P90X week 2 yoga and I DID IT, all of it!

I am writing these posts on the actual day of working out but they will most likely be post a day(s) later due to other posting opportunities.Week one of yoga X was very difficult and I did not make it more then 60 minutes but today I finished the whole stinking hour! I had some run-ins with myself but I overcame and finished the entire 90 minutes. I am so proud of myself.I will say that after my 90 days of P90X is over, I will not stop dong yoga here and there but I am going to invest in some shorter work outs of it. I can keep the other P90X work outs at their regular length but the yoga will just be in smaller doses but I don’t want to quit getting better at it!

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Prefense Botanicals-ALCOHOL FREE sanitizer-Review and GIVEAWAY!- US only

I am so excited to host my first giveaway on this blog and get to do this with an awesome new hand sanitizer product from Prefense Botanicals!

I usually DO NOT use hand sanitizer because it breaks my hands out in eczema and have come to find out during my review, that it is because of the alcohol content that is in most other sanitizers. The Prefense botanicals sanitizer is alcohol free and my hands look and feel awesome and I have used it every day for the last 2 weeks!

Here are some amazing facts about prefense botanicals

· No alcohol! Prefense is made of all-natural ingredients and has absolutely NO alcohol in it!

· Our technology protects you for 24 hours or 10 hand washings! This is what moms really love to hear about! (I LOVED this part too)!

· Prefense is non-toxic and safe for kids! It will not hurt you if swallowed! (My daughter used it every day and it gave me piece of mind that she was protected with an alcohol free sanitizer as she breaks out like I do).

· Prefense is silica based which means it doesn’t dry out your hands like traditional alcohol sanitizers. It actually smooths and softens your hands. You can totally see this when you apply it!

· Prefense protects against staph, strep, E.coli, drug resistant MRSA strains, and more. We fight germs that other hand sanitizers can’t.

· Because “one spray lasts all day” our 1.5 oz Prefense Botanicals Hand Sanitizer offers 120 applications, costing only $.08 per day, compared to $1.20 per day with alcohol hand sanitizers. (This part is just PLAIN AWESOME)!
 
Prefense botanicals was so awesome to send me this bottle to review for my readers and are giving one luck reader, of my blog, a free bottle of their own. This bottle is still more than half full after a week and a half of my entire family using it (3 of us). I am seriously hooked and will continue to use this product long after my review and giveaway are over.
 
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Did NOT postpone our vacation to Gatlinburge due to money!



We filed for out taxes on Feb 1st in hopes of getting our return back on Feb 11th so we could take a romantic getaway for our 6th anniversary. We did not have the money to do it without our tax return. We headed to H and R block and got them filed and we were informed that the taxes would be direct deposited on the 11th, exactly.  This was not a for sure date, this was the projected date and the earliest date they would be deposited.

We had our babysitters lined up, hotel booked and we were ready to go. We were putting all our eggs in one basket, this was the weekend we were going to go.

I got on FB a few days later and saw a whole lot of conversations of people being denied of filling their taxes until later in the month of Feb due to the government whining about the overload of taxes being filled. Boo hoo government, don’t make us file then!

I had conversations with a lot of people and I started to worry that we may not get our money. I then decided that this was NOT part of the secret and going to bring me positive LOA so I simply just let it go and said “we will go and we will get the money,” shoved it off and did not worry about it anymore.

On Friday Feb 11th there was no money in our account and when I went to IRS.gov it said I would receive it between the 11th-16th. We still left on the 11th, with not more then $200 in the bank to cover the $179.00 hotel bill we would have, gas, food, and entertainment. Old me would have freaked out, cried, and cancelled the trip and had a horrible weekend! not new and improved me!

Both my husband and I just decided that we were meant to go on our trip together and left it at that.

We got to the hotel at 11:30pm, checked in and went to bed. When I got up at 6am to go to the bathroom I decided to call my bank to see if the money was in there and low and behold, we were $3,000 richer! We had the money and we were ready to have a wonderful vacation!

It felt good and we had a wonderful time together! We got to enjoy things that we would not have typically enjoyed if we would have not got the money.

