What Happened?

I'm here to tell you I was on a roll! I was working out CONSTANTLY, eating healthy i would say 70% of the time and looking good. I wasn't loosing pounds but everyone around was telling me that they could see a difference.




Now they would have been lying to me and just feeding me crap because they felt pitty for me that was working so hard with no results but I saw a difference (no matter how slight) too!


Lately though, no go. UH it's been so hard. Work is all crazy wonky and will continue to be until the end of September. I feel guilty if i don't work late, which means i then miss my workout time slot. UH sucks big time. When i don't workout then i eat bad. It's a terrible cycle.


Then we went to Texas FOR THE WEEKEND (crazy i know) and i came back sick so that threw me for another loop. I'm so far behind on my 1/2 marathon training i just want to give up but i won't let myself. UH! LIFE is sucking huge!

So you see, life happened and my motivation went with it. I'm trying to get it back and my good friend Cathy is trying to help me because she needs a boost too, but the desire isn't there right now. How do you get your motivation back?

Wedding Redo!

SO i have a MAJOR update coming your way but I wanted to throw this in for fun until I can get my act together! Over at Crafting a Fairytale she did a little Wedding Redo and I thought I WANT A REDO!!! So here's how it would go down if Cowboy and I could get loaded and do a killer vow renewal!
Now Northern Cowboy and I got married way back in circa 2006, aka Pre-Pintrest. So here's what i wouldn't change:

Time of year: LOVE the fall! Love what we did with the fall!

Change Time: The dress

 

While my dress was beautiful it wasn't my dream. I think i decided I wasn't going to be able to afford my dream and since this was beautiful, it was enough. Here's what I wanted at the time:

A silk taffeta look, but with more folds and drapes, etc. 

 NOW i would go for something more like:

 I would want it to be more memorable. Have the details more pronounced so they are more easily seen in photos. I would want it truly unique and i wouldn't listen to anyone else (like my Dad who hated the corset back, but that would have saved my back-fat!)

And for my hair (because OMG i HATED my hair!) I wanted something natural and free, like:

The Cake:

First of all it wasn't what I was told i was going to get. I was supposed to get a cake with swiss dots all over with edible fall foliage, not fake plastic crap.

What I would redo to:

Or even go non-traditional like:

The Flowers/table center pieces:
While proflowers did a budget good:

IF i didn't have a budget i would have preferred:

:

And while I LOVE the pumpkin/flower center pieces, i wish they would have been executed better:

and maybe with some height thrown in

The Venue was amazing a far as location and the staff and food. I wouldn't have minded if it looked a bit more like this though:

I mean if i had all the money in the world.... ;)

Yea for VACA!

Hey y'all! So this time of year is cray cray for me. It's the end of the fiscal year here at work and well... it SUCKS. HUGE! So that's limiting my workouts and making me want to eat my feelings. I'm trying not to but it's hard when you get wine from a wine party you attended delivered and it taste SOOO good, so you have 3 glasses to make yourself feel better.... wha was that me?

So what have I been up to? Vaca! We went to Southern Shores on the Outer Banks in NC and it was AMAZINGBALLS! These are in no kind of order so enjoy! ha

Here's my little family at the Dunes. That shit is NO JOKE! Especially when you have a 3 year old that wants to do it again and again and then doesn't want to walk... whoa! Basically you walk forever up and over HUGE sand dunes... LIKE mini mountains. then you get to the ledge and run down and try to climb back up to do it again. It's supposed to be fun. yea...

 Car Ride down! Too cute not to take a pic of.

 Living out Parker's dream of seeing a big "Blub Blub". He makes this car noise every time he sees a big truck or something and so we stopped here. You might be a redneck if...

 My sweet girl in the sand. She was a true beach beauty. She LOVED being on the beach and going into the water. SO MUCH FUN!

 This little stinker/wildman was NOT okay with the ocean. He did NOT want any part of it. Sand on the other hand was totally fine!

 My future sister-in-law and I did a 5k while we were down there. Yeah we ran on the SAND! Dumbest thing EVER! There were so many people that there wasn't any packed sand so you were dying after 4 steps. Basically it took me 48mins to do, normally i can run a 5k in 34mins now. yea... dumb

 What are some other highlights? Duck Donuts. OMG look it up! They are the bomb, basically worth a whole trip just for them. Our house was around 2.5-3 miles from the donuts so i would load the kids up in the bike trailer we rented and off we would go. Didn't feel as bad eating my Maple bacon donut after that! The future sis and I also got in a 4 mile jog and 15min P90X ab routine and a mini calisthenics routine last week. So while I wasn't as good as I could have been, I was WAY better than I've ever been before so I'll call it a win!

