So, some of you know that there have been a few changes in the Willard home.
1) its Summer, yes it finally came!
2) Anthony is starting to lose his second tooth. Shoot me now, I can't handle the wiggling!!! PULL IT OUT! Unfortunately, Anthony is just like me and terrified of teeth, and would rather let it fall out in his sleep like the last one.
3) It gets lonely around here.
4) as in...Jos and I are separated. He moved out last month, and me and the kids are remaining here in the house. Jos gets to see them on the weekends, and they love to spend time with their daddy. We have remained friends, and speak to each other quite often. I can't really get into much detail, but some people aren't meant to be.
5) I'm learning NOT to trust people. I have always managed to give people 100% trust when I first meet them. Not sure why. Not smart, really.
yeah. so. that's it.
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Ron Gutman: The hidden power of smiling | Video on TED.com
I thought this was worth posting.
Smile everyone!
Ron Gutman: The hidden power of smiling | Video on TED.com
Smile everyone!
Ron Gutman: The hidden power of smiling | Video on TED.com
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Its time for a break. How about a nice 10-day road trip to Vegas? Yes? OK!
Once upon a time, there was a severely stressed out working mother. This mother was in dire need of a vacation and SUN. Ok ok, so its me. My cousin Kelly, who is staying with me for the moment, was going back home to Vegas to visit his hot hot wife. We left at 3am from Calgary.
4 hours from Vegas, and this is what we get on the road. Thank you Fillmore!
Oh tell me its going to warm up soon....!!!!
We arrived in Vegas at 10pm THAT VERY SAME DAY! Woooot!
So I ate healthy - at the ELEPHANT BAR....oh my heavens...this place is awesome. Because the road trip was filled with fast food, and munchies, I had a sincere desire to eat healthy right away.
I ask you not to judge my dessert of choice...I shared it. lol every calorie-free bite!
My cousins, Bob and Vonda at Claim Jumpers...or as I call it "Clam Diggers" I can never get the name right, so its now Clam Diggers to me. lol everyone knows what I'm talking about anyway. Crazy talk.
***warning***
Cleavage....be ye warned of the cleavage in the next photo. Its Vegas for heavens sake.
I'm hot. And. I'm awesome. Ok?
Can you blame them? They haven't seen each other in a month and a half...oy.
This was a close to Vegas Buffet as I could get. This picture does not do it justice...the portions were massive. All I wanted was a grilled cheese sandwich, and they brought me Paul Bunyon's portions. WOW. All for $8.95
Freemont Street - for me Starts at the Golden Nugget...and here's its namesake. THE GOLDEN NUGGET. WOW in all its golden glory.
Me, enjoying the night life! Ahhhh...Warm at night Vegas.
We are not blood related cousins...but dang we have the same tongue!
*glee* Happy to be out and about, enjoying my own Freemont Experience.
The lightshow featured Queen as its musical feature...and I love love love Queen. See the love?
Ahhhh now that kind of temperature, I can deal with! mmmmm oh the heat, oh the sun...I miss my tan already!
It was 91degrees at night....and I loved loved LOVED the sunsets.
This little piece of magic was my LUCKY machine. Its a rare machine, only found in certain casinos...and it LOVED me! Like...it MADE me money EVERY TIME!! Eeeek!
This is my "Winning" face. You know you love it too.
This is my "Yes, I Di-id" face. With attitude.
Aaaand, here is the Famous Vegas Sign. This was about 4:45am...I was tired!
The next day - was a relaxing day, we did a little bit of shopping, and I got the kids some more gifts to bring home to them. It was so sad to leave this place, and yet, I was SO excited to see my kids again. Our morning started at 7am, and we were on the road back to Calgary. We did not stop unless it was for gas. We made it to the Coutts border by midnight. Not bad timing eh? We drove over to Cardston to crash at my moms. It was a goooood sleep. In the morning, she had breakfast waiting for us, and then we did a quick trip to Waterton. Gosh, I love this little nook. Its Gods country for sure!
*giggles*
Gorgeous!
After our trip to Waterton, we started our last leg of our trip to Calgary. My kids were so happy to see me! Of course, they were delighted that I had shopping bags and bags full of goodies for them.
It was a relaxing trip, and I am so glad I had the opportunity to go!
Thanks Jos and Kell for making this happen.
4 hours from Vegas, and this is what we get on the road. Thank you Fillmore!
