Happy Easter

Today was a lot of time in the car for not a lot of time with family.  2 hrs each way and only 4 hours with family makes for a really long day.  Especially when dealing with BooBoo who only does car trips 30 min or less.  My ears may still be ringing from her whining/yelling/laughing.

The highlight of the day is shown below.  I'm not sure if my aunt purposely ordered this cake or picked it up when she was at the bakery.  Either way it was the highlight of the day.  My sister and I should not be left alone around questionable baked goods.  And my Aunt should know better than to ask me to cut said baked goods.

Fetus Lamb Cake

My Prize!

 A Kiss to make it better?

Happy Early Easter

What a wonderful day.  I  spent my morning/afternoon watching the epically bad last Twilight movie and using a new app called cocoppa.  It's a fun little tool that you use on your iphone and you can customize all your icons with prettier ones.  I had found a link on pinterest with very detailed directions, but the app has been pretty self explanatory to me.  I like having my icons jazzed up.  Once I'm all done I'll post a photo of my revised home screen.  I'm still working on changing up some of them.

I spent the rest of the day with my family celebrating Easter our way.  Beer, beer dip, and delicious take out burgers!  All in all a great evening.  BooBoo also did her best to entertain, after her very scary trip to see the Easter bunny this morning.  The photo's so bad I can't even post it.  Poor child may be scarred for life.  Tomorrow it's a lot of time in the car to see the family at my aunt's house.  Pray my ears hold up against all of BooBoo's whining/crying/general yelling.

Running Errands

I may have gone overboard with gift for BooBoo.

(She's not getting all of them, some are staying at Aunties in case of emergency)

I love getting little blue boxes in the mail.

It's nice to not really have to work.  I busted my hump earlier in the week so I could take the next couple days easy and do what I please.  Today that included finishing off my to do list and running some more errands.  Everything is done and the next 3 weeks are full of appts and traveling.  Tomorrow I only have to work on my presentation with Ande and apply my new self tanner.  This could really be a feat as it's a new product, but I think it'll go well.  My legs were glowing in Vegas so I'm hoping to look a bit more human like this time around.  Especially since I'll be wearing shorts and laying out at the pool.

Tonight I'm going to play dress up.  I haven't lost that much weight, but it is amazing how much better my clothes fit.  This has always been my goal and I need to weed out some too big stuff and work on wearing some that was a bit too snug.  I shopped for some new work out pants today and I cannot believe size variations.  I tried on some Nike pants I've been lusting after and they were massive on me.  Thank goodness Target pulled through with 2 new pairs.  Now I can walk outside in a bit more comfort, sweat pants aren't too good on the chub rub.  Plus I need to look as good as possible for my meeting.  If these people are going to hate me, I want to make it for every reason possible.

Happy Anniversary

A big Happy 9th Anniversary to Team Ingram.  I think it actually makes 12 yrs they've been together.  It's impressive and they are good role models for me and their BooBoo.  Showing us both how to love and be loved for a long long time.

Corn on the cob?  Good!                                  CUPCAKE?  Even better.

My current Motivational Posters

I really do wear all black, now I know why.

The last one is my real motivation.  I want to see some of my old co-workers this summer and I really want their jaws to drop.  My biggest goal is to have my legs all smooth and toned up, no more fat jiggles.  I'd also like to wear shorty shorts and not have to be worried if they are riding up.  Several of the exes like the shorty shorts and I'd like to flaunt that around.  Plus toned legs = me having a butt.  It's just a win/win all around.  Good thing I got in my 3 miles today.  And it's almost nice enough to start with two a days outside.

Embracing the Change

New Profile today.  I felt like spring cleaning, but my house is clean.  So instead I'll change up the blog.  Hope you like it.

I also decided to shake up my body a little more.  The weight loss is going great, but I wanted more.  I put a new hole in my head a couple weeks ago, yesterday I added some new ink.  I'm an avid baker, so this new tatt on my upper left forearm is a good reminder of my passion and what I love to do.  I could not be more pleased with how it came out.  Big shout out to Kyle at Leviticus Tattoo in Minneapolis.  I'll definitely be going back to have more done.  He said he'd collaborate with me on an upper arm sleeve!  I'll have all kinds of things I love on me.

My weekend really flew by.  Friday night I cleaned the house and baked.  Yesterday I shopped all day with my sis and got my tattoo.  Today I went grocery shopping,scoured Pinterest and Slender Kitchen for some new recipe inspiration, and prepped my ingredients for smoothies all week.  I blend up all my spinach with some water and freeze it so it's easier to blend, and I don't have a huge box of it in the fridge, just 6 nice disks in the freezer.  Tomorrow I'm trying Ranch Pesto Chicken in the crock pot.  It makes me drool a little just typing out the name.  I hope it's a winner.  

Tonight Gypsy Wedding is on, and I can hardly wait for another season of shenanigans.  I'm a huge TV fan but it's been losing it's luster to me.  I cannot get enough music lately. I really like the shows I watch, but maybe I'm not interested because I'm all caught up and new music is coming out left and right.  My other theory is that normally at this time of year I'm out running claims, so all I do is drive and climb roofs, which allows for a lot of music intake.  My body may be smarter than my brain :)

Someone else said it and I agree