A whole month already??

It's been a whole month since my last post! Whew, am I slacking these days?! LOL! Well, I have lost 8 lbs since starting the Best Loser. I haven't really been trying as hard as I should and am guilty of cheating on the weekends, but I guess that I'm still doing okay.

I have a lot of things that has happened and I promise that I will update everyone on everything going on this weekend! Just to give you a short update, I'll run through some things we have been up to lately;
1. Remodeling the house and bathroom
2. Shaylee is doing new things everyday
3. Bon Jovi concert
4. Chance getting ready for pulls this summer
5. Easter
6. More pigs
Like I said, I have a lot of things to give updates on, so there will probably be about 60 new post this weekend with pictures and everything! So yes, I did finally find my camera.

One thing that I have found out is that your brain will never work the same as it did before you were pregnant. I loose things everywhere, forget where I put things, and even put things in crazy places! An example of this, which I did not do, but it's something that I probably would do, is when we were leaving to go to the Bon Jovi concert, my friend, Cassie realized that she had forgot her phone at home. She went back and looked and looked in all the places that she would noramlly leave it and then checked the fridge, and there was here cell phone! LOL! She had gotten in the fridge to get some drinks out and ended up leaving her phone in there! I totally know how she feels and I'm thinking I need some pills or something to fix it.
Dear sweet infant Jesus,
please use your baby Jesus powers to fix my terrible memory.

Busy....Busy....

A week later....
My Joint Commission interview went good and he actually told me that I was doing a good job! Woohoo!! That made my day! It actually wasn't as bad as I was making myself think it was, but I am definitely going to take some of the pointers that he gave me.

I have some more news, and an exciting weekend, but I am going to wait until I have a little bit more time so I can give the full effect.

Hope everyone had a great weekend, back to the hustle and bustle of work.

12 minutes and counting....

until I, for the first time, meet with a Joint Commission Surveyor. My stomach has butterflies and I'm thinking that I may need a cigarette and a beer in about 2 hours! Wooosaaaw! LOL! I just had to update you guys on how nervous I am about my first survey. I've been at work since 6:30 this morning with a 24 oz cup of coffee trying to get myself pumped up and prepped for this interview.

It's really not as a big deal as I am making it out to be because this is just a PPR, which is a practice survey, but I want to be able to present my information in a professional, know what I'm talking about kind of way. I've heard that he is a very nice man and really wants to teach and the good Lord knows that I am willing to learn how to make my job better in order to make patients in our hospital more safe because of the job I am doing.

Okay, well I'm fixing to head down there so wish me luck and I'll post how it went when I'm done!

WOOOOSAAAAAW!

Relaxing Weekend

This weekend was amazing!! I got caught up on some much needed sleep, hung out with famly, and on Saturday evening we went to Odessa to eat at the Barn Door. The Barn Door is super delicious and I wish I could eat there everyday!

Chance got sick on Sunday. He was achy all over, had a migraine, and his stomach was upset and guess what? I sure did catch it yesterday! UGH! It was horrible! I don't think my head and body has ever felt like that in my life! I don't know what it was, but I'm up at 4:30 this morning feeling peachy and headed to work out!

Oh, and it's official...my USB to my camera is officially missing and none at the house fit it! That's just annoying to me that there are so many different kinds of USB cords and one cord won't fit something else so you have to go buy a whole new one. Anyways, I better get going so I can workk off some of these pounds.

Almost the weekend!

These last couple of weeks have been SO long, SO busy, and and I'm SO ready for this weekend! Hopefully I'll be able to get some things done around the house, be lazy, and hang out with Shaylee, maybe watch a couple of movies that have come out. Speaking of movies, I watched Couples Retreat last night and et was a pretty funny movie with a good ending. I love those mushy movies that make you feel all good inside at the end! LOL! Some of my favorite movies that I'm sure Chance cringes every time I say I want to watch them are 50 First Dates, Good Luck Chuck, Fools Gold, and now Couples Retreat. I know there is more, and I'm thinking that there is a trend of movies that have something to do with the ocean, at least 3 of out of the 4 do. Maybe a trip to the ocean just sounds too good to be true in this cold, dreary weather that we have been having lately. There is nothing that the ocean and a nice umbrella drink can't fix! LOL!

