Diva Wears Red Heels

So I shared in the past that Alexandra has a shoes fetish. She loves to try on mommies shoes and prance around. She cant stay still in a shoe store. She also loves to hear the clickety-clack on the hard floors. Here are a few pictures after we came home from shopping. She pulled the shoes out of the box and put them on.

I didnt even get to wear my new shoes first. Alex had to break them in.

As she walks around I pray a heel doesnt break

First Sign of Spring

Today I noticed my tulips are starting to pop up through the ground. How exciting!!

Tulips on one side of the garage


and on the other side.....

A great day, minus the burn

Yesterday while Doug worked his first Saturday in about a year, I went shopping for the first time since I lost weight. Now I have only bought a few items since I lost a lil over 30 lbs, dress pants, shirt and khakis, so I thought its finally time to do this. I used to love shopping for myself back in the day. But since I started gaining weight a few years ago, had Alexandra and fought with weight loss, shopping turned into torture for me. I would always come home depressed, mad and crying that I had to get such a large size. Because I had a hard time shedding a few pounds, my dr prescribed adipex, a weight loss medicine that worked wonders for me. I lost 10lbs the first month and by the third month I was down 30lbs. I have been off the medicine since Sept and have been able to lose a few pounds here and there. Being sick last couple of weeks shed another 9lbs. I have had to alter my clothes to wear them by using safety pins, rolling around the waist or just letting them hang off me. I have finally became happy with myself and my weight. I feel weighing what I weigh now is my desirable weight for my age and body type. I will always be thick in the thighs with the coke bottle figure and thick ass (and doug loves it and begged I did not get shrink my butt). Now Im working on toning my stomach, thighs and booty.
Alex and I went shopping first thing Saturday morning. We were there about 15 mins before the stores opened so we walked around and rode the lil kiddie rides. We cant walk past them without her begging "Peeeaaassseee" to get on them. Once the stores opened, we shopped at Old Navy, Charlotte Russe, Payless and Wet Seal. I only could try on a couple of items because Ms Alex had me very busy chasing her. She wanted a small ball at Old Navy and while checking out she entertained everyone while throwing and kicking it around the registers. She even had a lady on her hands and knees retrieving the ball from under clothes tables. Every store we were in she was out of her stroller playing with her ball or trying on shoes. I came home telling Daddy that our daughter has a shoe fetish. She threw a fit at one point because I would not let her take her shoes off but then gave in. Of course everyone else though it was so cute that she had womens high heels on walking around and saying "Im pitty" translation: "Im pretty".
I came home with 11 shirts, 4 pairs of pants, 3 pairs of shoes and jewelry and am very stoked to go to work this week to sport my new wardrobe......
Oh yea, I went tanning for the first time since October. I know I burn first then tan and does the girl at the tanning salon. I asked for 10 mins but the girl forgot to set the timer. I woke up to see the timer roll over to 9 mins left on a 20 min bed. I waited a minute to realize it was not going to shut off so I jumped out. Later saturday night the burning sensation started. Now Im a bright red lobster (on my butt, chest, and stomach). Im just glad I woke up when I did or I would be extremely miserable.

Fun in the Snow

Today we let Alexandra go out and play in the snow. I figured this will probably be the nicest day for a while and we all need to get out of this house. She had a blast throwing snowballs at me and Daddy, feeding Lucifer snow, building a snowman and make snow angels. Now that all this snow is starting to melt away, Im excited for the next round of snow this week to come through. I love fresh snow.

another headache....

okay...so Im finally starting to feel better. I stayed home again from work on Thursday when i woke up with a fever. Rather than staying in bed all day, I made myself stay out of bed and out of our room. I started feeling better by the afternoon. I kept myself busy by doing laundry with our brand new washer and dryer. I am super excited about the washer and dryer because I have never had my own brand new set. We always had hand-me-down sets or bought used. We were always looking for a good deal and looking at different options of different brands. We had our eye set on the Whirlpool HE Cabrio steam dryer and washer set, big enough for a king size comforter! Doug did some research and found it cheapest at HH Gregg. So buying it was the easy part. You would think having it delivered and installed by them would be easy for us as well... ha... try again. We had it delivered on tuesday. They come, deliver it and tell us to test start the washer after a couple of hours allowing time for frozen water in the lines to thaw. So when doug gets home he starts the washer. I go to bed and he jumps in the shower. I wake up and hear Alex saying "Water, water" and Lucifer lapping up something. I run into the laundry room to find Alex and Lucifer standing in about an inch of water. Alex had put both her bearies in the water and Lucifer was drinking it. The drain hose was spraying everywhere. We get the kids out of the water, start to clean up the water and make a call to HH Gregg. They make plans to deliver a new washer Wed. They then cancel all deliveries Wed because of the snow (understandable). So thursday they deliver a new washer, this time they didnt hook it up, afraid the same problem might occurr. We agree to hook it up once the unit warms up. I then notice they didnt level the washer. Doug makes the call to HH Gregg and gets the run-around from the installation guys. He finally curses at them, hangs up and Doug and I have to level the washer ourselves. It was easy but the point is we had this arranged for them to do it, not us. If we ever purchase anything from HH Gregg again, we will take care of the delivery and installation ourselves.

Heres a picture of the set I pulled from the internet....

Im done being sick....

Well Im laying in bed, sick with Bronchitis and a fever. I started feeling bad Monday, barely making it through the work day. I had body aches, fever, cough...all the fun stuff that comes with a cold. I decided to stay home from work Tuesday to take Alex to the doctor because her cough seemed worse. Tuesday I woke up feeling the same along with a painful cough. Her doctor visit was great. She just has the viral cough that is going around and we are to continue with the cough medicine and added Mucinex to get that flem out. I then took myself to the dr and found out I have bronchitis. I am on Mucinex, Amoxicillon and an inhaler. i have a fever that will break but then come back and has repeated since Monday. Each time it comes back its a little lower. So I have spent the last few days in bed. I just hope to feel better very very soon.