I love dress shopping!!

I mentioned the other day that we have the St. Barbara's Day Ball in December, well Kyle came home the other day and said to me "So yea we have the Division Ball in December." So thats means two formals back to back, yippee! I already have one dress that I bought a few months ago because I couldn't pass it up and it gives me a reason to get myself back into shape. Now I get to go dressing shopping for another, here is the dress I bought a few months ago:

These pictures don't do the dress justice at all, it really is beautiful! I am on the hunt now for a red dress for the St. Barbara's Day Ball. I am going back to Vegas around Thanksgiving so hopefully I can get lucky and find something there. This will be out last time attending this formal as Kyle will no longer be Field Artillery after June. I found this dress online and I may try to find something similar:

Well, I better get off here have to figure something out for dinner before we leave for Kyle's soccer practice, speaking of they are off to a good start. They won their first game on Thursday 2-1. I hope everyone is having a great weekend!!

It keeps getting better and better!!

Well 21 days have passed and my mom is back in Arizona for another appointment. My dad called me earlier and told that the first tests came back good, her lungs are functioning properly, white blood cell count is good...they were just waiting on her tumor markers.

Well we finally got those results:

Month 1: 185

Month 2: 154

Month 3: 99.3!!!!!!!

The normal range is between 0 and 35....that goal seems so attainable!

All I could say on the phone was wow! We are in such awe of how her treatments are going and pray that these good results continue!!! Praise God! Thank you everyone for the constant love, support and prayers!

Sore!!

Oh man, yesterday I decided it was time to get myself in shape. On top of running a 5k in November, we have the St. Barbara's Day Ball in December. I really would like to lose about 15 pounds. The last two days I have been going to the gym for about an hour and boy am I sore! I'm going to start going during the week before work and I can't wait to see some results. I'm hoping that it will make me feel better during the day as well, I need a little bit more energy during the day.

We have enjoyed a pretty quiet weekend, I have gotten lots of cleaning done. I even shampooed our carpet downstairs, it just seemed dirty from when we moved in so we went and bought a new carpet shampooer....this thing is fancy! I swear it looks like a spaceship haha. Kyle thinks I'm crazy but cleaning is fun for me.

On a pretty exciting note (well exciting to me lol), my mom was able to get out of the house this weekend and go to the races. My Dad said everyone was so happy to see her, it has been since May since she had been out there. I was able to watch it online and hearing the announcers welcome her back was so sweet. My Dad didn't win the main race but he won a special race called "the duck race". I was sooo happy that they were able to spend a day there and even pick up a win. She is headed to Arizona today for another treatment, please keep her in your prayers as we are hoping for good news again!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend!

Wordless Wednesday

July 1985- Lisa, Mom, and Me

Another Weekend Gone.

Another weekend is gone and we are already halfway through August...holy cow!!! I took Friday off work so I could attend Kyle's Battalion Organizational Day. It was a lot of fun! It was out at Smith Lake, they had a huge bounce house for kids, basketball, volleyball, horseshoes and everyones favorite, the Dunk Tank!! We got all 4 battery commanders to agree to go in the dunk tank, it was $1 for 3 balls. I do believe that Alpha Battery raised $239 haha. I have some pretty funny videos of the commanders being dunked. We spent about 3 hours there and headed home. We had grocery shopping to get done and we all know how crazy to commissary is on pay day so we just hit up Sam's Club (I think we spent over $400 on groceries for the two of us, really?!?! lol)

HHB Commander getting dunked!

Saturday, at about 10am we headed out to Sicily Drop Zone. Kyle was going to try and get on a jump that was happening, but we got all the way out there and they had too many soldiers and not enough chutes. Go figure. We went home and relaxed a little while before Kyle's soccer practice at 5:30, it was incredibly humid, I am so ready for fall! I am excited that he will be playing for the battalion team again, we had so much fun last year, hopefully they can take the championship this year instead of a runner-up finish like last year.

This was a picture I took on our way to Siciliy Drop Zone! I Iove watching Paratroopers jump!!

Sunday was cleaning day!! My hubby is pretty awesome when it comes to cleaning, he vaccumed both downstairs and upstairs, cleaned our cats room (yes, Fishy has his own room) and did laundry. It was nice to get the house back in order as I feel like I have been slacking lately. I was pretty excited for dinner that night because I had gotten up at 6am to put a yummy pork shoulder in the crock pot, my first attempt at making pulled pork was  HUGE success! It was yummy!!

Hopefully this week will be relatively easy, my boss is on vacation for the week. I plan on becoming a hermit and staying in my office to get stuff done I can't when he is here.

Have a great week everyone!!!

I passed!!!

I am now officially a Notary Public for the state of North Carolina! After sitting in a pretty boring class for 7 hours I got a 98% on state exam!!! Yay!! I am so happy that I am done with this.

Hope everyone is having a great day!!!

Mid-Week Break

I am beyond ready for this day to be over. On top of being buried under paperwork and files, I had to deal with not one but THREE screaming children this afternoon. Don't get me wrong I absolutely LOVE kids just not the ones that don't know how to behave. After leaving the courthouse and getting stuck behind a train for 45 minutes I was already annoyed. I get back to the office where three little boys were screaming at the top of their lungs while their parents were in a closing. After being asked nicely a few times to quiet down the mom finally came out and took them outside. Let the headache commence!

Tonight, I have my online open house for school and I'm pretty excited. It will be pretty cool to see my virtual classrooms. Tomorrow I get a break from all the mayhem in the office, I get to sit in a Notary Public class for 8 hours, yea I guess when you say it out loud it sounds pretty boring. Plus, I am taking Friday off so that I can attend Kyle's battalion organizational day. It will be a fun day of hanging out by the lake, good food and hanging out with some great people. Yay for 3 day work weeks!

If you haven't had a chance to check out my page for the 5k that Kyle and I will be participating in on November 7th, click on the picture to the right and it will take you directly to my page. I have had a few donations already and I am so thankful.

Happy Tuesday!!