Yeppers, a bath did it!!!

Gave Chase a bath last night and he is still down for the count at 8:30!!! Man alive, it will be bath night every night!! lol
I will have to post a pic later. My little man has a black eye. He hit right below his eye on a "magic wand", so it has left a shiner. Luckly he didn't hit his actually eye, he hit right below it. My poor little guy!!! He actually got over it pretty quick, but I'll post a pic later.

Figured him out!!

Since we have gotten done with teething, I have figured out what Chase requires to sleep all night.......a bath. Before it started getting hot, I did baths every other night. Well, the nights that he didn't get a bath he would get up, but when he got his bath he would sleep all night. Ahhh, relief and an easy solution!! So you better believe we will be bathing it up, even if it is not needed due to being dirty and sweaty!!! Thank goodness, I've cracked the code. lol

Wasn't even trying.

So, I wasn't even trying but yesterday I didn't have a single drop of Mt Dew. I didn't even think about it at all. I don't have any in the house, but before I would never be caught without it in the house. So, I just thought it was funny how I wasn't even trying and I didn't have any. lol Oh, btw, didn't have any ice cream either. lol

Fell off the face of the Earth...

Okay, so I've been terrible. I've kinda fallen off the face of the earth. I had myself down to where I didn't "need" Mt Dew for the caffine purpose, but what can I say, I love the taste of the stuff. So, I have not given up the Dew, but have cut back A LOT!! I have gone from drinking 48-72oz to drinking 12-24oz a day! I think that is an accomplishment in itself!! I just don't want to give it up completely. That is one thing that I enjoy and I can't take it away. As far as eating good, well no. I need to stop. My number on the scale just keeps climbing, ugh!!! I need to do something, which cutting back on how much I eat would be a fantastic start! Plus that damn ice cream, it gets me everytime. I would probably be fine, but Matt and Emma want it and then I just follow suit. I need to stop!!
My weekend was super nice. Friday, Matt took off and I didn't have my nephews. So we spent some family time together and went to Chuck E Cheese. Emma loved it, actually we all did. It was so much fun, until the melt down Emma had when it was time to go home. UGH! Not fun!! Then Friday night we, uh, I can't even remember. (I suffer from short term memory loss BAD!!) OH wait, me, Emma and my mom-in-law went and bought flowers! Ah, glad I'm not totally loosing it. lol Then Saturday morning we planted them. We still have some more planting to do, which we will hopefully get done this weekend. Then came 2:00 and I dropped the kiddos off at my parents for the night. Matt and I got around and headed off to Olive Garden to celebrate our anniversary (which was Thursday). We have some yummy Chicken Alfredo and a bottle of very very very good wine (and I don't usually like wine unless it is Ice Wine). Which we ended up buying yet another bottle to bring home with us. Yummy!! It didn't make it thru the night. So we finished up 2 bottles that night together.
Sunday we picked the kids up and then had the mom-in-law and Matt's cousin & gf over for a little BBQ. When mom-in-law left Emma wanted to go, so off she went to stay at her house (for the first time ever). Matt, his cousin, cousin gf and I played Playstation till midnight. BTW, us girls kicked the boys butts!!! It was so much fun, we laughed so hard tears where coming and stomachs were hurting!! It was such a great time!! Monday morning Matt took off fishing with his brother at 6am, which left the house to Chase and I. We got up around 8:30ish and played. He is such a little monkey!! When he layed down for his nap I was kinda lost. I really didn't know what to do with myself, I was actually bored. But then he woke up, I went down and got Emma and by the time we got home Matt was back. We cooked out on the grill and just had some family time. It was great!! My weekend was awesome. Matt and I had some us time but we also had some great family time!!
Then comes Tuesday. Wake up, pee and there it was.....blood. I didn't know what to think. Called Matt he didn't know, called mom but she didn't answer, called dad he said to call mom but probably would need to call the doc. Mom called me back and told me to call the doc. So I called the doc and got an appt for 2:30. In the meantime I researched on the interenet..BAD idea!! When I looked it up, it listed 3 different types of cancers amongst other things. But of course the mind goes straight to the bad stuff. So freak me out!! Well, finally 2:30 came. I peed in a cup and everything came back fine. She said it was due to me starting on birth control again, that first starting the pill can lead to mid-cycle bleeding. Thank goodness!! But while I was there she eyed some moles that she said need to come off. I told her that I would get back to her on that, not tood fond of her cutting on me. There are atleast 2, but she hasn't seen my back and mom said there are probably 2 more there that she would want to cut off. Not exactly something that I find fun.
So here we are, Wednesday. My plans are, to get the cleaning I wanted to do yesterday before I had to freak about the blood all day. Hopefully all the kids decide to get along today and no fighting. Oh did I mention that Chase is walking all over the place now?? Yea, he is officially on the move, EVERYWHERE!! So here we go, a new chapter for the books. Now if I could just find a way to get myself to not be so uptight and get so overly worked up over everything. I need to find a way to relax, a way to be able to just let go of all of this frustration and anger that I have from I don't know where. Anyways, so not touching all of that right now. But ok, gonna get started on the whole cleaning thing.

