Back again for a few minutes...just can't seem to stay away! Actually, I forgot to send Katy the link...I swear I am losing my mind!

KATY...I forgot to say something about Leigh cutting her hair, OMG! Lol Glad it wasn't too bad and she didn't make it to the bangs! So cute!

SUSAN...no Josh won't add me as a friend, lol. But his page isn't private and he gave me the link a while back. But his girlfriends is darn it, lol! Hey...my kids are part Indian as well...Choctaw...their dad was. Josh has beautiful black hair and blue eyes...at least he got something of mine! YW for the card! Sorry you were missing Miss Gaby...I don't think I could bare my kids being gone at that age. Of course I can't bare them being gone at the ages they are now, lol! And sorry to the ex is such a jerk, ugh!

Okay, I managed to get in 4.20 miles today, woohoo! Feels good! And did 10 minutes with the weights.

Good luck with WI tomorrow ladies! Ciao for now!

awesome on the 4.20 miles Cristina! That is really good, I am impressed

Cross fingers on a good WI.

I feel iffy with all my late night snacks this past week. I need to get back to my own place and back into a routine. I was going to tell the ex I need to go home tomorrow....lol...sheesh. Also, we will have the fridge and I can stock up of some food and Gab and I can settle back into our own routine.

Blah , blah.....

I did have a snack of slice of cheese and some triscuits. I like to suck on the crackers, taste so good. lol Also some diet coke and I am in offical piggy heaven.

Gabster is back! I was so thrilled to see her. I asked if she got some new clothes and she said no they didn't have time.
Of course not.....not with traveling to the coast and being beach bums. lol - I didn't say that out loud to her! I thought it though.
I guess M called my mother last night after our conversation.....he needs to just stay away from my mother....pete sakes.

I take Gab to the dentist in the morning and after that we go home waiting for the fridge. My mom might come over to visit Momo......lol,,,,,I guess that is all my excitement.....

Lets talk about Thanksgiving plans! Does anyone have any because I don't yet.....

psssssst, I found some Halloween stash!! All that is left is tootsie rolls,,,,,,all the good stuff gone. I have eaten 3, I think I will take the rest down to the dumpster!
Watching Desperate Housewives.....

Mindee - How is little Brandon's ear?? Logan and Marissa?? What beautiful names. I don't think I was around to hear how they were named. Any special meanings?

Sassy - How was your weekend? Miss u

Sue - How is the shoulder?? How is your mother? Hope all is well, miss you too!

Jules - Pray you are feeling better......

Katy - How is Leigh?

k back to my show.......night all .

edited for Cristina......I meant to say about dancing and Marie Osmond. She was on ETonight last week and said she has lost 26 pounds. Isn't that amazing?

I like Marie Osmond...that's terrible her dad passed away. Don't even know how she can go back to the show. I always thought it would so great to have such a big, close family. I wanna be an Osmond! And yes that is amazing...I think she looks wonderful and we are the same age! I think, lol.

Glad Gabster is home. I really wonder know if M was just blowing smoke about the clothes just to spend time with you. Why does he feel the need to know everything going on in your life? Geez, he needs to back off!

I think I am impressed as well with the 4 miles, lol. Not too many 4 mile walks in my body. Some days though I have nothing to do and V is at work so why not walk...of course that was just a little, very little chunk out of my day, lol. For some reason though, I felt like I could have kept walking! I have always enjoyed walking and hope to continue for many years to come.

Tootsie rolls sound good! I had a lot of them I gave out at Halloween and couldn't even have one. I had one reeses peanut butter cup and could barely eat that. DD was surprised that I had all those bags of candy here for a couple of weeks and never opened any of it. Guess I am finally getting something right. I do give into my cravings once in a while, probably once too often but I gotta do what works for me and right now it seems to be working, somewhat, lol.

Hugs to Gaby for tomorrow. Hope she has no cavities!

I can't sleep for some reason so thought I would get on here. I'll pay tomorrow for being up so late...maybe, lol. Nothing planned but a good long walk so no big deal.

