Thursday, May 26, 2011
Mini Vaca
This past weekend we traveled back down to West Chester for Taryns college graduation. We had a free nights stay at a Marriott that was going to expire by the end of the month, so we decided to go to Atlantic City Saturday night. My parents watched Elias for us and off we went. A few days before our trip I looked online to see if there were any shows playing while we were there, and Lets Make a Deal was one of them. After checking into the fab hotel and walking around forever trying to find somewhere to eat, we eventually got to the show. The host was supposed to be Alan Thicke, but upon arrival learned he going to show up. So our host ended up being Joey Fatone (Nsync). It was really fun! They called three Kevins, and each time we held our breath, but no Kevin Lance :( It was really fun though! We passed the Hoff on our way out, which was kinda crazy...people were going nuts! Then we went around the casino, played a little blackjack, which I was pretty good at might I add! We decided we're most likely never goint back to Atlantic City. SOO trashy. I guess I didnt expect a place that grosses billions of dollars to be so run down. The redeeming part of the whole trip though was Sunday morning when we drove down to Ocean City, got Mack and Mancos for lunch and then got a giant bucket of Johnsons Caramel Popcorn to take home.
Monday, Taryn graduated from Lehigh University. CRAZY! We celebrated with a big dinner at Maggianos..mmm! She's flying in on Saturday and will be here for a week until her and I drive back home to West Chester. Were looking forward to lots of Memorial Day sales, maybe some beach trips, and of course tons of good food.
Monday, Taryn graduated from Lehigh University. CRAZY! We celebrated with a big dinner at Maggianos..mmm! She's flying in on Saturday and will be here for a week until her and I drive back home to West Chester. Were looking forward to lots of Memorial Day sales, maybe some beach trips, and of course tons of good food.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
7 Months
How can my baby boy be 7 months already?! I knew it was time for another haircuit when he started getting knots when I was combing his hair. So off we went to Snip-Its today, and we had a fantastic experience! Definitely worth the couple extra bucks. Everything in there is geared towards kids, and theres a tv with cartoons on at each chair. So Elias was pretty distracted for most of it and did so well! It looks lighter now, doesn't it? I have a feeling its gonna keep lightening up as summer goes on.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Celebration Weekend
Kevins turned 24 on Saturday! To celebrate, we went to Fire and Ice for dinner in Boston. It was our first official date without the baby. Kinda weird, but really nice to get out. Then when we got back we had some friends over for dessert. It was a great day!
Sunday was Mothers Day and Kevin made reservations for lunch at one of our favorite restaurants, Not Your Average Joe's. Elias was super good, as usual, we really had a great time.
Working out has been going great. I went every day last week and it was fantastic! Feeling great! I didn't go over the weekend cause of everything going on with Kevins birthday and Mothers Day, and then the past 2 days I've been sick, so no gym for me :( But hopefully tomorrow I'll be up to par and can start back up.
Yesterday also happened to be the day all of Kevins work for the semester was due. He was supposed to be in the library starting at 9 and work straight through till 5 to finish everything. However when I woke up I felt super sick, and Kevin was sweet enough to get up with the baby and let me go back to bed for a little bit to see if I felt better. Well, I ended up sleeping till noon, and I wasn't feeling much better. Kevin had to go up to apply for an extention (which thankfully he was approved for) and then had to pump out a paper real quick at the library, so I had a few hours with the baby. I hadnt been sick since right after Elias was born, so it was my first time trying to juggle caring for him with trying not to get sick. It was pretty terrible. Its times like this I really wish we were closer to family who can help us out :( I thought I was better by the time I went to bed, but I woke up at 3:30 absolutely freezing, teeth chattering and all. I turned the heat on full blast and pulled up the comforter. Then I woke up an hour later sweating to death. I turned the AC on and tore off all the covers. I took my temp and it was 101. But I'm not sure if that really was because I had a fever or because it was that hot in the room...lol. After a couple hours, I was still super hot and couldnt sleep. I finally woke Kevin up and asked, well, told him to switch places with me cause he was blocking the air from me. Switched spots, and finally got 2 hours of sleep. Ehh. So needless to say, my body was pretty exhausted today. I'm feeling better, so hopefully it was just 24 hour thing.