Yesterday and Day 2

So, I didn't keep updating my blog like I was wanting to. Well, my day started to turn into crap so out came the ice cream and some chips. I'm not too worried about that tho, b/c dieting isn't my main priority right now, stopping Mt Dew is. So, the grand total of Mt Dew consumed by me is just under 24oz. Which I must say I am happy about.

Now off to today. I haven't had anything to drink or eat yet. I think I will fix me some eggs and have some water to go with it. First tho, I'm gonna weigh myself. Yesterday I made the mistake of weighing myself throughout the day and it just kept going up, seriously. So I'm curious to see what I weigh before anything gets put into my body. Hopefully it reads less than what it did yesterday.

So here I am starting day #2. Oh did I mention that I am hurting from head to toe? I don't know why, but I am. Plus I'm on the verge of a headache. I woke up (a couple of times) at 2:30 and I felt like I was gonna puke! Hopefully I'm not getting sick!!

Day 1~I will continuously be adding to this post throughout the day!

Okay, so here we are...Monday. Today is going to be day 1! I am only going to drink enough Mt Dew to keep the caffine headache at bay! I've started out the morning with a bowl of cereal and I'm about to open my first bottle of water!
I've heard many people say that they lost a lot of weight just by not drinking pop anymore. Well, I am hoping that is going to be true, b/c I am getting close to my weight that I was the day I delivered Emma!! This time tho, I don't have an extra human growing inside. So here I go, starting my journey and new life style. Hopefully it all goes well.
PS. I did do good yesterday, I turned down going to Shell. We go to shell several times a week and get ice cream. My weakness is a small schmoopie (blizzard) with chocolate ice cream and extra reese cup! That is probably helping my weight out! lol Anyways, I turned it down and I'm not going to be eating those, but maybe once in a blue moon. Can't totally take everything that I love away! lol

9:25~I have drank 16.9oz of water and had my first sip of Mt Dew. (feel the headache coming, so can't go cold turkey. caffine headaches are the worst!!)

10:30~Another sip of Mt Dew.

12:00~Lunch! Spinach salad and a yogurt. Now I'm gonna go grab me a water!!

Pottying it up!!

Okay, so for the last 3 or 4 days Emma has been doing great using the potty! Each day she has only 1 accident!! She is telling me when she has to go and sometimes I just make her sit on the potty and she ends up going!! I am just so proud of her. I hope she stays being a big girl and going in the potty. Once less butt to change and diaper to buy will be great!!! Yeah Emma!!!!

