On the road again...

I'm in Eau Claire to start another week of stomping around the countryside. Last night Steve and I went to dinner at his friend Joe's house (Actually Steve works for Joe at Nestle but they've known each other for years so they're more like friends. His wife, Camille, cooked us a great meal. Fun people! This morning after I drove Steve is work at Nestle Nutrition, I did my exercise video (I'm sure the room below me appreciated that!), hit the breakfast buffet, and now I'm going to check out the pool and hot tub area. I should be working of course but I can never resist the pool. After that, my plan is to get out and about - the bank, a cute little antique store I spied on my way into town, and groceries for the road trip cooler. We start the second leg of our journey this evening on our way to Malvern, Arkansas where Steve is scheduled for some work at Flakeboard America. We figure it will take 14-16 hours to get there. No clue what a girl can find to do in Malvern but I'll let you know. Well, I'm off! I'll bring my camera just in case I spy anything super cool.

Funny Niya!

Niya finally got a chance to use her roller skating stuff. She was so funny. Between her rubber legs, her rubber arms and her rubber ankles, I'm surprised she wasn't bouncing down the road. Sadie and I pulled her down the road as she tried to keep her legs under her. She was actually pretty content to sit in the sun in the middle of the road and check out her skates and pads - luckily we live on a dead end with little traffic. In the end, Sadie ended up carrying her most of the way home because she refused to take off her new gear but didn't want to skate either. I thought she was hilarious - she didn't find it very funny.

Sausage Making Party

It was a great time on Friday and Saturday getting together with family and friends to make deer sausage. Actually, there was a little time spent making sausage and a lot of time spent just hanging out and having fun. Some of the days events included: Frisbee, football (first the football got stuck in the tree and then Ashley got stuck in the tree), sharky-larkey, cribbage(Grandpa kicked everyone's butt!), and bon fire. Our friend Dan came over with a massive leaf sucker machine and cleaned up the whole yard (AWESOME!). After I went to bed, I heard a lot of people running around in the dark playing a late night game of Sardines! The party continues today as we finish up smoking and wrapping the sausage.

Welcome Tanner!

What a wonderful few days it's been! Watching your children have children is quite something. It's a happy time for our whole family and we're very excited for Paul and Heidi. Tanner is a great baby - a real mellow fellow - but with his layed back parents, I wouldn't expect him to be any different.

After many hours of labor, Heidi was getting worn out and frustrated, but she regrouped and finish the delivery with calm, concentrated effort. . . and then there was JOY!

Weigh in Update

I need to update my Weigh-in tally - - there were 5 pounds total lost this last week! I'm not sure who lost them but it's AWESOME! I weighed myself this week at Heidi's house and was 202. That's 1 pound up from last week but it might be the difference in scales. I'll be heading home on Friday and hope to get into the swing of things and check things out with my scale. The good news is that I've been trying to drink a lot of water and eat healthy portions including lots of fruits and veggies. I miss my exercise routine and have been trying to walk but haven't done much of that either. Keep up the good work everyone and we'll see what happens next week on Weigh-In Wednesday!