P90X Update

Today I am ready to throw in the towel. It has been two weeks of pure torture. Maybe I am just a wimp. I have exercised on a regular basis at least 5 times a week with walking, step aerobics, or weights for the past 6 years. I really enjoy exercising, but I think that P90X is more of a punishment. It isn't fun, for me that is. Isn't exercise suppose to be fun? It is so you will continue to do it. Every Tuesday we are suppose to weigh in and take our measurements. I got a little excited on Saturday and weighed early. However, when I weighed myself today I have gained 3 pounds since Saturday. How does that happen when I am not even eating sweets or anything different than before. I have never been on a diet and this diet is getting pretty boring. I love meat, but I have eaten so much meat that I am burnt out now. I have stuck to it pretty good, but not as great as Blake has. So far I have lost 3 pounds, 1 1/2 inches off of my waist and an inch off of my hips. Not bad, I would say. However, can I really do this for another 76 more days? I was happy being me before. I wasn't skinny, but I wasn't fat. I walked and enjoyed it, watched what I ate somewhat without being on a diet, and was happy. A group of my friends and I were talking yesterday....is it really worth it? Being skinny I mean. Is it really worth it? And after this 90 days, then what....I will most likely gain it all back once I begin eating my chocolate licorice now and again along with other sweets or chips. Well, I guess what I am trying to say is, don't be surprised if I quit really soon.

A Trip to the Emergency Room

On Friday I was at Wal-mart picking up so stuff for Blake for a Scout service project on Saturday morning. He called me and could barely talk and told me that he had an accident and that I needed to take him to the emergency room. He was eating tuna fish out of the can and got some stuck in his throat. He took a big drink of water and tried to force it down and heard a tear. He began spewing out blood. His boss took him to the doctor and they told him there was nothing they could do that he needed to go to the ER. Since the meat was still stuck, he couldn't swallow his saliva and had to spit it out. However, the saliva was just watered down blood. I freaked out and called my mother-in-law, who luckily was home and willing to leave right then to come over to my house with my kids. Blake drove himself home and when I got home I ran to pull Kaymin out of school early to watch the kids until Carla got there. However, when I got home, he had just thrown up and was able to get the meat dislodged. He was still bleeding so we decided it was best to take him in. Lucky for us, Carla came right before we left. He chest was hurting really bad beginning in the middle of his chest and hurt to his stomach. They made him drink some liquid and then took x-rays to make sure the dye stayed in the esophagus and didn't leak out. Luckily it didn't. They called it a Malory Weiss tear in the esophagus and he had have a liquid diet for 24 hours and avoid eating spicy foods until he felt better. They gave him some numbing liquid and told him take Maalox, since it had given him reflux. Had it torn all of the way through, they would have had to cut open his chest as they would do for open heart surgery to repair it. Wow, was he lucky. After 4 hours, we were able to go home. I was so stressed even though I just sat there that when I got home I ate chocolate licorice. I know it wasn't part of the diet, but I didn't really care. I am just so glad he was okay.

P90X

Blake has been wanting to get into shape. He was talking to his brothers and all of them were talking about P90X. So Blake went out and bought it and decided to start last Tuesday. Since we rarely ever do anything together I thought I would join him in doing this workout routine. I really enjoy working out so I thought it would be fun to do it together. Boy was I wrong! This thing is SO hard. It is killing me. You workout 6 days a week for 60 to 90 minutes and you have to do it for 90 days. On top of it all you go on a diet. During the first 30 days you eat more protein to shed fat and build muscle. You also eat a lot of vegetables and basically stuff off of the food pyramid and they slowly bring you to eat the right quantities while teaching you portion sizes. I really love meat but this is killing me. I really also love fruit, but I can only have one fruit serving a day. So far I have lost 4 pounds and an inch off of my waist and hips. I guess it is working, but I feel so sore and tired. I am sure glad that the program is only 90 days. I will have to keep all of you posted.

