i was wrong before

yoga isn't torture, it's pure evil!

the devil himself created yoga and you want to know how i know that?

he tried to kill me with it last night.

yesterday, when matt and i woke up we didn't feel any soreness at all.

i thought to myself "man, maybe we're not as out of shape as we thought we were."

WRONG!

slowly throughout the day i started to get more and more stiff.

holy cow! you have no idea how stiff i was by the time matt got home!

and he said the same thing happened to him!

so we decided to do the stretches at the end of the P90X yoga video because a couple people told us that those are good stretches and we needed our bodies to loosen up.

it sounds like a good plan right?

well we were going along all fine and dandy when we got to the point where they do the bridge/wheel stretch.

bridge is for unflexible people and wheel is for the experts.

please.

i have done this wheel move a million times in my younger years and i knew i still could so i decided to show off for my cutie patootie husband and show him what i can do.

oh how i wish i could go back in time and make myself NOT do that because i then spent the rest of the night like this...

with an ice pack on my back and my feet propped up and hardly able to move.

i can honestly tell you how it feels to be a middle aged man when his back goes out.

awesome.

now i know that you're all thinking "what an idiot!" and yes, i am an idiot but let me tell you where my problem started.

obviously it started when i decided to do that little wheel move but the real problem occurred after that.

i was up in the wheel pose all fine and dandy and thought that i could move my hands even closer to my feet for a bigger bend.

THERE! right there is when my problem happened!

i already have a bad lower back issue going on and this took that issue to the breaking point!

i fell back on the floor consumed in a pain that i have never felt before in my entire life!

i actually had to ask matt to help me up because i couldn't move an inch on my own.

i then spent about 10 minutes straight curled in a little ball trying to stretch my back out the opposite way which didn't help very much but i didn't know what else to do.

then the rest of the night was spent sitting with an ice pack or heating pad and ordering matt to get me stuff so i didn't have to get up.

love you matt!

moral of the story kids: don't do crazy yoga poses to show off to your hubsy because you might hurt your back so bad you won't be able to walk for days...or you could die!

yoga = torture

matt and i decided that we are going to start working out together at night time.

we haven't been doing a very good job because watching tv while snuggling on the couch seems like a much better plan than going out and running, right?

well last night we decided to kick our bad habit and do our exercising together.

i've been wanting to do yoga because countless people have told me that if i did some yoga before bed it might help my insomnia and i realized something...

people who say that yoga is relaxing LIE!

i do have to admit that we did the P90X yoga which is probably normal yoga on steroids but still,

you can't breathe and relax while you're bending all crazy and holding yourself up in awkward positions and making your body do things it really REALLY doesn't want to do.

but i guess i need to keep doing it to see if it gets any better.

plus out of an hour and a half video we only made it half an hour.

we got sick of the stand up pose, plank, upward dog, plank, downward dog, back up and again.

it was basically this...

over and over and over and over again.

now tell me, does any of that look normal to you?

negative.

after the half hour we gave up on the video and just went for a run.

let me correct that, matt went for a run while i jogged/walked/died of an asthma attack.

oh the joys of exercise.

i can't wait to do it all over again tonight!

monster madness

so remember way back to the new year when i said that i was going to be more crafty?

well, as always, i haven't been doing a very good job with my resolution.

back then i wanted to make that monster stuffed animal right?

well in january i bought the pattern, i bought the fabric, i planned it all out , cut the fabric, pinned him together and he was basically ready to be sewn and stuffed.

but then i got scared of my new cool sewing machine and told myself i couldn't do it and that poor little monster had to sit in our office for months hoping for me to someday be a man, use my sewing machine and give him the life a little monster stuffed animal always wanted!

so...i did just that!

that's right, i finished him!

isn't he the cutest little thing you ever did see?

he's definitely not perfect but not too shabby for my first stuffed animal!

his eyes were a stroke of genius because i couldn't find just one button that i liked the best so i thought to myself "why can't i use two different ones and put them together?"

as it turns out, you can do that!

so i did.

his mouth was a last minute decision that i had to hand sew but i think it's my favoritest part about him!

go me!!

now i just need to make a little friend for him!

(ps. i just realized i'm wearing the same shirt as in my last pictures. what can i say? i really love flannel and i really love that shirt!)

back to my old self again!

once upon a time there was a girl who had super cute short hair

but she had a husband who wanted to see how her hair would look long even though she told him it was yucky

she grew her hair out a little bit to prove it to him and he agreed and wanted her short hair back

yuck yuck yuck

so they went to fix this little yucky thing on top of her head and now she is back to her normal self again!

