I HAVE COMMITTED......

Ok, I started all over again. I did day 1 yesterday and so today is my day 2. I have done my workout already for this morning and I feel great. I mean I am sore but I feel great, last night I was actually able to do 4 decline pushups which is great for me. This morning I got up early to do plyo (the mother of all workouts) because I knew that I would be busy getting ready for my parents and sister to come tomorrow. I can't wait for them to get here. But I am going to have to be strong and workout while they are here. But I know my mom will speak up when I start to slack. Anyways I am going to get back to work, but just wanted to let you all know that I am back on track. The biggest loser competition has ended and I ended up in the negatives. I actually weighed more at the end then I did in the beginning. Which is why I am back at working out. I decided that I need to not be so strict with my eating because that just makes me want the bad stuff more. So I am just going to make healthier choices and keep on working out.

Love you all

I've been very bad

Well...I am backa t it again. It has taken me this long after our honeymoon to realize that I need to get back on the wagon. I started again on Monday, not doing P90X but back into the eating healthy. I think we are going to need to wait until Morgan is done school at the end of this month to re-start P90X. He is just to tired when he gets home to give that much effort into a workout. So we WILL start again at the end of this month. The weigh in after the honeymoon WAS NOT good, I have still overall lost 5 pounds, but I gained three back(which put me to number 17 on the charts from number 7) After seeing that I kinda lost my motivation. I told Morgan, after that much of a set back do I just give up or push REALLY hard. So it took me a week to decide that I just really need to push hard. We are going to Hemphill this weekend for Easter (where we got married) to Morgans grandparents house. I love going to see his family and I can't wait to spend a long weekend with them (and beat them in mexican train) I also love eating the food up there. However I am going to be good this weekend. Morgan and I just bough a food saver, so I am going to make all of my meals for the weekend on Wednesday night and put them in food saver bags and then I can put them in a cooler and have all my healthy meals, in the right proportions. All I will have to do is open the bags and heat up my meals. I am just going to have to avoid all of the other temptation that I know will be there. I was doing really good yesterday, and I mean REALLY good until I got home and there was a parcel from my mom on the door step with homemade cookies in it( THEY WERE AWESOME) but I'm not sure if it was just because of the fact that I knew my mom made them. You know I have been thinking about my parents a lot lately, they are just the most amazing people. You really don't know how lucky you are until you live far away and don't get to see them and joke around with them all the time. But I really am the luckiest person ever to have the parents that I have. Anyways I am at work so no crying aloud. Anyways back to my weight loss. I am only up by 3 pounds so it is doable to get back down. I just really need to find the motivation, I really just want to go home and eat cookies and snuggle up on the couch with my husband and kiddos. But I am going to go home and workout, and I am going to bring my vidoes with me to Hemphill this weekend. Pawpaw you will have to make me do them.

Anyways I am rambling.Sorry I haven't blogged in FOREVER, but I am back.

