I'm alive...

I survived two trips to the ER in two days. These being my first and second trips EVER to the ER. I'll have more later, i'm tired...just wanted you all to know I will have real update soon.

-10 lbs!!

Finally! I've lost 10 lbs!! I'm so freakin excited!! Took me a little longer than I wanted but hopefully that means I won't gain it all back. Now If I'd just start working out I might lose it faster!!

Obsessed...

As you can see and read my obsessions lately have been baking and taking pictures. Today we baked apple crisp. We used Fiji and Granny Smith Apples. I personally think we should've only used the granny smith ones, but then again those are my favorite. We bought the apples before we found the recipe, but they worked. I think we should've used a bigger dish or less topping. It was still yummy though!

My other obsession has been taking pictures...of everything. Nothing wrong with that, I suppose. I've actually caught myself wishing I had it with me on the way to and from work sometimes. Its too big to lug around though and I can't keep it in my car because of the heat and I dont want to get it out at some of the places I work. So for now, I'll deal.

Here are a few pics from today:

Other than all that all I've really been doing is working. Work is work. It has its usual excitements or crazy things that happen with patients, but nothing too out of the ordinary. I've learned to just go with the flow on lots of things. Really all I can do anymore is laugh when something doesn't go as planned or like I want it to. Whats the saying "We make plans. God laughs." Yeah thats my life. So I just laugh right along with Him. And try to make fewer plans.

The 4th was fun. We went swimming, well I floated around. I dont swim. But I still had fun. I tried those new pasta things from Pizza Hut. The chicken alfredo was really good! We set off fireworks and watched some that other people had set off around the neighborhood. Overall, I had a really good time!

I'm off tomorrow! YAY! But I'm going in to clean, which is fine because I get paid for it.

Only 60 days til relaxation!!

In other news, my husband got a promotion at work last week! He is now a level I programmer. I'm really happy for him since that is what he originally started out wanted to do back in the college days. I just hope he won't be bringing home too much work with him. Oh and I lost another pound, I guess we'll say 2 wks ago. This week I maintained which is perfectly fine with me since I way over ate over the weekend. I'd rather stay the same than gain. Everyone is saying how they can tell, me personally, I cannot. I do think I'll be needing a smaller bathing suit before vacation. :)

Pictures!!!

This little dude was hanging out on the back of my adirondack chair Friday morning.

I LOVE this pic!! We played with sparklers friday night. Thanks to Court and Linds for the help!!

Happy 4th!!

We had lots of fresh peaches and my new baking dish begging to be used. SO...we made peach cobbler.

I've never made any kind of cobbler in my life, but this turned out pretty well I think.

Now we're off to enjoy swimming, pizza, fireworks and good fun with friends!

Hope everyone has a great 4th of July!!

My Weekend, Part 2

After the baby shower, we ventured over to The Container Store. That was a cool store! Everyone must check one out sometime. I'm a big organazational freak, even though my house doesn't look like it all the time, but I love finding cool stuff or new stuff. They have everything from closet organizers, to desks, to kitchen stuff, to wrapping paper, travel stuff, etc. It goes on and on. Right now they're having a big travel sale and free shipping on some items. Our favorite and funniest moment in there was when we were walking around and saw this huge section of trashcans. A worker walked past us, and in a very excited tone says "Don't you just love trashcans!!" We kinda just looked at each other and laughed. We think they put something through the venting system to make all their employees happy, happy, happy.

I also got to go in my first Williams-Sonoma store. We tried some free samples. My favorite was the caramel apple bread. I couldn't find it on the website, but it was really good. We also sampled the Cherry Blossom Sling drink. I'm pretty sure there wasn't any alcohol in it but it really really tasted like their was. I couldn't drink it all, it was so strong, or tart. I would like to get this Pizza Que Grill for my husband. We keep talking about grilling pizza, but not extremely sure how to go about it. I think this would be nice to have. He'd really like this, but no. There were a ton of cool things in that store.

My Weekend, Part 1

We had a baby shower for a co-worker this weekend. We actually managed to keep it a surprise from her as well. The boss told everyone that it was a mandatory meeting and we were going to get griped out. Of course everyone knew except the pregnant one. hehe. For a gift, we all pitched in and got a bunch of stuff. The boss and I ended up making a diaper cake. It turned out to be a 4 tiered one. Here are some pics of it: