Boo at the zoo.

Today we took Little Man to Boo at the Zoo. He only lasted an hour. It was a lot of fun to see him in his costume though. Isn't he adorable? I love that kid. Anyhow, we braved the crowds and went to the zoo. It was neat seeing all the little ones in costume. He didn't care about the lines for candy, so we did fun stuff like the carousel. Then we came home and crashed, watched some football, and grilled out. Not a bad day!

Halloween candy REALLY is evil.

I bought some early so I wouldn't forget. Hubby opened one of the packages. I have eaten like half of it. So much for my diet!

There better not be any leftover candy on Tuesday night, or I'll be in trouble!

P.S. Buy me this for Christmas.

Update on snow.

So it didn't snow until I was home, thank goodness! But it was insane today, hubby didn't even go in to work.
AND, the garbage truck slid into our front yard! I took video of it in case we find that they screwed up our lawn.

Dear Mr. Blizzard,

Mike Nelson and the Channel 7 Weather Team inform me that you may be coming tonight. Do me a favor, wait until I get home from work. I'll have Little Man with me and neither of us feel like dealing with the highway during a blizzard.

After we're home, snow away! We won't have to leave the house again until Friday.

Random thoughts.

We are considering driving to WI for Thanksgiving. I don't really want to. With our luck it would be a blizzard.

I got to add a pair of pre-pregnancy jeans to my jean rotation. Yahoo! It's wierd, I'm only like 6 pounds away from the weight I was when I got married, but my mommy belly won't let me get anywhere near the clothes I would wear. Bastards.

My fat cat keeps eating my husband's shoelaces, then throwing them up on the bathroom floor. I think he's passive aggressive or something. I don't know what he's mad about though, he's a freaking CAT!

My son is FINALLY over being sick. And he gave my husband total attitude last night at dinner and wouldn't eat anything. My husband didn't know what to do b/c Little Man is usually such an angel for him.

Sicky.

Isn't it funny how a sick kid will totally change your plans? Anyway, Little Man is sick today. Rosy cheeks, runny nose - even a bloody nose this morning. At least no fever. One of his little friends he played w/ last week has croup! EEEEEEK! Hopefully he doesn't get that. Anyway, we're just gonna hang out at home today since he's feeling icky.

Oh and that snow I talked about earlier? It's already melted.

Needle time!

I have to get a cavity filled this morning. I am not looking forward to it. I never got cavities when I was little, I've had 2 cavities - EVER. So imagine my surprise when I went to the dentist a few weeks ago and she said I had THREE. Ugh. That's what I get for not going to the dentist for two years. Oh well, at least now I have dental insurance.
And luckily Logan has an uncle that wants to come hang out with him for an hour! That is just so nice. They just seem to adore each other too, which is a bonus!

First snowfall!

Ahh, it's a nice cozy day today. It's snowing outside! So Little Man and I are huddled indoors for the day (I don't have to work, yahoo!) It's always so nice to have time to just relax in the house. I even made bread! And I'm making a real dinner, which is rare for me. I'm little Miss Homemaker today.

That fall off of the wagon hurt my butt.

Ok, I didn't really fall of the wagon, but I didn't lose weight this week. Maybe it's because I had pizza for at LEAST 4 meals this week, ate lunch at Buffalo Wild Wings, and even had ice cream a bunch of times. Dummy. Oh well, I didn't gain any either. Here's to a new start this week.

More destination weddings.

Oh yeah, Melissa, another college roomie of mine, is ALSO getting married somewhere sunny. In Naples. Oy. It would be so awesome to go, but I am already having trouble finding the cash to fund me going to Mexico for Katie's wedding, I don't know if I can swing it! Wouldn't it be neat though? Apparently my friends are all fancy and are going all out for their weddings. I love it!

She is getting married HERE.

Gee whiz! P-I-M-P fo sho'.

Of course, most of my pictures from college are not on the computer, but above is a picture that has some of the girls (there were 7 of us). The one on the right is Katie who's getting married in Mexico, I'm second from right, to the left of me is Mel who's getting married in Naples, and on the left is Heather. She's my cute reporter buddy. I'm so proud of her!!! Read her bio HERE.

I burn easily.

In exactly one year I will be in the beautiful, sunny Mexican Riviera. Why you ask? Well, my cute friend Katie is getting married there, and I am the matron of honor! Woohoo! She lives in Milwaukee and I live in CO, which makes it hard to be a good and help fun MOH but I will do my best!!