MDA Meeting

Hi, my name is Sarah (everyone says "Hi Sarah"). I have yet to be sober. (lol) I have been using Mt Dew for 10mth now. I drink anywhere from 48 to 72oz of Mt Dew a day. (Yep, this is true) I don't drink it for the caffine, b/c of course I am immune to it now. I drink it for the taste. I love the taste of Mt Dew. If I were to bet, I would say that I have probably only drank 72 to MAYBE 96oz of water in 10mths. If I get thirsty in the middle of the night, out comes the Mt Dew. Get up in the morning, out comes the Mt Dew. If I'm out during the week, I will have my sis-in-law pick me up one on her way to drop off the boys, to get me thru until I can get outta the house to get some more. Since February, when I went off my Yaz and my diarehha stopped, I have gained atleast 10lbs. Of course part of that is b/c my food doesn't go straight thru me, but I'm sure some of that is the amount of Mt Dew that I drink. Of course I know I need to stop drinking Mt Dew or atleast cut WAY back, but I really don't want to stop drinking it. Like I said, I love the taste of Mt. Dew. So, this will be a huge struggle to give up the dew. I have about 8 Mt Dews in the house right now. After those, which will be about Mondayish, I'm gonna try to give it up. I think I will buy a 6 pack or so of those small cans for when I get the caffine headache (those are the worst). So, I will track my progress. Don't hesitate to leave me comments and ask how I am doing, consider yourself my "sponsor". Give me crap, keep reminding me how I need to stop. Thank you. (Everyone claps)
Okay, so there was my little speech you have to give when you are new to the meeting (atleaset that is what the AA meetings look like on tv. lol). So, I'm gonna try it out. I'm gonna try and stop. Pray for me!!

Does it really need a title??

He has this new snooty face, well this is sorda it, but not completely. I was trying to get a pic of the snooty face and this is what I got. Don't he just look like he is saying "You want some of this? I didn't think so!" It is just so hilarious!!!

April showers bring May....showers??!!

One of my friends said "Isn't it April showers bring May flowers?" Well, where are the May flowers?? I think the April showers are running into overtime!!
So, I've had a couple of funny things happen today. First, the microwave. I was getting lunch around for the kids and next thing I know, it just turns on. It turned itself onto the 4oz beverage setting. I shut it off, well actually had to unplug it to get it to turn off. Plugged it back in and a little bit later it did the same thing. Isn't that flippin weird?? Maybe I have ghosts. lol Matt says the old lady that lived here before us died here, but I think he is just trying to freak me out.
Then Chase decided to go toy box diving. I looked up just in time to see his feet fly up in the air. lol If he wasn't crying, I would have taken a pic. I'm not really sure how he managed to do it, but he did. It was funny, but obviously not for him. lol

Make that 8!!!

Yep, Chase now has 8 teeth!! Just felt it today!! 4 top, 4 bottom! Oh my oh my!!

House for Sale!

So, we are wanting to sell our house. We have a few things to finish up on the inside, but that can get done real quick. We found a house, well actually 2, that we like. We just gotta get this house sold first. I'm just not gonna get my hopes up with how the market is right now. Anyways, hopefully we can get it sold!!

7, oh wait I never mentioned 6

Ok, so Chase has broken thru tooth #7, but I forgot to tell ya all about tooth #6. So we have 4 on the bottom, 3 on top and the 4th one on top is super close!! He is just pushing all these teeth thru at once!! He also said his first word, "mama". Oh yea, he said mama first!!! He has said it twice now, once when he was super mad. But now he is moved one and it is "dadadadada". But you know what, oh well, b/c mama was 1st. lol We had a 7 night stretch of sleeping all night, but haven't the last 3 nights. I think it is between his teeth and a possible ear infection. He has been tugging at his ear a little, so I'm thinking I need to get him into the docs and make sure.
This Saturday I get to use my birthday present. I get my swedish massage and facial!! I can't wait, I am so excited!! It will be 2 hours of pure relaxation, it will be awesome!!!
Well, that is about all that is going on here. If I don't post before, I hope all you mommy's have a great Mother's Day on Sunday!!

Some fun pics..

First off, my new haircut and color, which I love!!!