Montana is featured on the new PTA website for our school. She is in the headline picture (on the far left), and also her running feet are the top picture on the side bar. How cool is that!! Way to go Tana!!
Click the link below
https://sites.google.com/site/trumanpta5k/
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Saturday, March 26, 2011
Change is on the way
Hey y'all!! Thought I would pop in and post about what's going on in our world.
Justice and Montana are finishing up their Winter Indoor Soccer Season tomorrow. They have thoroughly enjoyed it. It has been fun to see them learn and work hard. Montana especially loves it and really gets into it. She really wants to play next season as well. Her dad and I have been kicking around the idea of putting her on a competition team. But we are not exactly sure what we are doing yet. Justice could take it or leave it. He does have fun, but doesn't quite get into it the way he should. So I guess we better figure out what we are doing.
Drill Team Tryouts are right around the corner for Sierra. She definitely wants to do it for one last year. Her senior year. I cannot believe my baby is going to be a senior. She is very independent and responsible. She is as tall as me and can drive herself wherever she needs/wants to be. But it is so weird to think that she is almost an adult. I know I drive her crazy with this kind of talk. I hope she realizes that she will always be my baby. Sorry kiddo. That's just how mom's are. She is in Texas right now with her drill team for their National Competition. I'm so sad that I can't be there, but I know they will dominate. Sierra's solo is absolutely amazing and I hope she will be proud of herself no matter the placement. She has worked so hard this year and I am beyond proud of her. She is amazing.
We got crazy one day and decided we would buy all the supplies to do our own hair highlights. So we have our own beauty shop! I put blonde highlights in Montana's hair. Spent almost an hour on it and it turned out....EXACTLY THE SAME COLOR!! haha...she was not happy about that, but secretly I was glad I didn't ruin her hair for my first attempt. So victim #2 was Sierra. We did brighter blonde highlights for her and left the bottom half the chocolate brown it already was. It turned out perfectly!! I was pretty proud of myself. But this made Montana even more upset with me that her hair didn't work. So a week later we attempted Tana's hair again. She decided she would rather put dark streaks in her hair. I decided to use the frosting cap, just to see how it would turn out. Well I pulled way too much through and it just looks like an all over color. But it does look adorable on her. Just about 3 shades darker than her natural color. We decided that when it starts to grow out we will add some blonde highlights. It's been fun learning how to do this stuff. And it's definitely cheaper than doing it at the salon. Now, if someone would just do my hair we would be in business!
Spring is trying to bloom here. The flower bulbs are beginning to grow and the grass is greening up. But the snow storms keep coming and melting. It will be a beautiful sunshiney day one day, and grey skies with crazy wind and hail/snow the next day. You never know. But I'm so happy that the sun is coming!! Nothing makes me happier than sun on my face!
I finally got fed up with my weight and decided to do something about it. Every time I look in the mirror, I don't recognize myself. I don't feel like the person I see. I can feel how out of shape I am just doing the simplest tasks. I have always heard people say that one day they just DECIDED it was time to do something about it, and that's exactly how it was for me. I decided to start a running program I had "tried" a few months earlier. But this time I am seriously committed. I had dad bring home my treadmill, that has been parked at his house for years. I signed up for a 5K that is in 9 weeks. I have a pedometer that I am tracking, and I am really watching my food portions. My goal for now is to try to eat half of what I normally would. Then I will work on bringing in more healthy options and start cutting out the junk. I'm trying to make little changes that I can build on. I always start big and have too much change that I can't stick with in the long run. So this time I am trying to take baby steps, but meaningful steps that I can build on. The running has been so challenging for me...but I'm doing it!! The program (Couch to 5K) is so great because it works you up gradually to avoid injury and to encourage you little by little. I have my running music, and my app on the iphone that keeps me on track while I'm running. It is awesome! I'm in week 2 and it is kicking my hiney. I hurt everywhere, but it's the good hurt. Where you know you are doing your body good! So send good vibes my way. I know it's time, and I'm finally ready for the right reasons to start taking care of me.
Still wondering what's gonna happen with our house. It's still on the market, but hardly any activity in the last two weeks. I thought things would really pick up when spring hit, but, it hasn't. I hate being in limbo like this, but it's so nice to still be in our home!! So hopefully we will figure it all out soon. Who knows.