I was going to say what the heck are you doing up so late missy? I forget about the time change and you guys being two hours behind us.

See ya

hello ladies....how are you all doing? nothing new on this end.....just same stuff, different day!

Katy~ I am glad to be back! Thanks for the nice comment on my avatar. They are growing so quickly! For example, I am only 5'4" and Brandon is already 36" tall! He comes to just above my belly button, and he is only 3 1/2! Logan is about 2 or 3 inches shorter then him! I agree.....it is easier to get the sickies done and over with all at once!

Jules~ I see that you have a grandson on the way! Does he have a name yet? I hope you feel better soon!

Cristina~ Tommy is looking into pow-wows around here. He wants to take the kids to see one. The kids are like that as well. But on top of the slightest thing sparking an ear infection or an ear ache, it also sparks their asthma. So, right now both Brandon and Logan have croupy coughs, but they are getting breathing treatments for them, so they don't sound that bad.

Susan~ We are looking into getting some kind of information on a pow-wow. Tommy's grandma (his dad's mom) is 100% Blackfoot and there might even be some Cherokee in there somewhere. The Blackfoot tribe is in Montana as well. Thanks for the prayers for the kids, and Tommy's job hunt. They seem to be better, but if they get worse....off to prompt care we go on Monday!

As for their names.....Tommy picked out all of their names! Brandon was actually supposed to be Benjamin, but since that got leaked out at our shower, we went home and started a different search. (we wanted to keep the names a secret until they were born) We agreed on Brandon after Tommy found it. The Thomas part is after Tommy, since he told me that since I wouldn't let him have a Junior, then he wanted some part of his name in there. Tommy pulled Logan out of the sky one night when he was at work one day. And the Nathaniel came from trying to find a name that hadn't been used yet in my family! Plus, we liked the name Nathan, but my sister Katy has a nephew on her hubby's side who is named Nathan. Tommy also picked out Marissa's name as well. Again, he picked out Marissa out of the sky one day while at work. He had originally suggested Marissa Anne, but it all sounded like one name instead of a first and middle name. So, then we got to thinking and he said "how about Marissa Lynn?" I said "I love it" and then we started tossing ideas on how to spell it!

MINDEE...DH also picked the kids names...their first names. I choose the middle names. Now Nathaniel...I chose that, first and middle name (Alexander) I didn't let V have any choice in the matter, lol. I know bad, lol. DD is after her dads grandmother and my great-grandmother. The others are just names we liked. But I too like your childrens names...they have good flow. Well, I hope the kids get to feeling better soon...and GREAT pictures of them. Marissa is so cute in that pumpkin outfit! The boys are as well...I think I am just partial to the little girls.

Well, still up but I am going to read a bit more and then go to bed in a few minutes. Just starting to get a little sleepy.

Nighty, night ladies!

I am going to take my blankie and go to bed. It is midnight here. I watched Desperate Housewives, and Murder Mystery and started reading old threads that were rather depressing. Now I know why I don't keep journals...lmao...

Marie Osmond is 47??? I think, Donny is turning 50. They will be on Larry King this Wednesday Cristina.... I really haven't thought that much about them until she started dancing on the show. The Osmonds really are an inspiration and it is sad they lost their father....

Mindee - My R's are enrolled in the Native American youth program in Portland. We get a newsletter with all the events around the state. The R's were named by their father. He was a control freak - lol.....I swear, we couldn't leave the hospital without naming them, so I gave in. Now I like Rachel and Rebecca....I named Gabrielle all on my own, it means devoted to god and I thought that was nice. All the girls have their grandmothers/great grandmothers as middle names.

Very impressed with your determination Cristina!! I am.
I have to throw the candy out and keep little or no food in the house. It helps me not binge. Anyway tootsie rolls are gone......though I think I can dig them out of the dumpster,,,,,lol......jk!!

Off to bed I go! Night

Katy - sometimes when a girl feels yucky, she just needs a new hairdo to lift her spirits, so I'm SURE that was Leigh's incentive, right?

Good Monday Morning!!

I get to go change my ticker.....up 2 pounds. Yipeeeee.

