Need to take more pictures!

It's been a crazy 4th of July week.  Not only was it the first week of school, but of course it was 4th of July, there was a carnival in town called Fundays, which has rides, parades, games, and a Beer Garden. On top of that we had a friend stay for the weekend because he was in a softball tournament in town.  So obviously, hard to keep any sort of diet, which is why the scale read 223.4... :o/... oh well.  It's the beginning of a new week.


Let's start with the Fourth of July.  We had a really fun day.  It was technically lil N's mom's holiday, so we dropped him off at her house in the morning.  This gave us time to drive to South Dakota to buy some fun fireworks! They had them on sale for 3 for 1's.. so we came home with a truck full! We then met up with lil N and his mom and her boyfriend at my husband's aunt's house where they were swimming in the pool.  (this is where I wish I would have taken pictures)


     Side note:  I am blessed with my mixed family situation.  We get along with Nate's ex, she gets along with Nate's family, so she was at Nate's aunt's house so lil N could play with his cousins- even though it WAS her holiday so she could have done whatever she wanted, but she chose to hang out with our family. 


After the kids played in the pool, we went back to our house for some grilling! We had a TON of food for the 5 of us. 

Cheddar dogs, steak kabobs, and 2 kinds of pork chops

That would be Nate saying he is SUPER FULL!!

Don't worry we had a ton of left overs! As you can see, it doesn't even look like we touched anything.

Here are a couple other things I made for the Fourth thanks from inspiration from Pinterest. 

Fourth of July cupcakes.  Made with cake mix and a can of diet 7-up.  This makes the cupcakes with less fat and they are actually more airy.  I have been doing this for years, and people can not tell the difference. 

That awesome drink is just cherry kool-aid, blue low sugar gatorade, and diet 7-up.  It was a fun drink to serve on the Fourth! You can easily make it an adult beverage if you wish by adding some vodka ;)

To separate drinks, liquids with the highest sugar content will go to the bottom, then pour slowly the next lowest sugar content and top with a drink with little to no sugar content.  In this drink, the kool-aid had 20g, Gatorade had 7g, and diet 7-up had 0g. 

On to FUNDAYS! Saturday we got up early to grill out again with some friends and watch the annual FunDays parade.  I am going to say, the companies in the parades could have put a little more thought into their floats.  A lot of them were just pick-up trucks with their company logo.  It was still fun to watch, the kids got a lot of treats and the weather was perfect!  After the parade we went to the carnival.  We had lil N and his cousin with us.  We let them ride 5 rides each and play some games. 

(I have more pics from my new phone, but now I can't figure out how to post those...)

Any who, after the carnival we went home.  I wanted to watch my friend play in his softball tournament, so I left to watch one game.  They lost. 

That night the adults decided to go out.  I went with my friend to the Beer Garden.  He had never been there before.  Nate doesn't like beer, so he went straight downtown with his cousin and his cousin's girlfriend.  (kids stayed at grandma's).  The beer garden was packed and hot and lots of people just running into each other... not my idea of a good time, but I went because my friend wanted to go.  We stayed about an hour and a half and then took a cab downtown to meet up with the rest of our friends. 

Sunday, Nate had a couple tattoo's and I had to bartend 4-10.  Here is a tattoo Nate did on Sunday, I think it looks awesome! 

I would never get this on me, but I like the art work... My husband definitely has talent!

I will try to take more pictures of us as a family for the blog.  And I will try to stay on track and eat healthier, although we still have a half of flag of cupcakes left... but I might just toss them to get them out of the house. :) Until next time!!

 

220.4

Down 3 pounds!  Well that is better than nothing considering, I didn't really do much, except watch what I was eating... kind of.  I can't just say that I am going to stop eating this and stop eating that, I will feel like I am depriving myself and then not stop thinking about it.  This past week I was looking at portion sizes and trying to understand when my body was hungry or just bored.  I am going to try to not drink beer though.  That is pretty much just liquid fat.  For those of you who know me, I love Honeyweiss... and after a long day at work,  usually the bartender will have one waiting for me. A 22 oz. Honeyweiss for that matter... so pretty much 2 beers right off that bat.  Usually I will drink 2 of those with a meal before I go home. (remember I get free food and alcohol at my restaurant I work).   Not this weekend, I really wanted one, but opted for a cosmopolitan and a water. 

My husband did by a stationary bike at a garage sale this weekend, so I will try to put that to use a couple times this week.

Time to see what my professors have in store for me! (first day of class today)... and I want to try to clean out our garage... wish me luck!

Until next time!

50 Shades of Grey

So I read most of the book.  I wanted to read most of it, because I wanted to see if it would get any better... it didn't.  One of my co-workers read all three books in three weeks, and now is starting over again.  I don't understand what all the fuss is about.  If you haven't read the book and want to, then stop reading this blog. 

Reasons why I dislike this book:

- Even though I knew the book was pretty much porn, it got a little boring.
- Why would a virgin decide to sleep with a man who has her sign a contract that she will be his submissive... why stay a virgin if you weren't waiting for the right one! (I understand they did get married, but that's besides the point)
- Who says "as he pressed against my sex".. I have never heard anyone call their vagina "sex" before... I have heard the words, vag, va jay jay, pussy, twat, and meat flaps... but never sex. 
- Why would anyone ever even consider signing a dominant/submissive contract... (especially a virgin)... this goes back to my second point I know, but that's how much I don't get or like this couple's aggreement.
- I don't get why women who read this book would fall in love with Christian Grey... if he was ugly, this relationship would have never happened... he would just be a creepy rich guy that likes to dominate women during sex. 
- The book was very slow moving.. They could have met, had wild and crazy sex, then figured out why he has so many problems, got married and had children all in one book... not three.


In other news, I had to work all weekend, which is why I haven't updated for a while.  I am getting a new phone on Thursday which I am excited about.  Although I feel bad for my husband, because he has been on the phone with the phone company for over an hour trying to buy my new phone and save his contract, which apparently is really difficult.  I hate cell phone companies. 

I start classes tomorrow, wish me luck.