Christmas Lights....Please use them!!

We started putting up Christmas lights and are still working on it. Mostly because it is a new place (Our first Christmas in housing) and so we are totally unsure of what looks good or not. I had to unplug the tree light because with the bush lit up behind it, made it sorta look like a penis and that is totally not what I want especially since we live in a community full of kids and I don't want to look like a jerk. But since I am on this topic I want EVERYONE who reads this...all my friends, family, strangers everyone to PUT UP THEIR CHRISTMAS LIGHTS!! I mean it. Kids love being able to see all the awesome colors and decorations people put up. I don't want to HEAR ANY EXCUSES... we live in a upstairs apartment, so put the lights up around the windows from the inside, put the tree in front of a window and whatever small little decorations you can. If you have balcony put a inflatable X-mas Character up there and put lights on the rails!! I mean seriously if you need help ask a friend to help. And if my friends are reading this and need some help putting theirs up call or message me and I'll be happy to come over and try and help out!! (I am being totally serious, though it would either have to be during school hours after I workout or after the Hubby gets home from work but I'll still come help with X-mas Decor outside just ask!!) So please please decorate!! I been driving around my area and not that many people decorate their homes anymore. Kids and Adults LOVE just driving around or walking around and seeing all the wonderful things and creative ways people come up with to decorate their homes just not enough of us do it.. and that is a MAJOR disappointment. I will probably even say something on my community website about this because I'd love to see more lights around here. So yes go out put those lights up, those snowmen, and Santa's the inflatables and ornaments. It's a great way to cheer people up who see the finish product!! I'm being serious...go go go go what are you waiting for : ).

Aud

Walked...

Well I went walking with my BFF Halls today and we did 3 miles in 48 mins. That's pretty good especially since we hadn't walked together in a little while. Tomorrow we are going to the GYM on base. We were talking about trying to add a little jogging into our walking when we can. We talked about that because the last 30 seconds or so we jogged the remaining of the third mile and thought it be a good goal to try and jog atleast one mile of the three miles by the end of Winter (Not all at once but still about a miles worth) So fingers crossed we can make that goal. Hell I'll be happy to make my mini weight goal so who knows what will happen. We also decided that instead of planning out our workouts we will just go with whatever we are in the mood to do come that day or if one of us really wants to do one thing and not the other we decide on what which one we will do and do the other's thing the next day (Thus why we walked today (mine) and are doing the GYM tomorrow (Halls) Anyways just wanted to say that.

Aside from that I been trying to make sure I walk our dog Vader everyday. Some days I can't always make it for him but I been doing better recently so much so it even helped me with my walk today withs Halls. Yesterday when I walked the dog my oldest son rode his bike along side us. Today it will be both my boys (because I promised!!). Plus is helps the dog and me out at the same time. this weight isn't going to lose itself (Though times I wished it would ><) So yeah that is whats up with me for right now. I need to get going though gotta go take care of things... later all...........

Aud

Mosaic Table

Today My mom and I made a Mosaic table top with the plastic store lawn table I had bc it was ugly before and it needed to be pretty. I think we did pretty good considering it was my first one ever and My mom had been out of practice for a while so she was a little rusty. I think it came out pretty cool!! It is currently on my back (screened in) porch right now finishing drying out. It will go out front of the house (I hope the kids leave it alone) and will have some kind of plant life on top of it. Anyway's that is all I wanted to post at the moment : D

Oh wait we put up a few Christmas decorations up today (Hubby and I). We got the tree up with some of the ornaments, our mini tree, our snow person, some of the other snowmen (I collect snowman items for Christmas : ) and sometime this weekend while we are kid free we will be putting up some of the Christmas lights as well : D I am pretty excited I love decorating for Halloween and Christmas!! Ok now I said all I wanted to say lol

Aud

Preparing for Thanksgiving!!

