Super Saturday & Simple Sunday

Hello everyone! I am finally getting back in the groove of writing again after not having the internet for a week! It's amazing how behind you will get once that happens. I've been trying to catch up on everyone's blogs but everyone has so much going on, it may take me a little while. But it does look like everyone is having some good times and eating some good food. So, here we go into this past weekend:

SUPER SATURDAY
This Saturday was pretty busy. It was busier than we planned it to be, but sometimes that's okay. We started our morning off with my last soccer game of the season. For those of you that don't know, I coach a kids' soccer team through a church (which my son plays on) and this past Saturday was our last game. It was pretty rough for me because the team was really starting to mold together just as the season was starting to end. This was my first time ever having to do anything with soccer and I absolutely enjoyed it. Here are some pics of my team:

From L-R: Kristina, Daylie, & Lyric

(From L-R: Tyler (my son), Joel, Lyric, & Kristina)

From L-R: Joel, Tyler, Me, Lyric, Daylie, & Kristina. There are two girls (Allie & Emily) on the team that are on the team that were not in the picture. They missed a lot of games so I don't have a lot of pictures of them. Bummer.

After our last game, the team joined me at my home for an End of the Season Team Pizza Party!! All the kids were very excited about this. They had a great time, which, of course, makes me feel good. One of the parents was so awesome in helping out with party. I didn't ask her to, she just stepped up. Here are some pics from the party:

The Spread of Food. There were 6 pizzas from Little Caesar's. Three were completely devoured (as you can see at the back of the table) and two more were halfway eaten and one full one left over. There were chips which were halfway devoured, Rolo candies which are almost gone, and some chocolate chip cookies. Mmmm..
These cookies were so addicting even though they were only Albertson's brand chocolate chip cookies. I couldn't stop eating them! Just the perfect amount of chewyness!

Of course the kids had a great time playing. We definitely can't forget that part. We had the fooseball table and hockey table out... And of course Dance Dance Revolution!!

(Allie & Daylie: Allie's not in a lot of pictures on the soccer field cause she missed a lot of games but she is a cool kid.)
Tyler and Joel playing on the hockey table

After this party was over we had a few hours of down time where I pretty much just wanted to pass out and go to sleep. But instead of doing that, we decided to try to have a last minute barbecue to help move some of the leftover food out of the house. We just grilled up some hot dogs and served the left over pizza and sides. It was great because otherwise I would have been eating everything on my own. Whew!! And of course all the fun stuff was still out so the adults had at with fooseball, hockey, and Dance Dance Revolution!! Unfortunately, don't have really any pics of this get together. I was being pretty lazy since I was so tired.

SIMPLE SUNDAY

Since Saturday was so packed, I really wanted to take it easy on Sunday. We went to church in the morning and pretty much just relaxed and did nothing for the rest of the day. My son was in trouble so he was stuck in his room so I pretty much just laid down and rested. That was definitely a simple Sunday.

GIVE AWAYS!!

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Have a Great Monday everyone!!

A Brief Update & Plans For The Weekend

So, we have officially moved for the second time in about a month. I absolutely HATE moving but I must admit that this move was much smoother. And in addition to that, we found a place that was about $200 less than where we were AND we have WAY more space. So, after all that stress, everything worked out for the best. YAY! So, hopefully (fingers crossed) we will not have to ever move again unless we buy a house.

For the most part this has been a pretty "blah" week. Filled with getting unpacked and eating lots of unhealthy food as we always do when we move cause I'm too lazy and tired to actually cook... Bad me!! But now we are pretty much completely unpacked so we should be able to get back in to the groove of things. I took absolutely no pictures of anything that I ate. My hubby did, however, take a picture of one thing he made himself for lunch. I think he's starting to like taking pictures of his food. :-) He's so thoughtful. Now, I don't know if I would think this is too appetitzing but I'm posting because I appreciate him taking a picture of his meal. Too much hot dogs again. He didn't what all was in so I'm not quite sure. If anyone has any quesses, I'd love to hear them. Sorry for the picture being kind of dark. It was taken on his camera phone.

