5 months out

And this is all I have to show for it...not too bad so far....116lbs lost...i only weigh every two weeks now so not to get irritated when I hit plateaus!

Not much going on

Well I figured since I haven't posted in a while I better let you all know i'm still around after my vacations. Vegas was great! I loved it and would have loved to have spent sooooo much more time there and I can't wait to go back! I had the best time! I won a little money, met up with some of my Kansas peeps and had a blast! I can't wait to go back.

Then as a family we went to Pigeon forge TN! We had the best time! The kids were great! We got to meet up with a couple of billy's sisters and their kids for a couple days! It was just a great trip. We went to Dollywood for 2 of the days and that was super fun for all of us. We had a lot of really good food, tons of laughs and even some swimming.

So now I'm trying to catch up on everything, plan my dads suprise party (june 13th), get into my new steering team role in Mops, stress about miranda's health issues and enjoy the spring (if it ever offically gets here).

Thats all for now i'll post some pics soon. On another note I went to my moms this past weekend and she had been keeping my wedding dress at her house so I decided it was time for me to take it home. I tried it on and it fits better than when I got married. I am offically smaller than when i met billy! wooot! I'll post again soon!

Vaca time

So not much is going on here...same ole same ole. I have now lost 101 lbs! woo hoo! Things are going well since the surgery, I haven't had any issues thankfully. I try not to weigh myself often as I get frustrated if it doesn't show any loss...lol. I know how silly is that. Anyway I leave to go to Vegas this sat (march 28th). I can't wait. I'm meeting one of my oldest best friends out there (she's flying up from Austin). We are going to have such a great time. We had booked a room through hotwire at Caesars palace. Well hotwire notified us that since Caesars had been bumped from a 5 star to a 4 star they moved us to the Venetian (which looks even better!). So I'll get there sat afternoon and enjoy some grown up time without kids wooo hooo! I fly back Tuesday and get home Tuesday night.

Wed morning, Billy, the kids and I are leaving for a little vacation to Pigeon Forge. We are super excited about that. It'll be nice to get away and have some fun. So that's whats going on with us. I'll be happy when the warm weather is here to stay so all the sickies will be gone for good! That's all for now! I'll post about my trip sometime when I get back!

12 weeks post op!

Well it's been 12 weeks since my surgery and here are my new pics...the total weight loss so far is 96lbs:

Slow and Steady wins the Race

That's the phrase I'm going to keep in mind as I am slowly taking the pounds off compared to some post surgery people I have read about. I'm now at 91lbs lost, so I'm over halfway to my goal. My clothing size is steadily going down and I'm thrilled about that. I'm not exactly sure what my goal is as I will figure that out when I'm to a size I like (I think). I'm doing well with the eating and drinking. I'm hoping to get an elliptical soon and it will live in my living room so that I have to look at it all the time and will be more apt to get on it all the time. I love my wii fit and get on that almost every day. So that's all on me.

Tripp had surgery Monday during our big snow of the year. We left Billy and the girls at the hotel at 6am and drove the mile to the hospital on snow/ice covered roads and made it there only to find out that the building was closed so thankfully I got ahold of someone in the surgery center and they came down and let us in. Tripp got taken back at 8 (we had to be there at 6:30) due to staff being late etc. and was done and awake in recovery by 8:45 and we were back at the hotel by 9:30. He is doing well and hasn't had any issues since surgery. So hopefully this will work.

Miranda has been potty training for almost 2 weeks now and is doing great! How sad is it I bribed her with m&m's and being able to take tumbling or dance after she is potty trained? We were going to put her in something like that anyway because she wanted too however the classes only allow kids that are potty trained. So pretty much she is close to that goal. That is also the only way she can go to preschool is if she is potty trained. So wooo hooo we are almost there!

Loralie is doing great. She is too smart for her own good sometimes. She's full of questions, lots and lots of questions especially about signs on the side of the road. She sings a lot and is learning a ton of songs in preschool. Her class is doing a spring program and she's super excited about that! She tries my patience everyday but I know that's because she so like me it's scary!

Billy is doing great, work work work, that's what he's been doing. We are trying to plan a little mini vacation. Not sure where to or what we are going to do but it's going to be the week that I get back from Vegas.

Anyway that's us and what's been going on. Not too exciting huh?

It's a wonderful feeling

When you pull a smaller pair of jeans out of the closet that you bought a few years back (and couldn't fit in then as the sizing was weird) and be able to slide them on and have plenty of room to spare! Okay so here's the story of these jeans, I bought them from Roamans or something like that and I don't' have a clue what the size is as when they arrived the size state on the tag "size Jo". I mean really what the hell is a size Jo? So anyway i couldn't wear them when they arrived so I kept them anyway thinking one day I'll be able to wear them, that was like three years ago. Well this morning I had to take Tripp to the doc so I looked in the closet to see what I had and these jeans screamed at me humor me and try me on. So I took them out knowing I'd be disappointed in they would be too small still and as I slid them on I thought hmmmm not too bad yet. So I got them pulled all the way up and buttoned and zipped and they are perfect...baggy in the butt and legs and comfortable in the waist! wooooo freaking hooooo another size down. I have to say it felt good to put those jeans on I'd never been able to wear!!!

That's all for now, I'll blog more soon!

boring

Wow how boring am I. Not much going on here. I'm starting to work out. I got a Wii Fit and i love love love it! i get on it everyday and do different things to get my body moving. I also have started an aerobics class twice a week at the church we have MOPS at. My first class was last night, it was pretty fun and wasn't anything I couldn't keep up with and I didn't have anyone yelling at me so that was nice. however they did hold hands before and after and sang a song at the end that I found a little weird...but the exercise itself was really nice!

Tripp has surgery on his eyes in March...it is scheduled for March 2nd. He's got to get his tear ducts opened up. Hopefully that will help with his eye infections and constant runny nose!!! The girls are doing well. Lore hasn't had school for almost two weeks! She goes tomorrow thankfully and it's picture day, yay. Miranda is doing great, she's pretty smart and has her well child appt on the 10th.

Well that's all on us...see boring! lol I'll post again when I have something more exciting to post!