Farm Girl

They survived the journey! Kendall called me once she got to my sisters. She did very good on the drive. She watched movies, ate snacks and had to stop and go potty 6 times. Which isn't as bad as i thought it was going to be. Once they got to the farm they had some dinner and then went out exploring.

She got to drive Uncle Patrick's truck around to go see the animals and I was told she liked to honk the horn a lot.

Look at this sweet girl out in the world. She LOVES cows so i am sure she will have a good time until she realizes how big they are close up.

She also LOVES horses. Our neighbors use our back field to let their horses graze so she gets to see them at home but there is always a fence in between her and them. Usually at home she is too scared to pet them.

Grandma and her girl :) While she is there she is going to name herself a cow and i wonder what she will come up with. 

One thing i am surprised by is that when they got to my sisters Kendall wasn't shy at all. She gave my sister a big ol hug and kiss and didn't hide from her at all. She was a little shy with her Uncle Patrick but it looks like that went away pretty quick. She isn't really shy, she just pretends to be and she will even tell you that she is pretending to be shy. 

They are going to go on tractor rides and 4 wheeler rides and there is so much open space for her to roam around and have a good time. I miss her but it looks like so far she is really enjoying herself.

**Also i realize anyone who reads my sisters blog is going to see a lot of the same pictures when she posts them.

What to do?

This morning at about 6:30 I loaded Kendall into my moms car and they headed off on their 10 hour journey to my sisters house in Eastern Mt. And ever since they left i have been paranoid and anxious. 

Kendall is not one to fall asleep once she has been woken up so once i woke her up she was ready to go. She has been waiting for this trip forever and is so excited it is finally happening. My Mom, Grandma, Sarah ( my brothers GF) and Kendall will be going over there for the whole week. I have to stay and work but i wish i could go with them.

I miss her like crazy already and it is going to be a long week for me. I do have plans to work out a lot and I have softball today and Wednesday so the time will go fast. But this is the longest we have been apart from each other. I am happy and excited she is getting to go but at the same time, i think i will be paranoid until i get to talk to her and know they made it OK. Last i heard was they were 3 hours into their journey they only had to make 2 potty stops (which is good considering in our hour drive yesterday we had to stop twice). She has her movie player and lots of snacks and they said she was doing really well. 

All i keep thinking though is 10 hours is a long time for a 2 1/2 year old to be strapped in her car seat. Yes they will have to make lots of stops and she will be able to get out and walk around some. But have you ever tried to strap a kid back into the car seat when their butt is tired from sitting? Its not fun, when they are tired of it EVERYONE will know it. I just hope that she handles it well, which i am sure she will.

They are going to have so much fun out on the farm with all the animals. Their fair is this weekend so her Uncle Patrick is going to take her on rides. My sister even said they are going to set up a tire swing for her to play on.

Last time she was at their house she was only 4 months only so she really couldn't do much. We let her look at a cow but she really wasn't sure what it was. This time around they are going to let her name one of the calves. I am curious to hear what she comes up with. The last thing she names was her giant stuffed hedgehog and she named it Wedgie....

My sister is going to take lots of pictures and i will have to steal some to let you all see how much fun she had on her trip. 

Happy Monday!

Whats been going on?!?!

This past weekend was so nice, we stayed home and cleaned and relaxed preparing for my Grandma to get here. She will be in town about 2 1/2 weeks ( 1 week of which she will be spending at my sisters house over in Eastern MT).

I had to put away laundry and Kendall follows me everywhere so i set up a movie for her to watch with a couple snacks and she was pretty content to sit there and watch for a while.

Kendall has never been one to just sit and watch TV, if something catches her eye she will stop and watch for a minute but mostly she just runs around like crazy from the time she gets up until the time she goes to bed. The last couple of days she must have been a little tired though cause in the evenings she sat down and watched a couple cartoons on her little movie player she has.

Her favorite shows to watch are Blue's Clue's, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Elmo's World, Bear in the Big Blue House and Sponge bob. She also likes to watch football. Every Sunday during football season we go to the local sports restaurant with Jason and hang out and watch the games while we have lunch. She really enjoys it and she knows all the people who work there and walks around like she owns the place most of the time. 

