Weigh In

Well, I was conspicuously absent in my weigh in last week. That was because I was up instead of down. So I'll tell you now because I am now down again.Yeah!! Two weeks ago I was 141.2, last week I was 142.0 (yes, I know only up less than a pound, but up none the less)
Today I was 139.0!!!!
Woo-Hoo!!!
Passed my original goal and only 4 lbs away from my newest goal. I am thrilled to say the least. I can now fit into and actually zip all of my pants even my Lucky jeans!!. The bad news is that my fav jeans are now too big, and because they sat so low on my hips before, now they just fall down... all the way down!!!LOL

I am ready for my beach vacation. I'm ready to be seen in a bikini again.

Ps. I want to post a picture of me but I have no recent ones. I'm always the one taking pictures.

Pictures from Stella's Party

These are a sampling of the pictures from her big day! Most are self explanatory but the ones that aren't I don't really have an explanation for anyway!

Stella's Cake

Well, I did it! I made her cake and was very happy with the results!!! She got everything she asked for: chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and butterflies and pink flowers.

and here is the result:

Feeling a little Krazy

In the next 10 days or so I have a LOT of things to do and lots to remember to do. That's the hard part for me is the remembering. Stella's birthday is Saturday and I'm having a small get together. I'm planning on making THIS cake for her because she asked for butterflies and flowers on her cake. She also asked for chocolate cake with chocolate frosting... she is SO my kid!! So preparations for that cake will have to start Friday. Also on Friday I have a birthday party to take Hunter to and I will need to get a present for that birthday party. I need to go grocery shopping but I can't do that until payday (guess what day that is.... yeah, Friday). On Saturday before Stella's party I will be picking up my mom at the train station. She comes from the Fort Lauderdale area visiting my sister and is the best way to get from there to hear (cheaper and faster than renting a car!). I'd like to do a little decorating for the party like streamers and balloons but I don't know if I'll get that done or not. Then after that's all over with, my friend and I are planning to have another garage sale right before we leave on vacation. (We leave the following Sunday and the GS will be on that Saturday) I think I must be Krazy!! For vacation I will need to pack for a week for myself and 2 kids and food and toys and stuff for the looooong car ride. The car ride. Yep. 6.5 hours with no stops. we are driving with 5 (yes I said 5) kids in the van. I know I'm Krazy. So it'll probably take us about 7.5 to 8 hours to get there. But, once we get there I hope it to be very relaxing and an easy vacation..... I can hope, right?

Anyway, back to all the crap I need to get done. I can't do it now. I have to wait until closer to whatever it is to do it. I can't pack now... the kids'll still need their stuff. I can't make the cake now... it'll get stale. I can't have the garage sale now... it's Thursday and no one will come to buy my junk on a Thursday. I can't go grocery shopping... not till payday. I can't pick-up my mom... she won't be there yet.

But I could go tie up the kids and have a Drink. Something with an umbrella in it!

I kid, I kid!

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. : (