the eve of a first birthday.

My heart is pounding. I cant believe the day is almost here. My baby boy will turn one and enter toddlerhood. WOW! This year has flown by so fast! I can honestly say that adding Travis to the mix was exciting and unforgettable too. I just peaked in on my little one and he is sleeping ever so soundly with his blankie in tow. IF I was a braver mom I would snap a picture of you sleeping but you are such a lite sleeper that I would surely wake you. Instead I just gazed and whispered I love yous!!! Now it is back to the busy bee work of a birthday....I just heard Nana pull the cake out of the oven. How I cant wait to decorate it and watch you smash it up tomorrow. Sleep well my baby boy for tomorrow you are O-N-E!

Safari Give Away!

Look what Brittany over at 4 little men& girly twins is giving away...it's a contest!
The winner will be so happy with this fun prize for their girl or boy.
If you want to try to win just click here.

A few words on Wordless Wednesday.

Lance and I are so thankful for the blessings in our life...
these two are our greatest joys ever to be granted.

LOVE me a Fundraiser.

So MckMama has done it again. This girl never ceases to amaze me at how kind hearted and strong she is. There is a HUGE commotion going on at her site and is it ever for a good cause. Let me correct myself...it's for three...count it out...1, 2, 3. Three (3) good charities. To check it all out simply go over to my side bar. Look for the button under my "19th Hole" tab. When you click on that button you will see for yourself what's brewing at My Charming Kids.

Fit Friday week #6

I am back to report about the trials and success of my being apart of Fit Friday. Here we are in week 6 and in a few days it will be December. WOW! Does anyone feel lighter.....I do, I do.
I am losing weight slowly but I am thinking that I will soon get a big jump in numbers when I wean Travis and can seriously reduce my points on the weight watchers system.

This week feels like it was a success but I don't have a number to prove it. My weigh in is on Thursdays and well as you know Turkey day was yesterday which was my weight in Thursday. So no scale for me. We were suppose to be able to go to any meeting prior to Thursday to weigh in and the one I went to on Wednesday afternoon was closed up tight with a note on the door. I was bummed! But that's life right. No need to fret over it.

But I did have wins with tracking my food and working out. I even did a little cardio on Turkey day. So last week I mentioned that I had a plan for not over indulging on Thanksgiving.

Here it was and it was exactly how it went.

Wake up
Deal with Kids
EAT BREAKFAST....Very important always but especially today.
Cardio
Finished chores
Deal with kids
Put bird in oven
Have a light lunch
Water, Water, water....all day I drank water.
Time for diner....big glass of water prior to rounding up everyone for dinner
Since I don't/didn't want to single myself out I took a big kid plate but envisioned it to be a small kid plate if you get my drift. As I placed food on my plate I left lots of room in between items. I took more of the green beans, sweet potatoes (which I made as plain as could be...not a marshmallow in sight on these babies.) and had a large helping of salad.
I felt so good about my choices and felt content after I ate. I didn't want for anything more nor did I go back for seconds.
I even allowed room for a small sliver of Cherry Delight Pie...a family favorite.

All in all my plan worked and I felt good about myself this morning when I woke up.

So now its the start of week 7 and I am already off to a good start with some gym time and a family bike ride already under my belt for today. I am going to do the "backwards" run the woodlands event...it isn't officially the RTW's because it is the 5th Saturday of the month so to make it different they are having us run the route backwards....no not literally running backwards but wouldn't that be funny to see.
So check back in next week when I will be posting pounds and measurements.....

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Fourth File, Fourth Photo

So I have done this before with the sixth file and the sixth photo but that was on my computer. Let's see what we find when we do this game in hubby's photo files.
Here are the rules.
You go to the fourth file folder on your hard drive under photos and then select the fourth photo in that file. Easy enough.

Holy holy it's the mac daddy caddy...there is a story here....I'll post about it in the near future.

A soccer outing

So we met up with one of our favorite family friends and watched their oldest play his last soccer game of the season. It was really fun to watch (what I could of course...my two kept be busy) and to spend time with some good friends. We all went for a family pizza outing and had a pretty nice time. I wish our families had more time to spend with one another than we do. We'll see you all Thursday for Turkey!

It's a chilly one!

Who's watching the game?

My darling Goddaughter and her fun mommy.
The Godfather gaze.

Whistles blowing their is a fashionista on the field.

They are truly brother and sister.

All this girl can do is talk...blah, blah, blah...doesn't she know I am trying to watch the game?

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. -- Fr. Jerome Cummings