Wardrobes, Time Management, and Insanity!!

Hmm Clothes, Time management and Insanity!? How in the world can those 3 topics be crammed into one blog post.  Well they can because in my life they all cram together so why cant they all cram together on My blog?  No Really I will tell you how it all crams into one!

It all started when I began to workout! This is a picture of me and my oldest after an Insanity workout!
Never did I think I would do Insanity!
When I started down my Fitness journey I weighed 230 pounds!!  I have lost 60 Whoo Hoo!!! Which leads me to the wardrobe part of my post!

Once I started working out I began to lose weight! Lots of weight!  This  picture is of all of the clothes that were TOO BIG!! Yipee!! I am doing a happy dance right now. :)  and that leads to Time Management? WHAT??? give me a second I am getting to how they go together. :) 

Once I started losing weight I  became more confident! and I decided I wanted to help others get results like I had gotten! so I was trying to do everything!!and getting nothing done! So I listened to Craig Holidays 90 days to excellence and he taught me how to manage my time!  so here is my beautiful Rainbow calendar and in one day of following this time management program My life has already been more at peach and I already have more accomplished in a  day than I thought possible!! 

A Fit Family!

When David and I were first married we always said
that we were going to have a healthy and active family. Well 4 babies later we were neither healthy or active, so we decided to make a change in our lives. Here is a photo of our family before we started this journey and before baby number 4.

And here is a more recent photo of our family after we started down our fitness journey!!

After I had lost around 50 pounds! and David had lost around 20! 

And now Fitness and nutrition is a part of out daily life! I workout every morning and am teaching my kids that working out should be a part of your everyday life!  and today for recess we had a push up contest!! It was fun! (I was going to upload the video but it will not upload so here is my most recent before and afters!!)

Want to know how I did it? send me an e-mail at livebetterdaily@beachbodycoach.com

A Day

Well I have been MIA from blogging lately. So I decided to update you on what we have been up to!

Here is a quick break down of our days

5:00 am Mommy works out!
6:00 am  mommy showers and reads her devotions
7:00 am Breakfast
8:00am School
11:30 am Room Checkpoint(which means the kids clean their room while I cook lunch)
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Quiet time and time for me to work my Beachbody Business
3:00 Snack Time
3:30 Chores
4:30 free time
5:00 start supper
6:00 eat supper
7:00 Evening chores/free time
7:30 family Devotions and jammy time
8:00 Bed Time for kiddos! Sometimes it is mommy's work time again. :)
10:00 Bed time

So we keep busy!!! No time for laziness in our days. :) and Since Daddy's job is demanding this time of year we don't see him much. :(   But I love my family and we are so blessed that David has a job!! Here a few pictures of our day!

Alexis doing some preschool work. :)

David reading me a book!

Evanny learning Spanish with Rosetta Stone!

Malachi Stealing the school supplies!

and stealing my shoes!

We have been learning a lot about our country this year. We have learned the Pledge of Allegiance, when it started why it started, ect. We have also been learning about Leif Ericsson,Christopher Columbus, Captain John Smith, Pocahontas, Squanto and are now studying the American Indians. With our American Indian study today we made WigWams.

What A Cute Jacket!-Re-purposed from a skirt!

Ok so I wasn't going to share this until the dress that goes to it is finished but I couldn't wait because I am so happy with how it turned out! I couldn't find a free pattern that I liked so I just decided to make my own! I am so glad I did and I so wish Alexis was up right now so she could model it for you but she is in bed and I want to post these pictures. :) I will have her model it when the dress is finished. 

I Started with this skirt that was in a bag of clothes someone gave us.

I used one of the girls shirts to make the pieces!

And this is what I came up with! Isn't it adorable!!

This picture has terrible coloring but, it shows the detail really well! 

Winter Ward Robe- A few more dresses done!

This Saturday My husband worked half a day and spent the rest doign school and my oldest son was gone to visit Aunt Mary! So I had some time to make a few more dresses!  I am up to 7 now!  Yay! I am over half way done I think! 

These were also some old sweaters. I made leggings or baby legs to match each dress!

 
 

and since I have lost 60 pounds since last winter I cant fit in to this blue long sleeve t-shirt anymore! So I made it into a t-shirt dress! So far I have made them 7 dresses (I will get a picture of the other one soon. Alexis wanted to wear it after it was made and then spilled chocolate on it so it is being washed!) So what was my total cost of their wardrobe so far? $3.00 !!!! Yeah this is my kind of back to school shopping!  The only thing I purchased was a bag full of sweaters from the thrift store which is always $3.00 for a Walmart sack full!
 

Summer activities!

 Here area a few activities we did on a Saturday when David was done with school for the week and not working!! It was amazing!

Shaving with daddy!

putting the shaving cream on!

Isn't this the cutest picture? I think every little boy should shave with their daddy using Popsicle sticks!

Then while they played outside we got to work on an obstacle course! 

He made it! it was much easier than we planned for it to be. :)

on the way back!

They got a treat at the end of the course! Fruit Roll-ups that Grandma gave Alexis for her birthday

She is coming back out!

She was the most excited about getting through!

They played with this obstacle course the rest of the day! making it different each time. They had so much fun they even saved the strigns and did again the next day!

Winter Wardrobe

I decided that I was going to attempt to make all of my girls clothes for this winter! and I am excited to do this! So here is what my goal is. I want to make them 10 play dresses ans 4 church dresses and 2 coats for them to share.  I got a good start yesterday!  

My goal is to turn this pile of old clothes into a cute wardrobe!

Here was my first project. I forgot to take a picture before i cut but you  know what it is right? A large black sweater. :)

Here are our pieces. bodice, sleeves and leggings that I didn't finish.

I had a few helpers with the pinning. :)

Here is the finished product!  She likes it a lot!! I forgot to take pictures of all of the other sweaters but i ahve pictures of the finished products and we had to have a photo shoot! so below are a lot of different pictures we took in our new w inter dresses. I completed 4 dresses today!

 

 

 

 

Alexis' baby legs i made from an old sweater. :)