Exercise..

I love that exercise is such a great stress reliever. There seems to be events in life that keep coming up, but it's good to know I have God, my family, and exercise..

Do you ever..

Do you ever wish you were wrong? Most, if not all of us like to be right. We like to be able to say, I told you so. However, when a person feels that someone is making a bad decision, and they do it anyway and then see that it turns out badly, then it's very sad to be right. Oh, I wish I was wrong..

Oh, to blog again..

My husband started a blog recently, which of course encouraged me to continue with mine. I can't believe that my last post was more than a year ago. So many life changing events have taken place. I've been working harder and harder to do things out of my comfort zone, hoping that this will help motivate me to be the person that I need to be for my husband and son. I'm so happy to be able to say that I've been married for 3 and 1/2 years now. My husband laughs/smiles at me when I say this, but I feel like the love I have for my husband is almost like a stupid/foolish love. He is the only man I've ever loved, so, it's kind of ridiculous. I guess I'm a romantic. Sometimes I wonder how I become so lucky to have found such a man. I couldn't do all that I do without his love and support. My son is about 2 and 1/2. He is so wonderful. Trust me, he has his moments of madness, but I couldn't love him more. He seems to be looking and acting more and more like his daddy all the time, which is so wonderful to see..

For a while I was debating what could I blog about? I'm not a writer like my husband. I'm a stay at home mom that has no desire to blog about the joys of cleaning or potty training. Mainly because there is nothing that joyous about them. They are among the many things a person must do to survive as a stay at home mom..

I've been working a lot lately around the house. We bought a house in August of last year, it's a cute house. We've been doing some landscaping, organizing, painting, and so forth. It was rough because I would have to do it while Tristan was napping or it was his bedtime. I've been striving to do as much as I could to get to a point of enough contentment that I could take it easy and just do the normal cleaning..

We're hoping to get pregnant this summer. Some of you may not know this, but I had a miscarriage in November. That of course was a very difficult time for me, especially with people around me getting pregnant, so many of them. I've been working with a doctor for a couple months now to get my body where it needs to be. I've been given the okay by the doctor to start trying. We're praying that we're able to have a healthy pregnancy, baby, and healthy mommy. I'm kind of nervous, but I've waited eight months and I've been striving to get myself healthy, so we'll see what happens..

Well, I understand that this was a very random blog, but those are some of the things that were on my mind at the moment. I hope to continue blogging, it's nice..

Motivation..

My husband is home! :) He arrived at the airport last night, a few minutes before 8. It's so great to have him home, I missed him terribly. Tristan was so cute, he just kept staring at him, like he was taking it all in. He was only away a week and a half, so it wasn't too bad..

I have been slacking on my goals, so I'm going to start changing that, starting tomorrow. Tomorrow will be a busy day of cleaning, laundry, and going on a date with Clint that night. However, between the busy time, I'm going to make a list of meals and snacks to eat, to try to lose some more weight. I have been exercising, but when Clint was gone, my eating habits slacked a bit. I just don't like feeling blah-ish! I can fit in my dress clothes better, which is great, considering their a size 8. My jeans were fitting better, but not in a couple of days, ah! However, I do want to fit in my size 6 jeans, but that will take some hard work. It was easier being skinny in college, eating for one, and working out more, and walking all over campus, but I can do it! I would like to get to my ideal size in-between pregnancies, so when I'm finished with having children, it'll be easier to get off the weight..

I've been reading health magazines to get ideas for exercises and meals. I do have a couple exercise videos that I'm going to try out and I'm going to use the Wii fit too and when it gets warmer, I'm going to go on more walks. I'm doing this for myself and for Clint. The hardest thing would be to gradually cut back on dr.pepper/coke. I have only one a day usually, but I'm going to do every other day, until I get down to maybe two a week at most..

Today was a fun day, we went shopping after we went out to lunch. We got Tristan a lot of fun toys and some summer clothes, with his birthday money. He's been enjoying the toys. I still can't believe how quickly the first year went by. A year of a lot of learning with so many different things, it's been great. God has truly blessed us!

Currently..

