Keep on Keeping on!

That is a quote Dr Morganroth penned. Those of you from NBBC have heard it a million times I am sure. That is how I feel about my weight loss journey lately. Just try to plug along! Last week I had a horrible time. I was hungry a lot. I only worked out one time, but I am so grateful to exclaim from the rooftops that I lost 2 pounds. I am amazed. If you saw all the food this weekend you would be too. We had awesome hotwings, chips, dips, and amazing desserts. Perhaps my two mile anger management walk helped last night :)

I am also happy to announce that my beloved Allen lost another three pounds!

Birthday Weekend

This weekend we had Jane's 60th birthday and Alan (my brother in law)'s 37th birthday party. It was a great success. There was lots of good food and lots of people came. The kids had a super time running around like wild banchies (no clue how to spell that). They loved playing with their cousins. We all loved catching up with everyone. We all have such busy schedules that we don't get together nearly enough.

Here is Emily stealing Papa's veggies and dip. I am thrilled she liked them!!

MawMaw and Emily....good grief! It took 5 pictures to get one of them both looking and with their eyes open :) Thank goodness for a digital camera!!!

Papa and his oldest granddaughter and his youngest granddaughter. Hannah loves "her Julianna". She will barely let the girl breathe :)

Hannah's favorite part of the whole weekend....holding her cousin!

Sunday night we were able to have a Girls Night. Michelle, Sandy, Karen and I went to the bowling alley. Though we were not professional bowlers in the least we had a great time!

Birthday Weekend

Emily sure loved the cupcakes Auntie Chelle made. Wow, am I grateful we took off the white sweater first!!!

Love this picture. Notice his trendy collar :) What a good little sweetheart. I love my little man!

Monica and Tammy

Sami playing with the butterfly game. Love the fountain hair!!!! Too cute :)

Me and my buddy! I always take the pictures at the parties, unless Karen takes over. So I made Allen take one of me to prove I was there :)

Birthday Weekend

Here is Roxane and her cutie pie son Patric. He is such a good little boy and has soooo much hair!

Here is our beloved Karen holding the littlest princess, Julianna.

My girls were dressed in bright bright colors seeing as it was MawMaw's birthday party (and Uncle Alan's too). She loves wild colors :)

Update picture of me and my honey. We have been on this journey heading on 8 months. Allen has lost 75 pounds and I have lost 40 pounds. We are sooo looking forward to the weather getting nicer so we can walk and ride bikes lots and lots and lose even more :)

Joseph playing with Gampa Bob. Joseph just LOVED eating his hat ;) Good thing Gampa doesn't mind a bit of drool!!!!! yucky.

Birthday Weekend

My sister in law Michelle, niece Julianna, and brother in law Alan. Sorry about the chandelier on your head. Bad camera angle :)

Emily and her cousin Audrey.

Hannah and one of her favorite people in the world...her cousin Caleb!

Tammy and my princess Audrey. What a beautiful smile!!!

I couldn't pass this up. I went looking for Emily....if you have met your you understand that she can NOT be left to her own creativity :) This is where I found her. Teaching her baby to go pee pee on the potty. Too cute!!

So SO

Well, I didn't lose but I didn't gain either. That is a huge victory as.....Can anyone guess what time it is....I will give you a hint...it isn't Tool Time :)

Allen has lost another pound. We have maintained our lead on Chris and Dana too. Chris needs a bit of motivation right now :( Keep going Dana. You can do it!!!!!!!

Last One

Ok, here is my last picture. My awesome husband came home and put up the lanterns for me. They are hanging by fishing line :)

Work Weekend

I had the great idea that we should switch the kids' rooms around. That way the girls got the bigger closet and I could make Joseph's room into a big boy room. I am so grateful, I had so much help from Clarence and Jane. They were lifesavers. They were over three days in a row to help! Here they are putting up one of the two borders. Thank you guys so much. You were such a blessing!!!!

Here is my handsome handy man. He recaulked the bathroom tub. Yikes, that was a chore for the poor guy. He did an awesome job though and it looks tons better!!!

Doesn't he look so very thrilled to be putting up my curtains???? :P

Girls' Room

The girls got a new room. It is yellow on the top and deep plum on the bottom. The border has butterflies, dragonflies, lady bugs and grasshoppers. I LOVE it!

I will add some more pictures later as I have a couple more things to do.

