Week 1 Down

The first week of school has been great! Hold onto your hats my friends, Ashleigh has not gotten a conduct check in almost 2 weeks! Woo hoo WTG baby girl. She told me the other night 2nd grade was really easy. Craig is adjusting to Emily crash landing on his planet and has even tried to be friendly to her (i.e. sitting next to her on the bus) to which she says ruined her life. Don't worry he assured her, it will help you be more popular because I am one of the cool 8th graders. God help us all! LOL





Check out http://www.unkit.blogspot.com/ This is my friend Sudie who is putting together something different. Most definitely the way to go if you like monthly kits. I just got done playing with the August Disney kit and will share pictures as soon as I can. The kit and the idea for what to do wiht your kit are awesome. Stop by and say hi and tell her Christi sent you.





Weight is going down, down, down. I am 4 pounds away from my first major goal! Yea me 31 pounds and 35 more to go. I will have to post some picture soon. It is nice to put clothes on and them be to big, it has been a while since I have had that issue.





Here is my new desktop at work, I saw the saying on a t-shirt in a catalog. I went online and found the picture and think it will be just perfect for my desktop at work. If only it would scare off some of the interruptions! LOL

Have a great week and do something nice for yourself, you deserve it:)

TTFN

Christi

Happy First Day of School to you:)

Happy monday, first day of school day around here:) We got up bright and early this morning and put on our first day of school outfits, packed our lunch boxes and headed back to school. Ashleigh was super excited, Emily was super nervous and Craig was just well not sure about his sister invading his space. Never mind they will probably never see each other, she was still coming to his planet. They were very nice to each other last night trying to help each other pick out what to wear and giving advice. Is it possible, could we be wandering into that undiscivered terrirtory I like to dream of called getting along? I highly doubt it but a mom can dream can't she?



The parking situation at Dalraida this morning was a nightmare. I am not sure hwo the genius is who decide to rework their parking situation and car pool drop offs but they should be shot. They have fenced off a whole parking lot so you can not get into it at all. They are supposed to start construction soon and I am guessing they thought they should make life hell now and not wait. Even the buses were having a hard time because there was no where for them to turn around. So we will have to deal with that but ti will all work itself out.



We are just excited to be back in school and on a steady schedule. The kids love summer and they love spending time with their grandparents but the gas has killed me this summer. But Craig needs the guy time with his Opa and his Opa needs his kid fix. I am so thankfully for all the help Oma and Opa give me during the summer, I do nto know what I would do without them.



That is about it for here. I have been working on some projects but I can not show them to you yet. They are for a friend of mine who has a cool scrapbooking kit going on. Check it out at http://unkit.wordpress.com/ She has a very cool idea and I can see it really taking off. The August kit was a Disney kit and since we just got back from Disney I had a few pictures I could out together. So keep an eye out and I will try and let you know how that goes.

Talk to you soon.

Christi

Hello again:)

Pam has been on me to start blogging again, so here I am. I did not realize until I came to actually do that that it had been 3 whole months since I have blogged! Yikes. I promise to do better. Life will calm down when school starts and I will have more time. *(Is there such a thing or is it a Urban Legend like the Lock Ness Monster? LOL)

Let me see what I can do to catch you guys up. Sadly Emily did not get into Baldwin Art Magnet. She got wait listed and is in the 16-21 group. She could possible get in up to 4 weeks after school starts. I think she has gotten used to the idea of going to Floyd and is actually looking forward to being with all her friends again this year. Craig on the other hand is not to keen on the idea of her invading his territory.

Notice anything missing? My baby has lost her 2 front teeth. It is funny how Mother's gauge when they children are no longer babies by different events in life. For me this is it. This means she is a big girl and moving on in the world:(

The kids and I took our first family Vacation in June. I finally took a whole week off work and we went to Disney World! I am not sure who enjoyed it more them or me. We had a whole week with the Mouse and all his pals. We rode every ride at Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios and Epcot that we could possible ride and some we rode 2 and 3 times. We ate lots of yummy food and just had an awesome time.

