Wow... here I am almost a week later and just blogging... I'm slacking ... well not really just been busy.
So lets catch up... last week Thursday a friend and I started Weight Watchers together, we weighed in and got all of our info material and a few supplies for the week, I had my last "normal" eat alot night at Pizza Hut that evening after the meeting and started on the plan on Friday, I told myself that I am sticking to the points and no allowances for the first week or two... I just want to be able to tell myself "no" at my bad habits, my other goal for the week is less DP, keeping it to a MAX of two a day, so far its going well, the weekend was a little hard with the "holiday" and having a good meal at mom's and a wedding we attended but I did good, I stuck to the plan and turned the tempations away. So I survived my first weekend! YEAH!!!! So being Jer and I are going into Chicago tomorrow (which Thursdays are my "normal" weigh in dates) I will not be able to attend the meeting so I decided to go to the meeting in DBQ on Monday while Mitchel attended his soccer practice, I weighed in and lost 4.2 lbs :) ... I was happy with that, grant it, its a lot of water loss but have to start somewhere. So all the exercising paid off over those days as well as eating healthy. So in my blog I will keep you all posted on the "tour of Lis's weight loss". I am determined to do this and I know I can do this, its just keeping my head in it, I want to loose between 40-50lbs to reach my "all time goal", but first I will get to my 10% and go from there. I don't want to be the "fat mom" sitting on the sidelines at the soccer feild any longer ...
So over the weekend, we attended a "friend of the family's" wedding (Billy's sister Geralyn) got married, it was a nice reception... very cool how they did it, it was at a park and had a indoor facility and then a play area close by for the younger crowd as well as a "jumping pin" for the kids. I rode down to the ceremony with my sister and my mom, and a friend of the family, it was a LONG ride... was never so happy to just get there... details in person :) Billy did the singing at the mass, did a very nice job like normal! I saw his nephew Robert for the first time, he is such a DOLL!!! I loved his eyes, looks so much like his mommy. Jer drove down to meet up with me and we hung out and visited with friends and then called it a night, I wasn't feeling the best... scratchy throat and runny nose... felt miserable. So, yes we were home by 11:30 on a Saturday night... WE ARE GETTING OLD :(
Oh and also on Saturday, Jer and I witnessed the bricks going on our house... that was EXCITING!!!!!!! "Jay the bricker" is a hoot, I have no doubt he and his wife and crew will do a great job.
Sunday ... FATHER'S DAY... kids gave Jer a bike but he knew about it before the actually "day" and I bought him a new MAC BOOK but he already got this too, I gave it to him a few weeks ago when all the excitement happened with "3 Bubbles" getting sold to "YES", since it was a HUGE deal, some of you know this and some of you may not. So we went to mom and dad's for lunch and gave dad his gifts, it was nice seeing the family together. Then of course my brother had to bring up the "fire incident" in front of my older sister Madonna... which apparently she didn't know anything about it, and she just had a TON to say about that, my ears were burning!!! I wanted to scream and shut her up... After mom's we went to the farm to see Jer's dad for awhile then we were off on our own time with Jer, we decided to go biking... borrowed my brother's bike rack and loaded the bikes and headed off to DBQ, we biked on the trail by the dog tracks and by Houlihans, it was a nice time, really enjoyed it. Then we had supper at Houlihans. I know my boys are growing up when they order "adult meals" now.... Issac had steak, and Mitchel had ribs, they ate it all.
Also over the weekend the store if "offically" leased out, the new store is all moved I believe. I had lots of tears Friday, I just tried to stay busy and not think about it, its just hard seeing it go to another shop, but don't get me wrong I am very happy for her, just lots of mixed emotions going on.
Ok,so Yesterday Jer and I took the kids to Mt. Olympus at the Dells... We had a WONDERFUL time!!!!! We got back this evening. The boys absolutely LOVED it! The park was very nice, not too busy at all, lots and lots of "car" rides as Blade called them (they were go carts), the older boys went on all of the roller coasters with their dad, 'HADES' was their all time favorite.
Jer said it was the "BEST" roller coaster he's ever been on. I took little Blade where he wanted to go since he was limited to rides. We had a nice supper last night, kids were really good, the restraunt was FREEZING!!!! so I decided to have a little of Jer's coffee, well ah... a little turned out to be FOUR glasses... LIS WAS WIRED! and I was still cold when we left so I asked and begged Jer to find a Starbucks, so he did :) I got a GRANDE coffee, and then we headed back to the amusement park for awhile until it closed down, last ride we did was the go carts as a family, and Jer and I were racing at the end and he told me if I beat him... "he'd buy me another coffee" before we went back to the hotel... CRAZY I know since I was beyond wired at this point, had a "coffee high" going I swear... WOW!!! but a deal is a deal and I WON :) and after being on those cars I was still freezing, flippin summer out and felt like a Fall evening. We all crashed hard tonight after a LONG day, but it was a AWESOME day for our family, had lots of fun!!! The text messaging between Jer and Dustin was entertaining :) since this is Jer's "main" use for his cell I swear and not sure how much Dustin ever used it before the Jer Ber came along... but he's got everyone doing it now.... quite funny is all.
So today was another good family day, we slept in, got up and went to the amusement park when they opened and spent a few hours there before it decided to down pour, got some souveniours all called it a day there. We then went to the "TOP SECRET (upside down White House)... it was quite LAMEO, but had the kids going on all the little "perks" and gadgets that were included on the "tour", had Issac and Mitchel pretty tricked, they was scared at times... so it was cute watching them.
Then headed back for Iowa after lunch, stopped and got the boys some fireworks, Blade slept for quite a bit of the ride. I got a little nap in from Dodgeville to DBQ, so that was nice :)
Updates on the house, well lets see... bricking was started, they were there Monday working, coming back sometime later this week, widows peek is completely done... has siding on it now, the addition got the rest of the windows put in and siding was started, so wont take long for them to finish this off after bricking is done on the corners, still waiting to put doors on, we hope to have them in a few weeks then house can offically be "sealed up with doors and windows :) I ABSOLUTELY love how it is all coming together, I am glad Jer and I went with the "paver" bricks and took our time about picking the right stones, its going to look great when it done, a different kind of look and thats what we are going for :) The electrical is going great, Billy has been doing a great job getting it all done and its so appreciated by us!!! Its weird to actually have lights again at the house, its been a LONG time since a light has been on up there, I LOVE the sofit lights, they look COOL!!! So tomorrow we are having the attic insulated, we have a guy coming tomorrow, so this is exciting too!
Plans for the weekend, Jeremie has a few meetings in Chicago tomorrow and Friday so I am going to go with him, we are going to make it a little get away for us. Mom is going to watch the boys until Saturday mid afternoon, and hopefully Jer's mom can help her out too. This weekend is also a big weekend for Mitchel... he's going tractor pulling up in Tomah, WI., he looks forward to this every summer so its a BIG deal to him. Hopefully this weekend will go fast for Issac... he always seems to miss his big brother while he is gone :-) and Blade will miss him a great deal too!!!
I hope to get all caught up on Saturday... laundry needs to be done since we were gone the last two days and now leaving again tomorrow for a few days. So looks like I will be hanging out with my Neptunes this weekend :-) fun, heh? I refuse to do laundry here... damn token only work when the machine "feels like working" and the smoke odor in the hallway is disgusting... complaints I know... it will all be better when house is done !!

So until I blog again... life is too short, live a little! go do something out of the ordinary :-)

I will post pictures of the boys at the Dells as soon as I get them downloaded.