All is well. We keep trudging on with a smile in our hearts. Love ya!
Justice and Montana are finishing up their Winter Indoor Soccer Season tomorrow. They have thoroughly enjoyed it. It has been fun to see them learn and work hard. Montana especially loves it and really gets into it. She really wants to play next season as well. Her dad and I have been kicking around the idea of putting her on a competition team. But we are not exactly sure what we are doing yet. Justice could take it or leave it. He does have fun, but doesn't quite get into it the way he should. So I guess we better figure out what we are doing.
Drill Team Tryouts are right around the corner for Sierra. She definitely wants to do it for one last year. Her senior year. I cannot believe my baby is going to be a senior. She is very independent and responsible. She is as tall as me and can drive herself wherever she needs/wants to be. But it is so weird to think that she is almost an adult. I know I drive her crazy with this kind of talk. I hope she realizes that she will always be my baby. Sorry kiddo. That's just how mom's are. She is in Texas right now with her drill team for their National Competition. I'm so sad that I can't be there, but I know they will dominate. Sierra's solo is absolutely amazing and I hope she will be proud of herself no matter the placement. She has worked so hard this year and I am beyond proud of her. She is amazing.
We got crazy one day and decided we would buy all the supplies to do our own hair highlights. So we have our own beauty shop! I put blonde highlights in Montana's hair. Spent almost an hour on it and it turned out....EXACTLY THE SAME COLOR!! haha...she was not happy about that, but secretly I was glad I didn't ruin her hair for my first attempt. So victim #2 was Sierra. We did brighter blonde highlights for her and left the bottom half the chocolate brown it already was. It turned out perfectly!! I was pretty proud of myself. But this made Montana even more upset with me that her hair didn't work. So a week later we attempted Tana's hair again. She decided she would rather put dark streaks in her hair. I decided to use the frosting cap, just to see how it would turn out. Well I pulled way too much through and it just looks like an all over color. But it does look adorable on her. Just about 3 shades darker than her natural color. We decided that when it starts to grow out we will add some blonde highlights. It's been fun learning how to do this stuff. And it's definitely cheaper than doing it at the salon. Now, if someone would just do my hair we would be in business!
Spring is trying to bloom here. The flower bulbs are beginning to grow and the grass is greening up. But the snow storms keep coming and melting. It will be a beautiful sunshiney day one day, and grey skies with crazy wind and hail/snow the next day. You never know. But I'm so happy that the sun is coming!! Nothing makes me happier than sun on my face!
I finally got fed up with my weight and decided to do something about it. Every time I look in the mirror, I don't recognize myself. I don't feel like the person I see. I can feel how out of shape I am just doing the simplest tasks. I have always heard people say that one day they just DECIDED it was time to do something about it, and that's exactly how it was for me. I decided to start a running program I had "tried" a few months earlier. But this time I am seriously committed. I had dad bring home my treadmill, that has been parked at his house for years. I signed up for a 5K that is in 9 weeks. I have a pedometer that I am tracking, and I am really watching my food portions. My goal for now is to try to eat half of what I normally would. Then I will work on bringing in more healthy options and start cutting out the junk. I'm trying to make little changes that I can build on. I always start big and have too much change that I can't stick with in the long run. So this time I am trying to take baby steps, but meaningful steps that I can build on. The running has been so challenging for me...but I'm doing it!! The program (Couch to 5K) is so great because it works you up gradually to avoid injury and to encourage you little by little. I have my running music, and my app on the iphone that keeps me on track while I'm running. It is awesome! I'm in week 2 and it is kicking my hiney. I hurt everywhere, but it's the good hurt. Where you know you are doing your body good! So send good vibes my way. I know it's time, and I'm finally ready for the right reasons to start taking care of me.
Still wondering what's gonna happen with our house. It's still on the market, but hardly any activity in the last two weeks. I thought things would really pick up when spring hit, but, it hasn't. I hate being in limbo like this, but it's so nice to still be in our home!! So hopefully we will figure it all out soon. Who knows.
All is well. We keep trudging on with a smile in our hearts. Love ya!
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