Memorial Day!

We had a lot of fun over at our neighbors house yesterday, bbqing and hanging in the pool! Here's a few photos...

Zoo Pics!

For Nenna and Sadie ;-)
In no particular order!

The above picture was taken as we arrived at the hotel. Kristen and I were rather fascinated with all the 'REAL' Christmas trees that were in the ground!! When I see a Christmas tree it's usually for sale in a parking lot or grocery store in December!!! I think I might have to have a real tree in our new home in Denver this year :-)

Back Home!

We arrived back home last night about 7.30pm :-)  Boo was a very happy puppy! He had to be boarded at Petsmart for the first 2 days we were away, then my mil picked him up and he stayed with her on Mon, Tues and Wed. She brought him home on Wednesday afternoon so he would be there when we arrived. He went crazy when we walked in, and we had missed him just as much!

So, we had a great trip, the first couple of days (Sat afternoon and Sunday) were really cloudy and it was FREEZING!! Only 44 degrees, which is a huge difference to us, considering when we left Austin it was in the 80's! So for those first two days I didn't even see any mountains, I wondered if there were even any there! But on Monday morning I could tell the sun was shining so I opened the curtains and this is what I saw . . . .

So there really was mountains there all along :-)  It's amazing driving around and seeing them on the horizon all the time! On Tuesday we took Kristen to the Denver Zoo. . . .

I'll post more about that later this week. So, it's back to the real world this morning, with suitcases to unpack and lots of laundry to do.

Just a little update....

Well, I think it's time I started posting in here again, if for nothing else but to keep a record of what I do each week! It's amazing how quickly we forget what we do daily from one week to the next, and I've been so used to being able to look back at my blog as a reference. I'm not sure how often I'll post, and I am even thinking of starting a new blog with a more 'personal diary' feel to it. If I do that, it will be password protected and I'll share the password with those friends who would still like to read it and keep in touch. And can I just say I totally do NOT like how blogger has changed! Everything is new and it's just not that easy to figure out having not posted for a few weeks now!!

So, what's with the picture above? That is the Colorado Mountains! Jason, Kristen and I will be visiting Colorado this weekend 'to have a look around'! Why?  Because we may be moving there this summer!!!  Long story which I will tell you more about next time, but suffice to say it's for Jason's job, and we are all pretty excited at the thought of the move. At first we weren't, but again, I'll tell you more about that next time.

So, I'll make this post short and start thinking about what to do with this blog and if I want to get back to blogging. I'd just like to say thank you to those who have wondered where I was, and how I'm doing (you know who you are) ;-) Hope you all have a great week.  I'll be back soon.

Taking a Bloggy Break!

Fit Friday!

Sadly, Liz (at Savvy Seasons) stopped doing her 'Water Diet' Party each week because there wasn't many participants. She is however still giving us weekly updates on how her water diet is going. I thought I would continue to post my progress too, because it does help to keep me motivated, and also accountable. 

Look I even made myself a button :-)  I'm not making this a 'party', so to speak - firstly I don't even know how to add a Mr. Linky to my blog for you all to join in, and secondly if people didn't want to join in with Liz (who on average gets over 20 comments a day) I would hardly think that anyone would want to join in with me , I don't even know 20 people that comment regularly!! (but for those of you who do comment regularly, please know I REALLY appreciate it, and I love reading your comments). I just don't expect you all to join in with me simply because I want to post about this on a weekly basis.

Fit Friday is what I've decided to call Friday's posts. I can't say that I'm feeling all that fit, but it is Friday, so at least 50% of that statement is true ;-). So, how am I doing?  Well, not too bad, but not great either. I could put a lot more effort in to getting fit and exercising more but I don't. I'm not going to the gym as much as I was before the new year, but I'm trying to create a schedule that works for me.

This past week I've been trying out some new dvd's at home. I'm just not one of those people who LOVE to go up to the gym, but I don't want to quit totally. So I'm going to the gym about twice a week right now and doing some workouts at home.  Wanna know what I tried (if you're on Facebook you may have seen this). . .

I got this out of the library this week, and I have to tell you it's quite the workout (and no, I wasn't dressed like that when I did it!). It involves a lot of arm movement, primarily over your head or out to the side, and by the end of the workout I felt like I'd lifted 50lb weights for an hour!!!  It was fun though, and I plan on doing it a few more times before I have to return the dvd to the library. I also got out a Denise Austen dvd, and a Karen Voight

As you know I'm on Weight Watchers, and that is going well. I'm finding it easy to keep track of my points, but there are days I would really like to just eat anything I want (and by anything I mean all the 'junk' stuff, like chips and chocolate, or McDonalds!!!), I just don't cave in to those cravings though. Well, not all of them, I will allow myself some chocolate every now and then. The other day I had my first Cadbury's Creme Egg of the season - it was delicious :-)

I've also discovered this yogurt this week. . . 

I love Stoneyfield Greek yogurt plain, but recently started trying their flavored ones. I always get the 'Oikos' kind, but to be honest I don't even know what that means? And this yummy key lime yogurt, well I didn't even know it was Dannon and not Stoneyfield until I uploaded this picture. I have both in my fridge and I thought they were all Stoneyfield! Well anyway, they are all pretty good, and the key lime one is like having key lime pie without the fattening crust!! Delicious with fruit chopped up on top.

Well anyway, before this post gets too long, the main update this week is that I am down 4lb since Christmas :-) And hopefully on my way to looking 'fab' for the Summer!

I have nothing!!!

Nothing to blog about that is! I know it's been 5 days since my last post, I thought I better jump on here and just let you know I'm still here, I just can't for the life of me come up with something to blog about!  I can't even think of a picture to share with you all today (and you know how I dislike my posts without pictures!!)

SO, I need to put my thinking cap on, or I need to get off my butt and do something, so I have something to blog about, or I need to do BOTH!

Bear with me, I'll be back soon, hopefully with more interesting content!!

Happy Hump Day!