Playing dress-up

Stella's new love is playing dress up with Jillian. She is wearing a Disney's Sleeping Beauty ensemble, complete with sparkly shoes, magic wand and tiara. I think that she might just be getting some dress-up clothes for her birthday! Shhhh... don't tell her!!
She tells me they were being pirates.
They were trying to only have one eye covered.
It wasn't working too well.
But how funny is that!!!!LOL

You know it's bad when...

Your soon to be three year old gets a spoon out when she's asking for cookies.

It's apparently the only way she's ever seen those eaten.....

Cookie dough, right out of the wrapper, on a spoon.....

ROTFLMAO!!!

Summer activities

This summer is about half over and we haven't done quite as much as I had hoped to. The kids don't seem too upset though. They never seem to want to go anywhere but complain that they are bored?!? I don't get that part. So earlier in the summer Hunter went and spent a week with my dad. Just Hunter and his cousin Josh who he had never met before and is also about the same age. Apparently they had a blast and got along very well. I would love to have had more pictures but my dad is sometimes slow about those things. The picture below is the day we went to pick my boy up. He didn't want to leave. Either did Stella.


My dad had set up lots of fun things for the boys to do. One of those things was this super big slip and slide, made out of a large piece of plastic (not one sold for the purpose of slipping and sliding). Stella couldn't quite get the hang of the running and falling to slide so grandpa helped pull her along with a rope. She loved it too.

Anther activity that has been happening alot this summer is 'dress-up'. Stella has been raiding my closet and I can hear "clip-ity clip-ity clop clop" down the hall when she wears my heels.

Super-hero is the other dress-up of choice. Well really it's not a choice as much as the only other option. This girl really would love dress-up clothes for her birthday. (Anything pink would be loved by her, I'm sure)

Good or Evil??? I'm not sure!

Another activity that we have been making the most of this summer is going to Lithia Springs with some of our friends. We've been almost every week this summer. Sometimes more than once a week. The kids still love going and aren't tired of it yet. In this particular picture they are building a "Tadpole Resort". It's one of the few pictures I have with all of my kids and not too many other kids.


I can't believe there is only about 5 weeks left before school starts. I dreaded the summer but I know I'm gonna miss them when we are all in school and Stella is with a sitter. : (

Weigh In

I don't normally weigh in on Wednesday but I missed it yesterday. So I did it today. I'm not down as much as I'd like this week but the 4th of July snacking and cupcakes and the assortment of other goodies that day did not help.

I am down another 1.2 lbs!!

So another 6.2 lbs to go, and only 18 days left till vacation. That's probably not going to happen. But I'm gonna try!!!

July 4th celebrations

We had a blast on the 4th. We got up early and met a friend at the parade. The kids had fun catching the beads, candy and the flyers with free stuff, especially the free milkshake flyers! We were able to get a great spot in the shade towards the end of the route which was good because all the people in the parade passing out stuff were giving out handfuls to everyone because it was the end and they wanted to get rid of the stuff. The kids made out like bandits!



At the very end of the parade were the the fire trucks. The kids went to stand with some other kids on the other side of the road. Those other kids had water guns and ... well, the firefighter didn't like get sprayed so she took out her "watergun" and got the kids back for spraying her. The following is what the kids looked like when the firetruck moved and we could see what happened to them. LOL!!! They were SOAKED!!!!

After the parade we went back to our friends house and ate lunch and cupcakes and played with fireworks (the kind you can do in the day) until the sun went down (literally).



That yellow gun that Stella has is the kind that shots out confetti, like a champagne popper only in gun form.


This poor, poor mailbox.....


had some not friendly visitors....

Whoa!!! I wonder what the mailman would think about this?!


Just killin' time by playing around


The game was called "bounce the ball off Stella's head"

My mom might not like this but it's funny anyway

So last night I was reading a dinosaur book to Hunter and the conversation went something like this:

H: So ... there aren't ANY dinosaurs alive?

Me: No, honey they are all extinct.

H:What does extinct mean?

Me: There aren't any left, they died millions of years ago.

H: You mean, like, before Grandma was born?!

Me: (laughing) Yes honey, way before Grandma was born!

I'll get there this time!!

So After being invited to the beach I remembered that back in January I was on weight watchers. I never got to my goal weight. I did lose about 10lbs. And I stayed there for the last 4 months.

But in light of the up and coming beach vacation I feel that I would benefit from losing the remaining weight that I wanted to lose which was a grand total of 16.6 lbs. I am happy to announce that today when I weighed myself at work I am down 3 whole pounds from last Tuesday and down a total of 14.2 lbs (since January). I am now only 2.4 lbs away from my initial goal but now I have a new goal of reaching 135lbs.

I think I can lose 7.4 lbs in 3 1/2 weeks. Maybe. I just have to remember I'll be in my bathing suit for a week. Next to my friend who is a skinny mini.

I'm hungry!LOL!