Saturday, April 23, 2011

Hear Comes Peter Cotton Tail Hopin' Down the Bunny Trail

Easter is in full swing here in the Keeley house hold. We dyed Easter eggs at my mom's house today and we had a competition. I some how lost even though I had the best eggs, as I do every year. I forgot to take any pictures and the eggs are probably being made in to potato salad right now. Tomorrow we will get ready to go to church to celebrate that Jesus Christ has risen! We are so lucky that God has sent his only son to die for us. As I think about that I can not even imagine that kind of sacrifice. To know that you will have to watch your child suffer is an unbearable thought. I am so very thankful. I always love the Easter service at church it is always so refreshing and uplifting. I am very excited to then go and spend the rest of the day with my moms family.  Tonight there will be 20 people joining our church. It is an absolutely beautiful service that last about three hours total. This year my bed time is before it will be over.
The Easter bunny has ran at our house a got me a very cute beach towel! I am excited as I will be be putting it to good use next weekend when we go to the beach! The bunny also brought Chloe as super cute collar and Sean some much needed polos. We did it a bit early because we can never wait.
Did not want her picture taken. 
Cute new collar! 
New beach towel!
Our sweet puppy



Thursday, April 21, 2011

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Getting back in the grove

I think I am about to kick this cold! That means tonight I shall run! I'm excited, I have been so lazy lately my body is craving to be active again. I am also tired or my mile count not going up. I will fix that tonight! Be back later with a workou recap.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

It's more than a feeling...

There have been lots of new things added to our house today. But, first we went to the 2nd annual Mutt Strut. This was SUPPOSE to be my first 5k race. Things did not go as planned. I have a terrible cold and did not sleep most of the night. We did go and Sean was able to run and he did great. We also took the monster, she was terrible. It ended up being freezing today. The wind was blowing so hard so I froze to death the whole time. I was just going to run the 1 mile fun run with chloe but by the time Sean was done I was frozen. Once we got home I had to take a hot bath to get warm. Then we went to get some yummy Momma G's and to do some shopping. We had a Groupon to Harmony Landing that was burning a whole in my pocket. We got lots of goodies! Some picture frames, candles, throw pillow, and a cute coffee mug for my mom.

New gray couch
After our shopping spree we went to pick up our couch! We have been waiting a month to get it so I was so excited to finally get it in!
New couch with new throw pillow



 
New mirror and fancy picture frame.



This cold I have is terrible, I thought it was just allergies but am beginning to think it may be a bit more. I was talking to a friend and she recommended the Neti Pot. Let me just tell you I figured I would throw up from trying but actually it is great. It by no means healed me but it has definitely helped me be able to breathe a little better.

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Loose The Thunder Thighs

This is going to be a short and sweet post and I will try to do another one later on today about my workouts and the rest of the family visit.
That is down 1.8 since last week

Monday, April 11, 2011

It's Getting Hot In Here

I love this little girl!
Fams in town! They stopped by our house and let Samantha play... oh my goodness she is the cutest this every. I love her to pieces and wish I got to see her more. She loved seeing Chloe and playing with her. Then we all went to dinner at Sean's grandparents new house. It was my first time there and the view is beautiful. We had a wonderful dinner outside with the sun setting in the back ground it was great to be with the family. We chased Sammy all over the place and took her down to the lake we had so much fun. She keep saying amy come here and of course I came running. After playing we sat down for yummy strawberry shortcake, and then it was time to leave for my early morning.

Down at the lake


Looking at the lake
I did manage to get in some good workout yesterday. I ran for a mile and half then went to Zumba and it was a tough class very high energy. Then once I got home I needed a little more so I went running for a little bit longer and man it was hot. It was around 86 for my run and I am not ready for that kind of weather. I needed to try to get some miles in today but the weather was not agreeing. Sean and I went to dinner with my mom and Steven and by the time we got home the weather was on it's way. So I opted to be lazy and took a bath and read Cosmo. The storms came it was scary for a little while tornado sirens and what not but it is over as fast as it came!

look how sweet :)

The whole crew came to work today to see where I work. I enjoy showing it off and I love my babies. I needed to have lunch and they had already eaten so Sean went and got us the old standby Subway (my go to diet meal) while we stayed at work so Samantha could play on the playground. She had a blast swinging, sliding, ridding in the cope car, and ridding on a trike.



Hannah and Sammy Swinging!
Tomorrow we have big plans of going to the zoo. I am so excited, we took Samantha there last year and it was so much fun so I can only imagine that this year now that she is older it will be that much better.

Saturday, April 9, 2011

Glamorus

On my way to work on Friday after a morning full of the hubs saying "no that's to big" I decided I have to go shopping. I put myself on a budget and knew there were a few must haves, white jeans, skinny jeans, and some crop jeans, and a few tops. Well, I didn't do so bad on my budget went over by 30 dollars and I did not get enough tops. I did however get my white jeans, crop jeans, skinny jeans, and a regular pair of jeans. So, with pants I am covered. I also picked up at a cute skit and a tank too. Shirts are hard for me because I need something that is cute and I can wear to work and if I get paint, yucky stuff, glue anything form the little kidos and can be washed. I have a hard time there were a few things at Old Navy that I liked but didn't buy because I ran in on my lunch break and did not have much time. I may have to go back I just don't really know what I want. There have been very few times in my life that i needed to go shopping. The hubs met me after work Friday. He for some reason agreed to go. Once he was there he realized he did not want to be, but he was a trooper and hardly complained.

