Christmas in Newfoundland!!!

We are in Newfoundland for Christmas!!

 

In a little town called Port aux Choix, my husbands home town

 

It was a 6 hour drive, a 5 hour boat ride than another 5 hour drive to get us here but we are here!!

 

 

 

Our truck was loaded down with "luggage" ....

 

The girls were snuggled up comfy in the back seat for the long drive



The was tons of no fighting!! lol

 We got a cabin on the boat because we got the night crossing, and I tell you it was worth every penny!! The cabins are super small but have 4 very comfy bunks,satalite tv, and  a washroom with a shower

 

 

We have been here 5 days already!! I have lots more things to post about our trip!! Stay tuned!!

hair....and other beauty things

 

 

 

http://www.thesmallthingsblog.com/2012/12/holiday-hair-tutorial-swept-to-side.htmlholiday hair!


Its getting to that time of year again, holiday parties and get togethers, with family, staff parties and  friends, or even just wanting to look extra nice for Christmas church services!

I know I always have a hard time finding a nice way to do my hair that is different from the every day hairstyles I wear.

Not everyone has the time or money to go and get their hair proffessionally done at a hair salon, I know I always dont!


Pinterest to the rescue again!!

I have found some really cute, hairstyles on there, and this one here is one I will be trying this holiday season!

 

Super Cute!!

 

 

If you are looking for makeup tips, pinterest is definitly the place to go!

 

You can check out my Make-up inspired Pinterest board here

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday, Monday....

It sure is Monday......

It's raining, and dark, and gloomy

 

So much for the snow we had on the weekend....its not feeling like christmas anymore.....its feeling more like spring!

 

Yep It sure is monday!!

 

We had a very productive/busy weekend!

 

I love productive/busy weekends!

 

Does anyone else feel that your weekend sets the tone for the following week? I know it sure does for me. If I have a lazy weekend of lounging and not getting a whole lot of stuff accomplished, then that tends to be how my week will play out.....and by thursday I am cranky of all the time I wasted and and all the extra things that now need to be done!

 

But if I have a productive/busy weekend, the week just seems to go a lot smoother!

 

Maybe its starting the week off with a clean(ish) house, and empty laundry room that makes the week go by better.....

 

Or maybe its just me and my quirky ways.....

 

Do you know that I CAN NOT put laundry away unless the bedroom it is being put away in is clean?? Seriously.....I just cant!!

 

What did we get accomplished this weekend you ask? Well let me tell you!! lol

 

I have been wanting to re-vamp our entry way hallway for sometime now, and I have been searching (and pinning ;) ) looking for something that would work.....well alast I have found it!!

 

Board and Batten!!

 

This is my original inspiration....

 

and then these for little tweeks!

 

 

 

 

Boy oh Boy is that pinterest the best thing since sliced bread!!!

 

This is the before of our entry way hallway

 

Boring and bland....

 

 

 

 

Of course what is a project without a dance party to kick it off??!!

Kiki Baby aka boss woman overseeing production... and hubba hubby 

 

 

Ok who gave her the hammer?!?!



 

Finshed product will be revealed a little later!!

 

 

We also spent some time at the rink, Princess had a game saturday night and one sunday night....both away games.

 

 

 

 

 

Mini-Me cheering her big sister on!!

 

 

 

And of course we wouldn't leave home with out baby!!

 

 

 

My hockey girly!!

 

They lost both games.....but sure played their hearts out!!

 

 

 

1st snowfall

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!!

I woke up to snow this morning!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am so excited for Christmas this year!!

 

We are going to my husband's hometown, in Northern Newfoundland!!

 

It has been 5 years since we have even been there!!!

 

His family know how to celebrate the holidays!!! Family, Music (they all play instruments) and Food!!!

 

I am so excited that my girls will have this memory of Christmas spent with that side of the family!

 

Last Christmas was very quiet and boring, as we spent it with my family.....they sure dont know how to have a good time!! lol

 

The countdown is on...... 19 more sleeps til we leave for Newfoundland!!!



I am back!!

 

 

 

When I started this blog, it was to get as many followers as possible.....I wanted to be one of those people...lol

 

But I quickly ran out of things to blog about, or time to blog about things.

 

So now I have decided to just blog, so that I have a diary of sorts of my families day to day life.

 

So to catch you all (all 6 of my faithful followers), and so I know too...

 

Here is my instagram of my last year!

 

 

 

 

*You can make collages at picmonkey.com!!

 

 

You can go here to view all my instagrams

Weigh in Day

Hi Dolls!

Today is my official weekly weigh in day.

I am down 4 pounds!

