Anniversary

Today is our 8th Wedding Anniversary! We beat the odds & proved many wrong. We still love each other & are in love with each other. 8 years ago I married my high school sweetheart & my soulmate! My Everything!

I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with him & I can't wait to see where life & the army takes us! It's been a journey & I know it will continue to be a wild ride.

November!

November Rocks!!! I know it's going to be the best month of 2011. The 1st was our baby boy's 8th birthday, the 8th is our 8th Wedding Anniversary, the 15th is our baby girl's 3rd birthday! Also, we have a nephew's birthday, my sister's birthday, & best yet, THANKSGIVING!!! My family is coming for Thanksgiving! Super yay! So excited, this month ROCKS!!!

Mike: he's still trying to get all that health mess taken care of. He did get a temporary profile so no PT test for another 90 days which is good I guess. Hopefully by Feb all this stuff will be taken care of & he'll either be on the right meds or he'll get the permanent profile. Getting the temp. profile has taken a lot of stress off of him & me. Without it he would've had to pass the PT test by the end of this month, 3 1/2 weeks away, so as to not get a poor evaluation come January. So, we are breathing easier now. ;)

Me: I joined a 90 mile November(Movember) challenge. Oh my gosh!!! Last month was not great for losing weight. My least favorite aunt finally showed & I gain a lb, then the next week I wasn't able to kick that lb back off. I was disappointed because I thought I did good last week. Oh well I suppose. This week is a new week & I'm kicking ASS! I still do my normal stuff (walking) but I started a few weeks ago going to the gym also. I started mainly to keep a friend company so she'd go but now I look forward to it. Last week I was walking 3-4 miles a day, this week I'm walking 4-6 a day. Talk about exhausting! My eating is super on point this week too. I did have 2 mini candy bars on halloween but come on! The bowl was in my lap! Well, we had pizza on monday too. Ok, Tues-today has been ON POINT! I keep getting cravings after dinner. Buttered bread, candy, junk I guess. Mike bought Autumn Harvest ice cream from Schwann's last night. It is pumpkin ice cream with cinnamon & pecans! Not big on nuts in ice cream but pumpkin & cinnamon! I am going to DEVOUR it tomorrow night!!! I knew if we tried it last night I would've wanted a full scoop. I can't wait to taste it! :) Fri-Sun are my not so strict days. I try to still be pretty strict on Friday but we've been having girl lunches so it's kinda hard to eat healthy with all that yummy food around. ;) I am trying to pay more attention to food on the weekends too. I had really slipped on actually still trying to eat veggies. I had gone into total pigging out on the weekends. Trying not to do that anymore. :) It's just so tasty to pig out though. :) So though I am discouraged by only losing 4 lbs last month, I am still 25 lbs lighter. I'm not using diet pills, shake diets, or got surgery. I am doing this the natural way, diet & exercise(ing my ass off). I'm so ready to hit 50 lbs!

Not too much else really going on. We have just over a month left in AZ until we're CA bound! YAY!!!

Mid October

I can't believe it's October, let alone mid October. Crazy I tell ya! Next month is huge for us & then the one after, HELLO CHRISTMAS! We're awesome on getting gifts. We have Mike's parents both done, his nephews done, My dad both, my mom almost done, my grandma done, & both sets of Mike's grandparents. (well, we're taking one set out to dinner which is to us a late lunch. haha). I need to buy a little something extra for my mom & something for my aunt/uncle. Then we're done! Well, of course the SF zoo trip with the boys (nephews) too. :) The next 10-12 weeks will be great. Halloween, Birthdays, Anniversary, Thanksgiving (with my family here), then heading home for Christmas! Awesome!

Health: Mike seems to be back on track and I am mostly on track. I didn't get in my night walks really last week but I still managed to lose 3 lbs. WOO HOO! I know I'll probably have a small lose this week but as long as I lose 4+ in the next 2 weeks I'll be SMILING! My goal is 30 by November 1st. :) I take weekends off & it's starting to get to me. I was just taking off from super strict eating but I'd still walk. Then it was only 1-2 times during the weekend. Now it seems to be no walking Friday-Sunday. I still eat mostly healthy friday but dinner is the start of not eating right. Slipping Slipping Slipping. I need to stop that.

