Easter, Wedding and more....

It has been too long again since I have written anything but I am going to try very hard to post in here as often as I can. It really is a stress reliever for me to be able to come on here and vent or just talk about anything. I do not want to make it this a place where all I do is come and get my frustration out thought so I am hoping that I will have lots of good things to come post in here as well. I should considering that I am getting married in less than a year!!!!!!

Easter

Wow, we had a blast yesterday for Easter. We went out to Joshua and had a huge gathering of family and extended family. The guys spent the majority of the time shooting, a lot of us ladies worked on the cooking and just chatting, and the kids had fun running all over the place and even doing some shooting. Dinner was so good and the egg hunt, that was awesome. My first egg hunt with Chris's family was last year and one of their traditions is to have a golden egg and in the golden egg there is $20. This egg gets hidden in an unusual or very hard spot to find. Last year my beautiful  niece through a fit because she didn't find the egg so this year I decided to bring in a tradition that I had when I was little. We would have eggs that were numbered and those eggs had different amounts of money in them. We would have one special egg with our name on it. You could only pick up your own egg. If you found someone else's egg you would have to leave it along. This went great, no fits thrown for not finding the golden egg. Definitely gonna have to keep this one up.

Wedding

So I have bought my dress. It is completely paid for and sitting at my sister's house. I was so happy when I went and paid it off!! I will need to take it back to David's Bridal in January so I can get it fitted. Take it in if I need to just in case I have lost more weight/fat but definitely have to get the strap fixed for the halter part and get the bottom hemmed up.


On Saturday we went and looked at bridesmaid dresses and I picked two of them. My Maid of Honor is wearing the dress on the right and my other two Bridesmaids are wearing the dress on the left. We were looking at them having short dresses but we couldn't find one that we absolutely loved.  I wanted their dress to be a bit different than my Maid of Honor and that is why I am doing it this way. These are not the colors that they will be wearing. They will actually be in the color horizon (blue).

To see the color the girls will be wearing, here is a picture of another dress in the correct color.

And here is the dress my flower girl is going to wear. She had such a blast trying on dresses and then dancing on the little stage they have there. LOL She is also going to be wearing the blue.

The dresses are bought for my two bridesmaids and my flower girl. My maid of honor has set a date at the end of June to go get her dress. She is wanting to lose some more weight before she orders cause they can only take a dress in two sizes.

Weight loss/Stress

So I haven't lost any more weight and I am bouncing between two numbers right now. I will gain a pound and then lose it. I know my weight will vary and that is why I am not stressing over it but it is frustrating. I am really scared I am going to put on all the weight I worked so hard to take off and I am worried because of how stressed I am here lately. No the wedding is not the cause of my stress. Let's just say that I have a couple of roommates because I am a good person and let them stay with us until they can get a job and get out on their own. Well I didn't realize that it would be so stressful and I am doing something I have never done before. I am becoming a stress eater. And when I eat due to stress I am eating lots of sugary things. But I have made a promise to myself that I am going to be very good an watch what I eat right now. I just hope that I can continue.

Ok, well I got things I got to do so time to run. I will do my best to blog soon.

School, wedding, and life in general

Howdy anyone who reads this. LOL I told myself when my bestie revamped my blog that I was going to get in here and post more often but life has been so crazy that I just haven't done that yet. I miss blogging and really want to try and keep this up, besides it is a good way to get my frustrations out instead of letting it all build up inside. And it is a good way to share all my good news going on in my life.

First let me start off with school. Sabrina and Clayton brought home their report cards. Clayton got all Bs and no Ns this six weeks. Bs are good and I am proud of him but I know he can do so much better than that. So I asked him to make it a goal to bring home some As this next six weeks. I was especially proud that he didn't get a N this six weeks because that boy is a talker and he loves being the class clown which gets him in trouble.  Sabrina did fantastic. She got one C, two Bs, and four As for the six weeks. For the semester she brought home four Bs and three As. So she did very good and I am proud of her. I did get after her for her C and told her it better get brought up this six weeks. She finished off her professional communications class and has started Health this six weeks. She is very happy to be done with the professional communications class because she hated getting up in front of the class to give reports. LOL As far as Colton and school, I am not sure how that is going and Dakoda, well I was just recently told that he has been cutting his clothes at school and not wanting to do his work. I talked to him about it this weekend and lets home that he starts doing what he needs to be doing.

Wedding... well the planning is coming along. I am getting so excited. I put the down payment down on my wedding dress. I went two different weekends looking. On the second weekend we were looking at several smaller shops, some we could find and some we couldn't. I tried on a few more dresses and none of them stacked up the one at David's Bridal that I really liked. So I finally told my sister that I just wanted to go back there and try that dress on again. This time my two sis-n-laws were with me and they were getting to see it too. Since I didn't have an appointment they told us they would try to squeeze us in. I explained to them that I just wanted to try that one dress back on and possibly purchase it. Guess that got me in a little faster. LOL So I got my same consultant as the last time and she knew exactly what dress I wanted and went and pulled it. I got dressed and showed my sis-n-laws and they both started tearing up. They both agreed that was my dress. So I rang the bell and went and put my down payment down on my dress. Now I have 60 days to pay it off. LOL Here it is... Hope you like it. I know I do!!!!  I am so ready to walk down the isle wearing my beautiful gown. I got it just like it is, ivory. They don't have to do much in alterations... well as long as I don't lose any more weight. LOL They will just need to hem up the bottom as I am too short and fix the halter as it is too long where it hooks.

