Poor "Sunshine"

we had to put Sunshine-our lemon tree out for yard waste removal. She was dying and I have no idea why but we had some water leaking from somewhere onto the wood floor. So Sunshine is out as is the container we planted her in.

is it fall????

Well lets see cooler temps, fog over my pool and the Pumpkin Pie Spice creamer i'm using in my coffee latley sure points to fall!!! It's all good with me though! I love fall!!!

I discovered something!

First off I discovered when I wieghed myself yesterday that even with going to Disney where we ate all our meals out and going to South Dakota where the majority of our meals we out at restaraunts, I still wiegh what I did when i stopped going to Wieght Watchers in the beginning of June! That is FANTASTIC news!! Anytime I was on a diet or whatever before I would have surely gained some wieght back by now! Yay me!!
Now in just about 2 weeks the kids will all be in school. Molly starts kindergarten so she will only be gone for a half day. But I am looking forward to it because it will enable me to establish some sort of routine for myself! I placed an order on Amazon for a DVD for a Kettlebell workout it will arrive next week sometime. I will be creating a little routine for doing the Kettlebell workout, some walks by myself or with friends and most of all a cleaning schedule for the house!
I have always loved Back To School time cause I look at it as a fresh start. Now this year it's a fresh start for myself too!!!

settling in!

Well here I am finally updating the darn blog here!! Well lets see, we had the canoe trip, went well over all, rained the weekend we were there again, this better not become a routine or we wont do it anymore!! Then the kids and I went to South Dakota to see my brother and sister in law and thier family! That was fun! We saw lots of neat things on the way and it was great seeing Tom and Chris and my nieces and nephew! It was fun but I think we took our Michigan weather with us!! I packed for high 80's temps and we had low 70's temps!! i had to buy Molly a sweatshirt and myself a hoodie while we were there!!!

August will FLY by!!!

Slow down time!!!! You go much to fast sometimes!!!!

So today we all need to make sure we are packed for canoeing! I am looking forward to it!! Nick and I will be sharing a canoe and Paul will be with Joe and Molly. That is the current plan and i dont see much need to change it! When we come back Sunday i'll need to get laundry started right awa y because Thursday we are taking off on a trip to see my brother and sister-in-law and thier family!! i am really looking forward to these trips!
Once we return it will be the start of Vacation Bible School at the church and I really need to get the kids ready for back to school!!! Phew theres a lot to do and get done this month!! all fun though so that is a very good thing!!!!

Fun with GOOP!!

Goop is a mixture of 1 cup water mixed with 2 cups cornstarch. We added a little Wilton Purple food coloring, dont adjust your monitor it was OBVIOUSLY marked wrong!! Molly had tons of fun playing with it. This mixture is quite popular in science things. Nick said they mixed some up in a big area and they all got to run on it without falling through!! You can punch into it and not hit the bottom of the container!! Molly wanted to play with it so long but I had used all the cornstarch she told me when I had gotten home from my Zumba class I should have gone to the store to get some lol!! I told her that i'd get some next time I go grocery shopping!!

Onto a new week!

We really do not have a lot planned this week. I am hoping the weather is nice so the kids and I can spend some time in the pool! Yesterday while the boys were at youth group at church I took Molly in the pool and she finally gathered enough courage to try swimming on her own with no floaties or vest!! She did good!!! She can make it all the way across the width of our pool and halfway across the lenth!The only problem she has is that she sees the ending spot in view and brings her legs down to soon so shes kinda then just treading water!!