I made the carrot cake today (finally) and am going to frost it momentarily. Will let everyone know tomorrow how it turns out!
ETA: The bits of batter and frosting I tasted were quite good, so hopefully the finished product will be too! Also, there is a reason I am going to school to be an audiologist and not a pastry chef: although the things I make normally taste very good, they always look very messy! I present to you Mom's 54th birthday cake.
Very nice, how did it taste? It looks yummy
As many of you know, our son Hunter was diagnosed with a brain tumor over a year and a half ago. By the grace of God he is 100% tumorfree today.
It's always so good to hear good news like that about people, especially kids
Though the way she slept last night made me so sad when I saw her this morning. It looks so uncomfortable:
Awww.... though I bet it was more comfortable with her head in the hold there so she could lay flat. How long does she have to wear it?
QOTD for Wednesday, July 27 (this one is purely for fun): What is the last screensaver/background that showed up on your computer? If you can, share the image here.
At home I have a cool pic I took at Yosemite which shows half dome, El Capitain and bridal vail falls with a rainbow.
At work, I have a scanned pic of Dylan's school picture this year
Only because I know I won't get on here in the am, here is my desktop (since I don't have a screensaver running). Our precious granddaughter, Bella.
Awww she is too cute, she looks so happy too
The background on my computer is a picture of my kids at the pin shoppe in Downtown Disney taken last August.
Very nice and a good age spread from the looks of it.
I don't know if the link will work from facebook, but I'll try. This pic was taken the evening of the princess half marathon day. We had a late lunch in Mexico and then just sipped margaritas and wandered about world showcase. It's a pic of michael and I with the sunset over the WS lagoon.
Hi Kathy, that's a great picture of you and Michael. Funny, but he looks a lot younger than when I saw him only last month.
MAINTAINERS:
(staying within 2 lbs of their maintain weight is successfully maintaining!)
# of Maintainers Reporting In & Successfully Maintaining:1
Congrats Rose & Mike
LOSERS:
weigh ins----------------------- 22
gains----------------------------7
maintains------------------------4
losses-------------------------- 11
New members--------------------2 (1 new but one who started is restarting)
Biggest Loser Summer Challenge Week 7!
This weeks group loss is 6.45lbs
For the challenge this week's group has lost 62.45 pounds
The WISH Biggest Loser Summer Challenge Week 3
#10- liesel .280%
#9- Rose&Mike .285%
#8- zoesmama03%
#7- JacksLilWench .51%
#6- dvccruiser .64%
#5- bellebookworm9 .83%
#4-aldergraynnn.92%
#3- tggrrstarr 1.21%
#2- pjstevens 1.39%
and now
The WISH Biggest Loser Summer Challenge
Week 7 Biggest Loser is:
#1- satorifound 1.71%
Great job everyone including satorifound
Here is my screensaver at work:
Our kids have the most wonderful relationship, even though they are 5 years apart. They are the best of friends. I think the photo captures their friendship and it makes me smile.
This is the screensaver on my home computer:
And here is the one from my iphone:
That's a great picture of your kids. They do look close. Love the cake in the background of your photo too, notice how my eyes focus right on the cake? That was my favorite part of wedding planning
Ugh so much going on around here. My parents kicked my brother out of the house so I expect much drama is going to be happening here tonight. I will be at class for most of it but still. Last night we went to see Harry Potter again and I felt like I was getting a little tickle in my throat and sure enough i woke up this morning feeling like poo.
Sorry to hear about everything going on at home. Hang in there and take care of you.
QOTD for Thursday, July 28: What is the coolest thing you've ever done? (i.e., bungee jumping, driving a Ferrarri, appeared on TV, had an at-home water birth, etc.)
Let's see, I try to be rather well rounded and don't want to miss much in life, so here goes:
I've been on a hot air balloon ride, I've gone skydiving, I've been white water rafting, I owned a 4 wheeler, I've hiked out to see a volcano, I've gone scuba diving with sharks, oh and I've also been diving in the Living Seas Aquariumat Epcot.
