Eliak ate some pumpkin.
We also tried to do hair on the pumpkin.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Pumpkin Carving!
I dont remember ever carving a pumpkin and neither does Jon. So this is the first time for all of us that we have done a pumpkin. It was alot of fun and we will do it every year probably.
Sariah loved it and got into pulling the guts out.
Rachelle who is always into making a mess refused to do it. She seemed disgusted by the sliminess.
Eliak also would not reach into the pumpkin. He did eat some though!
Didnt really know what I was doing. I tried to put teeth on the bottom but it didnt really work out and Sariah pulled it off, lol.
Biggest Loser Update
Hey just a quick little update. I got really busy doing a job the same three weeks as the challenge, working 50 hrs a week. I was not able to follow the diet so well but I ate less. Made sure I was only eating until I was full not over full.
I did win my challenge. My goal was to lose 5 lbs and I lost a lil over 6 lbs, and so far have kept it off. I won $60, so profit of $40 which is pretty awesome!
Yeah!
I did win my challenge. My goal was to lose 5 lbs and I lost a lil over 6 lbs, and so far have kept it off. I won $60, so profit of $40 which is pretty awesome!
Yeah!
Friday, October 7, 2011
Biggest Loser
Hey! Long time no post right? I know I am horrible. Hopefully I can get back into it though. The biggest problem has been that I take pictures with my cell phone and it can hold hundreds of photos and I never want to go through them. I update facebook and thats good enough....but not really right?
So I have been struggling with the three kids thing a little. It is just hard to keep your own identity when you are constantly running around with kids or being asked for this or that and being yelled at (by the son mostly) and never having my own time or space, or so it feels. I also have been really fatigued and I read a book called Adrenal Fatigue The 21st Century Syndrome. It is awesome and basically after having 3 kids in 3 years my body is hormonally messed up (which seems to be fairly common).
So we have been looking for some way I can get a consistent schedule, mostly with sleep, exercise and eating because according to the book thats what you need to help your body get back to normal. Anyway... Yesterday I found out about a group in hurricane who gets together 4 times a week and works out and they are just starting a Biggest Loser Competition. Way fun! I thought, so I am doing it! It is exactly what I needed. The lady in charge of it also gave me a diet plan for my meals, which I have also been wanting, and so today was my first day and I did awesome! Well I cheated a tiny tiny bit and ate one little piece of Jerky, but oh well.
Ok so heres how it works. For 3 weeks we have to come work out with the group at least 2 days a week and you have to lose at least one pound a week. If you dont you are penalized by paying more money. Good idea right? No one wants to pay more money! So its only $20 and I can work out all 4 days, which is my goal. But if you dont lose at least a lb a week you have to pay $10 more dollars for each week. I am kinda scared because I am worried I am going to gain muscle and even out but hopefully no. And the biggest loser gets a prize! Half the money that is paid goes to the winner. Last time it was $90! Way cool!
I am going to win that money! Work my butt off for 3 weeks and lose weight, so great. So the blog is going to be a little bit of my support, at least I can act like I am being accountable to someone ;).
This morning was kick boxing at 6am and it killed. Then we did lunges and then we did some abs and then planking. I am sore all over! It is not going to be good in the morning. But I am going to win money! Hopefully.....and I am going to tone up. Yes!
So my goal is to lose 5 lbs total (in the 3 weeks). I dont know if it is lofty or not. I am going to see how my weight is in a few days. The next weigh in is on Thursday Oct 13th and I have to have lost and kept off a lb by then.
I am hoping for the best. The hardest thing for today has been the filling up on vegetables part. For snacks you get about 4 oz of dairy and then unlimited celery o carrots. For meals you get about 9 oz of meat and rice or beans and then unlimited veggies. I feel full but because I am used to eating such heavy crummy food, I still feel wanting. Doesnt really make sense but I dont know.I am hoping as I eat better my body gets used to it and I feel completely satisfied.
Anyway until we meet again..
Farewell
So I have been struggling with the three kids thing a little. It is just hard to keep your own identity when you are constantly running around with kids or being asked for this or that and being yelled at (by the son mostly) and never having my own time or space, or so it feels. I also have been really fatigued and I read a book called Adrenal Fatigue The 21st Century Syndrome. It is awesome and basically after having 3 kids in 3 years my body is hormonally messed up (which seems to be fairly common).
