week 3--Exersice, books, and anger management

 This is me after a 45 minutes of zumba and an hour of body flow. I started doing body flow a couple of weeks ago because the kids swimming schedule didn't allow me to go to zumba. Body flow was the only class during my available time, you know how it goes, children come first :)
Body flow is a mix between yoga, tai chi, and pilates. It is really easy to follow, no complicated steps, but it is challenging. If you concentrate on your movements and keep a really good stance it is really tiring. I sweat while my belly muscles are burning. I recommend anybody to give it a try.


 Today is the last day of the week and Jared will be home tonight. We finally made it home on Tuesday evening after our adventures going to Tennessee. Today Aiden was unhappy. Actually he has been unhappy quite often since Jared left. He gets angry for silly things and I have to send him to cool off. Today I sent him to pick up the mail, which he loves to do. Thankfully it only takes him a few seconds to a couple of minutes to "cool off".

 Isabella does not act up like Aiden, Thank goodness, she only reads, and reads, and reads some more. Some times I have to sent her to time-out for reading instead of doing other work, like math, or writing, or picking up her pajamas, or getting dress, etc.She usually sneaks into bed with a book and a flashlight to read when I think she is sleeping. Isn't she cute? She is currently reading Harry Potter 5, The Order of the Phoenix and Aiden has been reading Mr. Popper's Penguins. He moved quickly from "Frog and Toad are Friends" to BIG chapter books.

I'm so very proud of them, they are such great readers!!!

Week 2--House Hunting

Even though week 2 is gone I actually took the pictures during last week. The kids and I were house-hunting in Tennessee. We found 3 houses that I liked and I think will work for us, but now we have to wait for Jared to see them some time in February and decide together. It will also help if said houses are still active in the market.

The backyard of one of the houses I liked

The kids were very good sports during the whole weekend while we went from house to house. They didn't seem to mind all that driving and looking a boring houses that much...

It helped that there was a DS available as you can see. I didn't really liked this house...

or this one. Although the yard was beautiful.

The Cox-Cardeso Family

The Cox-Cardeso Family

A year in Pictures; Week One

So I have decided to do a year in pictures, I have seeing this done before and it looks like a fun way to keep up with my blogging. Since I am not too consistent in my posting this will be hard, but I'll try my very best. without further ado, here is the first week of 2012:

This was the...ok this I think was actually the 31st of December and thus it is not part of our new year 2012 but New Years Eve morning. We made stuffed french toast, with mascarpone, cream cheese, and strawberries. It was delicious. Jared is not home, he will come back in three weeks. We are counting the days.

Jared and the kids helping with breakfast.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

While I don't mean to make all my posts about food that seems to be the main topic for this week. The following pictures where taken a completely different day, on Tuesday actually, my children just like to wear their favorite shirts anytime they see it in their closet.

I decided to make spring rolls, but with spinach instead of cabbage (I didn't have any cabbage)

It may not look great...

...but it tasted really good. They requested that I make them again, and this time I'll use cabbage!

Now to get away from the topic of food another story. This is not a good happy story is more of a mad, sad story. I got a haircut this week. I wanted to get a few layers, trim my hair just enough so that my hair was more even. I don't know if you remember, or noticed (for those of you who have seen me resently) but the back of my hair was about an inch longer than the rest, just because it was growing from my pixie haircut exactly a year ago. It was finally long enough for me to have a bob cut with a few wispy layers. Well, on Thursday a nice lady, but not so good hair-stylist, unintentionally gave me the worse haircut in the history of bad haircuts. She left me with something that looked like a mix between the mom of the Brady bunch and a modern take on the mullet. I looked like a much older lady with no sense of style.

It was worse than what you can see in this picture, the worst, I think was the back of my head, of which I got no picture to show

Completely horrible! I can't even conceive of anybody looking at my hair and thinking that looked good. I was so mad/sad/ disappointed/etc. that I left stunned, I don't even remember if I thanked her, or smiled as I walked out the door, got in the car, and cried for a few minutes before I was ready to drive away. Needless to say I made an appointment the next day to have somebody else fix my hair. Now I sport really short hair again but at least I'm not embarrassed to be seeing in public.

This is me now, as you can see a lot happier.