Summer Lovin

Those of you that have known me my whole life, also know that I used to hate summer (especially driving my college clunker car with no air-heat or reverse), I would get hot super easily and I was out of shape and I would sweat just going to get the mail at the mailbox.  I would practically stay inside all summer unless I knew someone with a pool.  Then Jack came along and I forced myself outside in the summer time for him, but I just wasn't having any fun. Now that I'm in shape and my asthma hardly bothers me anymore and I don't get hot (stay cold all the time now), I LOVE SUMMER! Here are just a few things I am looking forward too this summer:
hearing about Jack's adventures at VBS
second Saturday street fair
The Farmer's market
Eating Watermelon
watering my petunias every day
swimming
concerts in the park
new plays/shows at SKY PAC
taking Jack to the Zoo and the Science museum
Hot Rods baseball games
hopefully getting to go to Beach Bend this summer
put put golf
vacation to Florida
after dinner walks with Jack
group family birthday/July 4th party - it's tradition now since everybody in my family has a summer b-day    
(except for Jack) I through a birthday/July 4th party at my house to celebrate all of our birthdays at one party and Jack's half birthday
golf cart rides
picking honey suckle
Jack catching woolly worms and naming them
catching lightening bugs
eating ice cream
grilling out
butterflies
geocaching
play dates with Jack's friends and their Moms
watching the rest of Jack's pee wee baseball games
Blowing bubbles with Jack
eating fresh summer berries
trying to get Daddy off the computer and to turn the tv off and go outside more , cause I love watching him play baseball with Jack
and hopefully throwing in some craft time

crafting in TN

had some time to craft with my friend Cass in TN a few weeks ago and I'm just getting around to posting  these cards I made while I was there.  This was her stamp set that I used for a friend's birthday card.

this is the inside of the card

A pretty simple card I made for my father-in-laws birthday, he loves golf

.This card is simple too, but I like it, I got to use this pretty green textured paper and some pink magic mesh.

 Hopefully I will have more posts soon, I am going to be working on a baby book for a friend soon.

the rest of the robot party

Here are some pictures from Jack's 5th birthday party, it was a robot party.

Here is the robot cake I made using the video tutorial from the Betty Crocker website.  The lady on the video makes it look so easy, LOL, it wasn't for me, so I think it will be the last themed cake I try.

used Jack's stuffed robot as decoration.

the goody bags, I decorated.

the goodies inside the bag

leftover candies form making the cake that I set out for the kids and cake pops that a local baker made.

robot pinata and we had a craft table too, but didn't get pics of the craft table, it was in December, so we cleaned out the garage and let the kids play corn hole and kick balls and play with scooters. This is Jack's friend Noah taking a whack at the robot.

Birthday boy, Jack, blowing out the candles.

Robot party invites

I paper pieced a robot on the front of the card, pretty simple, I made 20 of each piece, so assembly would be easier.  I finally got to use my paper crimper, I don't use it often.  To make the hands, feet and mouth, I just used my different sized circle punches and then cut the circles in half.  I wanted to make some sort of antenna on top of his head, but never got around to it.

The inside of the card with my personal info covered up.

More pictures to come this week of the party and my attempt at making a robot cake.

Snuck in some crafting time

I did make 1 card in the month of September, just didn't think it was cute enough to take a picture of, still sticking to my New Years resolution, just 2 more months to go and this will be the first time I have ever stuck to one.  I made 2 cards and a shadow box frame this week.  A family member is having a boy and the stuff that she registered for, which I love , by the way, is forest animals (owls, birds, deer, bear).

This first card, is just a little card to go in the bag with the shadow box, I actually cut this owl off of the baby shower invite.

This is the shadow box frame I made.  I want to add the baby's name on the open tree section, but they don't have a name picked out yet, that I know of.

This is the card I made for the other presents, outside is really simple.

The inside of the card.
I love owls, and I think the nature theme makes a very cute nursery.
This is all I have for now, I hope to scrapbook soon too.

just a simple card

Even though I didn't post any pictures of the cards I made in July (cause as soon as I made them I sent them off in birthday packages), I am still sticking with my New Years resolution and making time to craft at least once a month.
This is a simple card I made for a little girl's Mickey Mouse birthday party.  Jack told me where to put everything, so I made it according to his instructions.

One Year Weight Loss Anniversary!

So, it was a year ago today that I decided to do something about my weight, so I started working out every day or mostly every day and doing portion control.  If the portion size was half a cup of ice cream, then I would measure it out.  So a year later and I have lost a total of 73 pounds.  I am still currently losing weight, it has just slowed down a lot.  I lose like a half a pound a month now, but I will take it.  I am going to share some pictures at different intervals throughout the weight loss.  I am 5 foot 6 and a half inches tall, I started out weighing 220 pounds and I currently weigh 147 pounds.

Size 20:

 Size 18:

 Size 16:

Size 14:

Size 12:

Size 10:

Size 8:  

And now the bikini shot, now I don't normally where a bikini, unless I am at a beach where I don't know anybody or at a friends house, but Jason loved it. I still have a lot of toning to do, and everything doesn't just bounce right back after having a child, but I am proud of my body now.