I have to give Gatlinburg TN, well Pigeon Forge TN actually, a plug here. If you are looking for a very family friendly awesome place to visit you need to go here. Gatlinburg has a lot of shops etc but is very crowded. Pigeon Forge is only a 20 minute drive from Gatlinburg and it is like a Vegas for families! so many awesome family friendly things to do. You could stay there for a week and not run out of things to do.  We will take out kids there in about 2 years when our youngest is old enough to enjoy it!

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Don’t put eggs on the varnished table!

Well I learned my lesson the hard way today for sure.
We went without a coffee table for 6 years because there are very expensive and when you have small kids you don’t want to spend lots of money on furniture, it gets ruined…right?
Well Mommy ruined this table, not the kids.
We found this table on craigslist for $20 and it really was a nice sturdy table and we were lucky to find it.  I love having a coffee table, it was something I missed not having every day we did not have one.
My sons likes to eat his breakfast in the morning, out of his chair, so I decided to forgo the plate and put his eggs on the table. I noticed later that there were these little white spots all over it, and not it is not his milk! Look….
Those spots are not going away. Whatever is in the eggs eats at the finish on the table and now it is permanently like this.
The WORST part is that my son ate the eggs and you know that whatever is off the table ended on the egg right? Argh, I feel like a horrible Mom. Pretty much just fed my son varnish. Lesson learned, won’t do it again!
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Yoplait Yogurt Smoothie, yummy!

I watch the biggest loser all the time and have seen these yogurt smoothies on there a few times and always thought they looked great!
They have a bunch of different flavors and I have tried almost all of them and they are awesome!!!
I am not getting paid for this review at all, in fact yoplait does not even know I am doing it. I am doing it because it is a very tasty healthy snack and I wanted to share it with my readers.
The bag makes 2 servings so each bag (with milk, I calculated using 1% milk) is 240 calories. Each serving then only has 120 calories. I would have used skim milk but was out so I used 10% which is what we drink in this house.
The only thing I don’t like is that it is a 2 serving bag, I wish it were only 1. You could half the fruit and yogurt out of it and store the rest in the freezer, that would not be that hard, but I would prefer to use the 1 serving only.
However, on the other hand my kids want it when I make it so this 2 serving works for the 3 of us. Here is what the 2 servings looks like.
1 serving, which is half this really does fill you up and is so tasty. it really tastes like a very bad for you smoothie, I love it!
I am thinking that we will go through more of these in the summer.
Pricing:
Well the price at our local Kroger is a little much at $3.29 per bag. Wal-Mart was around .80 cents cheaper then that.
I joined a web site called Pssst.. and I believe it’s a general mills web site. They send me free coupons all the time and I ended up with 9 coupons for this smoothie. One was for a freebie and the other 8 were for $1.25 off. I used all of the coupons in one shot at wal-mart and got these smoothies for an awesome deal, just over a buck er bag.
I will definitely buy these again, but probably not at Kroger.
If you have not tried them yet, I would suggest it! They are yummy!
Have a wonderful day and happy eating healthy!!!

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Blog Hop Week 3!

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Blog Hop week 3!

Rules are easy:
1. Follow my blog and BOTH my co- hosts through GFC
The 2nd Co-Host is NEW every week so make sure if you link up each week that you follow the NEW host!
Tawnasplan
My Journey With Candida
Mommy Only Has Two Hands
2. Grab the button and put it in a post or on your sidebar and let us know where it is. This will help the hop grow and gain us all new followers. It’s a Win, Win for everyone!
Tawnasplan
Please play nice and follow our simple rules!
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Follow, Follow, Follow, and have fun meeting new and amazing bloggers.
Feel free to leave your giveaway links or whichever post you would like us to read!
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HOP is open from Friday to Sunday!
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I WILL finish Yoga today, and I WILL like it!

I have been on a weight loss journey for 15 months and have started the P90X work outs and am in week 2. I love them all, even though they kick my butt except for the Yoga X. Ugh that is so hard and I have to say that I only made it 60 of the 90 minutes last Thursday. If you would like to see that post form last week with my awesome pictures and even more awesome video of me doing it, check out my weight loss blog post here http://tawnasplan.blogspot.com/2011/02/p90x-day-4-yoga-x-and-omg.html

I am stating an intention today!

