This weekend was again packed full of fun events. Friday I got to go out with "my girls". We had a MOPS Steering Appreciation dinner at El Cholo. This is an amazing Mexican restaurant here. We decided to do an appreciation for Danielle too. We got her a gift card and I made her a "card".
This was the best one of these I have ever done. It's made with paper bags, scrapbook paper, ribbons, pictures, and staples. Each of the little ribbons on the right side pulls out a paper with a picture or writing on it. We all had our own space to write a message and I had a few cute pics too.
This is the inside of one of them. On the right was one of the spaces to write. She loved it. It was a lot of fun to make.
My girls!! The MOPS Steering team (minus Nanette who couldn't come). Amy, April, me, Eva, Sheila, Candice, Danielle, and Christina
The Steering Leadership team are the leaders of the leaders in MOPS. We all are in charge of some aspect of the MOPS group.
This was the first party of Saturday. A pool party for her softball team. Here is my poser.
Even though they already got their trophies at the Closing Ceremonies, the coaches wanted to make it special for each of them. They took turns talking about each girl and giving them the trophy. Coach Gene, Manager Sarah, and Coach John
I didn't take any pictures of the second party. Boo! I forgot. We went to Parnell Park for a farewell party for the Lane's. So sad to see them moving, but great things are in store for them.
Party #3 was Grace's birthday party. This one we did without the kids. We knew it would be a mainly adult party, so the kids would probably have been bored. Instead they got to go to their grandparent's house to have fun. Little did we know they would end up sleeping over. Woho! They begged apparently.
Sunday we went to church as usual. Then we got to see our nieces, nephew, brother, and sister-in-law. They moved back to California from Colorado. We couldn't be more excited to see them move back. We surely missed seeing them all the time. The only way we could be more excited is if Susie, Adam, and Bella moved down too. ;P haha Ya, I can dream. That's my sister-in-law, brother-in-law and niece. (Scott's sister's family)
Ah I just love this one of Courtney.
They both fell asleep in the car on the way home. I guess they were exhausted from playing with their cousins. The next day (today) we got to spend time after school swimming with them too. Ahh it's so nice having them back.
Ok, so now to the not so good part. I ate HORRIBLE this weekend. I snacked on chips galore at the first party, then had cookies on top of that and lunch. Then wasn't going to eat hardly anything at the third party but still ended eating dinner (granted smaller, but still) there and some little candies. Then Sunday we had donuts at church that I just apparently had to have. Then we went out for dinner with my parents. My meal was good (salad), but we had chips and salsa and I ate too much.
I did run last night to try to counter act some of it. ug I hate it when I do so horribly on the weekend. Seriously, why can't I get my act together? I need to either stop going to so many parties, or control myself better at them. ahh I need to get back into the mindset that it's not ok to have everything I want.
I weighed in this morning and was up 3 pounds since Friday morning. Ahh!! That's ridiculous! I have my work cut out for me for Friday's weigh in. I did workout this morning (elliptical for 30 min., stretching, abs, and strength training with legs). So, hopefully that helps. Thankfully my husband is eating what's left of the M&Ms right now. Those have been a challenge for sure. Adding some almonds to those has been a huge weakness. It's like a really awesome trail mix. One that I can not stop eating. I can't eat peanuts, so that was a great alternative. HOWEVER, it's sooooo bad. The almonds alone would be a good snack. Uh, I feel sick just thinking about it. These and other such snacks have to find their way OUT of my house. Because I will eat them.
Dear Traci,
It's not ok to make trail mix (for me).
It's not ok to have so many chips, let alone 3 nights of chips.
It's not ok to eat what makes you sick (especially when you don't know the threshold).
Stop working out just so you can eat more.
Eating 2 bowls of cereal is NOT acceptable.
Drink even more water. Especially with this heat and all of that exercise.
You're not going to lose as much as you could if you keep eating like that on the weekend.
You don't have to win every challenge that presents itself, let alone participate in them all.
Take care of your hip and fix that bed just in case that's the problem.
I got the idea for the letter to myself from
Jack Sh*t Gettin' Fit.
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