Just some random stuff...

Meet Allison

 Allison is Ricky's ex-girlfriends new baby. (Not Ricky's baby, no grandma jokes needed)!  Ricky and I both are still very close to his ex and she just had her baby last Tuesday 5/10/11.  So after work I walked over to the hospital to see her and take a little gift.  She is now a single mommy at a young age and having been there myself, she needs all the love and support she can get.  Matter of fact, I recently gave her Amy and Hannah's crib and all the bedding.  She loved it and I was happy to give it to someone who would use it and appreciate it!! =)

Now meet Ever Ann

 Do you remember last September I gave my friend Bonnie from work a baby shower?  Well Ever is now 7 months old.  Her mommy and daddy had an appointment last Thursday and I got to babysit.  She is a total doll.  Super cute and sweet.  Then her mommy came back on Friday and we went on a walk together.  Hannah was having a blast getting to play with her.  

Check out this cute girl, she weighs in at about 29 lbs.  Take a good look at her.  Now imagine caring that around with you 24/7.  Well as of now I am 35 lbs lighter, that is more then this little chick weighs! Crazy to think when you see it like this.  Kent is down 50 lbs and if you put those together we have lost more weight then Amy and Hannah weigh together!!!

Crazy Hair Crazy girls:

 Friday was the Highland Country fair at Amy's school.  While Kent and I were working our class booth, our Friend Don was in charge of the girls. So when he came back with them this is what they looked like!

We went to dinner after the fair and we had to drag them out looking like this! HA!!  It was fun, we didn't care.  The girls were happy to be crazy and silly.

Happy Monday friends!

Mother's Day weekend, Part III, The final Chapter

Hi, bet you thought I would never finish this book.

Sunday, Mother's Day we got up and I went for a walk around the neighborhood, while the girls were still sleeping.  when I came home, Kent wanted to go to breakfast but I had already planned on cooking at the river house and with dieting its really not much fun to eat out.  So Kent took the girls to get doughnuts.  I made myself cottage cheese and fruit.  Then we packed for the water.  It was windy and we thought about the river, however the river water is so cold.  So we went back up to the lake. No line again, so we launched at Katherine's.  

 The girls wanted to tube again.

 They had a blast.

 Then I hopped on with Hannah.

 Amy thought she felt like doing some tricks.

 We found a sandy beach and the girls played and swam.

 Ate our lunch.

 Some where messy eaters!

 Swam some more.

 Cuddled with me.

 More pictures.

 My girls, just missing my boy!

 More swimming and snorkeling.

 Daddy time.

 When we got home, she passed out on the floor.

  I even vacuumed around her and she never woke up!

This was a great Mother's day weekend. Hope you all had the same.

The end!

Mother's Day weekend, Chapter II Bapa's Birthday

Saturday was the big 70th birthday bash for John / Bapa.  This is our friends dad/ grandfather and a friend of ours.  We were invited to celebrate his big day with all of them.  The party was at their house in Bullhead City, AZ. They have a place on the river, it was a nice day and the kids played.

Hannah, Amy, Linkyn and Payton in the pool.

 Krista, me and Tawnya.

 John was giving tube rides on the river.  This is Miss. Amy in the tube.

 Hannah loves Payton.

 Amy and Travis, really get along great.  These 2 when they are together, just take off.  They go play, talk and just have a great time together.  I hope they have this friendship forever!  Travis is a year older then Amy and they just click!  Good thing because his mom is my BFF. 

 Amanda, Katie and Brenda, with Hannah, Blake, Lexi, Jaxon, Payton, Linkyn.

 HA!  These girls I think wanted to relax in the sun. 

 However, they were invaded with all these little monkeys!

 The Birthday Boy!  

 Krista took the girls for a ride.  Amy had the best weekend, she did so much stuff.

 Then the afternoon party was starting to slow down, we still had dinner party at Jim and Linda's house for the fight, dinner and poker party.  Bapa is one lucky guy!  Anyway, Dave and Brenda invited us to their house for swimming in the pool.  So Danielle, Linkyn, myself and Hannah headed over to hang out there for a while. 

 She loves the water.  I need to get her in swim lesson's ASAP!

