weekly weigh-in week 2

so this is my week two weigh in. and i'm not going to lie, it was much harder this week. i don't know why, but i had noo will power this week. i did a very bad job at sticking to the plan. it all started with my tuesday night golf game with the boys, which turned into an extended round of golf, followed by what was supossed to be a beer at the smokin' bull, but turned into a few beers. and it all went down hill from there. YET! i still lost 1.4lbs!! i know that doesn't seem like much compaired to the 6.4lbs i lost last week. but if you think about how much a pound is, i did really good! think of a pound of butter! thats alot! so far i have lost 7.8lbs!! so yay for me?! right? except i have set a goal to reach my 5% weight loss goal. of 8.5lbs by next weigh-in. so i will let you know how i do!

also i have good news! i had a job interview on monday! yes yesturday, and today i got the call that i got the job! i start monday morning!! and its only 10mins from my house!! sooo much better then the 45mins i drive right now. but i'm going to miss working at the golf course, i really like the work, and the people. i am going to try and keep working some weekends though, so that could help me. haha

weekly weigh-in

hey everyone! well as some of you know, or have read, i have decided to start weight watchers. not because i'm overly huge, but i'm not happy, and i am bigger then i ever have been. so when a good friend did so well with it i thought it must work, and it must be worth the money. and guess what! i was right! every week i will post my weekly weigh-in ammount. and let you follow along with my weight loss! it will keep me motivated, so by you reading this helps me stick to it!
i joined last week, i went to my first meeting monday night, and got weighed-in, and wow i wasn't expecting that! i was a whopping 173.2!! so i set out to follow the rules. and i did pretty good at doing so, i just wasn't able to fully weigh out how much i was allowed to have. i just made smaller portions, and used nutrition lables alot. and even just by doing that i was able to loose 6.4lbs!!!!! ok so that might not seem like alot, but for one week, and a first week at that! that is amazing! if you want a visual of how much that is my good friend used blocks of butter, so think of 6 and almost a half blocks of butter!! and thats how much i lost... in ONE week! i can't wait to really move forward with this, and start weighing everything out, now that i bought myself some food scales! so i hope you follow along, and enjoy watching me transform into a skinner, happier aries!

do it yourself? i think i will!!

so a good friend ashley decided to get herself a blog, and its dedicated to crafting, and thirfting, and do it yourself things. and it got me very inspired to make stuff! haha so last weekend ashley and i went out shopping, at the thrift shop, value village, and the dollar store, for our main things, we all went into jysk, and micheal's which was dangerous! haha but we had sooo much fun. and i have a tone of great crafts and things to make an ideas now. so the other night i decided to do one! and it turned out great! i even had some girls over last night before we headed out for a girls night, and they all loved it, and want one too! haha so here is some pictures..

this is the glass bottle i got from the thirft store for $1.99

and this is what it looked like after i wrapped it in twine!

and this is the finished product! i love it! its upstairs in the hallway to our bedroom. it looks great!

i'm having alot ot fun, and will be adding more projects as they come! also, stay tuned for stories of mark's lawn tractor races!

pretty sky...

one of the many things i love about the country is the beautiful sights you get to see. last night while i was cooking supper on the bbq, i got to take in this beautiful sunset.

hope you enjoy it as much as i did...

me a suzie homemaker?!?

i know it sounds so strange to hear it. and anyone who knows me well is probably on the floor dying right now of laughter. but the day has come, i felt like baking all day, but i limited myself to bannana nut bread and a cherry pie. i feel so good about it too. want to know why? well i'm going to tell you... in the past any time i've tried to bake anything, it always turned out (as i liked to call it) "nicely browned" (everyone else called it burnt) but today i made two different things and both are not burnt!! i'm soo proud of myself!





ok ok now that i've talked myself up, i'll let you in on a secret, the pie didn't take much magic... it was a store bought crust, pie filling from a can and a roll on top. BUT i did make it look very pretty!!

i know corny eh! haha a+m like i was in public school again, but someones gotta be romatic and corny around here!! haha

another big change in my life is that i'm not happy with how i look right now, so i have dicided to follow in a good friends foot steps and join weight watchers. so i will keep you all posted on how things go, and post my progress. i am REALLY looking forward to it. my friend didn't need to join, but like me just wasn't happy, and through this she has lost 23lbs!! and i can't wait to share that kind of success.

i am also going to start to decorate our house, and make it feel like a home. so any ideas on cute things to do would be lovely. also i would really like to hear any good and cleaver ideas on how to reduce clutter. i dont know how or why, but we have alot of paper clutter around here. you know bills, sheets, pay stubs, magazines, farm papers. so any pretty and functional ideas to hide away that would be more then wanted! haha