So we have been looking for some way I can get a consistent schedule, mostly with sleep, exercise and eating because according to the book thats what you need to help your body get back to normal. Anyway... Yesterday I found out about a group in hurricane who gets together 4 times a week and works out and they are just starting a Biggest Loser Competition. Way fun! I thought, so I am doing it! It is exactly what I needed. The lady in charge of it also gave me a diet plan for my meals, which I have also been wanting, and so today was my first day and I did awesome! Well I cheated a tiny tiny bit and ate one little piece of Jerky, but oh well.
Ok so heres how it works. For 3 weeks we have to come work out with the group at least 2 days a week and you have to lose at least one pound a week. If you dont you are penalized by paying more money. Good idea right? No one wants to pay more money! So its only $20 and I can work out all 4 days, which is my goal. But if you dont lose at least a lb a week you have to pay $10 more dollars for each week. I am kinda scared because I am worried I am going to gain muscle and even out but hopefully no. And the biggest loser gets a prize! Half the money that is paid goes to the winner. Last time it was $90! Way cool!
I am going to win that money! Work my butt off for 3 weeks and lose weight, so great. So the blog is going to be a little bit of my support, at least I can act like I am being accountable to someone ;).
This morning was kick boxing at 6am and it killed. Then we did lunges and then we did some abs and then planking. I am sore all over! It is not going to be good in the morning. But I am going to win money! Hopefully.....and I am going to tone up. Yes!
So my goal is to lose 5 lbs total (in the 3 weeks). I dont know if it is lofty or not. I am going to see how my weight is in a few days. The next weigh in is on Thursday Oct 13th and I have to have lost and kept off a lb by then.
I am hoping for the best. The hardest thing for today has been the filling up on vegetables part. For snacks you get about 4 oz of dairy and then unlimited celery o carrots. For meals you get about 9 oz of meat and rice or beans and then unlimited veggies. I feel full but because I am used to eating such heavy crummy food, I still feel wanting. Doesnt really make sense but I dont know.I am hoping as I eat better my body gets used to it and I feel completely satisfied.
Anyway until we meet again..
Farewell
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Family pics April 2011
Well I have just been too behind with this blog and too intimidated at the task to try to catch it up. I have decided to just try to move forward with it and what months have been lost are lost. Maybe I will catch up someday but probably not. So here are out newest family pics. They are awesome! They are especially awesome because they were taken before the girls cut their hair. Right now their hair is significantly shorter, especially Sariahs. I will get some pics up of their new hair soon, hopefully.
Little update. Everyone is growing up so fast! Sariah and Rachelle are now sharing a bed and really enjoy it. Rachelle is bottom end of twin bed and Sariah is on top, it works surprisingly better than them in separate twin beds. The girls play together well most the time. We are still working on the whole sharing and not yelling thing, which im sure will go on for yrs. They love the backyard and it helps contribute to my sanity. Buddy is an awesome dog for us and the girls and him have their own relationship of love and teasing each other. It is really too bad that Buddy tore is ACL, we dont know how long we will be able to have him before he is in too much pain and we will have to put him down. We cannot afford surgery so we will make things as happy and comfortable as possible for him.
The girls love going to Sandhollow and so does buddy. We plan on trying to spend more family time together doing activities this summer. Way excited to not be pregnant! LOL.
Eliak is coming up on 4 months old and has made great strides this 3rd month of his life. He is much more patient and is talking much more instead of crying or yelling. He has the biggest smiles and loves to be talked to and played with. Jon has his cuddly boy and is loving it!
Jon is done with school and we have the summer for a break from school. He has 12 more credits until his Bachelors, which is going to have to be spread out to two semesters because he has a Senior project that has to be done separate semesters. The plan is for him to start his masters program next summer. It is a two year program, including summers, for a Masters in Educational Psychology. This is going to be done at Dixie through SUU extension program, or something like that. When he is done with his education he will have a Bachelors Degree in Integrated Studies with emphases in Business and Psychology and a Masters in Educational Psychology. With this he can do school counseling for grades K-12. Jon really wants to help kids with their emotional and spiritual well being.
I have my hrs. completed for my Cosmetology and my written exam for my licensing. I still need to take my practical to become licensed. I will get on top of that real soon. Now that Jon is out of school, I will be able to study and focus on that. The plan is to not have another kid for at least two yrs, maybe more, who knows maybe we are done. My goal is to be really physically fit and get back to pre-marriage weight. Life is crazy. I have slowly gotten used to having 3 kids and am getting better at having them by myself.
Well I think that is about all with the fam. We have daily struggles just like everyone else out there and are continuing to try to do better everyday.
