I ♥ Purple Trainers!

My new Nike Lunar Trainers in purple. 6/15/2011

After seeing my sister-in-law in these shoes I just had to have them.

LUV the color, and they were on sale!

They are for running and cross training. 

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to all the dad's out there!

Malek started off his morning with a cappuccino, it was my first attempt making one and I must say it turned out pretty darn good!  After he opened up his gifts (all sports stuff - VB net, badminton set, running shirts, mp3 player) we met up with the rest of the Malek/Barney clan for lunch at the Salt Lick in Driftwood.  We made sure to get there by 11am to avoid the huge wait, and I'm so glad we did because it was super busy!  We stuffed ourselves with the all you can eat option, took some family pictures, and came home and crashed.  Happy Father's day to my wonderful hubby!

Lunch at the Salt Lick 6/19/2011

Malek's

Barney's

Malek's

BLC Update

Biggest Loser Challenge (BLC) Update:

I'm happy to say that I've been consistent with my workouts, making it to the gym 4x's a week.  I wish I could say the same thing about my diet.  I manage to eat healthy for 1.5 days before breaking down and eating junk food.  :(  Nursing helps burn calories but also has me jonesin' for chocolate and cookies (FAIL!).  I'm going to have to cowboy up and get serious about what I'm eating if I want to lose weight.  ~SIGH~ 

You can follow my workouts here:  Tina's Dailymile

Biggest Loser Challenge

Today my organization at work started the Biggest Loser 11 week challenge.  Weight loss is based on the percentage of weight lost, not actual pounds.  My goal is a 5% weight loss (trying to be realistic here).  This is good incentive for me to get back into my workout regime!  I haven't really put much effort into working out as of late...granted I had my baby 7 weeks ago, but I was cleared by the Dr for exercise 2 weeks ago.  :^/  Now I have some competitive motivation to put my running shoes back on and hit that pavement!  Not to mention I'd really like to wear my cute bikini's again at the pool.....

The nurse at work is keeping track of our weight loss to keep us all honest.  :Þ  Let the pain fun begin!

Memorial Day Fun

I hope everyone had a wonderful Memorial day weekend.  We enjoyed a weekend full of family and friends!

Thursday night my Unkie Bob came into town to meet Ryland.  Ryland was on his best behavior for Unkie Bob, even allowing us to eat dinner together while he napped.  The hubby made some awesome feta and spinach stuffed pork chops for dinner.  :)

Unkie Bob and Ryland 5/26/2011

Friday I picked up the kids from their last day of school and took them to Whataburger for lunch.  Later that evening my brother and sister-in-law flew in from Ohio to meet Ryland!  They spent tons of quality time with their nephew changing diapers, feeding him and even giving him a bath!

Uncle Steve

Bath time

Aunt LC (little Christina)

  

Saturday morning we enjoyed waffles for breakfast and chilled at home.  Around 4pm we headed over to the Mills house for a Memorial day BBQ.  This was our first big get together with all of our friends kids, and I'm pleased to say it went splendidly!  Sunday we decided that Steve and LC needed to broaden their horizons and try some crawfish, so we took them to Sam's Boat.  The look on LC's face was priceless!  She ended up loving crawfish.  ;)  When we got home we headed over to the pool to cool off - those crawfish were HOT...as well as the weather!

Diving into the crawfish

Steve and LC left for Galveston Monday morning and we took off to Baba's house for lunch.  While Baba took the kids swimming the hubby, baby and I all took much needed naps.  Around 5pm we called it a day and headed back home to watch some movies and unwind from our busy weekend.

Lunch and swimming (and napping) at Baba's house

Ryland's Newborn Photo Session

Here are the pictures from Ryland's newborn session when he was just 12 days old.   Melissa Q did a fantastic job!   Ryland was a bit fussy during the beginning of the shoot, but half way through we finally got him to sleep and Melissa captured some great shots. So far my favorites are the ones where he's in the antique gown (which belonged to my grandfather) and the one with his mouth open. So precious!

My 1st offical Mother's Day

I had an awesome 1st Mother's Day compliments of my amazing hubby and baby boy!  :)  Malek made us cappuccinos and we ate breakfast on the front patio, he gave me the sweetest card and most amazing gift (diamond earrings!), the kids called to wish me happy mother's day, I went shoe shopping sans baby then came home and played and cuddled with my little guy.  We topped off the evening with a delicious home grilled steak dinner.  I couldn't have asked for a more special day with my beloved guys.

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers and grandmothers out there, I hope you had a wonderful day!

Breakfast on the patio

Happy Mother's Day!

Dressed up just for mommy

play time

cuddle time



We love you mommy!