Weekly Chase

Another week has came and gone and we are close to Christmas as well as close to the end of the year....

Last week my goals were:

1-Continue to spend time with the kids. This went pretty well.. did have a few evenings that I felt like pulling  my hair out cause all I was doing was breaking up feuds and constantly saying pick this up do that please eat your dinner....

2- Take a few pics of the boys so I can get photo gifts ordered soon. Well yes and no. I was able to find good photos on my phone as well as camera to work for the collage Christmas card as well as calendars for the grandparents.

3-Get in more fruits and veggies for HBBC Well got more veggies but not more fruits. Did eat a couple bananas I am just not a big fruit person.

4-Workouts would love to get a couple treadmill workouts in. HA HA BIG FAT FAIL.. The kids used the treadmill off and on during evenings this week but by the time I got them in bed and messes cleaned up I was wore out and falling asleep on the couch.

5-Continue with the squat challenge as well as doing my wall pushups when I use the restroom at work. (Not sure how much they help but figure somethings better than nothing) Did good first part of the week. But after working a house fire Tuesday night I was super sore for two days and then one day wore heels (can't do squats in them tried and it don't work) Still managed to get some in each day but fell way behind on the squat challenge.

6-Bring a healthy lunch each day this week. I did pretty good with that all week either brought lunch or got something healthy on my lunch break no fast food lunches of burgers or fries for me :)


Goals for this week:

1-Drink more water I drink at least 80oz a day but would like to up it since I have been having an extra soda now and then.

2-Get workouts in this week would really like to give the T25 videos a try bought them a couple months ago never opened them....

3-Continue to bring healthy lunch daily and to fix healthy dinners at home at night.

4-Wrap all the Christmas gifts not a fitness goal but one that I need to quit procrastinating on.

5-Aim for 55 HBBC points this week have been between 30-50 most weeks I need to get some good workouts in to step it up. I had quite a few points from working the structure fire Tuesday night was out there for 3.5 hours constantly moving carrying hose running hose lines etc.

Christmas Party....

This was my first year attending the Christmas party for the ambulance district I work for. I had heard many many things about the parties some good some bad and well I just wasn't sure I wanted to go. Kenny wasn't really interested in going with me and I really wasn't sure if I wanted him meeting my coworkers for the first time while they were all having to much fun with drinking. I was still on the fence about going and asked one of my good friends if she wanted to attend with me. She knew some of them that would be there and had talked to all of them on the radio since she's a dispatcher for our district.

Party started at 6 and ate dinner soon after. It was very loud as we were crammed in a small room but it was nice seeing everyone outside of work (and in normal clothes lol). Some that are fairly uptight at work were letting lose and having fun which was nice to see a different side of them.

 

 

This was our first picture of the night before we ate dinner and had drinks. The dinner was amazing I should have took a pic but probably would have had some funny looks. We had smoked brisket, smoked turkey and smoked chicken, rolls, corn, baked potato, salad, cole slaw and I think that was all. It was SUPER good the guy who catered it did an awesome job. Lucky for him he is also in ems in a neighboring town so he didn't think we were to wild of a group.

Apparently the EMS people like to party and have a good time... I was still trying to process the party the next day!

 

They had a photo booth set up with all kinds of fun props and the lady posted them all online and you can download for free which is super cool.

 

Amanda and I decided to do the photo booth early (we frequented it again later as well)

Ok so maybe we had a couple drinks by then. The party was a lot of fun we had a dj/karaoke there (no I didn't sing and glad I wasn't asked I would have made a fool out of myself) however I did dance and alot which is rare for me and well I know there was video taken and pics thankfully they haven't ended up on facebook yet.... I am sure I don't dance well compared to some that was out there.

Laurie and I had to get our pic together....

Me and Stephanie. I hadn't seen her much since I partied with her at their wedding reception a year ago. We had a lot of fun dancing and being silly.

This is all but maybe 3 or 4 of my coworkers we took a big group picture that turned out fairly well for it being mid way thru the evening.

The girls of SJAD we were missing 2 I think from this picture. I had always heard EMS is like a big family and well Friday night I saw that and was a part of it, which was nice. I have been there since March and never really felt like I had "fit" in with their group but in the last couple months that has changed and really changed Friday night.