Sunday was Mothers Day and Kevin made reservations for lunch at one of our favorite restaurants, Not Your Average Joe's. Elias was super good, as usual, we really had a great time.
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Working out has been going great. I went every day last week and it was fantastic! Feeling great! I didn't go over the weekend cause of everything going on with Kevins birthday and Mothers Day, and then the past 2 days I've been sick, so no gym for me :( But hopefully tomorrow I'll be up to par and can start back up.
Yesterday also happened to be the day all of Kevins work for the semester was due. He was supposed to be in the library starting at 9 and work straight through till 5 to finish everything. However when I woke up I felt super sick, and Kevin was sweet enough to get up with the baby and let me go back to bed for a little bit to see if I felt better. Well, I ended up sleeping till noon, and I wasn't feeling much better. Kevin had to go up to apply for an extention (which thankfully he was approved for) and then had to pump out a paper real quick at the library, so I had a few hours with the baby. I hadnt been sick since right after Elias was born, so it was my first time trying to juggle caring for him with trying not to get sick. It was pretty terrible. Its times like this I really wish we were closer to family who can help us out :( I thought I was better by the time I went to bed, but I woke up at 3:30 absolutely freezing, teeth chattering and all. I turned the heat on full blast and pulled up the comforter. Then I woke up an hour later sweating to death. I turned the AC on and tore off all the covers. I took my temp and it was 101. But I'm not sure if that really was because I had a fever or because it was that hot in the room...lol. After a couple hours, I was still super hot and couldnt sleep. I finally woke Kevin up and asked, well, told him to switch places with me cause he was blocking the air from me. Switched spots, and finally got 2 hours of sleep. Ehh. So needless to say, my body was pretty exhausted today. I'm feeling better, so hopefully it was just 24 hour thing.
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| Pharaoh Pharaoh...ohhh baby... |
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Monday, May 2, 2011
Changing
Anyone who knows me knows how un-athletic/out-of-shape/un-flexible I am. I remember being 6 years old at gymnastics class, being the only one who couldn't do a cartwheel. I remember always being the last to finish the mile run at gym class. I remember moving to a new school before the 8th grade, and so badly wanting to be on the volleyball team to make friends, but I was too slow, and got cut. Or the year I took tennis lessons and went on that summer to loose every single match because I couldn't get to the ball fast enough. So naturally, I avoided and hated anything that required physical activity because I simply sucked at it all.
You might also know that theres a reason I couldn't run fast enough or bend far enough. I was born with both my hips dislocated, and it happened to go undiscovered until I was 10 months old. After multiple surgeries, traction, and casts, they were able to fit them back into the sockets. But because my hips had grown for a good bit of time out of the sockets, they just didn't quite fit snug in there. Okay...let me make this short before I go on and on. I would push myself to do all these physical activities and I'd be in pain. Throbbing pain. So I stopped pushing myself and gave up. Then to top it off, my knee was dislocated at the end of my senior year of high school and I had to have surgery a week before college started. And ever since then, I've not only had hip pain but now my knee will throb too.
After having Elias and having gotten so sick, I lost all the baby weight in 3 weeks. But then once I was finally able to hold food down for more than 5 minutes, I gained half the weight back. And now I'm the biggest I have ever been in my life. I hate shopping. Yes, you read that right. Back when I was a size 10/12 when we got married it was no biggie, and I loved shopping. But now that Im somewhere between a 14/16, I hate clothes. I hate how I look in the mirror. Nothing looks good. I feel like an oompa-loompa, and feel completely undesireable.
