J.A.I.L

I'm such a bad blogger

2010-06-07T13:16:00.001-07:00

I think the title says it all, I'm not good at blogging but I love looking at everyone else's! But here is a weight loss update. I have lost 8 pounds since January and since May of last year I have lost 17 pounds, still have lots to go, but I am running 3 days a week and about 2 1/4 miles each time! I signed up for a 5K in July (am I crazy or what?!?)

Isaac and Lilly are very active 2 year olds (sounds weird to say that). They have found all sorts of ways to scale our furniture making us rearrange our furniture numerous times!

Isaac is finally starting to speak more words. His new ones lately are Doggy (sounds like daddy) and Wow! He's such a lover of food. Just about everytime it's time to eat, when he sits down and sees the food his reaction either, wow, wow! or M..M..M!!! It's so funny! He's also finally learned the word NO also. He quite forcefully used it on me the other day while hitting me. Nice, huh?

Lilly had her feeding evaluation a week and a half ago and it's determined that she has oral sensory aversion. Basically meaning she doesn't like anything to be put near her mouth. Not sure when therapy for her will start, but once it does she will be seen by an occupational therapist 2-3 times a week, a speech therapist to work on her feeding 2-3 times a week, and a psychologist once a week to learn new behaviors when it comes to eating. Her amount of eating is like a roller coaster for us. Some days she eats good (even though it's still not a lot, but good for her) and then there are days where she eats maybe 2 bites. So now she's having nights where she wakes up twice a night for milk. But you would never know looking at her that she's got this feeding issue. She's a quite healthy VERY active little girl. She is on the go all day long. Her favorite words are puppy, or "what is that?" She likes to carry a purse around with her too!She loves ELMO.

I think it's funny that Isaac says doggy and Lilly says puppy....they're so different in just about every way possible. Here's some recent pics of the kiddos.

Lilly's skirt

2010-03-16T12:54:00.000-07:00

Had to post a pic of Lilly's skirt I made yesterday. I am quite proud of it! It was super easy to make too! I was supposed to put pockets on it, but I made one and it was too big, so I ditched the idea. Maybe i'll add them later! Here's the link to where I got the idea. I would make a bow to match but she likes to pull them out, so one day she'll wear those bows!

Lilly modeling the new skirt!

She's already accessorising.

Next Top Model?

2010-02-15T18:37:00.001-08:00

Lilly got into Isaac's pj drawer and came out wearing them like a fur. I think she's got a future in modeling!

Isaac came out maybe 5 minutes later or so and was modeling Lilly's green pjs! He's got the face of a future model. Don't ya think?

in weight loss news, I can now fit into 2 pairs of my pre pregnancy pants! 5 pounds lost so far!

Stuff

2010-02-10T11:50:00.000-08:00

So last week I lost 2 pounds! Wahoo!!! That's how much I lost in January. I am super excited about that. I honestly didn't think I would lose that much because of all the yummy goodness at the super bowl party, but I did. I was able to do my 3 runs and my 2 shape workouts. I might be changing my shape workouts a tad. I've done my first run of the week and can I say it completely kicked my butt. The run is: 5 min. warm up walk, run 3 min, walk 90 sec, run 5 minutes, walk 2 1/2 minutes and repeat. I ran about 97% of it. The last 5 minute section I had to stand on the side rails for about 10 seconds twice, but other than that I did it all. Jeremy and I have made a pretty good schedule that works for us, so we are both able to hit the gym. Oh and here is the website I get some healthy recipes from. Some favorites of ours is the garlic roasted chicken and bourbon chicken.

On Isaac and Lilly, they are super active and busy! I'll leave you with some recent pictures of
them.

Notice the white basket? He used that to climb onto the chair! He's a climbing machine these days! He uses that white basket A LOT!

Getting into the wipes warmer! Isaac climbed onto the rocker and knocked down the wipes warmer and fun ensued! Lilly is probably the one mainly responsible for tearing them into little tiny pieces!

weight loss progress/ February goals

2010-02-01T11:58:00.000-08:00

So I started out January 2010 weighing 188 and am starting February 2010 186. I lost 2 pounds this month.....not a whole lot, but it's progress. I honestly thought I would've lost more since I went from basically not exercising to exercising 3 times a week. Maybe my metabolism is super slow, but I do feel better and feel a bit more toned. My jeans are fitting better, so it's going. Actually the first week of January when I started exercising i lost 2 pounds right off. But then my Aggie girls from college had our annual reunion in the middle of January. I had tons of fun! But my 2 pounds came back on. So I started back at it and have lost 1 pound a week the past 2 weeks.

Jeremy and I have been trying to eat better at home. We have "The Best Life" cookbook so use some of those recipes and my good friend Kristin gave me a lowfat cooking website she uses and have found lots of recipes there that are good.

