Woohoo! Another great weigh-in at WW!!!!

So, I've been trying really hard all week to stay within my weight watchers points and get exercise and it's paying off! I had my meeting tonight and I lost another 3 pounds! That's 5.3 pounds total loss in 2 weeks!!!!!! I'm so excited!!!

I'm a SCRAPPIN' FOOL!!!!

This weekend my DH was out of town for a r/c boat race. I took full advantage of him being away and asked my friend is she wanted to scrap. Her DH was also away so we planned to scrap saturday and sunday nights. I didn't get as much as I had hoped to get done, but 9 pages is pretty good. I will post pictures of the pages as soon as I figure out why it won't let me post pics on here. I've emailed blogger support to see what the problem is. If you can't wait to see the pics, go on 2peas and look my gallery up (mesoscrappy).

Hope everyone had a great weekend! I'll blog more tomorrow!

Good Night!

Look at all the cute ribbon I got at Michael's yesterday!!!

I can't wait to start making halloween cards!!!!!! I have
some really cute vintage halloween images and all this super
cute halloween ribbons that I bought from Michael's for only
a dollar something each!!!!!!

Check out my bday card & gift!!!

My friend (2pea: valerpea) and I finally got together for my bday.....I know, my bday was over a month ago but it's been hard to find a time that we were both available...Thursday we met up for breakfast and she gave me the CUTEST card and little tin that had all these cute things inside like stuff from sephora!!!!!!
I love my gifts! I keep picking up the tin and card and looking at them constantly!!!!! THANKS VAL!!!! =0)

Things that make me happy!!!!

These are in no particular order.....

New York & Co
Target
getting mail (that isn't bills)
flannel pj's
my DH
my DS
The OC
My dog Miso
getting a new pair of shoes!!!!
not having plans for the weekend (everyonce in a while this is nice!)
Satsuma scent from Body Shop
my fuzzy slippers
Laguna Beach
Fall
Sunday newspaper ads
watching CSI with my DH
taking pictures and finding out I got some really great shots!!!
scrapbooking
Old Navy

Today is a good day!!!!!

Well, today was pretty good, I dropped my son and our neighbors daughter off at school and went straight to the gym. Worked out on the elliptical machine for 40 minutes. Went home to shower and get ready for the day and got a call from the fertility doctor's office (FINALLY)....we now have our first appt. scheduled for next month...I am so excited!

Had lunch with a good friend today at Olive Garden and resisted having a whole basket of breadsticks with alfredo sauce...those things are addicting! Instead I planned ahead of time what I would eat, had the waiter give me half the meal and put the other half in a to go box for tonight's dinner and drank water.....I know it's only been a week and a half since starting on WW but I really feel taking it one week at a time is helping. I hope I can stay motivated on the weeks where I don't see a loss when I weigh-in. I'm really wanting to be healthier and to lose some weight would be great too! I know I can do it if I work the program, it's worked for me before.

That's it for now!!!!!!

WOOHOO!!!!!!

Well, I went to my weight watchers meeting last night after 1 week of counting points, and my hard work paid off, I am down 2.3 pounds!!!! =0)
I am going to take it one week at a time (setting long term goals as far as weightloss goes never works for me). This week I will add in some exercise
and hopefully it will help me lose even more by the next time I weigh-in.

Congratulations Trisha & Roberto!!!!!

One of my good friends whom I've known since high school got married today.
The wedding was beautiful!!!!! Just wanted to say Congratulations to Roberto
and Trisha. You guys are a perfect pair! I wish you a lifetime of happiness!

Focused on Food!!!!!

Well, in an effort to lose weight, I have re-joined Weight Watchers
(this is like my 3rd or 4th time doing WW...I know the program works
IF you work it, I just have trouble sticking to things). The difference
this time, is 2 of my friends are also going to these meetings so I think
having some friends to support me who are going through the same thing
will help me.

I feel like now that I'm doing ww, I'm CONSTANTLY focused on food...
how many points is this, how many pcs of that can I have?...If I eat
that will I have enough points left for the rest of the day?? I know it
will get easier, right now I just need to find things that are healthier
and that fill me up and are tasty at the same time (that's not too much
to ask is it??)

I LOVE ROSES!!!!!

My DH brought me home roses this week.....I love roses! They make me so
happy...I just wish they would last longer. =0(



So.....to thank my DH for bringing me flowers (which he is actually pretty good about bringing flowers home quite often)....I made a quick digital scrapbook page,
printed it onto cardstock and taped it to his steering wheel so he would find it
the next morning.... =0) I wish I could show a pic of the page I gave him but I can't find the original on my computer, all I have is the first one I printed that cut off at the bottom cause my printer settings were wrong....Anyways...here it is:



Poem says:

I'll Love you FOREVER....

I love you so deeply,
I love you so much,
I love the sound of your voice
And the way that we touch.
I love your warm smile
And your kind, thoughtful way,
The joy that you bring
To my life every day. (**well ALMOST every day, but if I added that in, it wouldn't rhyme!)
I love you today
As I have from the start,
And I'll love you forever
With all of my heart.

I got this poem off of 2peas. (wish I could take credit for writing it but I can't).

Well I'll sign off for now, have a lot of stuff to do before the weekend starts and gets all crazy....HAPPY FRIDAY EVERYONE!

I'm a SCRAPPIN' FOOL!!!!!!!!

