Princess Ashlyn

Ashlyn loves to play dress up. She has a few princess dresses and the plastic princess shoes. This morning she was upstairs playing and I yell up to her to get dressed, she was so proud of herself that she was allready dressed. Yeah! and sometimes scary! She comes down in her Belle dress and the yellow plastic shoes. "Look mom I Match!" which is a huge thing for her:)I love it!!

The Dam and Bugs

They started a bypass route for the dam in 2003 and sould be finished by the end of this year. It has been a long time since we have been there and I was totally surprised to see the new bridge! It is soooooo HIGH up in the air!! I am not sure when it is finished if I will be able to drive on it without wanting to close my eyes. Yeiks!

My kids are bug curious. They are totally terrified if they get too close but really like looking at them and of course they want me to take a ton of pictures. When we were in Arizona yesterday we saw a huge stink bug. Kinda freaked me out:) And we saw BIG red ants. We have big ants here but they are black. Ashlyn is totally freaked out by bugs and she just screams and points then I have to figure out what she is looking at.

We stopped at a gas station that had souvenirs for Arizona. the kids stood in front of this shelf that had scorpion paper weights for quite awhile. Ted had enough time to fill up the truck and come into the store to get us. Then they had to show him everything....Snakes, Scorpions, Cactus. It was like they were star struck. They had boxes that had small cactus in them and Ash made the mistake of touching the plant. She was trying to keep it a secret and only tell Ian but she had a little blood, that's when she freaked out! That Plant Bit Me!! She was convinced it was alive!

Remember The Gym, I don't want to

OK so last night I had dreams that I was paralyzed!! I can barely move! I worked out Wed, I treadmilled it for 30 min and then worked out my arms and chest back fat my love handles:) and abs. I didn't use much weight and thought I took it pretty easy. Thursday I worked my legs. The gym has this leg press machine I really like. Did some squats and my outer thy muscles. I did the elliptical machine for 30. I was moving around really slow last night. I cant believe how sore I am! I'm really glad I'm not paralyzed! But It was so hard rolling out of bed this morning after not moving all night. So what did i do?? I went to the gym,, this time I just did the elliptical for 45 min. it did help to loosen my leg muscles a bit. My legs hurt when you touch them though. That part I don't like. I am going to Skip tomorrow and prob Sunday too... I'm thinking maybe just some cardio till I get a little stronger, that might be less painful!!

Ashlyn, The Bully!!

I took Ash and another little boy to the park today for a picnic. I was sitting on the blanket watching them while they were playing on the jungle gym. There were 2 girls that came over. 1 was smaller than ash and the other one was about a head taller. Ash totally made these kids go crying to there mom!! I was watching but I couldn't hear what was said. The mom walked her girls back over to the jungle gym and walked away to sit on the benches. The older one was trying to convince the little one to move closer to where ash and her friend were playing. She decided to sit on the bottom of the slide and cry!! I made Ashlyn come over to me and tried to get some answers. She told me she told those girls to go play somewhere else and this was her house since her and the little boy were playing house. I could not believe the girls listened to her! Maybe I'm just as snotty as her:) I showed her where the little girl was that was crying and told her she made her cry when she didn't let her play on the jungle gym. I had to remind her this was the park and not her house and everyone can play here. She was sweet to the little girl once she realized she was being a brat. She was funny when she talked to the little girl "baby do you want to come over here and play with me". She made sure she let the older one know that she was now allowed to play with her too. After that she had a lot of fun playing with the girls. Lesson learned I hope. I told Ted what had happened, of course he said she gets it from me but I'm thinking he has a lot to do with it:)

The Gym

I have decided that I need a regular workout schedule, well it is a whole lot easier if you have someone to work out with. This morning I randomly text a friend to see if they wanted to go to the gym. Well to my surprise they were on there way there! I kicked Ian out of the house to school and hurried and got dressed and was on my way. How easy was that!! No excuses I just got off my lazy butt and went!! I don't know why I don't just go, I love it there once I get there but hate the getting there. Ashlyn LOVES the gym! She always asks if she can go and I always make some excuse. So back to my plan....a schedule. I don't want to over due it but I really want to get in shape and look like don't have 2 kids (wish full thinking:)) But you never know it could happen:) Realistically I could go every day and still go bike riding with Ian at night. See I'm starting to talk myself out of it already. I just thought if I put it in writing it would be more permanent. Ashlyn starts her preschool next week. It is 4 days a week for 2 hours. I think that is being practical. I will work out 4 days a week for 2 ish hours, I guess we will see where that takes me.