W2D2

Yesterday, knowing in was going to be a long day and not sure if I would be able to fit in my running. I got up at 8 and ran ,the not so bad part of my driveway, which still kinda kicked my butt. I was so stinking hot after, it was crazy. With Jake still in bed I went up starts and opened all the windows turned the fans on high and took a cool shower, with all the doors open. lol I was pretty excited that the girls and I were going to go to David's Bridal with Sam to try on Wedding gowns and Bridesmaids dresses. To back up a little, Thursday I went to Dress Barn to see about finding a dress for Shara and Jake's Wedding next weekend. I usually dread finding something to wear cause nothing ever fits right. So I found on that I loved. I made Jake, who was playing at Borders with the girls, come back and look at it. I was excited cause it was a size smaller than what I am currently wearing. So anyway he wasn't crazy about it, thought it was too blue. :P So went around the store and gave me like 5 dresses to try on. The grabbed one that I had passed up several time, because I thought there is no way that is going to look good on me or I wish I had the body to get away with that dress. So he gave it to me. I LOVED IT!!! AND its 2 sizes smaller that what I am wearing now. YEA!! That's what I said!!!! I still could loose a bit to make it look even better but you know what. If I keep up the running it will be a dress I can continue to wear even after I lose more weight. So I am wicked excited, I have never had a little black dress and this is a kind of sexy one. :)
So back to bridesmaid dresses, I had a blast cause I can now feel comfortable about the size I am grabbing off of the rack and know that I look good in it. I makes to more excited to know that if I keep running and stay active I will just look better and better. LOL :)

W2D1

Well yesterday started Week 2 Day 1 . I new my time was going to step up from 60 sec of running to 90 sec of running and 2 min of walking. So ok not bad. Jake actually should of been a few weeks a head of me but because he has been sick he decided to step back to my week so we could do it together. So after he got home yesterday we were off. Kyndal running with us and Ally in the running stroller. The time is longer that Week 1 so we figured we would make it to the bottom of Flagg (our road) before we needed to turn around. Just to add one more thing our running stroller doesn't have working breaks. :) So down the first hill, while running, was ok. Our plan was for me to push down that for Jake to take it coming back. Almost to the end of the road and still going strong. We can to the second hill. UGH it was longer and steeper. It never failed that I was always running when we can to them either. So the running stroller was pretty much pulling me down, while I am trying to slow down and kill myself on a rock or something. LOL I am sure it was quite a site. So the way back. We turned, oh and we did make it all the way down the road, which it a mile. Still going good. Then it cam to running back up the last hill. We both lost it. LOL It was a killer. i stopped and walked half of it and then walked my 2 min. Then ran. That was the last set I ran. I think I just skipped one. But that hill killed us. I told Jake after that I think I will just stick to the driveway and that I don't want to add in hills until like week 20. lol But you know what even though we didn't make the running/walk program we still got out and went 2 miles. We got off the couch!!!! So on Thursday we are SO just going to go to the track!!

W1D3 & D4 :)

To recap the week. I downloaded the FREE C25K podcast, ugh even though the music isn't great its nice to be actually running and walking the amount of time that I am suppose to be. Its so easy right now, but pushed you at the same time. Kyndal has been running with me too, its cute. So this week I walked with Jake on Tuesday, ran the c25k on Wednesday, the cam home after church today and ran the c25k program. After church the family took me to Olive Garden for my birthday yesterday and so by the time we got home I had that Sunday afternoon nap feeling but I really didn't want to sleep so I said ok I am going to go do. I need to do at least one more day to I can move on. I mean 3 weeks on week 1 is enough. So went and ran and it felt great and i can pack with a ton of energy. Kyndal and I actually left the driveway and ran down the road a bit. ( I have a long driveway) So with week 1 gone i welcome the challenge and the step up in running from week 2. Here we go we are doing it!!!

Are we done???

So today (Thursday) we went to the Neurologist for my check up. He said everything is going really good. My visual fields look great. We are staying on the meds for now. We asked him how my Papilladema (that's what I have) would effect us getting pregnant again. Since it was brought on by that in the first place. He said it would be very hard to treat and that there were things that could be done if need but they weren't really fun and easy things cause obviously the baby would come first. But the biggest thing that all of the treatments would prevent would be me going blind. So basically if I got pregnant again I could go blind. UGH sooo not what we wanted to hear. I don't think anyone every wants to have a Dr pretty much tell you that you are done having kids. That my decision to make, not theirs. I say screw them and lets have a baby. But I do want to be able to see that baby. UGH to much to figure out. I wouldn't even know where to start to look into adoption and who knows if we would meet all of the requirements and the money. God knows we don't have that. So we are just sitting and waiting and praying about it. Maybe we are done?? Only God knows right now.

A Hard Week!!!

Well Jake was away in Cali all week. So that makes it a crappy week just to start off. But it also rained pretty much all week so I was not able to run but only on Tuesday. UGH for rain!!! All I can really say for this week is that I am glad that Jake got home early this morning!!!!