I started the from couch to 5k that Jill Le told me about. I did the first two weeks and then on week 3, I got sick, so I didn't exercise only once last week. I am starting back on week 3 and hope to ready to run for our Lifegroup 5K in March.

My goals for January were to exercise 4 times a week and read the book of Romans. I actually met those goals!

So February goals are to run/walk 3 times a week, do my "Shape" magazine workout twice a week at home, read 1&2 Timothy, and memorize 2 bible verses.

Monthly goals have been good for me. I always get overwhelmed by super long term goals, so setting short term goals work much better for me. I like even more that I'm not putting an amount of pounds that I want to lose in a month. I like the goals of what I'm going to do to lose the weight or to get healthy. Its easier for me to track that honestly.....I would get discouraged when I wouldn't lose weight in the amount of time I gave myself.

I'm trying to be better at updating the blog so hopefully I'll update about this again soon and not at the beginning of March.

Drawer Time Fun

2010-01-18T18:24:00.001-08:00

A few weeks ago, I was going through Isaac and Lilly's clothes. I had a drawer out on the floor completely empty, so Lilly decided to get in it. Those are the most fun toys at our house these days! But then Isaac decided to join her. These two are so fun together! Isaac loves to sit in a container if Lilly is in it!

Lilly is chewing on the knob to the drawer.

Alright Lilly are you ready to go?

They look like big kids here! No more baby faces. So sad!

I have absolutely no idea what Lilly is doing here, or neither does Isaac for that matter.

Hi Mom!

Here goes nothing

2010-01-03T19:43:00.000-08:00

So normally at the beginning of a new year I start to think about resolutions. I never make them really because who keeps them anyway? I try to set goals only to always fail. They're always goals that are achievable and realistic, so why are they never met? After thinking about this over the past month or so I've come to realize that I am apathetic. Which to me is a very dangerous place to be. So my friend Lisa from college and I have decided to have monthly goals and to keep each other accountable and for real this time. We've done this before but kinda forgot about the accountable part and then lost the motivation to keep the goal. So my big goal for 2010 is to lose 40-45 lbs. Now I always get inspired by watching The Biggest Loser. I always think I nowhere near as big as these people and if they can do so can I. Well this last season, there was one girl, who was bigger than me, but not much. My gosh, I think I could be big enough to get on that show! How embarrasing! So to keep myself accountable even more so I will use this blog to share my journey. But I want to do even more, I have a sick to my stomach feeling now just typing this, but I am going to share my weight...AHHH!!! Now that's even more embarrasing to me! So here goes.....(deep sigh). I weigh 188. There I said it (acutally typed, but who cares). Yes I weigh more than some men do. I weighed so much more after the babies were born. Those cute little humans have completely rearranged body parts in ways that are NOT normal. Add on not taking care of myself or watching what I've eaten (because I never cared, due to the apathy), so my goals for January are to exercise 4 times a week and to read the book of Romans (another area I am apathetic). I think of Paul, when talking about beating your body into submission and that is what I'm going to have to do. So friends who read my blog, I am asking for encouragement and prayers. I am tired of being the "fat girl" and would like to do a 5K soon. Not to neccesarily run one yet, but that would be nice! But that would be a great goal is to run a 5K without stopping by the beginning of summer! My ramblings have taken on enough and I'm sure my spazzed out thoughts are not very cohesive but this is what's going on with me and now I have to be even more accountable!

Mod Podge Fun!

2009-12-29T13:45:00.000-08:00

So lately I have been looking at all sorts of crafty blogs. On Make it and Love it, there was a blog where you can mod podge some fun shoes. Here's the blog. I stole the idea and tried it one some of mine. Mine didn't turn out as good. My exacto knife didn't seem to want to work so the edges are not straight, but I could totally wear these with a pair of jeans and no one would know the difference. I think I'm in love with mod podge! Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!!!

Before (honestly ugly shoes, but they were 70% off at DSW when I bought them. Couldn't pass up a deal!)

After! Much more versatile and go with so many things!!

Beauty Shop!

2009-11-12T13:11:00.000-08:00

So today I decided that Lilly's hair was long enough to put in a ponytail. We had lots of fun playing beauty shop. But I think she was more interested in the brush than the ponytail.

I then had to add a bow! Isn't she cute?

Isaac wasn't as interested in it as we girls were! But I still think he's pretty handsome!

You mean I have to use this to brush my hair?

Kleenex Fun

2009-08-26T12:31:00.001-07:00

I left the room for a few minutes and this is what I came back to!

Lilly is very proud and Isaac is eating the kleenex!! Oh goodness.

Catching up

2009-08-14T12:11:00.000-07:00

So it's been awhile since my last post. The kids are keeping me super busy.

