A wonderful day!

Today was so much fun!! Carder and I spent the early part of our afternoon with our friends Heather and Parker.  We met at the Herrin park where we dressed the boys in their matching outfits that we had gotten on a previous shopping trip and shot some pictures.  Once we were done with pictures we stuck the boys in their strollers and away we went walking.  We were having so much fun just talking and enjoying the weather and the boys were being saints that we lost track of how long we had been walking.  Final distance 2.9 miles!! It felt so good and made me want to do it again and again!! After we were done walking we went to grab lunch and met up with Gina and Gio for Pizza Hut.  I was so good to see Carder, Parker, and Gio together they are getting so big its sad!!! 

After a fun filled afternoon with some great friends we came home and Carder took a nap then we decided it was still to pretty to sit inside so we went out and played kickball, rode the tractor, and played with the puppy.  All in all we had a wonderful day and cant wait to spend another awesome day with our great friends!! 

Tomorrows mission: Carder and I are going to go visit my grandparents and pick up Carder's Nana for the weekend!!

As for now I added a few pictures of two amazingly handsome men for your viewing pleasure!!

A beautiful windy day....

Today as I look out the windows I notice that it is such a beautiful day but it is so windy!! Usually I decide on days like today that we will go out for a few minutes and then spend most of our day inside with the doors open so we can see the beautiful sunshine without dealing with the wind.  Today however, we are going to brave the wind and go for a long walk.  I have finally decided that its past time to do something about my weight and get over all my insecurities and make myself happy for once.  Growing up I was always  super active I played softball all year around on multiple leagues, ran track, played tackle football (on the boy's team) and competed in powerlifting.  I was actually in good shape!  When I moved to Carbondale to start school I weighted in at 150lbs and was pretty muscular.  Now I would have to add quite a bit to that weight and I'm not very muscular.  When everyone asks me what happened I always say life happened.  I moved away from my coach and my mom and wasn't strict on what I ate.  I ate what I wanted when I wanted and didn't exercise if I didn't feel like it.  But now I've decided its time to do something about it! I don't want Carder growing up thinking that its ok to eat your emotions away and to watch TV all day. I want him to know what a healthy diet is and how fun exercise can be! 

I have two goals for myself pertaining to my exercise 1. I want to run a 5K this fall and 2. I want to wear a 2 piece bathing suit next year when we go on vacation and look good in it.  I made a deal with my older sister who is also trying to loose weight that we would run a 5K together and I plan on keeping up my end of the bargain.  Right now to work towards those goals I am walking once if not twice a day with Carder and logging my 1400 calorie diet into myfitnesspal.com to monitor my food intake.  I have also given up soda and sweet tea for water!! (If you know me well you know that its a huge step for me to give up sweet tea!!)  Then starting Sunday a friend and I are going to start the program From the Couch to a 5K.  I am super nervous but so ready to be healthy again!! So now after my rantings about my diet and exercise, my question to you is what about you do you miss that you wish you could get back??