Mid-Term Goals

I can't believe that it is already mid-term for the semester. Only 6 weeks left of school and then it is on to bigger and better things, hopefully, if Jared finds a job soon. This has been a good semester so far. I enjoy my classes for the most part, but I love love love my water aerobics and swimming class. I haven't lost any weight (which I am really sad/mad about), but I have saved myself about 20 million heart beats this year. Pretty much is you manage to get your heart beat/pulse down 5 bpm, you save 5 million heart beats per year. I went from 88 bpm down to about mid-high 60's bpm. I am super stoked, and yes I was super out of shape. But I am working on it. Now all I need to do is get Jared to start working out, then we should be good.

My goal by the end of this semester is to lose at least 5 pounds, preferably 10 pounds. On top of my water aerobics and swimming classes, I am going to start hitting the gym and do some weight lifting and running/elliptical as well as some classes. We shall see though. I recently found out that my mother-in-law has lost 25 pounds, which I am totally proud of her. She has been running/walking everyday. She has been my motivator for me to pick up my slack. If she is going to be looking good this Christmas, then so am I, lol!

6 months and finally finished!!!

So its been about 6 months I have finally finished my cross-stitching baby blanket. It took so long but I have finally finished, you don't know how big of a relief that was; definitely the biggest project I have done in a long while. I had such a blast making this. I am going to be putting a back to it made out of that new minkee fabric (the yellow swath is what I have picked out) and then put a satin binding along the edges, I picked a light green.

So the blanket up top is for our little girl (in the future). Below, I have already pick the blanket that I wanna do for our little boy (in the future). The fabric swath's are the colors that I would like to do that backing, but I think it would be fun to do like a giraffe print or zebra print that went with it. I couldnt find a picture of any.

Now all I need to do is finish up my blanket and start on the second.

New Pictures

Jared and I have finally taken more pictures of just the two of us. We have been needing to take pictures cause all we have are wedding/engagement pictures with the two of us. These pictures were taken by jared's brother, jake. And for not being a photographer, we think jake did pretty well and we did get a few good shots.

School

Well school officially started on Thursday of last week and it is hard/weird adjusting my lifestyle to school. So far I like all my classes except one. I am taking:

Nutrition

Public Speaking

Parenting

Pregnancy (no I am not prego)

Swimming

and Water Aerobics

I love my nutrition class, water aerobics and swimming. I am so wanting to get back into shape this semester and that is one of my major goals that I am hoping to accomplish. I have kinda let myself go since I got married :)

I am hoping that it will be a good semester; for the both of us! Jared sounds like he will enjoy all his classes, plus he is a TA (teacher's assistant) for his favorite teacher, so he is also enjoying that as well. Work is still work and I am kept busy all day it seems.

New Hair

So the last couple of month I have been debating about whether or not to dye my hair lighter. I have always gone darker, but never lighter, and I have gone through browns, purple/pinks, and reds. Blonde is a completely different territory. I have always been scared to go blonde. So I finally made an appointment and got highlights and started subtle before going for the big blonde change.

Before the appointment...

...after the appointment!

The lighting isn't to great so my hair looks orange, but you can see the blonde. I absolutely love it.

I think I will do more blonde next time I decide to dye my hair again.