Joseph's New Room

I took this one so you could see the awesome border I found on ebay. It is antique trains, planes, & motorcycles. The plane is hanging from the ceiling. Then in the picture below there are two planes hanging in the corner. I love how it turned out :)
The paint was barely dry when I found Miss Emily writing on the walls. I just about died! Thankfully they were bath crayons and came off easily. Yeah, she thinks everything is funny!!!

Perfect for Monday

Close but that's no cigar!!!! EEek....look what I came upon today. Never a dull moment!

Photo Shoot

He they are all dressed up for their candlelit Chinese dinner with Daddy!

My triplets. I was asked for the first time on Tuesday if they were triplets. Notice Joseph's spike do. Allen was not impressed! I thought it was kinda cute :)

So, who do you think looks more alike Emily and Joseph or Hannah and Joseph...or I guess there is the third option of Hannah and Emily :)

My handsome little man. I just couldn't pass this one up!

Finally!!!!

We finally got some decent snow to play in yesterday. Today we got dressed....which took about 1/2 hour to go and play. Ugh, the younger two lasted about 4 minutes. OH well! You can tell these kids are only 1/2 cheeseheads :)

The snow was terrible for trying to build a snowman. So, we had to make a snowmound man :) Then I found Emily eating most of his face! Too funny. I guess that is what you get when you use fruit snacks for eyes and mouth :P

The Low Down

I am a big loser. I lost 2 more pounds this week. I have finally hit my 40 pound mark!!! I get to go and get a tanning package. For every 20 pounds I lose I get something special....a splurge as long as it isn't food :)

Allen lost four pounds, and I believe he is at a total of 74 or 76 pounds lost!!! Unbelievable. He is like a weight loss maching. Kudos to Michelle as well....she lost 4 pounds this week. I will have to update you on Chris and Dana. I haven't connected with her today yet.

Poor Baby!

I took Joseph in for his 9 month check up today. It was quite an adventure. I had a bunch of errands to run, but that got cut short as we had freezing rain turn to sleet and finally blowing snow. So we did the important things only...get gas (as my light was ready to turn on), get my chocolate covered strawberries from the Hallmark store and take Joseph to the doctor. Well, here are his stats.

Height: 29.5 inches (90% are shorter at his age)
Weight: 21 pounds, 14 ounces (65% are lighter) I was surprised at this. H was in the 90% last time.

Then we found out he has a double ear infection! Poor kid. I would have never know.

EBAY

Is anyone else addicted to ebay? I got on this weekend and it is so much fun!!! I found things for Hannah/Julianna's bday party. We are doing Curious George :)

Comparing

This is me Memorial Day weekend

February 2007. Seven months of dieting....I mean lifestyle changing :) Now I am sure the black pants are helping too!!!

My family June 2006. Ha, I told Allen that we look like we were having an allergic reaction because our faces were so puffy!!!! No allergies...just too much good food :{

Such Changes

Joseph 3 months old

Joseph 6 months old

Joseph 9 months old

Happy 9 month birthday , Joseph!

Here is my precious big boy. I can't believe he is 9 months old. Here is his monthly picture. Notice all those teeth! He has four across the top and two on the bottom. I can't believe how much he has changed. He is getting so smart. He was fussing in his highchair tonight because he was finished and wanted to get down. I was trying to get him to use hand signals to say "All Done". He wouldn't do the hand signal but all of a sudden he said clear as a bell, "All Done!" Unbelievable. What a little smarty!!!

Allen was helping Emily in the bathroom. All of a sudden Emily was pointing trying to get Allen's attention. Allen turned around and Joseph was on the second stair going for the third!!!! I knew that was coming :O) I am glad I got a picture of it. Then we put the gate up. It would really be nice if my baby would be a baby longer. He just really wants to be a big guy!

Saturday

This is my little boy who refuses to be little. This is my favorite outfit on him. Unfortunately, last night I had to change his closet once again from 12 month clothes to 18 month!!!! He just turned 9 months today. Sigh, I don't know if he could hold any bigger place in my heart. I love you, Buddy! In the last month he has really gotten a lot more hair. Can you see it sticking up Alfafa style??

I can't even remember who asked for another picture update of me. Here it is. I am down 38 pounds.

My sick men. Both of my men were running fevers tonight as I am sure you can tell from Joseph's precious rosey cheeks. Even sick Allen is such a nurturing daddy. I couldn't not ask for more in my family!!