New Beginnings!

Sooo, today has been kind of a blah day. This morning, Justin woke me up to give me a kiss before he left for work, but as soon as I opened my eyes, I had an immediate headache. :( It has been with me all day, so that is the reason for it being super blah..
Other than today though, life has been marvelous! :) All of my summer classes are finished and I have lost 6 1/2 pounds in 2 weeks with weight waters! :) <--- This is the most exciting news in my life right now! I have had such a hard time over the past 2 years with trying to lose weight and I always end up gaining more. I think the reason for this is because, even though I thought I was eating right, I wasn't at all. I never realized how bad things were for me until I started having to track what I eat everyday and realized how bad things are. For instance, mostly everything that you would think is healthy at any restaurant, is uaully the worst for you.. Like at chic fi la, I would think that coleslaw would be healthy just because it has veggies in it.. NOT THE CASE.... coleslaw is the worst side they have on their menu!
Anyway, I am just super excited because I am actually enjoying keeping track of my points and everything I'm eating. It's not nearly as hard as I thought it would be, and I can actually tell that its working. I think another thing that helps this program work is that every week you are being held accountable.. I do NOT want to go to my meetings on Tuesday evenings with my friends and be the only one that didn't lose! It is so exciting for all the girls when they get rewards and reach different goals that are set.
I am a total advocate for weight watchers now, because it actually works!!! :)

Well, this post is continued from yesterday because I forgot to post it!

I woke up this morning and I'm down 2 more lbs from my weight in Monday night! :) I am sooo excited!!

Summer days.

Today, I am sitting in the Mingo County School Board being trained on Foss Kits for use in science classes. I understand that this training looks great on my resume' one day, but it's summer, so it's very hard to get excited about this.. (Especially the drive from South Charleston to Williamson every day!) I have 2 days after today and then im completely finished. :D yay!

So, after this class, summer gets very exciting for me and Justin. Saturday is Addison's first birthday party! I am SO SO SO excited for her! It's going to be a lot of fun. I'm sure the spoiled little princess will get tons of goodies! :) Sunday, Kendra, Bry, Bre, and myself are going to Columbus for the NKOTBSB concert! We will be staying there Sunday night and then heading back monday morning! Then the following Thursday, Justin and I will be going to the Greenbriar Classic in Lewisburg, WV. We are going to see Tim McGraw & Luke Bryan, and then Keith Urban and Miranda Lambert!

Saturday, before the Keith Urban concert, Kaycee is getting married!! :) Yayy! It's going to be so exciting! I'm so happy for her and Casey! On August 5th, Justin and I are going to the beach with my mom, dad, aunt dawn, and hooter! We are going to Ocean Isle! It will be really fun! On August 14th, we will be married for a year!~ An entire year! Yahoo baby!!
August 15th, Justin, Me, Bry, and Seth are going to the State Fair and to see The Band Perry. IT will be graet! I can't wait to see what Justin has planned for our anniversary! :)
I'll post more later!

2 more!

Well, Yesterday, Justin and I went to a place called Creekside Cabins. We decided to go for Valentine's Day, but this coming week we are getting new carpet in the whole house, and Justin's dad is coming down Sunday to help Justin fix the concrete in the basement before we get carpet. So, anyway, we spent the night there and had a blast! :) We didn't really know what to expect, considering it was only about 25 minutes from our house, and we had never been there, but we decided to give it a shot! Here are a few pictures from he cabin and our ride to and from with the pups!

The next pictures are going to be catch-ups from the past two days of non-posting for the Valentine's challenge.

This was my Valentine's gift this year! It is a shadow box that Justin bought and put together for me! These are pictures of a day on our honeymoon when we rode bikes to get crabs and then went back to our condo to eat them! It was a really fun night! The hammers are from the place we bought the crabs! They definately came in handy!

These are pictures of a book that I had made for Justin on http://www.blurb.com/ . It was a really fun and easy gift!

These are Valentine's cards from this year and last year! The one on the left is the one from this year. Obviously, because it says wife on it! I loove the cards that Justin gets me and can't wait to see the rest of them for many years to come!

:)

Have a great Valentine's Day everyone!

Playing catch up again.

Goodmorning everyone! :) I have to do today's post, and yesterday's. Yesterday, I had class, went to eat lunch with Justin at work, came home, and layed down because I had a headache! So, needless to say, I woke up to watch the Biggest Loser, then went back to bed!
Today is my "free day". This basically means that I don't have class or babysitting, so it is the day that I have to catch up on homework, my DVRed shows, and cleaning!

These were cupcakes that I made Justin before we were dating! I had kept his cats for him and I made cat cupcakes for a few other people, so I just made him two that looked like his cats!

This was the scorecard of mini golf from the beach when Justin and I went with his family. I am not going to show the inside, because I would hate to embarrass Justin and show people how badly I destroyed him! :) haha I'm just kidding, but I really did win!

Catch-up blogging!