New Piano

Two weekends ago, Tori, my sister-in-law wanted to know if we wanted her piano. Kaymin has been dying to take piano lessons so we took it. The thing weighed a ton and it took Blake and his brothers and brother-in-law to move it. First they rolled it across Billy and Tori's wood floor, which is scratched and dented it in one place. I was sick about it. They moved it into Billy's trailer and he was nice enough to drive it to our house since it wouldn't fit on our hitch on our truck. Then all of the boys moved it up our front stairs into our front room. The kids have played with it nonstop. It gets to be a bit loud from time to time, but I am sure the newness will wear off soon. Kaymin has been playing the recorder in school so she has learned how to read music. I taught her the keys to the piano and she has been playing her recorder music. It has been so fun to hear her play an actual song and she loves it.

Some Funny Pictures

At preschool they had clown day. Their teacher dressed up like a clown and glued red pom-poms on their noses and they wore hats. A clown friend came and blew up balloons for the kids and the boys got swords and the girls got puppies. The kids had so much fun at clown day. Kameni would have been in the picture, but her balloon popped and her nose came off during the ride home. Shocking....not at all!

Gerrit dressed himself like this and got Kaymin's microphone and was trying his best to sing in it. It sounded more like lots of grunting, which I guess it what some music really sounds like today. He had all of us laughing our heads off. He has the funniest personality.

I heard the kids all screaming and laughing and had to go find out what was going on. They were all of the top bunk in the girl's room pretending to ride the Ladybug Bop ride at Lagoon. They were putting their hands up and everything. It was really cute.

More Snow

A few days after Easter we got dumped on. All of our snow was melted before Easter, which is one big reason I am so glad I live where I live and not where my parents live. However, that didn't stop the snow to come. We got about 6-8 inches and the kids were in heaven. Since I knew it wouldn't last long the kids got dressed up in their snow clothes and headed outside to build "Frosty". Lucky for me, the snow was melted in two days.

Easter Weekend

On Saturday, the day before Easter, we went to my mom's house for her Easter egg hunt. Like always the kids were spoiled and I still wonder why we still have the Easter bunny come to our house. The kids had so much fun, but since she still had 6 inches of snow, we had to do it inside. My mom usually hides eggs with money in them for the adults, but this year we were each timed for 30 seconds while we dug for coins in a container filled with beans, rice and coins. We had a great time!

The next morning the Easter bunny found our house. He spoiled the kids and I still need to take a picture of the kids in the Easter church outfits. But since it was general conference weekend, we didn't need to get dressed up. The kids found lots of eggs and got lots of candy. Gerrit insisted Blake open up all of his candy at once. He began shoving them in as fast as he could. He couldn't fit one more piece in. The kids also got bath paints. They wanted to all get in the tub together so they could try each other's out. So they all got into their swimming suits and had a very cramped, but fun time.
At 10:30am we went to Blake's mom's house for breakfast and her Easter egg hunt. It was more like brunch for us, but it was really yummy! I have taught the kids a bad habit. See I like to put my jammie pants on right after church while I relax, so all of the kids wanted to stay in their jammies. I can't blame them so I let them. They got spoiled again and had a ton of fun.

Easter sure was great this year and now we have a TON of candy in the house.

LOTS to Catch Up On

Wow, time keeps flying away and we've been so busy. Before it goes any longer I thought I had better write. Spring break for Kaymin was the first part of April. On Thursday I took the kids to McDonalds for breakfast with my friend Jenn and her kids. We were there for 2 1/2 hours and had a really good time. On Friday, we went to my mom's house and helped her stuff her eggs for the Easter egg hunt, which was the next day. The kids even got to eat as they stuffed. Some of the them ate more than they stuffed I'm sure. But my mom, like always, bought WAY too much. She had two kitchen garbage sacks full of candy. After that was done, the kids got to color eggs. I was happy to do it at my mom's and thought since they did it at Grandma's house then I wouldn't' worry about doing it at our house.