She has actually been sleeping in until someone goes and wakes her up now. For the last few weeks she has been up at about 6am everyday and by that i also mean on Saturdays and Sundays too which was like torture. People who don't live in Montana don't realize that in the summer it starts getting light at 5am and doesn't start getting dark until about 9:30 in the evening. When you are trying to get a kid to sleep when its light outside is hard. Luckily I have noticed this week that it is starting to stay dark a little longer, which means that here pretty soon it is going to be really hard to wake up when it doesn't start getting light out until about 7:30am.

Next week Kendall leaves on Monday to go spend 6 days with my Sister at her house. She is going with my Grandma, Mom and by brothers GF Sarah. They are going to have so much fun. I wish i could go but since i would have to miss a whole week of work i cant go. 

We are still waiting to hear back about the house. We still have the verbal approval and are still waiting for them to do the paperwork side of things. It is annoying and i have gotten several messages from my Realtor saying they are making progress and have been hearing it more so in the last couple of weeks. I am hoping that something starts happening before summer is over. Its very frustrating having to wait this long and unless it is another screaming deal i will not try to buy another short sale house.

After a couple days of hardcore cardio, using My Fitness Pal and drinking lots of water to cleanse I have lost a couple of the pounds i gained back. With K being gone next week i am going to hit the gym hard and hopefully make some really good progress.

K has been having some serious tantrums lately. She sits in timeouts all the time and just has a huge attitude and when she isn't happy or mad she is sooo emotional. We have definitely been having a lot of power struggles between the 2 of us but the best thing for her is for me to stay consistent with her. I know its just a phase and she will get over it but some days it is just so hard to deal with when she wakes up in a terrible mood because she is going to be in that mood all day long.

I think we are now all caught up on whats been going on in our crazy world so far this summer. Happy Thursday friends!

Confessions

Well after reading my sisters blog this morning, which can be found here, I decided i would also do a confession session (ooh I rhymed).

...i love working out but getting to the motivation to go to the gym is so hard for me.

....i wish i could eat all the time, i love food. Especially snack food.

...i really want to have another baby. Everyone else is and its giving me baby fever like crazy.

...I always feel like people are staring at me when i workout.

...I love reading romance books, like they suck me in and i can literally lay in bed until 1am reading even though i am going to hate myself i hate to get up in the morning.

...Kendall sneaks in to my bed every now and then in the middle of the night and i let her because i would rather not get up and put her back in her own bed (i really need to kick this habit of hers though).

...i feel a big sense of accomplishment after i do a long cardio session and sweat is dripping off me and my shirt is wet from it.

...I am not a huge fan of summer, don't get me wrong i do enjoy it but i would be much more comfortable if the temperature stayed in the 70-80's range

...It irritates me sooo much when people steal my pen at work. I purposely only leave 1 pen on my desk so people don't steal them.

...I am mildly obsessed with all the royal baby stuff going on.

...I like listening to rap and hard rock music while working out. It is upbeat and makes me want to push myself more.

...I always have polish on my toenails and i will not wear sandals if my toe polish is chipped.

...I hate it when people call in on the phone angry at you for their own mistake. 

...I long to have a six pack, but i love food to much. 

...I really enjoy watching football.

There are some of the things that aren't super deep dark secrets but its not usually stuff i shout out on a regular basis. Happy Hump Day friends!

Back on the Bandwagon

Lets all take a moment of silence for the 5lbs i have gained back :( I am disappointed about this and i keep coming up with excuses about how we have been so busy and camping a lot that i haven't had time to eat good. When in all reality i have been eating like crap and snacking and eating things i really shouldn't be eating. For example last night.....I had softball and didn't get home until after 9pm i had to get Kendall a bath still. She had been giving me grief all day long and it was torture so instead of actually eating food. I felt i deserved to eat ice cream for dinner. Not gonna lie it was really good but it obviously wasn't the right choice.

