pounds, cars, rings, tampons

well its been a week. As I stated last week, I wanted to kick it up a notch with loosing weight. I have, and Aaron has stopped for some reason even though he is still doing everything he was before. I have lost 4.7 lbs in 1 week. It has been a good fresh breath to set this goal and work toward it. I never really ever exercised nor ate breakfast or lunches before and I drank lots of soda. Now this is what I am doing:

• I flushed out my system of all toxins and started fresh on Wed of last week.
• I eat a bagel with cream cheese and a cup of coffee for breakfast. 
• For lunch I will usually have some leftovers from the night before dinner.
• After lunch I will work out for about an hour. The "work out" will vary from day  to day. I will do a strenuous hour of cardio,yoga, strength, and toning. Then next day I will do an hour of "problem area". The next day another "problem area". The next just yoga. So on so forth.
• I am drinking so much water now that you could probably ring me out fill up an ocean.
• For dinners, they have to be light. WELL I have gone out of my comfort zone. I HATE seafood, cottage cheese, sweet potatoes, and some other random things. But an example of some of our dinners have been:

1. Salmon with steamed vegetables and cottage cheese w/fruit. (this was the first time I have ever made Salmon)
2. Baked sweet potatoes with salad.
3. Chicken with mushroom sauce and homemade bread.

these are just a few but there have been nights where I felt like I was in 3rd grade again, plugging my nose and chugging down my milk. (I hate milk too, the only way I will drink it is with ice or with flavoring)

Its been a challenge with my working schedule and home schedule but everything is getting done the way it needs to be.

We recently went car shopping on Saturday, Just window shopping really. I woke up Saturday morning with a craving for cars. So we went over to Carmax and I told Aaron "I dont want to talk to any sales staff, I just wanna look at cars". So we went in and the lady greeted us and said "Is there anything I can help you guys with today" and I politely said "No we are just looking around". and her reply was "ok let us know if you have any questions". and that was that, nobody bothered us again while we were there.  Next we went to NAP where we again were greeted (attacked actually) by the sales rep and after we said the usual "no thanks we are just looking around" he immediately shoved us into a ford crossover and started selling it to us, asked a bunch of questions then hooked line and sinkered me into him finding out what they would give me for my beat up mode of transportation. It was surprisingly well over double of what KBB trade in value was for it and then credit was pulled and then he showed us some cars. First was a Ford Fusion that they just took in as a trade in while we were waiting for our credit to be pulled ( i knew this because i watched the trade in go down while i was smoking and waiting for him to finish). I took a look at the car from afar and said you have got to be kidding me right? then he showed us a 2 door Pontiac, "dude i said i needed four doors, i have 2 kids and 2 dogs, and look at my husband, does he look like he would be comfortable riding shot gun in this for 5 hours?" (Aaron is tall) then he continued showing us "bunk" cars and then finally after Aaron bombarded him with all the questions as to what we qualified for and what prices the cars are that we were looking at (he didn't answer Aaron) he finally said "Oh you know what, I have the perfect car for you, I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner, its a 2010 with 1,300 miles and everything you have been telling me you want" I said "sounds like you have some sarcasm in your voice" He stopped abruptly and turned to stare me in the eye and said "NO IM SERIOUS".  We started walking toward this acura and i started to smile and said "wow an acura?" he replied with a chuckle "Yeah wouldn't that be nice". Then pointed to a white car next to it and said "this is it, this is your car" I looked at him, looked at the car, looked at Aaron and laughed. Let me break this image down for you. I stand 5 feet tall, I can barely see over the dashboard in some smaller cars, I have short legs, and I told the man i needed small. He showed me a Chrysler Seabring. Now this car would be great for someone not 29 years old and would be at least 5 ft 8. Someone with a bit more class than me and someone who liked Chrysler's. BUT NOT ME. He threw us in the car, said take it for a test drive, so we did and I hated every minute of it, when we came back he asked how it was with a big smile on his face and i yelled,"good thing we didn't get into an accident, i couldn't see over the dash and it was like driving a boat" Aaron then jumped in and asked him for our keys to our car and we were out of there. the manager called us later to ask what our experience was and Aaron let him have it.

