Two Week Update!

Well it is time for another update.

I have two weekends to write about so let’s get too it.
Two weekends ago the girls and I took a brief visit to Wisconsin. We went to see my mom and Terry and to visit a few sites when we were up there. We went to this place call the Discovery Zone. It was a little museum type thing but it was full of activities for the girls to do. We happened to be there the weekend that Star Wars had some displays. There were lots of men in star trooper outfits, there were a few RTD2 machines that were controlled by Remote controls, Jedi’s were running around. It was a neat display. There were actual costumes that were on display for everyone to look at, which I liked that. Lehna didn’t want to be down on the ground at all in the room. She kind of freaked out around the robots and the star troopers. Maya didn’t look too impressed either by the cool robots but I liked it. It’s like a big “machine” type of museum so it really hands on it was kind of cool. They had this HUGE ship that is mounted from the ceiling and you get to go in and crawl around on it. This was really cool. Lehna wanted NOTHING to do with going on the bottom level where the crew slept. The end of the museum was this REALLY COOL AQUAIUM. I really liked that. Lehna seemed to too we would point out the fish and Lehna would go “look mommy, look at this first” so it was really cool. That was definitely the best part of the Discovery Zone.

Then this past weekend we went to Williamsport for Tick or Treating. We went on Halloween to take them around. That was pretty fun. Lehna wasn’t shy at all this year… she didn’t like scary masks, but neither did Maya… not a fan either of them. Both of them would try to climb up in your arms when we saw them. I was really surprised about the lack of lights that were on around Williamsport. The kids got TONS of candy but I just was surprised about how many houses that didn’t have lights on it were a little surprising. Lehna went as a princess and Maya was a leopard, (she didn’t wear the ears, and the nose and whiskers was whipped away in moments after application) but she was cute. By the end Maya had gotten the hang of it. She was holding out her bag and saying her version of Trick or Treat. It as a good evening Helen and Tim kept Maya and Lehna over night and Tait and I went on a date. There wasn’t anything playing at the movies we wanted to see so we went out to eat then got a movie and game to play. The next morning Tait and I went out for breakfast and we headed back to Williamsport to spend some time with his family. It was a nice visit. I didn’t get a chance to visit his grandmother so I felt bad about that. The girls were able to see her and Tait went over to her house for a brief visit to watch the Notre Dame Game in which ND was beaten YEAH!!!! Purdue actually won this weekend so that was a good thing. I mean when you have to of the lowest playing teams in the Big Ten and play one another it is exciting… at least they were equally matched… LOL

Then on Sunday we had Helen, Tanna, Deklyn, and Landyn come over for some hot dogs on the fire and smores. It was a nice afternoon. I was woke up so early on Sunday and went to the grocery store I think that if I’m going to do lots of grocery shopping that is DEFINTELY the time to go… the store was totally empty and that was wonderful! I hate pushing through people at the grocery store.

Good news I did go down in weight over past two weeks. I am down 25 lbs! YEAH my first big landmark. I actually had someone comment on it this weekend… which always makes me feel good! I also measured myself and I believe I’m down 14 inches overall. I lost 5 inches in my hips alone so I’m really excited… I definitely can tell in my clothing. My butt does feel smaller and my tummy smaller too (not gone just smaller) so small steps to victory I guess. My diet was HORRIBLE this weekend so hopefully I won’t stretch my tummy back out again… that would be REALLY SAD if I did that. I have to say we did the Winsor Pilates last week and man the horrible lady gets you in these HORRIBLELY HARD positions and then talks for a few minutes it SUCKS! But the exercises she gave are just like the ones from the Core Pilates we have been doing so I was excited about that at least they are the same exercises. I’m going to have to start getting some more cardio today. I was reading an article that said that the more you increase your cardio the more your metabolism increases and I defiantly want that. So I’m going to do that. I just have to get on… (Sigh) It’s really had with two kids and a household to run… but I know we can get the goal accomplished. I want to have lost 104 lbs in a year… so far I am up to month 2 and so far I’m about a ¼ of the way there… only ¾ more to go… then I will be really happy. Keep me in your prayers man b/c I’m going to need all the help I can get.

That is pretty much all the update news that I have. Enjoy your week!