Ass Kicking Time

I started back up yesterday in full swing, both in diet and school. I don't think I did too bad! The scale yesterday said 171.8lbs but I knew it was helped by salty BBQ food Monday night so I re-weighed in today. 169.6lbs. Much better.

So my plan.... 
Mini goal - 164lbs by month's end
Mid goal - 157lbs by end of October
Final goal - 150lbs by end of November
That's 19lbs in 12 weeks - 1.58lbs a week. It'll be hard, but I really want to be there! Also, to be my final goal weight BEFORE all the holiday baking would be awesome lol

Yesterday I did pretty well in the food dept. My usual bagel and cream cheese for breakfast (though I really do need to go get my weight watchers bagels instead of the big white ones I have now), honeydew and cantaloupe for lunch, a small wrap with about 1/8 cup chicken and the rest peppers and onions for supper and some more honeydew for a bedtime snack. Normally I wouldn't have a bedtime snack cause I tend to just mindlessly eat, but this was a planned snack with a set portion and I didn't even want to mindlessly eat afterwards!

We met up with our homeschool group at lunch and went on a 1.5km hike. I think it was further than that, but I'll have to see if the website for the place lists distances. Brianna and I enjoyed the hike so much we want to go back soon and often!

Today I skipped breakfast (BAD!) but had another small wrap like yesterday for lunch. Now to figure out something that won't kill me for supper.

Ooooh Pretty!

Stolen from my friend Lacey's blog, a widget for my Daily Mile log! I track this on facebook already, but since this blog is my main diet tracking place I thought, what a great thing to add!

Brianna's 8th Birthday!

Happy Birthday Brianna!

Her birthday was this past Monday and we had her party on Sunday. She had a blast! We had a great turn out of her friends and her cousins, Kyle and Tanya, were finally able to make it since they now live in town!

Sunday was the start of a massive heat wave in the area so we set up the pool for the kids. Brianna's guests weren't even here yet and she was asking to go in it! As soon as lunch was done we set them loose. Lee thought up this great scheme that me and mom would "plot" with the kids to get them to throw Lee in the pool. The kids thought this was a wonderful idea and of course Lee pretended to know nothing about it.

Brianna wanted a Littlest Pet Shop cake this year so I bought one of the sets that come with a bunch of accessories and made up a little scene on her cake. She thought it was great!

She was so happy with her gifts. Her favorites were some craft sets from her friend Lyric, the Zhu Zhu baby that Auntie Lisa got her, the baby skateboard Lee and I bought and the *real* baseball and bat from Grandma.

Happy Canada Day!

yesterday.....

I was much too tired after the festivities to post last night so here we are!

Canada Day started out as a normal day since nothing goes on in the mornings. So Brianna had her schoolwork, Olivia had nap, then we had lunch. THEN it was time to pull out the Canada Day fun! We got dressed in our Canada Day outfits (or just red clothes in mine and Lee's case), tattoos applied (even for Olivia!), hair done up (well, Lee wouldn't let me do his lol) and off we go!

We went down to the park where Brianna saw those big blow up playground things. We said she couldn't go cause the lines were miles long! Maybe later. We saw Auntie Lisa at her volunteer post in the bingo tent and then went to see some petting zoo animals. Brianna was thrilled to feed them and even saw a pink chicken (her fave!). Olivia wasn't too sure about these big animals but she was keeping a close eye on them!

We went back to the house for Olivia to nap and Brianna went 2 doors down to play with some kids visiting. Lisa and Steph showed up for BBQ and fireworks. After the baby woke up Lee took her for a bit of a walk, when he came back he said the lines at the blow up things we're a lot shorter so he'd take Brianna back. Unfortunately the reason they were so short was because they were about to close :( Poor Brianna

We did up a huge BBQ and sat around chatting waiting for the fireworks. I put Olivia down and she actually went down easy so I figured great! No problems later. WRONG! I went inside to get a drink at 9:30pm and she must have heard me and woke up and started fussing. I sent Lee up to try to get her back down, what does he do? Brings her outside! So Olivia got to see her first fireworks. She was totally enthralled! I figured the loud noise would scare her but no way!

Thankfully once all was done we had no problems putting the girls to bed. I was pooped! I went straight to bed and I think I fell asleep before my head hit the pillow.

A Visit From an Old Friend

So Lee's old High School buddy Leslie came to visit yesterday and overnight. Lots of fun to be had! We had a big BBQ and some drinks. Once the bug were biting too much we moved from the back yard to the porch. In my cleaning spree yesterday I kinda forgot to eat (lol) so ended up feeling like crap. I think being tired didn't help.

This morning we had some bacon and eggs for breakfast (and I informed Lee that I expect the sausages and pancakes he didn't make, for breakfast tomorrow!) After some pictures in the yard we said our goodbyes for now. Hopefully we'll see him again later in the week when he's back in town!
Off to Ottawa! Had a great visit with Isaac. We went upstairs to play, something I think we'll do more often cause there's toys there that Olivia can play with too. Isaac and Brianna had loads of fun playing with some ride on toys, racing around. Had a great lunch of leftover BBQ *YUM*