weekend plans

I am off to work and then to the lake afterwards. Don, some friends and I are going to music fest Saturday night. Don Bessette gave us all free Vip tickets. So it should be a blast.

Thursday

Thursday is weigh in day and guess what!?!!?!











I lost 9 pounds this week!

new do

I got a my hair cut yesterday and decided to cut off quite a bit. I wasn't sure if I was going to like it but it turned out great. The only problem is that I asked Don to take apicture of my haircut and the picture was horrible. Oh well...

Myspace Countdown or Myspace Layouts

Kids at the lake.

Our friends who recently moved back to Minot brought out their son (in the carseat) TJ and Don's neice and nephew were also out.

Shannon will be home July 21. We just bought tickets to Nickelback for the 24th in Grand Forks, i'm pretty excited!

I do have gardening abilities!

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I went to the funeral home for the babies' visitation today. I dropped off a card from all the girls at work and gave my condolences. However, I was not prepared for the open casket; they were so tiny it was amazing. I think that is the biggest reality check that a woman can get if you have children or not. Rest in Peace Arie and Elin.

It has begun

I lost my first pound this week...yay!

Kailyn

My God-Daughter is now learning how to walk and it's about time..she's 14 months old! She is in love with her walker, but unfortuneatly she will only go backwards.

yay!

I have successfully completed most of my tasks I set out to do today. Laundry is done, homework for the week is done, my container gardens are all planted, watered and fertilized. The only thing I have left to do is the dishes (a neverending mound of them) and a little straightening up inside. I feel like I actually accomplished everything.

Oh, and I succeeded in pissing off the guy 2 houses down. I am evil, but he's a dick and I enjoyed it. :)

I think I need a nap

Today's agenda is full of homework and house work...

Now lets see how many of those tasks I actually accomplish today!

Sad News

Sad news comes from the weekends events. By boss at the coffee shop who was pregnant with twins, delivered Friday. Sadly their boy, Arie Thomas, only lived a few hours and the girl, Elin Marlene, made it a day and a flight to a Colorado hospital. However, after her arrival in Colorado mom and dad only got to be with her a few hours. Arie and Elin only lived hours but sadly a lot of heartbreak has been left behind. We are all keeping them in our thoughts and prayers in this hard time.

Happy Father's Day

After my weekend at the lake I went out to mom and dad's to have dinner. When we finished eating we took a drive out to Buffalo Lodge lake where my parents bought a lot last year. I had never seen it so they took the time to show me around. On the drive back we caught this pheasant on the side of the road getting out of the wet grass after the rain. It made for a good photo. Happy Father's Day, Dad.

fun in the sun

I am going to the lake for a few days! You can bet I will have a sunburn by Sunday!

...lifestyle changes...

I decided I have had enough! I have been progressively gaining weight since I met Don/graduated from highschool (like 40lbs!). So I have started changing things as of this month. I have been eating much better and following the weight watchers plan (w/o the meetings) and exercising. At work today I played mushball and soccer for 2 hours with the kids then golfed for about an hour. Then when I got home I rollerbladed two miles. I knew I still had the energy in me its just a matter of getting up and doing it. So here I go. I am 160lbs as of today...so keep tabs on me so I stick with this. I will keep you posted.

...2 houses down...

Yesterday I let the dogs out into the yard about 3:00 pm to go potty and all the sudden they were barking like crazy, so I went out to hush them and I find the guy from 2 houses down leaning on our chain link fence. He didn't say anything to me so I brought the dogs in and went into the house. I watched as he walked back home. Then about 7:00 pm I let them out again and same thing, barking like crazy, so I went to hush them and found the guy from 2 houses down doing the same thing. So I let the dogs in and asked if I could help him with something. Apparently as he said, my dogs bark all day long....eh, wrong i'm not even home all day long. Then he say, "I'll have to talk to your family about this..". Well I don't live with my damn family, you're speaking to her. Well I got quite steamed and informed him he had no right due to the fact that his dogs are violating leash law by not being fenced or leashed and they come over and shit in my front yard. By the end of the "talk" the guys from 2 doors down was told to f*** off. Was I out of line?

new purchase

I finally gave in and purchased a couch for our apartment today. We had this old, hand-me-down disgusting orange couch circa. 1980. It smelled, it was dirty and I hated it. So I went to "the devil" (ie. I Keatings) and got myself a deal. A $300 deal. Thank You

...and another one's gone.

Shannon left on Saturday after she was here for a couple weeks. She had to go back and teach a summer program and will be back about july 24th I think. She was not looking forward to going to the summer program but she has a two-year contract to follow thru with, thankfully this was the 2nd year. I think she brought the rain; it rained her entire visit and stopped when she left!

Unfortunate news yesterday...my boss who is 21 weeks prego with twins was admitted to the hospital yesterday b/c her water broke. So looks like antibiotics for as long as they can and she will be going to a hospital in Minnesota at that point. So I am thinking of her, she has had some tough times with this pregnancy.

Anyway...that summarizes any events I have going on.