New Fitness Blog Name

If you read my previous post I am going to start a new fitness blog to track my weight loss progress. I need some help with a name.... Here are a few ideas that I have come up with so far......

1. The Simply Fit Jocabell Life
2. Living the Simply Fit Life
3. Simply Fitting Life
4. Simply Fit Living
5. The Simple Fit Life

Do you like any of these? Any ideas other ideas or suggestions PLEASE let me know!!

ADDED 7/10
So here is another one that my mom suggested and I think I like this one the best!

• Simply Fitting into Life

Mamavation!

I was just blog hopping, and you never know where that is gonna take you. I came across The Maniacal Matron blog. I have been needing to loose some weight and just have not had the motivation to do it. Since our wedding last August 8th I have packed on some weight(about 30Ibs), but track back 2 years before that I was 125. Now I am only 5'4" so being 125 was about ideal, but having another baby and the emotional let down of not being able to work any longer has me up to 180 last time I checked!

Well, I think this is the motivation that I need and have been looking for! Scarlett Black from The Maniacal Matron has been participating in a weight loss campaign at  Mamavation! I am now Officially Pledging to become apart of the Mamavation™ Sistahood! It's pretty simple:

•  Interact with others in the group on twitter
• Create a Mamavation Monday post
• Link up your Monday post on Bookieboo.com
• Go to Mingle Media TV Network at 7pm PST/10pm EST
• Email bookieboo78@gmail.com to let her know you are interested

In giving this alot of thought I am going to be creating a new blog to track my progress and a place where I can also give support to all the other Sista's out there!

So, I need some help on a name for my blog!! Any ideas are welcome!!!

Blog Hop Friday

Hi to all you hopping bloggers out there! Welcome to The Simple Jocabell Life!

Pour Your Heart Out: My Fear......

I just came across a post from Just Another Mom of 2. Ashley participates in Pour Your Heart Out at Things I Can't Say and she did a post of The Fear of Playgroups. I was inspired by her post and decided to also write one as well.

~First, as Shell says: Again, just a brief reminder that everyone linking is pouring their hearts out and we should all be respectful in our comments.~

My Fear: What do you call a fear? A fear for water, heights, airplanes, spiders(this is also one of mine), or dogs? I don't have many fears, but when it come to trusting........walls spring up everywhere....The only person I can really count on and trust is myself and my husband(he has never let me down).

My fear goes back I guess to my birth, yet not knowing then as a baby you would call it a fear. I was adopted when I was just a few weeks old by my very loving parents who were unable to have children. I was the center of their world and love them with all my heart. From the start my parents were always open with me about being adopted, but deep down I always felt that I was somewhat unwanted, an outcast, different...... Don't get me wrong I did not feel this way towards my parents it was just something that was inside of me.

As the years went on I began to question who I was as a person and where I came from. When I was 13 *a rebellious teenager* my mom told me that my real mother was only 16 or so when she had me and what her name was. I was somewhat satisfied with that, but there was that emptiness that still resided hidden.

At 16 I was walking around our local mall before I went to work and this woman comes up to me, I have never seen her before and I am somewhat unsure of her. She proceeds to ask me "Were you adopted?" My mouth dropped to my toes, how does this woman know that I was adopted, I don't know her. I manage to push out a "yeah". The woman proceeds to tell me "I was married to your father and you have an older sister." I am totally dumb founded, head circling, in shock. No words come to me, but the woman goes on...She tells me her name and that I have an older sister that looks almost identical to me, that we could pass as twins! She goes on that I look like my father and that I have a younger half brother and sister from my mom. I am just so dumb founded that this woman would tell me all of this. In the matter of 5 minutes I got more information about who and where I came from than I had my entire life. At this point I think the woman realized that I was just in utter shock that she asked for my phone number to talk with my parents.

I proceed to work in total shock and astonishment. The woman calls and talks with my mom and they decide to set up a meeting with my sister. We all( me, my mom, the woman, and my Sister) meet at a local restaurant. The moment I see my sister tears fill my eyes and yes we could pass as twins, all the while we were both going to the same school and lived in the same town. I found out that "our" mother had kept my sister and gave me up....Some how I felt like I was so unwanted in many ways, the one thing I wanted to know was WHY! Being young and not realizing the entire situation, I didn't ask. Although, they would not have know why either...only "our" mother could give me the real answer to why.....

So, now some 10 years later I have yet to ask why....I almost could easily find her, but something inside of me just keeps holding me back...Is it fear of finding the real truth? Is it fear of rejection? My heart has always had this void from not knowing who I am, and yet I am scared to the core to truly know.......

BlogHer 2010

Join the Double Duty Divas as they get ready to hit the Big Apple for BlogHer 2010 for a Twitter party on Tuesday, July 13th at 9:00 p.m. EST. With prizes exclusively for mom such as Verso's Cellulite Removal Massage System and Moody Mama's Capsule Collection for fashionable moms-to-be, it will be a fun-filled hour of chatting about BlogHer primping and parties and consolation for all those not able to attend. Just use hashtag #DDDivas and follow @DoubleDutyDivas, @coolbabykid, @BridgetteLA, @marybeauty @MoodyMamas and join us on July 13th. Feel free to check out the Double Duty Diva and sponsor sites Verso (Facebook Page) and Moody Mamas (Facebook Page) to get acquainted beforehand.

Blog Hop Friday

Hi to all you hopping bloggers out there! Welcome to The Simple Jocabell Life!