FOR THE WEEKEND
This weekend shoukl be pretty good. Tonight, we have Family Fun Friday scheduled. I have decided yet what we are going to have for dinner yet. Any suggestions? Something good but EASY. Cause the whole point is to not put a lot of work in to the meal. Maybe we might grill some hot dogs or burgers and enjoy some games outside. I know... that probably sounds like a weird choice since I just commented about hubby's meal being too much hot dog. But I do love them off the grill!! I just think they taste way better.

Then on Saturday morning we have our last soccer game. I am pretty sad because I had a GREAT group of kids on my team. After that, we are having our end of the season team party at my apartment. I will definitely try to make sure that I take lots of pics this time. Then Saturday afternoon, we are trying to decide if we want to go to a Strawberry Festival at Plymouth Village (a senior home in our town, Redlands, CA) or just relax.

Sunday morning we are off to church for some good teaching from the Bible. After church we usually go to lunch with my in-laws. And then we may possibly take Tyler to the San Bernardino County Museum. He's never been there before and it's usually free admittance on the first Sunday of every month. So, that's the plans for the weekend (as of right now) and probably a little more unpacking.

So, now I have to get ready and be off to work! Have a great Friday everyone!

Any big plans for the weekend?!?!?

I'm Back!!

I have been without the internet for almost a week now since we moved... AGAIN!! But now I have the internet back up and I'm ready to blog (not that there was that much to blog about since I last wrote) and definitely ready to catch up on everyone else's blogs. I don't have the time to post right now but definitely look for a new post tomorrow morning or tomorrow night! I hope everyone has been having an awesome week! Mine has been weary. My body feels like it's Friday even though my mind knows that it is Thursday. Does that sound weird?? Catch up with everyone tomorrow and through the weekend! Can't wait to see what's been going on with everyone!

A Positive Way To Start My Day

I just wanted to share a small triumph in my journey. It has been almost exactly 3 months since I have started this journey. DAY 1 was on February 25, 2009 (actually the official first day was a couple days earlier) and I would just like to share a little positive thing that happened this morning. I stepped on the scale and was excited to see that the scale read (drum roll please!!)... 183.6!!
To some of you this may seem like a pretty high number but it was definitely higher. Even to me this seems like a pretty high number (which I am definitely surprised that I'm sharing) but as long as the number keeps going down til I'm at a healthy weight, then I will be happy. I have not been 183 in a long time. As a matter of fact, I think that when I was gaining weight, I actually skipped right over it on the way up (if that's possible.).

Well, I have to get going. I have a soccer game to coach this morning (and next week will be my last game... :-( lonely tear drop) and then we are moving... AGAIN. We have not had a very good experience where we are so we decided to move again. I HATE moving but we have been here for a month and already know that we can't stay. But where are moving to now is WAY better and a couple hundred dollars cheaper. Score for us!

Have a great Saturday everyone! And good luck to all you bloggers out there that are running races this weekend!!

My Hubby Is So Thoughtful

Taylor was so kind as to take a picture of his lunch yesterday and email it to me! He knows that I've been trying to take pictures of my meals (which I haven't done at all today) and he doesn't really like when I do it when we're not at home so I thought this was really cool that he took a picture of his lunch. I thought it was very creative but a little too much hot dog for me. :-) He has three hot dogs covered in melted cheese & relish. And then he added some strawberries on the side. Very creative hubby!
Now I am off to work. Trying to catch up on everyone's blogs today. And hopefully something worthwhile to post tonight. I can't believe it's already going to be the end of the week!

In addition, be sure to check out HangryPants for an opportunity to win some delicious Element Bars. Check it out soon as the contest ends today!!

Weekend Wrap-Up

So, this weekend didn't seem very jam-packed at first but somehow, It got packed! It was a wonderful weekend. I don't have too many pictures so I will keep the words brief because I know most people like to see all the pictures with the posts. And I still have to get use to carrying my camera all over the place taking pictures. So, here we go!

