Terrible 2's

well let me start off by saying the work outs are going good im down 9 pounds and still going strong now on to the other topic:

My son turned 2 on September 6th and he is driving me NUTS!! dont get me wrong i love him to death and would not trade him for the world but come one kid lets use that brain you have!! i dont get what goes through this kid head sometimes. And his new thing is LITERALLY thowing himself on the floor and screaming like someone just killed his dog and then hit him over the head with it... and he dose this when he drops a toy... COME ON NOW! then he just started trowing his food all over the floor and not eating i mean the kid has lost 2 pounds sinse his birthday im a bit worried i cant get him to eat!! (is that normal) timeouts work for about 45 minutes then is back to the grind. the other day he was throwing one of his fits for no reason and i had, had enough! i sent him to his room turned out the light and shut the door as i told him that when he can act like a big boy he can come out and talk to me.... he cried for 2 hours!!! all because i would not let him eat some lotion... i dont get it...

am i doing something wrong did someone trade kids with me without me knowing.. because he has done a 190 since he was 1 year and 364 days old but now that he is 2 all hell has broke loose... he is normally really good with his brother but know he hits and takes toys and crying when im nursing him... screaming MOMMY MOMMY NO BABY! then that makes me feel bad like im not playing with him enough but we play all day.. i read books we sing songs and everything but it dont matter! and taking him out in public is a night mare i feel like the worse parent ever in public and everyone looks at me like i am too! UGH can he just be 5 yet! okay okay i dont mean that he has his sweet moments but not enough!

HELP any advise will be loved!!

day 5 - farther than i made it before!

today is day 5 and im loving the way i feel! im down 8 pounds so only 72 more to go... geesh im going to have to do this 60 day program like 3 times but oh well... days 1-4 were about they same as last... i just had more energy. i am still feeling icky every now and then but working through it. STILL need to get in and have my thyroid checked but getting an appointment here is like pulling teeth! well thats about all for today! sorry so short... ill try to update more often... just been busy since my husband is gone.

not a deployment but IDK

i know i know as an army wife i should be used to my husband being gone. but you know what IM NOT! i have been through 2 deployments so far so this being at the field for X amount of days is way better than a year in a war zone... BUT i was also close to friends in family all the other times he has been gone... this time although a short time is bugging more than normal. im upset that he wont be here tomorrow on Kaleb's second birthday! im upset that i dont have Ashley or Stacy to just come over and keep me company or i go to their house and hang out for a bit! UGH! and to think he will come home and go back to the field for twice as long next time and then sometime in the near future he will deploy and im thousands and thousands of miles away from home. instead of a 2 hour drive i have a 10 hour plan ride... and 2 kids. it dose not help that i was stupid and looked through Kaleb's baby pictures and he is turning 2... my baby is going to be 2!! and my other baby just turned 6 months old... they grow up WAY too fast!

i will say i am happy that i do have some new friends coming over for cake and ice cream tomorrow to celebrate some birthdays!! well i guess i better go and get ready for bed... no nap for me tomorrow... i have my insanity work out.. then shower then clean for company. hope you all had a good labor day!

insanity attempt 2

so this morning i did the fit test again just becasue im starting over... i improved on everything not anything to brag about tho. at nap time im going to do the 20 minutes work out dvd that comes with it... to get me ready for tomorrow to start my work outs!! this time im starting at 226.2... better than 230.6 so here is goes again a whole new tara... lets home i dont get sick again... darn tummy... thats why i took a week off and decided to just start over

OOPS!!

well today would be day 6... i have been feeling really icky the last two days... with an upset tummy and having no energy there for no workout...since im soo of course now and still feeling icky im going to start ALL OVER on Monday (NEXT MONEY)... them im on track with the calender and i dont know i think it will work out... sorry to everyone but i think with my tummy issues this is whats better.. i do have some good news... im down to 228.0 which is down 2.4 lbs from when im started... next time around stating next monday. i will still be posting and walking and watching what i eat... just not doing insanity for a week... my tummy just hates me right now. 
that is all later
Tara

day 4- recovery

today was the recovery work out a slow and steady work out but it actually tested my strength more than my endurance today. i like it but i think i like the intense high speed ones better... this kind of reminded me of the yoga day in p90x.... my least favorite... its not near as hard as yoga but it still requires a lot of balance which i do NOT have.. hopefully while strengthening my muscles ill get that too.  i feel good after this work out tho... relaxed and over all good.


alright short and sweet for today. oh i didn't do it at 6 am today i did it at 13:00 just because i was filling sick this morning and the main reason i was doing it first thing in the morning was because it was so hot in this apartment with no ac but now that the weather is cooler i can sleep and extra hour get up with the boys and do my work out at nap time... this makes for a happier mommy!