Terrible picture but here are all of my goodies!



Today I decided I was going to try to dreaded Body Pump class. I read an article in my Women's Health magazine about all the benefits of working out with weights so I thought I would give it a try. It was a hard class but I made it through. The instructor and a couple of the participants were super helpful with helping me get my equipment together. I can't say it was fun like Zumba but it was a good work out and I can see my self going back because I think it will help become stronger and loose more weight. I also would not mind have some nice muscles to show off. I also managed to make it through Zumba after so I did a hour of weight training with and a hour of cardio. I am tired my arms are still very tired and I hope I will be able to lift them tomorrow to wash my hair.


I have a good motivation that has helped me start the weight lose journey that I haven't talked about. I am in a wedding in August and I do not want to be the fat one. That was the beginning motivator for me to start losing weight but now it is more than that. I was the be healthy and strong. I want to be confident and proud of what I can accomplish. My husband and I use to take tons of pictures but over the past year we have seriously declined and I have to say it is partly because I didn't want to see how big I had gotten. There is a picture of me and two of my college roommates at her wedding and I hate to see it, and that makes me sad because it was such a fun night and such and exciting time in her life and I can't stand to see the picture. I don't want to have to go to another wedding like that especially when I am going to be standing up in front of people with tons of pictures to be taken. Thankfully I am already part of the way there and that drive will help me to complete my goal of losing the weight.

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Lose The Thunder Thighs Thursday!

So weigh in Wednesday is not going to be, it is going to be "Lose The Thunder Thighs Thursdays" so I can be part of this challenge.



Weight Loss Challenge


I am down one pounds from last week not a lot... feeling a little discouraged the scales have not been moving much lately. It is time to get really serious about my diet. We will see how it goes. That makes my total weight loss 22.1 pounds. In some ways I can really tell. But in others I still feel like I have so much farther to go. It is almost a MUST to go shopping since I can pretty much take all of my pants off without unbuttoning them. I know too much information but it's true. I just really do not want to go buy lots of things and then them not fit in two months so I think I am going to go hit up Ross and TJ Max this weekend maybe with a little Gap and Old Navy thrown in the mix.
I was suppose to try this new class tonight at Pure Barre. I bought a Groupon for it a while back and have not made time to go. I signed up this morning and got everything ready and was super excited. During the day I was making the kids plates at lunch and turned to get another plate and my back freaked out. I had a hard time moving, so once the children were down for nap I went to Wal-mart to get a heat wrap and some ibuprofen. Thankfully it has helped a little... no longer in tears, but still hurting so no class for me tonight. I am bummed but I want to give it the rest that it deserves so I can heal completly. We have a big weekend/week coming up. The in-laws are coming to town with my sister in laws and my little niece! I am so excited I can hardly stand it. It has been much much much too long since I have seen them!.
****Took a short break to go for a walk/run with the hubs and the pup***
Back is still hurting pretty bad about to ice and see if that helps! Wish it luck.
Very exciting news! I am going to New York with my mom for her big birthday at the beginning of June. It is now official we are all booked up! I am so supper excited. I love to go to New York this will be my forth trip. One of my very best friends moved up there a little over a year ago and so I am excited to get to see him!

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

Part Like a Rock Star...NOT

"Mom, we got up way too early!"
Kids one mile fun run!






















Terrible photo...
I have been super busy lately and also super tired and have been an old lady going to bed at 9 o'clock. I know it might have even been 8 a night or two. Saturday morning the hubs and I got up early to go to The Race Without Limits benefiting UCP. It was fun, I only did the one mile fun run because the other option was an 8k and I am not ready for that. This was my first race experience and it was fun to cheer on the runners. The race was held at Railroad park, it was our first time there. We brought Chloe and walked all around the park. The park is very nice and reminds me of something you would see in a big city not in Birmingham. We were both very impressed. As it got closer to my "fun" run I realized it was more of a kids run and lots of the kids from Hand In Hand were there to run. I kind of felt lame that all I could run, was the kids run, but hey at least I was out there running. I ran my fastest mile (not actually fast but it is for me) at 10:23. I am proud! Then after the race, it was really small and not much going on we left so I could make it to Zumba, had to go shake my booty a little. Then my mom and I went and did a little retail therapy! We went to Belk and the were having a huge even for Sam Edelman, my favorite shoes. The designer Sam Edelman was there signing your shoe boxes, it was so much fun and I bought my most favorite pair of shoes I have ever owned! Then Lovie and I went on date night! We always have dinner together when he is in town but we rarely take the time to get dressed up and go sit somewhere and talk and have dinner. It was very nice we sat outside and enjoyed the weather. Then once we got home I passed out and Lovie watched basketball.

They are fabulous. 

Sunday nothing much to report went to church and Zumba which I was able to drag my mom to, then off to bed again early.
Monday was an early morning session at the chiropractor. After the session my back feels better but not the next day. I hope something will change soon. The kids have crazy spring fever. They are all pretty wild and I have it too. The beach at the end of the month can't come soon enough.  The weather was suppose to get super nasty Monday night so after work I headed home. I should have gone for a short run but was lazy. I had dinner and went to bed and was asleep by 8. I have to get better on staying up later.
Today I got myself back in gear. I went to the civic center to get my sweat on. I wanted to run and go to kickboxing. I did, I ran a quick mile before class then went to class and finished off with another mile after class. My body is jello. I may have to be peeled out of bed again. But hey it is 9:30 and I am still awake.




Be back tomorrow for Weigh In Wednesday.