Back from a weekend of fun.

 I know I know, you are so tired of my weekend of riding posts.  

Sorry its what we do, its who we are.

This one is ready to get on her quad.

We had a pretty large camp this time.  It was a lot of fun,  only bummer is trying to get everyone loaded. We do a lot of this.

This past weekend was the Terra Del Sol, its a jeep group out of San Diego and they crawl, flip and just have a good time.  Its pretty fun to watch them. They also have a vendor area, Amy tired her hand at a rock wall.

Hannah enjoying a little snack at the "street sign".

I was in the motorhome with Hannah while she was napping.  I was watching the kids on the trampoline.  They were having so much fun, I grabbed my camera and tried to capture them.  It didn't work.  

Sweet baby Payton.  This kid is so cute.  She is a good sport out there too.

Amy is getting so good on her quad. Every time out she gets better and better.

Hannah too.  This kid can ride.

After the fun me, Tawnya and Danielle had Friday night (Didn't get to the motorhome until almost 11:00 p.m. which meant neither did the kids).  I decided to bring Hannah in earlier and get her bathed and to bed.  Link wanted to watch a movie too.  So me and the little girls went to watch megamind.  You can see how well they watched the movie. HA!  They were to busy talking and being silly.  So cute.  Link is a doll.

I finally went out to get Amy, she laid on the pillow and fell asleep while the little girls giggled and played.

Next morning Amy must have been tired, she was grumpy and ever picture I tried to take she would hide her face or give ma a look.  You mom's know the one.

Sunday morning the kids got a little more jumping in.

and a little more wrestling in.

Before we loaded this bad boy up and headed home. 

Looking forward to the next trip girls!!!  Let the party begin!

Day 29

On this:

and I have lost 17.4 lbs.

I can't believe it hasn't even been a month!!  If you have a little weight or a lot of weight to lose, I highly recommend this book to you.  

www.the17daydiet.com

Have a great weekend everyone, see you Monday!

Wordless Wednesday

School project

We are working on Amy's school project, Animal Report. Amy is doing her report on Minnie.  It has 3 parts to it.  Written, oral and visual.  The written is done at school, the oral we have to write and memorize at home and the visual is at home in the form of a diorama.

Amy wanted to make the back yard and her room, since that is where Minnie spends a lot of time.

Amy coloring in the pool.

 Kent making the bed frame.

 Painting the ladder.

 The finished project.

 Up close picture of our fine artwork.

FYI, I did more then just take pictures. ;)

Dr. Seuss

My friend Tawnya called me to let me know that Target was having a Dr. Seuss story time.  She wanted to know if me and the girls wanted to join her.  So of coarse we did.  We met at the Target in Mira Loma .  They had a small section set up in the boys department with stools, goody bags and fishy crackers.

Hannah jumped right in and found a seat and a cup of treats.
You can see Amy is the back ground trying to get Payton to come sit with her.

 

 Amy loves Payton, she is so cute.  I can't believe how big she is already.

 Amy was bored out of her mind.  It was cute how they had it set up, but it was a little boring.

 Look at this little cutie saying cheese.

 The girls had had enough, so since we were at Target we had to browse the store. 

After, we headed over to Borders, they are closing the MIra Loma store and everything was on sale 20-40% off.  So I bought the Hungry Girl cookbook and I am looking forward to cooking up some new healthiness. 

We were in the children's books and Amy grabbed a book and started reading to the girls.  So cute.  She is getting so big.  What happened to y baby?

Thanks Tawnya and Payton for the fun morning.  We need to get together again soon.  

and the award goes too.....

AMY!

On Friday Amy received and award for Improvement in Reading Comprehension.

Here her principle is handing her the award.

 Thats my girl!

She was so happy.  I didn't tell her she was getting anything, so she had no idea I was even at the school. Funny, her friends saw me and Hannah but Amy didn't see me until I walked up to take her picture.

 Right before we were leaving to go to Amy's school, Hannah was decorating Amy's trash can and

 herself!

So I yelled at her and told her she isn't suppose to color on anything other then paper.  She replies crying her eyes out, "I know thats what daddy tells me".  I say "why did you do it then?" Hannah replies" I don't know".  Good grief, this kid is crazy. =)  Then she hugs me and says "sorry mommy" and my heart melts.....


Diet update today is day 24 of the 17 day diet and I have lost 15.8 lbs!! Can I please get a woot woot?

Appliances

We have a couple of appliances that were just not making the cut anymore. Our washing machine works but it is starting to struggle a bit. The dishwasher doesn't dry the dishes and we are just plan tired of drying every dish out of the dishwasher to put them away. Since I am still working we thought this was a good time to buy the new appliances and be able to pay cash for them with my checks.

Here is the new washer, ain't she a beauty?