Cami: thanks for all the comments and i looked at the schedule like you said in the first week there is no abs but next week ill start that with the other workouts so hopefully they will work ;)


Later all!
Tara

going strong Day3

well today's work out was not as bad as yesterdays. my shoulders are in more pain. the thing im kind of bummed about is i have not had pain in my "abs" aka BIG BELLY yet...I have noticed tho during the work outs he keeps saying contract your core contract your core... so im trying but unless he says it i forget so i need to work on that one. when i got up this morning i realized yea my legs hurt and so did my arms but the one thing that caught me off guard was the fact that my feet hurt really bad... the balls of my feet and the "arches" or the sport your arches should be (im as flat footed as a duck). anyway over all i feel good today. i do not feel like trowing up like i did yesterday. my shoulders and neck are just really tight... well back to good old mommy and house work. 


later

day 2- BLAH

Blah: that is how I feel. my tummy is in knots and my legs and arms hurt, but in a strange way I like it. Today was hard. a lot of jumping.... my poor legs. I have laundry to do but i really don't want to tackle the 7 flights of stairs to do it. have i mentioned that my body is in pain!?? my COLD shower felt wonderful. no weight loss, but no weight gain either so that is good. I think the biggest struggle im going to have in all this is eating better. i like my sweats! and its even harder when you have a husband that dose too. i figure if we dont buy it i cant eat it. although i will say that after i work out i want some grapes or some juicy fruits not sweats to that is a good thing! I have noticed that all this working out and getting down on the floor and everything else makes my acid reflex really bad... so ill have to see about getting something to help with that too. i need to get on some sort of vitamins too, i know they will help! well that is pretty much it for day 2. I got up at 6 did my work out took a shower got laundry ready and sat down here and wrote a blog and its now 7:45... and Kaleb is still sleeping... 


later

230.6-Insanity day 1

WARNING: my spelling and grammar are awful! 

So last night my husband come home from work with a box in his hands marked. Beachbody. I was Uber excited to know that my Insanity DVD's had finally came in. last night i told Brett to wake me up when he left for PT in the morning so i could get my work out out of the way before the kidos got up. he came in at 6 and woke me up just for me to say ill do it at nap time... i laid there for about ten minutes then dragged my fat ass out of bed and did my work out.

Today was one the first day so it was just the fit test and let me tell you i sweated my ass off with just the fit test so im sure ill die tomorrow when the real workout begins... we shall see. Now your probably wondering what the 230.6 is in the title... that is (sad to say) my weight right now. i way more now than i did when i was 9 months pregnant with my second son. my goal is is to be back to my pre pregnancy weight which is 160. Even if it take 2 cycles of this insanity i will get there. I still plan to go on walks and everything else i was doing before just adding insanity in there.

As most of you know im concerned about my thyroid and maybe that being the cause for the trouble of losing weight so ill be making an appointment here soon. i had one but had to reshedual because of Brett's work. so im hoping to get that checked out because the thyroid meds (if i do have an issue) will help a lot! anyway here are my test results:

For each excersize you get 1 minute to do as many as you can. (I SUCKED):

Switch Kicks: 35 (2 kicks = 1 rep)
Power Jacks: 27
Power Knees: 74
Power Jumps: 16 (these kicked my ass)
Globe Jumps: 4 (4 jumps = 1 rep, so i did 16 jumps)
Suicide Jumps: 9 (i was dying at this point lol)
Push-up Jacks: 8 (these sucked! i have no upper body strength)
Low plank oblique: 28


I do this text every other Wednesday so on September 7th we will see how im doing :)

over all i feel good i am happy i did it in the morning and got it out of the way. It actually woke me up and gave me more energy to do things around the house... so here is a start to the new me!

WISH ME LUCK!

GOT MY DVDS

okay well i have been saying on facebook that i ordered insanity and i plan on posting my progress at least 2 times a week so yes ill get personal. i will start tomorrow with my fit test. and my weigh in results im nervous and excited i cant wait!! i wan to not be fat any more and be able to enjoy playing with my kids!! WISH ME LUCK

staying at GG's

Well me and the boys are now at GG's house (my grandma sues) until we fly out for Germany. Brett is still clearing this week at the fort but he will be done with fort riley this friday! i am so excited to be done with fort riley! As we stay at my grandmas house we are going to be visiting family and saying our good byes for the next three years! it will be bitter sweet but yet exciting all at the same time! wish us luck in al our travels and please be in prayer that the recent events will not effect our move! i will try to post more when i know more:)