Thats all for now.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
The New Little One
So I have been really bad at putting pictures up on here but it is just so much easier on facebook. I can take them and load them at the same exact time. So unfortunately facebook gets updated first. I still dont have any pictures loaded on the computer and I dont really want to go searching for cords right now but I will tell you about the new one.
Our little son was born 1/20/11, 9:28pm, 8lbs 8oz and 21 inches long. We named him Eliak Reed Juett. Everyone asks how I came up with that name, it doesn't exist in the baby books or online baby name sites, so I will tell you how it came about. So Jon liked the name Elias and I didnt but I didnt really have any ideas and then one day at school the name Eliak literally just popped into my head. After thinking about the name for a little bit I put together that it was kinda like Elias and Erik combined. I text Jon right away and asked him what he thought of the name and he said he liked it and it stuck. His middle name is after Jon's middle name, we decided that our first boy and girl would be named after our middle names.
A little bit about Eliak and his birth, well it actually might end up being alot. So a little history. My first due date was Jan 23rd, but then it was pushed to Feb. 6th due to the first ultrasound and the size of the baby. This is my third child with Dr. Lunt and he has pushed my due date everytime according to the ultrasound but the baby is always born "early" and closer to the first due date. (Sariah was 5 days before original due date and Rachelle was 2 days after). Its also kinda funny because the babies always catch up and in my last couple weeks I start to measure according to my first due date.
So I am at my doc appointment on 1/19/11 and I am measuring 40 cm and the week before I was measuring 38 so they are worried I am measuring soo big. Im thinking my original due date is the 23rd, its fine. But they are worried and want to do an ultrasound, I am 37 weeks and 3 days according to them. So we do an ultrasound and the baby is measuring beyond their measurement scale, he is so big they say they cant even measure. They estimate that he is 9 or 10 lbs, doc says probably over 10 lbs. I have no high blood pressure or gestational diabetes or anything by the way.
Doc starts throwing around that we should induce, oh and by the way he also informed me before all of this that he is going out of town Fri-Sun. This was before I was checked and 40 cm was brought up. I told him "are you serious" because I was feeling like this baby was going to be coming any day. So now I find out there is apparently this huge baby inside of me and maybe we should induce and doc will be out of town in two days. He said we should probably induce tonight (wed) or tomorrow (thurs), but he will call me and let me know for sure after he does some research.
I was worried about inducing. I had done my girls natural and I wasnt sure about inducing. Doc called later and said after talking to a colleague and doing some research he doesnt think I should induce and we should wait til next week when I am 38 weeks and we know for sure the babies lungs are good. Im thinking, your kidding me, the kids "huge" and im due on the 23rd! But ya ya not according to him. But at least im not being forced to induce so im ok.
But there was still the dilemma that doc was going out of town on Friday and I didnt want someone I didnt know delivering the baby. I felt like the baby was going to come on Friday and I thought that would be a cool birthday still 1/21/11 but no doc had to be gone. So I decided to try the castrol oil thing to try to bring on contractions, sorta naturally. I only took 1 Tbs though. So I did that Wed. night and went to bed.
Woke up around 2 am and was having regular contractions. They were pretty close together also but not bad. We decided to go to hospital around 4 am. It was alot harder to think about when going to the hospital was right because we had the girls to work with and a 30 min drive.
Anyways we got to the hospital about 5 or 5:30a i think, could have been 6. I was a 3 and they wouldnt check me in yet. I wanted to say ok well then we should just go and come back. Home was 30 min away and it would just be a hassle to go to someone else' house so we just stayed.
To make a long story short. Eliak was not positioned well and I was not progressing very well after about a 6. I was stuck at an 8 for about 5 hrs. I finally got pitocin (sp?) at about 7pm. Got an epidural about 8:30 it was in and good. Eliak was born at 9:28p. It was the longest labor but for a good amount of time I was also at a stand still and not having contractions so it was all good.
Eliak had problems with glucose levels and had to go to the NICU on the 21st. It was so sad they were taking blood from his foot every 3 hrs and then every 6 hrs. His lil feet had sooo many pricks on his heal. He had an IV to get the glucose in him and that was so sad to see. We were able to go home on Sunday the 23rd but then had to go back again on Tuesday the 25th for a night due to bili level problems.
I was so tired of all the tests in the end well and probably during. I am glad he is home and such a good baby. He was back to his birth weight at 11 days old, which is awesome. They usually want baby back to birth weight by 14 days old. He is a really good eater. I think he is going to be in his 3 month clothes at least a month early. Quit a few of his 0-3 month clothes are already too small for him or at least snug.
I am so grateful for my lil guy. He is so precious. The girls love to pet his head. He has the softest hair. I hope he gets more soon.
