Keeping Up With the Jones

Today Jacob invited a new friend over. After frantically going around picking up only to have her not come in at all, Jacob decided to play a little rollerblade hockey in the driveway. As I was going to move the van to the end of the driveway I told him to get his helmet on.

"I don't need a helmet Mom, helmets are for babies".

"Jacob, your brother almost hit his head on the concrete step the other day".

"Mom, I never fall. I think I know why you are making me wear this."

"Why's that Jacob?"

"Because you want it to look like you are being a good mom."

The boy is 7! Am I that transparent? :) Love him!!!

3 Months 24.6 lbs

Your positive words and encouragement are helping because as you can see, even 24.6 lbs is hard to see. (I did cheat in this picture with a tighter shirt) Thank you for helping me to 'see' the results that I can feel and get on the scale.

Happy Easter

Saturday afternoon the boys and I colored eggs. It was a lot less stressful than last year, and I forgot that I was going to try this this year. Maybe next year. They came out cute. I like the sports theme, fitting. They sure do smell up the fridge though.I seem to remember the Easter Bunny hiding the decorated eggs on Easter. Because I lived up north, many Easters were still snowy and we would find some eggs in the 'spring'. Our Easter Bunny hides these with money and candy inside. And he doesn't make it easy.Joshua wasn't as is to finding them this year. His brother found most of them for him.I cooked dinner, ham, pork, pork/bread stuffing, cheesy potatoes (Which I got off this site. She has some fun things and takes pictures of them too. You have to search for her apple dessert with Mt. Dew) and asparagus. I let the secret out that I am not the neatest cook.

Chris, Emily and Robin worked hard to make our 'redneck' table look festive with the mismatched placemats, scrap paper name tags and papertowel napkins in Easter napkin rings.

Emily came through with her bunny cake tradition. She works hard to impress Jacob her toughest critic. He is the candyman and that is where his standards are. Judging from his eyes when he saw it, she passed with flying colors. She has a challenge to up it each year.

This weekend the boys and I headed up north to see Baileigh in her school play of Alice in Wonderland. One boy was a little more excited than the other. In Jacob's defense they had swam for an hour and a half before the play.Baileigh was Violet, the nasty flower. From what I saw, she did great. She knew all the other speaking parts. I could see her lips moving as they did their lines. When it was time for her speaking part, I was with Jacob in the basement....bad timing :(After the play we went to our favorite Dairy Bar for pie and icecream. We were the only car in the lot that time of night. It was too late for the Early Bird Special eaters. The left over pie made a good breakfast in the hotel room.Again, this was not my early morning plan. I had planned more on swimming after checkout at 11. Yes, Chris I know, 8:20. It must have been your way of getting back at me for having pie at the Dairy Bar without you.It was not very crowded, so the boys were having fun perfecting their craft.

Joshua even had a race with an old lady doing laps. She didn't quite know it was a race :)

They enjoyed the hot tub. "Mom take my picture with all the bubbles". Sure thing Jacob, let me take a picture of everyone's dead skin cells you have collected. YUCK.

So I need to put some text here because it keeps leaving a huge white space. I did go in the pool last night, see. :)

Um Brrr

A couple of weeks ago we had a freakishly warm day so Auntie headed to the beach. This morning she asked me if we wanted to head over since it was so sunny today. I texted her the temperature today in the event that she hadn't been outside.

This picture of the beach is a lot like a metal pot. We always teach kids that a hot pot looks the same as a cold pot. Well the same is true for this picture. A picture of a hot beach looks the same as a picture of a cold beach. It was only 30ish today.

Joshua had his sites set on treasure hunting. Jacob stayed home. It was a good thing. He would have been miserable.

There were a few friends around. They are anxiously waiting the summer visitors. You can imagine they aren't getting any good eats this time of year. Not compared to the sandwiches and chips they steal in the summer.With the sun shining I could have taken the 30ish degrees, but the wind was whipping and that made it tough.Auntie was afraid the wind was going to knock her into the ocean so she opted for crawling instead. Let's just say we earned our lunch at Browns...yum-o!

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Still In it to win it!

When I started my weight loss journey I decided right away I wanted to take pictures so I could actually see it happening. In my opinion, it is still a little early to be able to see the results. Considering I am still wearing the same size pants I was 17 lbs ago, it's going to take some major weight loss to see major changes.

I definitely feel the differences. Many of my pants are looser and funny enough are getting longer since they don't have so many curves to get over :)The pictures do help do see minor changes though that go a long way. In looking at my 2 month picture, I can surely see it in my face and that is a good thing. I always have felt my fattest when I see it in my face. Usually when I look in the mirror (not full length, I'm not that delusional) I don't see a fat person, but when I start to see it in my face I know it's bad.

So I am happy I am on the right track and I can see and feel the minor changes which keep me motivated.