Little kids

I was asked to babysit two little kids this morning.  It was fun.  We pulled out the old set of Thomas the Tank Engine train tracks and made a huge train track all over the piano room.  We pulled out all the little people and cars and put the people in the house and the animals in the barn and zoomed the cars up and down the garage and on the car elevator.
We had a good time.  The two little ones were so sweet and fun to have in the house.  It reminded me of some of the fun times with my crazy kids when I just had Alex and Ashley and the house was a little quieter and less chaotic.

So here are a few pictures from the past. :)  I'm trying to get caught up on scrapbooking the loads and loads of pictures I have on the hard drive.  I'm almost to when Angela was born. lol! :)  Only 6 years more to catch up on. :)

Photo Blizzard

In honor of the two snow storms we've had in the past 8 days... I'm doing a photo blizzard on the Newton Family blog... hop on over and see some of the stuff we've been up to the past couple of weeks. :)

http://newtonaaaa.blogspot.com/

I'm also trying to do more digiscrapping... so I hope to put a few more pages on here in the next few days as well.

No-Snow, Snow day!

We woke up this morning to emails telling us there was no school.  Then we hopped out of bed to see what the snow or ice looked like.

We could barely see any snow or ice. lol!

But there is a slight layer of ice on all the hard surfaces, and so the kids are home from school.  Rich was able to get out of the driveway on the third try (yea! 4 wheel drive) and off to work.  I'm thinking this afternoon when the sun is supposed to come out the ice will melt away and I can get out without a problem and get some errands done.

Hopefully we'll have school tomorrow again. :)

Oh and I made it to the gym mon, tues, and wed this week.  We'll see if I can get over there today with this "snow day"

Hi

Hello again!

Life just is whizzing by too fast.  I am sad to report I haven't been to the gym much in the last two weeks, but I am trying.  I went today and had a great workout, now I just have to continue to go throughout the week and not just exercise on Monday's and let the rest of the week slide. :)

I'm feeling like I'm turning into my mom... lol!  I always complained that we never did anything on days we were off of school, and yet here it is Martin Luther King day and if you lifted the roof on our house you would find Ashley cleaning her room, and Alex playing video games, and Alyssa and Angela alternately playing with toys, watching tv, or asking me what they can do. lol!

I've exercised, caught up on my calender and getting some to do lists made (I'd get some calls made, but the places are closed today).  I'm hoping by the end of the day some of the bathrooms in the house will get some cleaning, but I don't know how lofty a goal that might be.

I've started digi-scrapping again and have a goal to do one page a week during this year of current things to this year.  Here are a few pages I've done.

The truth

Here's the truth...

I told myself that I would get to the gym each day this week... the kids area home from school, but they are old enough Alex and Ashley can watch the younger girls and I can run to the gym for an hour each day right?

I haven't made it yet.  I get involved in other things, and I just haven't made that a priority... and then I complain that I'm tired and everything, when I really just need to exercise more.

Honestly... I don't see the gym happening in the next two days.  I'm in full blown Christmas mode and I would rather bake and eat the cookies than exercise and eat healthier foods.

So I'll continue to slack off until next week... but then I really will put forth the effort and get the habits back in place.  I'm not even focusing on the weight loss right now.  I just want to feel better, and I know when I'm exercising regularly I feel better.  The weight loss will happen on it's own after the exercise habits become more routine.