one week

along with making cupcakes this week. this is also my last week of "freedom" for a while...my nazi bebe seester is going to attempt to kick my butt back in shape starting next week. i am very thankful for her, it's nice to have someone who's willing to be there for me. and since she got all the will power in our family its nice of her to share with me and she obviously knows what she's doing...look at her she's smokin hot!!
i love you rachie! thanks for loving me too!! muwah!! xoxoxo

the understatement on the year:

i have fallen off the wagon.

this is such a crude understatement!! by falling off the wagon i mean i hurled myself off the front and was then run over by the entire caravan of wagons. so i am picking my self up and now i have to chase down the wagon and climb back on.
i was doing so good for quite a while! i was sticking to my ashley diet and then rachel was my self appointed drill sergent and it all just came crumbling down around me! i miss water and feeling hunger every once in a while. i REALLY miss hiking and even getting up early to workout. i hate feeling like a slob. and gaining some of that weight back really makes me feel like such a loser.
but it's time to get back at it.

wish me luck...i'm gonna need it

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take a hike!

my darling little sister has been draggin me on hikes lately...not that i am not willing, i'm just out of shape. today we did mt. peak. it was a lot of fun. but i just can't wait for this to get easier!!

this was my view most of the time...rachel waiting for me:

enumclaw from about half way up:

some wildlife i caught looking at us:
(oops a bit fuzzy)

rachel decided this looked like weed:

so she thought she'd try to smoke it:
(what a tard)

my favorite girls!! rachie and riley jo:

riley and i at the TOP:

this picture alone is reason enough to workout...and get some sun
(of course everyone looks fat & white next to rach)
the 3 of us at the top! yay:

next week i take on tiger mountain (or poo poo point as anna calls it...?) last week it kicked my butt and i only made it half way...next week that mountain doesn't stand a chance!!!
i love my rachie for kicking my butt in to shape. but someday somehow i'll figure out how to inflict as much pain on her as she has on me! *love you big/little*

why, oh why??

my poor solomon is sick. and when he gets sick its not pretty. he just has a cold, but at least once a year he gets a cough that is like croupy...it's pretty much like asthma. he stayed home from school on friday and we also skipped church today and im pretty sure that he'll be home from school tomorrow too :( i just want him to get better.
OH YES!! and it doesnt help that while moses and i were at a wedding reception this evening jake decided it would be a good idea to watch the movie signs with solomon...they didn't even make it through the whole movie and now solomon is scared of EVERYTHING, i had to go with him to pee!!! and it was still light outside...as a matter of fact it is 10:15pm right now and the poor kid is still awake laying in my bed right now. jake is normally the over protective one about everything!! it is SO unlike him to let solly watch something like that. i was shocked. jake, of course, feels really bad now. poor solly :(

in other news:
i FINALLY pulled my elliptical machine out today and i am suppose to have my first appointment with it very early tomorrow morning...like so early that i have to do it before i go and do my frankies cleaning :P yuck. it all just sounds like too much work to me. but i know that it will all be worth it in the end...when i am smoking hot ;)
well, wish me luck...

i must have dropped my brain somewhere along the way...

so my darling little sister drug my fat butt outta the house today and tried to get me to hike up a mountain (only 3 miles round trip) but since i haven't worked out pretty much since it was required to graduate...lets just saw i didn't do so good. it also didn't help that i barley ate breakfast (toast and a brownie were not the best choice) and i have a cold. but i really did my best and she was very understanding that i was close to death. but her big plan is to hike every friday so i suppose i have some work to do in the this week to be ready for next weeks hike.
so now that i am back home with my sick little boys all i want to do is sit in my chair and be warmed by the computer in my lap (feels good on sore thighs) i don't have any motivation to do ANYTHING :/ so i think i'll just keep blogging...

...the other day i was telling a friend how i was so proud that solly had perfect attendance so far this year. well, i should've knocked on wood. he is stuck at home with a bark of a cough and a sore throat. so along with moses and his new found allergy's we're quite the bunch of sicklings.

...rose went home today :( she decided to grace us with her presents for the week, and we are always happy to have her. now if i could just find her a job here then she could move here and save on gas :)

...i miss my friends. during this move i have found a lot of old pictures and yesterday i watched my wedding video. why is it that when we grow up we somehow lose friends along the way? who knows. all i know is that i am glad to still have a few of them(only the best one of course) i just wish that i could see them more. maybe if i didn't sit in this chair blogging all day i could find time to see them.

...jake is working his butt off these days at both work and church. he is helping out at youth group and also teaching sunday school while the regular youth pastor is on sabbatical. he loves working with youth again. it's nice to see him in ministry again.

...rose and i went and saw hannah montana(the movie) while she was here...and i LOVE it. it's a really cute and very funny movie. i had NEVER watched hannah montana before seeing the movie and i still loved it!!!

alright i think it's time to get up and do something with my day.