Yvette = Marie Osmond????

Any one who knows me is aware of my uphill weight battle. The gym, the hydroxycut, you name it. Those first couple of pounds were not too difficult to but oh gosh these leading up to the first goal are lingering.

So just recently I convinced Omar what would really help me lose weight is getting Nutrisystem. It really did not take too much convincing, we spend more than what the food costs eating out almost every other evening. So last Tuesday it arrived. At first I was really excited, Omar of course knew better. He did warm me that the pictures online were not going to be the what they sent me. Those little fibbers! Their pictures do look so delicious and filling.... sigh.

Well long story short--- portions stink. But I am slowly getting used to them. I MISS french fries and pizza!!! EVERYONE knows my love affair with pizza is serious, so hard does not even describe it. But tah-dah!!!!!! I am only 3 lbs away from goal number 1... and lost 4 lbs in one week!!!

Luckily I lost as much as I did in the first week. THANK GOODNESS! The more I lose the easier I find it to be stay focused. End goal you may ask? Well it is a bit unrealistic, but it is to try to weigh what I did when I went to NYC for our honeymoon when we go for our 5 year anniversary in January. LMBO!!! Wish me luck friends... and prayers, lots and lots of prayers.

Yo Gabba Gabba!!!!

For Halloween Omar is going to be DJ Lance Rock!!! Little Omar is just ecstatic about the whole idea. Needless to say O has worn the costume more than once around the house. It is actually pretty funny, because Omi rummages in the closet and comes out with it at least once a day and asks his Papa to "put on" I am sure that O is going to be quite the popular guy at the Halloween party we are throwing for the kids. Check out the boombox I made for DJ Lance Rock!!!!

I made some cupcakes for another party the boys were invited to. I felt a little inspired, and was tinkering around with ideas for our party. I am going to set up a dessert table, and was not sure how two cake stands would look stacked- not bad eh? They were only $4.99 each at Target. I am sure you are surprised, me at Target? Never.... it is only my second home.

Enjoy that little sneak peek of the boy's Halloween pictures.

Just some pictures to catch up

Hello there all!!!! I feel like I have just been posting up a storm as of late. So I will not bore with any random tangents I am more than able to come up with. There are the pictures I had promised in previous posts, minus the Halloween pictures. I PROMISE to have those up before Halloween... lol.

Us in St. Augustine. Family pictures are so rare of us... thank goodness for Sabrina who captured this lovely snapshot!

These are an even rarer find than family pictures. Since I am the photog of the family, it is safe to say that I am not captured in many of our candid shots. I literally had to tell O "hey take a pic of me with the boys please" turn on the camera and hand it to him.

I just love this shot of Aiden sleeping on Omi... TOO fricking cute

Aiden's face is classic

This little guy's imagination and creativity is just too much at times. He saw this and placed it on his head and said "mama look I'm Sponge Bob" For those of you who may not know, Sponge bob wears something that looks like that when he does Karate with Sandy Cheeks.

It is a rare day when he does not bathe after every meal.

Just the cutest little Goblin EVER!!

I did try to keep it as short as possible. Just writing enough to explain.

Pumpkin Patch 2010

This past week we took a field trip with the boys out the pumpkin patch. We do it every year, so nothing all that new and excited... except it is Aiden Eric's first! He definitely did enjoy himself. Aiden loved being propped up top of all those pumpkins.

Omi loved sitting on the pumpkins! Just after the picture was taken Little Man tried to stuff his brother thru the cracks.

Aiden scaled this pumpkin shortly after the picture was taken.

My two favorite pumpkin

Scarlet you make me smile

Let me first start by saying that I am always cringing at the view of over achievers at the gym: the stair climbers (is that even what it is called?) who decide that going up the stairs backwards is really the smart way to go about their cardio work out, those who go extra fast on the tredmil, don't get me started on the agilities enthusists. Every so often I catch a glimpse of a gym member doing off the wall exercises which I would never dare do... I try not to tempt fate. I am beyond clumsy and there is no need to make my life more dangerous than it already is. So I digress... Omar and I are in the abs area along with another two girls. One which happens to be a little over weight. OK OK OK I am not trying to make fun of over weight people, but I just want to make a point that there are just some things that are not wise-- again don't tempt fate. Well this girl is on one of the yoga balls. I use them to assist me with sit ups since my knees are shot. But she was using it to balance herself on it. It is a bit difficult to explain, but she was on her stomach trying to balance herself with her arms and legs stretched out in front and behind her. Picture it? Now do you understand what I mean by temping fate???? Ok so she is some what balanced and than it happens, she begins to loose her balance. So instead of falling on to her face she manages to put her hands in front and not break her nose. Sounds like she missed a disaster right? WRONG! So as she is trying to get up, she uses her hands to walk back and I guess had ever intention of landing her feet on the ground. Now, as she is "walking with her hands" there is another yoga ball directly behind her. Which of course does not allow her feet to get to the floor she so desperately needed. I am watching this all unravel so quickly and slow all at the same time that I just have no idea how this is going to end... well I know it is not going to pleasant, but not exactly sure how. So instead of stopping the hand motions, she continues going backwards with hopes of kicking the ball behind her out from under her feet. I really have no idea how she thought this would end other than catastrophic. Picture it: heavy set girl laying on a yoga ball, legs are kicking in the air trying to kick another ball from behind her while her arms are only pushing her closer and closer to her demise. Than it happens, she loses total balance and just falls to the side ... SPLAT! Landing on the floor as both yoga balls fly across the room! I can only imagine what my face must have looked like. I am proud to say I did not laugh... but when her friend looked over at Omar all he could do was shrug with an "I don't know what the heck just happened" kind of face. I decided just to look away instantly, I have self control but it only goes so far.

