Stuck!

We went out the play in the mud today. We were trying to get up a pretty big hill and right at the top we slid and got the back driver side wheel stuck. There was a big root in front of the wheel and a stump in the back. Exactly the reason you never go off roading by yourself. Our friend we had with us pulled us out without much of a problem. Half the fun is getting stuck and figuring out how to get unstuck.

We all got so dirty. It was rainy, snowy and very muddy. Also part of the fun.

On a side note I always thought I hated omelets because of the egg white. Turns out that after I made myself an egg white veggie omelet tonight for dinner I really like the whites. It's the cooked egg yolk that I don't like. However, I like the yolk but not the whites on a hard boiled egg. My omelet was delicious. I put zucchini, onion, red bell pepper and a little cheese in the mix. I added a little hot sauce (0 carb) on top.

Dominick is down 9-1/2 pounds in 2 weeks. He is way ahead of me in our competition.

Turns out that this last week I didn't eat very well (I had a french fries once and Dr Pepper twice). I did work out a few times though. I only lost .02 of a pound so that doesn't even really count as losing weight. This week I am really going to get into the whole healthy eating. I am going to eat less carbs (I love carbs so I am not going to cut them out completely) and less fat. We will see if that makes a difference.

An afternoon at the park

It was really nice out today. The kids didn't even need coats. After Nicholas and I picked Trinity up from school we headed to the park (first we tried the Zoo but it was a mad house today). The park is walking distance from our house and it very big and nice. The kids loved it.

The park has 2 playground areas, tons of picnic tables and lots of big areas of grass. We have driven past it almost daily since we moved here but it looked like a little podunk skateboard park. However after looking into parks in the area I found that this park was very nice and much bigger than it looks from the road.

I took over 200 pictures of the kids so I would have a few really good ones.

The last picture here is Nicholas being a car driving down the slide. Also notice his shoes are on the wrong feet. He spent the whole time at the park like that.

1 week later

I lost 2 lbs in the last week. Dominick is down 4.5 lbs in 1 week. We stopped drinking soda, juice and energy drinks. We also started keeping more fruits and veggies around cut up and ready to grab. We don't have any chips or unhealthy snacks in our house. We also started substituting fatty foods with a better choice like ground turkey instead of ground beef and plain yogurt in place of butter and oil. Let me tell you tuna salad sandwiches are very yummy if you take out the mayo and use plain yogurt. I also added chopped red, green and orange bell peppers in place of pickles and onion.

Today Trinity came up to me and said she wanted to make cupcakes. She had a box a milk chocolate cake mix in her hand. I told her I would make them but I would not put frosting on them. She said ok, lets get started.

I googled 'how to make a healthier cake mix cake'. I found that if I used 4 egg whites instead of 3 whole eggs and use plain yogurt instead of oil I could cut out a bunch of extra fat. So we made semi healthy mini cupcakes and they were delicious. The texture was a little different but in a good way.


I also have to add that I hate filling the little cups. It's messy and time consuming most of the time. I decided to find a new way to fill them today. I got out my easy accent decorator from pampered chef filled it with the batter and pumped it into the the little cups. It was very fast and very easy. I do have to clean an extra 2 pieces but that is as easy a rinsing it and putting it into the dishwasher, no big deal.

Biggest Loser

Dominick's office is doing a Biggest Loser thing for money. The first weigh in was this morning. Dominick brought a box of donuts to work with him this morning. I am sure the office loves him for that.

Dominick decided that we should do a Biggest Loser between him and myself. So we will see how it goes.

I figured out that if I lost 11.5% of my weight I would be back to my Wedding Day weight. That would be 17 lbs to lose in the next 3 month. Dominick has a lot more weight to lose. If he lost 11.5% that would be 32 lbs. We'll see... I think the weigh in is once a week.

I weighed the kids just for fun today. Trinity is 3' 7" and weighs 37 lbs. Nicholas is 3' 6" and weighs 40 lbs. It's funny how many people think they are twins because they are so close in size. People can't believe it when I say they are 2 years apart.

Beautiful Day

Today was Donuts with Dad at Trinity's school. While Dominick and Trinity did that Nicholas and I went for a walk. Well, I walked and Nicholas rode his bike. It was a little cold this morning but the sun was up. It was a nice 30 minute walk.

This afternoon the kids have been outside riding bikes and playing in the backyard. They are skipping naps today because of the nice weather. Hopefully it will be an early bedtime tonight and not 2 cranky kids.

Good choice

I was wanting something sweet and yummy to eat tonight. I don't keep junk food in my house because if it's not there you can't eat it. So, I go to my pantry and find 2 cans of frosting (cherry and confetti) a box of cake mix and two bags of cookie mix that my Mother-in-Law brought over for the kids today. I was ready to grab the confetti frosting and a spoon until I remembered that in my refrigerator I had a bag of cuties.


I peeled and ate 2 of those little cuties and that fixed my craving for sweet and yummy.

On a side note my Mother-in-Law thinks it is horrible that I don't keep sugar filled cookies and snacks in my house at all times. She also always brings a bottle of juice for the kids when she babysits because I don't buy juice all the time. I do buy juice more often than candy and cookies but juice is a treat for my kids not something they have everyday. They drink milk and water and eat as much fruits and vegetables as they want each day.

My kids are happy and overall pretty healthy.