kind of a quick week!

It seems like it was just the weekend but here it is Thursday already!!
Monday was spent busily running around getting things I wanted for Tuesday.
Tuesday, Paul and I had a date at the movies!! Kind of literally!! We were asked to be extras for the George Clooney movie they were shooting some scenes at the Detroit airport. We had to be there at 5:00 am!!! Rediculous!! Thank you sooooooooooooooo much mom and dad for helping out with the kids so we could take advantage of the opportunity. i am so thankful for all you both do for us. I am highly doubtful if we'll be seen in the movie but hey I got to stand like 15-20 feet away from the most handsome man!!! Oh yes and I spent the day with Paul too!! When he wasn't ditching me for his other acting buddies!! Whatevah buddy!!!!
Yesterday was catch up day!!! I needed to get laundry washed, folded, and put away too!! The boys have the system nailed down and Molly is getting there!! She likes to help fold!!!
Today I had my WW meeting and I am down another pound!! So today I actually hit my 5% weight loss!! Yay me!! Still have a long way to go but its really nice seeing the scale going in reverse!!
Tomorrow I really need to do some grocery shopping and I'd love to run to Target and maybe even Kohl's.

Pay it forward

I saw this at a blog of a high school friend of mine and thought i'd bring it over here!! So I'm copying from her blog...thanks Dana!

I love the thought of making someone else smile when they least expect it!
I found this at Just the Girl…
The rules are simple:
The first 3 people to post a comment on this entry will receive a gift from me sometime during the year. When and what are a surprise to the winners!
Then, post about this on your blog & come back and leave your comment telling me you are Paying It Forward as well.
Only the first 3 comments that leave a comment and post this one their blog gets the prize but who says you can do a pay it forward too?
So, come on comments and let’s all pay it forward!!!

Saturday

Today Nick, Joe and I participated in the Walk for Warmth. It is a 3 mile walk and the funds raised goes to THAW (The Heat and Warmth fund) The KIDS club at church was supposed to participate but long story short it just turned out to be us. All together there were about 100-150 people partcipating from high schools,churches, and area business/corporations.
Thankfully, the nasty snow we were supposed to get held off for all but the last 15 minutes of the walk. My face sure is windburned though the wind was very bad.
One good thing happened though! I won a door prize!!! I won a basket that contained two mugs, a box of hot cocoa mixes, some ppretzels and a hat,glove,and scarf set. I will be donating the hat,gloves, and scarf next winter to a collection.
This afternoon the boys had an indoor soccer game. it is a bit frusterating for the team because they play against a few travel teams who still hold practices during the winter. Whereas our practices end even before the fall games start!! So they feel a bit defeated!
After soccer we went to dinner at Boston's it was yummy but I ate to much! I even asked for a box at the very begining and boxed up half my meal!! Oh well!! Why did the waiter need to look so shocked that i wanted a box at the begining of the meal! That was not necassary!!
After we came home from all of that I went and shoveled the 4 inches or so that we received. I am officially EXHAUSTED!!!!!!!!

wooohooo yay for me!!

I received my very first(many more to come) 10 pound weight loss ribbon!! I had to laugh though! I told Paul I got my ribbon today and he said...oh one of those sashes beauty queens wear?? Umm no honey!!! But it pretty much makes you feel that your a beauty queen when ya earn one!!! it is hanging proudly on my refridgerator!!!

Day 3 of WB

So today Nick,Joe, and I each painted a birdhouse to hang outside this spring. Molly painted a tiny little canvas print of a castle. She did pretty good so we will hang it up probably in her bedroom. Michaels has these in a section of their store for $1.00 each so maybe we'll get a few other ones. We looked quick and I saw a car and a plane I think so i'll dig around more next time we are there. Other then that it was just laundry and dishes as usual. Tonight we had philly cheesesteaks,french fries, and green beans we,ll technically the guys did!! Molly ate a hard boiled egg(with yolk removed per her request), some french fries, and some green beans(i had to sprinkle a little salt on them) we normally are not salt eaters but some people are I guess shes one of them!! Hey , if salt(a little) gets her to willingly eat corn, beans and what ever other veggies I serve then salted it will be!!

Winter Break Day 2

Well actually day two was fairly uneventful! Nick and I played some of his OutDoor Active Life for the Wii that was fun!! I actually beat him in the jumproping game so I think today we may have a jumpoff!!!
Nick also helped me make dinner. We tried a new Rachel Ray recipe called Chicken Thigh Pie the guys really liked it today! Molly of course would not touch it!! There were sweet potatoes in it which I found out Joe and Paul actually do not care for but they didnt mind them in the recipe! Yay!! Gotta get us all eating healthy!!

