FUN WITH PICNIK!!

I was looking through facebook and came across these amazing pictures that Madalyn had taken and edited with the FREE online editing software from PICNIK. I am sure that you all know about it but on the off chance that you don't (LIKE ME!!)

 Let me show what Madalyn did!! She and Connor went to the store and found a way cool mural to take their pcture in front of------

BEFORE

This is the picture AFTER she Picnik'd it!! All you do is upload your picture onto the FREE website and  you can do all sorts of things to it!! She boosted the color and added some lettering! Although it looks like she spilled an entire cherry icee on her shirt it is merely a brightened flower!!! She is great!!!

So I tried my hand at it to see if a non-internet savvy mother could do it and LOOK WHAT I MADE!!

WE PUT CHARLIE IN WATER FOR THIS ONE...HOPE MY MOM AND DAD DON'T MIND

TYLER REALLY HAS AN EYE FOR PICTURE TAKING, THIS IS HIS DANDELION

PICNIK'D

MY MOTHERS DAY HYDRANGEA---BEFORE

PICNIK'D

 

What fun!! We could have all done this for hours!! I am going to develop these on a canvas or just blow them up and have the framed so I can hang them on my wall!! Simple and Cheap and BEAUTIFUL!!!

CLOSURE..

Ok so I am FAT!!! Got your attention huh... hold on tight!! The gloves are off for this one!!

I have spent the last year stressing out about my weight and all the poundage I have put on in the last few years and I have finally decided to just deal with it...I have had 4 children, a buttload of stress in my life over the past few years and I have become quite the fan of GOOD FOOD!!

 I keep telling myself that I will not take pictures of myself or buy new clothes because I am gonna lose this weight. To be completely honest the Shape magazine says that my "happy weight" is supposed to be 146 pounds and last week I weighed myself and I was 173... there you have it I am 20 pounds overweight. I have been sooo hard on myself about this the past few months... I have tried cutting out sugar(hate that!!didn't work), walking 5 miles a day(worked for a little while) the HCG diet(ugh! Did I mention I like food way too much!!)... I could go on and on about all the things I have tried but I won't.. ]

The bottom line is that I am 34 years old and on the overweight side and it is not going to bother me anymore. I am not saying that I am going to just give up the ghost and sit and eat pan after pan of enchiladas but it does mean that I am going to go out and buy myself a pair or 2 of relatively expensive size 12 shorts and a size Large shirt that is not on the clearance rack because I deserve to look nice NOW!! TODAY!!Gonna buy myself  a good pair of jeans NOW!! Not when i finally have lost all my weight and am back in my clothes I wore in Junior High!!Never Gonna Happen!!

I did order the P90X program which I really do enjoy but I do not intend to follow their diet plan because It does not make me feel very good.. there is a reason there are carbs out there and I intend to eat them. I will work out because it makes my heart healthy, and because It does good for my brain and mental well being, but I am giving all  my size 4's,6's and 8's to DI  and bidding them good riddance.Those numbers are for another lifetime. If I do by some chance drop down to a size 10 I  hope I do not notice because as of now now I plan of enjoying my life in my size 12's! I have sooo many other things I can be doing other than stressing about this crap!!!!

I will be partaking in the Pleated Poppy's "What I wore Wednesday", and I will be taking more pictures of my children with ME in them!!! Because I am tired of looking at photo albums without me in them!! Noone will know what I look like or that I even existed if I don't change this! And as of right now I am CHANGING THIS!!!!!

So there you go! Feel free to gasp about the fact that I put my weight out there and feel free to call one another and talk about how you can't believe how much weight I have gained and how I "Used to Look" I am going to go shopping now!!!(well tomorrow,today is Sunday and I don't shop on Sundays)

My desert dweller

Madalyn and Megan went to the pool with her girlie friends yesterday which, for Megan, started out to be tons o fun but ended with a nice cocktail of allergy meds.

The pool is not far from the house they were all meeting at so they walked there. No big deal for the majority of humanity but Megan, who I have nicknamed my little desert dweller, had a hard time.