W1D2

So even thought this is week 2 day 1 since I didn't' run but only one day last week i figured i would stay on week 1 of the program so that I wouldn't really mess it up. I really need to do it consistently. So today I ran and still feeling like I can't make it all the way through cause I am doing to much!! I think I saw on the C25k website something about podcast maybe I should see what that is about. I would rather something in my ear telling me when to run/walk. Ohh well another day 1 down. :)

Bombed the first week!!

Ok so the first week was a total bomb. I ran on Tuesday but that was it I was suppose to run 3 days a week. But with working 2 and then the ACSI festival Thursday I just couldn't fit it in. Jake also leaves for California for a week next week so I am not going to run this weekend cause I will be spending time with him. I guess if you count y game as a day then I ran 2 days :) ??!!!!

I will do better next week!!!

W1D1

So I figured it was a bit hard to look at the stop watch while I was running and know when to start and stop. We are suppose to start with a warm up then run the walk then run the walk for a certain amount of time. so instead I just made a play list of songs to equal the amount of time and figured I would walk then run 2 songs then walk one the run 2. While was a little more that what the program start us doing. They only want you to run for 60 secs. then walk for 90. So at about the 3rd set of running. I was wiped. LOL I think I tried to push myself a bit to much!! We will see what i can figure out, maybe one more try.

Couch to 5K in 9 weeks!!!

So we started looking on the internet about running programs, not really knowing what is good and what isn't. This weekend I was at a women's event at GCC and some ladies and I were talking about it and one of the said that she said she remember some website that was about going from couch potato to 5k. I just started laughing. Could someone really come up with a program like that, seriously?? SO go figure!! i google Couch potato to 5k and what comes up. Couch Potato to 5k!!! LOL

This is the program we are doing its very cool and starts off easy everyone should check it out.
www.c25k.com , get is "C"couch 2 5K. wow people are brilliant. LOL

We are doing it!!

So I guess you can say that Jake took the 5K idea and ran with it. The next day he went to work and found the 5K, pretty much exactly when he wants it. So we are actually going to do it. We have to now to posted it on FB, LOL. The race is Sept. 11, and it benefits the Friendly kitchen in Concord. So its a good cause. He said that a few of the guys in the office might do it with us also. So we will make a little GCC team. :) Now we just need to find a program and figure out how to go from not really running to doing a stinking 5K.

5K!! What!!!!?

Ok so we had a soccer game tonight. To catch everyone up since I haven't posted in a while. I have been playing indoor soccer at the Bow Fiedhouse for a few months now. Jake and I have started our own team, "CRUSH", for the session we are currently in. Anyway, after the game Jake comes up with the crazy idea that we should do a 5K. That is we found one some time in Sept. or Oct. we would have plenty of time to train and get in shape. Which I am all for getting in shape, I have been wanting to drop more weight for a while.
Speaking of weight since finding out about my eye/head condition in November I have dropped about 26 pounds. I still have at least 30 that I need to drop. UGH that seems like such a big number. :)
Anyway, so that's my crazy husband for you!!!!! We will see exactly how far his ides goes. :)

Updates!!! :)

Well I know I have been kinda lax in blogging. I am sorry : ( Well I little update on things. First with the girls. Ally got an ear infection toward the beginning of November and went through 3 does of 3 different antibiotics. She just finished the last set about a week ago. She seems to be doing fine but we will see. Not much for Kyndal going on. Still crazy, LOL.

Well for me. I has recent eye appt and an appt with my neurologist this week. We dicided to start on a Medicine call Diamox. It a kind of water pill that will reduce the fliud behind the eye, in the brain and the fluid that the spinal cord is make. So that what we are doing. Now we are just praying for no side affects from the med. It has a 1 in 100 change for kidney stones. So pray for none of those.

Last night witht the freezing rain we lost power at around midnight. Luckely we have a generator that powers the furnace, water pump, lights in the kitchen, microwave, and the fridge. So we have been very lucky. Since we heat with wood we have stayed warm. Its a little darker than normal but kinda fun. There is a power outlet by the breaker box that we plugged an exstention cord into and are now about to watch a movie. So we have TV. :) I don't think that really counts for roughing it. If anyone wants to come get a warm shower and you wan make it up our hill, come on!! :) I took some pic of our road when we went out this afternoon. I will put them up later. Even though it sucks it was kinda pretty outside. :) There were about 4 power lines down on one of our roads.

Anyway, hopefully I will stay up now. I was doing so well too. I am a slacker I know. LOL Well I'm off to watch Horton

Greater Impact a Joyous Ouch.

