Day 28 photos!!!

I just want to give a few Thanks in this blog...

• I want to Thank God for always loving me no matter where I am and always forgiving me when I am not taking care of the life he gave me. I also want to Thank him for my health. 

• I want to Thank my husband who works so hard for me to get to stay home with the children and for supporting me in this journey to the new me!!

• I want to Thank all my supporters and followers.  If you know me you know how much all the likes and comments and questions have helped keep me on track. Having all you to hold me accountable has made all the difference in my success. Keep it up I need it. If you don't have an accountability partner...Call me!!

• And I have to give a shout out to my baby girl Josalyn...She was my photographer in all my Before photos. I didn't have a smart phone yet so we used her Ipod. She did good didn't she.

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Tips for running with kids!!!

One of the hardest things for me is working out with children. 

So I have added a few tips that I think will help you because they help me.

First, 

Water!!!

Second.... TOYS for each kid. 

Sharing causes unnecessary fighting and is distracting to your workout.

Third...

The above snacks are healthy and entertaining. 

They have to work to eat both.

The peanuts... 

if the shells fall on the ground unlike plastic do not hurt the environment 

and 

you do not have to stop your workout to pick them up. 

(Be careful with small children since peanuts are a choking hazard.)

The banana...

is the same way but I would pick up the peeling because it looks ugly on the ground 

but in the event they sneak in a litter on you..

you are in the clear. 

Fourth....

Water bottle for hydration

Gloves for cold hands because it is easier to stick with it if you are comfortable.

Headphones to pump up your workout!!!
Apps I recommend are FITRadio and 10K for Pink

And a good safe place to run.

Last but not least...

Rewarding the kids with feeding the ducks at the pond... 

Additional bonus....

cleaning out pantry of unneeded food in our new healthy eating lifestyle.

Working out with children can be challenging but it can be done.

Trust me if I can make it work anyone can.

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15 things you probably don't know about ME!

1) I can not stand wood!!! You know picnic tables, wooden handled knives, that part of a pencil that doesn't have the paint on it!! 2) I did not want boys!!! 3) I only agreed to have a boy for my husband because he wanted a boy(right now you are thinking I didn't have a choice but you don't know me. I have Jedi powers!!) 4) I am so happy I had a boy. He has been one of the greatest gifts I have ever received. 5) I learned to water ski when I was 5 and I was in the ski club. 6) I can play the trumpet. 7) I can not sing...at all.. unless you ask my kids and they love it. 8) I have always wanted a horse and I went to college to study them and they scare me. 9) I hate change unless it is making me or someone else better. 10) I go to the same vacation spot with the same amazing people every year at the same time and I have never missed a year even if it meant being enormous and pregnant and against doctor's orders. They deliver babies everywhere. 11) I got carjacked and kidnapped in Raleigh in 2002. 12) I never moved one time in the first 18 years of my life but I have moved 12 times in the last 18. 13) I have had four babies all were induced all were without epidurals and all were earlier than their due date(I was not staying pregnant any longer than I had to be... again I have Jedi powers). 14) I can read that tiny story on your driver's license without a magnifying device of any kind. The one that is in the front bottom left hand corner. (Yes there is a whole story there..) 15) I love to fish and I will bait my own hook but I will not take this fish off. Once at the beach I fished on the pier beside a guy I didn't know and still don't know. He was catching as many fish as he could as was keeping them. So I stood beside him and caught them and he took them off and put them in his bucket. One of the best working relationships I have ever had.

Time flies when you are having fun!

This is another milestone in my babies are growing up... My baby can reach the light switch. So sweet but so sad. I am so blessed to not miss these moments but at the same time I want to hold my ears when I hear that little voice say,"No mommy, I'll get it!!" and he does. I have always tried to teach my kids how to do things and ask them to try before I jump in and do it for them. I want them to be independent and ready to face the world when it is their turn to go out in it. I just want to slow down how long it takes that time to get here. It seems more these days that I get needed less and less since the baby is almost three (July). The saving grace is that I am still needed in a lot of places: "Mom, will you help me clean up?", "Mom, will you find my shoes?", "Mom, I can't find silly girl!!!",  "MMOOOOMMM, she kicked me!", "MOOOOMMM, Noah is in the ______!!!" (Fill that in with anything and everything because I am sure he has been in it.), "Mom, Will you hold me?" (which is what I am getting to do right now as I type this so bear with the typos). So the fun never stops around here. I would not want to miss this for the world. I just want to say if you have never had the opportunity to be a stay at home parent you should Do IT!!!! If you don't have that opportunity make the most of the time you have. Take a lot of pictures they grow up so fast and if you are the main picture taker in the family makes sure you stop and takes some of yourself. You don't want to look back over the last 20, 40, 60 years and realize you are not in any of them. Take time to slow down. All the toys and clothes and dishes can wait....One day it will just be you and there will be no toys to pickup and how many clothes and dishes can one person wear. 

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Josalyn and Noah's loft bed....

We cleaned the room....

We built the frame.....

Stay tuned for more additions....

Noticing change one jump at a time...

I have a little brag on me story to tell but for you to understand my excitement I have to give you a little back story. I will try to make this short. After I had my third child I am became a full time mom because my awesome husband works really hard so I stay home. Well before that I had a job that allowed me to stay active and I worked out. I was in pretty good shape. At my fifteenth month of not working and strictly "life guarding" children I had my fourth child. Six weeks after birth I got the all clear to workout and I quickly realized I could not even do a jumping jack, you know that exercise that all elementary school kids can do forever. I could not even get my feet to lift off the carpet for the jumping part. I was way out of shape. Jump forward to last night at the Y, two weeks after I committed to Les Mills Combat training. I jumped up to block the ball because when you played back in the day you brain doesn't forget what to do. Even if your body can't do it!! And guess what? I blocked it... I really blocked it! My feet lifted off the ground enough to allow my hands to go above the net which is approximately 7' 8 1/4" tall. Now that people is amazing. I was so shocked I barely remembered I had to recover the ball. I had only been doing the workout for two weeks. Two weeks and I can jump like that. I can't wait to see what happens when I get to week four. I am so excited about my progress that I am going to race my children this weekend to see if I am any faster. New goal....be able to outrun my children because two weeks ago I could not do that either. If you want to join me in my progress and have a story to tell of your own go to Jill's Health and Fitness page and like my page and send me a message. I would love to support you in your journey and have you on my team.

It is none of my business....

I recently went to a friend's funeral who died too young. This friend was funny, nice, friendly, well dressed, and drove a nice car. Once he died some people went to help clean out his house to find it was in a mess. He was I guess what most would call a hoarder. I would call it depressed but maybe it was both. No one knew his house was this way. Not his coworkers or his close friends. You would have never known. It was so sad to me because nobody knew. He was sick and died before he turned fifty and maybe just maybe he died from a broken heart. He had had a lot of rough patches in the last half of his life. I just wonder if he would have had someone ask or inquire could it have made a difference.