 Ya see Casper is covered in thick green grass and trees which is completely beautiful but for Megan it has,on a few occasions, turned into a horrible curse! She has NEVER been around grass before. Anyway, they trecked to the pool and swam for several hours and suffered the consequences of a lack of sunscreen!

All the girlies came to my house to eat dinner(5 GIRLS!!). They lathered their red skin with  lotion and whatever else they could find in my bathrooms and prepped for mutual. Megan, however did not burn anywhere but her face. I was checking everyone out and notices her eyes were bright red and just blew it off as too much chlorine.....NOPE....

Well we ate our Spaghetti and Megan ate her pizza(another story completely) and went to mutual which was supposed to be at the church but got changed to the park. About a half an hour in Megan came up to me sneezing, scratching her throat and rubbing  her SWOLLEN, EYES!!  She was miserable! Let me say again Megan has never been around grass! She is a Desert Dweller!!! She didn't last the entire activity. We had to leave early. By the time we got home her eyes were tearing, I could hear her wheezing, and she could not stop sneezing. I gave her allergy meds followed by a nice Benadryl cocktail and she STILL couldn't fall asleep for a good few hours!! It was insane!

Thankfully she woke up this morning with nothing but a sunburn and a little bit of a sniffly nose. Looks like our sweet doctor will be blessed with our presence yet again this week for a refill of Singulair!!

I have posted lots of pictures of Charlie on my Facebook but haven't said much about him so I figured I would do both here since I haven't had much to say and he is a BLAST to talk about!!




Charlie is a product of my brothers full bred Bloodhound, Collijah and his South Korean mutt Sophie. My parents drove out to Fort Benning  to pick him up as a teeny tiny puppy. 5 months and about 40 pounds later he is SOME doggie!!



Charlie has bonded quite a bit with my mother. To the point that, when my dad got back from ROTC camp,he began proving that my mother was HIS property by peeing on ONLY my fathers things!!! My brother said there was an easy remedy for this and all my dad had to do was go toe to toe with this dog by peeing on Charlies things. Needless to say he did not do this. Charlie's territory issues soon subsided when he realized that the ENTIRE BACKYARD was all his, from my mothers strawberry plants on one side to the climbing viney things on the other side. Each day has been a new adventure for my mother being able to wake up to find out what glorious new changes await her in the backyard...




Because Charlie is part Bloodhound he is gonna be a LARGE DOG!!! He proved his strength during his first month by stepping THROUGH my parents screen door...

Sooo my mother enrolled Charlie in doggy school at her local Pets Mart. Each and every Saturday mom and Charlie ventured out into the world to learn how to be a good dog. Charlie has learned to sit, stay, wait,heal without an act of God! Charlie has gone from thinking every finger is a Pupperoni to actually waiting for the treat to be offered because he did good!! Today Charlie graduated from Puppy School and it was quite the celebration!! He gets to wear a cap and gets a certificate as well!!

 As a special treat he got to ride in the middle and in Saab ALL THE WAY HOME !!

Charlie is quite the artistic pup as well!! He does have some hound dog in him as previously stated but he only uses this beautiful serenade when he is accompanying Annabeth as she practices her Cello, any other day he is just blissfully, dorkily silent and happy!!! I have the video but can't quite figure out how to make it show up on my blog... bummer


Anyway that is Charlie in a nutshell he is a blast and we love to talk about him!!! We can not wait to meet him!!!

Our summer is going pretty great so far!!! Kids are just hanging out around the house for the most part!!

!I sent Tyler  outside to take pictures of my flowers yesterday so he went outside yesterday with my camera and found some spectacular pictures! He has a great eye! I'll put them up later today as soon as I find my cord that downloads things.(ok maybe tomorrow)

Our trip to Tucson has been pushed back to August because of some activities here and because my brother Austen gets home from his mission in August and we reeeeeaaaaalllllyyyy want to see him!! Kind of a bummer that we can't be there now but weather wise we are lucking out!! Apparently it is hovering around 107 there while we are in the 70's....


So thats about it... not really much to say I guess....hmm maybe later...