PEEPS!

THe first time my kids have ever had Peeps. They loved them. Yuck! These pics are for my mom and my uncle the peepsters. These peeps aren't packing.

Easter Pics

Holly's new Easter outfit.

She is excited!

I didn't get home until 9pm the night before Easter. Needless to say we did not have dyed eggs. But the Easter Bunny (daddy) did get chocolate and his lovely wife had a plethrah of plastic eggs. So ahuntin' they did go.

Lifetime

I need to update my biggest loser sidebar, but I just wanted to announce that I reached lifetime at Weight Watchers. I have lost 43 pounds and I want to do 7 more, but I no longer have to pay yeah!
Thank you everyone for your support it really helps. My hope is 50 pounds by June.

I Finished!

This last Saturday, I ran the "Run for the Schools, 5k! I actually finished and didn't need oxygen at the end. I did it in 35 minutes and 9 seconds. I didn't run the whole thing there were ALOT of HILLS. I speed walked part of it. But all in all I jogged at least 2/3 if not more.

In the first picture I'm the one in the navy beanie. This is us waiting to start. Don tried to get a picture of me after the first turn but only got the back of my head. The second picture is self explanatory. The third picture of me is after the race, don't I look pretty. And the forth picture is me doing a 3 and a 5 with my hands for thirty-five and not realizing I did it backwards.

For my next goal I would like to do another 5K, but jog the whole thing and drop about 5 minutes off my time. I want to do this some time in the fall.

Trip to California, in Spring

Eating out, eating out, and eating out some more!

Oma trying to teach Josh how to whistle with his fingers.

Holly building houses and towers with domino's. She is wearing the princess outfit, including the cape and purple shoes, the only thing that is missing the crown. All got from Tu-tu. She took us to a toy store that my uncle works at and bought Josh and Holly outfits. Josh is a knight including; shield, sword, cape, mail, and hat thingy (not a crown).

Swimming at the indoor pool at Oma's hotel (sorry the pictures aren't the best).

Tu-tu and I playing gin. ( I think she let me win).

We also got to see 2 of my uncles on my moms side and my aunts of course that was fun. When my Uncle Rob (or as Holly calls him Uncle Roc) he was surprised at how much she weighs. Holly looked at him and wanted to know what was that under his nose, he has a mustache. Uncle George and Aunt Denise were surprised to see us and my kids ran all over their house looking at everything. They have a lot of really cool art. We also saw a family that we were friends with when I lived in San Mateo. Their little boy I used to baby sit is now a police man with the San Diego Police Department and now sports a mustache.

All in all it was a good trip, we saw a lot of family, My youngest cousin is now taller and she is going to college. We were all really spoiled by family, grandparents (my parents came down) and great-grandparents. The kids loved having a tv in their room and pretty free to be loud ( my grandma is losing her hearing). Thank you Tu-tu for the trip, All my relatives that ate with us and spoiled us, my mom for being with us the whole week and my dad for driving down so many times, it was great!

Projects and punishments

Don has started to run new pipe in the basement, to get ready for enclosing another section. He only got to do some, because we ran out of money. Same goes for the framing. I must say that he did it faster than I thought he could.

One day Don and I were actually punishing the kids. They had gone out front without asking permission first. To some of you, you might think big deal. You would change your mind if you saw how fast people drive on our street that is a 35 mile an hour road. So after talking until we were blue in the face, I suggested they go in the backyard and pick up sticks, rocks that they had put through out the lawn, etc. Don and I did a project too. We cleared off the many many planters that were on out porch. Hung some of the hanging baskets and put some pots on our front porch. Now to get plants for all of them.

As for the children and there punishment, I don't think it sunk in. The next Monday, Josh was playing in the backyard, I was out front by our neighbors hanging laundry (I wanted to try it, I had never done it before) I came back in through the garage. A little while later, I went back up stairs and saw a little boy running up to my door. I thought that's odd. It was Josh! He wanted to go say hi to our neighbor and he didn't go through the front door, so he thought it was okay. Argghhh.

It actually fits

Well on this path to weight lose I have picked different goals, one of them being this shirt. My ward had a Swap night and I saw and loved this shirt. I thought maybe I could fit in that when I get to my ultimate goal. (the shirt being 4 sizes smaller than what I was when I started). For giggles I decided to try it on. The zipper actually zipped and I fit it. Wahooooo! I didn't realize it, but it is a petite. I then looked in my closet for some pants to go with it. I thought that these would be fine, but they are a little to big. Don says they are not flattering on the rear, a bit saggy. Time for some new clothes.