Catching up!

Well as always, where does the time go?! Even though we had a pretty low key weekend!

We did have a successful garage sale on Saturday. We were up at 5 am, Caden and I put out our signs and we had shoppers before 6:30! Early birds don't bother me, I'm there to sell and they are there to buy ;-)  It was interesting to see what people bought, JUNK and what they didn't buy!

We didn't sell our little kids solid wood table or patio table! In fact, no offers were made on them at all! We didn't sell our queen light weight sofa either, but a few people were interested in it. It's in great condition and I just couldn't go below 30 for it.. 10 and 15 were offered for it.. Yeah, can't do that when it was 700 from Lands End. Some one will buy it off of Craigs List. In fact I sold the kids table in 6 hours off of Craigslist and have two people in 24 hours interested in the patio table.

I have a pair of Crocs flip flops on Ebay that were for sale for 3 bucks at the yard sale and the bid is up to 6.75 in two days! This is fun!! I have a few more things I'm going to post. Too easy! Now that I have the time ;=) Yeah right?!

My back for the past two days has felt really really good! I had my reassessment with my personal trainer and I have gained a half an inch on my right side for flexibility! Shows that my hips are shifting from P.T. to properly align! The two times before on my assessment, it stayed the same numbers and I totally haven't gotten to work out hardly at all expect with Joe for the past 6 weeks, due to the flu, my back, and then mastitis!! SO both Personal Training and physical Therapy are helping out hugely! 

Mother's Day was so nice! Mike made my Eggs Benedict! It is my absolute splurge favorite breakfast meal. He stayed up to 1:30 am perfecting it! I had no clue and it was such a wonderful surprise! The zoo made me cards and his card was super sweet! We went to church, meet the family who bought the kids table in the parking lot after service, and then came home. I decided I wanted to go to the mall for the first time in months. So I go by myself. I arrive, get out the car, go to put my keys in my purse and notice my wallet is not there. I realize it's in the truck back at home. I just want to cry. I had timed it perfectly to be out for 2 hours, while the zoo all slept. So I come home, an hour gone already and no point on going back out to have less than an hour to enjoy my time. So I have a small pity party, I was so mad at myself, for about 30 mins. Mike even said we could all go to the mall, he hates to go, and really it's hard to go anywhere with all four kiddos. I decide I would rather have Cold Stone Ice Cream. Of course the zoo does too! So fun, we all go at 3:30 to get some yummy ice cream. And then we decided to have Iron Chef's for dinner. So Mike picked it up for us. It was really a nice day and Mike picked up the entire house for the housekeepers for Monday. Thank you so much, it was my second best Mother's Day ever! The first being when he took me to the Ritz for brunch when Caden was a few months old. My mom watched him. And really when I think about, this was the best one, because I had just the perfect relaxing day and break from my everyday life.

I desperately need a few nights away. I have only spent the night away, not including giving birth which means I still had a child with me LOL, ONCE since I have had children. Okay twice but the first one wasn't planned, a night out where I couldn't drive home, so it wasn't relaxing because I wasn't comfortable and worried about getting home the next day. Any who, so once planned to Scottsdale. So Marcie and I are trying to figure out a place to go in November to get away for a FULL weekend. We have a few Hilton Points that probably could get us one night for free and then split the next night.  I am so excited to plan it!! Now where to go.. we can drive to save some money or fly if we get seriously good rates on Southwest or something. I just want to go where I can get a spa service, do some shopping, drink good wine and eat good food. 

Mike is out of town tomorrow for the night in Albeqrappy. Then next Monday-Wednesday he's in Denver, which means I miss my girls, Monica and Heather's, birthday part in Tempe! I'm so bummed and my sitter can't do Wednesday nights anymore :( So I will have to take them out to Blue Wasabi when they have time.

Friday night we have small group here and Saturday night is a date night for us. Not sure what we are doing yet, hopefully the Tripp's are joining us! Marcie and I are going to Paradise Bakery that morning to load up her pretty's on Craigslist and Ebay.  Sunday is just church and then just relax the rest of the day.

Riordan's last day of school is next Tuesday and it's for an hour. I will be staying with him the whole time and then we will go get the Caden's. That will pretty much be our date. Should be fun so I'm excited to see him in school I haven't ever been able to volunteer in his class due to pick up for the Caden's. Beginning the last Wednesday of the month we start summer movies at Harkins. Caden will actually miss the very last day of school, but it's a movie he has so wanted to see all year, The Pirates Who Wouldn't Do Anything. His celebration for school is the Friday before so we won't be missing anything.

Okay so my assessment goes like this! So cool! I did lose my cardio a bit since I haven't been able to do it on my own time due to flu, back, and mastitis. And they stopped weighing, say they are a weight loss clinic, but an overall body health studio. I will be seeing their nutritionist sometime this week or next ;-)

So even though they didn't weigh me, I've dropped 6 pounds, total of 11 in 12 or so weeks.

                   Starting                              6 weeks                                 12 weeks

Body Fat    28.17                               26.93                                   23.73

Abs             43 in                               41in                                    40in

Waist          43                                    41                                         38!

Hips            45                                  44.5                                      43.5

Waist/Hip 

ratio            . 96                                  .92                                        .87    (anything .9 and under is                                                                                                                 healthy!)

Thigh          21.25                                22                                       20.5 (building muscle first)

Arm             12                                    12                                        12

Neck           14.5                                   14                                      14.5 (like a swimmer LOL)

So even though I've been on pause for over a month, I couldn't be happier with my results! I of course wish it were more, but I'm building up a good metabolism for those frequent food splurges ;-)