Fun Times

Working on the school room.
Nailing up sheetrock

Me at the Christmas in July Party, who am I supposed to be?

Caroline dressed up as a Christmas Present for my friend's Christmas in July B-day Party. She's not very cooperative when it comes to taking pictures!

Here we are: My friend, Edna, is a Christmas Tree decorated with "Christmas Story" decor, guess who I am, (no one knew at the party, grrrrr), snow princess, the Christams Present, and Olivia is a Christmas Tree.

Better picture of the Christmas tree.

Playing dress up with their friend Tessa today.

Olivia dressed up Caroline

Beauty and the Beast

Two Axis bucks fighting in our neighbors yard. (The neighbors were asleep and missed the whole thing. The neighbors are from Houston so they would have loved to see it. I was going to go call them, but I didn't want to miss it!! Some friend I am!)

Fishing in the River behind our house, Olivia caught a Rock Bass. She's our little fisher girl.

Going to "Beauty and the Beast." I forgot to take my camera to the show, so no pictures of the fabulous costumes! Bummer!

The kids and I went last night to see the play "Beauty and the Beast" with some friends. It was wonderful! The costumes were incredible! It's amazing how all the people fit their parts so well. The town that it was performed in is not huge, so I don't know how there is so much talent out there. It blows my mind!

P.S. I exercised 4 days last week. Eating was okay, could be better. I ate a hamburger last night and fries, but good news is on the way home, I barfed it all up!! YAY! (Not on purpose, I had a migraine)

Day 4

It didn't go too bad today, but it wasn't my very best day. See, what is it with day 4!! Oh well, I'll try to keep forging ahead.

Day 3

Day 3 went well. I'm trying to eat a lot of raw foods such as gazpacho and a new salad that I really like (I'll post my recipe) and I'm exercising. I'm also not eating sugar or simple carbs. I will eat brown rice and raw oatmeal (it's actually good with just some milk and honey, no cooking required). I've got some minor health issues and I want to teach my kids good eating habits. One other thing I'm trying to do is break bad eating habbits. One of my worst eating habits is standing up and eating right out of a seemingly endless container or bowl. Horrible! I also ate way more than I thought. I hope others will be encouraged. It used to be pretty easy for me to have the will power to lose wait, but now I do good for about 4 days and fall of the wagon. I thought maybe if I made myself post, I might do better. Thanks for the encouragement!!

The First

Olivia had her first visit to the Dentist yesterday. She had a baby tooth that would not come out and an adult tooth that was tired of waiting. The dentist wanted us to come in so she could take a look and she went ahead and pulled the tooth. Olivia was a little nervous at first and would not sit in the chair without sitting in my lap. The dentist told her (very nicely) that she had never seen someone so big acting so silly. Olivia got in that chair and did what the Dr. said and did not make a peep when the Dentist pulled it out. I've been waiting six years to have a toothless kid and finally have one! I love it! Olivia is nice enough to let me see her whole whenever I ask, which is probably at least 10 times a day.
P.S. Next time we will be skipping the Dentist visit and I'll yank that sucker out myself! That tooth cost quit a bit!
(I'll post pics later, David must have snagged my camera!)

P.S.S. Day 1 eating right and exercising went great, day 2 is going well too, just have to go walking later.

Getting on the Wagon

Okay, I think I am finally tired enough of being chubby that I am finally going to do something about it (again!)! Tomorrow I am going to start exercisng and eating right. Please ask me from time to time if I'm still doing what I set out to do. I need some accountability and maybe I can finally reach my goal (again)!

Hello Again

Hi everybody!! I guess I have gotten a little sidetracked over the last couple of months! Here's some of the things we've been up to:

In June, my best friend through a princess party for her little girl. She made Olivia and Caroline each a princess dress of their choice. Olivia was Bell and Caroline was Sleeping Beauty. Olivia is pictured with Cinderella in the top picture, Caroline was uncooperative, so you'll see no picture of her!

This summer we have also been very busy in our garden. The 2nd picture is of 1 picking from our corn garden. I believe we picked at least one other wagon full maybe more. We dug up our new potatoes a couple of days ago. They are so fun to dig up, the kids had a great time finding them.

The other thing we have been doing is swimming! It is really hot! here in south Texas, so it is a huge blessing to live on the River, even though it is quite low. Caroline is swimming under water very well! She is 3 1/2 so it is a hoot to see her swim in the river like a little fish. Olivia is also swimming some. They improve everyday! I almost forgot, Caroline wanted to jump of "Big Rock" ( Which is a rock in the middle of the river where my mom used to live. It's probably at least 20ft high). We climbed up the rock together, she got a little scared, but I grabbed her and jumped!!!! She says she wants to do it again, so that means it was not too scarey!!!