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

THE END!

green green everywhere!

so yesterday was st. patty's day and i'm pretty sure it was the best st. patty's day i've ever had!

while matt was at work i went out to the store and bought just about all the green things i could find and anything that i could possibly turn green for dinner.

here's what we ended up with...

salad with avocados

broccoli

green garlic mashed potatoes

the most delicious chicken ever covered with green gravy

and green sprite to wash it all down

all eaten with green dishes of course!

matt said he thinks it was one of the best dinners EVER!

booyah!

then after dinner i took matt to the dollar movies and we FINALLY saw blindside!

i've been asking matt to take me to see that since it came out.

it was so good! i loved it!

i didn't cry like everyone told me i would because according to matt i'm made of stone.

(so not true)

but i thought it was a super cute movie and i'll definitely watch it again when it comes out on dvd.

we do need to remember though that the dollar movies during the week are apparently where the old people go to hang out.

our theater was like an old folks home!

but i guess that's better than having my seat kicked 500 times by some jerky teenager.

when we got home we had a lovely dessert of GREEN mint ice cream and watched some tv before falling asleep.

it was a great night!

HAPPY ST. PATTY'S DAY EVERYBODY!

spring breaky break

so this week is spring break and i realized that spring break loses all of its excitement when you grow up and have no money.

i really wish we could take a trip somewhere but matt and i still have to work and since both of us don't get paid to take days off we're stuck here.

sad face.

i've been trying to do something fun every day though.

i want matt to have a good spring break!

here's our week so far...

my little sis stayed the night with us on sunday and we spent half of the next day thrift storing it up! i love the thrift store!!

we actually went because i'm searching for materials for a project matt and i are doing but it kinda turned into making fun of clothes instead!

man those pants were itchy...but so sexy!

this was sari's most favorite piece of clothing!

she actually did buy this so she could wear it on a school trip she's taking next week!

that's my girl!

NIGHT SHIRT!!!

and the absolute best part of our day came just as we were driving away from a goodwill.

THE WEENIE MOBILE!

i'm sure my mom will never forget that her 21 year old daughter had to hang up on her so she could take a picture of this amazing sight!

sorry mom!!

but if we hadn't seen this giant hotdog on wheels sari would've never decided what she wants to be when she grows up.

i'm proud to announce that my little sister will one day become the weenie mobile driver!

i can't think of anything better than that!

after hitting about 4 thrift stores we were tired and needed foooooooood so sari, my mom and i went to chili's!

i always forget how much i like chili's until i go there.

the fajitas are delicious!

by the time i got home it was time for matt to get off of work.

i think he was a little bummed that he missed out on all the thrifty fun so after i finished some of my work i took him to ikea!

that always makes us happy!

we went to look for a fancy mirror for our project and, of course, ended up finding a bunch of other stuff too!

we found this amazing little tree and just had to get it! why?

it's a money tree!! i wonder when the hundred dollar bills start to bloom.

we also got a couple other random things and then went to our favoritest place in ikea...the as-is department!

and we actually found the mirror we wanted there!

duh! the as-is department never lets us down!

all the mirrors there with frames were too expensive for us so to see the perfect one for $30 cheaper was like a miracle in the as-is department!

i think i even heard angels sing when we picked it up.

i know it doesn't look like our taste now but just wait until our project is complete!

yesterday was certainly the lame day of spring break.

after work matt and i went to some more thrift stores and we made homemade garlic bread to go with our pasta dinner.

it was a wild night!

tonight i'm thinking of taking him somewhere cool!

i think i have to after yesterday.

guns + quads = fun saturday

my family likes to go out to the desert sometimes on saturdays to go shooting and riding their quads.

we never ever ever got to go with them because saturday was a busy day at create it so when they told us they were going this past saturday we definitely had to go!

it was so much fun!

matt and i are experts with a gun!

not really but we pretend to be!

we let my dad have all of the extra samples from our store so he can set them up and shoot at them!

it was so cool to see those pottery pieces explode!

i think this was the best i ever did at shooting because we actually had something fun to shoot, not just cans and boring stuff like that.

i got to shoot at little animal banks and christmas plates and funny mugs!

so since we're not going to be professional snipers any time soon we took a break from the guns every now and then and took the quads out for a ride!

after a rocky start driving into a cactus, matt finally got comfortable with the big monster quad and drove me around.

we followed sari and got stuck in a few places but that's the fun of the city kids on quads!

matt wasn't brave enough to ride the newer quad because its got a clutch and everything but sari and i were getting pretty good on it by the end.

i dare say we were great at it!

we can't wait to go out there again!

we told my dad next time we actually need to camp out there too.

i haven't been camping in years and i miss it!

we'll have to go soon!