Babies EVERYWHERE!!

3 much anticipated babies all arrived within days of each other! My friend Caitlin from work had her baby boy, Rylen, on Monday. Laura's BFF Des had her baby girl, Reagan, Tuesday, and Cam's sister had her baby boy, Markus Spencer early this morning! I cannot WAIT to snuggle all of these babies!

Congrats Mommies!


AND I have a baby shower to go to Sunday! Apparently New Years is a popular time to knock boots? :)

WLC

I lost 4.8lbs and Cam lost 2lbs! Even though I am excited I lost a large amount, I am still not thrilled because I am still higher than my lowest weight..so I know I can get lower! Hopefully next week I will be back down to the lowest (would need to lose 3lbs this week)! Still have 22lbs to go and Cam has 15lbs to go before we are at our final goals! We are really excited...as a reward for reaching our goals, we are going to Colorado Springs for a long weekend, and also scheduling a photog session with our fave photographer...Christina! She took the family pics last fall, and now we are excited to go back and get some good ones of just me and Cam!

Hope you have a good Tuesday!

10.5 hours of scrapbooking? Yes please!!

Now and then Ashley, her aunt Shelee and I get together to scrapbook at Shelee's house, so when the big Memory Expo was coming to town, I thought it would be perfect for us to go! After talking to Shelee and Ashley, Shelee came up with an even better idea..why not save the $, and just reserve the church basement for a day? So, yesterday was the big day! I got started scrapin' at 8:30, and left the church at 7:00! It was such a fun day, and I feel like I got a lot accomplished! I think there were 11 or 12 ladies that came out, it was so cool to see everyone with their cricuts and scrapbooking stuff all spread out! Not to mention, it was nice to visit and have some good laughs!

Today is just a lazy Sunday..Cam got me up when he got home so that we could go for coffee at the place up the streeet, Kaner Coffee (we both agree we like it more than Starbucks..AND its cheaper) now Cam is at Home Depot, and I am getting ready to go look for curtains for our bedroom.

This week is pretty low-key, but some hi-lites are: working off duty at WWE at the Expo..oh dear lord.., Katie is coming over to catch-up and gossip, coffee/breakfast with Lindsey and her main-man Brogan, dinner/Laughing Matters with good friends, and a baby shower!


I hope you all have a good week!

Laser Hair Removal

So, if you don't know what groupons are...sign up for them..ASAP! (sorry Topeka is lame, and doesn't have this option, but KC is close, and if you go up there half as often as I do..it will be worth it!) Pretty much its an online coupon that is sent to your e-mail. You get one every day, and normally you have 24 to 48 hours to purchase it....they can range from spa services to restaurants..pretty much whatever you click that your interests are.

Well...one of the coupons this week was to a spa up near Zona Rosa for 8 laser hair treatments for $99!! (the coupon said it was a $676 value) HOLY SMOKES...I practically jumped outta my seat! So, I said Merry Christmas to me..and bought it! I can't wait to make my first appointment (and I will as soon as my work figures out which shift they are putting me on...grr) I couldn't decide which I should get done my hoo-ha, or pits...but I guess I don't have to make that decision, because one of the packages covers both areas! And, my sisters friend at work goes to this same spa for her laser hair removal..so I know its legit!

So, go sign up for groupons now (and..if you click the link above, it will count you as a referral from me, and when you buy a groupon, I'll get $10 towards my next groupon..its free..so go do it sister!)

The weekend is over already?

This weekend turned out to be really fun! We actually didn't have many plans, but ended up staying busy, and it was good!

Saturday morning Cam ran his second 5k! I am EXTREMELY proud of him! We often talk about how we used to barely be able to run down to the stop sign at the end of our street without feeling like we were dying, so this feels like such an accomplishment! His run started at 8 at the Combat Air Museum at Forbes. My dad and step-mom Brenda, and Laura all came out shortly after 8 to surprise Cam when he finished his race! It was fun to see the look on his face when he looked over and we were all cheering for him!

