Tennis

Kelsea has picked up tennis so well and is playing great!  She is winning her matches and moving up on the team roster.  I'm proud of her for trying something new and doing her best with it.  She and I were able to play a match together a few days ago, it was so much fun to spend the time together and get to play again.  I really enjoy tennis and am glad we can play together.

Surfin' the Web

LOVE these...
Prepared Not Scared  check it EVERY day!
SugarDoodle my new favorite thing for help with my new calling!
Livestrong My Plate great way to keep track of what you're eating, your exercise and setting weight goals.
Amazon  what can I say?  I love to shop on this site, free tax and shipping gets me every time.  That and the fact that I can get such good deals on most things.

Dinner

Can be such a simple thing, yet have such a huge impact on the flow of the evening! I go on kicks when I make dinner every night, I'm on track with my meal planning and grocery shopping every week. Then a bump in the road comes along and sends me into a tailspin. I find all the sudden we are picking up something for dinner every night or having cereal night or mac-n-cheese. Then I've had enough and I'm back on track again. I actually enjoy cooking and really love to make dinner for my family. I like to feed them food that they like and that I know is good for them. I also know how much they appreciate and love it when I cook, because they tell me constantly (that's about the time I realize I'm off track LOL). The evening also goes so much smoother when I already know what's for dinner or better yet have it in the crock pot ready to eat. In all actuality dinner doesn't take long at all to prepare, it's just thinking about it earlier in the day so I know what I plan to make, that's half the battle. It seems backwards, but so many times picking up dinner really doesn't help you out as much as you think it's going to. Don't get me wrong it's nice every now and then, but the trade off to me really isn't worth it.
Now date night dinners, that's a whole different story ;) Most definitely I want to enjoy eating in a restaurant environment where someone else is cooking and serving me delicious food, but that's a whole other topic...

Weight Loss

Summer was great fun this year, we spent most of it on vacation in one place or another and in the end I ended up putting on some unwanted weight...
When the kids went back to school I decided to get my bootie in gear, start eating healthier and try to lose some weight. Between eating better and running 4 miles a day/3 days a week I was able to lose 15 pounds in only 6 weeks which I was VERY excited about!
THEN... I got sick and had to quit exercising :(
THEN... I finally started to feel better and was going to get back on track and my neck seized up like it did about a year ago. I ended up spending a full week in bed. Without being able to exercise and eating like crap during that time I fully expected to have put some of the weight back on and start back up again when I got better.
WELL... Kenny and I went running last night, it was the first time I had been able to run in 3 weeks! I did great, I only went 2.25 miles but it was a good run. I'm so glad to be getting back on track.
The BEST part... My body actually maintained my weight loss over the past 3 weeks so I don't even have to back track like I thought I would have to. I can just get back on track with eating better and continue the exercise and hopefully I'll start losing weight again. I would love to lose another 15 pounds. Of course Kenny thinks that's too much but I think it'll be perfect. I'm actually very happy with my body right now, my clothes are fitting so comfortably it makes me feel so skinny when I get dressed, it makes me smile every morning! But I'm a girl and I always want a little more if I can get it. So I'm shooting for another 15 pounds. The other reason I'd love to lose the additional weight is so that when we go on our trip/cruise in March I won't have to worry about putting on too much weight while I'm on vacation ;)