SPRING BREAK~

It's been an INSANE few weeks and have had so much going on, but this week is spring break and i am STOAKED! Chaz and I have so much stuff planned:
1.Start our Garden
2. I'm planting flowers in the planters i bought!
3. Working in my flowerbed
3. Cleaning out our Guest bedroom closet
4. Seriously cleaning the house!
5. We found a chair on the side of the road and so we are going to reupholster it! YAY
6. Working on some house decorations.
I'm SO very excited to work on these projects. Its going to be GREAT!

We Lost Katie and Will, :( they had to go back, so please be in prayer.
not much has gone on latly, I'm still working on weightloss, its not going as well as planned but i've been working hard at eating out and working out. Jillian is STILL kicking my but! :)

Peace Out
-shayla

My legs are heavy. and sore.

SO I bought the Jillian michaels SHRED video, and THAT word is EXACTLY what it is. OUCH!
I'm sore already> its only 20 min long so my plan is to do that ether 2 times a day, or that once and 30 min of cardio etc. :) I'm excited to watch my body take shape!!

I was watching the Tyra Show and there was a personal trainer on there talking about how we aren't suppose to compare ourselves to others, but to the best us we can be. I should want my body to be in the BEST shape and be the best most fit me I can be. This means eating healthy and working my body as hard as I can.

At the moment I'm resting watching The King of Queens.

I ate lunch with Victoria today. We had fun. :)

My little brothers Bday is tomorrow :)

he will be 16! GOSH!

I'm Getting WAY old.!!!

Not much going on this week. I've Been working this week. Thats GOOD!
and I took at test today, think I aced it! :) yay

New Ideas

This is my new inspiration for our Living room, I love LOVE this couch! And I want it very badly, However chaz will prob not go for this but I do love the pillows and would love to incorporate this style into our living room. I also want to do a collage of plates, frames, art, photos, and some stuff like that above our piong chairs.

Another thing is our SUV situation :) I'm thinking about getting a pathfinder! I LOVE them and they have 3rd row seats.

I've Been working a lot lately! Which has been great.

School is still school.

We've had some mishaps with psycho parents and the kids, but hoping to get it resolved soon.

So be praying.

IN HIM:

Shayla

Frog Skin...and Baby Names.

SO,

I got to sub on monday, It was awesome, I LOVE my job (when I get to go to work). We benchmarked all day, I had 4th grade.

This week has been CRAZY! So much Homework and stuff to do! Chaz Especially. School is REALLY getting to us. I'm Ready for it to be over, and I have two years left. Boo. Anyways.

So I'm still on my treck to lose weight. So far I have been eating healthy, and working out most every day>I didn't today because I gave blood, but that's another story.

Today in lab I skinned a frog! EWWW!!

That is my Lab Partner Victoria with the dreaded frog clipping his skin off . EWW.
we have to actually cut him open next week. Then Cut is brain out.

Needless to say it was gross.

Me And Chaz gave blood today. I gave in 6 min 45 Seconds. Which is half my time. i usually average about 12. This is because i have been working out and that makes you give faster. But it wasn't that great because I was way sick after, I didn't throw up but I almost did.

Chaz and I have been thinking about babies a lot lately. We have a boy and girl names picked out. For a girl we have Iley RayAnn, or Iley Elizabeth, We can't decide. And for a boy, Jack Arlyn. After both of our grandpa's. We both LOVE jack, its such a rugged name and my papaw was Jack and Arlyn is after papa.
We were eating at Daniel Boones for dinner, and there was these ADORABLE little kids and chaz and I were cooing and drooling and talking about having a baby. But We know now isn't the right time. But we want one. :)
But that's it for now..
Peace out for now.

Teach me your way O'Lord, and I will walk in your truth, give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name. Psalm 86.11

I hate this supid blog thing..right now

So, I have been trying to post for a while now, something is wrong with my blogger thing. It won't let me post.
grrr.

