Chaotic Cantrell's

So I am hoping by bringing back this blog, I will be able to hold myself more accountable in my weightloss/fitness journey. April 2014 I weighed 142 and wore a size 4/6. May I found out I was pregnant with my second son. I was excited but at the same time stressed because I had just went from a 12 to my 4/6 after my first son. Loosing weight after kids is SO not easy. January I decided to get serious and try and loose the rest of this baby weight. I had finally gotten life into a routine and it was go time. I started out at 169 and a size 10. I went to boot-camp 4-5x a week and cut out fast food and soda from my diet completely. Well then summer vacation hit and having kids home 7 days a week with me and having one playing Allstar Baseball has led to more convenience rather than healthy. So today, I am starting out at a size 8 and 162lbs. I have decided to try and do intermittent fasting for the first go round. A friend of mine recommended this book and it has me hooked.  ...

My husband and I have decided to venture into the "Trash to Treasure" business. I love it! I love painting or fixing things up. It is totally up my "alley" as my hubby would say. I am a sucker for buying lottery tickets so over the weekend hubby told me to stop and get some Powerball tickets. Well I couldn't resist and got a scratch off while I was at it. We like to play the $20 ones. I won $100! I was so excited. I used that money to buy a piece to refinish and then to buy some supplies I knew I would need for this and future projects. On my local garage sale site I found a cute table for $15. A steal right? I was so sad when I realized I didn't take a before picture. It was solid wood though. We went a picked it up and brought it home. Hubby sanded it (which was optional but it had some scuffs so we wanted to make it more evened out) then I began painting. One coat didn't seem to be enough. So I did a second coat... And finally a third coat. ...

I am so excited to do my first giveaway since coming back to blogging. I had the opportunity to get a free pack of KozyShack Indulgent Pudding from BzzAgent. I had heard of KozyShack before but I had never tried them. They recently came out with a new line called "Indulgent Recipe". I generally like pudding so figured I would give it  try. When I got to Target I noticed they had chocolate, vanilla and salted caramel. I am a huge sucker for fall flavors so of course I went with the salted caramel. Speaking of, have you tried the new Greek yogurt that is salted caramel flavor? Its to die for! Love it! I enjoyed that one so much so I got the same flavor in pudding. Look how yummy it looks. When I got home I quickly tried it. I mean it looked so good, I just didn't want to wait. My first thought when opening the package was the pudding looks thick. Surely there was an air bubble in there right? Nope. Just really thick pudding. Right th...

Hey everyone! I am back from hiatus. So much has happened over the last 3 years... wow has it really been that long? Guess so. We are now a family of 4. Which makes my heart so happy. We welcomed "papoose" December 2014. Hubby got a job closer to home and I have been working on getting my personal trainer certificate. I will be certified in December of this year. I was just accepted to start back at our local university in January so I can finish my degree in management and then the plan is to get my masters in teaching. Life got a little rocky last year but this year seems to be amazing so far! We took the boys to Disney for their first time over the spring and now I am trying to take them back as much as possible. The goose loves it. I took him and a friend of mine and her little boy there this past weekend. We all had a blast. Now to plan Octobers trip. ;) I recently started training to run my first half marathon. I want to do the RunDisney race in February. I...

So I decided to buy myself a gift. Sure is cute isn't it! Getting ready to take little man to gymnastics practice. Afterwards, getting my hair done. First time since May! How crazy! I used to go every 3-4 weeks for highlights but life has been way to crazy lately. We are thinking of taking man to the local fair this weekend. He has never been big enough to ride the rides before so we haven't taken him to one since he was 3 months old. Bet he will love it. :) The big state fair is in two weeks and we are def. doing that one. Looking forward to fall! I love to make homemade pumpkin pie's and decorating. Best time of year! What is your favorite time of year? XoXo, The Cantrell's

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So I have some exciting news for all of my followers... I have purchased my domain name! Pretty soon I will be live at www.chaoticcantrells.com I will able to do a little more with the site then and much better organization. I also can't wait to play with the look and feel of the site. This one always just seems so jumbled up, but I can't do too much with blogger. At least I don't think I can. :) Oh yea and I will be on wordpress. Very exciting!

So I am FINALLY registered for classes again. I am going back to work on my accounting degree... this time... I have changed it SO many times but I am almost done so lets hope that I just finish this one before switching. :)

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Well yet again, we have another busy weekend coming up. Looking forward to it though. Tomorrow little man starts his first day at Gymnastics. He is very excited. We have to watch the olympics every night so he can watch "Gymnastics". I will certainly take and post a picture or two of him. :)

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So I have TOTALLY been slacking on my blog lately and I am so sorry! I will have to give y'all a little recap of my chaotic month.

So in honor of reaching over 1,000 Facebook fans I am going to be pushing out all of my giveaways this week! The first one I am doing is on the CUTEST koozie I have seen yet! I fell in love just by the picture and once it came in the mail, I was done. It is awesome. So everyone these days is in the Mustache craze. Well The Posh Shoppe has a Mustache Koozie. They have several different colors to choose from. I choose pink. My favorite color. :) See how cute she even decorates the packaging. They are really made great and keep your drinks cool. Hand washing is recommended, just an FYI if any of y'all get them. I do that and it stays looking PERFECT. I am looking forward to using it at the beach... on my birthday at that! So excited. Check out her Etsy Shop here . UPDATE!!!!! The shop has run out of koozies so it will now be a $10 store credit for the winner. SO SORRY for any confusion! a Rafflecopter giveaway

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