I started a 30 day challenge on February 1st and it has changed my life and the way I look at my life. Here is the link http://www.30daypush.com/ It is all about setting your priorities and then setting goals that align with your priorities and then figuring out your push goals to help you push through the rest (the one that will help you make the other goals more possible) then creating a To do list everyday and maintaining it. You right down what you have Today, this week, next week, this month or this quarter. Anyway, long story short My push goals became a reality. My goal this year is to loose 25 pounds and be stronger, healthier and be an example to my children of living a healthy life and being happy for it. My next goal is my personal financial goal. I became a Scentsy consultant this month and I look forward to becoming a "recruiter" over here in Germany. Scentsy is opening up to the UK, Poland and Germany and I am going to set out and get the word out and I know I can do this. My goal with it is to be able to recruit at least 10 people this year, be able to make enough money to buy me my camera and to eventually make enough to help us get out of debt faster and drive us towards our dream. My third big goal is schooling my children. I want to be able to have my self organised with my time so I am making time for them to create to learn and to have fun!
I am doing the challenge agian starting this week adn would love if you joined me and we can talk about it a long the way.
My Scentsy website!
My favorite scents right now are
Canberry Mango in Tropical
Berry Blush in the new spring and summer scents
My Dear watson in the Manly smells
Enchanted Mist adn Simply Irresistable in Romance
Guava nector and mochadoodle in Bakery/Cafe
Cucumber lime is another great one :)
Ok so I started my new lifestyle......Yes, I am trying to have it become that. My work out is Chalean Extreme which I am loving. I will loose all my baby fat on this I am confident. It is weight training and doing slow and controlled lifting with weights and it really works you hard. The link is
so I will keep you posted on results
Above: These are the snack drawers. We put things in snack size baggies and everything is portion based and so each bag has about 100 calories in it. So we can just grab a bag and go and I will know how many calories I am taking in.
Below: The stock drawer to re-fill the snack bags
My Fridge: I did prep time when I got home from the store. I washed and prepared carrots, bell peppers, celery, tomatoes, apples and oranges to grab and go and cheese sticks and cut up pineapple and melon and cantelope so that we can grab a bowl and eat. I made it so all the yummy good things are ready to just grab and down in my drawers is a refill drawer and where I keep my eggs and extra butter.
Ok, so I tried these and they are GREAT. The ranch dressing is really good and you can spray 10 sprays and easily cover your whole salad and it is only 15 calories. My boys have been using it for their carrots adn really like it. The spray butter is what I use when we do grilled cheese or tuna so far. No calories in that one.
My sandwhich drawer with whole grain bread.
These are some examples of the snacks in the snack drawer
Bridger loves his Dinosaurs and Dragons and here he is being the voice for the daddy dragon and they are going to the library to get the land before time movie. The daddy has a driver's license. :) He also says they are going to Texas.....Ryan and Tonya's family, I guess that means you guys :)
Our Valentines cake we made Yumm!!!
A valentines party we went to at our friends the Brimhalls. They are such a fun family and we had a good time doing couple games and eating yummy food and letting the kids play. It was fun to get to know more friends.
Beautiful Elaina
This is Gideon eating his baggie of snacks in the car on our way to stake conference.
Me and Bridger in Kaiserslautern. We found the stake center. I was relieved and we were early for the 10:00 meeting :) It is an 1 1/2 away from us.
This is Gideon doing my work out. I got really sick after we got back from conference and so I watched Gideon work out on Monday while I chilled on the couch.
He loves working out. I go to this online stopwatch and it fills your whole screen with a stopwatch and he loves using it. He clicks it to start and runs around the living room and then drops and does push ups and runs around some more then he pauses it if he needs a drink and starts it up again. His record so far is 18 minutes.
Sorry the video is sideways......I shouldn't do that. This is Gideon getting strong :)
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On Monday when I was still sick we made sugar cube temples. It was finger lick'n fun
The concentratin face.....priceless!
Bridger's (with mommys help)
Mommy's
Gideon's
I labled my binders so it was easier to keep track of my own projects and life in general.
I really LOVE organizing!!!