Anyways, Chaz is Deff my favorite Valentine! :) the plan was Sat after he got off work, we were going to go to the zoo, :) I LOVE the zoo. Then were were going to go out to eat and then go to the drive in.
We didn't do any of that.
Our Dates NEVER go as planned. NEVER! I can remember one day, and that was our First date lol.
Chaz came home from work sat. "sick" so we slept till like 5! :) ha ha, then we got up to go out to eat, and got a recommendation to go to Currents, a French American place. We got there, opened the menus, and it was 45 bucks per person. So needless to say we left that place and went for some yummy burgers :) ha ha. Then we went and saw The Book of Eli. It was an awesome movie, very interesting.
Nevertheless, the date was AWESOME because I got to spend time with my husband all weekend.
I'm still on the road to weight loss. I'm down some but still not below 170 so I'm working on it.

Besides that things are Wonderful.
I worked yesterday!
:) Praise the Lord.

&& the earth is new again

I saw someone post on their facebook how they wished it was summer,

how the cold is to much for them.

I Disagree.

There is something so magical and beautiful about snow.

Its Euphoric, exhilarating, refreshing.

For this moment, the dead winter earth has a blanket of shimmery white powder, life.

Its almost as if the earth is alive and new again.

I was walking to class and I stretched out my hands and face and let the tiny flakes of hope land on my cheeks and eyelashes.

Its almost emotional.

Snow take's my breath away.

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I love winter, It's such a magical time of year. (prob because one of my favorite things in the whole world is snuggling up against my husband and drinking hot cocoa. It feels like Home and Home is my favorite place in the world.

It's snowing here.

Not a whole lot but it is nonetheless.

I wish we had a fireplace to snuggle up against.

Brandon (chappy) Gray was talking about how the snow brought out the kid in everyone. And he's right. I just stand and stare out the window until the glass is all fogged up. I could watch it forever.

Shame Shame and "TT"

So Despite my unfortunate UnHealthy Kick I'm Happy to say my food is back on track. I skipped workouts Sat. and Sun. (because I was in winnsboro, and the weather was HORRID) and Yesterday I was wayy busy and super tired, so I shamed myself yet again, I did eat healthy however. I ate healthy again today, and also worked out for 30 min. (not quite and hour and a half like last week, but its a good start to this one) I'm going to go 2 times tomorrow (to make up for my unfortunate laziness) and then be strong all weekend, Since we are staying in tyler.
Friday we are babysitting at the Church during the Vday Banquet. It was 15 dollars per person, and we really wernt that interested so instead we are going to work and make money for Our vday date. Chaz is suppose to be planning something (but he always waits last min.) Maybe he will come up with something creative. I've been bugging him about it all week so the pressure is on. I have something planned as well, but its a secret, and we may have to wait till the weather is better.
In more recient news, My friend Erin (who was in my wedding) is getting married this summer and I've been dubbed to help her plan. I'm WaY good at low budget wedding planning and I LOVE it!!! I wish I could do that as a job > the vintage things is the WAY TO GO! so many Cool ideas for cheap!
WE got cable. 25 channels vs. our 6. :) and its only 2.05 per month (they were having some sort of deal) so it rocks. I also don't have to get up every time I want to change the channel and wiggle the antenna. :( that's So frustrating. :)
I had a Personal Assistant Job interview today. It went well and I got the job, I just cant decide if i want to take it yet? Its 4 days a week and I wouldn't be home till late, like after 7:30. Idk if I can be with out the love of my life that long every day. So I'm praying HIS will and hopefully subbing will pick up.
I got to see my family and Nonnie this weekend! I was SO Happy to hug my Daddy! It had been over a month since I had seen him :) And I always love catching up with my mom. :) and now that I have 4 Siblings instead of 2, It's deff the more the merrier.
And to end this update with a funnny, well, funny to me. :)
Nonnie, me and chaz were visiting this weekend and she was talking about school and asked if i just went to school on "TT" I giggled and said what? and she said you know, Tuesday Thursday. :) So she called earlier and said, so did you go to school today, and I said "Yeah nonnie! don't you know today is TT!" :) she laughed and I laughed. It deff was a goofy moment in my day.
by the way, HAppy Valentine's Day Week! :)
Teach me Your way O'Lord, and I will walk in Your Truth, Give me an Undivided Heart, that I may fear Your Name.
Psalm 86:11