The boys are loving their time here with GG and Papa and Aunt Linda and cousin Trey! 4 weeks and we will be on our way....

its becoming so real

Well in 45 days we will be on a plan to Germany! i am getting more excited each day. The army did mess with us again by changing Brett's post but im thinking now that maybe that was Gods plan all along. Yes at the old post i knew someone AND Brett would NOT get deployed while we were there BUT at this new post he will get his jump status back so that a little bit extra money for us and i have already started talking to some wives over there so hoping to make some new friends. I am sure we will be able to go visit our friends in Hohenfels. The movers come next week and im kind of freaking out about it... lots to do in so little time! so im sure i will keep you all up to date although there is not that many of you! it helps me to "write" it all down!

Your Welcome America

So today is the day, the day the government might shut down and my husband, my FAMILY will not get paid. We live pay check to pay check as it is and now they want to make it harder on us. We are already on WIC and we qualify for food stamps (we are not on them yet but we qualify). The first sad thing is that we as a military family even qualify for these programs.... they should pay us enough to be self sufficient and they obviously don't. Now if the government cant get along and make a budget we have to pay (literally) for that.

My husband has been in the Army for 6 years now and has been to Iraq twice (total of 27 months) he missed the first year of his first child's life and he lost close friends. he learned to speak Arabic and was taut how to handle himself in a combat situation all for this country. To say thank you this country has threatened to take away part of his pay until further notice... well your welcome America! Your welcome for the freedom, your welcome for the safety, your welcome for the sacrifice!but YOUR not welcome to my pay check!

If i were in the military i would not be at work tomorrow (if this shut down happens) no one else is expected to work for free so why should my husband. I would not be upset or surprised if a lot of soldiers no show tomorrow and if the soldiers that are currently over seas just put down their weapons and say they are not fighting today. But i KNOW for the most part they wont becasue they are HERO'S they fight for our freedom and for our safety and they still will, without pay, becasue they know if they dont that puts THEIR families in danger.

They have the stress of fighting a war and staying in shape and keeping their moth shut, now our government is going to add the stress of wondering if their families are going to have dinner for the rest of the week and be able to pay their bills?

again,
YOUR WELCOME AMERICA!
a concerned Army Wife

paying for others actions

this is a vent!


I am so incredibly tired of my husband having to pay for other peoples actions! i know it happens a lot in the army, if one person messes up the whole unit has to pay and you know what ever but we as a family have been getting the run around about his orders to Germany. Like i said before we were supposed to be there in December and here it is April and we are still not there. Well we have orders for June 20th now but we have to be out of our apartment by May5th so that we can spend some time with family before we leave. Well anyway to get my youngest sons passport and to schedule our move we have to have printed copies of the orders but they wont release them to us until Brett goes to the briefing for his orders which he has already gone to when we had the orders for June 10th instead of the 20th. But becasue SOMEONE ELSE acedently deleted his orders in the transitions office he has to do everything else over again, but we really dont have time to do that! im just aggravated and again the Army better be glade im not the in-listed member.... becasue im not like my husband i cant just sit back and take the BS they dish!

pictures

i realized i have not posted pictures of the new lil guy like i previously said i would so here you go...

<-- this picture is of Kaleb and Jourdon the day after we brought Jourdon home.... Kaleb is not to thrilled but still didnt mind holding him

 this picture i took after buying a cute hat off line -->

 did i mention i like photography? Click here to check out more pictures by me!

<-- this picture is a few more days later and Kaleb is warming up to his new baby brother... he just loves giving him kisses!

I tried to get some pictures with my pro camera ---> of my boys but Kaleb was not in the Picture mood this day

<--- this was a good one I got of Kaleb (18months)

Jourdon just slept the whole time but the lighting ---> outside was perfect that day :)

<--- Trying on more of mommy's photo props... I think he makes them look good :)

Kaleb and baby brother with no help from mom (i was sitting ---> right there)














Hope you enjoyed all the pictures.... i just love my boys!

orders

I know it has been a while since the last time i have posted on here so let me start off by giving you an update on our daily life basically. Jourdon is now 1 month old and Kaleb is 19months old. Kaleb is doing WAY better then i thought with the new baby in the house. He loves his brother and gives him kisses before bed every night. Kaleb loves helping any way he can, like taking Jourdon's dirty diaper to the trash and bringing me his clothes when i need them. So in other words daily life is good.