This weekend we had a r/c boat race near Sacramento. Since last week
was so emotional & physically draining for me, I was actually looking
forward to getting away and having a whole weekend to just scrap!
My DH didn't even complain when I made him pack up almost my whole
scrapbook room into our RV (normally he'd say something like "Are
you sure you need all this sh*t for just one weekend????" but not
this time - I think he knew I needed to do something to cheer myself
up and this did the trick!). I got 16 pages completed (let me tell you,
I don't normally even complete 16 pages in one year so this is a MAJOR
ACCOMPLISHMENT!). Plus I did a paper bag album for someone as a gift.
I am so excited that I want to just keep on scrappin! Here are some pics
of the pages I've done:

Beach Day:


Crab Feed:



Mother's Day:


First day of school:




This isn't all of them, you can view them on 2peas (my 2peasname is: mesoscrappy)
feel free to leave comments I am ADDICTED TO PEANUT PRAISE!!!!!!!! hee hee

Other than scrapbooking, we did lots of fun activities at the campground we were at, like Bingo (I haven't played bingo in YEARS....but it was so much fun!):



I got to visit with my good friend Peggy (who is my scrappin' buddy at the boat races) - both our husbands and sons race boats and we hang out in our motorhomes and scrapbook:



Well I've posted a ton of pictures so maybe I"ll save some for tomorrow.....

Can't something go my way for a change?????

This weekend had lots of UPS AND DOWNS.....Saturday I decided I would JUST FOR KICKS take a pregnancy test. I'm only on day 30 of my cycle and usually don't start for a few more days but what the heck, I have a 4 pack of tests from costco. So I take the test and it says PREGNANT. Of course this one has to be defective so I take another test and what dya know, it says PREGNANT too! I'm so excited! My DH and I hadn't really been trying this month because we were going to wait to see the Fertility Doctor (who by the way hasn't called and it's been over a month since the ob/gyn referred us....but I'm not bitter!!!) I call up my DH to tell him the good news! I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much because last november when I was pregnant it ended up being an ectopic pregnancy (my 2nd one) that ruptured. So for the next 2 days I'm completely focused on any feeling / pain / cramp on my right side thinking it's a tubal pregnancy. I go to Kaiser, take my bloodwork labs, find out my HCG is a 9 which at the time means nothing to me. I go home, check out my ob/gyn's website and look up a chart for HCG levels. According to her chart people who are NOT pregnant are an HCG of 5 or less. So immediately I am thinking, i'm only a 9, that's really low. But I'm hopefuly because maybe it's just too early to be a high number...like maybe I am only a week prego. I try ALL WEEKEND to keep myself occupied because I'm used to having bad luck and tend to analyze everything and get myself very stressed out. I spent Sunday with my mom, we went out to lunch and then went shopping. Monday my friend who is pregnant and I went out for lunch and went to my favorite mall to shop. It definitely helped pick my spirits up. But, I get home and have some cramping and spotting...I call the advice nurse at Kaiser and they tell me given my history of ectopic pregnancies, I need to come into emergency. So me and DH and DS go to the ER, they run some tests, my HCG is now down to a 3. So the doc tells me either I'm miscarrying or it's just early to know what's going on. That I should go home, rest, and follow up with my ob/gyn. I go on Tuesday and see my ob and she tells me it was a Chemical Pregnancy (I've never even heard of that before) and that I miscarried. That it wasn't meant to be but just produced enough hormones to show up positive on a pregnancy test. I am so bummed. I wish I could just get pregnant already and have a healthy normal pregnancy like I had with my son. There are so many people who can't afford to keep having babies or don't even take good care of their babies and they just keep poppin' them out. Then there's me and other friends of mine who are or would be great parents and can't seem to get pregnant. I am grateful that I have my son. THere are many who don't have even one child so I am very blessed that I have been given a child already, but I want so badly to grow our family. My DS is almost 11 and we still don't have another child. Oh well, I guess we'll just wait and see what happens when the fertility dr. finally calls.....

Some things about ME

Ten years ago: I gave birth to my son

Five years ago: I had gallbladder surgery and the dr's left a gallstone in
me so I had to go back in for a 2nd procedure (sorry I don't have anything more
exciting to say about 5 years ago!).

Yesterday: Was my son's first day of 5th grade....wahhhh! I'm getting old!

Today: I'm happy that my house is clean and very quiet!!

Tomorrow: my poor MISO is getting fixed....it will be a very sad day for me.

5 snacks I enjoy: Baked lays with onion & chive cream cheese, chex mix, light & fit
peach yogurt, wheat thins with costco's jalapeno and artichoke dip YUMMMM!!!!!, raisins

5 music groups / artist that I know the lyrics of most of their songs: Black Eyed Peas, Mariah Carey, Kelly Clarkson, Brian Mcknight, Gwen Stefani


5 things I would do with $100,000,000: Pay off all my bills, buy a bigger newer home in either Livermore or Pleasanton, donate to charity, buy some vacation property,
put the rest in the bank for my son's college fund, first car, etc.

5 locations I’d like to runaway to: Hawaii, Bahamas, Philippines (my DH is from there), Mexico, and Pennsylvanie (where I was born)

5 bad habits I have: Overeating, procrastinating, too much time on computer, speaking before thinking, overspending

5 things I like doing: Spending time with my DH and son, Scrapbooking, playing piano,
listening to music, 2peas (it's addicting!!!)

5 TV shows I like: Desperate Housewives, Laguna Beach, Real World, American Idol (especially the auditions), Melrose Place re-runs (I know, I'm a dork!)


5 movies I like: Friday, Big Daddy, Dumb & Dumber, Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Finding Nemo

5 famous people I’d like to meet: Jim Carrey (my favorite comedian), Adam Sandler (2nd favorite comedian - can you tell I love people who make me laugh?), Brian Mcknight, Oprah, Bill Gates so I can check out his awesome house!!!

5 biggest joys at the moment: My Son, getting some scrappin' done, Ending of summer, Husband, a CLEAN HOUSE!!!

5 favorite toys: digital camera, cell phone (can't live without it!), TIVO, my computer, my sony digital photo printer,