Here is the family with Goofy. This was the only Character picture the kids managed to drag me into.

Here is a picture I took of the kids our first Day at Disney. We were waiting to go into the Haunted Mansion.

And this is my favorite non kids picture I took while we were there. I think I was as excited to see the Tree of Life as I was about the whole trip. It was definitely not a disappointment.

I guess that is about it for this post. I will be around more often. Til then TTFN:)

Hello Hello Hello ))))))))

Is there an echo in here? LOL Sorry I have been busy with life and without internet for almost 2 whole weeks. I tell you I need a 12 step program when it comes to the internet. Phone I could do with out and I was telling everyone I could live without TV but well that was a big fat lie! I could not live without Big Brother and Survivor and Make me a Super Model and all those other reality shows I watch.

Still going to the gym although I missed about 2 weeks of that, but I am back on track tonight was my 4th night this week. I am also still tanning and have achieved a nice toasty color. The girl at the tanning bed tried to broil me last night. I usually go for 15 minutes and that was what i told her I wanted but obviously she knows more then I do about what I need to she put me in for 20l. I stuck it out but boy it was hot.

I will post some pictures this weekend. Emily got her hair cut and it looks real cute. We are still waiting to hear about Baldwin and should know something within the next 2 weeks. I had a date on Saturday and I think it went pretty well. He was very nice and took me to eat Japanese food. So we will see how that turns out.

That is about here for now. I will post again soon:)

Christi

Good Sunday to you:)

It was a pretty good weekend, My friend Kim and I went on a field trip yesterday to tattoo parlor. Pardon the tan lines:)

I have been wanting a new tattoo for a while and finally got one:) It hurt like hell but was worth it.

Then last night I went out with my mom and some of her friend to celebrate my moms 51st birthday. We had a good time and drank a little to much, ok a lot to much:) But we had fun and the band was awesome.

Emily finally has her audition for Baldwin Arts magnet this coming Saturday at 7:55am. So keep her in your thoughts. I know she will do awesome but I am sure everyone else who is auditioning will also:)

Still sticking it out at the gym. I can not remember if this is week 4 or 5, but I feel like my body is starting to crave going to the gym. Still tanning too as you can see from the tan lines:)

Talk to you soon.

Christi

That is all for now.

Day late

I did not get to post last night because the kids and I were getting picture taken. Craig spent the weekend with his dad for some guy time so the girls and I made a weekend out of it. Saturday we went and had our toes done and had dinner, did some shopping and just enjoyed being together.

I made it to the gym 5 times last week so still going strong. My final weigh in for scale back alabame is March 8-14

Here are a few of my favorite pictures from last night.

That is all for now. Have a great week:)

Christi

Happy Sunday

Well after all the excitement of last week I have very little to share. I made it to the gym 6 times this week! Yea Me! LOL I even did a little running on the treadmill today and I do mean little.

Ashleigh went to a dress up birthday party today. Of course she was so excited to get to dress up for the party and we went through a couple of different costumes before I threatened to just leave her and go by myself. So she decides to go as a dancer with a leotard and a skirt and 5 minutes after we get there she ditches the skirt and just runs around in her leotard. Of course if you know Ashleigh you know if we had let her she would have probably opted to just run around in her undies. Thanks for the invite Pam and Happy Birthday Jonah!!!

A bright spot to my week was that SURVIVOR stared on Thursday night. I was excited to see some of my favorite players back this season. I really hope James is a bit smarter and not as trusting this season! I think if he and Ozzie were to team up they would be a force, but I have a feeling a pretty little thing might be the down fall of my man James this season:( Man oh man am I glad they got rid of Johnny Fairplay on the first show!

OK off to try and catch Brothers and Sisters, my mom said they have a new one on this week.

Later:)