One great guy!

Lovin this kid lately, we had a great four days in Slycreek!

Its coming off....

Ten pounds came off in the first seven days!!! I'm shooting for 50lbs maybe a little more for growing room.

The Medifast diet has no supplements involved its a strict low calorie soy based diet. 5 of the Medifast prepackage meals and one meal of a 5-7 oz lean protein and two cuts of greens and 1 cup of low carb veggies ( no carrots,corn or peas).

Honestly the food takes some getting use to but the weight lose with motivate the tastebuds. The shakes ( 2 a day) and the bars (1 a day) are good, satifys the chocolate craving. The oatmeal wasn't so great, I've learned to make muffins by adding splenda and bakingsoda. The soups are okay.. cream of brochholi and chicken and rice are better.

Crystal lite and Diet soda's are my treats... I add the crystal lites to the shakes to intensify the flavor in the shakes and pudding.

Everyone is telling me its water weight that I have lost ... but I DON"T CARE.. its 10 LBS less off the scale.

Once my goal weight is reached then I will whean off the Medifast meals over a month adding in the fruits and other items that are now off limits. Its been hard... I LOVE tomatoes.. they are ok for the diet and tast like fruit! no sugar no salt though. can have 2 tbsp of low cal dressing on my salald at night.

Its been hard to stay on but getting on the scale daily and see almost 2 lbs everyday! But I have learned food is everywhere.. shopping , tv, social... but with focus and determination I have over come weak moments.

The biggest moment will be this coming weekends 4 day camping trip. I have my food packed and I'm going to try really hard. Wish me luck.... I just keep thinking TEN pounds and I can feel it in my clothes.... so exciting!

No 3 Finished... OHHH SO GOOD

This is the third book of Jodi Picoult I have read... the best one yet for me.I really enjoyed it. The book was good from the first page to the last. LOVED IT!

Don't want to say much more incase you read it!

Reading or Memorizing ?

DO you remember the book you thought you could read?

Mine was the Twas the night before Chirstmas.. I can still recite most of it from heart.

I KNOW that for Kailtyn it will be Cat in the Hat. We read it eveynight and if I'm not reading it Sean is. She can read along with us, and she's very good at it. I hear her singing it to her doll and animals as she plays. Its so cute. We're excited that she will be learning to read in Kindergarden which starts Aug 1st.

Cool n Refreshing

The water at Slycreek is cool and refreshing.

Just love it. Kailtyn has no fear of jumping off the boat, she is working on perfecting her cannon balls. I HAVE to remember to bring a water camera so I can get some of her practicing.

Going up again for four day, next weekend. Can't wait.. its been keeping me going....

Matt and his gang are going to be coming along again, they had such a good time last weekend.

Slycreek Camping

ohhh how I love this place! Our friends called us at 11am on friday to see if we could join them for the weekend camping at Slycreek. AHHHHH SURE! So Matt, his two friends and Kailtyn were all packed up and on the road by 5:30pm Friday!!! Can you believe the excursion wasn't big enough? 3 tents, 7 sleeping bags, 3 coolers , 7 duffell bags, 2 totes with camping gear, 5 bikes and 6 passengers the Excursion was freighted!Just hated to leave Sunday afternoon! Love being on the water in the boat and just love the lake and landscape.Plans are developing to return in a couple weeks until then I will have to close my eyes and dream I'm on the lake.Had lots of fun snapping shots of the teenagers wakeboarding. We had 7 teenagers and Kailtyn what a blast!

Summer Reads

LOVE this new author( new to me anyways) of course it has NOTHING to do with the fact she lives in NEW HAMPSHIRE ;)

The first book I read was MY SISTERS KEEPER, it was a good read and I could put it down every night and not be UP all night HAVING to read it.. it rolled along until the end then it flew.. has an unexpected ending which threw me for a loop.

Since the author has many books I picked up the latest one... THE TENTH CIRCLE. Liked this the most, the father daughter relationship in this is awesome. I read this one in three days, it was great read.. not heavy and not boring.

Last week I picked up a third of Picoult's book called TRUTHS, I hope to start it this weekend.

Its been hard to balance class work reading and the desire/time to read for pleasure.

Happy 4th of July

What is fourth of July with out an old town parade and fireworks!

Sean suprised Kailtyn with a small box of safe and sane fireworks.

The sparklers of course are still my favorites but this pink diamond fountain WAS pretty cool.

A Mystery NO MORE.....

This mystery spot is Caswell State Park located

20 Minutes away from the house. Yeah see what you find when you search your surroundings on the internet...

It was NOT delta water so there was no worries in letting the kids swim. They aren't glowing or growing fast even now from the irrigational run off..You could see the sandy bottom and there was a nice slow current.. think natural lazy river from a water park. Very Nice

The riverbank view reminded me of the CONTOOCOOK River ( Yes Californians I spelled it right and I'm not making up the name, there really is a river in NH called Contoocook..even a town too!) The afternoon made me homesick.. not that I was EVER allowed to SWIM in the Contoocook River!