Isn't She Beautiful...

Last week I fell ....

And it hurt soooo bad! I believe I mentioned that I have a problem with my left hip.
Falling on it did not make things better...

A closer look at my reenactment picture. Can you see my pain?? Well, maybe not. HAHA!


For some reason unbeknownst to me my pants have been falling off.
My slip has fallen off in public several times now.
My shorts tried to fall off while I was infront of a group during a presentation.
And now my pants.
The story....

I was chasing my happy go-lucky son,
who is jet packed full of 2.5 year old energy.
At a small yet steep hill outside our back door he decided to sit down.
There I go marching and demanding with the fury of a mother holding her 11 month old.
Yup- and there I go.
Apparently my pants decided to head South for the evening,
and used the bottom of my feet as some type of free-style sled.
I went down so fast I actually saw stars when my HIP hit the ground.
Did you notice how I mentioned I was holding my 11 month old?
I am amazed with how the Lord works when it comes to the survival of my children.
I'm a heavy girl and really could have injured my darling daughter,
but instead hurt myself saving her.
I'll take that pain any day!

Anyway, I saw stars when I hit and kind of blacked out...
but not pass-out black out...just OH MY FREAKING GOSH black out!
Apparently I also screamed!
My back neighbor just stood and stared at me through her screen door.
AWKWARD!!!

In all the drama of me further injuring my hip however;
Aiden kept kissing me better and asking me if I was "okay?"
How can I be mad at that??? :)

So here I am Wednesday about a week later and I'm still in serious pain.
I think though, it's very probable that it's my fault.
Yesterday Rachel and I went on a 6 hour walk into another town.
We wanted to visit a DIFFERENT Fred Meyer and do some grocery shopping.
The walk home was not something we prepared for I'm sad to announce!
I had taken my bike trailer/ double stroller and we ended up loading it up w/groceries.
Apparently there's a reason for weight limits.
HUH. WHO'D-A- THOUGHT??

Walking home was the hardest thing I ever did!
I ended up picking Josh up from work 2.5 hours LATE... HA!
Up a hill the entire time my stroller started breaking down.
No sidewalk, and hardly a shoulder we definitly ticked some drivers off.

And I'm proud to say we just shook our donkey butts the entire time
with smiles on our faces!!! :)

Here's some pictures of us 30 minutes from home.
We are EXHAUSTED.
I'm in PAIN.
And it was just plain banana time!


Rachel and our walking warrior children!
Lilly and Aiden are in my bike trailer.
Ella and Shaylee are in the double stroller.
Bryn and Isaac are crazy amazing kids who make every single one of our walks with us!

Me and the brood of children!

Oh...and let me explain the wetness all over my shirt!...

I swear if this picture gets out and makes it on some other fat blog...

there will be consequences!

Did you get that mister perv who took my picture while I was JOGGING!!!

There. Will. Be. Consequences. -BHUWWAHAHA!

After we got back from our treacherous journey to Mt. Everest (c'mon you have to have a little imagination here!) we had a picnic and then jumped our nasty, grimy, sweaty bodies into a the refreshing goodness of my apartment's bug infested pool. *Ahh- I sighed in relief. It was pure goodness.

I will add that Libby Murrey and several other's honked at us as they drove by! What an exciting feeling to know I have friends out there motivating me even from the comfort of their air conditioned car! Thanks guys!! (Insert cheesy grin here:)

All pictures are property of GOOGLE- I think? LOL!

Next goal: Dairy Queen

Guess what day it is! Yup! It's Friday. Lets find out what I found amusing this week!:
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Now fast forward to a Friday, after school. I've just pulled into the ...hmmm? Elementary school? Wait... 6th grade is now middle school isn't it? Ok ... I've just pulled into the Middle School parking lot with my 2020 HUMMER (shush! My dream- and at least I didn't make it a flying Hummer! HAHA!) I step out of my super cool car with a sway to my hips. A sway that comes naturally I might add! ;) The bell rings and out run hundreds of derranged and excited pre-teens charging their way through the doors, pushing and shoving.

"Hey Mom!" Yells Shaylee coming at me from the left and from the right yells Aiden, "SHOT GUN!!!!"

"Great!" I think rounding up my two monkey's and hearding them back to my fly Hummer. Now to pick up my two younger monsters from the 2nd and 4th grades. (I kind of have to leave this thought open ended seeing as I don't actually HAVE two other children...)

So here are just some other things I'm anticipating:
-the "talk" with both of my children
-puberty. Yes believe it or not I want to see my children grow from awkward adolescence into beautiful people. I don't want to just imagine it, I want to live it.
-girl talk
-sports
-plays
-shopping
-sleepovers
-awkward questions
-MORE CHILDREN!
-Josh and I playing sports with our children
-Josh and I having our 10 year anniversary

I want to own our own home somewhere back in the Columbia Basin. I want to be a part of the PTA and volunteer in my kids classrooms. I want to be the "cool" mom that takes the kids out in the wee hours for goodies.

But most of all... I want to be there. I want to be alive. I want to be healthy and strong. I want to enjoy life with my children. I want to have the good and the bad, just as long as I'm the one that gets to experience it. I want to be happy...

... And the only way I'll get there is by getting this weight off. Heart disease runs through the women on my mom's side of the family. Infact it's a lot closer to "home" than most of us even realize. I don't want to be next, but it's definitly a real possibility if I allow myself to continue indulging in my "crack," ... also known as junk food.

Now that I have drawn my picture, I find I have an actual destination where I'd like my life to go. Once I've met either some or all of my goals I will sit down and once again draw a new picture for myself and my family.

I hope you all do the same as well.

I've always been big into setting goals and achieving them. It helps me steer my life to where I want it to go. Now I'm not saying I always achieve my goals. I am only human after all. HOWEVER- I finally achieved a big goal of mine that I set a year and a half ago. To walk to the grocery store.


I've done the walk to Wal-Mart several times and it no longer holds any difficulty (other than keeping my double stroller from falling completely apart on me!). My big goal though was to go the opposite way down a large busy street near my home. This way looks very daunting, almost a straight shot down large HUGE hills.


To clarify though, it wasn't the walk to the store that I was concerned about. It was the walk back home. Now I can walk down hill all day long with only a slight tightness around my knees and thighs. Walking back UP hill is a completely different story. So when Rachel came over and we took our children out to go on our walk we decided to finally make this dream goal become a reality.

...And this is our journey!

Wednesday July 1st

Me and my babies walking up a hill!

Me and my itty-bitty's!

Not going to lie... Aiden DID try to get run over.

Sad for him he ended up being strapped in for quite a while!

Rachel stretching for the big bad hill...

I had to take a picture cause her knee freaked me out!

HAHA!

So here I am trying to not bust out laughing.

Rachel MADE me take an awkward picture too...