Universe:
I appreciate and am grateful for so many things and today I am especially grateful for my wonderful weight loss success! I am especially grateful that my body is able to go through these awesome P90X work outs and am excited an motivated to do the full 90 minutes Yoga X today!

I can and will do it in its entirety and I will feel great and will be stronger when I am finished.

I will have a positive attitude and appreciate the fact that I am able to do this today and seek wonderful results fro it!

Tawna

UPDATE!
I did it , I did it, I DID IT!

I just finished the full 909 minutes of Yoga X and I am so stinking proud of myself!

I kept saying in my head over and over “I love this work out, it makes me feel great!” There were a dozen times as I was sitting in downward facing dog position I could hear that little voice in my head say “ah this hurts, I want to….” and then I would fore myself and say “keep going!” Then I would say out loud “This work out rocks and will make me strong!” I am serious when I say about a dozen times I had to do this but it worked.

At 45 minutes left, of the DVD, I stopped and paused the DVD and stood there thinking, “I could so totally stop this and blog that I made it and no one would know.” After about 10 minutes of pacing the floor I looked into the bathroom mirror and said “you are strong damn it get your ass back in there and finish cuz YOU will know!” I went back in a finished the last 45 minutes of the DVD.

I actually like the last 45 minutes better then the first 45 minutes anyway. I would have never known that if I did not go back in and finish.

So I DID IT! Yay me!

Tawna the Yoga Queen for the day!

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Not ever doing my own taxes again!

Taxes Pictures, Images and Photos
I have always been the one in the relationship that has to do the taxes and I HATE IT!
I miss the old days when I could do the 1040 EZ form over the phone in less then 6 minutes. That was the time I did my own taxes and LOVED IT!
Now we have a half a dozen of forms to fill out and I get so confused and stressed out for days and I am always wondering “did I do them right?”
This year we had 2 more forms to add to our list and I did not feel comfortable at all doing the taxes myself. My husband was really pushing me to not take them into H&R Block because with all the forms it was going to cost almost $500 but I just knew I would be hating him and be mad for 3 weeks while I got them done if we didn’t.
Well I got my way and my husband is happy because we got about $1,000 back more then normal AFTER the $500 we paid for them. I knew I was dong them wrong!
Now I am taking in my taxes from last year and paying the $30 to have the same lady go through them and do the amendments if we will get more back!
I am in no way shape or form getting any payment or credit for giving H&R Block this plug, I am just truly happy I did not do my taxes this year and will seriously not EVER do them myself again until I am back on the EZ form or they get rid of taxes all together!
Have a wonderful day!
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P90X, the beginning of week 2

I am writing these posts on the actual day I work out but there may be posted on different days due to other postings as I only like to post once a day.

Today was the beginning of week two. I made it through week one and am so proud of myself. I have met and heard from others that did not even make it through the first work out or the first week so I am glad I did it.

I will probably post a couple times a week now as now it is the same work outs every day until the end of week 3. After that I believe it changes them up a bit and we will see what postings will suffice then.

I did chest and back today and I kept a record, as Tony says over and over, and I did more reps on everything! On a handful I made myself do just one more rep but on about 2/3 of the sets I actually did between 3-5 more. This went for push-ups, band pull-ups etc. I was very excited since I have only been doing this a week so far. I am already stronger and more able to do this work out after only 1 week, whihoo!

It even went buy a lot faster for me. I did not dread every single set and have energy afterwards.

I will tell you that the Kenpo I did yesterday, was so much fun but today I woke up the sorest I have been all week.  OMG I had a hard time getting up this morning. However, after the first 3 sets of chest and back today, I no longer felt the soreness and 10 minutes after the work out (now) I still feel good.

I can’t wait to see how I do on the Yoga this week.  That will for sure be my next post unless I have the urge to post about P90X before then. So far I have loved every work out but the Yoga.

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