Baby Weight

Since I'm trying to lose my baby weight, I thought this was cute! Makes you feel a little better about what you eat. HA!

Food on foot: All food eaten while standing has no calories. Exactly why is not clear but the current theory relates to gravity. The calories apparently bypass the stomach, flowing directly down the legs and through the soles of the feet into the floor, like electricity. Walking appears to accelerate this process, so that an ice cream bar or hot dog eaten at the state fair actually has a calorie deficit.

TV food: Anything eaten in front of the TV has no calories. This may have something to do with radiation leakage, which negates not only the calories in the food, but all recollections of having eaten it.

Balance food: If you drink a diet soda with a candy bar, they cancel each other out.

Food for medicinal purposes: Food used for medicinal purposes never counts. This includes hot chocolate, malted milk, toast and Sara Lee cheesecake.

Food on toothpicks: Sausage, mini-franks, cheese and crackers are all fattening unless impaled on frilled toothpicks. The insertion of a sharp object allows the calories to leak out the bottom.

Children's food: Anything produced, purchased or intended for minors is calorie-free when eaten by adults. This category covers a wide range, beginning with a spoonful of baby-food custard, consumed for demonstration purposes, up to and including cookies baked to send to college.

Custom-made food: Anything somebody makes "just for you" must be eaten regardless of calories because to do otherwise would be uncaring and insensitive. Our kind intentions will not go unrewarded!

Thanks Bri...(who I stole this from!)

My Beautiful Babies

Yeah, I know I'm their mommy, but you have to admit they're pretty beautiful! :o)

Mowin' & Fishin'

Gracie Claire has been having a great week with Daddy at home. We went to visit Papaw and Janny last weekend and she got to go fishing and ride the lawnmower. Oh the things that make a two year old happy! I love it!

Gracie Claire loves riding on the lawnmower!

Paul is so proud that Gracie Claire was so excited about going fishing!

My Sweet Smilin' Girl

Sydney is smiling, grinning, and cooing now! I love watching as she goes through each little stage. I'm trying to savor every little moment!

Easter

I have to say that Easter has to be up there on my "Favorite Times of the Year List!" Growing up we always woke up in the morning, ran to the kitchen table to dig through our Easter baskets, and dressed up in our Easter outfits for church. My parents always made the most important part of Easter about Christ and His sacrifice for us. Now that I'm a parent, I understand the longing that they had for us to choose Jesus as the Lord of our lives. I can't wait for the day that Gracie Claire and Sydney say "YES!" to Jesus, for the day that we can tell them that the angels in Heaven are partying it up for them, and that the Father and the Son are even more proud of them than we, their earthly parents, could ever be! I'm so thankful that I can look forward to those moments and one day see them come to fruition. Thank you Lord for not forgetting Paul, me, and my girls, and for engraving us upon the palms of your hands.

I so love going to church on Saturday night! The Easter service they did was awesome! One of my favorite songs, which we sang on Saturday is, "For All You've Done." I have made a mess of so many things, and He is my Cleanser. He has patience for my learning curve. He traded places with US! How could my soul not explode with how wonderful His mercy is?!

Oh Cleanser of the mess I've made

Upon the hill our places trade

Stretched on a cross Your body crushed

By human hands You formed from dust

How wonderful Your mercy is

How awesome are Your ways

I come, I come to worship You

For all You've done

Oh cleanser of the mess I've made

Your boundless love for me portrayed

With patience for my learning curve

By holding back what I deserve

How wonderful Your mercy is

How awesome are Your ways

I come, I come to worship You

For all You've done

Oh cleanser of the mess I've made

With everything at Your feet laid

I watch as all my cares erode

And from my soul these words explode

How wonderful Your mercy is

How awesome are Your ways

I come, I come to worship You

For all You've done

If you haven't read Courtney's blog about Easter, you need to. She says it very well.

Our Family on Easter

Sleepy Head

On occasion, our sweet Gracie Claire crawls into bed with us. We typically don't let her stay there, but sometimes it happens. Here's what I found when I woke up this morning.


We've noticed that when she falls asleep on our bed, she always lays down with her feet at our heads...lucky us! I'm surprised that neither one of us has been kicked in the face yet. And this time, she used Daddy as her pillow. He's such a great Daddy! I probably would've shoved her off of me.

My Hubby the Chef & The Apple Incident

When I go grocery shopping I always ask Paul if he has any requests or wants anything different. I just started back on Weight Watchers and made my list based upon what I needed for my diet, but I definitely didn't want to leave Paul out. Although he is really good about eating what I fix...usually. Anyway, back on topic, he said he wanted me to get a big salmon fillet. So, I found what I thought looked pretty fresh and brought it home. I truly had no clue how to fix it, so Paul said he wanted to try. He marinated it in lemon juice, poured on some capers, and put some butter on (don't worry, this butter is the fat free kind that WW allows :o) He wrapped it in foil and put it on the grill. It only took a few minutes on each side, and, to tell the truth, it was really good. I tend to worry a little when it comes to Paul and the grill...he tends to go a little over the top sometimes. What is it with a man and his grill? I guess I should stop worrying because whatever he is grilling usually turns out pretty good! Good job on the salmon babe--it was yummy!

On to the next topic. After leaving Gracie Claire at the table eating her lunch for just a second (yes, I know it only takes them a second) I came back to the kitchen to find that she had reached up on the counter into the fruit basket, grabbed a couple of apples, and chomped right into both of them. I couldn't bring myself to punish her for this since I was the one that left her unsupervised in the kitchen...for just a second. Oh well!

Grocery Shopping Nerd

Who says that shopping with a two year old and an infant is easy? We all know that it isn't, but instead of waiting for Paul to get home from work to stay with the girls for a little while so I could go get the groceries, I decide to venture out on my own. This isn't the first time that I've shopped with the girls on my own, but this time Super Wal-Mart didn't make it easy on me -- or maybe I didn't make it easy on myself. It was probably a combo. Anyway, usually I put Sydney in the Baby Bjorn and sit Gracie Claire in the cart, but I knew that Super Wal-Mart has those huge carts with the extra seats attached to the front, so I took Sydney in her carrier to put on top of the cart and was going to put Gracie Claire in the extra seats, but, of course, they were out of the big mama shopping carts. So, instead of going back to the car and getting the Baby Bjorn, which would've been the smart thing to do, I decided to put Sydney and the carrier on the top of the cart and I threw Gracie Claire in the back of the cart. Long story short, Gracie Claire spent the time that she wasn't yelling "HI" to strangers, which is a completely different story, stacking all of the canned goods I'd put back there into a tall tower. I can't blame her though, she didn't have much room and she didn't fuss at all. So, I guess the moral of the story is, don't put your two year old in the back of the grocery cart when she's going to get groceries stacked on top of her. I know...DUH!

Gracie Claire w/ Uncle Caleb's sunglasses on :o)

This picture has nothing to do with my blog, I just thought I'd share it because it's too cute not to.