The (WAY late) Easter Post.

I know, I know.. Easter was last weekend. Better late than never, right?

We had a pretty good little Easter, nothing to crazy. Saturday we took the kids to an Easter Party/Egg Hunt at Lackland AFB with Ro's parents and their cousins. They had a DJ, dance floor, tons of food, and the Easter Bunny even made an appearance! We managed to get a photo of him and Sylas, but Cash wasn't having it. Oh well, pick your battles. Best part, they gave away mass amounts of cheesy popcorn! SCORE! We ended up coming home with 2 bags and a box full of cheesy popcorn goodness! Yesss, *fat kid dance*

Easter Sunday, we just went over to the SIL's and spent the day with the whole family. She had BBQ, another egg hunt, and a whole lotta wine. It was good times.

Here's the proof in photos!

Lackland AFB

Cousins!                                                            Egg Hunter                 

 

Ro's parents dressed the boys that day btw....

 

Cool chin sticker dude                            Lovins from Daddy

 

Gramma and Cashy made Sylas his own customized visor

 

 Yeah those shorts were a little tight...                         Rather eat than dance

 

                     'What the.....????' 

Easter Sunday at Tia's

Ro does his best impression of a potato 

Mucho better

 

My Easter outfit

 

Daddy and Sylas, in the cutest little vintage romper EVER

Our 1st Easter as a family of four

 Hydrating for the hunt

Found one! 

"Dare! Eggzzz!!"

 

 

 

 

 

Hope y'alls Easter was grand!

xo, L

Wednesday Woes

So here's whats got me down folks… The mister and I started a pretty big life change about 2 and a half weeks ago. We started running 2 miles every day, we became more conscious about what and how much  we were eating, and we entirely cut out regular soda (gasp!) from our diet. Anyone who knows us, knows how much we both LOVE soda. I really really do. Drink of choice, hands down, is a coke, on the rocks, with a straw. But, those days are over. We both were so tired of not being happy with how we look. Me especially I think. Since having Sylas, Ive been in complete disgust of my body and have let it ruin parts of my life. Ive developed social anxiety, I'm forever uncomfortable in my skin, and I get edgy and uneasy around people. I found myself avoiding going out in public, or socializing at all because of this intense self loathing and self consciousness. Its ridiculous, I know, but I cant help it. So, instead of being a victim of insecurities, I decided I needed to DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT! And as soon as I started, it kicked Ro into gear and he joined me. So that’s exactly what we’ve been doing. At first the running was brutal. I was SO out of shape and we both spent the whole first week sore as hell. The second week, the soreness went away, the run got easier, and we both started feeling a little bit better of ourselves. The end of each week was an accomplishment! We’d tell anyone who’ll listen how we run 2 miles every day. It became such a great start to every day. At the beginning of the second week, I took measurements of my body so a week later when I re-measured, I could see the results for myself. I lost 5 whole inches!! In only ONE week! I was ecstatic, and honestly say I felt smaller. Everything was going great. But then, the second Friday of running I started getting some pretty severe knee pain. So I figured, after resting the weekend, Id be fine by this Monday. And after seeing my measurement results, I was stoked to start running again! Monday came around, and I could tell just getting out of bed that my knees were still sore. But I ran anyway, with pain in every step. By the end of the run the pain was pretty intense and persisted for the rest of the day. I couldn’t even move my knees without severe pain, let alone walk on them. That night I ended up having to take pain meds since, even at rest, my knees throbbed. So yesterday I decided I definitely needed to rest them again. This sucked! Here I was, losing 5 inches in a week from this running, accomplishing my main goal in life right now, because of this awesome source of cardio, and now I cant do it anymore. My body just wont let me! I did some research and am pretty sure I developed a pretty bad case of Runner’s Knee. No bueno. So yesterday I mowed the front and back lawn instead of running, and at the end I really felt like it was an equivalent workout, but my knees were still killing me. And that brings us to today. Knees are still too sore to run, so I skipped it AGAIN. I'm friggin pissed at this point. I just want to run and get in shape and feel good about myself! But my body will not let me. *lesigh. That, plus Ive got a wisdom tooth that has been KILLING me lately, but I don’t have insurance or the cash to take care of it right now, so I'm stuck. Stuck with  throbbing tooth and knees,  and a big fat ass that I cant work out to get rid of.