Well I am currently working on making Cannoli's Pumpkin pie and the Deviled Eggs are already done. I want to try and make as much of the food I can make today so tomorrow wont be as crazy although I am not going crazy this year food wise. Maybe somewhere in between. We are having Turkey of course, Green bean casserole, sweet potato casserole, Mashed potatoes and brown gravey, deviled eggs, Pumpkin Pie and Cannoli's for our little feast. I know it don't sound like much but for a family of four that's plenty : D Right at this moment I have the cheese for the Cannoli's draining, the dough for the shells in the fridge for about another hour and the Pumpkin Pie is in the Oven woot!! It all smells pretty yummy. I even used my Mom's own recipe for making deviled eggs and tweaked it a little and they taste awesome!! Well aside from that i am so tired. I have a hard time sleeping at night the littlest noises can wake me up and they it takes what seems like forever for me to fall back to sleep most times. So I took a sleeping pill last night and woke up early this morning bc the Dog woke me lol and I think i got up before the medicine wore off so I have been groggy all day so far. So let me get off for now though getting more tired just sitting here typing lol later all and hope everyone has a awesome Turkey Day!!

Aud

Road Trips

Well I have been thinking a lot about Road trips. Thinking about Road trips with good friends, about Road trips with just my best friend, Road Trips with my kids, and road trips with my family. I’ve always wanted to go on Road trips, they always seem so fun and exciting and it seems like I might be going on them more and more as my kids get older because it wont seem as much of a chore trying to keep after them and make sure they are safe and more time on enjoying it and taking photos and what not. Sure I guess I should mention this was all brought on to the fact earlier this month I was suppose to take a one day Road Trip to PA with My Mom and Best friend Halls, but it got cancelled because a nasty Vet Bill, and low on funds. I am glad it didn’t Happen because the night we would have been driving back home in Halls car we might have been in an accident. Halls front driver side tire fell off when she was driving home from work and can you imagine if we been on the Highway going like 60-65 and the tire fell off!! So yeah I guess we are meant to go visit our peeps in PA another time and it will come one of these days!! But back to me babbling about RT (RT will = Road Trip kk)

I know there are a number of places just in VA alone I’d love to go visit or visit again!! So I am going to write down a list and with what group of people it be fun to go with :D

With just friends: (girls only)

• Washington D.C.’s annual Cherry Blossom Festival (April) http://www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/cms/index.php?id=390
• Luray, VA (again)
• The Eastern Shore of VA (http://www.esvatourism.org/home.asp)
• Visit the Blue Ridge Mountains

With my Family:

• Manassas, VA
• The Shenandoah Valley
• Assateague Island
• Winchester, VA http://www.virginia.org/site/cities.asp?city=Winchester
• Washington D.C. in December

Man just writing this all out the ideas running through my head making me excited about it all (And it’s all just ideas…lol) But I am sure I will go on RT in the future. I did forget to tell you about the one day RT Halls and I (with our kids) took around July this summer. We were bored as hell staying in our same old boring home town so we picked some places we wanted to visit and just choose one. We planned for about a week tops (I think it might have been more like a few days to round up money and whatever, I think this idea would be better if I just took some money out whenever I could place it in a jar or something and when I get a wild hair up my butt use the money to go on a random 1 day RT : ) We ended up heading to Luray VA one because I wanted to do a human Maze and when I explained to halls that I meant we physically run around in a maze trying to get from one end to the other she got excited and wanted to go do it!! So Halls, the kids drove to Luray VA and went to the Garden Maze (http://thegardenmaze.com/) and visit the Luray Zoo (http://www.lurayzoo.com/) there then drove back home. It was pretty great just doing it. I did get a little aggravated with the kids being butts towards each other but other then that I loved it!! Man I am hopeless I am writing all over the place but whatever that’s how I write I guess putting down what I am thinking. So yeah it was awesome I will post the pictures on my Flickr Account now that I am thinking about it he he but yeah the whole point of me writing all this babble is because I was wondering what are some really awesome Road trip songs?? I thought of “Let Go” by Frou frou, “Crash” by Dave Matthews band, “Pinch Me” Barenaked ladies, "All right now" by Free, "Life is a Highway" by Tom Cochrane….any other ideas????