Yes this is a pile of Down feathers
And yes these are the culprits......They had friends who helped them at the time. So the story is that I accidently ripped my down comfoter and so i folded it up and put it in the linen closet so when I had access to a sewing machine I would fix it without the loss of the feathers........ Well, The boys and their wonderful friends emptied my farely big linen closet of all bnlankets, sheets, pillows, curtains and made apile in their bedroom with the mattresses and had a wonderful time jumping into the soft pile of FUN. Well, no biggy I could just put linens back but it wasn't until clean up time that i noticed the feathers and then it hit me......OH NO! Well we kept everything there because I had another set of kids coming for the evening that I was babysitting and so we waited until saturday morning to clean up the feathers and the huge pile of blankets.
They said they wouldn't do it again..... Do you believe those cute faces :)
So this is a new lil project we are going to start
We loved this book we got from the library and we are going to create our own rooms and story and that is what leads us to the magic tools
We made building tools to help us create what our imaginations can unfold.......We are going to draw out all the rooms and color them and then put it on the boys ceiling or so that is what I was told by Gideon. :)
We are almost there! Daddy will be home Wednesday from training for deployment and we sure have missed him!!! I got really depressed this last week with the reality of him going to be gone for six months almost crushed me but I know with a loving Heavenly Father I can have him help me carry this burden and lighten my load and I know things will work out. Joseph heads out in April and will come back home in October.
So Gideon and I have created a new curriculum for our home schooling.....Yep that is right we have talked about it and he wants to homeschool this fall so to stay busy while Daddy is gone we are going to do school starting tomorrow, all spring and summer, this fall and winter till a year from now. We are taking a journey of the alphabet and using a theme of topics the boys have picked out. We are going to Research and do projects in those subjects over a 2 week period. We will have our everyday pre-school lessons but will incorporate our theme into the lessons.
Letter A is for Animals and the Ark
These are our library books we got for the letter A.
We don't have them all figured out yet but that is kinda nice because it is what they are interested in at the moment and then we will run with it :)
We have the Letter, the theme, the time period that it lasts, the holiday we are celebrating during those 2 weeks, the field trip we will take and the project we will do for that section.
Letter~ Theme~ Date~ Holiday~ Field Trip~ Project
A ~Ark and Animals ~Feb 28-Mar 12~ Mom b-day~ Dairy Farm ~Bird Feeder
B ~Ball Sports~ Mar 14-26~ St. Patricks ~Go to a ball game~ Learn how to play ball sports
C ~Castles~ Mar 28-Apr 9 ~Bridgers Birthday~ A castle~ Make a castle
D~ Dinosaurs ~April 11-23~ Spring ~Dino park ~Fossel Sand box
E~ Electricity~ Apr 25-May 7~ Gideons Birthday~ Wind mills~ Create electricity
F~ Fire & First Aid ~May 9-21 ~Mothers day~ Fire Dept. ~The Body, fire safety
G ~ Germany~ May 23-Jun 4~ Memorial Day~
H ~Hunters~ June 6-18~ Fathers day~ Act out Nephi and the bow ~Make a bow
I~ Independence ~Jun 20-Jul 2~ Summer~ D day mem. ~T. of Liberty
J~Joseph Smith ~July 4-16~ July 4th ~A grove of trees?~
K~ July 18-30 ~Pioneer/Daddy ~
L~ August 1-13~ Families~
M~ Marvel characters(AKA Spiderman)~ August 15-27~ Road trips~
N ~Aug 29-Sep 10~ Labor day~
O !Sept 12-24~ Harvesting~
P ~Prophets~ Sept 26-Oct 8 ~Fall
Q~ October 10-22~ Daddy ~
R~ Oct 24-Nov 5~ Halloween ~
S~ Nov 7-19 ~Veterans ~
T~ Thanksgiving~ Nov 21-Dec 3~ Thanksgiving~
U~ Dec 5-17~ Winter ~
V ~Dec 19-31~ Christmas ~
W ~Warriors~ January 2-14~ Goals ~
X ~January 16-28~ Martin L king~
Y ~Jan 30-Feb 11~ Valentines ~
Z ~Feb 13-25 ~Presidents ~
We are excited for our new project. We will be needing a schedule to stick to while Daddy is gone.
