Learning to

Eat to live instead of living to eat!

I recently saw on Dr. Phil and The Doctors the 17 Day Diet by Dr. Mike Moreno. Its how to lose ALOT of weight fast and keep it off. So I ordered it and the 17 minute workout.

I am on day 15 today and have lost 11 lbs, no joke people. 11 lbs!!! This book is amazing, you are on a different food schedule every 17 days. The weight is falling off. I feel good and have more energy. I have not even started to work out yet. I can only imagine how I will feel and how much weight I will lose when I start my work out program. If you are struggling with weight I highly recommend you buy this book. You will not be disappointed.

Wordless Wednesday... Dreaming of Summer

Christmas and Valentines?

Or is it Valentines and Christmas?

Yesterday, I was giving the girls a shower and Minnie was barking all crazy like. So I went to see what the heck she was barking at. It was my father in law, he was bringing us gifts through the back door. He brought over this beautiful ice cream cake and card from him and my mother in law. So sweet and a total surprise. The girls said it was delicious and I even let them have 2 slices each of it last night.

This handsome fellow and I usually do not exchange Valentine gifts. We always give each other a card, I threaten him to NOT buy me flowers at the highway robbery prices they sale them for on Valentines. Well, last year he bought me diamond earrings. He said it was just something special because I think I didn't get anything for my birthday or something. Anyway, this year same rules apply NO gifts. We don't need anything and we just had Christmas. I open my card and inside was a gift certificate for 3 mani pedis. He thought me, Amy and Hannah would enjoy that together. Aww, so sweet. This guy is the best! Thats 2 years in a row that he has done something I wasn't expecting. I better start planning something special for him for next year!!

** On to Christmas**

I have been wanting a pair of TOMS for awhile and had asked for them for Christmas. I didn't get them but I did get a nice gift card from my in laws. I think a week or so ago we went to the mall and I found the TOMS I wanted but they didn't have my size. They arrived yesterday and I was so excited!!

Thanks mom and dad Cozart for the gift card. This is what I bought with the money.

I LOVE THEM.

87 years old

** Warning Warning this is a long post**

Today my nana turns 87! Yep, she was born on Valentines day.

I believe God had a hand in that too, he made this woman have the biggest, forgiving, loving heart around.

She is gracious, Godly and I have never heard her say a bad or spiteful word in my life.

Meet Letha aka Nana, nana great , mom

So yesterday the family had a birthday party for nana at her assisted living home in Burbank. She told me she thought it was going to be just her kids. She was so happy to see everyone and just couldn't believe we would all come to her.

We had a big potluck, cake and cupcakes.

My dad aka papa with Hannah. He was showing her pictures on his phone.

This is my cousin Diane and she is holding the newest addition to our ever growing family.

Meet Maddie, she is 4 mos old and I am telling you so cute.

Rick and papa. These 2 have always had a very close bound. I LOVE IT! and I love them.

Nana with her 5 children.

She was an only child and always long for a sibling. So her and my papa had 5 children.

Hannah enjoying her cupcake.

Nana opening up her gifts and cards.

This is my sister in law Many with her daughter Samantha.

Samantha turned 12 on Sunday. She could totally pass for my daughter, don't ya think?

My brother holding Maddie. He must have been telling a BORING story he put her to sleep with her finger in her eye. I am sure she was thinking I would rather poke my eye out then to listen to this guy talk any longer! HAHAHA We know how you feel Maddie. I kid, I kid. We love my brother. He just tends to be a bit long winded.

Me and my special Nana.

Amy, Nana and Hannah.

Some more family chillin' outside.

After the party, Samantha wanted us to join her and her family at Bj's for her birthday celebration. I guess you could call it the "after party" party. So we did!

So pretty.

Amy and Luke, he is my youngest nephew and this boy is full of beans. Love him though.

Me and william he is the middle child and super sweet. I think he could pass for mine to. Boy, that Cotterall gene is strong!

Glad we had a chance to spend time with not only my family but with my extended family. We use to see each other once a month as we were growing up but now that the family has gotten so large it just isn't that easy anymore. However, I have already been hit up to host another girls party this summer. So we will be planning that soon.

So information about my family.

Nana and papa =

5 kids who all married and had 13 children between them.