She is a whirlpool Energy star with a HUGH tub. I can wash my Cal King Comforter in this bad boy! It take some getting use to too the water saver and tub, but I have done a couple of loads and overall I am very happy with it. Its weighs the clothes so it knows how much water to use instead of adjusting the water level manually. She is a clever little thing I tell ya. She's a bit bigger then the dryer, but who cares?

Funny story here, we have hated our non drying dishwasher for some time now. Well, we shpped and looked EVERY place under the sun. Buying a new dishwasher is much harder then you would think. I would look inside and know that my dishes won't fit in one load. Ugh. We finally went to Pacific Sales in Corona and found my dishwasher very quickly. So we bought it and the washer together but they didn't have it available to take home until Tuesday. So Monday night when I was loading the dishwasher I told Kent the "heat dry was not on". So I turned it on and told the dishwasher this was her last wash and last night in our home. Closed the door and started her up. Next day, when I went to unload her, she was dry EVERYTHING was dry! All this time and all I needed was the heat dry to be on. Well, she still needed to be replaced. She was starting to rust and the plastic coating was coming off on the wires that hold the dishes. Still very funny. I like the buttons on the top of the door so a little miss Hannah won't be messing with them anymore. She probably was the one turning heat dry on and off. I have to keep her off the door too, she tends to climb on the door when its open for some reason. UGH. Kids.

Diet update: still at 13 lbs today, starting to feel a little discouraged. I know I need to get the work out in each day and the pounds will drop off.

Recipe for tonights dinner if anyone is interested:

Sesame fish

1lb of Tilapia ( I use Mahi Mahi)

2 tablespoons of olive oil

2 tablespoons of rice vinegar

2 tablespoons of lite soy sauce

1 teaspoon of chopped garlic

2 tablespoons of sesame seeds

Spray a broiler pan with vegetable oil. Place fish on pan, whisk together the olive oil, rice vinager, soy sauce and garlic until well blended. Pour over fish and sprinkle with sesame seeds. Broil on medium heat 8 inches from the heat for about 20 minutes. Serve with brown rice and veggies. (FYI, no brown rice here I am just getting fish with veggies).

I have made this 3 times and we love it, so good.

Wordless Wednesday

Sunday Changes

We have been debating on putting Hannah in a bed and getting rid of the crib. (Sniff sniff, my baby WHAAAA!) Anyhow, the problem is we do not have a spare room since having Hannah and it makes it difficult to have company aka my parents when you don't have a place to put them up for the night. The other problem is Amy is always having a friend spend the night and right now I have to make them beds on the couch in the living room. So we knew we wanted to get Amy 2 twin beds or a bunk or something. Well, my parents came out on Sunday and with them they brought me the old daybed and trundle bed from one of the bedrooms at their house. YIPEE, problem solved. We moved Amy's bed into Hannah's room and the new daybed into Amy's room. Works perfectly!! Then my mom and I went shopping for new bedding for Hannah.

We rearranged her room a bit, bought new bedding Lauren Ashley from Burlington and now I am in the market for some room fairy's.

The girls relaxing on the new bed.

This is the bedding up close. I was going to have pictures made on canvas at Costco to hang on the walls but costco said it will be grainy or blurred.

First night in her new bed. She stayed in it all night long.

Here is Amy's new daybed and the trundle bed is under the bed already to pull out for her next sleep over! Amy didn't get new bedding this is what we bought her when she changed from the crib to the bed. Its all Roxy and is in great shape. I am still looking for wall decor for her room too.

* Diet update and Healthy eating*

Today is day 1 of the activate cycle, each cycle is 17 days.

As of today I am 13 lbs lighter in 18 days! Kent is 20 lbs lighter.

Sample menu today for today:

Breakfast: 1/2 cup oatmeal with medium orange and green tea

Lunch: Spaghetti squash with 3 shrimp and low fat marinara sauce from last night

Dinner: Grilled Salmon with steam broccoli and green tea.

(no butter, no sugar no added anything)

Date night

On Friday my hubby called and asked me if we were busy on Saturday night and I said no. He said lets go on a date. I say YEAH! He worked Saturday and then we did a few errands in the afternoon. Came home and got ready. Oops no picture of us. I guess I was so excited about going out that I forgot. Anyway, grandma and grandpa babysat and we headed to Lone Star for dinner. Since we are dieting, its not as much fun to go out to dinner. We had to pick it apart and find something we could eat. Anyway, I had the grilled Cajun Chicken (only ate one breast and brought the other home) and a dinner salad with Vinegar. Yeah me. After dinner we went to the Phoenix theater we watched Gulliver's Travels. Very funny. After it was early so we decided to walk around Target and look at bedding for Hannah. We wondered through the books and movies. Then Kent bought me Black Heels to Tractor Wheels!! Picked up a book for Hannah, Fancy Nancy and a book for Amy, Junie B. June series and Kent got the A-team movie.