So Josh and myself are still doing this 12 week body-for life challenge. We are on week 3 and I feel like I have been consistently sore somewhere for the past 3 weeks. It feels so good though! I am a terrible runner, but I have been doing so much better! We live down the road from a track where we go at night (around 7) and we run and I can actually make it around the track!! I am so excited, that was my one goal! (Sorry mom on that last sentence, I know, it's a run on). Samuel has such a good time coming with us. Josh usually goes first then I go and the whole time he screams (Bye mama! Bye mama!) I could eat him up. However, we have hit a stage that I am really afraid of. The "NO" stage. Everything I say to him, he says no. The kid has been in time out a lot this week. Any suggestions? We also went to the library to tackle the potty training. So we watched a video (totally should watch one just for your own amusement) and read a book. Haha..Josh kept saying through out the whole movie this is gross!!! I kept saying, no no, Samuel, potty is fun. It is liberating..haha. I am so sick of diapers.
Quick prayer request. Josh is getting increasingly frustrated with the FAA. We have been waiting for MONTHS to get the go ahead to move to Pennsylvania to start his job. He has been unsuccessfully trying to get in touch with them and it is causing major anxiety. We would like to be able to plan a little bit on where to move, when to maybe add to our family, etc... For those who don't know, Josh graduated and passed his test for Air Traffic Controller and we are waiting for the FAA to call us and send us first to Oklahoma to the training center and then to Northeast Philadelphia where Josh has been offered a job in the airport there. So please please please! Pray that this comes through sooner than later...thanks!! Love ya all!
Hellooo! I know I have to post pictures from Jamaica, I haven't gotten around to it yet because of the three million graduation parties I have been going to...They will come eventually!
Anyway, my husband and myself are starting a 12 week challenge today. It is 12 weeks of eating 6 times a day small meals and exercising 6 days a week. We read the book on vacation. It was really eye opening and encouraging. They had so many pictures of people who have succeeded and it was very real to read because they didn't all sit there and be like "In just 2 weeks I looked amazing!" They wrote about their struggles every week and what they did to overcome them. So we decided to do this challenge as a couple. So we entered and it goes until sometime in September. We are all set to go and we have to take our before pictures today. Not looking forward to that, but I do need a reality check as to where I am at. I am not overweight, I am however 20 pounds above where I would like to be. Even if I lost 15 pounds that would be fine. I honestly don't even care as much about the pounds as the inches. I'd rather look toned. So I will let you all know how this works and how we are doing. I'm excited to grow as a couple through this as well!!
Anyway, Jamaica was so much fun and a great time to reconnect with Josh. It had been an extremely rough few months (three years!). Now that I look back on them I'm not sure how we made it other than by the grace of God. For everyone who has kids, you know that they take a lot of work and energy and are TOTALLY worth it, but it does add a little bit of pressure sometimes. Well, Josh and I really only had 3 months married alone before Samuel came along and before that, I had been at college so those 3 months were really the longest time we had really seen each other every day all day, so that was interesting!! haha! So it seems that we have really turned a corner. We are learning finally how to work together instead of against each other. Josh and myself are two STUBBORN people. So that makes for an interesting relationship, but we really have changed in the past 2 months. Really it has been a process. We have to same goal at this point, to get to know God more, to love each other, and to love our son. We have finally realized that and we are going from there. Today we started the challenge with prayer. Samuel was still sleeping and we sat down and asked for strength for the challenge and also to strengthen our relationship. We decided to start our relationship with a clean slate. Anything in the past that was hurtful to our relationship is now gone and we are starting fresh. I am very excited to see what happens! This challenge is not only for our health, but for us as a family. So I am excited!!!!!
Oh ya, and here is something else that is exciting. I had asked Josh to read Wild at Heart last year. We were having a really tough time and I started reading Captivating (Still on chapter 6 after a year) and I thought that maybe we could read those books then swap to try to figure out what the heck to other person is thinking! haha. So he kept bucking me and kind of blowing the idea off. So two days ago he asked me to get him something out of his car and when I went it, what did I see? Wild at Heart and a little bookmark. He has started reading it!! This is a huge step for Josh and I felt really incredible to know that we are finally both on the same page and we are both interested in making this marriage amazing!! So Praise God! Here we go!!!
Just a quick post-pics to follow later... We are back from Jamaica!! What a great vacation and MUCH needed for Josh and myself. It was such an awesome time to reconnect. We really had a great time!! I missed Samuel TERRIBLY. It was so hard for the first two days. You forget how much of your life is taken up by those little squirts! As soon as I got home he ran into my arms and has hardly let go yet. I realized that at first I felt guilty for leaving him, but in the end, I know this made me a better mommy to relax. I feel so re energized and relaxed and ready to be a great momma again to my little boy :-) Anyway, I'll put more pictures up tomorrow!! Bye!! Missed everyone!
Oh ya and welcome Bryce & Christina to my blog!!!
Hello all!
It has been a while since I have blogged. My life has been busy as usual. Josh finally ended school and it has been a wonderful/interesting adjustment. Can anyone out there relate what it is like to not see your significant other so much then see them all the time..yup, you've guessed it...TENSION..haha! But we have finally broken through all of that and are really enjoying each other right now. We are leaving for Jamaica on Sunday and it is a much needed vacation for the two of us. I am SUPER nervous about leaving Samuel. He is staying with my mom and I know he will be just fine there because sometimes I think he has more fun there than at my own apartment. I just get so scared that he will think I abandoned him or something. I know it is 6 days not 2 months, but I have a feeling it may feel like that. I have been particularly attached to Samuel lately :-) He's my buddy. So I am going to post pictures on here that will I'm sure make Josh hate me, but I can't help it. I think it is great blackmail, so here it is!! Comments please :-)
So I was making him lunch after I got back from work and I start hearing him say "Hi, Hi, ball" And I walk in to see who he is talking to and my husbands worst fear is realized..haha...Very cute though :-) TOTAL blackmail picture :-)
Samuel at the zoo today :-)
Playground~
This was so cute, he walked over to me today after he put this stuff on and gave me a kiss and said "bye!". I have trained him well :-)
Does this look like a fair match? 
Big smiles!!
