Hamster Wheel

You know those lame license plate covers that say "I'm not spoiled my husband just loves me" I think I belong in that club now.  I hated reading those things and thought how stupid, but now, I get it......

Derek gave me the ok to purchase a treadmill yesterday, so duhhhhhhh, of course I did. We are the proud new owners of this puppy pictured below, I'm so excited to use it (I think Derek is too). I haven't ran since December (plus pregnancy made me feel so yucky).  I quit the gym the other day (after Derek said once I quit the gym we could make this investment).  While I do miss the friends I made at the gym, I went there religiously just to use the treadmill - sorta dumb if you think about it. Now with 3 kids, on lock down at home... staying at home, I can get a run in whenever I feel like it and then tackle the rest of the junk that awaits my attention all in the comfort of my hot messy garage with my 2 dogs staring me down and my kids coloring on the walls lol...

This thing is going to get a beating...I can hardly wait

Our new Life Fitness T3 Hamster Wheel

Aside from that, I'm 21 or 22 weeks pregnant at this point (to be honest I have lost count and dont care all that much, my due date is the end of summer).  I feel great for the most part, and this pregnancy aside from the first few weeks of nausea in the beginning has been the easiest despite the fact I am chasing 2 other rugrats.  I've put on a solid 15 lbs and I'm trying to keep the scale my friend - not to mention all the pressure us pregnant moms hear that basically we should only put on 15lbs for the ENTIRE PREGNANCY! Ridiculous...a male must have made that claim because thats just silly....

School has been getting the best of me lately.  Swamped with homework, I neglect so much to keep somewhat on pace and havent had much of a social life (not that I have much of one anyway since I'm the kids' babysitter).  Kids have been doing pretty good - I try to devote 2 days of the week to get them out of the house and moving.

We just inherited my in-laws old trampoline.  We have to replace the mat but other than that the thing is in working order.  Kids are going to be so happy when we have that in the backyard.

Cant believe its the end of April already...enjoy your week...

Easter Weekend 2013

Friday before Easter we colored eggs. Brooklyn had to have all of her eggs pink. Bobby's blue. The kids had fun. We had about 16 eggs to color.  It was fun.

The Saturday before Easter me and the kids along with my brother and his kids spent an entire afternoon at a nice 4s Ranch Park (which by the way these parks are like the Cadillacs of parks) and soaked up the sunshine.  The kids were wiped out from the day in the sun at the park that they slept from 630pm at night until 7 the next day which made it nice for the Easter Bunny to set up his stuff and relax.

The Easter Bunny left the kids a new bucket for playing in the sand, a few eggs with some candy and a new toy.

Easter was nice for us. Went to church in the morning which I love so much these days because the worship team/music is a rock concert and just fills us with love and joy, I love the music.  Then made our way to my sister's house in Scripps Ranch.  Ate an early dinner I guess you could call it, then went to Derek's parents house to visit with family over there for a little while.  Again, the kids were tired from a really long day and were tucked in bed early.

We've been on the go for nearly a week straight because of the holiday, and we have a regular babysitter that helped me a little bit this last week just so I could go run some errands alone. She's been great. Yesterday Bobby came down with a 101-102 fever and felt awful.  Today he woke up still with flushed red cheeks but no fever - hopefully he gets to feeling 100% soon.

Our little routine lately has turned into us spending a few hours at home in the morning so I can get chores done, water garden, workout, do some homework or tend to whatever the Company needs done, then we walk to Collier Park and spend some time there playing.  I notice now that we do this (walking to Collier Park) on a regular basis, we are burning lots of energy and are nice and tired by day's end so crawling into bed is easy.  Its kind of getting hard on me to keep up activities that require a lot of hauling of junk - my back has been killing me this pregnancy.