FRIDAY
On Friday, we had Family Fun Friday. Often times we have watched a movie but I'm think that next week we might have to mix it up. Tyler (our 9-year old son) loves movie night because I don't think he got to watch enough movies where he was before he lived with us (may have to write a post on that someday) but I think we need to have some variety. Anyhow, first Tyler and I took a walk down to our local Blockbuster (1pt for TSL) to rent a movie. Since we get a free rental when return our Blockbuster Online video in the store, we definitely had to do that. The movie we rented was The Sword In The Stone. After that we walked (another point for TSL) to Albertson's (local grocery store) to get the food for Family Fun Friday. We basically just bought some ground turkey and some packages of Spanish rice. Then we walked home (another point. YAY!) Roundtrip, the walk was about 1.5 miles. And amazingly, my little Tyler didn't whine or complain the whole time.... but he was looking pretty tired. We didn't have to buy anything else at the store cause we had everything else we needed. I cooked up the ground turkey and the rice. Then I mixed them together. Then I put them in tortillas to make burittos. After they were wrapped I put them on the George Foreman grill for some extra goodness. :-) They were so good! And as for the time for the movie, Taylor (hubby) and I did not last very long. When 9:00 hit, we felt like it was midnight. I don't what happened but we had to call it a night. We had to tell Tyler that we would finish the movie another night. I guess we are getting old. :-) Here are the goods.

Inside the burittos were ground turkey, rice, and cheese. Then after they came off the Foreman, I sprinkled some more shredded cheese on top. On the side we had pineapple slices. In case you haven't noticed, I love fruit but I am lacking on the veggies. I need to change that. And then just for extras we had some Flamin' Hot Cheetos. Sorry no pic. SATURDAY

Saturday morning, we started off with some pancakes with more pineapples on the side. I think pineapple is my favorite fruit! In the pancake mix, I added vanilla and cinammon. It turned out SO good! But clearly I cooked one pancake longer than the other in this picture. Oops. :-) Still tasted good!
After breakfast, we headed out to our soccer game. The whole team consists of 7 players. 4 are allowed to play at a time. And we had THREE kids not come and their parents never let me know that they were not coming. So, the four players I had did an AWESOME job! These are the four players I had:

LYRIC: She is an amazing player. She always plays hard and she listens to instructions very well. Her personality is a definite bonus to this team!
DAYLIE: She loves to play defense. Sometimes I think it's just because she's lazy but she does do a good job of playing defense. But she always wants to stay back. But she came through for us on Saturday!
KRISTINA: She appears to be a shy quiet girl. She is very polite and considerate. She is usally a little bit timid on the field but this Saturday she really was on fire. She was attacking the ball over the field. She was amazing!
TYLER: Last but not least is my son. He has really improved a lot this season. He is actually following directions better and learning to have more control. He played really hard on Saturday and I am very proud of him!

We will just call these players my superstars! None of them have missed a game, except Tyler missed one due to being sick. All the ones that were not here have missed at least two. And there are only 9 games! Anyhow, we had a great game on Satuday!

So, then after we got home, and started doing our Saturday chores, my mother-in-law calls and asks if Tyler can come over to watch a movie with them. This was such a good thing becasue then Taylor and I got to hang out by ourselves. We went to Pick Up Stix, which I had a gift card for. We split Wok Combo which had sweet and sour chicken, steamed brown rice, and an egg roll. It was VERY satisfying! And then after we left there, we went to Golden Spoon to split a New York Cheese Cake Frozen Yogurt. We added strawberries, brownie crumbs, cookie dough, oreo crumbs, and of course hot fudge!!+ It was great! We got to enjoy a couple hours together with just us and we didn't spend a dime!! Well, except the gas to get to those places!! Sorry, no pictures. :-( Bummer because our food and frozen yogurt was really good!

So, then we went back home and dropped off our leftover frozen yogurt. And then we picked up the little one. By the way, we walked to the in-laws when we dropped Tyler off and when we picked him up (More points for TSL!).

So, after we got back, we just chilled at home. Tyler played with his LEGOS and Taylor and I just relaxed some more. Then we started Tyler through his evening routines of shower, chores, bed.

SUNDAY
We started Sunday morning with just some cereal. Had to keep it light because we always go out to lunch after church with the in-laws. Then we headed off to church. We had a guest speaker from Colorado (I think). He was pretty interesting. Basically he talked about having spritual courage is just like having faith. Interesting.

After church, we all headed out to Panera Bread. I just had some Cream of Brocolli soup. I did not want to ruin my appetite for the barbecue later. Usually I get the You Pick Two and get a soup and a sandwich. So, I had to resist. :-)

Then we went home and relaxed for a couple of hours. Then I cut up the watermelon for the BBQ. Around 3ish, we headed out.

