time for an update

I haven't posted anything in a while, so I thought I would do a quick update. As of last Monday, we have officially been husband and wife for a month! My employer has officially changed my name and all of that good stuff. We really haven't done too much recently. We did have a first for us though, last Thursday night the dinner I cooked made Pete sick. I knew it would happen and it sucked just as much as I thought it would. Saturday, we had our shower/reception to celebrate with the extended family and friends that couldn't make it to the wedding. We had a decent turn out and received a lot of amazing stuff. We used some of our gift cards to buy a Soda Stream, which is turning out to be really awesome! A bonus to have this celebration a month after the wedding was that we received a canvas print of one of our wedding pictures, a framed honeymoon picture, and a calendar made out of our honeymoon pictures! We also got some AMAZING Kenneth Cole Reaction towels. I know they are pricey, but they are like wrapping up in a cloud! Because we had a good bit of people not show up to the shower, and we bought way too many mason jars to be use as cups/favors, we now have about 50 pint size mason jars just sitting in our very small kitchen. I'm constantly looking to pintrest for something to do with them, because I do not can anything.

Wednesday marks the beginning of the school year for me, I go back to work at 6:45 AM. That means, as of 6:46 AM Wednesday  I will start my countdown to the end of the school year! I am a 185 day employee, so I will not see my students until August 7. I just hope that this year is a little easier than last year, but we'll see what happens.

Tomorrow, I am keeping my nephews for a larger portion of the day. They are 5 and 22 months old. I do not exactly have a house that is ready for children. Don't get me wrong, we don't have breakable and expensive stuff everywhere, we just don't have a lot of toys and activities for children. I'm both excited and nervous about this. My hope is that the weather isn't terribly hot or raining and we can spend a good bit of time at the local park.

I hope everyone has a good week!

Mrs. Yeo

Five on Friday

Its that time again. Along with not posting a lot this week, I also have not done my training. In the mix of rain, heat, and trying to get our lawn taken care of it just didn't happen. Tuesday, we thought we had our lawn mower fixed; so while my husband used the weed eater, I cut the grass. About a quarter of the way through the lawn mower blew up. And that is just the kind of week it has been around here. So, here is my Five on Friday.

1. Royal Baby Watch- Yes, I am one of those crazy people that can't wait for this baby to be born. My grandmother loved Princess Diana, and her love of the royals rubbed off on me.

2. Food(again)- I have no idea why but all I want to do is eat, this is really not a good thing!

3. Disney- I know I just spent a week there for our honeymoon, but I'm already dying to go back! I absolutely love Disney World, it is easily my favorite place to go. I don't care how old you are Disney World is magical, and it is always such a good time. I really could not have imagined a better place for our honeymoon. Pete and I both love Disney movies, and really all things Disney, so it was so special to start our married life there!

4. Going back to work- My summer break is almost over and this week has been spent getting some things back in order to go back to work. I'm not looking forward to waking up super early again, and dealing with some of the adults, but for the most part I do miss the kids and I look forward to seeing them again.

5. Rain- There have been 2 days it hasn't rained in the last week, maybe week and half.  Let me be more specific when I say rain, it has poured, knocked the power out kind of rain. I've told Pete that if this keep up we're are going to have to move to Florida. I can deal with the rain every day if we're closer to the ocean.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Mrs. Yeo

Weekend Recap

Oh hey, look, its Monday again.

I hope everyone had a good weekend, it is hard to consider Saturday and Sunday a weekend at this point because Pete works. His "weekend" starts tonight. But, here is a recap of I guess my weekend.

On Friday, Pete was actually working close to home so instead of getting home at 9:30/10 he was actually home at a decent time. There couldn't have been a better day for it because one of our dogs had been sick all day, I was over it.

Saturday was 100% boring. I really didn't do anything other than dishes while Pete was at work. But, the sound on our television went out. So, when Pete got home that meant he had to take the no longer working TV out of the living room and switch it with the one that wasn't being used in the spare room. Then, before bed I made the mac n cheese for our fried mac n cheese that we were going to have with dinner last night.