Chance and I had a movie night last Friday, and you can tell when you are getting old when you can't stay up past 11:00 for a movie night and are both ready to go to bed. Saturday, Cindy picked up Shaylee to stay the night and we went to San Angelo so Chance could put injectors in, his friend, John's truck. While the guys were working, the girls went into town and did a little bit of shopping and went to Buffalo Wild Wings to have a drink. We decided that we had wasted enough time and went back, but of course the guys were still out there working their little booty's off. The girls were all starving and decided that it would be a good idea to go ahead and get everyone a table at Henry's and I haven't had Henry's in forever and ended up filling up on chips and dip. Then we headed off to Midnight Rodeo. That was the first time I have ever been in there, and it is such a blast! We danced the night away and had a great time! Sunday we were so excited to see our little Shaylee baby and we also had a couple of people over to eat chilli and watch the Super Bowl. Even though there was really only one person that was really interested in the Super Bowl, we still had a great time.

I feel so blessed everyday to have such a great family and the best husband and sweetest daughter I could ever even imagine!

The Best Loser

We are doing to Best Loser contest in town that started on Monday and I didn't realize that I have gained 10 lbs since I got married in November! Whoa! Good thing they had this going on, or I don't think I would really be motivated enough right now to try to loose it by myself. I have lost 3 lbs. since Monday! The only thing that I'm having a hard time with is not snacking in between meals, so I came up with a solution of packing little bags of low calorie snacks so that I can keep my calories low, but get the energy that I always need in the middle of the day. Not only am I cutting calories and watching what I eat, but I have been working out in the mornings and playing Wii Fitness on the days that I'm not working out. I also have this awesome app. on my great Ipod that my hubby bought me that will let me track my workouts and also gives me different workouts for different areas of the body and also gives you options of which kind of workout gear you are using from machines to weights to nothing at all. I just love it! I've used a couple of the exercises without weights while I am at work to get me up and around a little bit since I spend all day on the computer. I'm hoping to loose 30 lbs in 3 months, I really don't know if that is a realistic goal or even if what I am doing will help me achieve that, but I guess I'll try it. I really have come to the conclusion that I need a personal trainer to follow me around all day everyday and tell me what to do and what not to do. LOL! When I get back home tonight, I'll get Chance to take a before photo of me and then I'll keep you guys posted as I try to meet my goal. I'll post an after picture too. I know that I don't have many people, or really anyone that follows my blog, but if you happen to have some fitness tips to help me reach this goal leave a me a comment with your tips.

27 more lbs to go!!!!!

Just an update...

R.I.P. frontyard, pecan eating, wild hog.

Yep, the redneck hog cook did not turned out as planned, so we burried the wild hog and cooked fajitas instead. Easy fix! We ended up having a great time with all of our friends and definitly need to have another fajita cook in a couple of months.

Shaylee is getting a toofy!! LOL! Two of them! One on top and one on bottom. She is SO funny now and she just blabbers up a storm. She says "dada", "mama", "nana", and she used to say her "T"'s, but she doesn't do that one so much anymore. She is growing so much everyday! I look back at pictures and I think how it just feels like yesterday that we were bringing her home, and today she's 6, almost 7, months old. WOW!! I always thought my mom was crazy whenever she said that time flew by so fast, but now I totally see how it is. Let me tell you one thing though, she does have the red headed temper for sure! I'm pretty sure she gets that from her Dad though ;).

Chance is busy working on everything. We have worked on our living room, and I promise I will get pictures posted, but we decided that we are going to tile over the wood floor because it just didn't turn out like we had planned. Not only has he been working on the house, but he is working on a couple of trucks at the same time! Ater he gets done tiling and finishing the trucks, I think that he plans on buildng a fence around our whole yard so that we can put the dogs back there. We have such a nice porch that we aren't able to use because the dogs just tear it all up, I also want to put a pool up for the summer.

I have pretty much been busy keeping up with Chance and Shaylee and trying to keep the house clean, but for some reason the cleaning house part just doesn't get as much attention as it should.

Well, I guess that is all the updates that I have for now. Maybe this weekend I can get all my pictures posted that I have been meaning to do for the past 6 months!

Note to self:

Never try cooking a hog in a hole in your backyard!

3 more days....

until the Redneck Hog Cook Party at our house! Chance and Tyler have already dug the hole and it's ready to go! I think it will be a lot of fun and we are going to try to copy Lucy's Mexicali Restaurant and make some delicious margarita's with corona in them. Mmmmm........