Some new happenings with them is Lilly is babbling more. She is saying mama and dada and a bunch of other gibber gabber, but she knows that Jeremy andI are mama and dada, so that's kinda fun for us. She has also been eating much better. She's had several feeding issues due to reflux and being a premie. But she has started eating her pureed baby food much better. She actually finishes a whole jar at a time...Big step for her. She also is eating cheerios and baby puffs and NOT throwing up....an even bigger step for her. We are so excited about this!!!

Isaac is all over the place. He is nothing but B-O-Y!!! He is into everything. He is starting to stand alone for a few seconds at a time. He'll be walking before we know. Scary!!! He loves to climb onto the fireplace....along with Lilly also. He's starting to mimic Lilly's strange little crawl for those of you who know what that looks like. He took his diaper off today in his crib. He's also been getting lots of little booboos. It's kinda sad. He's busted his lip twice and today, I had a bad mommy moment and left the camera strap dangling where he could reach it and the camera came down right on his eye. So sad. I felt HORRIBLE!! If we take him out, people will think we beat our child...oh goodness. I'll leave you with some pictures over the past month or so. Enjoy!

playing with the dirty clothes!!!

Don't you just love sleeping babies??

She's quite animated!

What?!?!

His booboo from the camera. So sad!

Summer Fun!

2009-07-10T08:34:00.000-07:00

My friend Amy and her little girl Sage came over to swim with Isaac and Lilly. Lilly and Sage loved the pools. Isaac is still unsure about all this water business. But he loves bathtime. Boys are weird. The girls were crawling from pool to pool and sometimes towards the alley or the plants. They were little explorers. Isaac on the other hand stayed in his one spot the entire time in the pool. Eventually, I put him in the swing and he was MUCH happier there!

Mermaid or Penguin?

2009-06-14T08:25:00.001-07:00

I think Lilly is telling us what she wants to be for Halloween. Mermaid or Penguin? Anyways, this is how she woke up yesterday morning. Isn't that funny!

Vacation

2009-05-27T09:41:00.000-07:00

Jeremy and I went to Playa del Carmen on vacation this past week. It was so nice! We stayed at an all inclusive resort and did absolutely nothing. The only thing we did was go into Playa one day to buy soveniers for our family. It was nice to get away and be able to sleep in and hang out at the pool or beach and drink our fruity slushy drinks. They were super yummy. We have a pool/ocean view from our room. We didn't expect that at all. We can't wait to go back!!! Here are a few pics, you can go to our picasa link to see all of the pictures.

Jeremy and I going to dinner at the resort

We took a walk on a pier that goes out into the ocean. This was the beautiful water!

Us on our balcony

The view from our room. The pool was awesome!

These were the margaritas at the mexican restaurant.
I'm not a big margarita fan but these were yummy!

Birthday Month

2009-05-06T09:26:00.000-07:00

It's birthday month here in the Goss household. Yes all 4 of us have birthday's this month. Lilly and Isaac celebrated thier 1st birthday over the weekend! We had so much fun! We are so thankful for our babies! We couldn't imagine our lives without them. There are a few pictures below from the party. You can go to our picasa sight for more pictures.

I turn, I don't even wanna say it, 30 today. How did that happen? I thought I would always be in my 20s. Guess I have to grow up at some point. Jeremy's birthday will be the 24th of this month. On his birthday, we are supposed to be in Mexico. We'll see though with all this swine flu!
I hope we make it because we both need a vacation so bad!!

Movers and Shakers

2009-05-01T09:19:00.000-07:00

So the last few days have seen a lot of new developments with Isaac and Lilly. More with Isaac than anything. Over the last few days, he has figured out how to pull up in his crib, on some big toys in the house, and he has started to crawl! Yikes. He pulls up in his crib all the time, so it's starting to make naptime difficult. It took him an hour to finally fall asleep for his nap today. Oh goodness! I think my hands are really going to be full soon! Isaac's also trying to feed himself with finger foods but not very successful with it yet. He hasn't really learned how to hold the food just right yet.

Lilly has started sitting on her own in her bed and when we go in there, she's so proud of herself to be sitting there. She's starting to crawl a little bit. She'll do a few crawls and then fall on her tummy, so next week I think she'll be right along with big brother!

Such a big boy!

I can pull up ALL by myself! He loves the monkey on this toy.

Look at me, Mom!

I can pull up too!

Bluebonnets

2009-04-17T12:37:00.000-07:00

I love this time of year. The weather is starting to warm up, trees and growing their leaves back, and bluebonnets are blooming!! My best friend and college roommate, Lisa, was in town from California. We took Isaac and Lilly to get their pictures in the bluebonnets. It's just a good Texas thing to do. We had so much fun. The kids were amazed at the flowers. Lilly could not take her eyes off of them. If you notice in the pictures, we could not get her to look at the camera for anything. She was way more interested in the bluebonnets, than taking a silly picture. Enjoy the pictures. You can go to our picasa site for all our bluebonnet pics.