Needless to say, if I do get another car it will be from Carmax. ha ha


As some of you may know, Aaron has been ring free for the last month or so. I got him a tungsten wedding ring when we were married because it is claimed to be the toughest metal.  Well, it shattered into three peices. So I went thru the ring exchange policy (because it cant be fixed because of the type of metal) and finally got it on Monday. I was so excited that i took a picture of it and sent it to some friends and said "look, i can be married again". I didn't tell Aaron because I wanted to surprise him with it when he got home that night. So i put it aside but in plane sight in its nice little ring box.  Aaron didn't get home until about 7 that night and when he did we immediately ate dinner and went on with our nightly routine. Around 10pm when he got home from the gym I walked over to the kitchen to get him a protien bar and there was the friendly little reminder box. Dang it, I was so excited to give it to him and yet I forgot about it. So I pulled it out and asked hime if he would be my husband again, and he laughed and said " i wondered what was in that box". yeah I am a ditz.


A while back when the girls were at their mothers house, (I say mother, because its the nicest meanest word i can find to call her in front of the girls, and no i cant stand her) Autumn would call me almost everyday. She would normally ramble on about what she has been doing and how awful the food is and how much fun she has been having with the neighbor kids. Then one day I got a call from her and it was a normal call but she seemed kind of distant. So I asked her what she was thinking about and she said something that she says every now and then. "I want a baby brother". My reply was the same as it always is when she says this, "We are working on it sweetie". She usually leaves it at that and goes on with what she was talking about before. but this time she said " but mommy says daddy went to the doctor and the doctor made it so he cant have anymore kids". I was kind of shocked to hear that their mother said this to them, but then I thought, who am I kidding? she doesn't care if she shatters their dreams. So I replied "well, soon he is going to go back to the doctor and have him fix what he did and then he can have kids again". You could hear the excitement in her voice as she said "really? awwwwesome! then you and dad can have (she then starts to whisper) S. E. X. (she then giggles and speaks in a normal tone now)  I don't want to say it". Shocked and speechless and the only response I got out was in a loud questioning voice "SEX?". she giggled again and said "yeah then you and dad can have (whispering again but saying the word instead of spelling it this time) sex. (back to normal voice) and then you will get pregnant and then I can have a baby brother".     OOHHHHHHHHH BOY. thoughts were going threw my head wondering why my 8 year old knows about this. I then ask her "wow, who told you that?" thinking in my head "you have a great mother". she replied with the usual I Don't Know. needless to say the conversation ended with "well we can talk about it when you get home".
At what age are you supposed to tell your children "how babies are made". I thought for sure I would be having this conversation (with a little bit more feminine detail) to Aspen (10) soon, but, Autumn?  Man, ok I remember when I asked my mom and I was in 4th grade, her response was "I don't know how sweetie, I guess I will have to find a book about it or something" and that was it. I didn't hear very much more about the subject until that summer when I went thru the change of life as I knew it. Thanks mom.
Oh and along those lines, Ever taken your kids with you when you go shopping? I do all the time, they are actually very helpful and we get out sooner. Just last month we went shopping and I had to grab some tampons and while we were in the isle Autumn saw the new tampons that just came out that are all colorful and have something like a U on them. She pointed at them and asked out of the blue, "are those crayons?". About 8 women were in that isle when she asked that and just busted out laughing along with me. I said "no sweetie". she says "well what are they then because they look like Utah Football crayons to me". the laughing continued on for the next 45 minutes we were in the store.
Ummmm how does she know how babies are made but not know what a tampon box looks like?


Oh the joys of being a kid!

Football season is coming up soon. Ohhhh boy!