has a picture of where we currently live in Smyrna Georgia doesn't mean that we have to live here forever now - that I can easily change the picture! 

Christmas 2011! (about time)

I love Love LOVE Christmas time!  I can't believe that I am just barely posting about Christmas 2011 - I mean it is February 8th (Happy Birthday Uncle Rex!).

I can't ever sleep on Christmas eve - I figure that I will never be able to sleep on Christmas eve, it is just too exciting.  When I was younger I couldn't sleep because I wanted to know what I was getting, and there was always that one present under the tree that I was just dying to know what was (that being said there were a few years when that present I just had to know what was wasn't even for me but for my sister - and I knew it!).  Now I can't sleep because I am excited for others to get the things that I got for them!  That is ok though.  I am very grateful that I was taught the magic of Christmas time and that because of this December will ALWAYS be magical for me.

Here is our family picture by the Christmas tree:

Here is the cat on Christmas morning:

He was quite happy to play with all of the boxes.

Bill certainly spoiled me this year with almost everything on my list.  I didn't get the house in Utah I wanted or some books that I wanted, but I did get some neat things anyway.  He bought me a gumball machine (and gumballs to fill it),  Uncle Wiggly (a game I my Uncle Mark had when I was little that I played a lot), Dorrie and the Blue Witch, the "new" Jimmy Eat World cd (it is over a year old but I didn't have it yet, though I am not sure I was missing anything - why oh why Jimmy did you have to use the F word!?) and all kinds of other things.  I made Bill some dorky gifts that made him cry(more on those in the next post), got him a new wallet and some pajamas.  It was good - but Christmas is always good.

here we go again!

Yesterday Bill and I were talking about stepping on various things and in the conversation we decided that Legos are the worst.  Then the conversation continued like this:

"I have a bucket of Legos in the closet, do you want me to dumb them on the floor for practice for when we have kids?"  

His immediate reply was, "You have a bucket of Legos in the closet!?"  

"Yes."

Then we got said bucket of Legos out of the closet and Bill proceeded in using every piece contained therein.

It took him a while, but I am glad he enjoyed playing with the Legos that he forgot I had!

Today was the start of week 4 (week 4!  That was quick), of my fun with power 90.  I can see and feel more of the results.  My pants a loose on the sides of my legs straight out of the dryer!  Today my weight was as 254.8 and I lost a total of 3.5 inches.  It is going well.  It is strange but I really quite enjoy doing it now.  HAHA that seems funny to me but it is ok.

Yay!  My mom got a job!  I am so happy for her and hope that all goes well with this new opportunity!

sometimes.

Sometimes it is hard for me to think of something to blog about (at least things that I want the whole world to know - in the private blog of my mind there are MANY entries!).  

I downloaded the blogger app for my phone back in October when I first got the phone, and it is great except for I hate the quality of the pictures it uploads to my blog!  (for an example see here) It is just no good.  Owell, life does go on. 

Life really does go on and I am winning my war with P90.  Sometimes I really don't want to do it but I do anyway and thus I am winning the battle.  Now I am halfway through week 3 and the exercises are getting easier - meaning I can do them properly now & I can actually do about 10 pushups (the real way not using the wall or that silly on your knees girl way which I used to and still think is terrible painful).  Even the dreaded power yoga is getting better, I would still rather do all the rest of the routine 2 times instead but I think I actually enjoy the dpy now!  The cat thinks it is great fun to attack me during ab ripper which I find quite hilarious.   So all is well, I also do feel a lot better and like the way my clothes are fitting.  Monday when I weighed in I lost .8 pounds and about 2 inches over the week.

Well that is all at this moment.  Enjoy this pine cone picture I took while out on a walk earlier today.