I will carry you

A while back I was told about a blog that I should start reading, Bring The Rain. I read quite a bit of the blog, and cried a lot too. I later was told that the girl who had the blog, had written a book. It wasn't until our recent loss, and talking about it with a friend, that I decided to buy this book and start reading it. I started the book Saturday evening, and I am over half-way done with it! It is amazing. If you have ever experienced the loss of a child, or even if you have not, you should read this book. Not only does it find joy in such a bad time, it truly makes you think about how Christianity plays a role in your own life. (at least it did to me anyway) I have read some of it to Cameron, and we talk about how we felt in December, and how we will strive to raise our children with faith and values.

Anyway, thats all..just wanted you to check into this book if you have time. It is only a couple hundred pages long, so it won't take long..and you'll be so happy you've read it...and don't forget your kleenex.

Weekly Weigh-In

I lost 7.4lbs this week!!

Cam lost 4.2lbs this week!!

Don't get me wrong, I am very proud of that #, but until I lose another 4lbs something, to get back to my lowest, I won't be jumping up and down. O-well, 18lbs away from my goal!!

Cam and I set a mini-goal this week. Whoever loses the least this week has to walk Frannie every morning for a week. Lazy...we know, but its freezin out there people.

Tuesday

Hi guys, hope you had a good Tuesday...I sure did, it was my day off!

I headed to KC this am for my laser hair treatment (only 6 more to go!) while I was there, I stopped by my beloved...Charming Charlie!! If I'm being honest, I went there for 1 item..slippers like I got Amber for Christmas. Well..little did I know I would be walking into a MEGA sale! They had a TON of stuff marked 50% off, then it was an ADDITIONAL 75% off the already half off stuff! I got that sweater on the left (kinda like a vest, but a tad longer), the fuzzy slippers on the right,6 bracelets, 8 earings, 2 rings and a watch with 7 fun bands (for momma-cita) all for $40! I practically skipped outta there! It was fun buying stuff out of my "norm" because I thought, hey, whats to lose for $1 and $2!

On my way home, I stopped by my friend Melisa's house to see her sweet new baby, and pick up GS cookies I definitley DON'T need! (but secretly excited about) Then it was home to get ready for our date.

Dinner was good, I had a wedge salad and crab cakes, Cam had a pizza he is still talking about (says its the best pizza he ever had) While I was at Melisa's, she had mentioned 3 spoons, a new yogurt place in Larryville.. which is just like Yogurt Inn we found in Vegas, or Yogurt-tini that Laura and I always go to. And I don't use "always" lightly...seriously, every time we are in KC. Anyways, 3 spoons is good! And wouldn't you know it, it was "2 punch Tuesday" so even more the reason to go back to get our punch card filled up ;) Then we stopped by the liquor store to get my new favorite wine, Pacific Rim Sweet Riesling. Thank you Laura for this introduction!

Doesn't Cam look foxy? And my nugget look abnormally large?

Stay tuned for our weekly weight loss update...

Suprise from Cam

Got my hair did Wednesday, and I really like it! It is definitley dark! I will have to take a pic and post it for you. Sometimes I miss my blond, but I know this was a healthy choice for my hair for a bit.

Yesterday Cam came home from work and asked me what I had planned Tuesday night (day off) and I told him my evening was free..whats up? He pulls out a groupon for Tellers! I thought it was so cute that he had signed up for Groupon for one (I talk about it enough) and that I have always wanted to try Tellers, but never have. So, Tuesday night we will be using our Groupon at Tellers! It helps that we have weigh in the next morning, so we won't go crazy with our eating.

Tuesday, before our date, I have my second session of laser hair removal in KC (a previous Groupon purchase that was put on hold when I became preggers) Not gonna lie..love that this place is within walking distance from Charming Charlie, I'll definitley be stopping in there!

Off to work..hope you have a good Saturday.

Tuesday

Hi friends! I have really enjoyed my last couple days off! Sunday I suprised Cam by coming home early and suggesting we go see Life As We Know It at the $2 movie. It was really cute, and made us want a baby even more! (Despite how much that little baby cried ;)

Monday I went with Ashley up to her Aunt Shelee's house and we scrapped all day! I love doing that with them! I got caught up on several pages in my Vegas book! Cam didn't do anything nearly as exciting..he went and helped dad with rental properties.

Tuesday Cam went and worked on the rentals again, and I stopped by Chelsey's house to pick up a couple of vases that she gave me that go perfectly in my living room! After that,I had my 1 hour massage (thank you Groupon!) which felt like HEAVEN!!

After that, I came home, got ready, and Cam and I went out to dinner with a gift card we were given for Christmas, and to see The Fighter. It was ok..if you are dying to see it, you'd be safe waiting until it comes to $2..pretty slow moving movie...but decent.

