Drill weekend & A review of this past month

Saturday is the start to Kadences' first drill weekend for the Idaho Air National Guard. It's exciting and slightly sad, only cause this is the first weekend in the passed 2 months I won't have him home. On the bright side, we should find out when he is leaving to Tech school! Yahoo. I'm so proud of him for all that he has achieved in his time with the Military. I'm glad he found another job that will make him happy, and have him learning constantly.

While Kade has his drill weekend, I have the first weekend in a good 6 months where I'm working. I don't normally work Saturday OR Sundays, but this may be the start to a new routine. Only time will tell. Today at work however was pretty mellow, it is a BSU game so we will be a tad slow. It's sounds a little lame but I LOVE going to work. Even when there is drama or way too much going on, I really enjoy my job! The only downside to working this much is I am going to physical therapy as well. So some of these long days are kicking my butt. Literally.

I am seeing Brookes at Foothills Physical Therapy http://www.foothillspt.com/. He is AMAZING! It's really nice that I am going to see someone who is an expert in his field. Last Tuesday was the first day that I got to see him since my surgery. It was nice, and eye opening. Come to find out, I'm a little ahead of myself in my rehab process. It's hard not to push yourself when you want to get back to something. I really want to run again. Which is a very achievable goal now. Thank-you goes out to Dr Waters who did a FANTASTIC job on my knee. Anyhow, come to find out, I am the only patient Brookes has had that, 7 weeks after surgery, had FULL range of motion. He didn't like how much I was working, but he is working my work schedule into the PT routine. Since on average I walk a minimum of 3miles at Macaroni Grill and just about 2 miles at the bar 6 days a week, we are doing A LOT of knee strengthening work outs and keeping my cardio to a minimum. Holy cow was I sore after Tuesday. I don't think I had worked out some of the muscles in a VERY long time. I'm starting to feel better and better!

Feeling better meant I am looking better as well. At least my own image of myself is getting better looking. Ha, that sounds really conceited. With that Kadence and I recently had pictures done with Brandy Roberts from Brandy Roberts Photography http://www.brandyrobertsphotography.com/. I LOVE Brandy. She is not only a friend but an AMAZING photographer! She is so versatile from photographing babies, which is not cake walk, to shooting weddings. Everything she does is phenomenal!! If anyway wants or needs and pictures done she is the one to go to. Plus her prices are out of this world.

LOVE YOU BRANDY & THANK YOU!!!!

Anyhow, I'll have those photos uploaded as soon as I receive them, but in the meantime check 'em out at Brandy's Website, the link is above, or on facebook http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Brandy-Roberts-Photography/400586315990.

PS everyone, I don't now about you but, I am SO ready for the Holidays to be here!!! Bring it on the cooler weather, the heavier foods, sweaters, boots, AH I just love it!! Stay tuned for those photos to be uploaded!!

Getting Healthy AND Happy

I swear I have been telling myself, "I'm going to lose some weight, eat healthier, work out, Etc. Etc" since forever. Since early September or maybe late August, just around the time I found out I was going in for knee surgery number 2, I really told myself this time I am going to get myself healthy. Not by any FAD, but plain 'ol hard work. No time limits and no crazy food limitations. I did however get a jump start with this whole thing, since some recent health issues, I was referred to a Healthy Habits clinic and prescribed 'Phentramine.' Not to be confused with Fen-Phen. Phentramine is a dietary appetite suppressant, however Fen-Phen was pulled from the shelves due to the FDA finding that certain ingredients, fenfluramine along with dexfenfluramine, were causing potentially life threatening heart problems. Anyhow they prescribe that I take it for 8 weeks along with some diet counseling. I wasn't too hip on taking something to help me lose weight, but man did it work. I didn't take it for about 4 weeks cause of my surgery and the complications that could have arisen from the phentramine and my narcotics.

I started my life change the beginning of September at a weight of 187lbs. WOW it's actually really hard to leave there for EVERYONE to read. But there it is folks. In the two months of eating a little better, light exercise, and the help of the phentramine, I am now down to 167lbs! YAHOO!! I'm starting to feel better not only about my image but about myself as a whole. I never thought that I was so self conscious about my weight, but I really was. It effected everything. Not that the lower the weight I'm at the happier I am, but the fact that being so heavy has a lot of health risks.

Kadence and I haven't really told anyone but a close friend this but, in late August I had a miscarriage. I didn't even think I could get pregnant seeing how I was on birth control, an IUD. I guess when it is supposed to happen it will happen. It was hard at first thinking of all the possibilities that could have changed our lives. I felt like it was my fault, as if I had done something wrong. But really these things happen. Most of the time for no known reason. However when a doctor looks at you and says your weight could have had something to do with it, you take it to heart.

So the goal isn't to get to any certain weight, but to get myself healthy and happy. Heck I'm more than half way there!!

Weird Couple of Months

It's been a while since I just sat down and said, "I'm going to write, everything I'm feeling." Here I am. It has really been a weird couple of months. That's not true, it's been a weird month. Kadence got out of the Active Duty, it's been a whole month since my surgery, and working way to much on my part.

October 4th 2010 our 2 year wedding anniversary, also the day Kadence was officially out of Active Duty Air Force. It's strange to think we have been married for two years, it really does seem like yesterday and forever ago that it happened. It was a little nerve racking trying to figure out our new plan. Was he going to go guard, stay home and go to school, get a new "real" job? So many things to figure out. He did go Guard, Idaho Air National Guard. It's going to be a great new change for him, a new job and schooling. I'm extremely excited for him. Now for him to head to Tech school. BLAH! It will be a long couple of months with out him.

I had surgery on my right knee in September. It's now been over a month since it all happened. It's amazing how you can not only SEE the difference but the difference I feel just a few weeks after they went in a fixed everything. I had an Anterior Tibial Tubercle Transfer. Which in regular English means, they broke my tibia from where it would normally hit my knee to about 5 inches down, moved it about half an inch to the right, and screwed it back into place with 3 Screws. This was all done because the alignment of my knee wasn't correct. This is the second surgery I have had on this knee. I do however have a fantastic doctor who thinks this surgery should be the last for the next 6-10 years! YAY! AND he says I should be able to run again! YAHOO!! Marathons here I come!!

Having had such a speedy recovery meant I went back to work a little sooner as well. I was going a little stir crazy though. But, working two jobs keeps me plenty busy. I have the funnest night job ever, Brews Brothers Pub. I really do love working at the bar, it's not only a laid back place, but the clientele are fun and my bosses are great! Who wouldn't like working there. Plus I only work 3 nights a week, just enough to keep me busy and put some extra moolah in my pocket! I do still work at Macaroni Grill. I'm the Catering Supervisor, Developing host and server, and as of recent events I am the go to for paperwork anything. I really love working for Macaroni Grill, it's a sick obsession I believe. With both jobs, on average I work anywhere from 70-90 hours a week. I'm kept busy which is what I like.

Along with work Kadence and I have started Rosetta Stone Dutch. I'm excited to learn or re-learn the language of my Oma and Opa, or Pake and Beppe. HAHA It's going to be a lot of fun learning together, something we can pass on to our kids. Well there you have it, the past month or so all right here for ya! I am going to keep this updated more, it will keep me on track with everything that's on my mind. See ya next time!