Yesterday was kinda a day from hell. I got up when Pete left for work to start work on the mac n cheese again. It had been in the refrigerator over night, next it had to be shaped into the balls and put in the freezer for a few hours. I made myself breakfast and started towels when one of our dogs really started crying. This time he was horribly sick, I guess our dogs just wanted to take turns. So, I took care and cleaned up after him all day. I was also about to spare 30 minutes to go for my run, of course it started raining while I was out. When Pete got home we started cooking dinner. The fried mac n cheese was an absolute pain in the ass and not worth the trouble.

Now here we are on Monday, which means an exciting day of cleaning, paying bills and grocery shopping. I lead a very exciting life.

Here is my C210K check in from yesterday. I didn't do as long of a cool down as I normally do, I usually do just a little more than 5 minutes.

 Week 2 Day 3

Have a great Monday yall!

Mrs. Yeo

C210K Day 2 and Five on Friday

First off, I decided to switch to C210K because I would love to do a 10K and the program is the same, just a few extra weeks. Today, in the middle (and hottest part) of the day I did my run. It kicked my ass to say the least. But, it is finished and that is what matters.

Week 2 Day 2

Now for the fun stuff:

1. TRAINING- Easily this is what has dominated my thoughts this week. I'm happy to be back at and I'm very motivated for whats to come

2.MY NAME CHANGE- I'm happy to say that since last Wednesday, I have gone to all necessary government agencies and received all my new documents with my married name on them!

3. THE RAIN- It has rained almost every day for about three weeks now. This isn't typically for Georgia in July, and while a lot of people aren't loving, I am really appreciating the cooler weather.

4. IS IT FALL YET?- I can not count the number of times I have asked this question this week. I am so ready for pumpkins, the pretty leaves, and more than anything FOOTBALL SEASON! On that note, WAR DAMN EAGLE!

a very old picture, but I love it

5. FOOD- All I have wanted to do this week is eat! Mostly Mexican food, but really anything.

I guess that's it for this week! I hope everyone has a great weekend!


Mrs. Yeo

C25K Check In

I was able to get my run in last night! It stormed a few hours after I went out so the weather was actually kinda nice. I didn't start over at the beginning, instead I went back to week 2 day 1. I think that was a good choice because the run wasn't too easy or too difficult to get back into. My stats aren't great, but that isn't why I'm doing this. Right now I just care about finishing each run. After I got home I picked out some local races over the next few months, so I have goals to work towards. I haven't registered of any yet, but that's the next step.

First day back(Week 2 Day 1)

Mrs. Yeo

C25K Take 2

Back in April I was sitting at home on my mid-day break and decided that I needed to start running. I have been talking about want to do a 5k for months years, but I never actually started running. So, I went to the app store and downloaded a running app, went outside and ran. Yeah, instead of jogging I ran, awful idea! I made it less than half way through the workout and gave up. I posted about it on Facebook and quickly found out that a lot of my friends were using C25K and loved it. That weekend I used C25K and loved it! I did very well with the program until early June. The weather got hotter, I was thrown into last minute wedding planning...list 100 other excuses, I stopped running. I have hated it since I stopped, but once again, I just didn't get out and run. When I was doing the program I felt great! Physically I was learning so much about my body and loving pushing through the pain and accomplishing each workout. Emotionally running did wonders for me, I have always heard people say "running is cheaper than therapy" and thought they were full of it. But as someone who struggles with depression and anxiety running actually helped me A LOT(way more than my psychiatrist does). I was proud of myself for working so hard, and I just gave up. Well, I'm tired of the excuses and feeling the way I do. Tonight, I'm going out and starting over again. I'm posting though, so if anyone is reading this blog I can be held accountable. I need someone asking me if I did my run, how it was, or just reminding me to get off the couch. Having an accountability partner makes it better. So, hopefully the next time I post, I will have completed one or two workouts. To hold myself accountable I will be posting pictures from the app I use when I'm running. Take 2...here we go!

