My little cooker

My middle girl Anna loves to bake or cook with me.  She will drop everything just to bake/cook with me.  Tonight she requested pancakes since her older sister was at a sleep over and she wanted to do it all! she poured, mixed, cracked eggs and even flipped!  She did an amazing job and made fantastic pancakes.  

She also says when she gets big she is going to make pies and cakes for me all the time and bring them to me.  Best daughter ever right?

Baking is important.  I believe it teaches math, patience, responsibility and more.  I am proud to say that almost nightly all my kids cook and bake with me and I would not have it any other way.  They know more about cooking then 90% of adults know and that makes me proud that they know how to read a recipe and know what ingredients do.

Dream Venue

So I am overly excited that I am getting my dream venue!!  Soon to be hubby is going a little over budget for me because he loves it all that much =)

We are having a very small wedding of 40 or less people and this is seriously my dream place I always wanted it to be out doors and dance in  a barn loft and behold I got it!!!

Here is there ceremony place

and then here is the place to dance where I will have a pie and candy table and of course Cake

I am super duper excited and cannot wait to start buying decorations!

Happy Monday and weekday goodies

1.  Fall/School clothes shopping is in order!  Fall and winter is quickly coming and so is school so time to buy jeans and long sleeved shirts.  We still have some to do but can I express how much I am loving children's place deals?!

2.  My oldest girl Mallory turned 8 this week!!  We had her birthday party which was a great turn out.

3.  Lolo loves shoes.  That is it.  She tries of shoes all day every day walking around in my heels, sandles or her sisters shoes.  I can never keep the shoe racks clean so I just let it happen and yet have another daughter that is obsessed with shoes

4.  For Mallory's birthday present she got to go shopping and go to the art fair with Nana and Nana took her to get her ears peirced since she finally asked and wanted them done.  I refused to put holes in my babies ears until they are ready.  This was the only picture my mom sent me because Mallory told her it is going to be a surprise so I get to see her with earings today when she comes home!

5. Anna got a hold of my camera and this was 1 of the 2934239 pictures of my camera haha.   I love the randomness.

6.  I started my new work out on Sunday!!  I made a post a few days ago and will update on weightless and more within the month

and for the weekly goodies!

Whoopie Pie Cake

Italian Layer Bake

Zuzka Light: ZCut Power Cardio

Update:  Hey everyone sorry I haven't updated yet.  I am still working out to get to my dream wedding body but with this work out in a month I lost 7 lbs! So I was super happy but I have 16 more to lose!

Here is the before and after 

This girl here is my work out idol.  After I had my middle daughter I was struggling with losing weight.  One day I came across this website called bodyrock.tv and she was co founder.  I went from 135 to 113 in 3 months working out to her.  Fast forward to me getting pregnant with my youngest now I had stopped working out to her and now weighing at 135 again I really need to lose weight so I looked up bodyrock and she was no longer co-founder =(

It had completly changed with other running it and now using equipment when Zuzka focused on your body being the tool for working out.  I was sad so I dug around even more and YAY she has a youtube channel and a new fitness program on DVD!!

I was overly excited and to my surprise my fitness coach bought me her cardio DVD series.  I just got it in the mail and I start Sunday!!  I will update this post with before pictures and weight so bare your eyes!

The set comes with 3 DVDs and the work outs are not long at all only at 15-20 mins long each work out and lasts for 1 month and also comes with a calender

Make sure you check out her website as well to order more DVDs, jump ropes or shirts and more

http://www.zuzkalight.com/

Happy Birthday!

Today is my oldest daughters 8th Birthday!!  I seriously cannot believe she is 8.  I graduated high school 7 months pregnant and it makes me feel older that I think in two more years I will be at my 10 year reunion! 

She is so caring, big hearted and would do anything for anyone no matter what she is doing or how she is feeling.  I cannot count how many times I woke up with breakfast in bed from this girl.  Butter toast and fruit is her specialty 

She is the best big sister that is out there, free spirited, very shy and would rather go fishing with dad than go shopping with me but she is so girly you wouldn't think she would like fishing.

Her favorite color if sky blue, she is obsessed with leopard print, loves blueberries, has a collection of my little ponies and wants to become a zoologist so she can take care of leopards.

She is my care taker and the child who wants to grow up to fast, she already knows she was only one child and wants 6 cats haha

Happy Monday and weekday goodies!

1.  Hair cut!  I gave baby Lolo a trim.  When she was a baby baby she lot all her hair except for a strip that became an all natural Mohawk.  So when all her hair grew out her Mohawk grew 10x ore and was to the bottom of her nose and she would never keep anything in her hair so I trimmed it and it looks great and older!

