the things I have done

I love the idea of a reverse bucket list.
I always think about all the the things I want to do

but I have actually done quite a bit in my life

The reverse bucket list works like this: 

you basically list all of the remarkable things you have done, 

already conquered, already crossed off.

mission trip to haiti

graduated from college with a degree

married my high school sweet heart

bought a house

have two amazing kids

get to be an Auntie

went zip lining

went on a roller coaster
working on overcoming my fear of heights
went to Disneyland as a family

finished my couch to 5k app

*I’m participating in Blogember with A Happy Girl this month.
Today’s prompt? reverse bucket list.

50 random questions

Here is a fun quiz I had filled out back in August 2009 on my facebook page.  

Thought it would be fun to fill out again and compare answers!

50 very random questions answered by me!

1. What time did you get up this morning? 

I didn't run this morning so i got to sleep in a little at 6:40am

2. How do you like your steak? 

medium rare....I don't mind a little pink now

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? 

We went as a family to Monsters University

4. What is your favorite TV show? 

right now Biggest Loser, Parenthood, Top Chef and the Blacklist

5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be? 

somewhere warm and sunny year round

6. What did you have for breakfast ? 

juice made from fruits/veggies

7. What is your favorite cuisine? 

asian, mexican and american

8. What foods do you dislike? 

sea food, sushi, most vegetables 

9. Favorite Place to Eat? 

Asian 1, Bobs or pizza

10. Favorite dressing? 

Ranch, Ranch, and more Ranch! 

11.What kind of vehicle do you drive? 

Jeep 

12. What are your favorite clothes? 

yoga pants everyday!

13. Where would you visit if you had the chance? 

warm sunny places

14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full? 

I am in a good mood so 1/2 full 

15. Where would you want to retire? 

Josh and I have a dream of selling the house, getting a RV and traveling the US. 

Grandkids like RV's right? 

16. Favorite time of day?

night time when all is quiet

17. Where were you born? 

Bellingham,wa 

18. What is your favorite sport to watch? 

well....I guess football or whatever the kids are playing!

19. Bird watcher? 

not really 

20. Are you a morning person or a night person? 

not really either but i would choose night

21. Pets? 

no, kids and a husband are enough work :) 

22. Any new and exciting news that you'd like to share? 

I get to go to Leavenworth for a birthday getaway next Friday!

23. What did you want to be when you were little? 

always knew I wanted to work with kids 

24. What is your best childhood memory? 

most memories with my family and friends

25. Are you a cat or dog person? 

neither 

26. Are you married? 

yes! 

27. Always wear your seat belt? 

ALWAYS 

28. Been in a car accident? 

yes a couple in high school go figure 

29. Any pet peeves? 

oh my yes!

Being cold, when my pants get wet on the bottom, when kids ask for more

food take a bite then say they are full, my kids ask me a question, I respond, they say what,

I start repeating and they say I know.....I could go on and on I am sure

30. Favorite pizza topping? 

canadian bacon and pineapple, bbq chicken, chicken with white sauce, 

bacon can be added to any of those! 

31. Favorite Flower? 

honestly not a big flower person 

32. Favorite ice cream? 

probably cookie dough but really try not to eat it 

33. Favorite fast food restaurant? 

try not to eat it but either taco bell or taco time

34. How many times did you fail your driver's test? 

past the first time 

35. From whom did you get your last email? 

Michelle's teacher with her math homework assignment

36. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card? 

Amazon!

37. Do anything spontaneous lately? 

bringing Michelle and her friends to the movies tonight

38. Like your job? 

Love it! 

39. Broccoli? 

I don't mind it cooked

40. What was your favorite vacation? 

Going to the ocean as a child, probably Disneyland with kids as an adult 

41. Last person you went out to dinner with? 

Josh

42. What are you listening to right now? 

people talking at Woods.....really wish I had brought my headphones

43. What is your favorite color? 

don't really have a fav but choose pink or black stuff a lot 

44. How many tattoos do you have? 

none, to permanent for me.

45. Do you like to use post-it notes?

I LOVE post it notes!

