Sorry that it has been so long since I've posted but this week has been pretty crazy. First, I should say that I have COMPLETELY fallen off the diet wagon. I haven't been counting calories, making healthy food choices, and I haven't been to the gym since Tuesday!!! Honestly, I haven't been to the gym because I have been busy every night since Tuesday, but it still bothers me that its been 4 days.
Here's the run down on what I've been up to this last week...
On Wednesday night I went and saw Titanic with my good friend Kristin. This was only the third or fourth time that I have seen anything is 3D and really, the first "movie"...I've been on a couple 'adventure' movie rides. I don't really think it needed to be converted into 3D...but it was kind of cool at the very beginning when they showed underwater footage of the wrecked ship and it made it look like you were actually down in the ocean looking at it! Anyways, I saw Titanic 3 times when it first came out in theaters. It was the first movie I ever saw more than one time in theater. I LOVED it and was IN LOVE with Leonardo DiCaprio (LOVED his hair!!! lol)!!! Well, it was just as good as I remember it and it took me back in time...that is...until the teenage girl behind me started commentating NON-STOP!!! Now, I'm a movie talker...but I lean into my movie companions ear and I WHISPER!!! She wasn't whispering...far from it...practically yelling (this was when all the action in the movie was going on)!!! I did all of the subtle tells...adjusting in my seat, shaking my head, glancing back...none of it worked...so I finally (and it takes a LOT for me to do this) turned about and said...pretty loudly because the movie was loud "Could you please be quiet?!" She didn't even look my way and DID NOT stop talking!!! She completely ruined some of the most emotional parts of the movie!!! Therefore, I am going to see it again (and if you're counting...that will make 5 times seen in theater...a record for me), with my 17 year old brother, who's never seen it in its entirety...should be a much better experience.
Thursday...oh Thursday *sigh*...I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off!!! We had a birthday party for our oldest son who turned five (five?!?) on Friday. With all of the stress and preoccupation going on with buying the house I wasn't really planning well for the party. I hadn't even ordered his cake. My plan was to go out early to Meijer and ask if they would still be able to make a Spiderman cake for my birthday boy. I didn't get there until noon but they said they could have the cake ready by 3:00pm. (His party was to start at 4:00pm at our local Chuck E. Cheese). I then decided I was going to make two other trips before stopping and getting some balloons and then picking up his cake. One to the health department to get a copy of a map showing where the septic system is at our new home and another to the township office to get a copy of a map of our property lines. Many mother's out there know how difficult it is to tote three young children around to places like these. So, by the time I got back to Meijer to pick up the cake I was running a half hour late...but I still managed to get us to Chuck E. Cheese (almost) on time. He didn't have the greatest turn out...but he didn't notice or care (only Mommy does that). He had a lot of fun! He loves taking his picture in the booth...he'd rather do that than play any of the other games...we must have brought home 20 printed photos! : )
Friday was my oldest babies 5th birthday. As has become the custom, I took him to the local mall to get his pictures taken (he's such a ham...he was having so much fun posing), played with a puppy at the pet store, had lunch, and the all important ice cream. Then we headed back home where I started cleaning up the destruction that is our home! What with packing and my horrible housekeeping skills our house was the worst I've ever seen it (and that's saying something)! My foot has still been bothering me pretty bad so I was taking it slow and it felt like I wasn't getting anything done...but I had to because we had some of our close friends and my sister and niece coming over to have cake and ice cream for Jacob's birthday. When my husband got home, although he wasn't very happy about it (and made sure I knew that), he helped me finish cleaning up and by the time everyone got here the main rooms of the house (bedroom doors were caution taped off) were presentable. My sister has just started college at a culinary arts school. She loves baking especially and wanted to make Jacob's cake...Spiderman of course...and everyone loved it! I know what you're thinking..."Erin! You're on a diet!"...rest assured I didn't have any cake...but that's really only because I'm not a huge cake fan. I did have a bowl of superman ice cream (which turned into several bowls over the weekend...ugh).
My birthday boy with the Spiderman cake his Aunt made for him. : )
Saturday brought an kids Easter party that we were invited to by the parents of a little girl that Jacob bowled with on a 10 week league. They own a party rental company, so they had some bounce houses set up and had other fun activities for the kids. The boys had a lot of fun. Little Isabel grew restless after about two hours (way past her nap time). Luckily the party was literally right around the corner from my in-laws, so I took Isabel over there to spend some time with Grammy. Back at the party the boys participated in an Easter egg hunt and saw the Easter bunny. My only negative remark about the party was that the egg hunt and Easter bunny time was at the very end of the time allotted for the party. I'm not sure if this was planned that way or if things were a little unorganized because this was only either the first or second time they had done this party. We will definitely return again if we are invited next year and are planning to rent one of their bounce houses for Nathan's 4th birthday in August! We didn't get home until after Isabel and Nathan's bed times...but we still hadn't colored our Easter eggs...so we did that too.
A cool roller coaster car..um..'thing' they had there...I would really love to get one for the kids!
Nathan talking to the Easter bunny...he wouldn't sit with him last week for a picture though!
Isabel just before she decided that she'd had enough of that party.
Today, Sunday, was (as everyone knows) Easter. We went to church. Now, I am a Christian, and David and I have been talking about finding a new church closer to where we live for awhile now...but shamefully have not done it. So we rarely go to church since my church is a couple of towns over and takes nearly an hour to get there. Not to mention that the congregation is an older one, so they do not have any kids programs or areas. Hence, the disaster that was Easter service!!! Isabel, who is normally so quiet, decided she was going to try out her lungs during service...which was cute for about 2 minutes but then got excessive. So I went to the back of the church (its a very small, one room church...typical white w/ steeple church) but she didn't really quiet down...and because I left our seats, my boys wanted to know where I went and follow me. Enter, 3 year old stomping back and forth between the back of the church and the row we had been sitting in. By the end of the service, my entire family was standing in the back of the church...and my husband was livid! I wasn't too happy myself...I was really looking forward to hearing the sermon and didn't get to...I was too busy trying to quiet my kids and wondering what everyone else was thinking. After that disaster was over we headed over to my Grandfather's house to visit and have our Easter egg hunt for the kids. They had a lot of fun and I had a lot of fun watching them. Jacob also got to fly a kite for the first time, his Spiderman kite that he got from someone at his birthday party. I even flew it for a minute...I haven't done that since I was a little kid! It was so much fun. David said how he had forgotten how much fun it was to fly a kite and now wants to get a "real" one. *The Spiderman one was lost to a 30 ft. tree before we left. : (
*SIGH* So you see how busy and stressed I've been (and I even left some stuff out...I didn't want to bore you to death...or make you read a 30 page post) and it hasn't helped my diet at all. This last week was full of fast food and junk food. Not to mention that my weight loss challenge started on Friday!!! I better get my butt in gear tomorrow...I don't want to have to add to the pot this coming Friday if I don't lose any weight!
I hope everyone has a great week. I'm hoping mine will be much less stressful (yeah right...getting closer to moving out/moving in). I'll be seeing Titanic again on Wednesday and then I'm going to see Nickelback on Saturday!!!! I can't wait...LOVE that band!!! As an added bonus, one of the three bands opening is Bush...which I really loved when I was in high school!!!
I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter!
