Monday weigh in

On Monday I weighed in and I lost 4 pounds last week! 4 pounds! Amazing. Don't know how I did it. But it did put me up over 50 pounds gone! Dad says I should go to the feed store and pick up a 50 lb. bag of feed to put it all in perspective! My leader says it's time to stop, but I say 5 more pounds! Then I'll stop. Promise. :)

Visit from Ryan, Stacey, and Trey

We were so blessed to get to have Steve's sister, her boyfriend (we hope soon to have him in our family) and our nephew visit last week. They had a crazy trip to Washington. Their plan was to leave at 10:30 our time on Thursday and get here at 10:00 our time. But, they didn't get here until 7:30am Friday morning. They end up renting a car out of Seattle and driving here because they couldn't make the last flight out of Seattle Thursday night. They were so tired. Of course Trey (being 11) would not admit to being tired, but Stacey and Ryan both took good naps on Friday to help get caught up on the lack of sleep. We went to bull riding Friday night at the Arena, which was really fun except then Ryan started feeling crummy and spent Friday night throwing up. But not before we got in a few hands of Pinochle. :) We let Ryan sleep in on Saturday while Stacey, Kelly and I headed to the mall. Stac took Kel to Build a Bear which Kelly loved and then Stacey and I did some jewelry shopping. (Can't wait for the call saying Ryan popped the question!) The other boys did some of their own shopping. The adults headed out to P.F. Changs for dinner Saturday night, while the kiddos got to stay home alone, eat pizza, and play video games. Of course Saturday night was spent staying up until 3:00am playing Pinochle. That was the theme of the weekend. Sunday, we all slept in (or tried to because my Mom kept calling) and then headed to Sushi at Sushi.com. I will put some of the pictures from that on this post. Then we headed to Lazer Quest. Stacey and I had to head home, missing the last game because Steve locked his keys in his truck and after the games we were headed out to my parents house for dinner. We had a great dinner and nice visit with Mom and Dad. They really liked Ryan and then we headed home to...you guessed it... play Pinochle. :) We only stayed up until 12:00 that night, I faded fast, but we got a few more hands in before their flight left at 7:30pm Monday night. Monday we went to the mall, and headed out to my favorite sandwich shop, San Fransisco Sourdough. Ok so I realize they aren't the same as East Coast subs, but as far as sandwiches go they're pretty good! It was a really great visit but to top it off they got stuck at the New Jersey airport for 5 hours after having flown threw the night with little sleep. Guess the trip wouldn't have been complete without flight problems on the way home too.

Thank you so much Ryan, Stacey and Trey for coming to visit. We love you guys and look forward to more Pinochle memories in the future. :) Maybe next time at your house!

Sushi Lunch at Sushi.com

The boys playing video games at the mall

Ryan and Steve enjoying meatball subs from Carousos (SP?) They went there after S.F. Sourdough!

Getting in the last few games of Pinochle on Monday

Saying goodbye at the airport Monday night...

One more Christmas post

Last few Christmas pictures. The first one is of our tree. Steve talked me into putting it down in the basement this year. Can't say it's my favorite place to have it, but it's not to bad. The kids enjoyed opening their stockings when they woke up Christmas morning. They get to do that before we shower and eat breakfast. This holds them over until we get to open presents. We always exchange gifts with our neighbors kids, Josh and Rylan. So the last picture is a picture of all the kids lined up ready to open their presents.

Christmas 2008

These are a few pictures from Christmas day. Steve made a wonderful Prime Rib dinner. We were lucky enough to have my Grandpa and Grandma, Mom and Dad and Sister join us. These pictures cracked me up of Steve. He looks like trouble doesn't he? And I love the one of Dad and Kelly. She does love her Grandpa!

Christmas time

I am very late in entries for Christmas time. Here are a few good pictures from our day down at the Davenport with Mom and Dad. The kids enjoyed huge Ice Cream Sunday's and Lemonade. (I know odd combo in December!) Mom and I had some tea and Dad enjoyed a hot coca. It was really fun.

Why women have smaller feet

We had our friends Jay and Taunya over for dinner tonight and we were talking about how God made men's bodies with more muscle then women's bodies. Someone said maybe it is because the men would be the ones that would work the soil. And Jay pipes up and says "And he made women's feet small so they could stand closer to the sink to wash the dishes!" We all about died laughing.