My Big Helper!

He Helps me Do the Laundry!

And The Dishes!

He helps me unpack my packed bags!

And his diaper bag and my purse!

He helps be-head weird donkey decorations!

But most of all he helps bring us all so much fun

and Joy!

And then he sleeps! :)

quality quotes

"Well you won't make progress by fighting with him on the phone, that much I can tell you.   It takes time to change a heart, and it cannot be done with hard words.  I lived forty years with your grandfather, and that was the most important thing I learned."
             -A grandmother to granddaughter in book Tending Roses.

"What we cannot change we must learn to endure without bitterness."
             -Book Tending Roses.

My Latest Greatest Goal.

Well with the goal of my first 5k under my belt, I've decided to focus this month on weight loss, that wonderfully horrible plaque that has been my nemeses for too long.  Oh well it must be done and so day by dreay day I'm tackling it.......Can you tell I'm sick of it today, that I really just want to have something like a huge piece of chocolate cake....oh well.. I decided to make a goal of 10lbs and to be very diligent till I reach it.     I'm setting June 1st  as my goal deadline and am already almost half way there so yeay, but I know that when I relax for awhile I'll gain half of that back so no great relaxing on the food end for me yet.
 I really find an i phone application called Tap and Track to be such a help, I can keep track of all my calories right there and track my weight and see how I'm doing with food on the recommended 40:30:30 ratio....40% carbs, 30% fat and 30% protein.  I've noticed even when I try and eat more protein, I'm still usually, short of that, and so that is a big part of my eating well is eating more protein, fruits and veggies.  I really do feel better when I eat right, but loosing weight is hard work, it wears on you a little, in fatigue and other areas but I know it will be worth it.   So that's the news on my personal goal front for you lone or near lone followers :)

My 5k blues

Only weeks before I'm supposed to run my first 5k, Rilan and I both got horrible colds, not the sniffly kind but the kind that knocks you off your feet, so now just a week and a day before the big run, I have not worked out in a whole week.   I just started feeling normal again yesterday and so did a training hill walk workout today and though it was a little harder then before, it went well enough and I'm going to have to run monday and another day next week to be ready for the 5k.
   Also, despite being sick and not even being able to taste food much I managed somehow with my great talent at it to gain back 4 pounds of the weight I'm trying very hard to shed!  Oh well keep plugging along is all I can do.  It feels good to be almost all better and able to get a half decent work out in today anyhow!

(hey on a side note, does anyone know how to put a video on a blog??  I tried to download one little clip of rilan crawling after the roomba but I think it was too big a file to do though I've seen people post video's so if anyone knows anything that would be great! ;))

Cute Picture of Rilan in his little suit!

Just wanted to post this picture as I think he looked so cute and so grown up in this little suit we got from Cozzane, my hair stylest and friend who did the music in our wedding.  I want to post a video too of him chasing after the roomba but can't figure that out and need to get him as he's waking up.  He's sure is a lot of fun and such a joy...poor thing has a bad cold and isn't feeling too good today though.  

Random Quote of the day.

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, "Identity Crisis," M*A*S*H

GOALS UPDATE

I am happy to report that I ran on the treadmill at 3.0 incline for 26 minutes and 50 seconds and ran 3.0 miles....Yah!   I figure that if I signed up for the 5 K on easter, less then a month, I better make sure I can run it all soon so I pushed myself to run and pushed myself to run  3 whole miles and I did it.  I'm proud of myself yes and hope that when I get to running outside it isn't a big eye opener in that I can't do it but for now I'm just glad it's being as doable as it is...here I come 5k!!!!!!!!!
On other goals, financial, I'm staying away from the stores for now.  Marriage goals I'm trying to always emphasize the positive and be grateful.  I seriously do have a lot to be grateful for there, it sounds bad that I need to work on that but I do, I remember though how lucky I knew I was to find My Mr Wonderfu, after much dating headaches and pains and I am so lucky to have him, He's always so loving and good to me, he's not usually easily offended, wich is good because sometimes I open my mouth and insert foot before I think about it or I like to tease and raz him a bit and he's such a good sport about it, sure maybe he doesn't even hear me half the time and that's why but no seriously he's really good about that, he's a good provider, a good father so many good things.
   On parenting goals my little guy has constipation a bit and so I'm goaling to feed him good fruits and veggies 2-3 times a day at least, it's just good nutrition anyhow and something I need to do more for myself also.   Something too I want to work on, is just enjoying time with him more, I really try to do too much and am too grateful for when he takes naps or is otherwise occupied, I'm trying to get too much done and not spending enough good quality time with him so that is a goal for parenting lately too.     Well as my goal progress goes for now...that's all folks...