@,~ Aud ~'@


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NFL Jersey App

There is this kinda neat App on Facebook where you make a NFL jersey with whatever name be it your real name or nickname. I made one with the NFL team I follow most (My Favorite one, I support Washington Redskins too b/c that is the team my Husband Favors) the Miami Dolphins and picked a number. I just thought it was neat and passing it along : P The app is called "Make your NFL Jersey"

@'~Aud~,@

30 day shred

Well I did that Jillian Michael's 30 day shred today and I could feel it in alot of different muscle groups so that is awesome!! I like this dvd for sure : )

On another note I took Pictures of my Dog yesterday (My Vader Man!! Everyone says he is my puppy bc he stays by my side more then anyone elses so : P ) and it was so cute! The little booger is fast so had to get pics of him chewing a hide lol I added some more of him on my Flickr account. Well got to go do some laundry ><

Aud

Losing Weight

Well I am pretty excited I have been losing weight and what not but the past few weeks things have been hitting me left and right so I haven't really been losing weight but haven't been putting it on either. Both my kids been getting sick with Strep Throat and other nasty bugs and been feeling so out of it and so blah that I am like "F*#@" everything although i shouldn't. Just been feeling like I am being taken for granted and it sucks. But anyway's My BFF Halls put in new hours for work just so she can go to the Gym with me in the mornings or ride bikes, walk, swim whatever. I'll just be glad to have someone to workout with again, makes it more fun!! I been looking at clothes online as well and been thinking about how much fun it will be to feel comfortable showing off my body again and wearing cute little outfits and what not. I hope to be at least comfortable enough to wear a cute bathing suit by summer time anyways. Well need to get to bed....

Aud

Sorry so long

(This is Vader)

Everything has been so busy for us, we moved, had to get the kids started in a new school, we got a fence put up and a new puppy we lovingly call Vader : D. So everything is going good here. I have even managed to lose a total of 28 lbs since I started to work on losing weight. At the moment that is at a stand still so once I get the new pup use to our home and what not I am going to try and go to the Gym if I can't then I can always do video's at home. Plus I want to start school in the Spring and I am super excited and super scared. I keep wanting to make excuses why I shouldn't go bc of how scared I am of going back to school. I haven't been to school since I was 16 yrs old : ( (Yes I was a teen mom and had to drop out of school to raise my son. No way was I aborting him or allowing someone else to raise my son so I stepped up and did what I felt I needed to do to do right by him and I don't regret it.) So yeah that's what's been going down. I am also worried about my Bro is has been drinking more lately bc of his break-up with his G/F he loved alot. She left him bc she had mix feelings about everything and had started having feelings for someone else. She was a sweetie too and I could picture them being together getting married having kids the whole 9 but not now. So anyways he is taking it kinda bad but not as bad as before with the last chick he fell hard for so that's good but I still am going to worry about my little bro ya know. Anyways that is all I got chores to take care of and things to do else where instead of sitting on my butt blogging about everything lol so yeah there is the short story about what has been happening.





Aud

My Seedling are growing!!!

Cottage Garden Mix (below)

Cottage Garden mix (below)

Lavender (below)

Sweet Pea (Below)

Well I am happy to say all my seedlings I planted are happy and growing and I am just as excited as can be!! I can't wait to start planting these blooms in my soon to be home garden area!! I currently have Sweet Peas, Lavender (Don't tell my mom it's her Mom's day Gift from us) Gladiolus, and most recently I planted some Hollyhocks, lupine (these are at my apartment), Chinese love vines, blue veronica, and heliotrope at my Mom's in my seed starting kit I left there. (No room here anymore) So i am excited to see how they come about. Well I got some errands to run (Pay Bills in other words) so i will ttyl : )

Aud

Aftermath of a rainy day

Well yesterday it rained towards the end of the day and all so it was a rainy evening. One of those days when you just want to curl up on the couch with your snuggie and read a book or watch a action packed movie or something. (I watched the movie"The Last Boyscout" with Bruce Willis in it <--- favorite Actor) I watched a movie but had no Snuggie : ( Oh well someday soon I too shall be part of the snuggie club ^ ^

Anyway's I took a photo of my newest babies growing up without my flash one. I just wanted to kinda capture the the rainy aftermath this morning. It's a little more brighter outside now and I already moved them all to the back in my room to sit in the window and get some extra rays of Mr. Sun if he comes out to play today. Well I better get going for now. I am so excited about so many different projects I can't really think of anything else to type so....

