Little behind...

Okay, so I haven't blogged in a while, but I lost my motivation and I have been trying to find where it went!!!!!! I think I have found it, and now to get back on the wagon!!! I let the diet go a little bit, I wanted a goal of 8lbs a month and I stayed at -5lbs for the month of January, so it is time to kick it in to gear, and get my butt moving!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can do this!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#1.....Weigh In day!

Well, it wasn't the 2lbs a week average I was hoping for, but I lost 1lb on my weigh in today! I just have to know that there will be weeks where I don't lose as much as others. But I am determined to keep going!!!!!!! I am 1lb closer to my goal right!

#50...take a hike.....

Well, A BIG CONGRATULATIONS needs to go out to Tanya. She completed the 1 mile snow shoe hike through Voyageurs National Park on Friday night!!!!! Me, on the other hand, didn't do so well.  We were a little late getting there to begin with, so we had to wait for the first group to get back before we could set out. That was all good, and then it came time to get the snow shoes on, I got Thatchers on, and Tanya was trying to get Madalynns on, and she was not cooperating at all. Tanya finally said "you do this, I can't!" By this time Thatcher was cruising around in his snow shoes making ever one say "aww, look at him go!" I, after 10 minutes got Madalynn snow shoes on but she could not walk in them. Wait, let me change that statement. She WOULD not walk in them. She is dramatic enough as it is, but she pulled out her most dramatic performance of all time. She was falling all over the place, and just being difficult!!! I finally took the snow shoes off, and she walked in her boots with Tanya. So now, we are in a big group setting off on our night snow shoe hike through the park, and Thatcher was doing so well. I asked him a few times if he just wanted to walk in his boots, but he was determined to walk in the shoes!!! But then tragedy struck! A man wanted us to stop so that he could take a picture of Thatcher to send to his family in Florida......it all went downhill from there. He couldn't get back on the trail right, and his snow shoes kept crossing, and I was getting frustrated because people were waiting for us to move, and so I jsut decided that that was it, and we wouldn't walk the trail. And that broke his heart, I felt bad, but he just wasn't going to be able to walk fast enough for us to keep up with the rest of the group.
Even though it didn't go that well, we do plan on going back and doing it again, and I think we might try and cross country ski too!!! But I will take the kids back and teach Madalynn how to walk in snow shoes, and let Thtacher run wild with them on!!!!!!!

#40!

I am on a roll here!!!!!!!!!!!! Thatcher may not be all the way there yet, but the beginings of teaching him how to swim has begun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am going to check this off of the list because I am a bit paranoid and probably won't let him swim without his life jacket until he's 20!!!!

Little Fishies!!!! #3

I almost forgot to blog about our afternoon of swimming on January 8th.
Tanya, Madalynn, Thatcher and myself braved the chilly weather and headed to the Memorial Sports Centre to participate in the family swim that they offer on the weekend.
First thing I have to you all, that when we walked up to the counter to pay, the girl asked "both parents are taking the kids swimming today!" Tanay and I looked at eachother and we both new what the other was thinking! I was like "yeah, I am paying for all of us" So we started our swimming afternoon off with being thought of a lesbian parents!!!!!
Madalynn is a little fish, we just put her life jacket on, and let her cruse around the pool, and go down the slide all by herslef. As for Thatcher, he made a breakthrough!!!! He is very leary of the water, and does not like to swim very much, well, he likes the idea of swimming, but he has a fear that keeps him from doing what his big sister does. But, after about an hour in the pool, he slid down the slide, and I just kind of let go, and he didn't even realize he was swimming on his own!! I was so proud of him!!!! He had a few panic attacks, but we just reassured him that he was "OK"! I grabbed a noodle and put it under both of his arms and told him to kick, and away he went!!!
Madalynn and Auntie Tanya discovered the diving board, and that was it for Madalynn. She couldn't get enough of it! Thatcher even agreed to let Auntie Tanya drop him off the diving bard!(I was ready in the water to catch him!) And Tanya was perfecting her diving skills off the diving board too!!! We all had a blast, and can't wait to do it agian!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#1 The wieght is going, going....

Today was a weigh-in day for me! And as of January 13th, I  have lost 4lbs since January 6th!!!! Something just feels different about the choice I made this time to lose weight, THIS IS MY YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I am determined to lose all the wieght I put on after getting married and having two beautiful babies. I CAN DO THIS!!!!!!

#25 & #26

Was at the gym by 5:11 am Wednesday Morning! Yay!