Easter...

A friend e-mailed me this last week. I wanted to share it here. I enjoy the festivities of Easter so much. All the egg dying and egg hunting and baby bunnies and chicks and family time are wonderful,BUT Jesus' ultimate sacrifice is the real reason we have to celebrate. (click the picture to make it larger)

I hope you have a wonderful Easter weekend with all the wonderful things that entails!

Too Funny!

I am still working on several projects at the moment, so maybe next week I will have a lot of great things to share with you. For now I am just dropping in with a little something to make you giggle. Hope you are having a great day!

Weight Watchers Wednesday, Week 11

It is Weight Watchers Wednesday, Week 11 and I lost a whopping .6 lbs. for a running total of 21.2 lbs. This is nothing short of a miracle, since I can take credit for eating my weight in those little Lofthouse sugar cookies this weekend. Connor loves them, and I buy them for him,(yeah right!) knowing full well that I LOVE them too. Gonna have to do better! One cookie is 4 points. It is worth those points to me, but when you eat 3 or 4 (or 5) you have spent half of your day's points and one is never enough. Hopefully after Easter passes they will stop making them in those beautiful colors and they won't be so tempting. Plus, when they put them right.by.the.register. it is hard to escape without them. Enough excuses, hopefully I will do better going forward.

I have been so incredibly busy this past week. I did not get my exercising in, AGAIN, but I don't feel too bad about it. After all, I ate a ton of cookies and still had a loss. I must be moving enough to burn off some of those cookies.

I went shopping today for an Easter dress and was so excited that my pants were falling down all day. When I found the dress I got to go down a size, and that was wonderful! YEAH Weight Watcher's!

For this week's recipe, I am gonna share my Oatmeal Expresso recipe that I got from here. You know how much I LOVE coffee, so this is wonderful in my book! It combines coffee and oatmeal for a quick and easy breakfast. I like to have a piece of toast or an egg with it.

OATMEAL EXPRESSO, 1 point
(Oatmeal and coffee, all in one)
Serves 3
3/4 cup old-fashioned oats (quick oats work too)
2 teaspoons instant coffee
3 teaspoons Splenda
1/4 cup skim milk
1/2 cup water

Combine oats, instant coffee and Splenda. Stir in the skim milk and water. Microwave the mixture for one minute and 45 seconds.

NUTRITION ESTIMATE Per serving: 87Cal; 2g Tot Fat; 0g Sat Fat; 0mg Cholesterol; 13mg Sodium; 16g Carb; 2g Fiber; 1g Sugar; 3g Protein; Weight Watchers 1 point

I'm pooped from a long day shopping for the Easter Bunny (he is so lazy to make me do the shopping and not get ANY of the credit HA!) and trying to find outfits for all of us. I am gonna go get a shower and watch Walker's new movie with him. Aunt Wewe sent us Racing Stripes in the mail today, and he is so excited to watch it. Wewe says it is right up his alley, and she knows him about as good as me, so I am sure he will love it. Hope all my WW buddies had a great week and I look forward to hearing from you!

What Do You Think?

If you remember back in February, I posted some changes I had made in my dining room. (Here is the link if you missed that post.)I could not decide if I was happy with how it turned out or not, so I was gonna just live with it for a while. Well, I officially decided this morning that I did not like it and so I have tried something else.

This is how it looked:


Here is how it looks now...

The left side of the table ...

And the right side looks like this...
And because I know some of you will ask, I got this massive picture frame from Peebles for less than $20. It had originally been $60 and was reduced to $30, but had a coulple scratches so they took even more off. Now I just need to add my own picture to it.

What do you think now? Better or worse?

Best of the Week...

