Can I get a WHOOT WHOOT!!!

Today is weigh in day and I lost another 2 lbs.  That puts me at 18 and leaves 4 to go.  I can't wait to go shopping.  LOL

Summer Camps

I have one word...UGHHHHH!!!  Why oh why do our kids have to get older and have actual opinions about what they want to do for the summer? =)  Being a working Mom, I HAVE to put my kids (well, now "kid" cause the older one doesn't have to go to camp) in summer camp.  It used to be easy.  I would sign them up for the local park and recs camp and be done with it.  Well, once her brother started complaining about it and decided it was BORING, J. decided the same and then my life became hell.  Finding camps that can encompass the entire summer is virtually impossible.  Fortunately, she is entering 6th grade this year and is now old enough to attend Loyola's summer school program.  UNfortunately, that only goes to July 20.  Now what?  There are still another 6 weeks to fill.  Luckily, we do have a vacation planned in August so that gets me down to 5 weeks but still 5 WEEKS is a long time to fill.  I do have my stand by Culver High baseball camp that she loves so that will cover 1 week and against her wishes I signed her up for a soccer camp that she has loved for 3 years but now decided she doesn't want to go to.  I DON'T HAVE A CHOICE.  I have scoured the internet looking for camps that go in to the month of August and they just don't.  I think a lot of people take their vacations in August so the enrollment in these camps is probably really low in August and they figured it wasn't worth it.  So baseball camp, soccer camp and I still have 3 weeks to fill.  I think she will probably end up at the parks & recs camp that is BORING.  She did go to this same camp for 1 week at spring break and said it was ok so hopefully I won't have to hear the complaints EVERY DAY.  I had my summers to myself.  I was so fortunate that my Mom didn't work so I just hung out.  Not sure if that was good or bad.  I loved it but probably would've also loved going to camp and playing with other kids.  Sometimes I feel like my kids just don't appreciate all that they have and get.  Ho-hum.....I will stop complaining now and continue to look for camps for my little diva.  =)

Special People

I had THEE best weekend.  Saturday my Mom, J & I went to see my cousin and her son and Mom.  We planned this get together over a month ago and I was so looking forward to it.  Sometimes life gets in the way and you let those special people slip away but you can't.  You just need to reconnect and catch up. And that's what we did. She is one of those people that no matter how long it's been since I've seen her we can just pick up where we left off.  They have a beautiful new home with an awesome pool so J. and my cousin's son played in the pool for like 3 hours.  We had lunch, shopped a bit and just had the best time.  I had missed her and now we vowed to keep in touch better even if it's just a quick email or text once a week. 

Then yesterday we had a landscape designer come out from Armstrong Garden Center to give us some ideas for our back and front yards.  After he left, D. & I went to Armstrong's just to see if we could find the things he suggested.  We didn't have a lot of luck but we didn't really want to pull an associate over since we aren't really ready to buy.  So we did what we should've done to begin with.  Just looked up the individual plants and flowers up on the internet.  In any case it was fun and exciting looking for stuff to make the outside look pretty.  =)

Here is a pic of the two little fishies.  =)

Sweet 16

Today is weigh in day & I lost another 2 lbs!! That brings me to 16 lbs total in 8 wks. Only 6 more to go to get to my goal of 22. And some SUPER cruel person brought in Krispy Kreme donuts today & brought one to me on a plate. It took everything in me but I took it to our kitchen & put a "Help yourself" note on it. GAWD!!! This is SO not easy but I guess no one ever said it would be. Anyway, I'm hoping that I will continue to lose 2 lbs. a wk and if I do I'll be to goal in 3 more wks. Stay tuned.

Careful, this website is addicting

http://awkwardfamilyphotos.com/

Ok, so I found this website a while ago and when I have a minute (or a couple hours. LOL) I love to go and peruse. It is so weird it's funny. Check it out. But make sure you have some time because it is addicting but in the "can't stop looking at a car accident" kind of way. :)

R.I.P. Dick Clark

Awwww, I was so sad to hear of the passing of Dick Clark. I guess it wasn't a surprise but when I read further I guess it was. Poor thing was having an out patient procedure and had a heart attack. The world's oldest teenager is now in that big "bandstand" in the sky. I remember following Saturday morning cartoons with American Bandstand and ringing in the New Year with Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve. So rest in peace Mr. Clark. We will miss you.

The Voice

...or as I like to call it "the night I want to kill Christina Aguilara and perv over Adam Levine" =) Let me first give you a SPOILER ALERT!!! If you haven't watched your DVR yet then read no farther.

WTF, happened last night? My vote was for Jesse to go all the way. In fact I told D when Christina was doing her instant elimination "I think Jesse will go all the way so it won't be him". Then D jokingly said "Watch it be him." and then IT WAS!!! You could tell he was shocked off his ass and then my honey Adam had a look of disgust. And I kept yelling at the TV "Shut up and say the name. Just shut it and say it damn it. BITCH SHUT THE F UP AND SAY THE NAME ALREADY!!" I swear she talked FOR-EVA!!! I think Carson had to hurry everyone else along because she wouldn't shut her pie hole. And the way Blake blurted out Jordis' name was just bizarre. I wasn't even sure what he said.

I didn't get into this show last season so I decided to give it a try this season. I really liked the concept of the blind auditions and even liked the battle rounds but this is getting a bit boring now. I'm kinda glad they had that instant elimination (to move it along) but not so Christina could send home the guy that was supposed to win it!!!

WW is my new BFF

Well, I'm back on Weight Watchers. I've actually been back on it for 6 weeks and I've already lost 14 lbs (I'm shooting for 22 altogether). I got a bit out of control at the beginning of the year and gained 9 lbs. I actually never really got all the way down to the weight I wanted to get to the last time I was on WW so I'm doing it now. It's rough but I'm plugging along. I just keep thinking about the new clothes D said I could buy once I hit my goal and that's my incentive. =) So I will post my progress and hopefully in about 3 weeks I will have hit my goal. Wish me luck.