(This is Cam at the start of the run)

Cam shaved about 3 minutes off of his run time as well, and I had bought him a cheap-o sports watch he can use at work and when he works out! (he only owned one with a metal watch band, which is HUGE now and he doesn't know how to take out the links)

After the run, Cam went home to go to sleep (he worked the night before) and Laura and I went to the gym to take a "basic weights" class. HA! I knew I was doomed when the very first thing we did was squats as a warm-up..needless to say, my legs are still hurtin! Laura had me crackin up in class, at one point I turned around and she said "eat your heart out Suzanne Somers"

They really should rename the class to something more like "legs on fire"

After the gym we went thrift store shopping (and TJMaxx...but lets be honest, that place is about as stressful as a garage sale) Laura found this mirrored end table that is really cute that will go in her dressing room...seriously folks..her house is adorable! And also this stand deal (I don't know what its called, its a smaller rectangle cabinet type thing) for her living room, but it needs to be red, and she wants to change the hardware on it to glass knobs..so she has a craft project on her hands! Both of these items were things that Melisa had told her would look great in her place...again..need help with your decor? Call Melisa!

Anywho..Melisa had also told her that on top of this red table she should have lots of silver candlesticks, non-matching. So..we hit up a few thrift stores, and Laura found quite a few at Maj-R-Thrift, and all they need is some TLC that spray-paint can provide! These aren't them..but you get the idea!

I had seen this idea with mason jars, so while we were thrifting..I picked up a few for my craft room Im patiently waiting for. Hey..I didn't say I wasn't appreciative, just very anxious!

After we were done thrifting, it started to rain (really hard) so Laura went back home, and I took a nap. Saturday evening I got to watch a VERY cute little boy, Jaxen! My girlfriend Chelsey and her hubs went out to a birthday party, and I wanted some snuggle time with the little guy! He really made me want a bambino!


Sunday morning, Cam woke me up when he got home from work, and asked me if I wanted to go for coffee! (yes please!) We were going to walk to the coffee shop up the street, but last time we were at Starbucks, Cam saw these reduced-calorie breakfast sandwiches he wanted to try, so we went there instead. We both got one of the sandwiches, which is turkey bacon, white cheddar cheese and egg white on an english muffin..it was good! And then we also got the usual iced latte! I sat there and read my book while Cam read the paper..it was so perfect! Reminded me that I have so much to be thankful for!

After our coffee date, we got home and puttsed around for a while. Then Cam asked me if I wanted to bring my book and go fishing with him. (How could I say no to a face as handsome as his?)

Ps...this is the book series I am currently reading...right now I am on book #3..if you need something to start reading..these are good!

Now Cam is crashed out for the evening, and I am heading to the gym! Hope you all have a good week!

Christmas present before...

Here is the room in the basement that had been filled with random junk. Cam asked me to help him clean it out, and has since requested that I stay out because he is working on part of my Christmas present...a craft room!!!!

As you can see..its not pretty, so he has quite a job ahead of him!

MAC counter...here I come!

Saturday I ran my 2nd 5k with my very best friend in the whole world, Ashley! It was also her 2nd 5k as well! Ashley kept saying she wasn't sure how she was going to do, but that girl got up and ran; I had to convince myself a few times to stay with her pace..not gonna lie, there were a few times most of the time my breathing sounded like Darth Vader!

Ashley couldn't remember what her first 5k time was, and mine was 33 minutes and 33 seconds. I mentioned in another blog that Cam promised me if I beat my time, he would buy me some MAC make-up that I've been wanting!

Drum roll please...............Ashley and I crossed the finish line together at exactly 30 minutes!!! That's 3 minutes and 33 seconds I shaved off my last race time! Thank you Ashley (and Bone Thugs 'N Harmony on Pandora) for keeping my butt going!

Here we are before the race...(not sure why I have my headphones in?..they weren't on)

I had to put this in here...a guy at work who runs a lot (training for a marathon) told me Friday that I needed to take one of these "gu shots" before I ran Saturday morning, that it would help give us a burst of energy. So I went to Dicks and got a few (one for me and Ash, and one for Cam for his race next Saturday) I wasn't really sure what to expect...I know it wasn't much considering the name of the stuff. It had a bad taste too, which was only made worse by the "flavoring" (blueberry is what we had) and it had the consistency of honey. Ashley only "slammed" (as Cam put it) half of her gu..I don't blame her..often throughout the race I was burping and revisiting the gu taste, which wasn't pleasant. I honestly don't know if it is in my head, or if it really did give me a burst of energy..who knows?

You can't really see me in this pic because of the lady running the clock, but here we are at the finish line!

Hopefully we can go this week to Dillards for my treat ;)

After the run, we stopped by Ag Hall for the Library's Annual book sale. I was able to get quite a few good hardback books that I am trying to get the entire series of (Evanovich, Patterson and Sparks)

That's all for now. Tomorrow I'm going to post "before" pics of the craftroom Cam is creating for me in the basement. (Don't get excited..there are no "after" pics yet) he said maybe the end of this month?