Well, I do believe that Tristan's party was a success. I thought so much about making sure I had the most important things, that some things were forgotten. Ha, the last 30 minutes, Tristan had to eat his first cupcake, we had to judge the contest, and open presents. It was kind of crazy. Ha, I felt like I was yelling a lot. I'm not a loud talker, so you just about have to yell when there are that many people around. There was a good turnout for his party and he got a lot of nice things. Clint and I are looking forward to going shopping with his giftcard and birthday money, to find him some cool toys and clothes and such. :) We love buying things for him!

Clint is in Uganda. He left last Monday and will be back Wednesday night, it was kind of a short trip considering how long it takes to get there. It seems like he's been over there longer than he has. It's hard when I'm use to seeing him so often, to not seeing him for that long with very little communication. I had been doing fine, but I had a rough morning, until I got an email from him. I miss him so much! I'm looking forward to his return. I don't know how military wives do it. I would go crazy! If you would like to know the reason he's over there, try: http://www.safewaternexus.org/ 

I'm excited that the Shopaholic movie is coming out this weekend. I've read three books of the series, even though the movie is different than the book, the book is based in London, which I would love more, but the American version will be fun too. I want to see "Coraline" as well. I'm waiting until Clint gets back to see it, since we both read the book. I'm not sure if I want to see "He's just not that into you" or not. I think it might be fun, but kind of depressing. It's so great to be married and not dating again, that was such a pain, learning the hard way that, that guy isn't the right one..

I know too many pregnant ladies. I've had two dreams I was pregnant, and it's making me paranoid, haha. I told my mom about that and she mentioned she had dreams like that too and after her hysterectomy. So, who knows..

Well, I better go do some exercises before bed. Have a great week!

Happy Birthday Tristan!

Today, my son is 1! We'll be celebrated by spending time with him and getting ready for his party tomorrow. He'll get to open presents from us today. :-)

I'll tell you how the party goes in a couple of days..

I hope you all have a great weekend!

Life as I know it..

I've been reading again. I took a break after I read the Twilight book series. I read three of them, quite quickly and the fourth one took longer, because I felt burnt out on reading. I finished last week, 'Revolutionary Road' which I read because it looked quite intriguing and I heard some good reviews. I however, hated it. I honestly didn't see anything good about it. I don't mind reading a book that doesn't have a happy ending, as long as it's good, but I just didn't see anything like-able about it. I would go into more detail, but I'm trying to sum up some things. I just finished "Confessions of a Shopaholic" which was a lot of fun. I thought I could use something fun, after being so depressed after the one before it. It's by a British writer and its different from the movie, although, I do want to see the movie. The book was intelligent. sweet, funny, and just charming. I'm encouraging some friends to read it..

Tomorrow is my husband and my two year wedding anniversary. It's been a wonderful two years, even with the ups and downs. We were pregnant a year ago, and a year after that, we have a precious son that will be one at the end of the month. I'm so blessed to have Clint. He's a amazing man and I can go on and on about him, but I will resist that urge..

The big first birthday party will be in less than two weeks now. It's a 'dress like a hero' theme party. My husband is going to dress like 'The Spirit' and Tristan will be Superman/baby, and I'm going to be Lara Croft aka Tomb Raider. Although, my costume will be the classiest version of her, because I'm conservative and also, it's freezing. My costume will look like a mix between Lara Croft and a Charlie's Angel. I'm really looking forward to the party. I love planning events like this, but with a lot of things like this, I've stressed a bit, but not lately. I'm going to make a superman cake. I'm so excited. I wanted Tristan's first birthday party to be really fun for everyone that attends..

I'm so looking forward to the Spring. I wasn't made for this weather. I get so cold so easily, and I hate driving in the snow. Ah! I like nice warm sunny days..

I'm ready to get normal sleep again. Tristan was up a couple times during the night the two nights before last night and then last night, I couldn't sleep. I'm actually sick currently, with some type of cold affecting my sinuses and throat. I hope Tristan and Clint don't get sick..

I had the weirdest dream, the other night. I can't remember that much about it, except that I was pregnant with #2 and everyone was mad at me for being pregnant. Haha. What's funny about that is I know I'm not, because, yeah. Anyway, it was strange..

I'm really excited to hear that one of my favorite books' of Tristan's will be made into a movie. It's "Where the wild things are." It's such a fun book. I'm looking forward to the movie, it looks fantastic! 

Well, that is all for now. I hope everyone is well and has a great week!