But I peeked at the scales a couple days ago, and I was down 4 lbs then, and was disappointed when I stepped on the scales this morning. I guess I just figured I would be down a few more pounds than 4 today.

I mean 4 is great....don't get me wrong a loss is a loss! But I have learned 2 things today.....

1. Don't peek at the scales during the week
2. I have to up my physical activity!

I did really good with my eating this week, and I feel amazing! I even did good ( most days) drinking my water.......However, the physical activity I give my self two thumbs down!

I finished school for the summer this week, so instead of sitting at a desk all day doing school work, I have been home doing housework all day (in between driving the school bus in the morning and afternoon bus routes) and by the time I get home again at 5pm I am exhusted!

Going from sitting all day to on my feet all day cleaning and running errands, is gonna take a couple days to get used to again!

Anyway, a friend invited me to take a bootcamp class with her and I was like "Yeah!!" and I was totally pumped to do this class.......but when the day came to go to the class, I completely chickened out! I was like "What was I thinking? there is no way I can take a class like that, being this big, I will make a complete fool of my self!" and I didn't go......now I wish I did.

My goal this week is to go to that bootcamp class and do the  very best I can do!

I seen this and I love it! Something to keep in mind every time i decide to talk my self out of something good!

Oh Happy Day!

Hi Dolls!

Today is a good day!

It's really the simple things in life that make me happy......lol

Like after a year of my laptop sitting up in my closet because it would not turn on, (and a year that I have been fighting over sharing with my oldest daughter her laptop) I finally decided that perhaps it was the power cord..... so off to walmart I go (I <3 Walmart!) and $60 later I am on my way home with a power cord, fingers crossed the whole way home that this would work!

I get home rip the power cord out of its package, dig take my laptop out of the closet, plug it in and...........

TA DA!!!!!!

I am now writing this blog post from my computer!!!! (And grining ear to ear!)

lol it really is the simple things.......

and guess who else is almost as happy as me........Princess, who now doesn't have her momma hogging her laptop!

Don't mind the crappiness of the picture.....but this is me, taken with the webcamera on my lap top......see how happy I am!

ok, dolls! I am off to clean up dog crap......this new puppy isn't getting the hint that he is suppose to do that outside.....nonetheless I will still be smiling while cleaning it up! Ha!! I am that happy HA!

Yesterday was a complete wake up call for me! If you read yesterday's post you will know what I am talking about!

And it turned out to be a great day!

*I am pretty sure I aced my biology test!

*I went for an amazing walk (over an hour and about 6 kms)

*I drank 77 oz of water! (aprox 10 cups)

* and I made healthy choices for food and ate in moderation!


I feel pretty dang good!

So if I feel this good after just one day, imagine how doing it everyday would make me feel!

Have a great day!

So I am sitting in biology class studying for a test I will be writing this afternoon and I can't help starring at one of the ladies in my class..... I have known her since we were teenagers, and even back then she was someone I wanted to look like! She was and still is beautiful! When we were teenagers people would ask if we were cousins because we looked so much alike.... I to this day could never see a resemblance except we both have dark hair, brown eyes and similar complexion. But she always had an amazing body, the kind of body every girl dreams to have, and even in high school I weighed 155 and she would only weigh 120 at the most and we were the same height. Today, with the addition of a boob job she still weighs and looks the same. And here I am 150 pounds more then her. And this makes me so ashamed! I struggle every minute of every day with my weight it's a continual battle..... I pray to God everyday to make me skinny, to help me lose weight! Well guess what.... I got an answer from him today..... While I was feeling sorry for myself and wishing I was skinny a voice came in my head and said.... " to lose weight and to get smaller you need to do the work!" plain and simple! I am not going to wake up tomorrow morning or next week or even next month skinny. I need to do the work! I can do this with God cheering me on, he can help me to make conscious healthy choices about food and to give me a little push to exercise, but he can not make me instantly skinny. And now realizing this makes all the sense in the world! It's my "a ha!" moment! Lol today I consciously choose to drink lots of water and eat healthy snacks and meals without over indulging, and also to go for a 3 km walk this evening and then maybe even some just dance 2 on the wii!

What are you doing today?

Wednesday all ready!

Hi Dolls!

Wow! It is Wednesday all ready! Yay!
It does help that Monday was a holiday..... Lol but either way we are 2 days from the weekend!

I am back on track these last two days with my eating! It feels good to eat healthy! The whole weekend I pretty much felt like crap because I ate crap! I seriously don't know how I used to eat Like that every day!

Anyway along with eating right I also started to incorporate some exercise! I have walked the past two evenings!