Look at this awesome resort where she is getting married:
FANCYRESORT!

I am so excited. She has the cutest hubby-to-be too. It is always so neat to see someone truly happy and with someone that treats them well!! He rocks.

Moral of the story, I have one year to get skinny and tan.

Laziness = Sickness

Is laziness a disease? Seriously. If it is, I am really sick. It is sooo hard for me to accomplish anything - cleaning, organizing, whateva. It just builds up and stares me in the face reminding me that I'm lazy. I mean, I have lived in my house over a year and it really isn't decorated yet. Ugh.

I was gonna ask this before, but I was too lazy.

I hate special reports.

All I want to do is watch The Price is Right while I clean the bathroom. Instead, it's the President blabbering on for an hour. Helloooo, can't you interrupt a less important show?? (wow, I need to get a life)

Cupcake cakes.

Have you heard of these? I think we're gonna get one for our mini party on Friday. They take cupcakes and make them look like a cake. It's so neat! And you can just seperate the cupcakes instead of fooling with knives and all that. Brilliant! Why didn't I think of this? I'd be a millionaire.

Dude, this is actually a bunch of cupcakes! Now I'm hungry.

Big boy.

So my boy turned 1 on Sunday. He had a party, opened a bunch of presents, had enough cake to send him into a sugar coma. It was cute. I can't believe how fast he's grown. He's his own little person now, complete with a little mini attitude. Love it!

Happy Birthday.

My baby boy is ONE today.

Skinny soon?

Today for work I wore clothes I hadn't worn since before I was pregnant. I did a happy dance.

Sacreligious shirt of the day.

I'm sorry if this offends you! I love God, but I also have a sense of humor, and this made me giggle. A lot.

Kraft magazine.

Have you ever read this magazine?? If not, get it! It's free, and has some yummy EASY recipes to make it look like you can cook! So far we've had the fuss free Ravioli, and the one-pan chicken & potato bake. Yummmmm!

Did I mention

that my son is turning 1 this weekend? We have had a crazy week of growing up and it's making me crazy! He went cold turkey off of the bottle and formula. He did awesome. I am so proud of Little Man even though I want him to be a baby longer! We also started brushing his teeth this week, and he actually sits there and lets me do it. He must know he's turning 1 and it's time to act like mr. big boy or something.

I am so proud, but sad. It's very bittersweet and I'm taking it harder than I thought I would!

TV Determination

So last year hubby and I were a bit busy with the birth of our son, so we Tivo'd tons of shows. We had most of the season of Grey's Anatomy on Tivo. And then, one day, Tivo DIED. We lost all of the shows we'd recorded. It was so depressing.

Anyway, the second season of Grey's finally came out on dvd about two weeks ago. So we've been watching Grey's CONSTANTLY trying to catch up. And I'm happy to report last night we watched the season finale. Yep, we watched TWENTY-SEVEN episodes in less than two weeks. Maybe that's why we have no life. Have you ever been addicted to a show like that? I know lots of people that can watch a whole season of 24 in basically one sitting. And I guess I can watch Friends or Felicity constantly and not get sick of them.

Bring on this season! It will be so exciting to get to talk to people about what's happening on the show! And we're gonna try to keep up with shows we wanna watch, so we don't have a repeat of last year's fiasco.

WW Update!

I survived my first week of Weight Watchers. In fact, I lost 5 pounds! Hotness, here I come. I even got to have steak for dinner yesterday, right off the grill. It was sooo yummy.

I only hope to lose 20 pounds to get back to somewhat normalness, so 5 pounds is HUGE! Hooray for me.

Will this make me a cook?

I can't cook. Really. I'm terrible. I live for the Hot Pocket. But for some reason I've been obsessing over kitchen gadgets. Maybe I think if I have fancy cooking gizmos I'll be able to cook.

Anyway, check THIS
out! Apparently you can do everything under the sun with it, including math problems. I'm so asking for one for Christmas.

Three-tv weekend.

There is something wonderful about the weekend. Hubby is here to help with Little Man, which allows me to be a LOT more lazy. It's fabulous.

Fall weekend means one thing to hubby though - FOOTBALL. The living room is crankin with THREE tvs - AT THE SAME TIME. No joke. Saturday is college football day, and Sunday is NFL. This way he can watch three games at once. Even with three tvs though, he usually needs to flip around or bring out the laptop to catch all the games. I wonder how many other guys do this? It's an obsession I guess. But hey, he could be out at the bar getting drunk leaving me home alone for the games, so I can't complain!