Oh tell me its going to warm up soon....!!!!
We arrived in Vegas at 10pm THAT VERY SAME DAY! Woooot!
So I ate healthy - at the ELEPHANT BAR....oh my heavens...this place is awesome. Because the road trip was filled with fast food, and munchies, I had a sincere desire to eat healthy right away.
I ask you not to judge my dessert of choice...I shared it. lol every calorie-free bite!
My cousins, Bob and Vonda at Claim Jumpers...or as I call it "Clam Diggers" I can never get the name right, so its now Clam Diggers to me. lol everyone knows what I'm talking about anyway. Crazy talk.
***warning***
Cleavage....be ye warned of the cleavage in the next photo. Its Vegas for heavens sake.
I'm hot. And. I'm awesome. Ok?
Can you blame them? They haven't seen each other in a month and a half...oy.
This was a close to Vegas Buffet as I could get. This picture does not do it justice...the portions were massive. All I wanted was a grilled cheese sandwich, and they brought me Paul Bunyon's portions. WOW. All for $8.95
Freemont Street - for me Starts at the Golden Nugget...and here's its namesake. THE GOLDEN NUGGET. WOW in all its golden glory.
Me, enjoying the night life! Ahhhh...Warm at night Vegas.
We are not blood related cousins...but dang we have the same tongue!
*glee* Happy to be out and about, enjoying my own Freemont Experience.
The lightshow featured Queen as its musical feature...and I love love love Queen. See the love?
Ahhhh now that kind of temperature, I can deal with! mmmmm oh the heat, oh the sun...I miss my tan already!
It was 91degrees at night....and I loved loved LOVED the sunsets.
This little piece of magic was my LUCKY machine. Its a rare machine, only found in certain casinos...and it LOVED me! Like...it MADE me money EVERY TIME!! Eeeek!
This is my "Winning" face. You know you love it too.
This is my "Yes, I Di-id" face. With attitude.
Aaaand, here is the Famous Vegas Sign. This was about 4:45am...I was tired!
The next day - was a relaxing day, we did a little bit of shopping, and I got the kids some more gifts to bring home to them. It was so sad to leave this place, and yet, I was SO excited to see my kids again. Our morning started at 7am, and we were on the road back to Calgary. We did not stop unless it was for gas. We made it to the Coutts border by midnight. Not bad timing eh? We drove over to Cardston to crash at my moms. It was a goooood sleep. In the morning, she had breakfast waiting for us, and then we did a quick trip to Waterton. Gosh, I love this little nook. Its Gods country for sure!
*giggles*
Gorgeous!
After our trip to Waterton, we started our last leg of our trip to Calgary. My kids were so happy to see me! Of course, they were delighted that I had shopping bags and bags full of goodies for them.
It was a relaxing trip, and I am so glad I had the opportunity to go!
Thanks Jos and Kell for making this happen.
Kalispell...Cowsbell, whatever.
So, blog friends, stalkers, my fellow peeps. Sorry I've been gone for so long. I was lost in the Blogosphere. With work, callings, Scentsy stuff, I've been run off my feet busy. So now I've got to play catch up.
Every so often my sisters, and mother and I get together for our "Girls Weekend Getaways" Our last trip was to Vegas, and it was a super-duper awesome blast. We figured that it was time again for some sister time!
Mom planned a weekend in Kalispell, and we had SO MUCH FUN. The drive down there is worth the trip alone! Its so much fun to be with my crazy family.
2.5 hrs later, we found ourselves in a warm, quiet city, filled with good times and good shopping.
Here is what we did....
Mooses Saloon....good eats in Kalispell.
My sister, Katherine and I enjoying ourselves at the Mooses Saloon
My other sister, Kenndy, who was 7 months pregnant here.
And thanks to my mother, who make these wonderful girls trip memories happen!
Ahh, Famous Daves. It doesn't get any better, for BBQ. Accept, if you are Jensen girls AT Famous Daves...then its just the best. Each time we head out to dinner together, we always make up a game while we wait for our food to come up. We are now compiling a list of games we've already come up with, and we're thinking of making a book called "Games to play while you are waiting for your food" LOL So this game we played was with coasters...each player had 2 coasters hidden on their laps, and on the count of 3, they had to reveal which colors they chose to show...and it was just fun to see the color combinations we came up with.