The barbecue was great. There were LOTS of good eats and there were some great people there, too (some of which I haven't seen in a couple of years! So, it was kind of like a reunion.

Here's the goods!

BBQ Chicken, Hamburgers, Turkey Burgers, and Hot dogs. The Burgers were the first things done so they went fast and that's why there aren't many in this picture. They were good! Home made patties.

Deviled Eggs made by the lovely host!

Now, this is not actually my plate but it was pretty close. I only added tomato to my burger. I don't this person got all this other stuff because I couldn't even barely take a bite with just the burger and tomato. The burgers were HUGE! On the side baked bean which were delicious and corn on the cob which I heard was amazing but didn't try because of my braces. :-(

The Spread - Great variety of chips, lots of veggies, watermelon, jelly beans, pretzels, etc, etc, etc.... good stuff!
Taylor and I spent a lot of time playing table tennis. We were trying to get three balls going. We could do it for a little while but not too long. Two balls at once worked pretty well, though. It gave me a little workout to work off all the food I ate.
And here are our amazing hosts!! Matt and Bobbi McCormick. Aren't they just beautiful?!?!? I love these guys. They are so down to earth and genuine! I am truly blessed to have them in my life!

So, that pretty much wraps up the weekend. We stayed at the barbecue until about 8:30 talking with everyone but then we decided it was time to put our little man to bed. So, we headed off.

Today we have been invited to a birthday party for Bobbi's niece. And I assume at some time today we will do something for my brother-in-law, Griffin. Nothing has been said yet but his birthday is today and usually we do something at the last minute. So, that will probably be dinner tonight.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful Memorial Day Weekend! God Bless!!

Yesterday's Eats and Date Night

YESTERDAY'S EATS

In all actuality I am really only going to show you pictures from yesterday's breakfast. Oh wait! I will also show a picture from my afternoon snack! And the reason I'm not showing the other meals is because they are not interesting. As a matter of fact, I didn't even eat lunch...again! And for dinner, hubby and I had french toast pizza with slices of pineapple on the side. It was great (mostly because it was easy) for date night which I will get to later.

So, yesterday for breakfast, I decided to make some french toast. I use to make french toast ALL the time but haven't for a long time. But last week I went to my beautiful friend, Bobbi's house for breakfast and she made me french toast. So, now I have the craving for it. Here is mine. The mix is two eggs, 1/2 cup of low fat milk, vanilla, and cinammon. And then I top it with powdered sugar. I also made scrambled eggs. There was a little bit of the egg mix so i just added more eggs to the mix (which I've never done before) and scrambled them up. It definitely makes the texture a little different but they were still pretty good. And then I added some leftover slices of oranges.
And then for my afternoon snack, I decided to try to make another Ice Blended Mocha. It tasted great but I still need to add more ice to make it a little thicker. Once I get down just right, then I won't have to buy them at Coffee Bean anymore... that's money in my pocket!! (and another point for TSL. This time I topped it with whipped cream and powder for hot choocolate! Mmm...


DATE NIGHT

In our home, date night is supposed to be on Thursday night but we haven't really done it SOOO long. But last night hubby and I made sure to just relax together. We didn't go out anywhere since we didn't ask my dad to babysit, so we rented a movie (Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull) and just had an easy dinner at home. It was really nice to just relax and just be together without stressing out about the everyday things that bog people down. I don't have any pictures which is fine because there really wasn't anything to take pictures of. Next week we are planning to have a picnic outside after our little monster goes to bed. We are going to put a blanket out in our yard, light some candles, eat, talk, and enjoy the beginnings of summer nights!

So, now I am going to be off to work. And I am definitely glad it's Friday and a 3 DAY WEEKEND!! I hope everyone has a fun, safe holiday weekend!

PLANS FOR THE WEEKEND

Friday - Family Fun Friday, will walk to Blockbuster to rent a movie and walk to the store to by food for Fun Friday.

Saturday - Soccer game in the morning, swimming at in-laws... hopefully child does not act up, RELAX

Sunday - Church, Lunch with In-laws, BBQ

Monday - We amazingly haven't made any plans. Maybe that would be a good day to get a game of ultimate frisbee together in the morning before it gets too hot!

ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND!!