SO. HA! This probably looks like the biggest "poor-me" sob story. Its NOT! Because something has changed. And I need to share it, because my LIFE is changing. It has changed. I made a decision that after Easter I was going to drag my butt to the gym and hit it head on.
And I did.
I went to the gym 5 times in the past 7 days. For me, thats really good. I really wanted to go every day, but you know, with a baby and working hubby, I've gotta work around their schedules. But heck, I did it! And I feel GREAT! I actually wake up and WANT to go to the gym. Yes you read that right. I look forward to working out. Its just crazy! I want to go early in the day so that a) I can get it out of the way and b) it motivates me to eat better the rest of the day. I found a machine that works for me, my hips, and my knees. The Arc. I love it. My body is responding great. My muscles are sore from working out. NOT my joints. Every day I'm able to go a little bit further, a little bit faster, and push myself a little bit harder.
I want this to become a lifestyle for me. Even if I can only get there 3 times a week, I need to do this. I need to get healthy and in shape for my family. For my son. For our future children. I want to be able to chase them around the yard and not get tired. He's needs me. He needs us. And I should also mention that it isnt just me thats doing the gym thing. Kevin has been going after work late a night and working out too. WE are doing this together. We NEED to do this together.
Perhaps this is more than you wanted/needed to read. But I needed to write it out. By typing and declaring my intent to change my lifestyle, it holds me accountable.
Okay. Enough for tonight :)
You might also know that theres a reason I couldn't run fast enough or bend far enough. I was born with both my hips dislocated, and it happened to go undiscovered until I was 10 months old. After multiple surgeries, traction, and casts, they were able to fit them back into the sockets. But because my hips had grown for a good bit of time out of the sockets, they just didn't quite fit snug in there. Okay...let me make this short before I go on and on. I would push myself to do all these physical activities and I'd be in pain. Throbbing pain. So I stopped pushing myself and gave up. Then to top it off, my knee was dislocated at the end of my senior year of high school and I had to have surgery a week before college started. And ever since then, I've not only had hip pain but now my knee will throb too.
After having Elias and having gotten so sick, I lost all the baby weight in 3 weeks. But then once I was finally able to hold food down for more than 5 minutes, I gained half the weight back. And now I'm the biggest I have ever been in my life. I hate shopping. Yes, you read that right. Back when I was a size 10/12 when we got married it was no biggie, and I loved shopping. But now that Im somewhere between a 14/16, I hate clothes. I hate how I look in the mirror. Nothing looks good. I feel like an oompa-loompa, and feel completely undesireable.
SO. HA! This probably looks like the biggest "poor-me" sob story. Its NOT! Because something has changed. And I need to share it, because my LIFE is changing. It has changed. I made a decision that after Easter I was going to drag my butt to the gym and hit it head on.
And I did.
I went to the gym 5 times in the past 7 days. For me, thats really good. I really wanted to go every day, but you know, with a baby and working hubby, I've gotta work around their schedules. But heck, I did it! And I feel GREAT! I actually wake up and WANT to go to the gym. Yes you read that right. I look forward to working out. Its just crazy! I want to go early in the day so that a) I can get it out of the way and b) it motivates me to eat better the rest of the day. I found a machine that works for me, my hips, and my knees. The Arc. I love it. My body is responding great. My muscles are sore from working out. NOT my joints. Every day I'm able to go a little bit further, a little bit faster, and push myself a little bit harder.
I want this to become a lifestyle for me. Even if I can only get there 3 times a week, I need to do this. I need to get healthy and in shape for my family. For my son. For our future children. I want to be able to chase them around the yard and not get tired. He's needs me. He needs us. And I should also mention that it isnt just me thats doing the gym thing. Kevin has been going after work late a night and working out too. WE are doing this together. We NEED to do this together.
Perhaps this is more than you wanted/needed to read. But I needed to write it out. By typing and declaring my intent to change my lifestyle, it holds me accountable.
Okay. Enough for tonight :)
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