I know, I know, my poor mother
Well the last time I really noticed which wasn't very long ago, DS was just a smidge taller than me in bare feet ~ when he got up today, he looked much bigger so I made him stand in the mirror with me and he was a good 3 inches taller AND I was wearing about a 1.5 inch heel at the time.
OMG, is it possible that he has grown that much in a couple of weeks
These teenage years are not or the faint of heart
Shawn
Wow, that seems like a lot of growth! Teenage boys for ya.
On a serious not, do you think any of it has to do with being back in the states?
I bought my condo at an auction when I was 26. I chose to become a single mother and had my son. I ran/walked a half marathon in disney world.
We've had a busy week. Busy summer, I guess. Ds had his first football conditioning clinic last night, and had a blast. Tonight we have the scouts coming over for a bbq. There's only 5 boys in our den, so it's not too crazy. I got out of work at 12, and ds wanted to stay for the rest of camp, so I was free til 4. I ran/walked 3 miles, and now need to shower, and get some laundry done, and make a pasta salad.
That's quite the list of accomplishments. Kudos for all the hard work.
DH was just talking about DS playing football some day. Do you get worried about him playing?
ah, no videos of the nancy dance i'm afraid. it all happened before the actual taping of the show. it was the last show of the millenium. conan always comes out before the show to help warm up the audience. here he thought he'd just do some joke with me and move on. not so. he pretended to hit on me and i played along...like alot. it was really funny, especially b/c my boyfriend at the time was with me. anyway, during our fake date he asked me to dance. i think he thought we'd like pretend slow dance or something. well, i can't dance. like, at all. so when i'm at places where dancing is involved i take it to the extreme and do the nancy dance which is some kind of cross between elaine from seinfeld, the sprinkler, the running man, and the hustle. LOL!!!
see, i forgot for a second where i was and just started doing that dance. and conan freaked out! he tried doing it (hilarious) and then he got the whole max weinberg 7 (his band) to get up, stand around me in a circle with their instruments and try to do the nancy dance. one of the funniest moments of my life.
afterwards conan sent andy (his sidekick) backstage and gave me some flowers that were out in the hallway - lol! they didn't have a big budget for gifts for entertaining audience members i guess. but he wanted to give me something. afterwards, my bf, his roommate and my roommate went out to dinner and people were coming up to us telling us they were in the audience and laughed so hard they cried. haha. i just found out that my mom threw those flowers out last year. they were dried and hanging in their basement. oh well. that's my story. too bad this was all pre-cell phone cameras. it would have been a hoot to show new friends!
That's wild
Hi All,
Just realized that I haven't posted in a couple of days. Kids and stuff at home are keeping me busy!
Today, I completed 1 hour of free step on the Wii while watching TNT's Falling Skies.
I hear ya, DH was away so I didn't get a chance to post yesterday and now it's time for Zumba.
I do the Wii free step too. Is there any way to up it aside from increasing the speed with the plus sign or maxing it out at 30 minutes? Does it ever unlock an advanced version?
Hello to everyone! Sorry to post and run
I am completely impressed! Oh, and by the way, I just cannot imagine the energy levels to keep up with both a toddler AND a teenager. EEK!!!). i danced with conan o'brien and got his whole band to do the "nancy dance" about 10 years ago.
I haven't done anything cool! Atleast nothing very adventurous! Miss Priss (me) stayed on the boat while DH & DS snorkled with the stingrays in Grand Cayman!
So far, I am REALLY digging the spicy hummus and pita chips. maybe a little too much
Had a mani/pedi today and only have 52 hours until DH arrives
I'll be 75 by then, so I'm not sure, I may just volunteer for the 1/2 this time rather than actually doing it before the vow renewal. 
) and alto flute whenever I get the chance. 
