Swimming like a champ!

Yesterday I went to work and stopped by Academy on the way home. I needed to exchange my Nike completive swim suit I had bought…then I headed to the gym. I was so tired yesterday I kept telling my self just go swim, then go home and take a nap. So I ended up going to the gym. I got dresses and ready to start swimming. When I first started it was VERY hard. I could only do 50 meters without stopping (2 laps). After awhile of stopping every 2 laps I told my self I can do this and started stopping every 4 laps. After swimming a 500 (20 laps) it got a lot easier. Yesterday I can proudly say I swam 1,000 meters (40 laps). I have not swim like that since high school. In those says we were swimming like 3,000 meters in an hour...CRAZY huh? I am hoping that I can keep this up.
When I got home all I wanted to do was take a quick nap before cooking dinner. I took a shower, laid down on my bed, turned the TV on and nothing happened...The cable was OUT.. So, I decided I was going to go play on the internet for a few minutes... The INTERNET was out.. Oh my.. So I got the pleasure of talking the AT&T people instead of taking a nap.. An hour later all they could tell me is they dont know what was wrong and someone would be out to come look at it on Wednesday! Uhm.. Wednesday..Today is Monday.. I dont think so.. I threw a fit and the people are supposed to be coming out today to look at it. Well see if they can figure out what is wrong with it.
Today I am SO tired and VERY sore… I hope I don’t fall asleep at work! 

Yesterday I tried on my dress ... Yes, I still LOVE IT... but... I feel like I have back fat!!!

So...starting today I am going to work my butt of in the gym to try and tone that up. When I told James I think I have back fat he said NO WAY! I really think its just because the boustie is pushing on all of my skin making my dress really tight.. But I am still going to be working my butt of in the gym to try and tone up... It cant hurt right? Today I was proud of my self I did my normal 30 min cardo session, but I RAN on the treadmill for 7 minutes. That is a BIG accomplishment for me. Running kills my knee... Usally I will do the elliptical machine but today I was running!!! I am prod of my self!

Tomorrow I am going to start swimming agian. :)

Our Living Room

Here is our living room... I desperately need to add pictures to our walls. After the wedding, I plan on adding MANY more pictures to our home.

Our floor plan is very open! The living room is open to kitchen. The walls are painted a light tan color but it does not show up in pictures. I love my little "S" o the fire place. I know its not my last name yet but I LOVE IT!!!
I plan to put some wedding pictures above the monstrous TV!

New couches! Not so pretty but VERY comfy!!!

I HATE that DVD rack! I didnt put it there. :) I am going to throw it away one day on accident.. he he..
.......Of course Bella has to be in the pictures! Love her hair cut?



This is our FORMAL living and dining room (below). These two room are what you see when you walk in our door.
Our candy bar is set up on the table (for the wedding). I did not move it for the pictures. I am still trying to decide if I like how I have it set up.




Yes, the walls need help!!!


The candy bar!!!



Love my zebra ottoman!


I have officially decided I am going to get laminate floors...but.. they are going to have to wait! :(

Mother's Day

-Yesterday (Thursday ) was a busy day! After work I ran and got Bella from the groomer and let me say she looks pretty!!!
-I took Bella back home and uploaded my kiddos pictures from school.... Jessica and I took their pictures holding a sign that said "Happy Mother's Day 2009". I thought that was a nice gift.
-Then I ran to Kroger's and grabbed 4 dozen roses for my mom and James' mom. I decided I was going to make our moms flower arrangements for Mothers day.
-After Kroger's, I ran to Subway to grab dinner.
I came home and put together these:

I brought my moms flowers to work today along with some homemade muffins I made!! I think they turn out nice! My mom and James' mom LOVED them!!!


-This week has seemed so long! Tuesday I thought it was Friday all day!!.. So tonight I am exhausted! Tomorrow is the big deal... well one of the big days.. I get to try on my dress again.. I cant WAIT!

Spider Bite!

Catherine had a spider bite the other day and Amanda at work had a spider bite last week.. Now, I have a BIG spider bite. There must be a spider infestation in our school!! I told Catherine today that something bit me.. I didnt think much of it.. I just scratched it and went on with my day... Well today when I got home and changed clothes from work boy was a surprised. My spider bit is the size of a medium size orange.. YES MEDIUM!!!! It hurts VERY bad. Last time I had a spider bite the doctor told me to draw a circle around it and see if it gets any bigger. So I drew a circle around it and I hope it doesnt get any bigger...or I'm headed to the doctor... I was going to take pictures of it, but its on the back of my thigh and I really dont think anyone wants to see that!