Well, we had a super packed weekend, which is why I haven't blogged for 3 days! I thought about it all weekend, but just couldn't find the time! Justin's friend, Lyle, came in for the weekend and Friday we went to the Funny Bone comedy club. My friend, Kendra, came with us and it was a really good time! Saturday, we watched the WVU basketball game, went to Justin's church league basketball game, then went to Hooters to watch the UFC fights! :) Kendra calls me a boy for enjoying the fights, but I really just go to eat wings! haha. Sunday, we went to church in the morning, then the dreaded Wal-Mart on the afternoon of the superbowl. We weren't too smart. Anyway, once we finally got home, I had to take an online test, and then started making foood!! :) That is one of my favorite things to do, and I hate to say this, but I forgot to take pictures pretty much the entire weekend, so this is all you get! Sad right? :( Well, I have a few pictures, and I need to update my 14 day reminder of Justin list! I think I posted Friday, so I've got Saturday, Sunday, and today to make up for!
Heerreee we goo.. and at the end of this post, there might even be a few surprises! ;)

This is a note that Justin wrote me right after we started dating. He was in Orlando for their National Sales meeting, and his flights kept getting delayed on the way home because of snow. He wrote me this note on his itenterary from his trip while waiting in the airport! I love looking back at things like this!

I really like this picture because this was the day Justin proposed to me! He was going to propose on the bottom overlook at the New River Gorge Bridge, but once again, due to snow, it was closed. If you look really close, you can see the ring box in Justin's coat pocket. :) I had NO idea. He ended up proposing when we got back to Huntington that night. It was really funny, because when we were walking back to the car from taking this picture, I ran up behind him and tried to put my hands in his pockets. He stopped me very abruptly and kind of actually hurt my feelings, but he was scared I would find the ring. It is a really funny story to tell now, but at the time, I was highly offended! ;) haha

This picture is a picture of a snow milkshake! :) We were babysitting once for a friend last year, and against Justin's will, and better judgement, he let me make milkshakes with the kids from the snow on their back porch. I always wanted to when we were kids, so now that I was the "adult", I was going to make one! I was actually really really fun. This was the little boys. We were also making cookies at the time, so he wanted to put all of the cookie decorations in his milkshake. He wasn't my kid, and I didn't have to stay past his bedtime, so I let him have all the sugar he wanted! ;) haha

Those were the pictures from the last 3 days of the Valentine's challenge my friend, Molli, put on her blog.

So, last week, I was looking around on facebook, and I saw on one of my friend's pages that someone was looking for a home for an abused dog. I looked at the picture and fell in love right away. We wanted to have another dog, but we did NOT want another puppy to have to train. This dog was a year old and already trained, so I asked Justin and he said we could probably get her. I got in contact with the woman who had her, and now we have ABBY! :) She is the sweetest dog in the world. She definately offsets Tyson's crazy self. She lays around and wants to cuddle all the time. As I'm writing this, She is laying on my right side, and Tyson is laying on my left, both sleeping. Here are a couple of pictures of our new Abby-girl! :) 

She is such a sweetheart! I can't imagine a better family dog!  

Day 3! :)

Well, today has been a long day! I had class, came home and took a nap with tyson, went to meet Justin at work, and then we went to get our taxes done at H&R Block. Ugh. it took an hour and a half to get our taxes done! Lammeee!! Anyway, we got all the way home, and I realized that I needed to get laundry detergent to finish all of my laundry, so we went back out to wal-mart! It was a big night for Tyson. Tonight is the first night we have EVER left him out of his kennel while we weren't home! We Tyson-proofed the house as best as we could, and when we got home, NOTHING was torn up! :) Yay! Improvement!

Here is today's picture! This is a picture of last year's valentine's present! Justin got me a very big basket of chocolate covered strawberries! It was AMAZING!!! not to mention that last year ON Valentine's day was when I had my accident on the escalator and couldn't walk for 3 weeks! I think I should post a picture of my knee from last year too!

Story is.... I was going downt he escalator last year and my best friend, Bry, was supposed to be behind me. I turned around and she wasn't there, so I stepped up onto the step above me to see if I could see her and my foot slipped. If you have never looked at an escalator, next time you're on one, LOOK! The steps have super sharp ridges about as far apart as the holes in my knee cap! Anyway, back to the story, I fell on the steps and my knee got super jacked up! It still has calcium deposits on top of my knee cap, but for the most part, it's healed! :)

haha. now I have to go to bed! Goodnight all! I'll be a better blogger tomorrow! :)

Day 2 :)

This is the second day of posting something that reminds me of something Justin has done for me! Today, I picked a napkin that Justin wrote on! This was before we were married and I was going to his house for dinner one evening. He knew that I needed to new lunchbox, but I just couldn't seem to get around to getting one. When I got to Justin's I smelled something that smelled like burning plastic. I walked into the kitchen and Justin had bought me a lunchbox and sat it on the stove. He didn't realize that it was as close to the eye of the stove he had turned on to cook me dinner as it was! It had completely melted the lunchbox, but he wrote me a cute note that was still sitting beside the lunchbox! :)  I love this story!

So, today is the first day of our ladies small group at the hasting's house! :) I'm very excited and I'll let you know how it goes late tonight!