Great Aunt Leoni!

Today I got up at 4:30am got my wonderful husband up and out the door for work by 5:15am. On a typical day I will fall back asleep until like 7:30am or so! Well not today! Today I stayed up and got lunch together for Andrew and I, got the dogs ready for the day. I woke Andrew up a couple minutes before 7am and we were out the door by 7:05am. I dropped him off at Grandma and Grandpa Brooks house at 7:25am and was at my parents house by 8:10am. Then we got into the Hummer and headed to Seattle!

No we did not go to Seattle to play we went to Seattle to drop them off at the airport. They are headed to the Netherlands as we speak. They will get there at like 8am thursday and it is only a 10 hr flight! I don't think that I would enjoy feeling like I am traveling for 24 hrs. Oh and being awake that long UGH...

They are headed to the Netherland / Holland to go and see my great aunt Leoni. It is kind of an emergency trip. Leoni has been sick for about 4 years I think... She has Lung Cancer. She was diagnosed at about the same time as my Grandfather - her brother. She is in the hospital over there waiting to see my parents and then after that she wants to die. She has beat cancer 3 times I guess that the 4th time just gets you bad. I don't think that this will be a particular fun trip for my parents.

So now after 5 hours of driving I'm back at my parents house and just need a little time to stand up and walk around.

Aunt Leoni you will be missed dearly. I love you and it was great getting to know you.

Changes Coming

So as you all know that life for me has been a little stressful lately! Things may be getting better or worse depends on how you look at it... Rick this week was offered a position on nights during the turnaround this year. Not only will he be on nights he will be the big wig for laborers meaning that he will be working crazy hours. I don't know how I'm taking it yet! I think that it will take me some time to get used to.

Other than that I am a stay at home step mom right now. Ricky and I are thinking about me not going back to work. I don't know how I feel about this either. That it interesting. I don't sleep much because I'm afraid that I'm going to miss one of the alarms or something else is going to happen.
I have been trying to work out 3 times a week! Andrew goes to work out with me. We end up going to the Everson Firehall and doing our workouts there. Jennie, Ricks mom, goes and works out with us. We enjoy our work outs. I think that I need to bump up the intensity tho. It really feels good to be working out again.

If anyone has any pointers on how to lose belly fat please let me know! I am eating healthier now and trying to lose some of the weight that I have put on in the last couple of years. I am doing ok. I just want it gone now... and I know that that will not happen.

So on with the trek of losing weight and eating healthier. It is difficult especially when I am not really looking forward to Ricky being on nights. I know that I'm going to have to find myself some hobbies that can keep me occupied while he is sleeping during the days. I'll have to keep you updated on that one.