TTYL,
Aud

My Babies are growing : )

My little seedling are growing and I am excited to see them sprout even more!! These are the ones from the cottage garden mix and only a few started to grow so I restarted on one side and cut and sperated the egg cartons. I also plan to place the ones growing in another spot of the apartment because up front there isn't as much sun as there is in the back so guess where they all are going now : ) Well thats all I wanted to say ttyl

Aud

The other item I got

Well I picked this up and figured if I can come across some grape vine stencils I can stencil the sides and inside of it with them and then once finished and what not I will be putting fake grapes in it and use it as like a center piece in the dining room/kitchen area. Can you picture it? We still have tons of furniture staining to do as well before the move too. Wish me luck on my hunt for the perfect Grape vine stencil : )

TTYL,

Aud

Thrifting again....

Well I went to two different Thrift Stores today and found a few items I snatched up that would be beautiful in my living room theme set-up. I'll post the pictures (They will show up on top) I got something else but I will make a second post about that after this one. Not sure if you remember a post I made a while back about a Daisy/Daisy & Bee themed Living room area. Well as long as it is a country cottage type of feel I am ok. I know I got a ways to go before that is reached but I will be taking photos of my living room once we moved into the new place and have everything put up and set up and all. I am so excited (Is it not July yet???? ><) But here they are for both items I paid about $11 for them. I figured I'd hand them both up on the wall, the chair one under the shelf and maybe put a small plant or something on the chair or maybe a small but cute bowl to catch wallets or something and the shelf be a key ring holder.... Idk still playing with different ideas...lol I also got some cross stitch books there as well and plan to work on some in the future. I know that I can do b/c I've done it before...rofl

Later

Aud

Moving and Gardening

Well we will be moving here soon to a bigger place. It had to happen plus can you imagine having not only my husband and I but two (Count it T W O) growing boys in a 2 bedroom apartment.. yeah it ain't cutting it so we must move but I am excited b/c it's a bigger place!! I am also going to work on a garden there as well. I did here but I hate this place and so I don't feel motivated to keep up with it all. I started some seeds this morning too! One is a wild flower mix and the other is a cottage garden mix, I also got some Morning Glories in varies colors, sweet peas (Had to get them my Mom called me Sweet pea when I was a little girl) and a few others. I am pretty excited about all this. So excited I even started packing a little bit with the few boxes I did come across. I took a few pictures of the official "Day 1" lol (See above photos) Well the mixes consist of the following flowers:

• Baby Blue Eyes
• Black Eyed Susan
• Blue Flax
• Calendula
• California Poppy
• Candytuft
• Clarkia
• Coreopsis lance leaved
• Corn Flower
• corn poppy
• Cosmos
• field poppy
• five spot
• forget-me-nots
• fox glove
• larkspur
• lupine
• pheasant's eye
• purple coneflower
• shasta daisy
• sweet william
• wallflower

I know that's a long list...rofl, I also want to get a few hanging basket type flowers as well. well better get going : )

Later All

Aud

Ok

(Clipart found at fotosearch.com)


Well I have a dental appointment today >< I am so not looking forward to it but it needs to be done. Oh well I shall go and be a good sport about it....rofl



I also been having some conflicting thinking on my part here lately and it's been taking somewhat of a toll on me and I haven't been the most pleasant person to hang with. So bare with me I shall ride through this and all shall be good again.



On another note I drank 1 cup of coffee and the rest of the day nothing but water (YAY Me) and I did some working out. I plan to go for the same thing today as well. Goal is to be healthy and lose as much of this baby fat as I can before I head for Vacation this Spring break and what I don't lose by April I hope to finish losing before Summer. I miss being my cute little self and lost alot of my confidence and what not. I become more Anti-social then normal. I'd also like to be my pre-second child weight before I start school this Fall so yeah I need to buck down and get serious about this. Granted I still do some unhealthy things but some things you can't just stop cold turkey they take longer to change then others. But yeah there ya have it, Later...



Aud

Photos from my BF Wedding

Well MY BF Halls got Married last month (Dec 27th) and I took a ton of photos. Now I know some are not the best in the world but still I am in practice here so : P