Love ya'll
Jess

Our Honeymoon

Well we are back from Mexico safe and sound. We had a great time, we stayed at the Barcelo La Jolla De Mismoloya. We weren't very impressed with the food, but it was ok. Breakfast was great. I really enjoyed the fresh fruit and fresh smoothies every morning. There was alot of fresh fish, which we both enjoyed. We really only had two days where we didn't have anything scheduled. We got there Monday after lunch, so we didnt really do anything we were exhausted. Tuesday we had a full day to do NOTHING, and instead we decided to take a walk into the town of Mismaloya, we were told to take a right after we left our resort. Well we did and we ended up walking along the highway for about 25 minutes (it was supposed to be a 15 minute walk) so we got a taxi and went back to the resort. We later found out that cross the road from our hotel the road forks and then we go right. But anyways we went into Puerto Vallarta-downtown instead, and did a little shopping, we laid out in the sun for awhile and had dinner. We were pretty much in bed by 9 every night...we are getting old you know. But we were also up by 7 every morning. At the resort you can buy these pots that are unfinished they are just clay and they have a spot where you sit and paint them, after you are finished they take them over night and put them into a kiln and fire them so they come out shiney. So I think we ended up doig a total of 6-7 pots. Well they aren't all pots, we each did a little jar for the kids, we also made salsa bowl, chip bowl, and a small plate,k plus a little bowl for my jewelry. Wednesday we laid around all day getting some sun, and that night we went on the Pirate ship. What a blast. I had done the pirate ship with Morgan family 2 years ago, but it was new to Morgan. I had forgotten that they made three girls to up on stage and sing a mexican song with an ice cube in their mouth. How funny..glad I didn't get picked. Thursday we went back into town to look for some more stuff for the kiddos, and that night we had dinner reservations at one of the restaurants at the hotel. Friday we went on what is called the outdoor adventure, you ride a mule up the mountain, then go down the mountin by zip lines and repelling down waterfalls, and free falling off of cliffs by a rope, and zip lining into rivers and hiking back up the mountain. It was SO much fun. I think that was my favourtie part of the trip. You get to meet some great people. We made some great friends that we hope to keep in touch with on that excursion. Saturday was our last full day and so we celebrated our anniversary that day. We went and had a massage together in the morning on the balcony over looking the ocean. It was wonderful. That night we went to Rythems of the Night on a private beach which is only lite up by candels, no electricity except for the show that they put on. It was so romantic. We also went to the local zoo on Saturday. It wasn't a very pretty zoo but you were able to get so close to the animals. I got to hold and play with a baby panther and Morgan got to play with a baby lion. We got to see lots of animals and get closer to them there than at a zoo here. Anyways you can view the pictures either on facebook or I have more on photo bucket..you do not need a membership to view them here.

The website is http://s632.photobucket.com/albums/uu47/mjtomlinson/
If you have troubles viewing them let me know.

I love you all. Thanks for all the anniversary wishes.

Yeah ME!!!!

So Today was our weigh in day before Spring break. I was kinda concerned because I haven't been that great at working out last weekend and I have only worked out once this week so far. But as you can see on my tracker I am not officially down 8 pounds. I am down in inches as follows:
Waist- Down 1.5
Abs- Down 2.75
Hips- Down 1.25
Neck - Down 1
My Biceps and Thighs have stayed the same so far but I hear that you loose what you put on last first so that would make sense. Anyways I am so excited I am sure that I can drop another 2 pounds to be under 190 before we leave for Mexico. I can't wait to lay around the pool and sip water and eat fresh fruit and go running on the beach and swimming. I am going to try to remain active. Anyways back to work I go. Thanks for all of the comments Everyone.

Love you all

The cutest nut ever

We went to go see Seths play last night. Morgan went home sick so he put some stew in the crockpot so that by the time we got home last night it was ready so that was awesome. But Seth was the cutest nut. There were lots of people there so at times he was kinda hard to see. He never actually had any parts on stage, but he sang all of the songs. Some of the actions he didn't do because he said that he was embarrassed. But during this one song they had to sing "We're tough we're mean we're squirrels" Well he wasn't embarrassed during that song because he was going all out it was HILARIOUS. But we got home at about 7:30 last night we ate and then I actually got a chance to workout. I was done working out at about 8:45 and by the time I was done working out everyone was asleep including Morgan. He took some prescription medication that the DR. gave him yesterday and it knocked him out. He didn't even set an alarm when he went to bed so he was an hour late getting to work this morning, but I think he feels a little better so that is good. Only 5 more days and we leave for Mexico..I can't wait. I am so excited to not have anything to worry about for 1 whole week except for how long I want to tan before I flip to the other side. Anyways gotta get to work.