Now on to life in general. For the most part life has been really good. But there has been some not so good moments. Yesterday my Uncle Keith passed away. It wasn't anything sudden and not expected but still it shocked me when I got the phone call. I do look at it like this, he is no longer suffering. He has been in the hospital since October and mainly in ICU. At one point they had moved him to his own room but just recently he went back to ICU. I knew he wasn't doing well but I didn't realize it was as bad as it was. I will know today for sure when the viewing and funeral will be.

Another not so great thing going on is that my Uncle Terry is not doing so well either. His liver has shut down and he is now on dialysis. He spent three days in the hospital getting his first three treatments. They sent him home after the third one. Well almost a week later he was admitted to the hospital again due to him going into congestive heart failure and his lungs filling with fluid. It is really hard to lose anyone in your family but when I lose him, it will hit me harder than anything. I remember when I was pregnant with Sabrina and I didn't know what I was having yet. We were over at their house visiting and he told me that if I named my baby Terry then the baby will have everything that he/she would ever want. LOL

On to some good life news. A good friend of mine had to give birth to her baby seven weeks early. She is doing wonderfully. They moved her out of the incubator and have put her in a regular crib now. She is up to 4 lbs 8 oz and just keeps on gaining the weight and growing. She is such a little cutie. Too bad they live so far away cause I sure would love to hold her. :)

Oh one last bit of good news and then I have to close this out. My baby brother is finally moving back to Texas!!!! I am so excited. I have been waiting for this day for so long. Him and his family will be here around February 24th or 25th. They will be staying with me in my house until they can get a place of their own. It is gonna be a little crowded but so worth it.

Ok, got to get back to work. Until next time... which will hopefully be in a few days. :)

New Year, New Blog & More

Happy New Year!!! Yes I know it isn't the first but it is close enough right. Hehe. How do you like my new look? My Bestie revamped my blog for me and I am LOVING it!!! I think she did a fabulous job. With the new year here, I like to reflect on my year last year and as I do that I realize that I have so many good things that have happened.
    1st thing: I had a few ups and downs with my son. He was living with me, then he went to his Dad's and then within a couple of months being there he came back to me. I was heart broken at first but I understood why he did what he did but am glad it didn't take him very long to realize that he is meant to be with me right now. That boy, I love him so much... not that I don't love my others... it is just he is so much like me and he makes me smile when I am sad and is always making me life. I didn't realize how empty my life was while he was with his dad. But like I was trying to point out, the good thing is he is back with me!!!
    2nd thing:I lost 29 pounds. I had a weight loss goal of 30 pounds and I may not have hit 30 but I think 29 pounds is really damn close. :) I had my ups and downs with my diet, well I wouldn't call it a diet exactly as I wasn't really eating diet food but changing the way I eat things and eating healthier food. I started out in a size 14 in jeans and I am now down to a size 8. Man I am so very proud of myself and I feel so much better than I did when I started. Granted I am not done. I do want to try to get down atleast one more size this year.
    3rd thing: I would say that this thing was the best way to end 2012. I got engaged!!!! Yes finally, after 3 years being with a wonderful man, he finally asked me to marry him. I was really hoping for it but was beginning to think he would never do it. It was my birthday, we are at work. He had already gotten me flowers for my birthday. I had no clue what else he was going to get me because I hadn't really asked for anything or pointed anything out. Figured that maybe we would go clothes shopping later. Hehe. I am getting ready to go get lunch and he asked me when I wanted to get my birthday gift from him. I told him whenever he was ready to give it to me. He tells me that he was really nervous that I would not like what he got me but I have never not liked anything he has gotten me. He has really good taste in things. Well me and my niece go to get lunch and the boys stayed at the shop. While I was gone, he put my present in my desk but I didn't find this out until a couple of hours later. It was funny cause my niece went out to the garage and then she comes back in asking for a truck key: I keep spares in my desk drawer sometimes. Well I open and look to the right as that is where I keep the keys. She says, Tina are you that blonde. I look at her with a confused look on my face and she points down at my drawer.. I look back in and in the left hand corner is a beautiful silver box with a bow on it. I open it up and I find the most beautiful ring. Bethany, my niece, asked me if that is what she thought it was. With tears filling up my eyes, I said what else would it be for. She went and got Chris for me as I couldn't move. I was froze. Chris came in and I have tears running down my face.. good tears of course. I asked him, are you going to put this on me or you gonna make me do it. Of course he came over and put it on the left hand ring finger so that is when I knew for sure he was asking me to marry him. Of course I said yes and gave him the biggest hug I could and a kiss. Then the silly man says, ok babe, I have to get back to work. LOL

So as you can see, I had some really good things happen to me last year and I am hoping for more wonderful things to come in 2013. I am sure you will see lots of posts about my upcoming wedding throughout the year. Hehehe I am so excited and am doing all I can as soon as I can so it doesn't all sneak up on me in the end
     This is what I have so far. We have set the date (March 8,2014). I have my maid of honor, my sister Sherri. I have my flower girl, my niece Kailyn and my ring bearer, my son Dakoda. My daughter Sabrina is one of my bridesmaids. My colors are going to be a shade of green and a shade of blue. I am leaning a lot towards the color clover for the green. And I may or may not have found my dress. LOL
     About the dress, I went dress shopping today and in two dresses I got all teary eyed but with the second one the tears really started to flow. I want to look a little more and I really wanted my Mom to see the dress before I decided 100% sure on it and get her opinion. I think I am going to check out a couple of more stores and see if they have one that will get that 10 as this other one is at a 9 to a 9.5. There is only one more thing that would make it a perfect 10 and they unfortunately can't do that so I want to look and see if I can find it.

Last thing I shall say tonight is I have set two resolutions this year. First one is that I want to go down one more pant size atleast and the second one is I want to get more organized at work and at home. This one is going to be real hard for me but I am going to try really hard. 

Well my eyes are telling me it is time for me to hit the hay so until next time!!!