Cake anyone?

We had Emma's and Gary's birthday parties on Sunday afternoon. It was fun! Emma got some cute presents
Gary got some good ones too. The big one for him was a 410 gun. Its just the right size for him, so now he can go hunting with dad! It comes apart and has 2 different things,,, I know nothing about guns so bear with me,, but I think the barrel is changeable,, I know it can be a 22 or a 410 shot gun. Something like that.

We had our cupcakes then. Plus I made a homemade ice cream cake! It was awesome. The recipe came from the Duggar's book. Here are some pictures of Emma with her first cake ever,, she dug right into it. It was so cute.

Did you notice the big boo boo under her eye? 10 minutes before the party started she fell into the bottom of the table I had set up in the living room for the party. Poor thing, she cried for like ten minutes.. I felt awful,, so now she has a bad eye in all her birthday pics....

Bad news

My husband came home late from work this morning. He had to stay over for a meeting, I knew from the moment he walked in the door news was not good. He just kept sighing and then not talking. I started becoming very scared! I am not going to go into detail but the news was not good.... he still has his job, so I'm thankful for that,,, but things are not looking good for us.
I don't know what we are going to do.

I just don't understand,, every time we start to get ahead in life we get knocked back down! WHY!!! I know everything happens for a reason but man..... I am just rambling so I wont go on. Without me going into detail its to hard for everyone to understand, just bear with me for the next couple of months, there will probably be a lot of frugal talk around here.

Just another random post

I have nothing imparticular to say but I feel like writing anyways so excuse me if this is random and scattered.

I've been so pumped up lately with moving my body and watching what I'm eating,,,,, Finally I'm into it again!! Alls it took was for me to start seeing numbers dropping on the scale and I want them to keep going in the downward motion! Plus I want to be in good enough shape to keep up in belly dancing class! Which believe it or not I'm getting excited about! I rented a video from the library, it was a belly dancing workout and I tried it Tuesday night,, it was fun, but my sides were cramping up by the end!! Then the next day I was doing the hula hoop on the wii fit and my sides cramped up so bad I wanted to quit,, but didn't!! So I must be working some muscles!! Maybe I can lose that roll around my middle!

Emma is walking now. She walks just as much as she crawls if not more!! Plus she can stand herself up from the floor without pulling herself up on anything! Thats amazing to me! She wont be 1 until next Tuesday! We are going to have a small party for her and Gary on Sunday afternoon. There are so many people I want to invite but I dont want my house to be overly crowed so its just close family and I'm letting Gary have a couple friends over. That will be a first, cause none of his school friend have ever came over before! 4 boys 7 and 8 years old,, that should be interesting!! Anyways I'm excited about the party,,, a little stressed to but more excited than stressed. I wish it was not winter so we could have it outside and invite everyone that I wanted but I guess we should of thought about that as we were conceiving because there is nothing to be done about it now! :)

I suppose I should get off here now. I am so happy and loving life right now,, SMILES !!!

OOwwchhh

The last week my body has felt like I'm 102 year old! For those that don't know I got a wii fit for Christmas from my awesome hubby, and I love it! It's great and I highly recommend it to anyone who wants a little encouragement in moving your body. Seriously, I am not all that into video games but this and rock band are awesome. I've been wanting to get started exercising for a while now and this has given me the encouragement to get started and the best thing is it's fun! It weighs you and tells you your bmi, and if your overweight and all that not fun stuff, but then you can make goals and there are all these exercises and games that you can do and it tracks your progress. There is yoga, strength training, aerobics, and balance games. It really is cool and it has got me moving. Also it knows when you've done it and if you don't do it for a couple of days it lets you know you are being lazy:) I don't want to be called that so it motivates me to get on there. I've been doing 25 minutes everyday pretty much, the time flies,, i always want to to more but I've usually got to deal with Emma or something. But the problem is I was so out of shape that my body muscles are killing me,, i am so sore. I sure hope the soreness goes away, there is something with my lower back, it hurts so bad and makes me want to hunch over. I'm sure its just cause I'm doing things I"m not accustomed to doing.
I've lost a couple of pounds now, so now I'm getting motivated to watch my eating. Its exciting. Who knew a video game could encourage someone to get back on track. Hopefully by the time the belly dancing class starts I wont be so sore!!!

Belly dancing

Guess what I will be doing starting January 19 and then for the next 8 weeks on Monday nights.......Belly dancing class :) No kidding, I'm dead serious! My mom asked me Friday night if I would take the class with her and I immediately said no way!! But then she kept bugging me and showed me the description of the class..... My main problem is my belly looks nothing like the pics at the top of this post,, but you don't have to show you belly or wear any special clothing for the class... it says its a great stress reliever, its good exercise and it will get me out of the house for 2 hours once a week. Hubby said its fine with him... so I decided what the heck,, its a new year,, a new me,,,, I need to come out of my shell and not worry about being the biggest one in the class. so I finally gave in and said I would do it... oh also she even offered to pay for the class which cost 69.00!!

Now everyone that knows me can stop laughing!!! I know (Andy) that you are picturing this and probably laughing your butt off right now,,, but I don't care... Who knows maybe this will be my specialty in life,, lol !! Just joking,,

I will be sure to let you all know how it goes and keep ya posted!

Menu plan 1-4-2009

so here is our plan for this week. Last week we didn't do to well following the plan but I can guarantee that for the next few weeks we will be pretty strict on following my menus due to my limited grocery budget. The kiddos are back to school so I'm going back to just listing dinners, for breakfast its usually cereal, oatmeal, eggs,,, or something fairly simple like that.

*Beef cubed steak, mashed potatoes, creamed corn
*pork chops, rice, peas
*spaghetti and garlic bread
*stir fry and rice
*chili mac with cornbread
*homemade peperoni pizza
*leftovers and our last Christmas for the season!!

Anyone have any tried and to meal/recipes for a tight budget? Something tried and true... I'd love to hear somethings other people do! :)

HAPPY 2009

Well I sure hope everyones new years went well! For new years eve during the day we took our kids up to the dentist,, we went to a new one,, its an hour drive but it is a pediatric dentist and even with brushing everyday my sons teeth are not the greatest, plus its a different atmosphere there than at a regular dentist. Anyways we did that and found out that both kids need some work done which is not cheap! So guess whose money will be tight again,,,, I'm trying to figure out how we are going to juggle it with 2 birthdays coming up in less than 2 weeks plus just coming right out of Christmas. We will figure it out,,, and manage, we always do:)

Then we went home and just celebrated the new year with our own little family. We played games the kids got for Christmas and then we played Rock Band 2 until 2 in the morning... it was fun! The kids just love getting to stay up late.

New years day we went to my moms for lunch then Ben went hunting and I came home to make cabbage roll soup! Very yummy! We always eat cabbage new years day,, I think its supposed to bring a wealthy new year or something,,,I don't know,, we are not rich by any means but I'd hate to see what happened if we didn't eat our cabbage!!

So... as far as resolutions for 2009, ..............
*get down to pre baby weight
*exercise at least 3x per week
*stop yelling so much
*pay off credit cards


And my motto for this year will be less is more! I have to much stuff and to little space I have decided. So Goodwill is gonna love me:)

HAPPY NEW YEAR!