Fort Bragg Came Too Fast!

Well I skipped a workout today because I do believe I hurt my back. I'm gunna give myself another day an then get to it :) hopefully I'll be able to run tomorrow cause I need to clear my head.

So much has gone on in the last 12hrs I wish I could have skipped today.
To start out I woke up and called on a house in NC since we are moving in 6wks I wanted to see if they could hold this house for me. Well turns out they could, I was so excited then got off the phone with them and my husband. calls me and says we either move before he leaves to Airborne school (on the 27th of this month) or try to get everything done when he comes home (dec 19th) and fight the holiday hrs. So we decided to move before not thinking about thanksgiving holiday, and turns out we will be moving without my husband on the 20th of this month!!!! So not only do I not get to see my husband for 3wks for him to go to training, I have to leave a week earlier and not spend thanksgiving with my husband and move into a house with only my moms help! :( and I was even more upset because I am leaving my best friends, I have met the greatest ladies here and surprisingly this is the first time in my life that I have gotten along with so many women! Thankfully my bestie is inviting me to have Jennikas birthday party at her house since I deff want my daughter to have the greatest party ever with all her friends! I have a feeling I will be coming to Campbell a lot since I will miss everyone way too much, I cried when I told Erica and Katelyn I was leaving a month earlier than expected, and am crying as I'm writing this. Being in the army has its perks and one of them is meeting awesome women who are in the same shoes as you, we marry a man who's schedule is so unpredictable you can hardly plan anything (which me being a huge planner doesn't help much) and they leave for weeks, months, and years, they fight for ours and your freedom, we move every few years, and when we meet women that we get along so well with at the first moment you meet them you never want to leave, never in my life would I have thought I would meet someone and instantly have a connection that makes you think you have known them for years! I was so sad to leave my friends at ft Lewis but grateful I had more time to spend with them, we have been here since march and are already leaving. :( I know the 20th is going to be a water works kind of day just like Feb 9th 2011 was. Not looking forward to leaving but I am thankful I am somewhat of a short drive away so I can visit with everyone I have met here. jennika has made so many great friends and I know she is going to be so bored in NC for the first few months. I hope I can meet some awesome ladies there as well.

Today was such a long day I am going to pass out early. Hope everyone else had a better day than I did. Thanks Katelyn and Erica for letting me vent all day long :)

Ashley.

I Did Not Slack, I Promise!

I didn't blog last night cause well I forgot. But I didn't skip my workouts either (I learned my lesson with 200 jumping jacks)! Yesterday was a busy day. I enjoyed the company of Jennika's friend Jack, and his mommy Katelyn for a bit! Then I baby sat for my friend Denise! My neighbor even came to hang out for a but :) I did a workout while all three girls were napping and Katelyn and I went to the gym! I got just over a mile done on the elliptical and two miles on the bike! Came home and did my workout :) it was a very good but busy day!

Today I woke up at 5, well Ruth woke me up at 5 I let her lay in her crib til 6 since she was still acting sleepy but she was wide awake by six. Which is fine of she would just wake up at 6 for some reason 5 is just too dang early to get up. So I'm gunna get a workout in and then Katelyn and I are starting C25K and we are sticking to it!!!! Since its too dark by time my hubs gets home he won't be doing it with me :(

I am been doing my workouts for a week now and have not seen a change on the scale which normally would discourage me A LOT but I feel a lot more energized and love not spending money to eat fast food. :) I am 7 days into my 21 day challenge and I feel great! I just hope I start to see a change in the scale soon. I know with the C25K I will hopefully start to see something! :)

Have a great day!!!

Ashley!

Going To Be Sore Tomorrow!

What a busy day! I got Christmas shopping done for my nieces and nephews, got Jennikas ideas narrowed down and I have no clue what to get Ruth! But time will tell when I become the crazy person that is shopping black friday!

I failed to do a workout last night and this morning so I punished myself and made myself do 4 sets! That's 200 sit ups!!!!! Man will I be sore tomorrow. The jumping Jack's are still kicking my butt but I can now do all 50 without stopping! Yay me!

This is a short one tonight cause I am exhausted. Hope you had a great day!

Ashley!

What a Lazy Day!

Today was a lazy day. Not lazy in the words that I didn't do my workout cause I am proud to say I did :) but lazy in the fact that I was in pjs all day and didn't step foot outside! The girls were in pjs all day as was my husband. Today was the first day we started to spread out Ruth's eating times and she did great! And she also fell asleep to both naps and bedtime alone! This is a huge step for us since I LOVE to cuddle her and snuggle her until she is asleep. I did that with Jennika until she was a year old but I figured I will stop with Ruth sooner since whenever Ruth falls asleep on me I just wanna sleep too and I never get anything done around my house when i do that haha.

I also attempted to make my own tortillas. They are super tasty but I'm pretty sure I can't roll a burrito with them haha. I need to work of shaping them! This is the first thing I have made from scratch and I plan to make much more. :) I am feeling like Betty Crocker.

My husband is an awesome supporter in the whole getting me back into shape I am so thankful to have him pushing me to do more. I noticed this morning that I would get to the last 2 of each workout and I would continue to do more because I didn't feel the burn! I find this amazing because I normally stop when I feel the burn or when I have done what I am told to or planned to. My biggest struggle is jumping jacks. I'm not sure why but those things kick my butt every time. I am getting better at my plank but my muscles are still weak. The real challenge for me will be getting back to running. I am glad my husband will be here to push me the first 3. Weeks but then he will be gone and I will be forced to push myself. I know I will succeed and when I go to Cali to see my mom I want to be able to show her that i finally did what I have been complaining about for years.

