The Ride

This morning, I decided I would venture out of the house (FINALLY) and hit the gym. The H1N1 infestation has put me on a bit of a scare, but I'm putting my trust in the Lord that Hunter will be ok. Julia and I will get vaccinated as soon as the vaccinations become available. Since he stays in a part of the play area that is specifically for babies, he doesn't have any contact with the other children really. He pretty much stays in his car seat carrier or a swing if need be. I need the gym so badly, I just had to go! This morning I decided to go ahead and take a spin class this morning. I wanted to challenge myself and jump start my routine. It felt great to be sweating on the bike today. At the end of our ride, our instructor told us some fabulous words of advice. " If we had a good time, enjoyed the workout that we should hold onto the feeling for the weekend, the next week, the future and bring the positive and happiness into our lives. It's more powerful than anything else. " So, I enjoyed the ride and I think I just might remember the feeling for later. So excited for some more "beating" in the future. Boy oh Boy I missed the gym!!

Our October

As I sit here with my bowl of Edys Vanilla Bean ice cream, I realize I really need to blog about SOMETHING, ANYTHING. So, since October is in essence, at an end, I figured I would give a recap of our adventures. We were daddy-less the beginning of the month, followed by Hunter's blessing and a birthday party for two (all in the same weekend). Happy Birthday Julia and Jocelyn!! Followed briefly with sick children (that caused me to reschedule BOTH appointments I had this month) and finished off with a move that took a week to accomplish and will continue to span the next few months (we're downsizing)!




The move will be good for us - I like that there is more room to live here. Melanie has been doing GREAT with school!! GO GREEN DAYS!!! Yipee!! Although in the grand scheme of things - I think public schools have it in for our young ones. They will get less desirable colors (yellow, red) for "working" (read fighting) things out with peers. They promptly receive a green day (very ideal color) for tattling on everyone around them. ugh.... and thus the tattling phase has begun. At least we see those green days and have stopped receiving little notes stating our child has bitten another child or keeps messing with another girls hair!! What has the educational system come to??? On an up note, Melanie has been reciting her months of the year and other random facts throughout the day - VERY IMPRESSIVE!!!

Living life by the seat of our pants!

As if our little family hasn't had enough "big" changes lately, we are moving this week!! Yikes! We will be moving (literally a few houses away)starting Thursday. We have to move ourselves and they are giving us a week to do it! I think if we got much less than that I wouldn't be able to get it all done. (We learned we were moving on Friday of last week) On our quest for boxes this past weekend, we were not very successful, so I think it will end up being a gradual process (since we are due for a much bigger move in a little over 6 months). If any of us needed to adjust to change, now is our chance! I am getting EXTREMELY excited about getting the OK for exercise this week (yes, it will be 6 weeks since Hunter arrived). Can't wait to hit the gym running! Please bear with me as I am really truly planning on updating, we are just busy busy!!

Hunter's Blessing

Our little man got blessed today. So exciting! It's actually one of my friend's birthdays today too!! Happy Birthday - you know who you are! I can't believe Hunter is already a month old!! Time flies. The only plus of him growing up means that I will be back to the YMCA REAL soon. Yipee!! I'm so excited to start exercising again.
That's all beside the point though....our little bundle of joy has brought so much joy to our lives! He likes to look around and take it all in a lot more lately and is a really good sleeper. I think he will end up being our biggest cuddler so far - he LOVES to be held. Of course I think he is way too cute! Today when he was blessed, he wore his dad's blessing outfit. Yes... this little outfit was worn several decades ago when my husband was given his name and a blessing (and has been worn at least 3 times after that before today). How stinkin cool is that?

p.s. We tried taking his paci out for the photo... he didn't like that much, so I had to settle for this.

TOFW

Got back from Time Out For Women this weekend and really wish it would have been longer. =0( There will be more opportunities later I guess(sigh). i think I speak for the entire group as a whole when I say that I had a blast. Thank you ladies!! It was too much fun! We had a lot of laughs and went through a TON of tissues (H.K). I did my best to get pictures of every speaker/performer there - I just didn't get a good picture of Mary Ellen Edmunds (MEE). Here's our collage.
 

We hung out with Michael McLean, Hilary Weeks, Deanne Flynn, Brent Top, Kim Nelson, Mark Mabry, and Mary Ellen Edmonds this weekend. After the first night, we high tailed it to Cold Stone for a treat. We made it just in time before they closed... really they closed when we ran inside... but they helped us anyway. Thanks again for a GREAT time ladies!!

Oh, and there was this SUPER cute little girl sitting in front of us (she is 5 months).... yeah, can you tell I was missing on my little boy?? Here's her mug...

Juggling Life

Sorry I haven't posted in a bit. I have been "juggling life" lately. Last week was almost full with appointments and running to the pharmacy. Just when I think I am getting in the swing of things and getting a great schedule down... and... dare I say... having "free time" things change. Thus... the life with a newborn. I love it though - our little man is such a good baby. He has his bad nights (and bad days) - what can I say? (FYI By "Bad" I mean that he doesn't want to be put down OR he wants to "snack" all night) He LOVES to be cuddled!! I may end up strapping him on me like my dear friend Jenn does with her little girl! I'm sure he likes life better still being able to hear mommy's heart beat during the day! I'll gather up some things to post here in the near future. I just wanted to be sure everyone knew I was still alive (Jocelyn) and well!