Tomorrow I am GOING DARK! I repeat GOING DARK with my hair! I am so excited! I am trying to step out of my comfort zone. Here is the darkness I am going for, maybe with some red-hilites. I understand I am super blond now, so it will take a couple sessions to get this dark, but thats the goal. *Disclaimer..no clue who these women are..they popped up on google image search for dark hair. Lol, if you are reading this, and you know one of them..I assure you Im not a creeper ;)*

So, incase you haven't seen us in a while...we have packed on a few lbs...which we are not happy about. I have gained 10lbs, and Cam has gained at least that. The holidays hit, then our horrible news, and it just kinda snowballed from there. I am not trying to make excuses tho. Tomorrow we start back on the bandwagon...HARDCORE. We are going to weigh in every Wednesday morning in front of each other, and if we gain we have to go..sometime during that same day, to our mutual savings account and deposit $5. I don't much care about the $5, but the inconvience of having to go to the bank and look like an IDIOT depositing $5 is reason enough for me to not gain! haha! So, please help keep me accountable. I will post every Wednesday how we did. I have 24 lbs to go until my goal, Cam has 30. We have yet to decide what we get WHEN (not if) we reach our goals. Do you have any ideas?? I'd love suggestions...and no food reward please...obviously we've had enough of that..;) Not to mention,we have 3 (that we know about) weddings to go to this year, and 2 of them, Cameron is in the wedding, so this weight loss is a MUST!

And a total change of subject..but here are a few songs I LOVE LOVE LOVE right now:

Colder Weather- Zac Brown Band (I have listened to it probably 25+ times today ;)

What Do You Want- Jerrod Neimann

Don't You Wanna Stay-Kelly Clarkson & Jason Aldean

Bad Company-Five Finger Death Punch (great workout song)

From Across The Room-Sunny Sweeney

Welp, its bedtime for me (which is about 3 hours earlier than usual) gonna go to the gym before I get my hair did! Hope you have a good Wednesday.

Hello 2011

Hi guys! Sorry I have been absent for a while, had to take some time away and re-group if you will.

A lot is new with us, I don't even know where to begin. Cameron and I lost our precious baby, but we are holding onto faith and trust he/she are in Heaven and that this has happened for a reason, although we will probably never know why. I don't really want to go into detail on blog, but I do want to say thank you all for your prayers, we need them!

For my birthday last year, Cam gave me a necklace with our names on it, and after we lost the baby, we got 2 charms to add to it, a baby bootie, and the word faith. That necklace means THE WORLD to me! We have used the word Faith sooo much throughout all of this (as have so many other people, which I think is so neat) But we even found a cool wall hanging at Hob Lob that says "Fatih the hope for things that are not see, but which are true" and then I hung a cursive J and C on each side of it..looks pretty awesome. Then under it on the dresser is the glass vase with the dried out first dozen roses Cam ever gave me, and the vase has dried rose petals in it from other boquets he has given me.

I honestly can't remember everything that has happened in the last month or so, but I'll hit some of the positive hi-lights!

We got an espresso machine!! Safe to say it owns my life now :) I tease Cam that he needs to become a barista..the boy is good at makin drinks! Anyway, we justified buying one of these because we were going to Kaner Coffee every Sunday for our coffee/muffin/newspaper reading date, and spending $10+ bucks a week, so this will help save $! (And I wont have to brush my hair before we go! Oh wait..I can't say I did when were going to Kaner either..woops ;)

We have FINALLY started getting things on the wall! Slowly but surely we are getting projects done around here! Cam wants to start the kitchen remodel this spring/summer, but I said everything else must be done before we start that..no unfinished business! So needless to say, things are getting done around here..Cam is kickin butt! Lol, here is a pic of Cam being a NERD. He went downstairs to get something to hang pictures, and came back up with those on, and was being obnoxious with "safety first in our house" of course said with a true Osage County accent ;)

Here are some picture frames that I made for the hallway. I took the plain 5x7 frames in the wood isle at Hob Lob, spay painted them black, sanded them up for a rough look, stapled some ribbon to hang, and glued on a flower. Pretty cute, huh?

We had our family (my dad/brenda and all the kids) pics taken while Amber was back. There wer 16 of us..holy cow. It was kinda hard to find a place that would hold all of us, because outside isn't an option in December, but I ended up finding out we could get into the Capitol Building, so we had some pretty sweet pics! Here is a sample of a few..

With some of my Christmas $, I bought a bracelet. Now Amber, Laura and I all have matching bracelets, they are so cute! I have to tell you this about mine though, it gave me major goosebumps. So I order the bracelet, when I did, I talked to the seller and told her that I wanted the charm to have a J on one side and the word faith on the other. I told her it was totally open to her interpertation, but that I liked color. So, it came in the mail, and remember, Faith is the word that we've been using so much in reference to the baby. Ok, so the bracelet comes, and the colors on it are the EXACT colors we are doing the nursery in. Goosebumps? Yea..me too. (Kinda hard to see the colors in this pic..)

I'm sure I'm missing 100 things that happened that were fun, but evidently my ADD is kicking in.

So, Im going to copy my friend Allison's blog. She posted her "2011 bucket list" so I decied to follow suit..

In no particular order

Miss Lechner's 2011 Bucket List/To do list

• Give more compliments instead of assuming people know how I feel.
• Be forgiving. Afterall, I'm not perfect, how can I expect others to be?
• Start running again. I've never felt as good as when we were jogging 5+ days a week. (Come on warmer weather..I need you!)
• Finish spare room, and start kitchen remodel
• Have $ withdrawn from each check and deposited into a savings account. DONE!
• Get 100% caught up on scrapbooking. *so close I can see the light!!*
• Pray more
• Get all my photos backed up incase of a computer crash
• Read all of the books on my Kindle wish list. -At the rate I'm going, one a week, this won't be a problem at all!
• No tanning beds. I don't need any help looking older (Amber & Laura will be proud ;)

I will definitley be adding more to the list as the year goes on!

Well, I better go get some things done, but I hope you all are doing well!

Talk soon!