We saw a lot of this kind of result...when we figured it would take a million tries to actually get all the same color...well...
We love to make up new games to keep us occupied as we wait for our food to come.
This is played by using your coasters.
Then there was another game we made up...in one blow - how close can you get the coaster to 'coast' to the other side of the table without it going over the edge. Oodles of fun here.
Aaaand, now you've seen my blow face.
And the last game we played, was getting the salt shaker to balance on one grain of salt.
I got my spa face on.
We did a lot of shopping, and we stayed at a fun hotel, and just had a blast. In the hotel pool, we played a game called "keep the beach ball up in the air" game. I had a few wardrobe malfuntions...the teen volleyball team that was staying there was surely enteratained.
The end.
enjoy that last visual.
HAHA!
Every so often my sisters, and mother and I get together for our "Girls Weekend Getaways" Our last trip was to Vegas, and it was a super-duper awesome blast. We figured that it was time again for some sister time!
Mom planned a weekend in Kalispell, and we had SO MUCH FUN. The drive down there is worth the trip alone! Its so much fun to be with my crazy family.
2.5 hrs later, we found ourselves in a warm, quiet city, filled with good times and good shopping.
Here is what we did....
Mooses Saloon....good eats in Kalispell.
My sister, Katherine and I enjoying ourselves at the Mooses Saloon
My other sister, Kenndy, who was 7 months pregnant here.
And thanks to my mother, who make these wonderful girls trip memories happen!
Ahh, Famous Daves. It doesn't get any better, for BBQ. Accept, if you are Jensen girls AT Famous Daves...then its just the best. Each time we head out to dinner together, we always make up a game while we wait for our food to come up. We are now compiling a list of games we've already come up with, and we're thinking of making a book called "Games to play while you are waiting for your food" LOL So this game we played was with coasters...each player had 2 coasters hidden on their laps, and on the count of 3, they had to reveal which colors they chose to show...and it was just fun to see the color combinations we came up with.
We saw a lot of this kind of result...when we figured it would take a million tries to actually get all the same color...well...
We love to make up new games to keep us occupied as we wait for our food to come.
This is played by using your coasters.
Then there was another game we made up...in one blow - how close can you get the coaster to 'coast' to the other side of the table without it going over the edge. Oodles of fun here.
Aaaand, now you've seen my blow face.
And the last game we played, was getting the salt shaker to balance on one grain of salt.
I got my spa face on.
We did a lot of shopping, and we stayed at a fun hotel, and just had a blast. In the hotel pool, we played a game called "keep the beach ball up in the air" game. I had a few wardrobe malfuntions...the teen volleyball team that was staying there was surely enteratained.
The end.
enjoy that last visual.
HAHA!
Saturday, January 29, 2011
New Start - new year
So this year I've started the South Beach Diet. I started January 4th, and so far I've lost 15 lbs.
It was so easy, and the weight came flying off! I love quick results. It really didn't require too much effort on my part. I just had to make sure I had the ingredients for the day, and the money to buy the groceries. ToTALLY doable!
One thing that I have discovered - I have gotten so sick of salad dressing. With all the salad you consume with this diet, its quick to start dry-heaving at the very thought of any dressing. So I have replaced my dressing with a fresh avocado!
So creamy and yummy!
So I'm totally inspired to not only eat better, but actually workout and feel better too!
Its a long long long long road back to healthy body weight, and hotness. But lets face it folks - I'm awesome fat or not.
Now I'll just feel awesome in the end.
P.S. This is my new trainer - Jackie Warner....she kicks my butt
It was so easy, and the weight came flying off! I love quick results. It really didn't require too much effort on my part. I just had to make sure I had the ingredients for the day, and the money to buy the groceries. ToTALLY doable!
One thing that I have discovered - I have gotten so sick of salad dressing. With all the salad you consume with this diet, its quick to start dry-heaving at the very thought of any dressing. So I have replaced my dressing with a fresh avocado!
So creamy and yummy!
So I'm totally inspired to not only eat better, but actually workout and feel better too!
Its a long long long long road back to healthy body weight, and hotness. But lets face it folks - I'm awesome fat or not.
Now I'll just feel awesome in the end.
P.S. This is my new trainer - Jackie Warner....she kicks my butt
Friday, December 31, 2010
2010 - in Review
1. What did you do in 2010 that you'd never done before?
Witnessed the grand Stands at the Stampede
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I didn't keep my resolutions. oh well...2011 I am doctor ordered to lose weight...so that's going to happen fo sho!