"Timmmee to wake upppp"

I woke up this morning to a tiny little voice saying "Chaaaaaz, Little Chaaaaaz, it's time to get upppp." I couldn't help but smile as a turned over and snuggled up against my wonderful, warm, husband. I finally got up my strength and crawled out of bed to face the day. After MUCH debating about where to go for breakfast, we had wasted about an hour, so we just decided to wait and just do lunch. Of course we had to go to Los Mochis, because it's by far the best Mexican food north of the Rio Grande. (to chaz at least) And I got the very yum tortilla soup. Now we are sitting in the living room watching HGtv with the fireplace going and I'm Sipping hot cocoa. I get on these Hot cocoa Kicks, and I've been on one for about a week now. Thank goodness its cold.

I'm still waiting on for me to crave healthy food. I'm still wanting crap. I don't know why, but salad just sounds yuck.

I'm VERY excited to see my daddy on Sunday. It's been a Long time.

The Food Issue

(Above is another Skinny Photo I found) Ykes!

This is the Food Issue (Photos of what we've been cooking)

But First:
An UPDATE!
Misty called me yesterday urging me to CHECK MY FACEBOOK...So I did and Louden (guy I used to work with at the firm) Knows a Lady Who's looking for a Personal Assistant. (minus 2 hours one day) the Hours are PERFECT for me 3:00-7:00 every afternoon. So needless to say I am VERY excited about this and Hope it goes through.

Last night Chaz and I stayed with Same and Anderew (Eric was out of town, and has been all week) We had fun, and slept good. Andrew was glad to have some Male company.

On a more serious note,
Will Everyone PLEASE pray for my friend and her son (I'm not going to mention names) They are having trouble with the father/step-mother/custody/child support (i could go on) and are in need of some money to get an attorney. Things just aren't going as smoothly as hoped and its not just a few 100 its quite a bit. This poor kid, and poor mom, its SO stressful and worrisome for them and She just wants the BEST for her son. so everyone PLEASE PLEASE Pray

I didn't Weigh this a.m. because I was at Sam's. But I did work out for an hour and 15 min yesterday, which puts me at EVERY day this week of working out (1.5 hours m-w). Still working on eating healthy but it will get better.

Now for the FOOD!

Below: the YUMMY meatballs I made, Chaz even LOVES them and they have Kestup on them.. HE HATES kestup ( i cant spell that). lol
Props to Sarah Rybacki for this AWESOMNESS
(on a side note, I had just got home from workout:) )









MMHMM this one was YUM too. Citrus Baked Salmon on a BED of Citrus! the red stuff were Sun dried tomatoes and the green is FRESH thyme! (i even had to cut the skin of the salmon, first time for everything right?)












and my 2nd fave! Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps, I got the chicken a Little dry but they were the bomb.com










Well, that's about it for today! :)
Give me and Undivided Heart Lord!
Shayla

Some Not so important, and some important

Well, I'm up a bit early with some time to spare, which really sucks because boy am I super tired. Homework is NOT partial and we felt it last night at 2:00 am.
It really wasn't fun because we had NOTHING in the house to eat, so we went to the store at midnight, because, well, we had too.
My poor sweetie is POOPED, he's not been getting enough sleep (thankfully I have time to take a quick nap most days) he doesn't, hes skipping his first class today. Pray for him.
Yesterday I worked out 2 hours, I biked for 45 min and boy was it hard...I was pooped, but I did up a level so that was good, I also really focused on arms today too, but got on the scale this a.m., up .4 pounds.
I just don't get it.
Never-the-less, I'm going to keep pushing and hope I see a drop pretty soon.

I was going to add my food photos to this post, but I'm on Chaz's computer and they are on mine, so maybe later today. Instead I added a cute one of me and my husband at Christmas. Arn't we an awesome couple! I think so.

