A little about me....

I realized that I haven't really told "my story" yet so I'm going to do a bit of that in this post. I met my husband a couple weeks after I graduated high school in 2006 at a local plumbing supply store. We both grew up in the same town and graduated from the same high school however, we are 10 years apart so even though we are from a small community and knew a lot of the same people we had never met or even heard of each other. At the time we met I was 18 and he was 27. He also had a 1 1/2 year old son. He worked there until June of 2008 when he took another job at Hoerbiger (an oilfield supply company) as a machinist. He worked his way up to branch manager and in August 2011 he was offered a job as a sales man for CECO. During all this time I worked at Country Club Family Dental Care/Sundance Dental Care. I started there in October 2006 as a Scheduling Coordinator and worked my way up to Financial Coordinator. In October of 2008 they opened a third location and offered me the position of Lead Financial and Scheduling Coordinator. In June of 2010 I was offered the position of Office Manager. Just before my husband was offered the job at CECO, we found out that we were expecting another child and decided that I really needed to quit my job to stay home with the kids. Jake's new job allowed me to do this because of the pay increase. I resigned my position as Office manager in December 2011. The down side to my husbands job is that it takes him out of town 3-5 days a week 3 weeks out of the month. This was another reason that I needed to stay at home with the kids. The reason I felt I needed to include all of that in this post is because my husband is such a hard worker and always has been. He has had some pretty big bumps in the road that held him up for a while but he never gave up and never let what people in the community said or thought about him keep him from trying and progressing. I love that about him more than I can express and I just felt that he needed to get a bit of recognition for a sec.

With all that said, Jake left to go out of town yesterday morning so my 5 year old son, AJ slept in my bed with me. *something I should also mention is that my husband had an issue with wetting the bed until he was 11 and both my 9 year old and my 5 year old have the same issue. It's not every night and we limit liquid intake before bed, we've tried prescription medication, etc etc* Once again, I didn't go to sleep until about 1 am. This time I slept straight through my 5:45 and 6:00 alarms. When my 6:30 alarm went off I freaked out and reached over to wake AJ up, because we overslept, and put my hand right in a giant puddle of urine! (btw, normally I have a HUGE supply of pull-ups for my boys to wear but we ran out...)

Ugh! I was so frustrated because all I wanted to do was get the boys up and get my workout done before I had to take them to school buuut, there were other plans in store again lol. So AJ says, "Mom, I really need a bath before I get dressed so my friends won't know I peed the bed." I laughed so hard because of course I was going to give him a bath but the fact that he was so concerned about his friends finding out reminded me of his sweetness. So I got him in the bath and went to wake up my 9 year old, Noah. He decided last night that he wanted to keep the puppy's kennel in his room so that I wouldn't want to sell him anymore (He is a 6 month old Beagle with all of his shots and not neutered.... yet. Asking what we paid $500. we have his papers as well. Just thought I'd get that out there while I'm at it) As soon as I walked into his room, I could smell it, he peed the bed as well! What the heck! So, I told him to take the dog out and take a shower. I went to wash AJ up and helped him get dried off. By the time I was done with all of that, it was 7:15 so I couldn't get my 30 min cardio done by the time I needed to take the boys to school so I watched the Today Show until it was time to leave. As soon as I got back I set my Grandma's medicine on the island and got on the elliptical. My daughter's baby monitor started beeping 7 minutes into my workout but she was fine playing in her crib with her babies so I kept on going. 17 minutes into my workout my Grandma came over. She ALWAYS lets my dogs out when she comes over but today I had no clue until my husband's step-mother (who happens to be my neighbor as well which I love) brought them back. Once I was done with my cardio I got my daughter up and got her breakfast and put cartoons on while I stretched, did my ab workouts (6 reps of 20 crunches and 5 reps of 20 oblique twists with 5 lbs) and instead of cycling motion I did 3 reps of 20 squats. I did1 more rep of crunches than the past 2 days and 2 more reps of oblique twists than the past 2 days so I was very happy at the end of the work out.


For breakfast I ate 1 Fuji apple with 2 tbsp. of almond butter



For lunch I ate a tuna lettuce wrap with tomato and cheese (we ran out of bread that was unfrozen so I didn't do this on purpose although I'm really happy I did. Super yummy!)



I had a snack at about 2:30 of 2 clementine oranges with 2 tbsp. homemade bluecheese dressing (sounds weird but oh so good! and normally I would've had 6 oreos and a glass of milk lol FOOD ADDICT!!!)


For dinner my kids wanted to go to Chile's because we were at Hobby Lobby (I did my Valentine's day décor crafts today so they'll be on my post tomorrow) so I got a new shrimp chipotle fresh mex bowl. It had rice and black beans, lettuce, pico de gallo, avocado, shrimp, and cheese in it. It was so dang good. I didn't eat the cheese so I could be a little healthier.

I also drank water allll day long! I drank 6- 24 oz bottles of water that is 144 oz. If you are supposed to drink half your weight of water in oz for me it would be 80 oz so I beat that by 64 oz! I had to pee constantly, like as much or more than when I was 9 months pregnant, but I beat my goal! yay!

I have to say that when I woke up late this morning I was kind of happy because I thought I could use it as an excuse to skip the workout today but I pushed past that feeling and did the workout anyway and once again, I was so proud that I finished it. It's the little accomplishments like that that are important. I need those little accomplishments to push me along. So expect me to tell you alllll of my accomplishments because no matter how small, it's making me better than I was yesterday. So tomorrow when I wake up the words of a sweet friend, who just messaged me on facebook asking where my post is for today, will be my motivation,  "tomorrow is hump day! we're half way through the first week!" Good night everyone!
XO,
Tristen