Works For Me - Vaseline

My tip for today comes from Tyra Banks - my hubby read in the Readers Digest a few months ago that her beauty secret is Vaseline - I can't remember all the particulars but since he passed that tip on to me, I have been using the store brand of Vaseline on my hands and other dry places everynight just before I go to sleep and it has worked wonders! I used have the nastiest dry cuticles and hangnails, my elbows used to be dry and almost cracked and my shins used to be white and scalely with dry skin cells - i say USED to be because all that is gone now! It Works For Me!

Menu Monday

MONDAY - Sesame Chicken
TUESDAY - Chow Mein
WEDNESDAY - Taco's
THURSDAY - Cola Chicken
FRIDAY - Pizza
SATURDAY - Chipotle Chicken Taco Salad
SUNDAY - Fried Chicken

Saturday was a bit eventful - at Youth Conference Chad had what we think was heat exhaustion and fainted and then knocked himself out - two of the other kids found him face down in the dirt. Kenny Reed was one of them and when he got to him and turned him over he was all bloody - breathing but unconscious- luckily there was a nurse there - Sister Merrill and she took such good care of him.

Sunday we went to cousin Philips missionary report and then to dinner at Clay's house.

I DID IT! I DID IT! & Pirates

I ran for 20 minutes with no walking this morning! I am so proud! Tonight my upper back and shoulders are really stiff and sore - I see a soak in a hot tub in my future - I wish my hubby were home to give me one of his legendary massages but alas he is in Chesterfield at Youth Conference with Chad and Koltin, but he will be home tomorrow - and I have Cardio Sculpt on tap for tomorrow and will need a massage doublely! And the news is that the new FIRM videos are shipping AND I have a charge pending on my debt card for the right amount! YEA!!!

Kolby and I had a date night tonight - we went to McD's and then to see the third installment of Pirates Of the Caribbean - I LOVED it - it was WAY better than the second and SOMEONE should have told me to bring tissues cus I needed one! So good! and I am getting teary again thinking about it!

And just because I like pictures in blogs - that Will Turner is something - isn't he?! Elizabeth Swann just doesn't deserve him! Captain Jack Sparrow may think he is the star of the show but not for me!

Thursday 13

Thirteen things on my to-do-list

1 mail Jason's Birthday package - waiting for someone to find his guitar tuner
2 blog - doing it!
3 scrapbook
4 re-read all the Harry Potter's - started the first year
5 order vinyl for a craft project
6 call my friend Peggy
7 clean my scrapbook room
8 organize the Family Room closets
9 transfer files from old computer to new computer
10 de-junk boxes in bedroom
11 organize photos
12 move old computer downstairs
13 move file cabinet upstairs

Today is my weight watchers 1 year aniversary - I have lost over 35 pounds! - I had hoped to do more in half the time but isn't that how life goes

Yes I know it's not Monday!

I want to establish a habit (see last post) so here is the week:

MONDAY - Taco's
TUESDAY - leftovers
WEDNESDAY - Malibu Chicken
THURSDAY - Crockpot Mexican Chicken
FRIDAY - Date night with Kolby
SATURDAY - Chow Mein
SUNDAY - Fried Chicken (Fathers Day request)

Well, after the all the excitement of actually creating and having a blog - i lost it and have not posted again! I need to create some sort of habit to actually post on it now that I have one.

We are well into summer now and after a rocky first couple of weeks we have settled in - it has been quite an adjustment with day care kids but I think we all know what to expect and things are running smooth!

Speaking of running - I am! I started the Couch to 5K from www.coolrunning.com program awhile back and am on week 5 now. I am so loving it and while it gets progressively harder each week I have kept up quite nicely if I do say so myself! I am just a little proud of the excellent definition I am getting in my calves - I have forever been jealous of Jason's calves and now can boast of my own - although on a smaller scale! I found a podcast to download to my awesome MP3 player that I got for mother's day (THANKS KIDS!) that makes each run so easy - I used to have to take my kitchen timer and try to get track of the repeats - but when I run all the blood in my body is trying to keep my heart beating and there is very little left to operate my brain, so the less thinking I have to do the better!