1.Walker has learned his address. Probably not a big deal, but I think it is the cutest thing ever!
2. Lon teaching the boys how to take pictures. They are using a little digital camera I used to use, and they ALWAYS come out with their fingers in them.
3. Having a Beaufort Boil for supper. YUM!!
4. Connor and his crazy self wearing his Handy Manny goggles, and my bicycle helmet.
5. Hunting for Easter eggs at Mama's.
6. Walker telling the man at the tire store that "Mommy's car is pooped out." We thought our brakes were messing up on the Armada.
7. Playing outside, in the rain, just because we could.
8. A Wisteria bush that I did not even know I had is blooming, and it is beautiful. (This is our first spring in our house, so new things are blooming all over the place.) 9. Toni came over and brought the kids. They had a blast, and we even moved the rollercoaster outside for its maiden voyage.
10. Walker and Connor enjoying their Dollar Tree surprises to the fullest. A Whoopie Cusion, and a 3-D dinosaur book that included some cool 3-D glasses. Best spent $2 that I can remember.

I'll leave you with one of my favorite shots from "Onnor" (as she calls him) and Mary Grace's driving adventure...
Hope you had a great week!

The Streak...

Not too many creative projects going on lately, I've been trying to keep the streaker clothed. Connor is going through another phase where he wants to take off his clothes all.the.time. He is a master at undressing quickly too. I can go start a load of laundry, and when I come back I'm lucky if he still has on a diaper. This is all new to me because Walker never really did this.

This so this morning I thought I would capture a few shots of the streak (with his diaper on)in action. Here is Daddy stealing some sugar before he leaves for work.
And this is the little man "hiding" in his Diego storage tote.

Now if I can just get some clothes on him without this reaction...

And for those of you wondering what Walker is up to, he is just enjoying his new movie that Nonnie and Pop sent him "Home on the Range", and telling me to "get away" when I try to take a pic of him. That is definitely a "Talkin' to the hand" picture. I will be working on some long overdue projects later this weekend, and I'll keep you posted on the progress! Hope you have a great weekend!

Weight Watchers Wednesday, Week 10

It is Weight Watchers Wednesday, Week 10 and I had a loss of .2 lbs. for a running total of 20.6lbs. I am not surprised with my little loss this week, in fact I am thankful for it. It has just been one of those weeks. I have eaten bad, and felt a little discouraged and tired of dieting. I did not eat as bad as I used to, but I made myself and my eating secondary to whatever else was going on. I didn't keep my food journal, or plan all my meals in advance. I didn't sleep very well a few nights and that always leads to eating bad for me. I look at the 20 lbs. lost and know in my head that it is great to have lost 20 lbs. in 10 weeks, but I know in my heart I could have done better. I should exercise more. Drink more water. Eat more veggies. But at the end of the day, I realize that being so hard on myself and expecting perfection is why I always stop Weight Watchers and start eating poorly again. So, I will pick myself up, leave last week in the past, and vow to do better. This week I'll faithfully follow my eating schedule and WRITE down my points instead of keeping a running tally in my head.

As I mentioned earlier, I did not exercise much this week. I have been in a bit of a rut. I did a lot of little things like chasing the boys around and walking one day, but I did not do my Wii Fit or my 5 Mile Fat Burner dvd at all. I will get back in the groove this week.

For this week's recipe, I am gonna share with you a recipe for a WW Cobbler. I was really wanting a homemade sweet this past week, so I decided to dig through some of my old cookbooks. I found this recipe tucked in one of the old books from a WW meeting. So simple, and SO DELISH!

Blackberry Cobbler, 3 points a serving

1 bag of frozen blackberries

1 yellow cake mix (straight from the box)

16 oz. diet 7-Up or Diet Sprite

Cooking spray

Pre-heat the oven to 350 degrees. Spray cooking spray in a 9x13 pan. Pour the blackberries in the bottom (while frozen). Pour the dry cake mix over the blackberries. Pour the entire bottle of 7-Up over the top. Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 25 mins. Remove aluminum foil and bake for an additional 25-30 mins. Cut into 12 slices. 3 points/slice.

I also made this cobbler with frozen blueberries and it was wonderful. Peaches will be next on the list to try.

I am excited to hear from all my WW buddies and see how you did this week. Hopefully you all did great and it will give me the motivation to do better next week!