Weight Watchers Update

So you may have heard (from me!) that I am doing WeightWatchers. Well It has been 1 month today and I have lost 13.8 pounds. So as a reward I bought two dresses, one that is a goal dress for my birthday, one for my vacation in Oct. I really like the program and so far, so good.

Vacations!

So I have my eBay Sabbatical coming up. For those of you who don't know, eBay gives employees a gift every five years of a month off paid. I am taking mine in October. Cole and I had initially wanted to go to Australia and New Zealand, but he did not have enough time off saved. Then we decided on a two week Caribbean cruise. Then I figured that I wanted to go back to Europe, Cole vetoed that. So now, SET IN STONE, are my vacation plans-

Brat and I have rented a beach house in my favorite City in Florida, Clearwater Beach. If you have not been to the gulf side of Florida, GO! It is truly beautiful, baby powder white sands, blue waters, no kelp anywhere! The kids can find tons of shells and find little crabs, last time Brian caught a baby octopus! We found a place about 2 blocks from the beach that is a compound of three houses with a common courtyard and pool. Mom and Dad, Kenny and Suze, and maybe Jenni and Gabe are coming. We have the place for the week.

http://beachhousefl.escapia.net/site/Imagery/PropertyID__38986/13053/default.aspx

After that, Cole, Kane and I are getting on a cruise out of Tampa! The Carnival Legend. We splurged on a very large room with a very large balcony. The price difference from the inside cabin to our super room was $500. I willing to do that.

So that takes up two weeks, the other two weeks I may just sleep at home, who knows?

Updates of a kind.....

So Cole chastises me when I don't update the blog every other week or so (really). So I thought I would just pen a few notes about what we have been doing.

Cole is so glad that the holidays are over. Working at the Post Office over Christmas I am sure is a punishment in some other dementions. Cole is also heavily involved in the NALC (postal union) so he usually has meetings about that once a week. Since football is still on SUndays are spent glued to our bed and watching NFL Sunday Ticket. It will be nice when football is over so we can go to brunch again. For those of you who don't know, Cole bet me bruch at LaCaille that the Boise Broncos would lose to TCU in the Fiesta Bowl. Well TCU was bent over so I am really looking forward to that.

G broke up with his girlfriend this past week or so. She was a nice girl but I am glad it is over. G leaves for boot camp at Knox on June 7th. I am glad that he will be starting out his own life. He also has gotten a 4.0 both of the last quarters at school. He drives my old neon to school and to work and pretty much never at home unless we require it.

Mason is doing well but I can see how difficult it may become in the next few years. I can't restrain him anymore if I needed to. He is just too big and phsycially strong. I know the time is coming when he will not live here with us.

Kane, what can I say? We were playing cards at friends the other night who has kids close to Kane's age. They asked if Kane played with webikinz (not sure if that is spelled right.) I thought maybe they were a girl thing (sort of) but I had to explain that Kane was really interested in that type of thing, but if you have a small South AMerican country you want taken over, he's your guy. His birthday was this week so he is now 11 (going on 32).

Me? Well I joined weightwatchers and so far so good. Ashlee and Brat are doing it with me. I have lost 7.6 pounds, with many more to go. EBay is still great but I don't think I will be traveling so much this year.

Greer Christmas Party

We had our family Christmas Party at Brat's house on Sunday. Everyone was there except Chip and Nate's families and Keith who is still in Afghanistan. Mom made stuffed buns and then we had a huge pot luck. We also celebrated December birthdays and then had a huge white elephant gift exchange. We had a great time.

Cole would like to send a shout out to Becky and her super yummy peanut brittle.

Greer Christmas Party

Attack of the Snuggie-

Oh Vey! I broke down and bought two snuggies for the boys. G really wanted the purple one.

I've gone Blog Happy!

So I finally did it, after years and years of people begging me, getting down on their knees, I have started a travel deals blog. It is on my list of friends and called Super Sneaky Deals!