No pictures from the evening dinner party, but we had a blast!  Happy birthday Bapa!  Hope yo enjoyed your day and much as we did!

Mother's Day weekend part I

Hi from Bullhead City!!

We arrived here Thursday night.

We loaded up the boat and headed to the water.  This is Katherine's landing.  Normally, we would NEVER launch here.  However, today there was NO line.  Parking the car and trailer was close, so we decided why not ?

 My girls, ready for the boat ride and happy to be on the water and NOT at school.

 Testing the water and feeding the ducks Hot Cheetos.  The ducks loved them!

 me and my hubby.

 Hannah trying out the knee board.

 Amy deciding if the water was too cold to knee board this morning.

 Sweet baby! When did she get so big?

 NOPE, not too cold!  She did awesome!  She even learned how to turn. 

She will be shredding in no time!

 The girls wanted to tube.  So we let Amy take Hannah out by themselves.

 Picture isn't very good, but I thought it was so cute of Hannah, She was LOVING it!

 Okay, so I decided to give the knee board a try!  I am not strong enough to pull my butt up!  So I just rode like this. HAHAHAHA!  I better work on my arm strength for next trip! 

 Since I did it Kent decided he had to give it a try too.  This is the maiden voyage for the Knee board.  Of coarse he gets up NO problem and cuts across the wake, jumps and just plane shows off. =) I was driving the boat and we had our minor child (Amy) flagging and taking pictures so we only went a short time.  I wish I could have watched him do his tricks.

Happy 1st day of Mother's day weekend. See ya later.

Thoughts and New fines

Hi! How are you?  What a crazy week.  

Can you believe Bin Laden is dead?  How do you feel about that?  

I feel GREAT about it!  He is resting in Hell now, right where he belongs.

A big THANK YOU to all that service our Country.  To all those who have lost a loved one since 9/11, I hope you can find peace in his death.

New fines:

 I believe my friends Genn or Erika posted these bars in the past.  They are called Think Thin.  Oh my are they good.  I bought a couple at Trader Joe's over the weekend.  Yesterday my breakfast was a Kefir Smoothy and they usually don't keep me full until lunch, so I tossed this bar in my purse and headed off to work.  Around 10:30 a.m. I was getting very hungry and grabbed the bar.  Let me tell you YUMMO!!  I got a mixed nuts with chocolate on the bottom.  It has the least amount of Calories out of all the Think Thin bars.  When I came home for lunch at 12:30, I wasn't even hungry.  I made myself a salad anyway otherwise by mid afternoon I am sure I would have been starving, my coworkers probably wouldn't like me much if I didn't eat.  

I recommend you get some of these bars asap!!

 Next, we stumbled across this wine at TJ's as well, its a sweet white wine.  Oh my gosh, we took this camping a couple of weeks ago and enjoyed it by the fire, do you remember that post?  Well, now its a regular in the basket when we shop.   Seriously, go get it NOW!

 And the last new fine is ME!! 

I have been working hard on losing this fat  ahem, weight! 

This morning I am almost 35 lbs lighter in 90 days.  

 

I am still plugging away at it, I figure I have anywhere from 29-40 more lbs to go. 

 (29 puts me about 10 lbs heavier then when I got married, 40 puts me at my wedding weight).

However, I am taking into consideration that I am older, I want to feel comfortable in my clothes and with myself.  So when I get to that point, thats when I will start to maintain.

This week, I increased my exercise to twice a day.  After I drop Amy off at school, I push Hannah in the stroller for a 20- 30 minutes.  Then I go again at night by myself.  Where I can brisk walk / jog alone.  I didn't use to like exercising myself however, I have been doing it so much now that I actually ENJOY it.  If I don't go at night I feel yucky and I really like the me time, I put my ipod on and get lost in my thoughts and music.  

Hope you guys all have a great Wednesday!

Roommates

I hung up the roommates in Hannah's room.  

 She said Thank you mommy, I love my new room. 

Then she gave me the biggest hug and kiss.  

She is such a sweet baby. If only everything was so simple.

 The stickers really added some character.  Now I need to find a few Fairy pictures to hang.

Happy Monday!