When it was all said and done we start walking out of the gym, and Omar turns to me and says "I wonder if her name is Scarlet?" I almost peed myself. This clip just NEVER gets old! It is not the full version... but oh wow H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S

Keeping up with it all!!!!

disclaimer: Let me begin by excusing myself for the potential disaster that is this post... I am running on approximately 3 hours of sleep. So the ADD may be extra special this rant.

Last weekend was nuts with orders and having to get them all done before the Friday because we were leaving to St. Augustine. Although I was tremendously sleep deprived I did complete my tasks as you saw in the previous post and completed them all quite well if I do say so myself. Tomorrow we are heading to Naples for a tournament (surprised I am sure) so it was another crazy past two days. Except since we are leaving Sat and not Friday I had a little more wiggle room. I had 5 in total... one was just a sheet so nothing special that I would even take a picture of, so for photographic purposes it was only 4. I really zoomed through them for the most part. And I did not sleep because it would (I am aware of how crazy it sounds) it would just be easier. As most of you know, daddies love to help--- but never quite keep things in line like Momma Bear does (I will touch base on THAT shortly). So I work best when EVERY ONE is asleep and out of my hair. Likely why I always find myself posting at these late night hours. For the most part none were out of the ordinary and difficult. The christening gown I had never done before... I got a little concerned. I thought it was not going to look right, or that I was going to have to drape fondant more than once. Pretty anxious about it... turns out it was not difficult to make at all. I know that your non cake people are probably thinking- yeah right not hard--pppfffhhh... but it wasn't. The most difficult part was getting the sleeves the same size, other than that (pardon the cheesiness) it was cake.

So as I was saying earlier, is it not the most annoying thing how kids smell weakness. Now, it is really difficult to explain because for the most part Omar is the enforcer. I tend to bend too quickly and feel bad when I scold or give a time out. And when we are both in the same vicinity, a stern instruction from Papa always beats Mama's pleading. Odd, when I am alone with them I swear they listen. Maybe I just tell myself they do to help the self- esteem... lol. (They really do listen though). Ok so stern and "strict" Papa right??? NO! It is like when Papa is in charge these little darlings turn into havens! I mean little O starts prancing from couch to couch, on the back rest none the less all the while Aiden is pulling apart the blinds from the sliding glass door. Where might you ask if the strict one at this point in time??? Well he watching a movie... taking out time to play "timber" (Omi sits on Big O's shoulders and than "falls" to his tickle doom) every so often with Little O. Only to be interrupted with laughter and clapping caused by Aiden Eric's amusement with the destruction he has caused. You would believe that if they have their Papa to entertain them that Mama could make an attempt to accomplish a task or two- WRONG! Turns out while they are not being destructive one is clinging to my leg (Aiden) and the other is trying to climb into the fridge (Omi) because he wants to help me cook. Why is it that I find it more peaceful when O is at work and I have the terrors to myself. I have to rationalize that it is not that it is truly more peaceful, but that since I am alone I expect there to be chaos. Plus there is no one else to entertain the little monsters--- I mean darlings. On one last tangent... can someone please tell me why it is that I handle the monster and goblin alone all the time and survive, yet no one else wants to??? Is it a mom thing? Am I the only one who wants to put up with these two? They are not bad.. maybe it is just overwhelming since Aiden is soo0o0o (beyond) needy. No clue, but it is annoying.

So you get a little background, my dad does martial arts; Tae Kwon Do to be precise. Omi loves nothing more than to dig into grandpa's sparring gear and put it on!

I have quite a few more pictures of the boys and our daily adventures as well as our trip to St. Augustine... but I tease by describing how delicious my two boys look in all their pictures. Oh I also have their Halloween pictures... but again, not posting tonight. I plan on posting on Sunday night when we get back from Naples. Would you believe I still have to unload the dishwasher and reload it again... laundry (don't get me started on my arch enemy) and oh yeah.. I have to pack the boys and I for this weekend. GRRRRRR....

Galoshes and Raincoats

Living in Miami, FL we get so many rainy days. Keeping a rambunctious energetic little boy couped up inside the house not only makes for a disastrous home and stir crazy mama. So after raining two days straight, I came up with the idea that it was time for Omi to play outside. I slapped some rain boots and his rain coat on and off he went. It made for some entertaining pictures and video snippets.

Poor sweet Aiden could not join in on the fun... it is one thing to jump in puddles and another to have the little one crawl through them. I am sure he will be running through the rain in no time.