Wedding Bells are ringing!!!

Congrats are in order for John D and Necia. (Necia is hub's cousing) We traveled to Baton Rouge on Thursday evening for the festivities. Buggers and I attended the Bridesmaids luncheon at Aunt Mary's on Friday where we were treated with great food and beautiful atmosphere. Necia was so sweet and gave Buggers a cute backpack with a sweet Cabbage Patch doll and bracelet. The bag also had her initial monogrammed on it. I was really nervous about Buggers walking down the aisle at the church. She is pretty shy and nervous around people she doesn't know. But to my surprise she pranced (literally) down the aisle and even stood at the front of the church. Hubs and I had a great time at the reception. The kids loved dancing to the music and hanging out with their cousins.

The beautiful bride

Necia and Aunt Mary

Necia, her grandma, and mother

Necia, her mom and future mother in law


Buggers and her goodies


Buggers at Aunt Elaine and Uncle Elmo's (pre wedding)





At the Church





Entertaining ourselves while we wait for the wedding to start



The Ceremony




The Reception

23 bags of leaves on the wall...

Last saturday I decided to do the daunting task of raking leaves in the front yard. As I walk Abbie I notice all the other yards look so neat and clean without a leaf in sight. Then our yard looks like where all the leaves congregate in the neighborhood. Well we made it a family affair and got everyone involved...even Abbie.

Their first time to get ice cream off the ice cream truck...a dying novelty





Rake and Rollin' good time

Girls in glasses

Bubby's nest



24 bags if you count this cute one!!!

New Heights to Sundays

We headed down last Sunday to my sister's new house in the Heights. We went to a cute little park. Hubs and I felt like fish out of water there. We are such suburbanites with our comfy jeans, tee shirts, tennis shoes and minivans amongst the city folks whose idea of casual is still linen pants.








My dad and hubs

My parents

Hubs and I

Bubby and me

I was tagged by my cousin to do this challenge.

Here are the rules:

Go to the photo folder in your computer
Go to the 6th folder of photos.
Go to the 6th picture.
Put the picture on your blog and description of it.
Invite six friends to join the challenge.



How uninteresting is this pic...I was taking a pic of my christmas decorations. Wish I had something a little more intersting!!

I challenge my mom, Dena, Mel, Jes, and Alana

Cream of the crop

I recently discovered Jergen's Face Cream. It is a deep cleansing, softening, and moisturizing cream. Directions read smooth generously over your face and throat...remove with a tissue or leave on overnight. I have used it all week and have done it both ways. It feels like butter going on your face. It also claims to leave a radiant dewy base for makeup. My makeup just glides on. And the best part is it is in a big tub and only cost me $3.50 for 15 oz. Most cleansers and moisturizers cost over 6 bucks. This is the best deal for 3 products in one.

Towtally Screwed up

Dinner...$25
Cover charge...$14
Cab Fare...$10
To get our car out of the impound lot...$200
Parking Ticket...$65
The realization of why we don't go out anymore...priceless!!!

But on the upside, we did get some great pics! And I got to see hubby laugh his ying yang off which was a joy to see. Plus the reason for the whole night was Jer's 30th birthday party!! It was great to really surprise him!!

He really had no clue...it was great! Way to go Sleeza!!

BFFs...


Even D came!!!

The Boys

Me minus 20 LBS

This great website eliminates whatever amount of weight from your body. It is awesome. It has really insprired me to keep working hard and sticking to my 1245 calorie diet!!!
Currently


In March...hopefully


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Bubby the Builder

My sister got Bubby a real tool set for Christmas. He was having so much fun fixing things in the backyard...so cute!!!

Recently...

We have been trying to adjust back to life after the death of my gramp. We had a pretty good week but I hate to admit it went so fast I really don't know what happened from day to day. All I know is that I need a full day to get caught up on my house. Laundry has just gotten plain ridiculous and if I not careful the kids are gonna start sticking to the floors. I'm gonna attempt to make a dent in the laundry this weekend.

The kids have been doing fairly well at daycare. Bubby had a little incident on Thursday that was utterly embarassing to hubs and I. He was caught taking a leak on the playground. When the teachers called his name he turned around and subsequently tagged everyone in his vicinity. The teachers kinda laughed it off... I'm sure he is not the only one who has done that. But hubs was so embarassed as they were telling him. Just a few days earlier the teacher was letting me know that they may move him back to the 3B class because he is getting so upset during class time. I told them to just give him some time to adjust. They are both bringing home the cutest things. I have become a hoarder of papers. They are all too cute to throw away. I guess I will pick my favs and put them in their scrapbooks.

Hubs and I are on the pay it off plan!! We are trying to reduce our debt. He is doing such a good job of it and has taken all the burden of it so I don't have too. I get way too stressed out with bills and money. By the way our debit card was compromised and we have been on the cash train for about a week until our new cards come in. It has really cut our spending. I kinda like it.

Well my diet is failing miserably. I cannot seem to get moving on this losing weight thing. I am so motivated mentally but just can't get my body to listen. For some reason my hand keeps making dates with my mouth and brings food with it. (As I sit here eating a swiss cake roll) I lose weight so much easier when I'm not on a "diet". I do worse when I am on a diet. I think I'm just going to say screw it and do whatever I want to do. That seems to work. I have logged in over 20 miles the past 2 weeks and hopefully will hit 50 in the next 2 weeks. I really need a workout partner and time to work out. Right now my partner is Abbie but she doesn't make for a good conversationalist. Plus I have a time issue with hubs not getting home until late which puts me walking after dark.

Well that is the update since I have left my faithful readers out of the loop lately.