46. Ever gotten a speeding ticket?

oh dear...more then once

47. Have you ever won a giant sized cuddly toy from a fair?
Josh has for me in high school. He even sprayed it with his cologne so I could
always smell him. Oh young love.

48. What is your usual bedtime?

I try to go to sleep around 10 'o clock on week nights.
The weekends I tend to stay up until 1 or 2 in the morning.

49. What time did you finish this quiz? 

7:33pm

50. Coffee Drinker? 

Yes! I just finished a yummy caramel macchiato

teacher conferences

Tonight we had back to back teacher conferences for the kids.

First off we had Michelle's at the middle school.

Her conference was actually led by her.

She has been prepping for a month getting stuff ready.

She did a great job sharing her goals, areas she enjoys, areas she can

approve and so on. We went over her grades and she is getting mostly A's

and a few B's.  She does great on day to day work.  We just need to work

on tests and studying to get those B's up to A's.  Which is her main goal for

her 2nd trimester.  Her favorite subject was art and making pots, drawing/sketching

and this last week they designed their own stamp. It turned out really cool.

She also really enjoyed doing poetry in language arts.

Second trimester she will lose art and music to start drama and PE.

We left Michelle's conference grabbed a pizza and crazy bread then dropped the kids

at home before rushing to Jordan's. We made it right on time!
His conference went well and teacher had mostly great things to say about him.
He doing awesome in all subjects! He likes to work mostly on his own.
He has a harder working in groups and doesn't like to speak up.
She said when given an assignment he gets right to work, stays on task and quickly finishes.
She also said he has super neat handwriting!
He is having a hard time in PE and music with following directions and participation.
Since he was a young lad he never liked to try new things that he though he couldn't do.
I think this is now greatly affecting him in school.
When they learn a new concept in one of these classes he doesn't want to try.
He has approved a ton in PE once I was aware of the problem
and stayed in touch with teacher and talked with Jordan.
We are now going to do the same thing with music.
Explain to him what we expect of him and that I will be in touch with his teacher.
If he doesn't improve he loses every single electronic item in the house until
I hear about a great improvement. This means even on the weekends which is a huge
deal to Jordan.  I hate hearing he is being a turd at school and not behaving in class.
He enjoyed knowing I was checking in with his PE teacher and hearing great things
about his so really hope he changes in music too. There is a ton to be the class clown
and a time to sit, listen and follow directions.  Nip in the butt now before it goes on to long.

Both conferences went great.
Kids are both doing good in all subject!
It was nice that Josh and I got to go together.
Jordan made a super cute weekend news paper I wish I could share but the teacher kept it
It read something about how is weekend was awesome and that he got to watch the Seahawks.
He wrote who they played and that they had won!
He even had a picture of the teams playing with a scoreboard!

next week is thanksgiving....say what?

Haven't blogged for a few days so figured I should give a quick update on life.

Josh is off coaching Jordan's basketball practice so it is a little quiet here.

I haven't really picked up my camera in several weeks so don't really have

any fun new pictures to share.

This weekend came and went super fast.

Friday night Josh coached Jordan basketball team practice.

Saturday morning I went hunting for Magic Tree house books for

Jordan's growing collect, came home and took a much needed nap.

Josh and I went later to dinner and bowling for a friend of ours birthday!

I had my first non juiced food for dinner. 

We went to Asian 1 and I got the garlic broccoli with beef.

It was amazing and yummy.

I was good and drank water all through bowling.

Later when we got home Josh of course brought up 

the mother load of snacks but I continued to be good and ate an apple.

Sunday I went to Costco to stock up on veggies and fruit.

When I got home Josh was just pulling steak off the BBQ

and had made twice baked potatoes. I was starved so I dug right in.

I had some steak and shared a potato with Michelle.

I am on a juice for breakfast and lunch and eat dinner now.

I need to go back to all juicing because I feel better then

but I know I need to keep food in my diet to.

Last night Josh bought a ton of pizza for Monday night football.

I left before eating any but when I came back I couldn't stay away.

Starting tomorrow through next Wednesday the kids have early release every day.

Ugh. I would rather they just had a whole day off then early release.

Thursday we have parent conferences for both the kids!

