Easter 2012 (PhotoBucket)

We had a great Easter. We did it up like it should be. Friends and family came over Saturday for an Easter BBQ, we drank, we laughed (really loud and often),  ate way too much(no calories count on Easter) mac and cheese. The kids hunted Easter eggs and played with bubbles. AND Mike so graciously put H swing set together. SCORE. What a great weekend.

Easter Basket Time...I went a little over board on the candy...

So all these goodies were pawned off on our guest. That is WAY too tempting for me. Now I have to get ride of 2 YUMMY homemade APPLE pies..

Easter Egg Hunt

The basket was more of a accessory

Riley came to PLAY....and she brought BUBBLES!!!

We LOVE Riley

More BUBBLES

The Easter Bunny brought Hannah a swing set.. Mike was more than thrilled to put it together. It only took one trip to Lowes, a few naughty four letter words and some beer. BUT it's done.

These are my "YOU are GROWING TOO fast pictures"

I LOVE this Picture of my girl...

So happy playing with Riley

Say HUH?

These crack me up. Playing with MaMaw's sunglasses

 

So I fell off the "Workout" Horse

Man, I was doing so well. Working out everyday, doing the 30day shred, running, attempting to run with the jogging stroller... Then BAM...home girl fell off the horse. (3 days in a row)

I blame it on my lack of self control and my love of alcohol. I mean REALLY why does Alcohol have to be bad..it taste so yummy, and it gives my fingers a tingling feeling... ugh.

 I once heard a quote from Klhoe Kardashian " A moment on your lips is a lifetime on your hips"...ugh..

So long story longer, we went to the race track on Saturday (first fall off the horse), DRANK..and ate a DELICIOUS corn beef sandwich..went home and sat our happy slightly intoxicated self on the couch, which bled into Sunday(second fall off the horse). We were totally DAN and ROSEANNE. it was bad. and I ate bad.

THEN Monday(third fall off the horse), I went to MIMI'S and could not resist the chicken pot pie. Tuesday wasn't so bad and I managed to get a run in last night. but when I got on the scale this morning. I flipped the scale off. MULTIPLE times. ALL that hard work and now I'm back to ugly number that I started. UGH. I was so mad and disappointed in myself.

So today didnt' start off well. I had all the intentions on running this morning but since I ran last night, I had WAY too much energy and couldn't fall asleep. Seriously I was up until 12AM. which meant that 5am run was only a dream. I had a little "tickle" in my throat but managed to get through the day. I mean I was nursing it. Sipping hot tea and popping cough drops most of the day. BUT I did get my food intake in check. I WAS STARVING most of the day.

So by 4pm I had pretty much diagnosed myself with strep throat. I had Hannah's gymnastics class (which amazing I felt OK during the entire time) and when we got home I realized I was WAY to sick for a 5 mile run. YEP too sick. The only thing I could do to save  my dying(yep I was about to be the first person to die from strep throat) soul was take a bath and take some NYQUIL.

 Mike was being so supportive.

"Oh just go run, you'll feel better" This is after I sulked about eating so bad for days.

"Oh you look skinny, you probably just gained muscle"  (blah blah blah)

I was all pity party mode and decided the bath would cure my soul...but not before raiding the fridge..for a slice of pizza? REALLY AMIE?!!

Seriously I jumped in the tub and ate a slice of pizza. like I was a kid at fat camp sneaking a piece of pizza. (I was hungry..)

The pizza just made things worse, umm.... here's an idea...If you want to loose weight..try a little self control..duh...

So as I sat in the bath tub (for all of 7 minutes of me time) H and Manny come barging in..

Here she is trying to add more bubbles..

Oh and here she is throwing baby in...

REALLY?!!

At this point my nerves were through the roof.. MAD that I ate bad, MAD that the scale went up and not down, MAD that I couldn't take a bath in peace and MAD that I ate that dang delicious piece of pizza so what did I do?!

Got my MAD azz on the treadmill and ran...

5 miles in 43:49. Not the best but I'm proud of myself for leaving the pity party and running. oh and burning off that pizza ;o)

From THIS to THIS

We've had a few project going on in the Lassen Home and I can finally say that most of them are done.

1. I was geared up for Easter and wanted Hannah to have the BEST and cutest Easter Basket. I've been eyeing THESE bad boys for months, BUT I couldn't justify the price. YES they are adorable, but not $34.00 adorable. So I took my happy self to JOANN'S and bought some fabric and the rest was history. So I started with THIS:

 and with a little bit of THIS:

And THIS:

I really can't take credit for anything but buying the fabric. I had all the intentions on learning how to use the sewing machine, BUT when I got on that thing, it went CRAZY. Thread got all jacked up and crooked. So my handy MIL stepped right in and made it look like a breeze.

AND GOT THIS:

Too cute!! and so empty. I'm totally waiting for all the EASTER candy to go on sale this weekend. Why pay full price?

2. I never said I had a green thumb. Last year I had a little success with the garden. So this year when we planted our "Harvest" (I feel so FARMER-ISH) I realized how horrible the garden looked and decided to give it a little make-over.

So we went from THIS:

This is actually a little better than what it look like. I just forgot to take a picture before I put primer on it.

to THIS:

3. So I've never been a big car person. As long as it got me to point A to point B I didn't care what I drove. Shoot I'll drive a Hoopty if it meant no car payment. I was fond of my 2005 Ford Escape. "Black Beauty", She was a beauty and treated me so well. UNTIL I paid her a** off and rear ended a tank..Black Beauty laid down like a dead horse and I was WITHOUT a car. BUT thankfully Mike's car was paid off and HE got a new car and a new car payment. So I drove the ol' Silver Bullet.

THIS

I really had no problems with this car. We did have a love/hate relationship when I was 8 months pregnant. It was a sight I'm sure to see my big preggo a** try to get out of that car. But I got use to it and it was PAID for. But my Silver Bullet days are over. My wonderful now driving 16yr old (YIKES) stepson Devin was promised this car since day one. And now that he's 16 (YIKES) it's his. so now I have THIS:

Meet "RED ROCKET" ( I don't know why we name our cars but we do) She's a 2011 Ford Escape Limited Edition. Which meant NOTHING to me. BUT I was VERY excited for:

THIS

I love that the radio has controls on the steering wheel.

It's been real sweet NOT having a car payment but I guess this day was coming sooner than later.