AND on a more thoughtful, deep side:
I was listening to the AFR (american family radio) and the man was talking about the public schools and how Obama is POURING money (that we don't have...AND he said he wasn't going to do) in to try to fix our Public School Systems...
Which I though was stupid, because first of all...we are in debt...and second of all, the only way yourgoing to "Fix" the public school system, is by FIXING the family's.
DUH
AND there was the pretty topic of Abortion..
Which I'm 100% Pro-Life.
But app. theres suppose to be a "Pro-Life" Add from Focus on the Family in the Superbowl. Which is said to be a Mom of one of the players -had a choice- and she chose life, and now the guy is famous. Theres a LOT of controversy, and one of the ladies on the View made a statement about, it was so stupid! I don't understand why people on the other side are SO harsh, when we are advocating LIFE. Then, I thought about it...the more you look, study, discuss, and debate Abortion, The Pro-Lifers are RIGHT! I mean you CANNOT argue that the Baby is not a Baby! there IS no argument. It's fact, so the people feel guilty, so they make a ruckus.
anyone agree.
well, i have to go to school...
LOVE
shay

Woke up this morning, down 1 pound. That puts me at 171!! 170 Was my biggest and I gained that all back after the Holidays, but I have never been above 170, then after I started working out.. BAM up 2 lbs, but I'm down one this morning so that's encouraging.
This morning for breakfast
2 eggs (scrambled) and a large glass of water! I'm really learning to LOVE water, I drink it a LOT.
I didn't realize how many of my close friends and family were doing this with me, My mom, Misty B., Joy S., Sam B., and Misty informed me today that Kelly is walking off the weight too. So I deff have some support.
I'm posting a few skinny photos
This was me and chaz right after I had tuned 17, so the summer of 07 when i was working out daily. Look how tiny!17th Birthday! tiny Arms and face.

Camp 07!

Anyways I wish I had a better Photo. of like a full body in a bathing suit or something but I don't but If i get to my goal 145 I will deff be taking some photos! (however I plan to stay there forever)
My first Small Goal is 20 Pounds by April 10th, My Cousin's wedding is April 10th and my mom and I want to look smokin! :)
Then I only have 15 pounds to go to get my 145.
WISH ME LUCK

Teach me your way O' Lord and I will walk in Your truth, give me an Undivided heart, that I may fear your name.
Psalm 86:11

To much on the plate? Literally?

So, I guess I will start with this... I'm now on the fast track to a brand new body. No, I'm not huge, or even rather large, but I am way over my BMI and I'm not healthy, So I'm starting to work out and eat healthier (which is very hard with a husband) The sickening thing is, I have been doing this for...well about a week and a half...and I have GAINED 2 pounds. WHAT! This BLEW my mind. Blew, Blew, Blew...Grrrrr.
Oh well, I'm happy to be working on being healthier.
My goal
30 pounds by my birthday, May 1.
and as much pain as I'm in, I better look like a GODDESS!

Well, In other news,
I have been trying a new recipe ever week, this has gone over with a lot of success. So far its been Citrus Baked Salmon, Homemade YUM meatballs, I have Baked a Ham, and some Asian Lettuce Wraps, which were my favorite by far (tied with the meatballs) I have taken photos and will post them soon.

I'm currently in a process of Fasting Facebook, Until Thursday anyways. This was for my Job situation. I took the job at Bullard ISD as a sub, hoping it would go as well as it did before the break (getting called every day) however after the break, its been VERY slow. So Chaz and I in a last ditch to save our finances are looking for a job. We are actually doing well for me not working, God has provided like he always does with some amazing "oh my gosh" & "who am I?" moments! He has been good, but my FaceBook Fast continues. I actually say, I really don't miss it all that much.

Lastly, Things with Chaz and I are GREAT! I did marry the MOST amazing man in the world and he takes care of me (and my achy bones!) He's really busy with schoolwork, he recently changed his Major to Engineering and so he's got tons on his plate, but he is working really hard and LOVES his classes. :) Me on the other hand only has 2 years left of school! Wow! It seems like it has FLOWN by! And in a sense it has...I look back and wonder where time has gone, I mean goodness I've already been married over a year and I'm still nineteen! School for me is same old same old, just trying to get the Basics out of the way. But I do graduate at the end of the summer with my Associates! So I expect all to come! :)

He is good,
Teach me your way O' Lord and I will walk in Your truth, give me an Undivided heart, that I may fear Your name
Psalm 86:11
Shayla