The mister says we can invest in some craigslist bikes and start biking instead of running, which is awesome, but we have to wait a week or two to get some since right now we’re saving all our money for Reggae Fest in Austin next weekend. The in laws are gonna keep the boys all day and overnight so we can go! I'm SO stoked. But id hoped to lose some more poundage before! My plan now is to go to Walmart today and pick up Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred. Maybe if I do this instead of running for 30 days, I’ll lose enough weight so that running is easier. If not then we’ll start biking! Bottom line, I'm not giving up. I may be side lined today (which I feel like complete shit about) BUT tomorrow is another day and now that Ive seen what this change is doing for my body, I'm DETERMINED to continue. I want to get all the way down to my pre-Cashy weight, and I know this is how to do it!

Thanks for listening to me whine, and Happy Hump Day y'all!

Xo, L

Ps. Easter blog to come later today J

*Thift Store Scores* : Kansas Edition

Happy Friday yall! Ive decided to kick my Friday morning into gear by posting, as promised, my thift store scores from our Kansas Vaca! (and even some things I didnt get and wish I would have).

 The Salvation Army in the little town in Kansas where my mom lives was the Holy Grail of vintage sheets and blankets. I snagged two blankets (top), a set of pillow cases (bottom left), and 3 sheets (bottom right) that Im hoping to make into curtains for the house.

THIS. Ive been looking for one of these for quite some time, so of course I snagged it right off the wall... for $1 (!!!) 

 Cute little wall hanging that currently resides in my kitchen.

I honestly could not believe it when I spotted these hand painted, wooden Matryoshkas. So amazing, and only $2!

Little owl to add to my collection.

 Cash got to pick one toy, and he's REALLY into the alphabet and counting right now so this was perfect!

 And lastly, the big daddy purchase of the trip, my perfect condish, $40 vintage sofa that I could NOT leave Kansas without purchacing. I found her on our second day in Kansas and could not shut up about her the entire trip. It was love at first sight. I honestly thought I was going to have to pass her up, since we had no way to get her back to Texas, BUT my dad had told me he was planning a trip to KS this summer, so I called him to see if he'd be able to pick it up from my moms while he was here and bring it back to Texas for me. And he said yes (!!!), and my mommy even bought it for me and stored it in her garage. I could not be more excited about this couch. We are so desperately in need of a new (old), sturdy, comfortable couch, and she meets- nay, excells in all these catagories. I cannot wait to finally get her down here and settled into our home.

  And lastly, some things I am kicking myself for not getting...

 These cannisters.... I found these on my last day in KS. I REALLY loved them and wanted to snag them, but couldnt justify spending $6 on them, when I already have an overabundance of cannisters at home. But when I showed the picture to the mister, he loved them too, so we planned to swing by the Goodwill on our way out of town... but they were closed. :( So we didnt get them. Such a bummer.

 

I know, I know... I totally should have gotten this little gem, but Cash had already gotten his alphabet desk and Im pretty sure he wouldnt have played with this too much, since all it did was open the cash register when you turn the handle... so I chose the learning toy.

These three things were at the Salvation Army, and both the clock and the brown leather chairs were a bit over priced, and the yellow floral chairs had rips in the seat and were wobbly, so I opted out. In retrospect, I really wish we would have budgeted a little lot more for thrifting. I would have LOVED to take those brown chairs home!

Welp, thats all for now.

Hope yall have a great weekend!

xo, L

Sylas is 5 months old!

I cannot believe it. My baby is five whole months old. Only one month away from being HALF a year old! Unreal. We are seeing more and more of his personality every day. He is such a happy baby. Very observant, has to be able to see whats going on, especially what his big brother is up to and thinks he's the bee's knees. Still laughs histarically while being changed, so we think he must be uber ticklist like his momma. He loves his jumparoo, watching cartoons with Bubba, and just about the only think we've found that makes him vere from his delightful disposition, is baths. He hates them and creams bloody murder the entire time. Hopefully this is just a phase, I'd hoped hed be a little water baby like Cashy, and even I was when I was a baby. But besides that, he's a pretty fantastic little dude. I could spend hours snuggling and making goo-goo eyes at eachother, and I miss him every second Im away from him. I never thought my heart was capable of loving anything as much as I love Cash, but boy was I wrong. And how could I not, I mean look at him...

Right?!

Anyway, at his appointment last week he weighed in at a whopping 19 pounds and 25.5 inches long!!

See...

 Im happy to report that he's healthy as a horse!

Sadly, he did have to get 3 shots, but he took them like a little man and only cried for a second.

And lastly, I'll leave you with these. Its such a rarity to be able to capture these two together in a photo, especially a good one, so I couldnt be happier with these. 

xo, L