I had lost a total of 15lbs after my challenge but now since i gained the 5 back i am really needing to jump back into a good routine. We are halfway through summer and the last thing i want to do is gain everything back when i worked so hard to get it off.

As of today I started using My Fitness Pal again. I need something to keep me accountable for what i eat since i obviously can't do it on my own. Its OK to cheat now and again on the ol' diet but not every day. I still workout about 4 days a week and i workout hard but muscle weighs more then fat so instead of doing more muscle training and just a little cardio i am going to reverse it and concentrate on cardio for a while with just light weight training to get the weight back off. I am not going to eat ice cream for dinner anymore and make better snack choices. 

Book/Author review

I have been doing a lot of reading lately. When I find a book i like i have a really hard time putting it down. I have a Kindle Fire and I love it!!! There are so many free books to choose from and books under $5 that it is totally worth it. 

A while back I found the book Blood Ties by JD Nixon. It was one of the free books and i thought it looked good so i downloaded it. About a week ago i finally decided to read it and i am sure glad i did. It is book 1 in a 4 book serious. Unfortunately the 4th book isn't out yet and since I like those books so much i

About a week ago i finally decided to read it and i am sure glad i did. It is book 1 in a 4 book serious. Unfortunately the 4th book isn't out yet and since I like those books so much i decided to read her other serious of books called Heller, there are 5 books and there are rumors there is also going to be a 6th book but as of now there are only 4 books released which totally bummed me out cause it totally left you hanging at the end of the 4th book. 

There is some smut in these but it is definitely no 50 Shades of Grey and will not leave you blushing saying "Wow" it is decent and over all the story is really good. I have definitely felt some serious emotions while reading these and feeling bad for the main character. 

If you are looking for a fun easy read i suggest all books (that are released) in the series. They have definitely kept me interested and coming back for more.

Ooh, i forgot to mention that they take place in Australia. It doesn't directly come out and say that and it is written a little differently but it doesn't take long to get used to.

Camping trip!

Unfortunately i didn't take many pictures while we were camping but we had so much fun. Of course it was for a softball tournament but it is one of my favorite tournaments. It is in St Regis, it's a really small town but it has such a nice place right on the river and the softball fields are next to a nice area to camp. I had told Kendall we were going camping so she asked every 5 minutes when we were going to leave and she was so excited that even though she stayed up late the night before she only took a 45 minute nap. 

I opted to work Thursday so i could take Friday off and most people think i am crazy for it but it worked out really well and most of the other people i work with did the same thing. 

Friday was Jason's birthday and one of his friends took him to play in a golf tournament which happened to be in the same place as the softball tournament. He had left that morning with a couple guys on the softball team and i went up later in the afternoon so Kendall and i wouldn't have to sit around waiting for him to finish golfing. Lucky for us he took the tent up with him and set it up before we got there so all we had to do was unload our stuff.

Even though we were camping i really wanted to make Jason a special treat for his Birthday to celebrate with. He is very picky about what sweets he eat mostly cause he just isn't a big fan of them. I was going to make his favorite cake but didn't want to have to worry about storing it since it would be impossible for him to eat the whole thing in one sitting. So I made him the bongo bars instead which we call cookie brownies. He ate most of them but i made him share a few.

The park is so nice, it is a really big grassed area and its nice having camp so close so if you need to you can just run over real quick and grab whatever you need. Kendall loved every minute of it. She had a couple minor melt downs but overall did really great and by Sunday afternoon she was ready to come home. 

Its awesome getting to spend so much time with our "softball family" we are with these people almost every weekend and its awesome just getting to spend time with everyone and its nice because i can let Kendall run around and play and everyone knows who she is so they all look out for her.

Last night was the first time in weeks that she has actually stayed in her bed almost all night long (she did get up once but i put her right back in bed) and she slept until we had to wake her up to get ready for daycare.

This weekend there is another tournament but it isn't as family friendly (as in people are a little wild and it is a HUGE tournament with at least 100 teams) so Kendall is staying home with Auntie and Jason and I will be leaving Friday morning to another fun filled weekend of softball.