Josh is actually going to make it to both with me this year.

I can't believe next week is Thanksgiving already!

We are going to the my parents house this year.

Then on Friday Josh and I are going to leave early

to celebrate my birthday in Leavenworth/Wenatchee until Monday!

It is a weekend early but all the weekends in December are booked.

That is what we have been up to in a Nut shell.

I have a couple of things I have been planning/organizing for the Christmas

season that I will share with you all soon!

5 pounds...whoop...whoop

{This never got posted last night so finishing it up today!}

Tonight ends my 3 day juice cleanse!

The reason I chose 3 days is because I thought 

I would never be able to do it and would never last.

Well I proved myself wrong. It was way easier then I thought.

Well the prep of making all the juices was time consuming 

but other then that easy! I never craved for a thing.

It wasn't hard for me to make meals for the family and not eat it.

I even went to bunco last night and didn't eat a single snack.

I think most of my eating habits are just it is there and I can eat it if I want to.

I don't need to eat it but I can so I will.

I need to break away from that.

Just because there is a piece of garlic bread left from dinner

doesn't mean I have to eat it. It can either get thrown away

or stored in the fridge. 

I don't have to lick, taste, nibble and

eat because it is in front me.

I am a live to eat instead of an eat to live.

I ready to change that around and this has proved I can do it.

The only "side effect" I had from cleansing I was 

cold all the time and I did go to bed last night and wake up this morning with a head ache.

For the next few days I am going to eat only fruits and veggies

and homemade dressings that are dairy free.

We will see how that goes. As I have said before the more options

I have the harder  it is for me to stay on track. I don't want to stray back

to just eating anything I want just because I can.

Today {Thursday} I am starting my first day of juicing and a little eating.
I had my juice around 8:30 am and then around 11 I started getting hungry.
I am slowing eating some cut up potatoes that were baked in olive oil
last night. Usually when I eat I eat really fast but now I find myself taking a bite
and feeling satisfied. I don't need to have the next bite ready to shovel in.
This is all so new and not normal for me.
I feel I have already created some new habits of the good.
I went and cleaned up my pinterest boards this morning.
I didn't crave a single thing I pinned and had no problems deleting old ones.
I am at this point scared of following back into my old ways if I give myself
an inch. We will see. I will keep updating and not make this my everyday topic.
In the three days I juiced I lost 5 pounds which is a great jump start on the 25
I would like to lose! I plan to stick with this plan for another two weeks!
I will also be continuing to run 3 days a week. On the days before I run I will
eat some cooked veggies or a veggie only salad to help fuel up for this!

juice for the day

I am almost to the end of day one of my juice cleanse.

Right now I have Josh munching away on chips

right next to me on the couch while I drink my "dessert" of apples and carrots.

My goal is small and is to last three days.

If I feel up for it I will extend it until Friday for five days.

I made all my juice for the day this morning.  

That really helped for when hunger hit.

This picture shows about one meals worth of fruits and veggies.

 Surprisingly today wasn't that bad at all. It helps I stay

pretty busy and don't have a lot of down time.

I did have a couple times where I felt really hungry but

then I would get busy doing something and it would pass.

I kept up with water a lot today too.

I do better being very limited in what I can have.

If I have to many options and more likely to stray off course.

It was hard to make meals for others that I knew I wouldn't 

get to eat but I think tomorrow is going to be a lot harder then today.

I am following the reboot plan which you can check out here.

Simple Snapshots

This Friday I got to have my little nephew over for a bit.

I just love this little guy to pieces.

He is just the happiest little guy.

The only time I see him get fussy is when it is time to eat or sleep.

He is a great snuggle buddy and is content hanging out on your lap

chewing on my sweat shirt strings. Usually he is tortured by kissing

on his adorable cheeks. He usually loves it and I can get some laughs 

out of him.  He reminds me at times of Jordan as a baby. He "almost"

makes me want to have another baby. No ideas though that is not going to happen.

Just look at this sweet adorable face.

Sorry in advance for the cuteness overload but I couldn't narrow them down.

 

linking up to Sunday Snapshot and Simple Things Sunday