Day 2

I think it's safe to say Insanity is kicking my ass and I'm only on day 2. Muscles I didn't even know I have are aching today. Day 1 was the fit test, and boy was that intense. I'm not going to lie, I had to pause it a couple of times and I struggled to make it through. Day 2 was a little bit longer video, and even more intense. I am going to be aching so bad tomorrow, but hopefully after doing this for a couple weeks my body will adjust and get used to actually working out. I'll keep updating as I progress through this and hopefully start seeing some results.

Insanity

Today my husband and I are going to start the Insanity program. He wants to get into better shape for Ranger school and I just want to get into better shape! I know it's going to be really tough, but I'm hoping that the payoff will keep us going, plus we have each other for encouragement.

We're starting it when he gets home from work so wish us luck! I'll update after we've done a few days.

I'm in a food rut..

I feel like every week I cook the same things over and over. My husband can be kind of a picky eater, he's willing to try new things, but he would be happy to eat steak and potatoes every single day. I need variety, I love cooking/trying new recipes.

My goal is to find enough new recipes that I can cook something new each night for a week. This may be tricky, because a lot of nights I work until 6, so by the time I get home we're both tired and hungry and we just want something quick.

I think this is the main reason we end up in a rut. I'm going to go scour the web for some new recipes to try out and spice things up in my kitchen!

We Made It Official

I am officially married!! It was perfect, except for the fact that a some family and friends I would have loved to have there weren't. But I am just so happy now. Unfortunately the Army had to take a dump on our happy moment and B has a 24 hour duty today :( Boo army! I was more mad at the fact that he wouldn't be able to go see our friends who's going away party was today. He ended up finding somebody to cover for him for a few hours so he could make it to the party.

I still can't believe it's all real and that I'm somebodies wife. I love it so much though. I can't get the smile off my face :)

This Is Where I Live

I realize I've been failing at keeping up lately, life has just been so busy, and I don't forsee it slowing down anytime soon, but I will try harder to keep up.

This past week, my best friend has been here visiting from Minnesota, so of course we had to do all of the touristy things. We visited Seattle, went to the Space Needle and of course the famous Pike Place Market. Dined at The Melting Pot, went shopping, took a trip to the Pacific Ocean. All in all it was a fantastic time and I was very sad to drop her off at the airport this morning.

I will leave you guys with some beautiful photos that sum up why I love living in this beautiful state :)


Gorgeous view of Puget Sound and the mountains




Beautiful boquet of flowers I bought


The Pacific Ocean. Have you ever been some place and it felt like it was exactly where you were meant to be? That's exactly how I feel when I'm near the ocean. I love the salty air, and the sound of sea gulls, the wind blowing off the ocean. I could move to Ocean Shores WA tomorrow and be content for the rest of my life.


Being artsy

Exactly One Month

From now, I will be getting married =D I really really can't believe it!! This means that our reception is only 4 months away, holy crap! I'm starting to feel like I have a lot to do now!

Today is also the day I officially started my diet. I've been thinking about it and talking about it, but I'm finally putting it into action. I just want to feel good about myself again. I thought about joining Weight Watchers, but I just can't justify spending the money every month with everything we have going on right now. So instead I'm keeping a food diary and counting calories. I think it will help me be a lot more aware of what I eat, and also to practice portion control. So hopefully I'll be able to drop some of this extra weight so I can look fabulous for the reception.


And in other exciting news, my best friend booked her flight to visit me over her spring break later this month and I could not be more excited! It will be her first ever time to Washington and it will be so much fun!

I just feel so blessed to have so many exciting things going on in my life right now <3

Another Week Down (almost)

Well the MIL is leaving for Walla Walla tomorrow. I have really enjoyed having her around, but I am ready for my house back. Since the visit was not really planned, my house was not really guest ready. We were in the middle of getting the spare bedroom organized and cleaned out, I had piles of stuff I still had to deal with, along with some piles of stuff that need to go to Goodwill. Most of it still needs to be dealt with. I also bought a file cabinet that needs to go in the spare bedroom (it's current home is the hallway) so I can finally organize all of our important documents.

This has pretty much been a lazy week. I'm on my third day off in a row, and I'm getting a little bored, not gonna lie. I would have rather worked during the week and had the weekend off. Instead, I get the weekdays off and I have to work the weekend. I'm just really hoping I don't have to work on Sunday. I'm going to be mad if I can't go to the superbowl party at our friends house because of work, especially since it's bound to be dead. I mean whose going to come out shopping that day??

In Wedding news, I've picked out the Invitations and found the perfect guestbook. I already had the idea for the guestbook, I found it on this random webiste a long time ago, and just filed it away in my favorites becasue I thought it was really cool. Basically what it is is a print of a big tree with lots of branches, and then I have a couple colors of green ink and all of our guests put a ink thumbprint as a leaf on the tree and then sign their name by it. It will be our wedding tree, and afterwards I'm going to have it framed so it can hang in our house :) I am so incredibly excited for this because I just think it will be the coolest thing, and I have a feeling my guests are going to love it as well. So that brings me to the invitations, I've been struggling to find ones that I really like. So I finally got the idea to go with a tree theme to match the guestbook. I must have some sort of obsession with trees, because I also have a painting of a tree hanging above our bed. But anyway, the invitations have a tree with a heart in the middle with our initials carved in it. I think it's kinda cheesy but really cute. And they're just my style.

I hope all you bloggers have a wonderful Friday and a wonderful weekend! Happy suberbowl! Go Steelers!