On the road again...

Aaron took the scouts ice fishing last weekend so I took full advantage of it and sent my kids to Alamo to see my mom for the weekend. Thursday night ,I went and watched my brother's basketball game. He is coaching at Faith Lutheran and they were playing Pahrump and Faith won! Friday night, a few friends and I had us a little girls night. We started here: The girls made me sit at the table so that I was facing the guy that looked like this:Okay, so this picture is nothing compared to the guy I had to look at the whole time.

After eating we headed to Red Rock Station to play this game: We were obviously the ones that had no clue what we were doing. We had fun but sadly didn't win.

After losing at Bingo we wondered over to the Rocks Lounge via the passed out lady laying on the floor to watch them:Zowie Bowie! Don't know how to explain them. They sang a lot of hip hop/top 40 songs. It was fun to watch all the drunk people and really fun to see 3 teachers from my kids' school. The kids and Aaron got home just in time Saturday for the babysitter to arrive and for us to leave and head to Primm to take advantage of free tickets to this legend: Good Times! Good Times!

Some fun Christmas Pictures

Alivia and Grandpa. This was the Sunday before Christmas at the Gifford Party. I love this picture!
Why do you always make us stop at the top of the stairs for a picture????
The girls left a note on their whiteboard for Santa. It had to take a picture. Dear Santa,
I know that some people don't believe but I want you to know I will always believe. Love, AlysonThe girls got cameras for Christmas and Alyson took this great picture.Abby took this picture of Alyson Christmas morning.

Okay...be careful

Those are the words I've been using lately. Seems Alyson and Abby have found the need to curl their own hair. I guess they are old enough, it just seems weird because I've been the one doing it all these years. They still are not great in getting the curling iron all the way down to the end so they fishtail it a little. It's okay though, they'll learn.

Friday night our neighbor took us to Famous Dave's for dinner. She wanted to buy us dinner for helping her out all the time. She is a widow (with no other family here in town) and has been our neighbor for 8 years. I took the girls (along with some friends) to see High School Musical on Ice on Saturday. It was kind of a last minute decision and I think the kids enjoyed it. As for me, I think they could have found a hotter Troy. Oh well, I guess the show was not meant to entertain housewives. LOL!!

Happy New Year!!

Well, the holidays are gone and a new year has begun. With that being said, I am stuck with 20lbs to lose. Okay, I would like to blame it on the holidays but I can't because I've needed to lose that same 20lbs since about August.

I've joined a "Biggest Loser" competition ($20) and have until April to lose as much as I can. We will all meet at Sarah's house and weigh in and the winner with the highest percentage of weight lose wins the loot! I think it's up to about $400.00.

Here's my dilemma. I've tried doing meal replacements with shakes and stuff. GGGRRR..I felt really bad for my family for that week. I've tried low carb (after having Abby) and although I was successful and lost 13lbs. in 2 weeks, it is not really a lifestyle I want to live with. Weight Watchers works but I don't know about signing up for the meetings and stuff again. Pills? Shots? There are so many options out there and I need to make a choice....soon!