Tomorrow is weight in day so we will see how I've done tomorrow.
Wish me luck

Only 6 more days

So we only have 6 more days until we leave on our honeymoon. I am getting VERY excited, however I really wanted to be able to workout everynight until we go just to put in that extra attempt to look good in my new bathing suit. So we didn't workout all weekend because we were running around all day both days. I did however get a great workout in Friday afternoon. So I figured thats ok I will just start Monday as a new day, I don't want to give up just because I missed a workout I just need to get myself back on track. We have the munchkins this week so things are a little bit (and by a little bit I mean a lot) more hectic than normal. So we started off last night, both kids have piano lessons on Monday nights. So the origional plan was that Morgan was going to take the kids and I was going to go home and go tanning, workout, and have dinner ready by the time they got home. No Sweat. Well then Morgan called and he was taking longer at the bank than he though he would. So I did my 6 minute tan, went to the bank to meet him and pick up the kids. I got the kids well they didn't have their piano books with them. So we had to drive home real quick, get their books and grab a snack because I was STARVING. Well this is the first time that I have ever taken them usually Morgan or Kathy takes them. But that doens't matter so I didn't know how to get there. Morgan explain the dubdivision to me he said once I get into the subdivision to take the first right. Well the frist right brings you around in a circle. So I just had to drive around and ask someone if they knew where this persons house was. I finally found it. Seth went in for his lesson first. He is supposed to go for like 45 minutes I think. Well he went in at 6:10 and didn't get out until 7:25. Skylar then went in and she only goes for 30 minutes. Well after Seths lesson him and I are sitting there talking and I think hey if I call Morgan he can give me Seths spelling words and we can be working on them while we are waiting for Sky. So I call Morgan he gives me the spelling words. He then calls me back about 2 minutes later and says "Ask Seth about the play he is supposed to be in tomorrow" So I ask Seth "Seth do you have a play tomorrow?" to which Seth says "Yeah a Nut play and squirrel play" really ok well Morgan and I won't be able to go because we both have to work. Morgan then asks" Ask Seth about the Costume that he is supposed to have by tomorrow" WHAT HE NEEDS A COSTUME BY TOMORROW? So I ask Seth what kind of costume he needs. He says he needs a nut costume. So I ask him what kind of nut..a walnut, a peanut...what kind of nut...to which he says "None of those I just need to be a regular nut" HAHAHAHA ok well we can just send you just the way you are..hahahaha So we get home at 8:30 Morgan has dinner ready, I inhale some food. Morgan then informs me that Tori (Seths mom) has known about this play and has failed to make him a costume or tell us that we needed to make a costume. Which makes me angry becasue he can't be the only kid without a costume, and it isn't his fault. So at that point I am determined to make him the best nut I can make with the time limit that I had to make it in. So I went to wal-mart and got some poster board and some felt and a hot glue gun and some pipe cleaners, and I think it turned out pretty darn good. I took apicture last night when I finished, I will try to figure out how to post pictures on this thing so you can all see. Anyways there is my rant for today. The point of the story, I still didn't get to workout. So maybe tonight after baseball and the 7:00 play performance will get a chance. Thanks for listening.

Love you all

Busy Weekend

We had a very busy weekend this weekend. We finished getting all the things we need for our vacation next week..only 8 more days. We went from place to place to place trying to find shorts and bathing suits for our trip. How incredibly FRUSTRATING. If really is not fun when you go into store after store after store and don't fit into any of the biggest sizes. Poor Morgan I got so frustrated that I started crying after about 7 hours of shopping on Saturday. We finally found me some shorts and a nice dress to wear. I just wanted to look good for my honeymoon. So I have some new motivation for the next week. I am going to get up at 5 in the morning tomorrow to make sure that I get my workout in. The kids are going to San Antonio with Randy and Kathy (Morgans Parents) and they leave on Friday, so I need to have their lauddry done and packed by Thursday night. I think that I might take Thursday off just to give me an extra day to get that done. Not sure yet though, it might be good for me to be at work to keep my mind off of our vacation. I think I am going to be going crazy by Friday. The girls at work are going to have to wear earplugs. So I am up typing on this blog because I can't sleep. Partly because of the time chage it doesn't feel late enough yet. But partly because I feel like I have so much to do. We were gone pretty much all day everyday this weekend so I didn't get the things done around the house that I normally do. I didn't even have a chance to workout on Saturday or today. So I am going to have to eat real well and workout like crazy this week, of course we got the kids back last night so that makes working out a little harder. But I am going to have to fit it in somewhere. Morgan bought me this really pretty perfume today (Fancy by Jessica Simpson I think) but when I got it home and opened the package the perfume had leaked and ruined the gold finish on the bottle. So I am going to have to return it tomorrow. Anyways I am going to get back to my to do list, than I am going to have to go try to make myself go to sleep. I never have a problem sleeping unless I need to get to sleep early.

Good night all, I know that was just a rambling post but I will get back to my workouts tomorrow. This next week is mostly cardio versus weight lifting. I might try to do a little of both this week, I have to weigh in on Thursday instead of next monday because the college is closed for Spring break.

ok I am really done this time
Goodnight