New Year’s Goals/Resolutions put into action

Spend more quality time with the ones I love – less time on my phone, less time watching tv, this also means doing chores at nap/bed time, more time doing things together as a family.

• On the days I do not work I make it a point to go the park or do something different out of the house with Julian. I want him to look back and be thankful on the time we spend together doing things he likes to do. My mom came up and we spend the day sewing and playing with Julian it was such a nice day.

Do more of what I love – reading, sewing, crafting, and running (never thought I would say I love running).

• I am so far behind on the real housewives that I do not even know what is going on. This makes me really happy because ultimately it really does not matter. I have also started reading and I joined an online book club. I am proud to say I am half way through our first book. I have started and finished a baby quilt (pictures to come in a later post) and I am half way through another one. I am loving being back behind my sewing machine, it is one of my happy places.

Save more money/spend smarter – Use what we already have, recycle, meal plan, and stick to a budget.

• We finally took in our recycling (after a year and a half of hoarding it) and made a whopping $82 bucks! I have been writing meal plans each week and sticking to them. This is really helping to not spend extra money and to use what food we have.

Blog more – This kind of goes against number one but I plan on doing this on my work days or after bedtime. I love looking back at the memories and I am sad when I don’t document them.

• This is my second one this year so I think I am making progress.

Finally – Make this year the best one yet!

Two

TWO

I don’t know why but Julian turning two was way harder than him turning one. Where did the last year go? My baby is not a baby anymore. He had a great birthday. We spent the day doing Julian’s favorite things. We started out the day by having peanut butter pancakes with sprinkles and of course candles

(Julian is obsessed with blowing candles out).

We watched sesame street and it was about the number two, how ironic!

For lunch he had a “hanger-burger” and “fenchy-fries” with more candles

He shared his lunch with his animal friends

After naptime we went to pennypickles http://www.pennypickles.org/

After Penny Pickles we walked to the Incr-Edible Cupcakes (recently featured on the Food Networks Cupcake Wars http://www.incr-ediblecupcakes.com/) and got birthday boy a cupcake

(and one for mom and dad to share).

Dad came home from work and we opened the last of the presents. We all ate dinner

We sang Happy Birthday and

blew out the last candle of the day… tear.

Happy Second Birthday Julian!

Julian goes to Julian

 

Julian and his homie Anthony

Seriously I feel like I live in Julian's Nuthouse lately. He has started terrible two's and it is no joke!

This was Julian's first time to Julian. Overall, it was a great trip. He was happy in the car looking at all the cows along the way and saying "moo-moo". However; Breakfast was not as fun. He was restless, wanted to scream, wiggle, and run amuck! It was a true team parenting baby wrangling experience. After breakfast we went apple picking. This by far was my favorite part of our trip. Julian loved picking and eating the apples. It was a fun place to take a toddler. There were not too many people and he could run, get dirty, scream, and just have fun! I was hoping he would sleep on the drive home and he did for 20 minutes… that is all he slept for the whole day. That evening was not pretty and he was in bed right at 7:00pm. Mom needed a break and a glass of wine (actually a whole bottle but who’s counting).

Back to blogging...

Today was a good day. Julian was in a great mood and well behaved all day. Even at my dermatology appointment in the waiting area for an hour. 

I have been getting a lot of questions from my friends about healthy food lately. Here is one of my favorite recipes that I had for lunch today. Everything is from Trader Joe's. Corn tortillas, black beans mixed with edamame, cilantro lime dressing (2tbsp), avocado (1/4), and feta cheese. So yummy and filling.

 

Then for dinner we had BBQ Chicken Salad. I added in left over edamame and black beans, cucumber, avocado, granny smith apple, and feta cheese. I have been getting super board with regular water so I have been having "fancy water" with dinner. Mineral water with fruit. 

  

At nap time I started reading my Tom Petty book. I love, love, love Tom Petty. I wanted to get back into reading again and decided instead of buying a new book I should read something on my self that I have not read. I am so glad I picked this one. He is my favorite and after only reading a couple pages I was hooked. Enjoyed with iced coffee :-)

We worked on our pumpkin patch today. Right now the Kandy Korn's are in the lead with the Big Max's in second. My poor heirlooms with not sprout but I am hoping that tonight is the night, since it is a full moon.

I am working on becoming a pilates instructor. I am about 200 hours into my 500 hour training. I have started setting goals on what I want to accomplish on my journey. This is super embarrassing but I have been working really hard on my pilates and yoga. I wanted to take progress pictures so here is my first picture... nice PJ's Hun?? French Bulldog shorts woot woot!

Thanksgiving Feasting

So much to be thankful for...

18 Miles... Oh My!

Today was the day. I was going to run 18 miles. I could not sleep last night, I had horrible anxiety. I had trouble relaxing, I kept getting up to pee. I was worried. The time was changing. I was loosing sleep, sleep that I needed. Would I be able to do it? Running 16 miles was horrible, how was I going to run two more then that?

We meet 6:30 am. Got out of our cars. We were more quiet than normal. We packed on our gear and then hit the pavement. Finally, Sarah broke the silence with saying she was having anxiety too... thank goodness! I was freaking out on the inside! We talked through it. We could do this. We agreed not to talk about the mileage until we were half way. Things were going good. We came across a bicycle race that was in town. Which was fun to watch the bicyclers getting ready. We crossed their start line. We were doing a new route, and I had planned it. Around mile 3-4 our road dead ended because of construction (ummm.... you think mapmyrun or runkeeper would know this) so we decided to keep going. We would just run in the dirt. But it rained this week and it was not dirt, it was serious thick mud. I almost lost my shoe. I tired to see if we could have crossed this path but there was no way possible. We had to re-route. My feet were covered in mud. 

We ran on... and on. And I came home to smooshy face on the window :-)

December 25th 2012