The Kiddos

I havent posted about the kids lately. They are changing so fast! Kingston has started a new swim class which he loves. He has also been easing into preschool. He has one class a week at the moment and he loves that as well. He has two more classes starting in a month. Lately Kingstons favorite thing to do is listen to musice ALL DAY and dance. He memorizes the words to every song he hears so easily. He is very fun to watch. He is already 3 and a half years old but he seems so much older to me. A very smart kid he is.

Makenna is literally learning a new word everyday. The words she knows are: choo choo(she says that while pushing things and she loves to push the grocery cart around the store), ball, bye, dadda, momma, fishy, night night, and doggy. She is so cute. My favorite thing EVER is waiting for Kingston at the multigenerational center where Kingston has school and letting Kenna walk around talking and laughing. There are a lot of elderly people there around the same time for bingo and water aerobics and they just ADORE Kenna. They all come up to her and talk and tell her how precious she is. This one lady last week hurried her friends over to tell them this was the little girl from last week that she was talking about and they all oooed and awwwed her. It really makes me feel so good to watch. Another thing Kenna does that I love so much is eat, eat, and eat. She will eat anything in front of her face. Makes me proud. She is so tiny though. We just love Kenna to pieces and she sure does adore her big brother.

Fraud

I just experienced my second time being a victim of fraud. The first time I received a call from my credit card company asking me if the $2,000 charge to a Mexican airline was authorized by me. Thankfully I got that call because I sure did not do that! That would have been so terrible. Second time happened today! Not near as bad but easily could have been. I had left my debit card at a Burger King drive thru window a few days ago. I didnt realize it until a few hours later when I was at Walmart and did not have my card for my groceries(thankfully I had a back up credit card which I never use). I went to Burger King to pick up my card and nobody knew what I was talking about until the drive thru employee came up and pulled it out of his pocket. That seemed strange to me but I never thought about it again until today when there was a charge of $77 dollars to Juicy Couture, a store I never shop at, online. I knew it was from the Burger King guy because the charge was made the day I left my card and to an online store. I hurried to call US Bank to tell them what happened and because the charge was still pending, they are able to stop the charge and refund me. They are also sending me a new card. I love US Bank. They have always been so good to us. Thankfully I saw the charge before it went through and before this person charged anything else.

Goals

Okay so this post is really just for me...I want to lead a healthier lifestyle. I have been eating like crap, not hardly exercising, and being kinda lazy. I want to have more energy and motivation to do things. I also want my children to see me as a hard-working and healthy mommy. They will do what I do. So here are my goals:

1. Eat healthier foods-this means more actual meals than eating one meal a day and junk the rest of the day. I want to incorporate more fruits and veggis into my diet yet still allow myself to eat sweets occasionally. I need to be more conscious of foods that have high cholesterol, fat, and sugar (I say that because I have high cholesterol believe it or not!).

2. Walk/jog 5 days a week for at least 30 minutes(the weather is perfect here so there is no excuse not to)

3. Try my darndest to get to church every Sunday (this tends to be hard because we are out of town a lot and we seem to get sick a lot too). I want the kids to have a good moral upbringing and church is the best way to implement that.

4. Spend more quality time as a family. Chez works 5 days a week from 8-5 which isnt bad but the days he is not at work, I am a good wife and let him golf or whatever he does with his friends. I tend to let him go out on work days to after work so that makes having good quality family time, a little harder. Today we decided that we will make a Disneyland trip in three weeks for a couple days since we live so close. Last time we went a few weeks ago, it was such a fast trip and the closeness we felt as a family that trip was awesome.

5. Make dinner at least 5-6 days a week. I used to have a fancy little dinner calendar for the month printed out and dinner made every single day. Since living here in Vegas, our day to day activities have interfered with that. Time to have more family dinner times.

6. Learn to relax more. I tend to be high strung which makes my nerves on fire a lot. I want to start taking a step back and thinking before reacting and breathing before freaking out about things. Life is too short to live in an anxious state.

These goals make me seem like I am normally a weirdo but I am just human. I dont want these goals to be annoying and hard-work, I want them to be an actual lifestyle. Something I live by always. When I was in college, I was in the BEST shape of my life. I weighed in at 100 pounds (which was actually okay because I ate healthy and worked out a TON just simply by walking to school everyday). I dont want to be that skinny but I want to have the clean bill of health I had back then. Wish me luck! I posted a picture of me back when I worked out a ton, ate healthy, and had so much more energy.

Preschool Blues

Along with the start of preschool comes sickness! It started with Chez and the kids and then I got it....BAD. I dont handle sickness or pain well AT ALL. I tend to whine and complain. I am a big sick mess right now. My throat has hurt for the past few days now. I am so tired too. I hate being sick for one major reason....I HATE being couped up in the house and I HATE not having energy to clean the house. SO I have the blues. Hoping to get better soon so I can have my energy back to run errands and be normal. I guess this is what I have to look forward to until my immune system gets used to the sick kids at school.

Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands

Okay so the title of my blog is kinda silly but it has a lot of meaning behind it. As any marriage goes, you have ups and downs. I am not ashamed to say in my marriage, we have gotten stuck in the "down" rut before. Well in one of the most trying times of our marriage, I decided to buy this book I heard about called "The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands". This book hit me where it hurt. It was so true in every way. I wrote page after page of notes while reading this book. I learned so much. I was incredibly grateful I read this book and I thought how tragic it was that a lot of married women(in healthy relationships) havent read it. I brought it up once or twice on different blogs I had been on in the past and responses to the title of the book was so negative. It is amazing to me how so many women are negative. The biggest thing I learned from this book is how much your man just wants to make you happy and he will do what it takes to make that happen. And it is true. My husband works so hard to provide for the family, likes to be the handy man around the house, and make sure I am happy in every way. There are so many valuable things I learned from this book about my husband that I would hope the women close to me in my life would consider reading it. I cried the first time I read it because I felt like I had failed to do my part as a wife and I was so happy I woke up and smelled the coffee. Since the first time I read it, I read it again and my goal is to read it every year. My marriage has been so incredibly great since I read this book. I am not saying we dont have our problems but the problems we do have are solved quickly and with love. Anyway, I wanted to stand on my high horse for a minute and talk about this book. If you can, read it!