This was closer to the end of the night... I am surprised we got us both in the picture... Most of the people went on to another bar to have an "after" party I opted not to go along. I stayed with a few and our boss and his wife to clean up the place and load all the supplies and left over food up in to the ambulance. I had planned on leaving from there and go straight home but the crew that was still there talked me in to coming to the base for a while to help them unload the stuff. I had quit drinking a while before that and knew I was fine. But they insisted I come by and hang out with them, was very nice that they cared enough to want me to wait a while before driving home.
The next morning I had several texts from people making sure I had made it home ok honestly don't know that I have really ever had that happen before. A lot of time I am the one making sure others got home but it was nice knowing they wanted to be sure I was safe.

I was told this was a MILD party compared to some no one mooned the train (although it was mentioned and we thought about doing it if a train came by). Everyone had fun left all the crap of work at the door and saw the real side of my coworkers. We all see each other for 12,24 or 48 hours at a time in uniform tired wore out stressed from bad calls or so many calls we can't see straight. Was fun to let lose and get to know some of the people I don't work with on a regular basis.



Weekly Chase

Its once again Monday. I have a post about my Ambulance Christmas party from Friday night to post about later.


Last week my goals were:


1- Continue to spend more one on one time with the kids. This one went fairly well. I was home almost every evening with them and we watched tv together and Nathan helped me decorate the tree Saturday. And I took Blake with me Saturday morning to the store to pick out a gift for a bday party sleepover he was attending.

2-Drink my water and keep soda cut back at home and work. I conquered home now to work on having it at work. Did really well on this some days I had none at work and if I did I filled cup all the way up with ice and then soda so it wasn't a full 32 oz of soda.

3-Get in at least 45 points for HBBC this week. Fell short by 2 points but I am ok with that. Got lots of workout with shoveling snow and scraping ice off my car windows at the end of the week still sore from that. Friday night had 3 hours of dancing at the Christmas party which my legs still feel :)

4-Put up our tree and let the kids put their trees up in their room. Strange goal but I know if I don't do it this week I will keep putting it off. Kids decorated their trees on Tuesday and we put the big one up on Saturday. Still needs some work since Nathan hung all the ornaments at his height

5-Not be as stressed and crabby at home with my husband. Still a work in progress but getting better.

6-Work on cooking healthier meals and getting EVERYONE in the house to eat them! Had chicken and turkey a lot this week and the kids ate it. Still need to work with them on trying more veggies.


This week my goals are:

1-Continue to spend time with the kids.

2- Take a few pics of the boys so I can get photo gifts ordered soon.

3-Get in more fruits and veggies for HBBC

4-Workouts would love to get a couple treadmill workouts in.

5-Continue with the squat challenge as well as doing my wall pushups when I use the restroom at work. (Not sure how much they help but figure somethings better than nothing)

6-Bring a healthy lunch each day this week.

Baby Fever......

Last Saturday I took the boys to finally meet April's baby Cash. He was a little over a month old. I have seen him twice since he was born but the kids hadn't. I of course hadn't told them I had seen and held him before them either... Nathan had been confused when he saw April last she was pregnant and he told her to get the baby out so he could see it. Well the look on his face when we walked in and she saw her holding the baby was so cute. Blake understood about babies being in mommys tummy then being born from when I was pregnant with Nathan. But this was a first for Nathan and he kept asking to pet him....

The boys took turns holding Cash and playing with the John Deere toys. I even go to hold him for quite a while.

 

 

Blake had fun holding him and wanted to take him home with us.

 

Nathan said he was squirmy and hard to hold on to.

But a few minutes later wanted to hold him again.

Nathan wanted to take a picture of me holding Cash. Not to bad other than he cut half of me out lol....

The boys enjoyed their visit and getting to meet Cash. Both wanted to know when we could babysit him so they could spend more time with him. Holding him made me briefly want another baby but then I had to get on to the boys for being loud and rough with each other and that feeling went away :) I am glad to have friends that are having babies that I can hold and spoil.

 

 

 

A day of fun with the kids....