It is ok, I knew that though with how I have been eating all week. So, today I am sipping on my protein drink and will sit down and plan the rest of the days intake. Chicken soup is screaming to be eaten. lol

What else?? Oh, saw a magazine with Jennie Garth and she has lost 10 pounds while being on Dancing w/ the stars........dancing is looking really appealing to me.

Took Gabster to the dentsit and she was the trooper as always. She had 1 seal and 1 filling done. I managed to get my shower this morning but no time for her to get one so I put a sky cap on her tangled mess.....and when I wasn;t looking she drew green marker whiskers on her face,,,,so, she was a kitty. *eyes roll*.........

Hope you are all having a better WI!!! I will go change the ticker now and go home to wait for my fridge to arrive..... oh, taking Gab for swiming later on. That is my day in a nut shell

Later chickies!!

hello ladies....how is every one doing?

Any one know any good ways to keep a diaper on a two year old? We try to put him to bed with zipper pajamas with a safety pin over the zipper. That seems to work.....but if we forget and he goes to bed with regular pajamas then he takes them off, takes his diaper off, and then if there is poop.....well, he paints. (I know I know....too much information) But any suggestions or things that worked will be very helpful!

Cristina~ After we had Brandon, we made sure to pick names that flowed well. Not with just the names itself, but with the names of the other kids as well. I have noticed that when we see new babies, I am more partial to girls....but I think that is more so because I have grown accustomed to boys, and Marissa is still new!

I think Marie Osmund said that she was 49 when she was on Oprah. Oprah mentioned that Donny was a grandpa and all the women in the audience just let out this groan. It was funny.

Susan~ We would love to get the kids enrolled in some kind of program that is Native American related. Tommy's mom was suppose to be calling the Blackfoot tribe to see how to go about getting any kind of proof so that the kids will be able to get into programs and such. Tommy is 1/4 Blackfoot, so that makes the kids each 1/16.

I have seen the workout dvd's for the Dancing with the Stars and I have been very tempted into getting it. But I agree, dancing is looking very appealing to me right now!

Mindee- Is he trying to potty train himself? I have heard some kids do that, sounds like he wants out of the diapers. Gaby had to potty train herself, she was disgusted waiting for me to do it. lol

omg - I scrambled super fast to look up Marie and Donnys bios! I HAD To know how they were. Marie was born Oct 13, 1959 and Donny was Dec. 9, 1957. His oldest child was born in 1979......28??? Can you imagine he has a child that old?? Dang, he is in good shape and his wife too. Anyway, I think I will go look up Jimmy now,,,, haha

Dancing is on tonight Cristina, the result show is tomorrow.

I know. I need to exercise more. I just want to go home! lol The fridge came, it is a cheapie Hotpoint, a model that we always put in our apts. It'll do!

Making chicken soup for dinner. My eyes sting from the pool w/ Gaby and onions w/ the soup. *wah......lol

k- off to check Jimmy out!

Susan~ That could be an option. We are trying to potty train Brandon. And we have in fact tried putting Logan in front of the potty to try. Which he stood there, with a huge grin from ear to ear, but didn't do anything. So, we just might be potty training a 3 1/2 year old and a 2 year old. It would really make things easier, since Tommy told Brandon that he needs to start going more on the potty since he is going to be 4 years old.

Speaking of fridges, that reminds me. When we were helping the office manager on Sunday, Tommy mentioned that we liked the fridge in our old apartment better because the freezer was bigger. Her response was "well, let me right a note to remind myself, and you can have it in your apartment."

just quickly stopping by to see how every one is doing.....

just having some "me" time and trying to figure out how I am going to get every thing back on track. Tommy has to go tomorrow after work for some job placement testing, and then possibly going to orientation on Wednesday. This job is for a little more money....but it will help out more. Now, we just sit on things and hope that he gets the job for the complex. (still keeping fingers crossed...please)

Another sleepless night for me so thought I would drop by and say hi-HI! Think I am going to go and try to go to bed in a few minutes...have an early day tomorrow, ugh!

Have a good one ladies!