Oh Happy Day

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This is me and my guys for Christmas 2007!












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This is me and my husband for Easter 3 months into our weight loss.









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This is me and my guys fr our family vacation in July 2008. 7 months after our weight loss began











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And this is me on October 5th, 2008. This is 10 months into our weight loss and I am now a size 14/12 in this picture.















So today I had another great shopping experience with my mother in law not only does this lady find great deals she makes me try on clothes I wouldn't because I think they are too small. Well she hit another homerun today for me. I tried on a pair of White Stag long shorts (you know wal-Mart brand) and ..... drumroll please..... I am a size 12 in that brand and a sise 13-14 in other brands. I think I deserve a round of applause because this girl can fit in a dress that she bought 3 years ago maybe 4 don't remember. I AM SO HAPPY!! Maybe I can get to the size I was when I got married. Too bad my wedding gown is heirloomed and I can't open it. Oh I would be super excited if I got to that size again.

I have posted some pictures of my weight loss. I honestly don't see much difference, but my family and friends tell me they do. And well I fit smaller clothes. I started as a size 18 in December 07 and I am now a size 14 or 12. GO ME~

I am so proud of myself as well as my husband. How awesome are we? Hey boo if you are reading this you look AWESOME!

Dibbling into photography

So last night the boys and I went to Super 1 Foods to buy a few necessary items we needed. Logan thinks he is a baby cow and drinks milk like that is the only thing on the planet. I noticed the pumpkins were $2.98. These were not little pumpkins as you can see so I took advantage. I bought one and Kaleb immediately said can we make a jack-o-lantern. I agreed but had ulterior motives. I have been wanting some good outside pictures of the boys with a white button down shirt and jeans. Thanks Mammy and Maw- Rene for finding what we needed. I promised Kaleb to carve his pumpkin in the morning if he took some good pictures for me. He said yes. At 8 Am this morning I was ushering my two boys into their white and denim to get some pictures of them with the pumpkin before we carved it. I think they came out pretty decent. Just need to learn some tricks of the trade from my buddies Robbie and Sarah. I love all of the pictures and think I did a great job, but my all time favorite is of Logan and the pumpkin. I even have one of him licking the pumpkin.

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More pictures of Kaleb's party!

Another birthday party done

Everyone singing happy birthday!
Kaleb was a policeman
The kids in front of the police car!


Today we celebrated our Kaleb's birthday. He officially turns 5 on Thursday at 6:59 PM, but hey it is close enough.
Everyone seemed to have enjoyed themselves at least I hope. I was super excited of the fact that my cousin who I consider to be my big sister, drove the 2 hours to come. She and my brother were the only family from my side here and it made me feel extra loved. My brother and I had an acorn fight which brought back lots of memories of childhood days.
I wasn't the only one reliving my childhood. Brady's cousin , his wife, and their children came and that always makes Brady happy. It is great that they have moved closer because now Brady sees his cousin more often and they were really close as kids.
Also we gave the kids water guns so my wonderful husband decided to get in on the action and pulled out the super soaker. The kids had a BLAST!
We had a policeman come in his unit to let Kaleb sit in the car and play with the sirens. We were supposed to have a fire engine, but as it was waiting for the police man to come with it....It got called to a fire. How awesome that he got to sit in the police car and turn on the sirens. I was so happy for him.
I hope my son realizes just how special these birthday parties are for me. My mom never went through the trouble of making parties for my brothers and I. Well at least not parties where friends were invited it was always just immediate family.
So the cake is gone, the decorations down, and right now Daddy is playing with Kaleb and his toys. Logan is cranky but that's OK he'll go to bed earlier.
So next birthday party is in January. That will be fun. I think we will have gumbo for Logan's party.
For all who came... thanks for making Kaleb's party a huge fun time for him. Thank you for the gifts and thank you God for letting it be a beautiful day.

CALLING ALL ENGINES

So the cheese ball you see in this picture is my first born, Kaleb James. He will be 5 on October 9th but we are celebrating his 5 years on Earth a little early as in tomorrow.
Kaleb wanted a firefighter and policemen birthday party so being the nice momma I am and having the very loving Mammy he has Kaleb got his wish! So tomorrow we will have a birthday party filled with sirens and lights. Hopefully they are the lights of enjoyment in Kaleb's eyes when he sees the cop car and possibly the firetruck pull into our drive way!
I decided that I am cheap...I'll make his cake so for a little over 5.00 Kaleb is having a fire truck shaped cake. I am not professional, but it came out pretty cute if you ask me. Here are some pictures I took of the cake
They are above!

Ok so I don't know how to make the pictures post correctly, but the top picture is Kaleb's finished cake!
I look forward to seeing his face tomorrow. I miss my baby, but he can be really and sometimes annoying to be around!

While I wait for the phone people

OK so I thought I would take this time to post.. because I don't feel like cleaning or grading papers. But, I'll complain when I have to do it later tonight. So I took a half day off work today because our stupid phone is out of whack and the tech is due to come between 2 and 6. Well I hope he comes after 3 so that I can go pick up the boys and not miss him.
Much has happened since I last posted. Let's see 2 hurricanes have happened. We did well through both of them. We lost power for 4 days with Gustav, but survived it out at the in-laws house thanks to Ensco providing a generator for us. Hurricane Ike gave us more branches to pick up in our backyard which finally got done this weekend because my in-laws gave me the motivation to do it that and they helped me do it to.
Life at work is hectic. I HATE it! I wish I had some other type of training so that I can get out of teaching and do something fun and exciting. But, I have no other skills. I have totally lost interest in my career. Can some body please offer me some money so I can get my dream opened up? I so want to open my own charter fishing business with room and board. I will get that one day.
I am also dead tied lately. If given the choice of watching TV or sleeping I will go with sleeping. I am tired all the time. It has to be the stress of work and life.
We are all alive and well. Brady is out of town for the whole week at a video training class. Kaleb is turning 5 next week and his birthday party is Sunday. So I will be getting the house cleaned all week. I am sure my in-laws will take the boys so I can bake and decorate cakes and cookies as well as finish up the house. They are so good to me about that.
I do have some pictures I want to put up, but I will have to wait until they are loaded on the computer. I'll try to post again this week. I have been leaving you all in the dark.

I am still here...

just been extremely busy. Trying to gather thoughts as to what to post about. I have a few things to write about, but can't seem to get the flow of words yet. I'll try to post tonight because I'll be up late doing my lesson plans of I don't get them done by this afternoon at work. To my loyal visitors sorry I haven't been blogging. But, I will!