2  This is my miracle nephew Mordecai.  He turned three this weekend =)  He has cerebral palsy and has achieved so much!  He crawls, signs, talks and more.  He is in the hospital right now after a 4 hour seizure so please keep him in any thoughts or prayers.  I love my little buddy

3.  Every summer/fall we have hundreds of frogs in our yard.  Not kidding.  I am almost afraid to mow my lawn.  You walk and there are more than 20 hopping and they are tiny so I had to get a photo

4.  I love catching my daughters playing in a random places and having fun.  I always get the posed and goofy photos so I am always happy to get an opportunity to get the "kid" photos.  She was to sweet playing with her barbies.

5.  Cousin love!! These two are so different and they are only 1 year apart.  I cannot wait to watch these two grow up more together since they get along so great!

6.  Saturday was busy! We had a sleep over my y daughters birthday!  I am still exhausted.  They went to bed at 1 and woke up at 5:30 and with my baby waking up all in between.  But otherwise we had nail polish all over, hair chalk, and chocolate all over! 

Here are the goodies for this week

Chocolate Cups

Lemon Blueberry Bars

barbies and cousins

Oh the innocence of childhood.  I caught my daughter Anna playing with her barbies on the front porch and I wish I still had that imagination.  I loved watching her play and rock her barbies.  I wish I could hear her whole conversation with them because she had a smile on her face the whole time and then some mad faces to which I think the barbies were fighting haha.  

This is my niece Liora and my daughter Mallory.  They are only 1 year apart and it is totally cousin love.  They are best friends and for the whole day they were playing my little ponies, Liora was apple jack and Mallory was Rainbow Dash!  They have 100% different personalities but I am sooo happy they have a cousin to be close with.  Cousins are the best

Happy Monday and weekday goodies!

1.  I said yes!! Okay not really because there is no ring yet but we did set a date!  Matt and I have been together for 11 1/2 years we have our 3 girls and with that it is hard to save for rings with us re doing the house and bills and birthdays and just life.  So we are waiting for after taxes but I finally get to be married to this wonderful man of mine!!

2.  Lauren is the hardest baby to get rid of her bottle.  We tried again this weekend but after lots of useless sleep and more I was exhausted.  With my two other girls we threw all the bottles away and gave them a sippy and that was it.  Lauren no she refuses to drink anything from the sippy cup and will actually walk to the garbage and throw it away haha and she will yell baba!  So I gave in yet again, maybe just because she is my last baby I am being softer with her

3.  We are still redoing the living room, still in process because the handy man future husband didn't think about all the school shopping we have to do.  That is ok though I am enjoying the no tv weeks and that the kids are actually thinking of playing all day outside!

4.  We also re arranged the kids rooms.  I actually find a better way to do it because that bunk bed there cannot move anywhere else.  You cannot see the whole thing but I love it and they love it and we are holding a sleepover this coming Saturday so that will be fun!

5.  My daughter Anna is a stuffie hoarder.  We have a 15-20 min process every night before bed to make them perfect on her bed.  Like she has an OCD problem lol but it is ok, we make it fun and not stressful and now I know we just have to get ready for bed a lot sooner

6.  In 10 days the big girl next to me is going to be 8!! I cannot believe how tall she is.  I think she might be taller than my 5"2 self!  I just wanna cry and whine because I don't want her being to big but I love watching her grow into a beautiful little lady

Now here are the weekday goodies

Giveaway!!

Whipped Chocolate Strawberry Pie

Tuscan Garlic Chicken

Easy Crock Pot Bean Soup

German Pancake Bowls

The date is set...

*disclaimer: this photo is a almost a year old and I have lost weight* haha

This beautiful man here has been in my life for 11 1/2 years.  I asked him out in the 8th grade because he was hot, hahaa oh puppy love.  Little did I know that he would be the father of our three girls and that we would be spending out life together.  We have had many of ups and downs and I tell everyone in the 11 years we have been together we have went through more than what people go through in 20 or 30 years but we made it and never gave up on each other.  He is the love of my life and I never would let him go.

Now there is no ring yet.  We are buying them after taxes but I told him I still demand that he goes on one knee and ask me for my hand.  With three kids it is hard to budget and save for a surprise like that with out me knowing since I manage the bills.

So we finally set a date!!! September  20th 2014!

I have been in horrible planning mode on Pinterest. 

The theme is going to be a Vintage Lace and Burlap with purple hydrangeas

but YAY after all this time I can finally plan the wedding I always wanted. 

Now time to lose the extra weight and look amazing in the wedding dress.  

Don't worry I will be keeping you updated on the whole process

Stuffed Animal OCD problems

My daughter Anna has a stuffie OCD problem

Every night we have 20 minute routine for her bed

she has 10 pillows on her bed there are 5 girl pillows that go by the wall and 5 boy pillow that go by the foot of her bed

There is a mommy bear that goes first and then 3 baby bears and then a daddy bear at the end.  Ponies and some dollies go by the window.  Babies in pick go by each other, monkeys hang up, turtles stick together and more and more and more.  It takes forever but it is some fun bonding time and I love seeing her develop her own self and personality