Well thats all for now. I will try and get some pics up soon.
Our little son was born 1/20/11, 9:28pm, 8lbs 8oz and 21 inches long. We named him Eliak Reed Juett. Everyone asks how I came up with that name, it doesn't exist in the baby books or online baby name sites, so I will tell you how it came about. So Jon liked the name Elias and I didnt but I didnt really have any ideas and then one day at school the name Eliak literally just popped into my head. After thinking about the name for a little bit I put together that it was kinda like Elias and Erik combined. I text Jon right away and asked him what he thought of the name and he said he liked it and it stuck. His middle name is after Jon's middle name, we decided that our first boy and girl would be named after our middle names.
A little bit about Eliak and his birth, well it actually might end up being alot. So a little history. My first due date was Jan 23rd, but then it was pushed to Feb. 6th due to the first ultrasound and the size of the baby. This is my third child with Dr. Lunt and he has pushed my due date everytime according to the ultrasound but the baby is always born "early" and closer to the first due date. (Sariah was 5 days before original due date and Rachelle was 2 days after). Its also kinda funny because the babies always catch up and in my last couple weeks I start to measure according to my first due date.
So I am at my doc appointment on 1/19/11 and I am measuring 40 cm and the week before I was measuring 38 so they are worried I am measuring soo big. Im thinking my original due date is the 23rd, its fine. But they are worried and want to do an ultrasound, I am 37 weeks and 3 days according to them. So we do an ultrasound and the baby is measuring beyond their measurement scale, he is so big they say they cant even measure. They estimate that he is 9 or 10 lbs, doc says probably over 10 lbs. I have no high blood pressure or gestational diabetes or anything by the way.
Doc starts throwing around that we should induce, oh and by the way he also informed me before all of this that he is going out of town Fri-Sun. This was before I was checked and 40 cm was brought up. I told him "are you serious" because I was feeling like this baby was going to be coming any day. So now I find out there is apparently this huge baby inside of me and maybe we should induce and doc will be out of town in two days. He said we should probably induce tonight (wed) or tomorrow (thurs), but he will call me and let me know for sure after he does some research.
I was worried about inducing. I had done my girls natural and I wasnt sure about inducing. Doc called later and said after talking to a colleague and doing some research he doesnt think I should induce and we should wait til next week when I am 38 weeks and we know for sure the babies lungs are good. Im thinking, your kidding me, the kids "huge" and im due on the 23rd! But ya ya not according to him. But at least im not being forced to induce so im ok.
But there was still the dilemma that doc was going out of town on Friday and I didnt want someone I didnt know delivering the baby. I felt like the baby was going to come on Friday and I thought that would be a cool birthday still 1/21/11 but no doc had to be gone. So I decided to try the castrol oil thing to try to bring on contractions, sorta naturally. I only took 1 Tbs though. So I did that Wed. night and went to bed.
Woke up around 2 am and was having regular contractions. They were pretty close together also but not bad. We decided to go to hospital around 4 am. It was alot harder to think about when going to the hospital was right because we had the girls to work with and a 30 min drive.
Anyways we got to the hospital about 5 or 5:30a i think, could have been 6. I was a 3 and they wouldnt check me in yet. I wanted to say ok well then we should just go and come back. Home was 30 min away and it would just be a hassle to go to someone else' house so we just stayed.
To make a long story short. Eliak was not positioned well and I was not progressing very well after about a 6. I was stuck at an 8 for about 5 hrs. I finally got pitocin (sp?) at about 7pm. Got an epidural about 8:30 it was in and good. Eliak was born at 9:28p. It was the longest labor but for a good amount of time I was also at a stand still and not having contractions so it was all good.
Eliak had problems with glucose levels and had to go to the NICU on the 21st. It was so sad they were taking blood from his foot every 3 hrs and then every 6 hrs. His lil feet had sooo many pricks on his heal. He had an IV to get the glucose in him and that was so sad to see. We were able to go home on Sunday the 23rd but then had to go back again on Tuesday the 25th for a night due to bili level problems.
I was so tired of all the tests in the end well and probably during. I am glad he is home and such a good baby. He was back to his birth weight at 11 days old, which is awesome. They usually want baby back to birth weight by 14 days old. He is a really good eater. I think he is going to be in his 3 month clothes at least a month early. Quit a few of his 0-3 month clothes are already too small for him or at least snug.
I am so grateful for my lil guy. He is so precious. The girls love to pet his head. He has the softest hair. I hope he gets more soon.
Well thats all for now. I will try and get some pics up soon.
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