My Family

Since my family has changed alittle over the last 4 months I thought I would reintroduce you to my family as it exists now.  As most of you know my husband and my self decided it was best for us to go our seperate ways so he is no longer part of my family and I also decided to give him our dog since he is more of a dog lover than I am.  I've added a new addition to our family in the last week with the adoption of  a new cat.  So here is my family.

(My oldest son Brandon who is 14 years old)

(My twins Joshua and Dylan who are 9 years old)

(The newest addition to our family, Calie)

(My kitty, Junebug)

(My guinea pig, Ziggy)

You have such a pretty face

I will give you a little background on this story.  Growing up my grandmother use to watch us while my parents worked and then when I got alittle older we lived right next to her so we were always seeing her.  My grandmother wasn't a bad person and she took good care of us but of all the people in my life that have made me feel bad about myself my grandmother was the worst.  She would always make the dreaded remark, you know the one....."you have such a pretty face if you would just lose weight".  Why is it people act like thats a compliment or that they are doing you a favor by pointing out how fat you are.  I assure you we already know and we don't need to hear it from anybody else.

About 10 years ago my grandmother moved away from here so I don't get to see her that often now.  Well she is staying with my parents for the next three months and this is her first night here so they decided to take her out to eat.  My kids went with them and my husband and myself stayed at home.  I ended up going to pick us up some take out at the same place my parents were going out to eat with my grandmother and as I was walking out from picking up my order they were getting out of their vehicle.  Now I haven't seen my grandmother in probably 6 months or more and when she saw me today you would expect her to have said hi and hugged me or something like that but what did I get?  The first remark out of her mouth was "Oh Christina"....I knew what was coming after that but luckily so did my mom and she said momma don't.  I went right back to my childhood of my grandmother making me feel like the ugliest duckling in the pond.  In that one second all the hardwork that I had done over the last 5 or 6 weeks was gone.  I was that same insecure person I have always been.  I couldn't wait to get in my car because I felt like I was a giant blimpe standing in the parking lot with everyone staring at me.

As soon as I got in my car I called my husband and he got to hear an earful about what had just happened.  Rest assured that as awful as it sounds my grandmother will not be seeing me much during this visit.  She has been called out on this many times before by mom who has told her if she doesn't have anything nice to say then don't say anything at all.  And in her defense she does have alzehiemers and dimensia but I can't deal with the feelings she brings out in me.  I'm going to strong right now to let someone tear me down and possibly sabotage my weight loss journey.  I have to think about myself right now.

Well I better get to my exercise before it gets dark outside.  I'm sure alot of you have people that bring out these same emotions in you, what do you do about?  Just stay away from that person? 

Fun at the Zoo

We decided to take the kids to a small animal zoo we have in the area called Buffalo Beals.  Here is the link if you would like to check it out online http://www.buffalobeals.com/ .   It was a pretty nice day to get out and enjoy sometime together as a family; it wasn't to hot and the wind was blowing to keep you cooled off.  This zoo has monkeys, different kinds of birds, llamas, and a variety of other kinds of animals.  I got in alittle exercise walking around there but I'm not counting that as my exercise for the day.  I thought I would include some pictures of the fun we had and some of the animals we seen.

Here is my son Josh feeding a miniature pony.

Here is my son Josh feeding a parrot carrots.

I'm not sure what kind of bird this was but I just thought it looked cool.

This was a cool parrot the only thing it kept saying was hello.

This ostrich just seemed so girly.

Here is Josh trying to convince Dylan not to be scared to feed the giraffe.

I'm not sure what this was it looked like a cross between a buffalo and a cow.

I loved all the monkeys they were so cute.

This guys name was JR and he would spit water at you.

 

Here is Josh and Dylan trying to feed the geese but they were mean and chasing after them.

Here is my husband and the kids feeding the camels.

Sorry these are not very good pictures they were took with my cheap digital camera.  I can't wait to get my good digital camera after the first of the year.

My Family

I couldn't really think of anything to blog about tonight so I decided to introduce you to my family. 

This is my husband Ronnie.

This is my oldest son Brandon; he is 13 years old.

These are my twins.  They are 9 years old.  Joshua is on the left and Dylan is on the right.

This is my dog Peanut.

This is my cat Junebug.

This is my guinea pig Ziggy.

As you can see I run a zoo around here.  Other than me and the cat there are all males in this house so the testerone runs high around here.