Hi dolls!
Happy Easter Monday!
How was everyone's Easter weekend? Mine was pretty good! I over did it on the chocolate tho..... And for the most part I was lazy all weekend! And I cooked a turkey dinner with all the fixins yesterday.

Today I am back on track!

I have had a very productive day so far!
Laundry going, house cleaned, both bathrooms scrubbed, kids out side playing, I even did some baking!

Right now I am working on some school work and tonight I am hosting our ladies bible study, so I need to do some planning for that.

Well, just thought I would blog to say hi! I need to get back to biology! Have a good Easter Monday!

Mom of all girls

Hi Dolls!

When I was a little girl and would dream of being grown up, married and the kids I would have, I never once dreamed of having all girls! In fact, I wanted 4 boys!

I grew up in a family of 5 girls, and I was the oldest! We have an older half brother, but he is 10 years older then me, so we didnt have the chance of growing up with him or really becoming close with him. (We are all very close with him today)

Anyway, I didnt get the chance to experience a brother, and I knew all about girls, seeing as I was one and had 4 much younger sisters (P the sister next to me is 6 years younger then me and the baby of the family C is 10 years younger then me) so I didn't want to have girls....I wanted boys!

When I was pregnant with my first Princess, I prayed everyday God would give me son.

In the delivery room when the doctor announced it was a girl, I wasn't disappointed at all! I remember my mom saying to me as they handed me my new baby girl "Are you disappointed? " and my reply was "Not at all! I don't think I would have know what to do with a boy anyway!" lol

With each of my other 2 pregnancies it was the same thing, hoped and prayed for a boy.....but got girls, and wasn't once disappointed!

I absoultey LOVE having 3 girls!

I love all the pretty girl clothes, and the hair bows, and nailposlish, and decorating girls rooms!

Part of me still wants to someday be a mom to a son...(my husband had a vasectomy) and maybe someday we will look into adopting.

But I wouldn't change my girls for anything in the world!  



Hey dolls!!

So week one of back to school for me went well....working on week 2 right now!

I did my first English assignment and got 93%! I was very pleased!

I also write my first biology test in a couple days.....this is what I am studying right now!

1st day of the rest of my life!

Hi Dolls!

Ok so today was my first day of school!

It went pretty good!

I have biology in the morning and English in the afternoon.

Biology for the most part will be ok.....I wont say easy because it wont be. It will be a lot of memorization.

But english on the other hand......Jeesh! I forgot how much I disliked english!

I am starting out with the Non-Fiction section, and reading and then answering questions, where you have to dig deep to find the meaning of why the author chose to write in such a way....or what you think the author was feeling when he wrote something......may sound easy but I dunno it is going to be hard for me to wrap my head around some of this stuff!!!

Anyway I am beat!

But one good thing is......When I got home from work and school today I had SO much energy!!

Usually when I would get home from work I would be tired and just plain lazy.

My mind got some much needed "exercise"today!!!

Good Night Ya'll!!

XOXO,

Me



Working on my list

Hi Dolls!

So Tomorrow I head back to school!

And I am terrified......but also excited!!

I am going back to school to upgrade my Grade 12 Biology, English and Math.

So I have my binder filled with fresh loose leaf paper, a new pack of pens, and even a new lunch bag.

One good thing about going back to school is I wont be home all day and be able to go to the fridge or cupboards, just out of boredom.

So for this I am happy!!

Anyway wish me luck!!

I will fill you all in how my first day went tommorrow evening!!



My list of Goals

Hi Dolls!

A Blog that I follow, Skinny Jeans Dream, suggested making a list of goals you want to accomplish. And as you accomplish them cross them off and continue to add new goals!

So Here I go....

My Goals

*Lose 5% (of my body weight)

*Lose 10%

*Lose 25 lbs

*Lose 50 Lbs

*Lose 75lbs

*Lose 100lbs

*Hear the words "Wow, You lost weight!!" from more then 5 people.

*Weigh in under 199 (ONEderland)

*Reach my goal weight

*Share my sisters clothes!

*Blog about my weight loss to motivate and inspire people the way Krystle @skinny jeans dreams  inspired and motivates me

*wear shorts

*Wear (and look good in )Jeans

*wear a bikini

*fit into and wear knee high boots

* walk 5 km

*Walk 10 km

*Learn to Run

*Run a mile

*Run 5 k

*Run 10 k

*Become a Zumba Instructor

*shop(and fit into sizes) at Garage

*Upgrade my Grade 12 English, Biology, and Math

*Get accepted to Holland College, Practical Nursing Program

*Graduate with high marks

*Become an LPN and get hired.

I listed these in no particular order (for the most part)

I will come back and cross them off as I accomplish them! 

I am already working on getting my first ones crossed off!!

XOXO,

Me