In other news..After work today I got our Mother's Days gifts done and I'm super excited about them! I also get to make my choclate cake this weekend too!!

IN REALLY GOOD NEWS...........



My wedding dress came in!!!!

I guess they were not going to call and tell me. I called today to ask where it was and they told me it got in last week.. UGG HELLO..CALL ME!!!! I am going Saturday to try it on.. I'm SOOOO EXCTIED!!! I hope I still LOVE it!!

No way ... Not me!

This is my first time participating in "Not me!" Monday!

-I did not eat 1/2 a bag of Pirate Booty after work today. (Catherine its your fault!!)
-I do not secretly wish someone kinda gets a few symptoms of the Swine Flue at school.. NO WAY .. Not after hearing the school that are out for two weeks (from the swine flue cases) don't have to make it up.. Not way.. NOT ME!!!
- I did NOT e-mail and text my photographer today at school.. ((and call my doctors))... NO way NOT ME!
- I did not have to get poop off Bella's butt today.. EWWWWW..No WAY...not me!!

Massages!!!

Yesterday was so awesome..but..kinda annoying all in one!

James bought me a gift card for a couples massage for my birthday last September (yes..getting close to a year ago!).. Well we decided we wanted to go this weekend and get a massage. I called on Friday and made an appointment for Saturday.. So Massage Envy here we come!!!



Saturday morning I made my long grocery list and if you have ever seen it you would laugh at me.. I have my groceries listed by isle number..HA....After making my list we ran to SUBWAY! I was really feeling a tuna sub... Let me just tell you the people there were really dumb..James got so mad at the guy making my sandwich.. I asked him to toast the bread before we put the tuna on.. Well the guy is walking over to the toaster puts it in and I saw can you please add cheese before you do that.. I mean you would think he knew that... he works there!!! Well the guy just ignores me.. I didn't think anything about it, but another guy standing in line by me said "Ummmm SHE WANTS CHEESE ON IT!!"...The Subway guy kinda rolls his eyes and give us an attitude and James said, "With a smile"...I am so glad they made your food in front of you there..EKKK!!!

So we left Subway went to HEB and grocery shopped... Today I am making homemade chocolate cake for a girl at school.. I hope it turns out!

Our massage appointment is at 3:00, so James and I are hanging out at home until its time to leave.. We leave the house at 2:30 thinking we have plenty of time to get there and fill out paper work and what not...We get to Massage Envy at 2:40 and we decide to go on in.... We talked to the receptionist and fill out our paper work ..She takes us back to the "tranquility room" to wait for our therapists.. (James of course doesn't want me be quiet... he is cracking jokes and I'm laughing trying to stay quiet.. We are sitting next to the water jug and we keep seeing all the therapists walk out and get their clients water.. Well there were two REALLY old therapists I'm talking 75ish -NO JOKE!!!!- What 75 year old works at a massage place??? ) James and I are waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting...By this time its 3:00...then its 3:10 then its 3:20... Finally our therapists come and get us AT 3:20( And YES- I got one of the OLD OLD ladies...Oh my)!!!!! This is supposed to be an hour long massage.. So I tell James they will go over about 20 minutes so we'll be fine!!! We get our massages and it was AWESOME ( The old lady did a GREAT job- BTW)!!!!!! After it is over I look at my clock and its 4:00!!!!! What? Seriously? I tell James I am going to go complain...I walk up to the front desk and pull out my gift card... The lady checking me out asks me how everything was and I kinda hesitate and said "ok"... She said just ok???.. And I said yeah... Well the lady who did my massage was right behind her at the time so I didn't want to say anything then... After she leaves I tell her, "Its 4:00 and we didnt even start our massages until 3:20.. I am not paying for a full hour..". The manager hears me saying this and she says ,"You are right that is unacceptable I am only going to charge you for a half an hour!". YaY us!!! So our 40 minute massages was $50 bucks on my gift card and I still have $47 left on it.. SO looks like I get to go BACK!!!! YES!!!!!!

After our massages we went to tan then caame home and showered up. We watched a movie and went to bed...What a GREAT Saturday! :)