Greater Impact is the name of the GCC building campaign. Last night we had a commitment dinner. The food was great. :) But that's not what it was all about. The past couple of sermon series, have really been speaking to us. I think the best place to start would be the sermon on living with less. There are so many things we have that we don't need and could defiantly live without. Some of those things are debts that we don't need and if we got rid of them we could put that money to better use. I have always wanted to be able to bless people in different ways but have always felt held back because of budget reasons. So Jake and I have really been trying to get rid of the unnecessary things. We are right now in the process of getting rid of our van, oh how I hate to say that. I love our van, it is sooooo perfect for us. But you know it is an unnecessary debt. That we could live without. The money that we pay each month to out van note could go to a much better use.
Then we move on to the Greater Impact. Were we have been asked to make a 3 year commitment to give to the building fund. We have been challenged to pray and ask God what he would have us give. Big or small. I think the best way I have heard it put was from the speaker last night. He was talking about a campaign that they were asked to do for there church and how there were talking about there giving being a sacrifice. So said he was asking his 2 sons what the word sacrifice means to them in one word. His oldest, type "A" son he called him, said "Ouch". His youngest, type "Z", said "Joy". When he asked his type "Z" son why he said Joy he said because the sacrifice would be for Jesus and it would bring Joy to him. So he said they came to the conclusion that sacrifice was a Joyous Ouch. Which is so right. Giving the amount we would like to give or that God is telling us to give would defiantly stretch us and make us fully trust in god to provide for us. There is no way we could do it without putting our faith in him to provide. 3 years is a long time to make a financial commitment when you don't even know what the future is going to bring. But all we need to do is trust God that he knows what he is doing and that he will not let us go hungry or homeless.
I feel like I have done a bit or rambling, and it may not all make since to some of you. But then again I really hope it does and that it speaks to you.

A Greater Impact from Grace Capital Church on Vimeo.

Birthday Party Pics!!

About to dig it, but still not to sure what to do.

Every child need to take a pic with there birthday cake. Just ignore the spot that Jake messed up when he was taking the cover off. :)

LOL Major cake over load.

I lOVE this one. I made her her own cake from the leftover sides.

Peeking in.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALLY!!!

Ok so we had a little birthday party for Ally this past Sunday. She will be 1 on Thursday. Wow the year has totally flown by. I knew it would go fast but come on give me some more time. :) So I took her outside after we got home from church and took a few pics. What I could by myself. She had a really good time. Eating cake, lol. She has been having a little runny nose and runny eyes since Thursday. I just thought it was a cold or allergies, since we all have them. So Monday Jake took her to the Dr. to get it checked out. Come to find out, she has a doubt ear infection. The Dr. said that she couldn't even believe that she was still sitting there smiling. I guess we have super tough girls. :) so hopefully she will be feeling alot better on her actual birthday and I can get some pics that don't have red puffy eyes. So here are some good ones that I took.

FALL

Some fall pics of our place!


Well Last week we finally found the right 4x4 vehicle. We got a 2000 Ford Explorer. Its nice and drives great. I still need to detail it but other than that its perfect. We are still praying about giving up our van so we can get out of debt. Jake is really wanting to be debt free and really our van is the only thing we have right now. We wanna give it up and save some money to buy another 4x4 family vehicle. So we just keep praying about!!

Matching Dresses

My mom had dresses made for the girls, in Patriot colors. Kyndal's is too short for her but maybe with some legging it will work. But still really cute!!

Kyndal Horseback Riding Pics!!

Health

Ok well since I haven't posted anything about the health issuse. Most of you have heard about already from my MySpace of FACEBOOK. I will start from the beginging for those who don't know what going on.
THE BEGINNING!!! :)
On 9/17/08 I had a reagular eye appt. The Dr took picture of the back of my eye and noticed that my optic nerve was swollen. Which, to back track a little, they found it to be swollen when I was about 7 months pregnant with Ally. My vision went cloudy for a day, which promped them to look. So after that appt., noticing that it was still swollen. the Dr. told me that it could be caused by a brain tumor or excess fluid in the brain, both putting pressure on the nerve. SO he refered me to a Neurologist.
On 9/24/08 I have my consult with Dr. Martino. I check a bunch of, what I would call silly things. But said that since I don't really have any side effect that everything was probably fine but because of my family back ground it would be best to do an MRI and MRV. If that came back fine another thing that they have found that could cause it is, I hate to admit it, but its weight. More specifically around the abdomin, which of coarse come when you are pregnant, so thats why the problem usually spikes then. So I may need to go on a diet, be there done that, not that painful. :)
On 9/30/08 I had my MRI and MRV (were they inject, LOL sorry its funny, a rare earth metal as they called it, into my veins so they can see my veins.)

Results came back on that the following Monday and they both came back normal. Praise GOD!!! So now I am just waiting it out until my next appt. I have an eye appt next Wednesday 10/15/08 to follow up on the appt I had earlier. The Neurologist also said that they would watch the visual field test that the eye Dr. does to make sure that its not getting worse.

So yeah thats about all of it!!! Thanks for all of your prayers. I will definatly keep everyone posted if something changes.

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