Easter -- Happy Easter everyone

This cute little pig was outside a store in Boulder -- I thought it would be a nice Happy Easter shot since the bunnies were too quick for me to get a photo!

Getting ready for Easter

Time to decorate eggs -- Tim, Sarah and Robbie (Charlie too). The kids had a great evening doing the eggs.

Spring Break and Shopping Trip

Hello again, finally. It has been kind of hard getting enough time to work on this blog. I thought I would share a view of the mountain from the city of Boulder -- we were at a shopping center. Brrr.

It has been hard keeping on track with all the eating out we have done, but I still think I am doing ok. I thank you for keeping me in the loop while we are gone.

March 26, 2010

Hi again,

Yesterday was a long driving day but we made it to the Nelson's house in time for gyros for dinner. Yummy. Tonight it was the restaurant at the Aquarium in Denver (Robbie's choice). I think I am still pretty much on track though. Two dinners out this week alone (so far) and I have managed to do ok.

Thought I would show some of the scenery we passed as we drove from Las Vegas to Denver. The Rocky Mountains had some snow -- quite a lot as we neared the east side. The first picture is about the only thing we saw for hours -- the middle one is the snow covered mountain as we neared the highest point in the Rockies -- the picture on the right is how it looked as we were about to go into the eastbound tunnel (called the Johnson Tunnel -- however, most people call it the Eisenhower Tunnel because that is the name of the westbound tunnel.)

Hope to keep this up better from now on.........

March 11, 2010

Yesterday afternoon we went out in search for this beautiful wildflower. It is called a Sticky Phacelia. It made my day.

Well, here it is, 2 weeks since being at a meeting! I was doing great the first week, this week is a different story. It is really hard for me to follow my eating plan while we have company -- we get out and about, eat out, etc. I love having company, I just need to learn how to handle my diet! The water drinking really goes by the wayside. We went out to a Thai restaurant -- I ate less than I would have normally, but it was probably more than I should have had, since it had sauces on each dish! Today is a new day!

I will check back in later this afternoon, after I weigh myself (shudder, shudder!).

For now, I will keep my mind in the right direction and right now I will go get a drink of water!!!

Friday Failings!

Sunset from the balcony on Thursday night!

Friday was a great day -- it was beautiful, I finished the newsletter I had been working on, we took a walk and we went to dinner at some friends' house. It was homemade pizza night at their house. Pete makes his own whole wheat pizza crust, his own cheese and makes a wonderful and healthy pizza every Friday. I limited myself to one piece along with a great salad. That was the good part. Then he brought out his homemade desserts: Flan and cinnamon rolls. He makes the cinnamon rolls using the leftover pizza dough so at least they had whole wheat in them. I ate a small piece of each of those ---- the cinnamon rolls were for the weekend but he wanted us to taste them last night.......how could I resist.

Now, I left out one part -- I baked 2 kinds of cookies yesterday also! Oatmeal (cereal and fiber, right?) and Persimmon-nut (fruit and nuts-right?). Of course, since I was taking some to the Pedersens, that is where we went for dinner, I had to make sure they were ok -- so I ate one of each -------- one from each cookie sheet. Yikes. That was really stupid.

I need to work hard this week to wipe out the damage I probably did!!

Meeting Day

Sorry about the egret on the last post!! I was just trying out some of the features on the Blogspot webpage, I couldn't figure out how to get rid of a picture once it was there!! Oh well, it was a nice picture.

It is about 5:00 on Thursday, we just returned from a long hike in the hills. I weighed myself at about 4:35, dressed as I usually am at our meetings and I had lost this week -- YAY. I can't say how much because my scale is not the same as the TOPS one, but when we get home I will be able to see how I have done. I am thinking about all of you right now!

Thanks for the emails Becky!