Weigh-Ins: Week 3 & 4

I know I didn't post my weigh in from last week, but I did do my weigh in on Sunday (I wasn't able to make it to the gym on Saturday). Here is was it was at last week-

And here is today's weigh in:

I know it look like a loss of 2 pounds, but like my 10 day weigh-in showed my weight varies a lot. So unless I see the number keep going down I'm not going to get too excited yet. However, I have started lifting  weighs more regularly this week in hopes to see more results faster. Only the next few weeks will tell if this is going to pay off.

 I'm off to a Jimmy Buffett concert! I hope everyone has a great Saturday!

Friday Night Fun

I spent the evening with my college roommate Katie. We always have a good time but maybe I had a little too much fun when we made a Walmart run tonight. She needed to buy baby stuff and I wanted to buy wine... and this is was happen.

When I first put the wine in the basket they started clinking around so I figured the teddy bears could be use to cushion the bottles, but then I thought making the bears look like they are drinking the wine would be funny.

And this is why I'm not ready to be a mom- I'm just saying.
Have a great weekend!

The Name Change Game: Part 2- It's Official!

Being that is was Sam's birthday on Tuesday, he needed to renew his drive license because it had expired. Also, being that we both had yesterday off, I figured I would go with him to keep him company. Right before we started getting ready to leave this thought popped into my head... "I wonder if my new social security has came in yet."

Well, it had came. So it's official, I have officially given up my maiden name. I'm still not sure how long it's going to take me to get use to, but I had to practice signing my new last name about 10 times before I felt comfortable enough to signing my SS card. With my new SS card in hand, Sam and I were off to get our new driver licenses. After about a 20-30 minute I had my new license in hand.

Can I just say I have never had a good driver's license photo, but this picture is 100 times better than my last one.  While I had luck getting my new license, the husband wasn't so lucky. He was told he needs to take the written exam and the Secretary of States office we went to doesn't offer the written test. So Sam gets to try he luck again today to get his new license.

Being that yesterday was the first day of my vacation, my hope is that by the time I go back to work (after the 4th of July) that I will have changed everything to my new name. Today I'm hoping to send out the information to have my name changed on my passport.

The only thing I'm worried about doing my passport next, is that I have to send my marriage license in as proof of the name change. Currently that is the only copy I have of my license (that I can find) so I am worried that I'm going to end up needing it for proof and not have it. Well, here's hoping that I'm making the right decision to do my passport next.

That another thing down- many more to go!

Christmas Tree Dilemma

If you know Sam and I, you know that we are pretty laid back people. Some people would even go with "lazy"- however, I prefer laid back. With that being said, last night it dawned on me that we are officially closer to Christmas than not. So here is my dilemma....

Yes, we that would a Christmas tree still up in our "living room". (I'm calling it our living room even though it's Sam's parents basement where the couch and TV are- close enough.)

As you can see this is current photo- baseball game on the TV and Christmas in the corner. However, in our defense neither Sam or I put the Christmas tree up in the first place. Sam's mom was trying to make our space festive for the holidays, but no one felt like taking it down and putting it away.

Being that we are now closer to Christmas than not... I feel like the tree is just going to have to stay. Plus, you always hear about "Christmas in July", maybe we'll just pretend that is something we are choosing to celebrate.  

Happy Birthday Husband!

Today is the husband's "golden" birthday.  And after 26 years, his mom still thinks of him as her baby. Here is the photo Sam's mom posted on his Facebook page this morning.

Isn't he cute? I have a feeling that our kids are going to have really big round cheeks. (But we aren't going to know that for at least a few more years.)

Sam's parents did his "birthday dinner" on Sunday, so he has already gotten his birthday cake and very sad sounding "Happy Birthday" song. No one in the family can carry a tune- oh well.

Currently, I can get the bad wife award because I have yet to get Sam anything for his birthday. But I'll figure it out. If  my plan is just to top what I got him last year, that shouldn't be too hard to do. Plus being that we both have the next two days off of work, I'll figure out something fun to do.

Happy Birthday Sam!
I'm so happy to be your wife! I can only hope that next year we can have a birthday party for you in our own house!

The Name Change Game: Part 1

After putting off changing my last name for over 6 months now, I finally took my first step to changing my name officially. One on the main reasons why I been putting it off for so long is that I hadn't have time off work to do it. The second reason- changing your name is a pain in the butt.

Being that I've never changed my name before and I'm the first one of my close group of friends to get married, I did what any girl would do- I googled "how do you change your name after marriage". Of course a bunch of websites popped up, but this website is the one I found to be the most helpful.The Knot helps break down the process into different steps, which I liked.

Step 1- Get your marriage license.

Being that we ordered copies of our license to be sent to our house when we originally applied for it back in October, step 1 has been done since November. However like I pointed out in this post- I knew that I wouldn't be changing my name very quickly. However today I finally took that next step...

Step 2- Change your Social Security card

With getting your name changed on your Social Security card includes completing an application and presenting the proper documentation. You have the option to mail in everything or you can go to your local Social Security office. Even though the S.S. office isn't very close to my home, I figured I would just take care of this step in person.

Lucky for me the wait at the S.S. office wasn't very long and I got to keep my passport and marriage license. Even though I went to the SS office, I still have to wait up to 10 days for my new SS card to come in the mail. But when I was given my receipt for turning in my application- it had my new last name on it. It was just so WEIRD!! See my name change on paper was kind of a surreal feeling. I can only imagine how I'm going to feel once I have to start signing new name to documents.

Once my new SS card comes in the mail- changing my diver's license will be next!

Summer Days of Fun: Family Time & Civil War Reenactment

I'm not sure if this is some kind of record but 3 trips to Michigan in 8 days is at least a personal record for me. However, this weekend's trip was definitely worth the drive.

On Saturday, my dad and I spent some time visiting with my grandma and family. One of the main reasons for the trip to Michigan this time was because my uncle Jerry from Orlando was up visiting my grandma and my dad hadn't seen him in ten years.

 We just watched some old home videos, had dinner, and just spent time together. Also while at my grandma's my dad fall in love with one of my grandma's cats.

I have to say that Mike (that's the name of the cat) is one of my favorites as well. He's a giant black cat who is so sweet, loveable, and just little dumb- the prefect cat combination.

The next day, my dad and I return to my grandma's and visited for another hour or so before we started on our journey home. Little did my dad know that I had additional plans for our weekend other then just visiting my grandma- we were going to a Civil War Reenactment.

Turkeyville is only a ten minute dive from my grandma's house and I got to visit with more family at this stop.

My cousin's do Civil War reenactments throughout the summer and the picture above is of their campsite. I have always seen pictures from their reenactments but have never been able to attend, so I figured being that this was so close to my grandma's I needed to stop by.

It was kind of cool seeing so many historical things in one place that wasn't your traditional museum. Plus, watching the battle (once it really got started) was pretty cool.

Those canons were really loud and would take you by surprise if you weren't paying attention. All in all it was a great weekend and it's always nice when you get to spend some of it with family.