Happy Birthday to ME!!!!!!

This weekend we had my birthday dinner at my mom's house. My mom made my favorite, Mulligan Stew, and she also tried a new recipe of Swiss Steak. It was all delicious!!! Since I am still trying to lose some weight, I told mom that I would try a different kind of cake this year. Now my normal cake is to have a pineapple upside down cake. And this is the first year in I couldn't tell you how long that I didn't have that cake on my birthday. Anyway, I got a recipe from weight watchers and decided to try it. It is called a diet pop cake. Instead of making the cake as directed on the box, you take the mix, my choice was chocolate, and you pour about 3/4 of a can of diet pop, I used diet dr pepper. I also used 2 egg whites, but you don't have to. Mix the batter and pour into greased pan. I used 2 round pans. Bake as directed on the box. For the icing I took sugar free cool whip and 2 containers of sugar free chocolate pudding and mixed them. After icing the cake, I cut the cake into 12 slices. For one slice, it was 4 points on WW. This is alot better than 8 or 9 for a smaller slice of a regular cake.
And it was good, it was a little dry, but we put strawberries on it, and this made it even better!!! And pretty much sugar free.
And the left over icing, I put it in the freezer, and now I have a low fat, sugar free ice cream.
My mom, DJ and Renisa, and Sheryl and Matthew all went in together and got me a new set of dishes. I wanted some square ones, and they got them for me. I love them. Mom also got me some baskets, cause I love to put baskets up all over the place. My hubby got me a mini trampoline, cause I need to exercise and lose some more weight. Me and him got a deal and I got to work extra hard to strive for my weight loss goal. Just __ pounds to go!!!!! I hope that everyone had a great weekend!!!

Happy New Year!!!

Here are a few pics from Christmas. The bottom two are from the Christmas play at the Church. Casey was a snowman and Cody was an Uncle caught off guard. He didn't know that he was going to be singing at the end. So I took a pic of him just moving his lips. I hope that all had a Merry Christmas and that the true meaning of Christmas was shared.
I also wish you all a Blessed New Year!!!! May you keep your New Year Resolutions for longer than a few days. :)
My New Year's Resolution is to just get back on track with everything: Weight Watchers, Housework, Work, and Family stuff. The past few months have been hard to stay on track.

Some December Pics

I am so far behind on my posts. Sorry everyone. I know what it is like to open a blog and see the same thing on there for what seems like years. So here are a few pics that I have from this month. Including my family Christmas photo. I hope that everyone is well and I hope that you all have a very Merry CHRISTmas. God Bless!!!!!!!!

Kimono

Last night we went to the Kimono Japanese Steakhouse for dinner, because Cody had wanted to take Savannah(his girlfriend) as a celebration of them dating for 1 yr. So he worked some for Eric this summer and saved some money so that he could pay for them to eat. The evening was fun. As you can see, we had a great big fire, even the guy that started it is looking away from it. Then the cook threw some egg for the kids to catch with their mouth. As you can tell from the one pic of Cody the egg isn't quite going to make it. It came close a couple of times but no go. As for Samie, she caught it on the second throw, Can you see it? We had a great meal, ate way too much as usual, and I got a few pics of Cody and Savannah, and then Casey wanted her pic taken too. Samie didn't. Any way, I hope that everyone has a great week.

Veterans Day Parade 08

Sorry I am posting this late. But I just haven't had the time. I have been busy with work and everything.
Cody was in the Veterans Day parade on Tuesday. And here are a few pics of him in his band uniform. If you look at the one picture he looks real serious, I think this is because Mrs. Kade was fussing about him not being in line with her or something so he was counting or concentrating. Anyway, a quick notes to our Veterans. THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT YOU DO AND DID!!!! I think that we should all be proud of our people in the service, and pray for them daily. If it weren't for them, we wouldn't be a free nation. God Bless Each and Everyone of You.

Cody for Halloween and DJ's Birthday

For Halloween night, Cody had to be at the football game, so we took the kids trick or treating then Cody text me to let me know when it was 2nd quarter so that we could get to the game for the half time show, and here are some pics of Cody during that half time show. The other pics are from DJ's birthday last weekend. You can now see Cody in his braces. Him and Curtis are now the Braces Boys where the 3 girls are known as the Whatever Girls. I posted the picture of DJ after Mom told him to be nice, as you can see he still wasn't happy about getting his picture taken.

Happy Halloween!!!!!!!

I hope that everyone had a safe and enjoyable Halloween!!! We did a few things this past week. For starters we went to the movies last Saturday so that Casey could see High School Musical 3, and we had to take some pics of her with the gang from the movie. ;) Her favorite is the one with Troy. Samie and Casey went to see HSM3, Cody went to see Eagle Eye, and me and Eric, well we went to see Saw V. My brother got mad at me because I didn't call him to go with me to see Saw V. After the movies we went to my mom's and had a birthday dinner for DJ, Happy Late Birthday Bro!!!!! I think he is still mad at me. I won't post the pics from his birthday just yet. I will post them under another post.
As for the Halloween activities this week, we had a harvest festival at the church on Wednesday night, followed by Trunk or Treat. The kids had lots of fun at the festival, they had several games, cake walk, decorating pumpkins, and etc. One of the games was to see who could run out of toilet paper first as the kids wrapped a person in it. Cody got to be the lucky one in his group to be wrapped, they didn't win though. But he looks so cute wrapped in toilet paper. LOL
Then we took the kids trick or treating last night, Casey decided to go as a black fairy instead of a black cat this year. I think she made a cute little black fairy, Sheryl called her Evil Tinkerbell. And with the faces that she was giving I would say she could pass as one. No really, she was just cute!!!!!! Lacy was a vampire, and Jody was a karate kid. It was fun and the kids got lots of candy, that I am going to stay away from. It is so hard to resist the chocolate though.

Last Post to Catch Up the last little bit.

Okay, to wrap up through October so far, We had our ladies conference a couple of weekends ago. The pic of Casey is at the conference and I also included a pic of the layout of the food on Saturday. The food was wonderful and so was the conference. We had a good show of ladies on Friday night and it was very enjoyable. I felt blessed. My aunt Dawn and cousin DeAnna came up for the conference and it was nice to visit with them too.
The Thursday before the conference we had a baby shower for one of the girls I work with, Jenny. Here is a pic of her with the Judy cake made for her. I also have a pic of Abbigayle, Amy I work with's daughter. And Brayden, Nancy's son. Abbigayle was bound and determined not to smile for the camera and she did a good job of it. She is so cute. Brayden loves the camera however.
The Friday of the conference I stopped by Jenny's that morning to take some pics of her belly. I won't be posting any of those pics though. But take my word for it, they turned out good. Jenny had her baby on the 17th of October and I haven't got to see her yet but I heard that she has a head full of hair, and I can't wait to see her.
Oh!!! Almost forgot, Cody got braces on the 8th of October, I still need to take a pic of him so that I can post it, to show you how handsome he looks with the braces.
Talk to you later, God Bless!!!!

Longaberger Trip

I returned from Nashville on Friday night, after 12 midnight, then I was up and Sheryl and I went on a bus trip to Dresden, Ohio to the Longaberger Outlet. It was a very fun trip, Sheryl and I had lots of fun and we can't wait to take the next one in April. We both bought ourselves a pocket book and then we bought some dips and things. It was a very fun trip. By the time I got home Saturday night I was wore out. Too much traveling in one weeks time.