A New Year, A New ME!

I know I know we all have goals, New Year resolutions. Well I have one… one only… LOSE WEIGHT! I started a diet, I’m sorry not a diet a healthier life style. I will start going back to the gym tonight as well. Once the weather warms up I will be venturing out in the morning again. BUT I weighed myself at work on our mailing scale, YES that’s right the mailing scaling… I am 228 lbs I will not be and am not afraid to say that aloud because I do NOT intend to stay there much longer.

For all my faithful readers… hmmm maybe I have three. My first goal is to get to 200 lbs again. So first weight loss goal 28lbs. Doesn’t sound so bad does it? Oh heck, who am I kidden that’s a LOT of weight. If I have any faithful insightful readers please send me any suggestions you have, I need them all. Wish me luck and I will post my updates… gains or losses. I PROMISE!

PSU

Apparently this is what you learn at a prime University...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPkCz8f6YEs

WTG ... Taylor!! Love it!

umm, Steve were you aware of where your wallet was disappearing to? Plastic cups, ping pong balls and a camera.

Better Late Then NEVER!

Since I am so far behind I am going to go backwards just a few steps. We spent Thanksgiving 2009 in New Jersey. While there we stayed at Angie and Dennis’ mostly. A couple days with my Steve and Sandi as well. We tried to see everyone but that was not as successful as I had hoped it would have been. We did get to take the kids in NYC. So much fun! When walked out of Madison Square Garden into the streets of NYC, McKinlee’s face was, well, priceless just priceless.

New YORKKKKKK

A little video to go along side of the song...

Learning to Ride

McKinlee received a two wheeler for Christmas NO training wheels... AND the learning experience began! He started off wobbly but he finally got.

A Little of This and a Little of That

Happy New Year Everyone! I first want to apologize for not being around BUT life has thrown myself and my family some serious curve balls this year, my blog unfortunately has been neglected because of it.

So much is going on so I will probably break this VERY big blog into a bunch of little blogs.

Sound good, GREAT…

Let’s start with me and the hubby. Well as most of you are aware the hubby lost his job about two weeks before Christmas – they fired him! And of course because he was “fired” unemployment has not been fruitful as of yet. Yes you heard me correctly NO unemployment. So we are for right now surviving off my income. He looks everyday for a job and applies everywhere, but NO call backs, hopefully soon. I will be honest though I like having him home with the kids and I also get a warm meal when I get home its GREAT. And that does mean in a weird way he is Mr. Mom and I will say he is doing an awesome job at it too.

As for me, well November 29th marked my 5th year at Tanger and well I got a promotion, woohoo! Go ME! I was very shocked, but was so excited. I definitely feel like I deserved it, I know that sounds a little ego driven but seriously I think I work my tail off and it paid off. Also, now that we are in 2010 and I have hit my 5 year marker. I get 3 weeks vacation, I LOVE it! I am so excited!

So with the promotion I am keeping my family a float.

Moving on…

The boys had wonderful Christmas’ If you ask McKinlee he didn’t have the best Christmas because he didn’t get everything he had asked for. See McKinlee asked Santa for a Nintendo DSi and well he currently has a Nintendo DS the DSi unit you can take pictures and connect to the internet. Hence he is 7 he does not need to connect to the internet nor does he another Nintendo DS So Santa did not bring one. I tried to explain to him in advance that he wasn’t going to get one and that Santa has a lot of presents to buy and you can’t always get everything you ask for but he didn’t understand or doesn’t want to understand that. Not sure which. As you can see from the picture he got a lot. His pile is on the left.

Maddock loved everything especially his bike, definitely his favorite item. He rides it all the time even around the house… the poor dogs.

So Much To Say, Not Enough Time In The Day...

I have a ton to talk about just not enough time in the day for me to fill you in on everything... I'm gonna post some pictures from the past few months and I am gonna try like heck to keep up. I'm not holding that promise and I wouldn't bet on it but I'm gonna try :(

Happy Birthday!

Happy 2nd Birthday Maddock Logan Moy! I will take lots of pictures later to show everyone how Maddock celebrated his 2nd birthday. I wish everyone was here to celebrate with us.

The End... of the Season

Well, soccer season is over, until the fall. McKinlee received his first trophy at his last soccer game on May 16th. He played hard, harder than usual, I’m thinking it may have had something to do with his Uncle Steve being there but that’s just a good guess, I guess.

Thoughts...

I've been thinking...

I look at my 6 year old getting ready to turn 7 and I think to myself, where has the time gone? It feels like yesterday that I gave birth to the little man. I still can't believe that he is almost as tall as me and is going to enter the 2nd grade... WOW!

I look at my 23 months old getting ready to turn 2 and I think to myself, what happened to my baby? Time goes by so quickly. I am taking him for his first haircut this weekend... eek! This should be interesting.

I look at my 18 year old nephew getting ready to turn 19. HOLY CRAP, he's graduating high school and has been accepted to multiple colleges. I am proud to say he will be a student at Penn State University. Go NITTANY LIONS!

I look at my 13 year old nephew getting ready to turn 14. Here it is, he's graduating from 8th grade and after the summer will begin his first year of high school. The most important school years of anyones life.

I look at my 13 year old neice getting ready to receive her confirmation and graduate from 8th grade. Time goes by and before you realize it they are off getting married and starting their families.

Where does the time go?

I had an interesting conversation yesterday with my brother. So here is a thought... If you had the opportunity to either 1) work normal hours and make enough money to make ends meet but be able to have plenty of quality time with your family or 2) work like dog and make enough money to give your family everything they could want big house, name brand clothes, vacations, cars, etc. but have very limited quality time with your family... which would you choose?

I know my decision would be number 2! Why you ask, well I already live number 1 and its NOT fun. I hate not being able to give my kids everything they want. I hate NOT being able to go on vacations. I hate struggling. Life in a struggle is never fun.

So tell me what would you choose?