fashion

he picked out his boots to wear this morning. fine by me!

achievements

if you're friends with me on Facebook, you see that I post my weekly weighin results from my weight watchers meetings. I've also been doing a bootcamp 2 nights a week at a local gym.

if you know me in real-life, or have been following this blog since the beginning, you'll know how unhappy I was and what a struggle my weight has been over the years.

I had an awesome week at bootcamp this week. there's a GINORMOUS hill the we've run a handful of times. 3 weeks ago, we ran the hill 3 times. I was able to run the entire thing once. the other two times, I walked or shuffled portions. this past tuesday night, we ran the hill again. my goal was to make it up 2 running. not only did I do that, I did a third time, then about half of a fourth time. awesome! It felt great!

as of saturday I've lost 37 pounds since I started weight watchers a year and a half ago. next week, I'm hoping to be able to shout from the rooftops that I'll be looking at the world from under 200! something I haven't been able day for like, 5 years. super excited. it's taken a lot of hard work.

yummy weekend

daddy had the flu last Thursday and Friday, so we had him home all weekend. we've been catching up on a lot of chopped, masterchef and restaurant: impossible. so i was feeling a bit inspired. I was able to make some yummies out of our pantry fixins.

we had grilled cheese on the griddle with mixed veggies yesterday for lunch. have you ever used the parkay squeezable butter? it's FANTASTIC for grilled cheese!

last night we had bacon pancakes with strawberry sauce. I took a shakeable bisquik mix then sprinkled some bacon chunks on the batter. I thawed out some frozen strawberries in a saucepan with sugar, brown sugar, lemon juice, cinnamon and orange zest. it was so pretty and so yummy, but I didn't get a picture because I lost my phone out on the porch...but found it on the way up to bed.

tonight we had pork chops, garlic smashed taters and cornbread muffins. I had a mix for the muffins, and made that as is. we had a bag on steam-in-the-bag red potatoes, so I mashed those with garlic, butter, milk, salt and pepper. simple and delicious. we did the pork chops on the George. I coated them in olive oil and ground on a steak and chops grinder. yum yum and yum!

state fair 2012

we went to the state fair last Sunday. it was packed! we had a great time, ate lots of yummies, and really enjoyed walking around. somehow this is the only picture we took. the head holes were a little big...

cute lil mug

graham "caggers".

working

all gone

we're hanging out at home while daddy is at work today. lil guy is playing in the sunroom, I'm sitting on the couch knitting and catching up on my jerseylicious.

there was a blank spot in the commercials. he came in the room and pointed at the tv and said, "tv all gone". too funny.