I am on a mission this week to try and get my life and house all caught up and organized. I feel like the past month has been a complete whirlwind of craziness and busyness. I think May is only going to be worst. I can't remember ever being this busy or having so many things going on at once. Jason has been really busy at work and so have I. These are both good things, but it can make for more craziness at home. We have been on the go every weekend for forever now, so our house has been a little neglected. I can't help but feel like I am fighting a loosing battle on keeping things picked up, cleaned, and organized around here. Once I get one room looking good then the next room is destroyed and it is on going around here. I finally got all blogs caught up. I wasn't too far behind, because I usually do at least one post on at least one of my blogs a day, but after all the Easter festivities last weekend I had some catching up to do on all the blogs. Yesterday I made all my blog books for the last year and a half, so now all I have to do is order them. My total is over $600 to order all of them, so I am trying to wait until I can get a coupon code since I am not in any hurry for them. At least they are all made and all I have to do is place the order now. I still have several photobooks that I need to do. Who knows when I will get to that. I think my main concern right now is getting our house under control. I am going to spend the next few rainy days doing that. I am dying to start reading another book. After I finished reading that book last week it got me back in the mood to read again. I have also been busy starting to workout the last few weeks at Tri-State. I have done really good on counting calories the past couple of months. The first month I did it I lost 10 pounds and the second month I lost another 5 pounds. I am back to where I was before I had Jaxson, but I really needed to lose about 5-10 pounds before I got pregnant with him. It seems like just counting calories and eating healthy is not enough to get down to where I want to be (120- 125). I have been working out about 2-3 times a week for about 3 weeks now and I haven't seen a huge difference on the scale but I do feel a lot better and my clothes are fitting better so I know it is doing something. I am trying to decide if I should get a membership to Tri-State after I use up the Groupon. I keep going back and forth on it. CHristian does like the kids club and the ladies there are so good with the kids. I don't think I would feel comfortable leaving my kids at any other place. A ton of my family belongs there so that makes it more motivating to go. I do like having that half hour to hour to myself and I feel so much better and have more energy after I go. One thing that has been really nice is that I have met with a personal trainer twice now and I meet with her one more time next week and she has been showing me lots of different exercises on how to tone my whole body. This has been so helpful since I have no clue how to do any of that, because I have never really worked out before. Another thing that will be nice is in the summer they have and outdoor pool and in the winter it is in doors. They offer swim lessons for infants so I would love to get Jaxson in something like that. I'm sure I will join after this groupon is up, but I do hate to spend so much money every month for it. I just hate having monthly bills! I do have a new obsession lately! A couple of years ago I got obsessed with the Mediterranean White and Blue print from Vera Bradley. Well like most of my obsessions it ran its course and now I am on to a new one. I gave all my mediterranean white stuff to Jamie and LeeAnn to divide up, but I am hanging on to all the blue for now. My new bag obsession is canvas totes! I LOVE the canvas totes from Land's End. I ordered 3 medium bags, one for me, one for, Christian, and one for Jaxson all with our names on them and I ordered an extra large bag with Pickerill on it for the pool and beach this summer. When the bags came in I liked them so much that I of course had to order more. I ordered another medium tote for when we go to Disney world. I want to have our last name on it done in the Disney font. I also ordered some storage totes. I am anxious to see these! I got them for storing stuff in like toys, blankets, books, or magazines and of course I had to have them embroidered with what I want to put in them. I hope I like them as well as I think I will. I am trying to hold off on buying even more totes, but it is hard! Like I said I am obsessed. I think I want to get large totes for all of us with all of our names on them, but then I don't know for sure what I will use them for. I also want to get storage totes for the top of my closet to organize my sweats and sweaters. I am at least going to wait until I get my second order in to see how well I like the storage ones. God help me if I love them. I will end up with everything in my house in totes! I am also getting so excited for our vacation this summer. It is killing me to not be going on one right now. the last two years we have taken our vacations at the end of April. We aren't going until the middle of the summer this year. We are going to Florida with my whole family and I can't wait! I think It will be so fun. We are also taking Christian and Jax to Disney world for the first time. Christian is already so excited! Every time he watches a Disney movie and the Cinderella castle comes up he gets excited and says,'you going to take me there on vacation!' and Every night before bed Christian wants to talk about vacation. I have already started making lists of everything we need to bring with us. I have no idea how we will fit it all in the car, but I'm sure we will manage. Right now I need to focus on this house and getting it under control, so I can enjoy being outside once the weather gets nice. There are just never enough hours in the day!
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