New do and exercise

Yes, I said the "e" word and I've even doing it. Cody and I made our decisions of what we were giving up for Lent this year. I gave up my desserts again and I'm doing pretty good so far. I'm not a milk drinker, but I've been drinking chocolate milk with my lunch at school. It fills me up too. Cody gave up all carbonated beverages. He said yesterday was a pretty hard day but I'm sure it will get better for him. Anyway, he mentions that since we're giving something up we should also add something. And that something was simple exercises at home. So he went the other day and bought us an ab dvd and then a pilates one. We started Wednesday night and I was sore yesterday. But now this morning I got up early and did some pilates. I felt pretty good. I really hope I can continue this. I always start out good but then wither away at the progress.

I went and got my hair chopped off on Monday. I love it. Cody said it's the shortest he's ever seen it but he likes it too. My challenge is trying to fix it. I'm use to just brushing and going or just spraying in some gel. Now, I use wax and style it a bit. I love it. It looks like it was colored but I think it's just because she cut a lot of gray out. I am going to get some highlights, but I'll wait on that. I hate spending the money for that.

I think we'll be getting some family pictures taken next month. I thought about doing one for Easter with the kids in the new Easter outfits, but I can't find anything for Cody and I to wear that kind of matches. So, I may just go for a nice spring picture with khaki pants or something along those lines. I'm going to a local one hour photo place that charges a nice sitting fee, but I get all the proofs and I can order something if I want to. Which, I may just order one 8 x 10 for our wall because I can just imagine what the prices of the pictures would be.

I've been pretty busy around here. We're trying to price flooring for the house so we can redo some stuff before we put it on the market. I'm shooting for April and then hopefully we can sale fast. If we sale before the move next summer, then we'll move into town and rent a house. The money that we make from the sale will be used to pay off the van or some other bills. I know we want to rip the carpet up out of the living room and the hallway by the garage. We really want to put down laminate. Then, in the kitchen, bathrooms, hallway and laundry room we're just going to put down some of those peel and stick for a new "fresh" look. That will hopefully be able to help sale. We need a new fence but I really don't want to mess with that and I don't think it's the big factor here. It's not in horrible shape but we want something that looks better.