Biggest Loser for the 3rd week in a row!

Our Biggest Loser contest is about to end, only one more week to go! I am once again the biggest loser! Down 27 lbs as of this morning! I feel great and my second goal of this contest has already been reached and I have more clothes out of my "bin" than in! (wasn't planning on getting there until summer!) So I am extremely proud of my progress!

Dinner with Dad!

Seems like every time my parents come around, my camera isn't, so I made sure that the old Nikon went with me to dinner tonight! We tried a new place - BJ's Brewhouse - (my dad is more of a creature of habit than I am, so this was a plus! He was very concerned and wanted to make sure that I could eat somewhere and be able to make a good choice! How sweet!) The food was delicious, I recommend the Balsamic Chicken to anyone who goes there! AMAZING! The pictures were a few shots of us hanging out before dinner!

Walking?!

Not quite yet, but it is coming sooner than I think! Lola shocked me today by taking three steps after she stood up on her own. That is not new, she will stand up and stay up as long as she can, then fall on her little bootie and giggle! It is really cute!
She did the three step thing twice in a row, I tried for a third and she sat on the ground and started to cry. Not trying to push the walking thing, but this was her first attempt to take her steps on her own without holding onto the furniture! Yay Lola!!!

A tattoo for Lola

Chad went to get his tattoo for Lola today. It is a raven with a ribbon in its mouth hooked onto an anchor. Lola is short for Delores, Delores means "sorrow" - hence the raven, the pink ribbon with the anchor is for family and Lola being the last one of us to make our little Roseland family complete! I love it!



Kyan also had to get tattoos everywhere that his daddy has them, so before Chad went today to get his ink, we had to stick Kyan's on! Here are his!

An early evening out and a garage sale!

Last night after Chad got home from work, I went to meet up with the girls from work at Margaritaville! It was a nice little break from taking care of Lola all day! Plus it was just good to get out for some social time! Lots of talk about the students we teach, but also just nice to get to hang with all these fabulous women and not have to talk about all the stuff that happens at school! Thanks Angela for organizing the event! I did cut out early when the rest of the girls went to Saddle Ranch, but those two hours were great!

So, not only did I want to get up at 4:45 for Lola's appointment on Friday, I told Rae Lynn that I would help her with her garage sale today! She lives in Surprise, so I had another 4:45 morning again today! We had an ok selling day, made about $75, and got rid of a lot of CRAP!!! She hauled what we didn't sell to charity! The only thing I held onto were the girl clothes, as I have a friend that might want to go through all of Lola's stuff! What she doesn't want will also be donated! When we were laying out the girl clothes table I was shocked to see all of Lola's clothes! I have a disease...can't help but shop for her! Love having a girl to dress, it is so fun!

Here is to sleeping in tomorrow - hopefully!

Biggest Loser once again!!!

So I had to weigh in one day early this week because of Lola getting her tubes in today and I still managed to pull off the biggest loser crown this week! Haven't been "it" in awhile so that was a nice suprise email and text from Kristen that I read!
Total weight down according to the school scale = 20.2lbs
Total weight down according to the scale at home (first thing in the morning, naked) = 23.1lbs

Good job to all of those out there trying to lose weight this time around! Can't believe the results that I am seeing! I love it! Wedding ring was goal number 1 of these first 8/9 weeks of dieting (sorry, life style change) and goal number 2, by summer, was to get into the bin of clothes that have been waiting to get into since I got pregnant with Lola, and what do you know? I have pulled several pairs of pants and shorts from that bin already and they are fitting great, and it is only week 7 (I think it is week 7, maybe 8?)!

TUBE-A-LICIOUS!

Lola got her tubes this morning bright and early! We had to be at John C. Lincoln Hospital at 5:45, so we left the house around 5 to make sure we had enough time to get parked and checked in! Lola was the youngest patient on the surgery list this morning, so she was the first patient!
She had a bit of a rough night (is very good and sleeps through the night almost always - so this was out of the ordinary) and usually a bottle or medicine helps her get back to sleep, but not last night! She was up from about midnight until 3 am, just crying :( She must have sensed that something was happening to her today. Funny how babies just know sometimes.
Once we got back to the room, she was fussy off and on, I am chalking that up to lack of sleep though! We waited to talk to the doctors and nurse before they took her back, which was right at 7:02. They said, we'll see you in about 10 minutes - the doctor will come out and talk to you right after surgery. Hard to believe that in just those 10 minutes so much relief was given to Lola's little ears! Literally 10 minutes later (I checked the time 7:12) Dr. Osborne was out in the waiting room telling us that she had a lot of "stuff" in her ears and that her right ear had a pseudo membrane formed on it and that he just scraped it right off! He said her ears looked great now!
Within seconds of him going back to operate on the next kiddo, the nurse was calling me back to be with Lola while she recovered. We were back there for about 5 minutes and we were released! Fussy baby and all. So sad to see her be so helpless and confused, but at least I knew what to expect this time around since it was her 2nd time with the anesthesia. As soon as we got to the car and drove a little ways she was out the whole way home and went right into sleepy times in her crib!
Thank you Grandma Donna for helping us out this morning and going with us! Also, thank you to Auntie Rae for offering to have Kyan spend the night with all his cousins (even though they were all asleep when he got there!) Hopefully some playing time will be had this morning before I go to get him! And, thank you to everyone for the offers to help out these past two crazy weeks of our lives! Although I have only taken up some of you, the offers mean just as much!