I'm a Jogger!

Woo hoo! I actually jogged last night. Karen and I have been staying up on walking this week...and I feel great! We were walking last night..and I was like "Let's see if we can jog to that tree." And we did! And then we would walk..and then we would jog. Right now we are up to walking/jogging for 37 minutes exactly ( I have a stop watch.) We went up from 33min/34sec. We're trying to get up to an hour a night. Oh it was so scary though. We were walking down a street that we normally walk down..and there was this big ol' dog in the middle of the street growling and barking at us. Karen was like "I think that's God telling us to turn around."lol. We did, he followed us a little ways but then stopped. I know this sounds crazy...but Erik attached a small pocket knife to my stop watch so I could have it for protection. Not that I would ever hurt a doggy...but this dog was SCARY. So I felt a little protected.
Other than that..I'm really glad the weekend is coming up. And I'm sooooo happy that we're having cooler weather. I hope it never get's back up to the 100's. Ok, well gotta do laundry. TGIF everybody!

Back in the saddle again.

Ok, so I started walking again yesterday. I've actually prolonged it for a long as I possibly could. I just hate exercising..who's with me? So anyways, Karen and I agreed that we would be each other's walking buddy. We decided that the evening would be best considering we would be cooking in the texas heat if we went earlier in the day. We started walking at 8:00pm...and it was completly dark and I thought I was absolutely going to hate it. But actually...it wasn't too bad. I think I prefer walking at night now...you have privacy..you can be silly without worrying if someone is seeing you thrue their window..and there was actually a little breeze. All in all, I enjoyed it last night.
It just sucks to be me right now. I really thought I was going to lose this baby weight..but actually I've gained. I can only wear like two pairs of jeans now..and then the rest are stretch pants. I told Karen that my goal right now is to lose 30lbs. That way, I'm sure I'll be able to fit into the 20 pairs of jeans I have hanging in my closet. I refuse to buy bigger clothes...it's just not going to happen.
I'm sure you're tired of hearing my rantin' about all of this. But get used to it. I figured I would kind of keep a self journal on here to record my triumphs and defeats...not sure yet. All in all everything is going ok, you've probably heard that Erik got let go from his job...it was actually a temp job..so we kinda knew that it was going to happen. So if anyone out there knows of anything opening up...let us know.

Oh! And I'm almost done with a purse that I've been making. I'm pretty proud of myself because I've had to do some things with it that I've never done before. Now I'm just stuck on the damn straps..uggghhh. I'll post a pick when I'm done with it.

Hope everyone is having a good week!

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I promised y'all pictures..

Karen out of it
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Here they are! This picture is of Karen right after the delivery with her beautiful daughter Kenzie. The next picture is Kenzie before she got dressed to go home. The next picture is of Kenzie in her car seat ready to go home! Oh, and the last pic I just had to add. It's Gavin seeing the baby for the VERY FIRST time. He wasn't very pleased obviously..lol. That's all for now...I'll post more later on. Bye!

BabyGirl
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Going home..
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What the heck?
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Kenzie Lynn Marie Goode

Isn't that the cutest name ever!? Ok, so it's official...we now have a new addition to our family. And she's just the sweetest little thing. Karen had her baby Monday evening at 6:39 p.m. and everything couldn't have gone better. Except for the fact that Karen's epidural went away during her hardest labor pains and I swear I saw the devil..lol. But all is good. It was sooo cool because I got to be in the labor room to see everything...it was me..my mom, Melanie, and of course Karen and the hospital staff. They actually had me hold one of her legs during the process...but that meant that I saw everything..and I mean..EVERYTHING..lol. But it was just a great moment..I'll never forget it.

So I'm glad that she's home...(came home yesterday)...and that everything is quieting down. I'll have some pics up soon...I just hate my dial-up because it takes forever and a day to download a pic. But I'll do one or two at least..promise.

I hope everyone is doing well!

Love ya!

IT'S BABY TIME!

That's right everybody! Karen is going to have her baby! She is scheduled to be induced on Monday!!! I am soooooooooo freakin' excited! So she went to the doctor on Thursday where he informed her that she was at 4 centimeters and 70% effaced. He told her that she will need to come into the hospital at 5:30 am to start the whole process. It was funny because Karen has been progressing so fast that he said there would be a good chance that she could have the baby this weekend. Nothin' has happened yet though...believe me..we've all been on pins and needles.

Ok, so if anyone would like to visit her she's going to be at the LakePoint hospital which is like five minutes away from us.

Info: Lake Point Hospital-6800 Scenic Dr.-972-412-2273

We hope to see you guys there!