Well obviously Halloween has come and gone. There will be a slide show at the bottom of this post of all the fun we had last weekend. We did have much fun! We attended our churches fall festival on Wednesday. Still have not quite figured out why we had it on Wednesday rather than Saturday to provide an alternative to Trick or Treating but I will refrain from climbing up on that soap box today! Since we do not Trick or Treat and do not hand out candy to those who do, we decided to attend Longview Point's (the church where I work) Fall Festival which was on Saturday, thus providing my family with the much needed Trick or Treating alternative! Oh and there my soap box peeped out again, so I will move on! We had a cute little puppy dog and an awesome rat this year! Don't ask me why he wanted to be a rat, that was his choice! Actually that was what he wanted to be up until the week of Halloween, then he told me he wanted to be a snake. Now I did not care what he was, as long as I wasn't spending a bunch of money, but I had already arranged to have my co-worker make him a tail and did not have a clue how to dress him up as a snake anyway. So I finally convinced him that he should not be a snake because snakes do not have arms or legs, which would prohibit him from walking, let alone playing games and getting candy. So he went for that and quickly forgot all about it and is even now planning what he wants to be for the next 3 Halloweens based upon the costumes he saw on his friends. Don't worry, I am not rushing out to buy anything yet! So Halloween was a big success in our house and we have plenty of candy to last us until January, or as Jim would tell you, until I get tired of looking at it and throw it away!
Moving on to other subjects. Jim and I had lunch with Drew at school this week. As we walked through the hallway doors and the aroma of what is supposed to be pizza came from the cafeteria I seriously thought I might hurl! Since Jim and I did not eat there I don't want to refer to it as eating lunch with Drew, we will say observing lunch with Drew instead! So, observing lunch with a room full of kindergartners is most interesting! I had to peel bananas and open packets of raw carrots, which by the way I never saw one kid eat. I did see a kid use it as a dipping mechanism for his pizza sauce! I mean seriously, who really thinks these kids are eating raw carrots. Cut those off the lunch menus and we can save some hard earned tax dollars right there! But back to my story, it was fun though. We actually took Drew lunch from McDonalds. I do not totally like doing that because some of those kids will probably never have a parent come to eat with them, but of course many of the kids in his class have had that done for them and he ask for it. So I decided to bake cookies for all the kids and that way they all got special treatment! Actually it had a two-fold purpose. You see since I am majorly dieting I don't eat cookies or anything else sweet or that taste good for that matter! So Jim brings home not one, but two tubs of cookie dough home from school! Not the smartest thing he has done lately! So by cooking over 50 cookies for Drew's classmates I eliminated all but a very small portion of the dough! Yeah for me! Of course the kids loved them and it was fun. I do hope we can do this again some time, although I don't know that I will plan on doing it on pizza day because the odor seriously grossed me out and gave me flashbacks to Jr. High!
JC is getting more and more active! I am working on a video of him in the jumper, he loves this thing! Hope to have it up soon! Also check out the pic show of all our Fall Festival fun.
Oh, one last thing. A weight loss update......
I have lost 14.8lbs since starting my weight loss challenge 6 weeks ago and a total of 34lbs since I gave birth to JC! And remember, I only gained 5lbs through the entire pregnancy. So I am obviously excited and feeling great and running out of clothes that fit me! Even my wedding ring has gotten too big! Sounds like as good an excuse as any for him to buy me some new bling!
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