Me with the kiddos.

OH! What are these blue things??

I was at least able to get Isaac to look at the camera.

Aren't they the cutest things ever!

Aunt Lisa with the kiddos.

One Year

2009-04-03T12:41:00.000-07:00

So today is the year anniversary of when I was admitted into the hospital to be put on bedrest. Not the happiest time in mine and Jeremy's life but something that built us together as a couple with the early arrival of Isaac and Lilly. I've been a little nostalgic today thinking of everything that Jeremy and I went through and can't believe that it's been a year. When Isaac and Lilly were in the NICU it seemed that time had stopped and we were never going to be out of there. I remember being told that one day our time in the NICU would be just a small memory and I remember thinking when are we going to get there or ARE we going to get there. We feared for Isaac and Lilly's lives everyday they were there. But God was good and he continued to develop them outside of me (which is amazing!). Jeremy and I are so grateful for things that I think we take for granted in our children, like lungs that work, and digestive systems that work properly. I don't think you appreciate the small things until you see your child struggle to breathe daily and struggle to keep food down or to digest correctly. I still sometimes wonder why God had us go through such a horrible experience. I don't know if I'll ever know, but there are many things that I learned along the way. For instance, I learned that I have no control over the events in my life. I had no control over whether Lilly was going to have a massive brady and turn blue but God taught me to trust him, and I think that's the biggest lesson learned is trust. We have to trust him daily. The control is not ours but God's. He taught me to let go and to not worry (as much as I tried to not). God gave Jeremy and I amazing peace through the whole experience. We felt peace and we knew that had to be of God. I think of the verse that says to "count it all joy when you experience trials and tribulations" and through all the pain and scariness that we experienced, we were at peace and we knew we would bring our children home with us. I think our relationship with the Lord was made one step stronger than it was before all this happened, but we still have a long way to go, as the saying goes, we are a work in progress. Is that not the truth! We are so thankful to the Lord that he chose to save Isaac and Lilly physically. Our prayer now is that he will choose to save them spiritually!

Cribs and Legs

2009-03-24T12:31:00.000-07:00

So last night, Jeremy had just got home from work and the kids were a little grumpy so we put them down for a short nap. They both complained about it but usually they go right to sleep. I think Isaac might have drifted off at some point, but Lilly kept crying and fussing in her bed. We ignored it and ate our dinner because we just thought she was mad at us for putting in her bed. Well she won the argument and so we went in to get her and this is what we found:

No wonder she was fussing. She backed that thing up and got stuck in her crib. Sorry baby girl!

Trip to Alabama

2009-03-21T11:01:00.000-07:00

Last Saturday we left for Alabama. My grandparents live there so it was time to show them their great-grandchildren. They were so excited to finally meet Isaac and Lilly! While we were there, we had a big family lunch on my mom's side. A lot of aunts, uncles, and cousins came. Some of them I haven't seen in years so that was nice. Then we drove on down to Mississippi. My other grandmother on dads side is staying at my aunt and uncles house. My grandmother turned 81 while we were there, so we all celebrated by going to a seafood restaurant. We also went to Bellingrath gardens while we were there. It was absolutely beautiful! The azaleas were blooming and I think those have to be the prettiest flowers ever. It was a 12 hour drive and I have to say that the babies did an awesome job being stuck in a car seat for that long! They hardly fussed at all. We are so glad to be back here in Texas.

Isaac and Lilly with Granny Tolbert and Kenneth (mom's side.)

Sitting on the swing at Granny and Kenneth's

Isaac and Lilly with Granny Sticher (dad's side)

Clayton, Paige, Stevie, Isaac, Caydence, and Lilly at Bellingrath Gardens. Clayton was not happy to take the picture. =)

I haven't uploaded all pictures to our picasa link yet, but look out for it! There are tons of pictures.

Day at the park

2009-03-07T10:59:00.000-08:00

We went to Kid's Kingdom yesterday with our friend Amy and her little girl Sage. This was the first time for Isaac and Lilly to swing! I think they really enjoyed it!

Swinging together!

Lilly enjoying the swing

Isaac doesn't look to sure about this, but he loved it!

Playing with our friend Sage.

We are worn out!

Bathrobes and sleeping

2009-02-27T13:12:00.000-08:00

We've had some bathrobes that were given to the kids a long time ago and are now just getting some cute pictures of them in them. Also Lilly has started rolling over onto her tummy while sleeping...Cute! Isaac rolls onto his stomach but doesn't like it so much and begins screaming when he does!Lilly sleeping away on her tummy!

This is my favorite picture of them!

Don't you like our new bathrobes?

New to blogging!

2009-02-27T11:27:00.000-08:00

we'll I've decided to jump on the bandwagon and start my own blog. We'll see how it goes!