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Katherine
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No one that was super close - but someone I did know die, and its still rather fresh and not content yet.
5. What countries did you visit?
USA
6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?
More laughter, and good times. better health, thank you.
7. What date from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Nov. 25th - the day I was told I can't get pregnant anymore. *sigh*
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
going back to work for a Customs Broker.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Gaining all my weight back. :(
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Endomitriosis, fatty liver, blah
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Bullet EXPRESSSSS! Scentsy Starter kit! LOL
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Jos
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
A few husbands out there -tsk tsk tsk
14. Where did most of your money go?
car payments, mortgage, re-paying debt
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Christmas at Dads, getting a sales award for Scentsy
16. What song will always remind you of 2010?
Just the way you are - Bruno Mars
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? same
ii. thinner or fatter? faaaaat
iii. richer or poorer? Richer
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Gone camping, hiking, spending time outside, running, planning
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
imagine the worst in people.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
at the ranch in Nanton with my Dad.
22. Did you fall in love in 2010?
Still in love
23. How many one-night stands?
None.
24. What was your favorite TV program?
Survivor, Amazing Race, The Biggest Loser,
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Nope
26. What was the best book you read?
South Beach Diet.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Nothing new really, just enjoyed a lot of top 40
28. What did you want and get?
a wedding ring (since I lost mine in feb), Sketchers Shape-ups shoes (for work even!).
29. What did you want and not get?
win the lottery
30. What was your favourite film of this year?
Avatar
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Spent a gorgeous day in Victoria, BC with a good friend and my family. I turned 32! WOOP WOOP
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Visiting the Jensen ranch more.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010?
Comfy, sweats, business casual for the office
34. What kept you sane?
My boys, and watching them grow up. My sisters.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Robert Downey Jr.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Olympics baby!
37. Who did you miss?
My friend Lori
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Jenna - we never see each other anymore :(
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010.
Make the most of your life.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
Forever Young
Witnessed the grand Stands at the Stampede
2. Did you keep your new years' resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I didn't keep my resolutions. oh well...2011 I am doctor ordered to lose weight...so that's going to happen fo sho!
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Katherine
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No one that was super close - but someone I did know die, and its still rather fresh and not content yet.
5. What countries did you visit?
USA
6. What would you like to have in 2011 that you lacked in 2010?
More laughter, and good times. better health, thank you.
7. What date from 2010 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
Nov. 25th - the day I was told I can't get pregnant anymore. *sigh*
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
going back to work for a Customs Broker.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Gaining all my weight back. :(
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Endomitriosis, fatty liver, blah
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Bullet EXPRESSSSS! Scentsy Starter kit! LOL
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Jos
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
A few husbands out there -tsk tsk tsk
14. Where did most of your money go?
car payments, mortgage, re-paying debt
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Christmas at Dads, getting a sales award for Scentsy
16. What song will always remind you of 2010?
Just the way you are - Bruno Mars
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? same
ii. thinner or fatter? faaaaat
iii. richer or poorer? Richer
18. What do you wish you'd done more of?
Gone camping, hiking, spending time outside, running, planning
19. What do you wish you'd done less of?
imagine the worst in people.
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
at the ranch in Nanton with my Dad.
22. Did you fall in love in 2010?
Still in love
23. How many one-night stands?
None.
24. What was your favorite TV program?
Survivor, Amazing Race, The Biggest Loser,
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn't hate this time last year?
Nope
26. What was the best book you read?
South Beach Diet.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Nothing new really, just enjoyed a lot of top 40
28. What did you want and get?
a wedding ring (since I lost mine in feb), Sketchers Shape-ups shoes (for work even!).
29. What did you want and not get?
win the lottery
30. What was your favourite film of this year?
Avatar
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
Spent a gorgeous day in Victoria, BC with a good friend and my family. I turned 32! WOOP WOOP
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Visiting the Jensen ranch more.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2010?
Comfy, sweats, business casual for the office
34. What kept you sane?
My boys, and watching them grow up. My sisters.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Robert Downey Jr.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
Olympics baby!
37. Who did you miss?
My friend Lori
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Jenna - we never see each other anymore :(
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2010.
Make the most of your life.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year.
Forever Young
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