Shaving my head for a cause

so yeah i normally cut my hair pretty close (been using the clippers with no attachments recently), but i'm letting it grow out a bit so i can have it shaved off for a good cause. I'm shaving my head for the tenth annual St. Baldrick's Day in solidarity with children who have cancer and typically lose their hair during cancer treatment. i will be posting pics before and after :-)
my page on stbaldricks site

Worldwide, more than 160,000 children are diagnosed with cancer each year. While advances have saved many children, childhood cancer still claims the lives of more children in the US than any other disease - more than diabetes, asthma, congenital anomalies, cystic fibrosis and AIDS - combined!

Please make a donation on my behalf to support childhood cancer research so that all children diagnosed with cancer will have a better chance for a cure. Funds raised by the St. Baldrick's Foundation will be used to fund childhood cancer research - to help speed the day when every child with cancer will be guaranteed a healthy future.

P90X done! (for now)

I let myself go. not too bad, but enough to make me get larger pants than I wanted. for the past 9 years, my weight has been around 200 lbs. well, I had been thinking about exercising again, but the exercise bike and the one 20 lb barbell had gotten boring. I can't get a gym membership, cause I wouldn't be able to get the motivation to wake up early and drive to the gym. Plus, even though I know my way around the gym, without someone telling me what to do I'd end up doing the same 5 or 6 exercises, and then eventually get bored with that as well.

All last Summer, I kept seeing my good friend Neil's Facebook status updates about P90X. I had never heard of P90X, so I went to the official website to find out about it. I also bugged Neil about it. I was skeptical of the results that they show on the website, so I wanted to wait until I knew someone who got good results. When Neil was done he posted his results here. I was amazed at just how well this program worked!

So I went all in and bought the P90X program, the chin-up bar, the weights (bowflex selecttech dumbbells), and the recovery drink (yum). I was excited! Emmett had already been born, and I was going to wait a little until we figured out the new routine with 2 kids. Once everything arrived though, I was like a kid who found the Christmas presents early! I started early August, only to realize 9 days into it that lack of sleep does not help at all. I kinda burnt out. :-\

By early November, Emmett was in a good sleeping routine, and I was ready to start waking up at 4:45am every morning for the next 90 days. I know, but as long as I went to bed by 10:30, I was ready to go! This program is amazing. Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's made it a little tough to keep watching what I was eating, but I redid week 7 and that got me back on track. below are my before and after pictures!

27 lbs lost, my waist went from 35/36 to 31/32!

The best part of all this, is my photos and status updates on Facebook have gotten SO many interested/re-interested in P90X. TEN of my friends have either bought P90X or re-started because of my results! I'll be starting the 90 days again in a couple weeks, cause it is so much fun!

Getting Creative with Snow

edit: I may need to change the blog name to goofymommy! goofydaddy needs to get back to blogging about being a stay-at-home dad more...

SNOW!

Last week Aria had school cancelled and THANKFULLY my mom stuck around to entertain Aria for the day. They had lots of fun. When they played outside, they made a cute snowman. Which is now buried under 2.5ft of snow we just had.

2.5 ft of snow - "Blizzard of 2010", "Shovelganza", "Snowtorious B-I-G"

Thank goodness Kevin's been working out. I think I would have broke if I tried to shovel us out. Don't you love the dry pavement? The sun hits our house just perfect and our neighbors on the other side of the street are jealous, haha.

I ran to the store on Friday night to get a couple baby things. I happened upon this stroller and got a great price. What do you do with a stroller for two when you have 2.5ft of snow outside? Ride it around the house of course! The past 2 days we spent a couple hours with this activity. It solved all our cranky problems :-)

Aria feeds Emmett

It's so cute how she talks to him like we do when we feed him. :-)

Emmett "sits up" and eats!

Emmett is still uninterested in rolling over yet, but who needs that when there are other things to accomplish. Emmett is starting to hold himself up in the sitting position. He flops over pretty easily, but it's a start. He also tried his first real food, other than baby rice cereal. Yum Carrots!

"Look at me! I can sit...for a little while at least."

I assure you, he did get some in his mouth.

Happy T-day, Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Oops! I'm just a tad late. Time has really flown by the last couple months. Thanksgiving was nice. We had a fantastic time with family at our house for Christmas. Then we went to Kevin's parents house for New Years and spent time with his brother's family from out-of-town. It was a lot of fun seeing Aria (and Emmett) interact with their one and only cousin, Felipe.

Our family on our after-the-turkey walk

Aria and Emmett in their Christmas best

Santa was good to the kids

Baby New Year (aka Emmett)

Happy New Year!

Felipe and Aria playing