Change AGAIN.

Before


After



There was SO much hair on the floor after Jess was done cutting.

Over Run with WEEDS!

I had to post this because my front yard looks like this (no weeds) BECAUSE of my wonderful MOTHER, FATHER and HUSBAND!



We were usually pretty good at keeping up with the yard but then life caught up and we really neglected it. So it got OVER RUN with WEEDS! I attempted to pull them a few weeks ago and I worked for a hour and didn't even dent it. SO while my sweet parents were here, they would go out early in the morning and pull my weeds ( I thought they were on a walk)til the front was done accept for the right side by the truck. THANK YOU! I REALLY appreciated that and I know Lyle did!

So then Lyle has been getting home a little bit early and he spent the night (yes in the dark) pulling the rest of the side weeds. So it's DONE! YAY!



Thank you so much! It's one less thing on our list to do. :)

Back to Business

I have to keep telling myself "just 7.5 weeks left until I graduate". That'll get me going!

I'm back from Spring Break and even though I was expecting it to be a very boring one, it was better than planned. First, Lyle needed some help at work with a three day project. I was to clean out the company's "bomb shelter" of files (that had been thrown in...some were wet, others were so old they were breaking, and others were covered in spider webs), clean them off and the shelves, and then move and arrange the boxes in the back of trailers. It was hard work, very dirty, and nasty (running across two HUGE spiders and a dead cat) but we were able to get the job done faster than expected and work with Lyle at times and earn money! It was worth it! Plus I really appreciate what Lyle does MORE.
That was Mon-Wed.

Thursday was my day to relax and recoup...so I babysat Davis (6 months old) AND Chloe (9 months old) (I got Davis to sleep just in time for Chloe to get here and cry and wake him up but he didn't scream until I got Chloe to sleep. Then I got him back to sleep just for him to decide he was done. Then his dad came and Davis cried for food and woke Chloe up. At that point they were both done sleeping even though they didn't get too much sleep.-but I still enjoyed it).

That night my parents and sister Jill arrived and it was time to SHOP!! We went and picked out an iPod for my dad's bday and then went to the outlet malls and found shoes and clothes! We also went to the ren festival and got burned and our fair share of pushed up boobs that we decided it was time to leave.




One really fun thing was my birthday gift. It was a watch face that you can change and design your own watch band. Jill and Mom and I REALLY enjoyed that.


Overall it was a VERY good and fun weekend and I'm sad to see them go and sad to start back at school and get thrown back in with two tests on Wed.

SO now you see why I keep telling myself "just 7.5 weeks left until I graduate".

Oh! And I finally dyed my hair for those that haven't seen pics.

CHANGE!!! PLEEZE!!!

I'm in this slump of lack of change. Lyle has been working SO HARD at work (12 hour shifts) and I'm SO proud of him!!...

...it's just that I'm getting up, going to class just because I'm SO bored being alone, sit through class, come home at about 4:30 or 5:30 on some days, take a 30 min break, go to the store/clean house/do dishes/clean up Jaz's poop-which ever is needed that particular day, walk Jaz, get home, make dinner, Lyle get's home at 8, eat dinner, watch a tv show, LYle falls asleep, and then we go to bed. Day after day...same thing and I'm finding that I am grumpy at Lyle just because of this slump-and it's not his fault!

I am SO ready for and NEED CHANGE!

Thanks to Erin, I will be trying to eat a little healthier (since you really don't try to eat healthy when you don't feel productive and healthy) and go back to the gym (that's tiring with walk to class, Jaz, and then the gym, but I have to do something before I go crazy!) and hopefully I will feel better about myself and then be happier so that I can continue to take care of my VERY TIRED husband!

My other thing is that-the change thing again-I want something different about me...so I'm torn...should I dye my hair? I've been blonde before and brown (natural) and I want something different but I don't want too drastic...just enough to notice...so should I go dark brown with red highlights? or would that just look bad-or should I just deal with my color and not change it. What do you think?

Plus I'm thinking-Good it's Spring Break! but then I realize that it's even MORE time alone! I need craft ideas or babies to tend!! I can only clean my house so much! Ideas?!!

I need Thursday to get here fast so that I can play with my family. SAVE ME!I'm even looking forward to work Friday and Saturday! I've never dreaded Spring Break before! I'm sad. Thanks for agreeing!

Okay, I'm done.

Climb to Conquer Cancer

I participated in such an awesome cause on Saturday. Jess, Brenda and I have been working out together and working toward this walk. It is an eleven mile hike...5.5 up hile and then you have the option of taking a bus back down (which more than half did) but those that were crazy walked back down...which included us. We even ran down some of the hills because it hurt so much just to walk down hill. The day after I was massively sore and sick to my stomach and even two days after I am still sore but not quite like yesterday. It was such a huge accomplishment for all three of us. It was a marker for Brenda and I because at this point we have been working out together for a year, and it was Jess's marker for getting rid of ALL her baby weight! We were all so proud of ourselves and each other and would have NEVER made it without each other.

-High five girls!-

So here's some pics from the walk...


At the beginning


If you look close you can see the first hill up the mountain that we had to climb.






View of PHX on top of South Mountain

We also got balloons at the bottom and carried them to the top and released them in memory of those that survived.

We had such a great time that we've decided to make it a tradition...want to join?