Montana Destiny by R.C. Ryan

They're the McCords...three rugged, sexy cowboy cousins who'll inherit the family range--if they seek the treasure hidden on it. But even more precious are the women who can tame their wild hearts...

Emergency medic Marilee Trainor likes her freedom and lives for trouble. But when she stumbles upon a clue to the legendary McCord gold, she 's suddenly in a mysterious killer's sights--and the arms of irresistible playboy Wyatt McCord. This McCord cousin has been everywhere, yet the ranch is the only place he feels at home. Now Marilee's courage and independence make him want to protect her, win her heart, and finally settle down. But trust is the one thing Wyatt and Marilee can't easily give. And their survival and everything they cherish depends on whether they can surrender to each other--to fight for their...

This is the second book in the Montana series by R.C. Ryan. I also reviewed Montana Legacy awhile ago.

Montana Destiny follows the "irresistible playboy" Wyatt McCord in another adventure on the Lost Nugget Ranch. Wyatt, being the dare devil risk taker that he is shows off to the towns emergency medic Marilee. While not very impressed with his actions Marilee starts falling for his humor and not to mention his amazing looks.

Soon Wyatt and Marilee become quite the couple with a few spats here and there. Marilee has always fought for her independence, but now with Wyatt in her life she is torn between the two.

Not soon after the pair become known to the town of their relationship, things mysteriously start to happen to Marilee. At fist they crack it up to just little flukes, but soon they realize that someone is out for them.

My thoughts.....

Ok, I had a very hard time trying to finish reading this one. The first book was an ok book, but not quite up my alley. It has almost the same story line as in the first book, but with different main characters. After the first few chapters I knew "who done it" and had a really hard time finishing it.

On the plus side it had a really good morale to the hole love story part of it.
"If you love someone let them go, if they come back to you their yours and if they don't they never were .. "

I was given the opportunity to review this product because of my membership at The Product Review Place. I received this book Hachette Book Group and was not compensated in any way.

Summer Fun Challenge Hosted by Fun On A Dime

This is also another post that I would have loved to post sooner, if my camera was working.

A few weeks ago I came across the Fun On A Dime blog and she was doing a Summer Fun Challenge! The Challenge......To create something out of Popsicle sticks(craft sticks). So my girls and I set out on the challenge....Joclyn created a bird house, while Bella only being 21 months had fun coloring them and throwing them on the floor. I decided to go along with the "Bird" theme and made a bird feeder.

This is the bird house. I helped her to make the opening and the roof, but other than that she did the whole thing herself!

This is the back of the bird house.

The bird feeder. I made the top so that it is removable and also placed stick in an X shape on the inside to tie a string around them to hang it. Do you think the bird seed will fall out? Well, I lined the inside with more sticks that are vertical.

We had alot of fun making these on a rainy day. Their are so many things that you can make with sticks, just let your imagination take over!! Can you think of something fun to make out of sticks?

In Need of a New Camera

I have been having a very difficult time with blogging lately. I have had some really great ideas for posts, but I couldn't post due to the fact that my camera has OFFICIALLY died! I have been busy working on refinishing a table, making replacement covers for my patio chairs, making stuff out of Popsicle sticks and other various things. I would have shared all of this, but the dang camera of 6 years has just eaten it's last battery .

I would put in BRAND NEW batteries and take a few pictures, then shut it off and turn it back on within a few minutes and they would be dead as a doornail. It got so bad that when I would put in the new batteries that it would just kill them instantly. So, I am in desperate NEED of a new camera and yes I mean NEED! Hey, I have two growing girls that love having their picture being taken. It also doesn't help that we don't have the money right now to get a new one. My husband just started a new job a few weeks ago, after being on unemployment for a few months and things are really tight right now.

I have temporarily borrowed my mom's Canon Power Shot SX110IS and I have to say that I really like it!! Although, I have been looking around for a great camera and I found one that I would totally LOVE!!! The EOS Rebel T1i with EF-S 18-55mm IS!! If I only had the $700 to get it.... Here are some pics of my family having fun in the sun!

Our dog Brody eyeing the pool(hmmm I'd really like to take a dip too)

The girls having a great time!

If only I was a little bit bigger daddy.....

Ravished by a Highlander by Paula Quinn

RAVISHED BY A HIGHLANDER

In 1685 at Saint Christopher's Abbey in Southern Scotland is where Davina Montgomery started a new chapter in her coveted life... Placed in hiding at her birth Davina has been protected by the Crown for reasons only her and the precious ones that she shares her life with. Until someone out finds her true identity and shatters her only world she knows, when a Highlander Robert (Rob) MacGregor snatches her up from sure death.

Davina now entrusts her life in Robs's hands. Not knowing her true identity and risking the very lively hood of his clan Rob feels this undeniable passion for her and will not let anyone harm her. Davina also feels this same passion with Rob, if only she could tell him her secret without him denying her.

This was an amazing book! When I started reading it I was hooked and had a hard time putting it down. First off I wanted to know Davina's secret and Paula Quinn doesn't reveal her true identity until about half way through the book. 'Twas a bit hard at first reading the Scottish dialog, but very soon I caught myself saying some of the jargon in everyday conversation "aye". There a few great shockers in this book, but I'm not telling.....

Mayhap ye will be picking up a copy fer ye self, aye?


I was given the opportunity to review this product because of my membership at The Product Review Place. I received this book Hachette Book Group and was not compensated in any way.