I was lucky enough for our office to he closed on Friday and wasn't scheduled to work at the ambulance. I had been thinking for quite awhile about taking the boys to Chuck E Cheese... Found some coupons online a week or so ago that were about to expire so I decided Friday would be a great day to go. I was worried there would be lots of people there with school being out and parents off work for the holiday. We had to drive a little over an hour to Colombia and the kids thought it was a super long drive and we would never arrive. I was a bit nervous taking the boys alone especially if the place was packed but forged ahead anyway. Blake has been there once when he was Nathan's age. 

We arrived around 11 and was glad to see and empty parking lot!!! We went in got our pizza ordered got the drinks and tokens. Told the boys that they couldn't play games until they ate... So while we waited they looked around to what they wanted to play and do first. 

They were mesmerized by all the games 

Nathan had to ride this one several times. Then both boys realized if they played certain games they got tickets and could cash them in on prizes. 

While we were there a friend of mine stopped by to visit.. Was so great to see Bethany after so many years. We text and email often so it was nice to talk face to face!! Next time ill have to plan my trip to Colombia in advance and find a nice day and meet at a park to let the kids play! 

We stayed for several hours and finally ran out of tokens. 

He loved the horse riding game. 

Of course all the prizes they wanted were way more tickets than they had earned.. So they got a couple bracelets a whistle and book marks. 

It was a fun trip stress free while there... The drive to and from was filled with he's looking a me mom he's bugging me and are we there yet ;) but I am very glad I got to spend that time with the boys doing something fun. The whole rest of the weekend they talked about chuck e cheese. 

Weekly Chase

Last week I got back in to doing the weekly chase and linking up with the other lovely bloggers that do this every week as well. Its so nice to read other peoples goals and very motivating to strive to do more and achieve more each week.

My goals from last week were:

1-Not stress over cooking a huge meal on Thursday I have the menu planned out in my head and it doesn't require to much prep work. I did so so with this.... It ended up being quite a bit of work but thankfully one of my bestest dearest friends showed up early on Thursday and helped me finish it up. I am not usually one who accepts help in the kitchen but she knows me well enough to know how to just jump in and help without stressing me out more :) Love friends like that!

2-Continue to cut soda out at home. Did good with that as well. I think I maybe only had on or two at home the whole week.

3-Aim to get at least 50 points in the HBBC challenge this week. I will take a lot of work on my part but I want to hit that number badly. Really wasn't sure this would happen and exercise had to come at short little bits that added up over the day but ended the week with 51!

4-Continue spending time with the kids and finding things they can help me with for Thanksgiving Dinner. Have a couple blog posts later but Friday I took the kids to Chuck E Cheese and then Saturday took them to a friends house to see her new baby. One night I laid in bed with Nathan and watched the movie Planes and then Saturday night Blake laid on the couch with me watching a show he wanted to see on tv.

5-Not let things get to me so easy.. let it go in one ear and out the other. I know this week will be a hard week emotionally for both Kenny and I. I made it thru Thanksgiving with no major meltdowns but had a rough evening Friday and yesterday at work tested me quite a bit but still managed to make it without being over stressed and upset.

Goals for this week:

1- Continue to spend more one on one time with the kids.

2-Drink my water and keep soda cut back at home and work. I conquered home now to work on having it at work.

3-Get in at least 45 points for HBBC this week.

4-Put up our tree and let the kids put their trees up in their room. Strange goal but I know if I don't do it this week I will keep putting it off.

5-Not be as stressed and crabby at home with my husband.

6-Work on cooking healthier meals and getting EVERYONE in the house to eat them!

Thanksgiving.

We had a good thanksgiving day and dinner at our house. We ended up with 10 adults and our two kids. A nice mix of family and close friends. Both of my grandmas were there which was nice not to often that I get to see both one from my dads side and the one from my moms side. They have known each other longer than I've been alive and enjoyed catching up with each other. 

We cooked our turkey on the grill yum. 

I made all the food except the sweet potatoes and pumpkin pies. It was a late night and early morning but I pulled it off with no major meltdowns or to much stress. 

Part of the food. 

I made a chocolate banana cake which ended up being really good it was a spur of the moment concoction. 

Both of my grandmas. I have a good pic of my grandma in the yellow shirt with the boys watching a movie on my camera. 

We ate and sat at the table and talked for a long time was very very nice. Nathan got quiet and I found him like this. 

Think he was wore out :)