So about our "orders". we got orders for Germany and our original report date was December 10th 2010 well we had everything schedualed and then brett got flagged for an investigation. Now let me clear that up... he was flagged to testify in an investigation he was not under investigation but anyway so our report date was going to be moved to March 10th2011 but becasue i was due in mach they moved them to June 10th 2011. well his flag finally got lifted a little over a week ago so now we can start getting things ready again right? WRONG! we go to print off his orders and they are gone they have been canceled! Brett asked around and NO ONE could tell him why they had been canceled. So yesterday we got them back to Hohenfels Germany and out report date is now June 20th so i put in our 30 day notice yesterday! we are finally getting out of Fort Riley! today we are scheduling our move and all! we will get to spend about a month staying with family before we move and then we will fly over to Germany! i am Uber excited! now... back to filling out paper work! :)

WE ARE HOME

Well like i have said in the last few blogs i am (WAS) pregnant. Jourdon Riley Hayes decided to show up 3 1/2 weeks early. He was 6lbs and 6oz and 19 3/4 inches long. He decided he needed to be his daddy's 23rd birthday present. We just got home and he was born on 3/3/11 he was jaundice but everything is good now. Big brother is still not sure what to think about all this but that's all i have for today. I will be updating more im just tired and need to get back into the routine of things.

sleep will find me at nap time i hope

SO still sick feeling a little bit better but I did not sleep well last night. the second I layed down I got heart burn and started to cry (ha ha yes I cried) I had been dealing with being sick for 4 days now and it pissed me off that I could not even get a break. Why the hell was I having heart burn when I haven't really eaten anything. I cant swallow anything becasue of how bad my throat hurts, so even though I have had heart burn my whole pregnancy I thought I would be okay considering I have only been eating jello and soup.Then to top it off I started to have contractions but im thinking braxten hicks ones becasue they are about 30 minutes apart and only lasting for about 30 seconds. Any normal day I would be excited about this but becasue I am sick I DO NOT want to go into labor while being sick. So lets hope they are fake for now, plus I still have 25 days till this little guy is supposed to be here.

After dealing with all this I FINALLY fell asleep at around 3:00 am and Kaleb woke up at 7:15 so I got a good 4 hours of sleep... ya me (rolls eyes). 

anyone can be a doctor

SO like i mentioned i have been sick... sore throat, sore ears, clogged nose.... ext.... anyway i finally made a Dr. Appointment thinking that it would be a waist of time becasue 1. im pregnant and theres not much they can do and 2. becasue its an army hospital, dont get me started on the numerous issues i have with this army hospital but i guess i cant complain TOO MUCH since its free health care. anyway i get in there they check out the baby and me and the baby is doing fine my blood pressure is high which is normal, and they would have known that if they would have looked at my chart. but thats not even the half of it. the nurse was awesome and actually knew what he was talking about, but the doctor now he was dumb.....

so he gets in there asks me all the same questions that the nurse did (like they always do) and then begins the "examination" feels my throat looks in my ears and my mouth and my ears then proceeds to tell me that my tonsils are swollen... i sat and stared at him for a minute and he says "mam?" and i say thats awfully funny considering i got those taken out when i was three.... now it was his turn for a moment of silence. He didn't know what to say. then he said well let me start over.... i rolled my eyes and opened my mouth. i should have asked if they grow back HA HA.... like i said in the title i guess anyone can be doctors.

Well after a 30 minutes POINTLESS doctors appointment and a 2 hour wait in the pharmacy i got some ear drops and instructions to go home and gargle salt water.... what a day! :)

Tara Hayes

Hello

Hello all (if anyone)
My name is Tara and I have been wanting to start a blog for a while but never had anything to write about. I still have nothing to write about but from what i have seen in other blogs that is okay :). So i thought i would start this whole thing off by telling you all about my self. I am 23 years old and I married my High school sweet heart at the age of 20. My husbands name is Brett and he is in the Army. He has been to Iraq twice and we are getting ready to move to Germany. We have a little boy named Kaleb who is almost 18 mon. old and we will have another little boy next month some time. Jourdon is due to be here on the 27th but im hoping for a St. Pattys day baby, we shall see.... As far as what i do i stay at home and got to school. I am taking classes to become a pro Photographer. i love taking pictures and decided to make a career out of it. okay now that you know a little bit about us.... on to blogging....

I have been sick the last few days and being sick and being pregnant at the same time is never fun! i cant take anything and i have to just "live with it" Kaleb (my 18 mon old) has been really good though while ive been sick its like he understands that mommy is in pain. He has been entertaining himself and plus Brett (my husband) has been helping out a lot as well. This is all good considering i am a BABY when it comes to being sick. well here is to hoping that everyone has a good day! here are a few pictures:



This first picture is of Brett and I about 4 months ago....

This Second Picture is of my boys!! i just love them!

Tara Hayes