Family update

Dennis is now finally chopping full time. Can you believe that it's the later part of August and now getting to this full time? This has been one odd summer as far as weather goes. He has quite the dilemma now. Take Will or Lillian for the tractor ride? When chopping though, he can't really hold Lillian so she only goes when I go. That doesn't make Will happy. We take his seat and well... that's not cool. Although Lillian loves those few rides around the field, Will is begging us to leave.



Since they both love to get rides, Lillian and I rode in one of the trucks and that's how it might have to be for a while.

I don't think I have ever said much about Teddy Bear, their daycare that they have been at for close to a year now. They both LOVE it. Will has his best buddy Brogan there, he always says his friends are his cousins and includes Brogan in that list. It's pretty funny. Another funny that he does is that he must play with a headlight on at night before bed. We do our nightly routine and say our good-nights and then he plays. Some nights he plays for five minutes and other nights, he plays for close to two hours. In the mornings we will find him with the headlight still on. The other night I was telling him he has to turn it off before he falls asleep or the batteries will die. He still doesn't turn it off so before work one night, I peeked into his room and well....



He still had it on. He still sleeps with big puppy as a pillow and still uses that blanket that he got when he was a baby. A few nights before this, I was working early so I had to get up at 4:30. Lillian at some point in the night was up and fussing around but I always try to lay there and see if she really needs something or just woke up and will fall back to sleep. I laughed so hard when I saw her that morning, I thought I was going to wake her.



She was on her back but my camera made her turn over. Don't worry the shirt is not over her face, just on her head. Not sure if you can tell or not but we think her birth mark is starting to lighten up. This makes me a little sad. I love her "little piece of Papa's heart". I'm sure if it stayed with her she would have hated it when she was 16 but I still loved it. It'll take years to fully disappear, I'm sure.

Lillian still doesn't talk much. Just this week she really started saying "Bye-bye". Mama and Dada is about it otherwise and even then, it's usually when she's mad. At 17 months, she still only has four teeth. I keep thinking I see some top nubbins but they don't pop out. It's a for sure that she will have that paci until those are all in!

Will is going to start learning that I break promises all the time. Three days in a row now I have promised him a ride with Dad in the chopper and something has happened that it didn't work out. So last night, we baked some cookies for Dad and painted some pictures. I hope doing some fun things makes up for it. Breaking promises to my kids is the last thing I EVER want to do.

I am starting to get some clients and so excited about it. I am nervous about how busy I will be in the next few months but I'll make do and yes I will love every minute of it.  I am loving this new program I am on. No, it's not my own. While I know about fitness and can direct others, I do better with someone else telling me what to do. Especially when reaching my goals requires different ways of training than the way I have ever trained before. My diet has been 100% compared to how I've eaten in the past. I now meal prep for a few days. It's usually the same thing over and over again but it's food I enjoy and it's easy to prep. This is still new to me so I know there are better ways of doing what I do. I'll get it figured out one of these days. I have been on this program for three weeks and I can tell a great difference already. I look forward to seeing the end of it and where my figure is then.

Usually going to the gym is not work. It's something I enjoy and look forward to. For that hour or hour and a half that I'm in there I think of nothing else but pushing that weight and singing to great music in my head. It's fun. I have encountered a few times though that I really struggled with. Going home was the only thing I wanted to do. Usually it's those straight legged single leg dead lifts. I curse them. Every time. Diet is what is hard. It's not that I'm hungry, it's I want to eat. I want to eat every thing in sight. Did someone say chocolate?? I just have to remind myself that 1.) It is worth it. I can see it in just 2 weeks and feel the difference in 3 weeks. 2.) If it wasn't hard then it wouldn't be all that exciting to get there and everyone would do it.