Motivation

Goals

Mrs. Yeo

The wedding is over....back to planning

One night in February, I hit my breaking point with wedding planning and the stress that it brings. I looked at Pete and said, " Can we just forget all of our plans and get married on the beach this summer?" And because he is such an amazing person, his response was, "Whatever you want to do babe, if you're happy, I'm happy." So, we sat down with my dad, talked things out and that weekend contacted a company on Tybee Island. Our wedding was originally scheduled for the fall of this year, as we got more into planning we found out that most Saturdays were already booked at venues we liked and our only options were to do a Friday or Sunday wedding. Plus, we had not even thought about planning a honeymoon because I would have to take time off work for us to go on one. So, changing the wedding plans meant moving the wedding up 6 months. Thankfully our families were very understanding, especially Pete's considering they had to travel from Florida, Kansas, and Hawaii(they only had 4 months to make these arrangements).

As soon as the changes were made though, I immediately felt like a huge weight had been lifted off my shoulders. The wedding was paid for, the officiant was booked, and anything else to be planned were just details. Because we changed the wedding, we knew we didn't want all of our friends and family members to feel obligated to be there. We knew that it just wasn't right to expect people to spend extra money and take time off work to travel to our wedding, so we kept the guest list to just immediate family. Rewind to two weeks ago; the wedding weekend and ceremony were more perfect for us than anything else we could have planned. Everything was so relaxed and intimate that it let us completely experience the joy of what was happening.

Well, now that we're back home, we are having a reception to celebrate with everyone at home. That means back to planning! Back to making guest list, making invitations, getting in touch with people, and deciding what exactly we want it to be like. And, since I have been eating like a pig since the wedding, worrying about fitting into my dress, again! Thankfully, I have family members that are pretty much taking control of everything and just telling me when I need to show up! I'm very excited to have to opportunity to celebrate this occasion with everyone, but I will be thankful to have all of the parties finished so that I can send out 'thank you' notes and then not look at an address list again until its time to mail our Christmas cards!

Mrs. Yeo

Trying this out

First off I want to say that this blog is being created from pure boredom.  I am off work during the summer, and since summer started I have been sitting at home with nothing to do and read blogs that I enjoy.  The only time this hasn't happened this summer was the week of our wedding and honeymoon. So, I thought I might start a blog for our family and friends to follow along with our life. Or for everyone to just laugh at.

 We were married on June 22nd, so far we have survived two weeks of married life. After the wedding we spent our honeymoon at Disney World. Its pretty hard not to have a great first week of marriage when you're someplace like Disney. The drive home was when we were hit by the real world, simply because most of the way home it rained like crazy! Once home we received a warm welcome from our dogs in the form of accidents to clean up and baths to be given before we could even unpack our car. Yep, the honeymoon was definitely over and it was time for real married life to start.

Before we got married I started trying to convince my husband that I knew how to cook. Thanks to pintrest I am able to kind of pull this off. Our first night home after our honeymoon I had these wonderful ideas of making a nice dinner and using our brand new dishes to celebrate being married for a week. Instead, we went out to dinner to celebrate our first week of marriage, because I was too lazy to cook. Since then, in two out of 3 times I have cooked dinner, I have burned myself twice. I was able to get out of dinner one night because the power was out, it came back on as we were walking out the door so I quickly hit the light switch and said it was still out.

We also celebrated the 4th of July this week, and what's more American than a baseball game? As soon as we got to our seats it started raining. We sat through an hour and a half rain delay, that should have been our first clue to leave. Once the game started again it proved to be the worst baseball game I have ever seen. The game did not end until 11:30 at night, but because it was the 4th my husband insisted that we stay for the fireworks show. That turned out to be a little disappointing also.

While getting use to my husband being back at work, I have been making a scrapbook of our wedding photos. I quickly learned that scrapbooking is not something I am great at, and from now on I will stick to making a photo album online and having it mailed to me. At least the pictures are amazing, thanks to our wonderful photographer, Ashleigh Mallard Photography.

I hope everyone has a great week, and that this post wasn't too boring for you.

Mrs. Yeo