Hoppy Easter

We went to my Grandparent's house for Easter Sunday, it's always enjoyable to see the family and spend some time together. I especially like letting Payten have time to get to know her Great-Grandparents!

Doing some serious hunting for all her Easter eggs!!

Her basket FULL of goodies!

Payten and 

her Great-Grandparents!!

I will cherish these pictures forever!

:o)

Family Pictures

Our super beautiful princess  :o)

 

 Swinging, of course, her favorite past time!

 Only the PRETTIEST, BEST smile ever!!!

 

My favorite picture of my sweetheart

Yay, BUBBLES!!

If you ever need someone to do your family pictures, try Tracy Perrett Photography!! You can see more of her work on her website, http://www.tracyperrettphotography.com. She's on Facebook too! She is nice, and we've always been happy with the way our pictures turn out.

i love my family ♥

There are four weeks left of this semester, and then I'll be free until this fall! Then crunch time when it comes to Student Teaching, but wow, AM I READY!! I can finally see the end, and it feels so good. 

This past weekend was the best weekend we'd had in a while. It was full of things to do, but it felt great to really get out of the house and get some things accomplished! Shaun took this past Saturday off, which was nice because he's been working like a crazy person for awhile, so it was great to enjoy him at home. We started the weekend off with Payten's three year pictures at the park, and we could not have asked for a more beautiful time to do them! Payten, of course, had a blast doing this! We enjoyed lunch at Applebee's, ran a few errands, and then visited the 'fast, racer cars' at the Mall. Payten was thrilled about this! She loves the fast cars! And a bonus, the Easter Bunny was at the Mall while we were there, so Payten got her picture taken with him! Yay! She loves him this year! After we finally came home, we relaxed a bit, and then dove into cleaning the house. Yes, I made Shaun do quite a few things, but I am so grateful it is all done! I have so much homework this week, it's nice not having to worry about a messy house as well!! So, thanks so much babe for helping, I really appreciate it :) On Sunday, we started off by enjoying the weather again, but working for my dad. We had to walk around a few areas and pick up twine, as boring as this sounds, it was alright. Payten was so proud each time she found a long piece of twine! Then we rode the go kart around, played on the swing set, washed my car, went to the store, Subway, and came home to shampoo the carpets. After Payten took a GREAT nap (which is an accomplishment anymore, she only takes like a half hour one, or just hangs out in her room to satisfy me..I haven't figured out which yet). Then we just enjoyed the rest of the day by sitting around and watching Amazing Race. It was a perfect, family weekend, and the weekend only made it that much more enjoyable! 

*The only part I would have changed was the crammed, late night of homework I spent doing Sunday night, but that's what I get for procrastinating. The weekend spent with family was well worth it though!! Also, I did not exercise, how much of a slacker am I?   :(

HOPE YOU ALL HAD A FABULOUS WEEKEND AS WELL!!

Seven Day Self Challenge!!

DAY FIVE!!

Phooey...I didn't get any exercise in today! I completely enjoyed a relaxing morning watching T.V. with Shaun and Payten, and then after naptime we went to see HOP! Such a cute movie! After some shopping, we came home to eat some BBQ, watch the ACM awards, and do more homework. Yuck! All in all though, it was a pretty good day.

I AM GOING TO GET UP EARLY TOMORROW MORNING AND EXERCISE   :)

Seven Day Self Challenge!!

DAY FOUR!!!

I failed  :(  Saturday was filled with a TON of homework time (boo), and then we spent some time at our friend's house. So, it was a good day, just not for exercising....Also, I was very sore, so I'm not sure I would have made it through an exercise activity, ha. I'll start back up today! No worries, surely I'm not the only one who doesn't have time to fit exercise into their schedule EVERYDAY! If you can though, good for you!! :) I'll be back later with an update!

Seven Day Self Challenge!!

DAY THREE!!  (Did you think I didn't participate? It is pretty late for an update!)

It was a super late night of homework last night, and my loving daughter slept until 10:00 AM this morning, so I really thought today was going to be bad in the exercise department, but boy, was I wrong!! I went out and got some exercise TWICE today, so excited about it! I feel great about it too! (And this weather just makes it that much easier to really get out and do something.) This afternoon I took a TWO MILE walk with Payten! :) And after some homework, supper, and grocery shopping, I came home and ran OUTSIDE! YES! (Well, I fast walked/ran.) I went for 1.5 MILES and seeing how this isn't an ordinary thing for me, I thought I did pretty well on my walk/run ratio! I'm hoping to keep this up because I am LOVING it!! And I know my daughter completely enjoyed the walk as well :) Also, a soda update: I only had ONE yesterday and ONE today! If I keep this up, maybe someday I'll cut it out completely! YIPPEE!!

three DOWN....four TO GO!!!  :)