Mustang: Don't get me started. We got it back this weekend which yay but apparently there is something wrong with it. A friend of Mike's was suppose to look at it but not sure why since Mike knows what the problem is. Something with the suspension or shocks I think. Even Mike even agreed that there seems to always been something wrong with that car. He tells me "I guess it wasn't meant to be a daily driver". Ha, really? You mean a high performance car with a supercharger wasn't meant to be an everyday car? Shock! He wants to sell the super charger now too & put the old one back on. He put that thing on like 6 weeks ago & now he wants to sell it? Argh! I guess Mike wants to do a mini mustang run with his friend & his friend's friend this weekend. We couldn't do the P51 run because his car was at the shop so he wants to do this one. I hope it gets cancel, I'm really not interested in it. Also Mike is suppose to be putting together next month's P51 Mustang's run. He's planning it for the weekend of the phoenix nascar race that he wants to go too. Sometimes that boy makes no sense. The weekend before that one though is closer to our anniversary though & the one after is close to thanksgiving. We'll see I guess.

Mike might not even be here end of October- 23rd November because he volunteered to go to another post for who knows what. I'm not sure when we'll find out whether he got picked or not but I'm hoping it's not like a day or two before he leaves. It's the army though so you know that's how it'll be. Darn Army! Anywho, that's about all that's happening here.
Oh, Mike's health is ok. It turns out it's a moderate infection in his lungs. No tumor or anything more serious. Lots of antibiotics & fingers crossed for a permanent profile for PT. :)

New Blue

So what's new? Not too much but I'll still tell you about life the last week or so.

Mike's car is going BACK to the paint shop. Why? Because the paint bubbled by the door. I know there's a few things he wants looked at or whatever. My guess is it'll be there for at least 2 weeks maybe more. Mike sees no problem with this but I hate being down to one car. He tells me "at least we're not paying for it to be fixed". Don't even get me started! We're paying by me being without a car basically for 2 or more weeks. He was suppose to be taking my car on the days I didn't have curves & about half the time he will take my car. So much for saving money on gas. I guess we will now because we'll have too.

Eating right/exercise. This week has been a real struggle for me on both fronts. I've been craving bad food all week and staying away from it has been hard. I've slipped a few times. I'm not thinking I'll lose the 2.5 that'll get me to 25 which is disappointing. Mike basically is off the eating right train again. It lasted for one week. He's back to buying his lunches. We could save SO much money by him just taking his lunch. He averages at least $10 a day.

I seem obsessed with money. We're not poor & most of the time we aren't struggling but we're suppose to be saving for christmas. After christmas we should be saving to pay off the credit card or his car loan. Should! It use to be important to him to do these kinds of things but the last year he could care less. That's frustrating.

Mike's surgery/procedure was Monday. Talk about stressful. They saw something on the chest cat scan so they went in to look at it & biopsy it. All is fine. It was smaller than it appeared & it's benign. I guess he'll be on steriods to clear up whatever it is. He has asthma & he's allergic to lots of things. Hopefully once we move most of his problems will go away. Only 18 or so month for that. Then who knows where we'll go. He's liking Korea for a one year tour by himself. Whatever, I guess we'll decide once the time gets closer.

That's all, Tschuess.

Hello!

It's been a while since I've blogged here. I've been quite busy with the whole healthy eating & exercising stuff. Wooh, it's hard work I tell ya. Not much else has really been happening.

Mike is still doing his pulmonology stuff. Still trying to figure out what's going on. We should have answers soon I hope and then we can go from there. There has been some headway with that but until we know for sure what's going on I won't say. I will say that we found out Mike is highly(& some not so highly) allergic to some things. Some grasses, plants, trees, that sort of things. So we have a few answers but we're waiting on more.
As for me, things are well. The adrenal meds/supplements are working great. I feel alot better & I definitely have more energy/stamina. I've lost 22.5 lbs in just under 3 months. I'm eating VERY healthy (like uber healthy yo!) & working my ass off, literally! Curves 3 times a week & walking 6 days a week usually twice a day. I do 3-4 miles a day during the week. Slowly going farther & longer. In 3 weeks I racked up 50 miles. WOOO HOOO! And according to endomondo, I've burned 15 burgers! That cracks me up & delights me. To know I've worked off 15 burgers. I've had 3-4 during that time but still. Haha! 3-4 burgers or not, I lost 11.5 lbs in September & that's awesome! I can't wait to hit 25, then 30, then 35, etc. I can't wait. I love knowing I'm actually making a difference and that this time, my hard work is actually paying off. :) I'm FINALLY starting to see changes in my body too. Finally!