Don't worry I'll more pics coming soon, these were just on my iphone.

loves!

uh Monday's SUCK

I mean where do they come from and why do we have them? I guess so Tuesday won't suck so badly... but man Monday's SUCK!

This past weekend we were able to ship the kiddos off to Grandma's HOLLA! It was awesome! I picked K up early on Friday and took her to get her nails done. I was all like "yea just paint them but she does like to put her feet in the water to pretend she's like Mommy"... do you know what those little nail betty's did? A FULL OUT Pedicure... I shit you not, oh and they did a mani... And i'm not telling you this to tell you how awesome they were (even though they were and K was glowing with excitement the WHOLE time)... I'm telling you about this because I about slit their throats when they gave me the bill. My 3 year old cost more than me! ALL of her nails put together equals one of mine and yet she cost more!?!?! Yes she did get designs (um most of them were polka dots... not hard to do ladies!). Now I'm sure y'all are all like "Um Erin why didn't you ask prices first?" BECAUSE we've done this before... normally she's like $10 plus $5 or so for the "designs" I mean $20 total TOPS! Lets just say I hope K likes Momma trying to drunk paint her nails because that is the only way she's going to get those pigies pink again!

Saturday was another adventure (one more reasonably priced, based on the service) for the littles and me. Salon time! She was due for a trim and i needed to get rid of my rootie tooties. So yes my daughter goes with me to my salon to get her hair cut because the last time i took her to a "discount" place she came home looking like Loyd from Dum and Dummer... NEVER again. So she comes with me about every 3-4 months and gets it all! The shampoo, cut, blow dry and she LOVES it! It's actually really cute to watch her, she just sits there all giddy not moving at all! This time we got crazy and threw a pink hair extension into her hair... I'm pretty sure she's the coolest 3 year old EVER!

After that it was PEACE OUT to the littles as I threw them into Grandma's car and then took off like a bat out of hell before she could change her mind.

I got home to my Northern Cowboy who had gotten me flowers!

The best part of the weekend (aside the good bonding time, crabs with friends, and getting to hold a one week old) was Sunday night. The Man and I were working on the basement again, got another door in and some more drywall up... well his buddy, an electrician, stopped by and he's coming by on Wednesday to "give us light!"!!! Y'all we have lights down there but there's no switches, there's lights with little tiny mini chains on them (because the longer chains keep falling off). So I have to jump in the air every time I want to do laundry and hope I grab the chain... sometimes it takes a few tries... i might look like an ostrich trying to do a jumping jack... not graceful, there's no Michael Jordan airs happening here.

But after Wednesday we'll have lights, switches, and outlets! OMG!!! Now if we could just get the shitter connected we would be legit!

I Won the lottery! Or not...

So my kids, house, job, etc has sucked the life out of me literally and I'm finding it hard to function right now... so instead of giving you a whole post about what pisses me off, I decided to join a link up!



So here's what I'm thinking... it's going to be one of the BIG ones like hundreds of millions so i don't have to worry about math and shit since you'll lose half after taxes.

First, I'm taking the lump sum. I don't want to risk something happening to me and my family losing out on the rest... lump sum all the way.

Second I would take one million for each kid right away and put that in a bank account with lots of interest earned and they can't touch it until they are like 30 because they are my spawn and they will spend that shit on stupid things at Target if I don't stop them.

Next I'm going to fix my townhouse up the way I would want it in my dreams because I don't want the next person to own it to have to deal with it... and then I'm going to sell it for cheap to a deserving family that's just starting out. Because I'm nice like that.

I will then building my dream Southern Living Home.

It's going to be stupid awesome and have everything I've always wanted and put MTV Cribs to shame. I'll have a HUGE gourmet kitchen that is open to the massive family room. We'll have a sun room that is right out of a magazine and the whole house will be cozy and have lots of character!

 

And then I'm going to build one for each family member(see "family members below) on my property because I'm going to have like 100 acres and it'll be a compound!

I will buy each family member a car of their choosing (My parents, chris's parents, brothers, and sister-in-law)

I will pay off all college loans for family and pay for any future schooling they want.

I will then get a trainer and chef to help me lose weight for my up coming shopping spree in New York

 

Oh and I"m going to hire a shoe maker to make sure all my Louboutins never lose their red sole

because you know I'm going to have a closet FULL!

I'm going to give lost of Moola to the church and charities

AND i'm going to give my BFFs like at least $10k (chris might then feel obligated to do the same and he's got WAY more BFFs then me. I'm also going to give me Co-worker friend a shit ton so she can quit this crap and enjoy her life!

Oh and then I'm going to go on vacation for like a year (because my house/compound is going to take forever to build) and visit every where in the world I've been wanting or maybe even not wanting to see.

Then I'll start a charity of my choosing and work that the rest of my life~

What will you do?