Winter Break day 1

I think today went pretty well! Lets see Joe and Molly were up first. Well technically Paul was up and out of the house first. He had a commercial shot to go on today so he left me in charge of his business phone..yay...ummmm not!!! hahaha! Anyways, they got up and I got them breakfast. They played pretty well together today. Nick slept until around 9:30, I guess he still needed to get caught up on sleep.They played outside some of the day and Nick played Guitar Hero over at our nieghbors house.
I did get a lesson in first impressions today. I was making dinner (german cabbage stew with sausage and dumplings) and someone knocked at the door Nick answered it and called me to the door. I think I looked pretty mad and it turned out to be our new nieghbor hahaha!! So I had to apologize to him for looking so ticked! Then I had to go move pauls truck that we had parked there to make the empty house look "lived in"
After dinner Paul got home and I took the boys to The Christmas Tree Shop and picked up a few things for St. Patricks Day then we ran to Michaels and I picked up a few bird houses that we will paint on Wednesday. Pretty happy with today, oh I also cleaned the bathroom and did 3 loads of laundry.

Crazy Valentine's Day!!!

I tell ya!!! What a weird day yesterday was!! Let's see. The day started around 3:30 am Paul got a call and he decided to go out on it. Which is fine! He then got in around 5:30 and showered up and headed out on another one(he wound up not getting in due to more runs until about 3 in the afternoon!) Joe and Molly and I had a relativley quiet morning. I exercised for a mile on my exercise equipment. I was using my perdometer. Then Molly and I ran a valentine over to a nieghbors and visited with them and thier kitty. When we got home I shoveled. Came in to check out on ym pedometer how much i earned and wow! What a surprise apparently it did not count anything I did after my workout in the house!! How does that happen??
Around 1 the phone rings, I looked at caller ID and it was cell phone number i did not recognize. So i answered it and heard the dreadeed words. Brenda, this is Jess, I have Nick, DO NOT PANIC....pretty much if your calling me and telling me you have my kid and not to panic...what will i do???PANIC!!! I still dont know the full story but there was sledding hill accident he was in and became disoriented and they thought he might have broken his nose!! Hes 3 hours away!!! Thankfully about 2 hours later I got the confirmation that everything was ok!!! Yay!!! We then took Joe to his soccer game and went out to dinner. We really wanted to eat at Red Robin but the wait was wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy to long so we wound up at Big Boys and wound up running into a coworker of mine and his wife and some friends of ours from scouts!! It was an interesting day to say the least!!! I had a hard time sleeping because my brain just did not want to shut down!!!

up one :-(

well both my friend and I had a gain. We both ere expecting a loss but apprently since we threw in some nice long walks that we thought would help us...it wont be reflected for approximatly 2 weeks. *sigh* i really hate this losing weight process.

not much new

in our house as of late! But I still felt the need to post here. Tonight Paul is teaching Cub Scouts, Aquanauts at the pool. It is during Open Swim time so he took Joe with him so Joe could get some exercise today. Molly and I did up the labels for her Valentines. Her preschool is not having a party, I thought that was a bit odd but i'm not the teacher! They are letting the kids pass things out though so thats good!
Tonight I tried a new recipe for mini italian meatloaves. I served it with mashed potatoes and green beans. The guys all liked it! I was happy molly ate half her mashed potatoes which was great for her and she even managed to get 1 green bean down.It took about 4 mouthfuls of milk before she was ok to eat anything else! She just will not eat them. Oh well tonight was a huge improvement in her veggie eating status! i knew she wouldnt touch the meatloaf either so she had Chicken tenders.

Another one bites the dust.....

Actually you could say that another 2 1/2 bites the dust!! That is 2 1/2 pounds gone making my grand total 7 1/2 pounds gone! Yay me!!! Hopefully in 2 weeks i'll get my 5 % gone. That will be nice!! I am so happy the weather appears to be warming up the nnext few days so i'll be sure to get out there and walk my little butt off!!!

Fun Day today

Paul decided to take Molly and I on a breakfast date this morning. We saw the commercial that Denny's was giving away free Grand Slams to everyone and we figured we'd go check it out. Don't worry my diet supporters I saw the Grand Slam was at least like 17 points for WW and I was only going to eat the eggs and Molly would eat whatever else off the plate that she wanted!!!
Well needless to say EVERYONE decided to go today and we did not feel like waiting out in the line in 15 degree temps. So we went to Phoenix Coney Island instead. They also were packed but we only had to wait for a table to be cleared! I guess Denny's helped stimulate the economy for all the other restaraunts too!!
After Denny's we went to Target where I showed Paul an adorable shirt and skirt outfit i wanted to get for Molly, we got that, an adorable little bermuda short and shirt outfit, and another scooter skirt and tshirt. So her spring/summer wardrobe is off to a roaring start! I LOVE having a girly girl to dress!!! She adores everything and was holding up skirts and shirts she "thought" matched!!
We also checked out The Christmas Tree Shoppe, I really liked it! I'll be keeping it in mind for seasonal decorations and what not!

February 1st and Superbowl Sunday!

Ya know what I love? I have loved this for well over 15 years too....it's gonna sound funny....but I love the smell of the church parking lot on SuperBowl sunday. It has been a tradition for quite some years that the youth group gathers extremly early in the morning and makes subs that people have ordered for a few weeks before hand! Nick participated last year(as did I) in the tradition but I did not let him this year. Just due to the fact he had a busy saturday and I felt he needed rest sunday. So all day today we have been nibbling on the yummy subs!! I had just a tiny sliver because I really would like some chips and dips tonight!!! Dont fear though my diet followers my friend and I walked over two miles together earlier today!!!