Lastly thanks for reading this. This so far has kept me going with working out cause I can just share how I feel and what problems I have. And even though I know you aren't directly telling me to go work out I feel like I have to since I started this. That is one of the main reasons I started blogging so I can force myself to keep up with everything. So thanks. :) I come on to write my next post and see all the views I got and it just inspires me even more!

Ashley.

Getting Into The Grove Of Things!

Day 3 complete!

What a long but awesome day! I started the day with my workout :) must do that every day it really gave me the energy i need to make it thru the day! My baby girl had her 4 month check up, she is getting so big! 11lbs 12oz, 2 feet tall, Doctor says she is ahead of the game and doing awesome, healthy as can be! She had her shots and did great until they were over, she was laughing and talking until they were finished and i said ok all done and she screamed, but only for a second, once i picked her up she was perfectly fine. Jennika got to play with her friend Jack, i am so thankful to have the Davis family to help when i need them :)

Then a busy day of errands and shopping with my neighbor! I am pretty sure Jennika is sick of traveling around! She hates being in stores and for that reason we are spending a nice lazy weekend in doors. I must get my girls back on track with their schedules, and Ruth needs to be on her strict schedule again. I need to get her sleeping all night again. Welp, Off to do my work out :) weird that I'm getting into the grove of working out daily, can't wait for Monday! Hubs and I start the C25K! :)

Ashley

Day 2 Of The New Me!

Well it's day 2 and I was proud of myself for doing my workout. It consists of:
50 sit ups
25 leg lifts
50 bicycle legs
25 squats
15 sumo squats
50 calve raises
100 arm circles (50 each side)
15 push ups
50 jumping jacks
And a 1 min plank.

WOW is it a workout! Each week I will be adding 10 to each and 30 seconds to the plank. This morning I woke up and could barely walk down the stairs my calves were so sore! But my wonderful husband is pushing me to do it every night and starting Monday we will be starting the couch to 5k. I am very excited to be able to get into shape with my husband by my side. And also Jennika hahaha she is so cute. Today while I was doing my sit ups she sits on my hips and says "come on mom up mom." she is deff my motivation as well! She also does jumping jacks with me. I am so glad to be able to show a healthy life style for my girls. I have been really good and have not had fast food, soda, or anything with fructose corn syrup. Which are big things in the world this day in age so I am proud of myself! Tomorrow is day 3 and I am planning on doing my work out set twice. Once in the morning while John is home for breakfast and at night before bed. I feel great and am so excited to see some results!

Hope you had a great day! Thanks for reading!

Ashley

The Start Of The NEW Me!

What a week! NY was AWESOME! It was a wonderful experience to be there and share it with my girls and my Mom. It was very emotionally overwhelming to visit the 9/11 Memorial site. To know that 10 years ago that area was a bunch of rubble and thousands of people were killed there, and thousands more in the ten years, all i wanted to do was cry. To see all the roses, pictures, and letters on some names of Husbands, Wives, Sons, Daughters, Sisters, Brothers was heartbreaking. To know that my husband and many of my friends and family have been over seas to fight for what happened and even more emotional to know that a year ago my brother was killed in that war, it was all overwhelming. I was so glad to be able to experience it. My Mom and I got a tattoo and NY Ink! WOW what an experience! They were taping for their next season and it was so neat to see everyone, meet them, have normal life conversations with them, and just be there! We both had so much fun! The girls were awesome! Jennika didn't have once accident, and LOVED the M&M world and the HUGE Toys R Us! Ruth was up all night every night but she did great throughout the day! We wrapped up our trip in the first snow storm of the season! My mom turned 50! (she defiantly doesn't look it) Our flight was canceled so i had to buy a whole new plane ticket, but i was so glad to be home!


Halloween was awesome! Jennika was a cupcake fairy, and Ruth was a little cupcake, we got to enjoy the first bit of trick or treating with the Davis family then went trick or treating with the Raddatz family, I only went for a little bit because Ruth wasn't enjoying it so i can home to pass out candy to all the little princess' and monsters! Jennika came home shortly after me and had so much fun with her Daddy! Nana got to take lots and lots of pictures and we ended the day with Jennika running around the house screaming " GO GO GO" (she had a little too much candy, considering she hasn't had more that a few M&Ms a day!) Over all i wouldn't change the day for anything I was so happy to have my Mom here and my husband. :)

Today is Nov 2nd and my Mom leaves. :( However I start a new me today. going to be working out with the husband in the morning and at night, and getting back to doing the C25K program. I will be starting doing my own little work outs throughout the day and I also have started to cut out Fast food, candy, chocolate, soda, tea, coffee (oh boy I've grown to love it the past month since i have been going and going non stop), chips, white foods, and adding lots more fruits and veggies! I will be hoping to blog everyday to get my frustrations out and hopefully keep myself on track! I have told my husband that i am to work out with him no matter what if i tell him i already did something today he is told to force to me do a workout with him! it is going to be a rough week with trying to get into the swing of things but i am SO ready to get all this fat off me!!!!!!

As of this morning i have not worked out but am going to as soon as i am done here. I have taken my supplements which includes ItWorks greens, vitamin, and metabolism booster. I have heard so many great things about ItWorks and i have done their wraps myself and it deff worked!

I hope you all have a wonderful day! I am off to do a little workout!


Ashley