Those 13 grandchildren have married and had 24 children

of those great grandchildren their are 2 great great grandchildren.

How exciting that Nana has been able to see her family grow.

So if you do the math you can see why we are not getting together as often, we just can't fit everyone in one house anymore.

Norco Winter Rodeo

Last Saturday night was the Norco Winter Rodeo, and I LOVE me a rodeo!!!

I stole these pictures off my friends FB page. Anyway, the little guys and girls that ride the sheep are just too darn cute! They do so well. One off them actually took a pretty good fall, when the sheep tripped and fell and rolled over the little guy. He hopped up and waved his hand and headed back to the shoot.

The BULLS are my VERY favorite things at the rodeo! Its such an exciting sport to watch. I actually just prefer to see the bulls, but hubby likes the whole thing. This bull right here, he came out of the shoot the cowboy came right off and he ran around the arena. Usually, they can corral the bull and get him to go right back into the corral, well not this guy. He pranced around and every time they would rope him he would lay down and play dead. They would take the rope off and he would get back on his feet and move again. I think that he laid down at least 3 times in the arena. It was so funny. I hope the bull was okay and not sick and thats why he was doing it. I don't think I will ever know.

Check out the air this bull caught! Woot woot.

Have you ever been to a Rodeo?

This day sucks!!!

Welp, this was not the post I was dreaming of today.

I usually think of what I might blog about during the day and this did not even cross my mind.

Today, my house cleaner comes and I usually DON'T come home on these days, well because it makes me feel lazy and if I am eating my lunch as she cleans around me, I feel like I should clean with her. BUT today, I had chicken defrosting on the counter for dinner and I knew I HAD to come home to put it in the fridge(otherwise by 5:30 or so tonight it would be ruined). Anywho, I was sitting at a red light about 1:43 p.m. on the corner of Corydon and River Road, waiting patiently for the green arrow, when I glanced in my rearview mirror and saw this lady SLAM right into me. Yep, she hit me, HARD. As I get out of my car I could see the damage. My heart sunk. This is my new Jetta barely a year old! WTH??? I walked back to her and I say, what were you doing? "Obviously you weren't paying attention." She says "I sorry, I adjusting the radio for my son". PERFECT, I think to myself you dumb B****! Why can't people just drive and pay attention to what they are doing? This is now a hugh HASSEL for me and I was MINDING my own business, PAYING ATTENTION to the light!! This SUCKS!

My stroller is wedge pretty good inside that trunk and the insurance agent told me to let the body shop remove it so that if its damaged it can be made a part of the claim. We can look in the trunk from the back seats and the wheel on the stroller looks a little suspicious. As well as where the top of the stroller pushed into the back of the seat, the seat feels a little dented. So I will make them check that out too. Did I tell you this SUCKS???

Oh ya and she must have called her family while we were parking, because while I am getting her information a car load of people pull up behind her and check on the situation. So I get back into my car, call Kent to make sure I had gotten everything I needed from this dumb woman and he thought I should get something else. So I walked back to her car and she is crying with her family. Me miss empathy says "Look your not hurt, I am not hurt your son is fine, I'm pissed off, but get over and give me the rest of your information!" So she did.

FYI, I am ok. My back around 4:00 started to stiffen up and my neck when I bob my head forward hurts. I kind of expected that from the impact. I am sure tomorrow I will be really feeling the joints.

Wordless Wednesday..

Park Time

Two Saturdays ago we had Amy's friend Carly over for a few hours. Kent need to go to home depot so we all went along. On the way we stopped by what we call the disc swing park. The girls burned off a little energy before heading to Home Depot.

Then they climbed and ran some more.

Look at Hannah thinking she is so big.

I have more to post, I guess I was a bit behind. Since these pictures are from 2 weeks ago and were still in my camera. I know, I know, what a slacker.

Happy Monday, I am home today last day off for 3 whole days. I am so looking forward to retirement. Hope my new girl does really well this week and then I can be a one day a week worker for a while!!! WOOT WOOT

Do you remember?

Do you remember when I did this?

Ever since I did that in my favorite pan, I have been struggling for a pan that size. Kent and I have been eying this set at Sam's club for a while. Well, last week we decided to buy it!

I love it too. It has a very small sauce pan that has come in handy many times already.

Wordless Wednesday..