How do they do that???

My wonderful georgous friend Carina is always a wealth of information about anything and everything. Especially if it comes to healthy eating and living, or skin care. So the other night we were chatting about different foods, and veggie burgers came up. We both agree that Morningstar Farms makes the best veggies burgers!! But what I didnt know, is that they have more awesome products other than veggie burgers. They make veggie corndogs. She told me they were good. My Wal-Mart has a new section in the freezer aisle that is ALL Morningstar Farms products. Low and behold, I spotted the corndogs and me being very curious, decides to buy them. The recommended cooking method is the oven for 20 minutes. I just ate the corndog. Inhaled would actually be a better word. It was delicious. And I am not kidding when I say that it tasted just like a real meat corndog! How do they do that? I cant wait to try all of their products. I dont have any intention of giving up meat entirely. But I could definitely eat Morningstar Farms pretty regularly.

P.S.
Its Friday!!!!
Its time to do some Wii Fit.
I am getting a lot better at Yoga.
I found out that I cant do push-ups.

Excuse me, this is MY basket!!

Ok so I am about to Wii Fit, but I first just had to blog about Wal-Mart. UGH!
So I ran in today right after work to pick up a few things. I got everything I needed (well not everything, since I only had 40.00 on me) and I went to the check out. The minute I stepped in front of my cart to put my merchandise on the belt, a lady got in line behind me. But she didnt just get behind me, she was almost on me! She walked right up to my basket, like it was her basket. I thought it was a little wierd so I pulled my basket toward me. She then took a GIANT step forward to put herself directly next to my basket again. I was thinking, man this lady is wierd, and rude. I mean... who does that??? My purse was in the basket, so this is why it was bothering me so much. I was almost done putting my stuff up on the belt when I looked back at her and noticed that she had put her hands on my cart, and did the whole "foot rest" thing on it. You know, the foot rest thing, when you put your hands on the cart, and pick one foot up and rest it on the bottom of the cart. Its a common stance for those standing in line at a Wal-Mart checkstand.. but normally people do it on their own basket, not just some random basket they happen to walk up to that already has someones purse and groceries in it. But anyway, when I saw her do that I CAME UNGLUED!!!! I grabbed the front of my basket and I YANKED it and said "Excuse me!!! This is MY basket!!!" LOL! I must have looked like the biggest bitch ever, but oh well. Maybe she will learn something from it. I mean I know its Wal-Mart and all, most people that shop there leave their manners in the car, but come on. You have to draw the line somewhere.

Never fear, the Wii Fit is here!

Well its been here for a week, but that is besides the point.
I have been using it. OMG! I am in love. I love this game! Its like a game, but I am working out at the same time. It loves me too. I have a male trainer. I like to call him Bob and pretend that he is Bob from The Biggest Loser.
The Wii Fit tells me my BMI everyday (yikes), and also my weight if I want it to.
It keeps track of my progress, and the amount of minutes I am on it. It monitors my balance too, which helps with posture. The Wii Fit and I play games like soccor, ski jump, and hula hoop. We also do jogging, step aerobics, and Yoga. The workouts are fierce!!!!

Go here to see some shots of the Wii Fit, and all of the cool stuff it does. I dont even have close to half of the exercises unlocked. Which is fine, because I suck at a lot of them. But I am getting better.

I want to tell everyone out there that would like a really awesome and fun home workout, to get this machine, and get the Wii Fit balance board for it. It will be one of the best $350 (total for the system and wii fit) investments you will ever make. Even if you only use it for excercising alone, you wont be disappointed. If comes with 5 really fun games already (bowling, tennis, golf, baseball, and boxing) that you can play with your DH, friends, kids, etc.

Go get a Wii Fit people!!!!

Memorial Day

So Dennis wanted to make sure he made it out to the cemetery to put flowers on the grandparents' graves today. We bought a couple of bouquets at the nursery, and today we went out there.

It was another gorgeous day. During Memorial weekend, the cemetery has all these flags set up for all of the military vets that are buried there. Its so beautiful.


Dennis drove up to the general vacinity where his grandparents are buried. But I immediatly spotted the grave stone that would actually be the kids' great grandparents on their mom's side. They placed a bouquet on their grave.


Dennis's grandparents are just right down the row from there. His dad and uncle had already been there. We left a bouquet for them too. Dennis spent a moment alone.
I never got to meet his grandparents. His grandma has been gone for years, but I met Dennis just shortly after his grandpa passed.


While we were driving up and around the back end of the cemetery, Bubba spotted Grandpa Clarence's flag. Dennis hasnt seen his flag before. And it was right on the road. We were so lucky that Bubba spotted it. Because there are hundreds of flags out there, and its hard to read the names.



So, yesterday we bought two bouquets. One for Den's Grandparents, and one for the kid's great grandparents. The truth is, is that my grandma is also buried in this cemetery, and I havent been to her grave since she was buried almost 8 years ago. I wasnt planning on going out there with Dennis. I wasnt even exactly sure of where her grave was located. My grandma was a very special person. She loved me so much, I know it because she told me, all the time. I spent more time with her during my childhood than I did my other grandparents. Mostly because we lived in the same town. She really did march to her own beat, everything I remember about her is all positive, funny, inspiring, and warm. I felt like I really owed it to her to pay her a visit. Heck, I owed it to the whole family. We stopped at Safeway on the way to the cemetery and I got a bouqet of pink carnations. She loved carnations. We drove around and searched for a long time and couldnt find her grave. Finally I spotted the directory, so I ran in there and I found her listing. I took off running across the grass and it still took me a while to find it. On the way to it, I spotted Cindy's dad's grave. Just about 20 yards away was my grandma's. Dennis brought the car around to meet me there. My grandpa had already been there. He grows those roses for my Grandma. There was a memorial service going on right next to my grandma's grave, no joke. I really wanted to talk to her. But with that going on, I just layed down the flowers. And studied her stone, and my grandpa's side of the stone too.


I am so glad that I went out there. I am definitely going out there more now that I have gotten over those fears. I dont know if anyone in my family really knows that I have never been there. I am sure that if my grandpa found out, that he would be really upset with me. That is why I didnt want to have to call him to ask him where my grandma was buried. I will never forget now.

My weekend so far

I gotta say, so far it has been great. I have been super motivated to do stuff. Cleaning, laundry, planting flowers, playing games with the kids, cooking, etc. It has been just an awesome time for family. When Dennis told me about all the people he had invited over last night, I was a little grouchy about it. But everything worked out great. We barbequed last night, sat outside all night and chatted. The kids all rode bikes and played outside until after dark (i loved doing that when I was a kid), the guys watched the fight, and the girls drank Pear Vodka and chilled in the yard. It was just so relaxing, and good food too!!

Today I have been doing some laundry, played some Uno Attack together as a family, then Dennnis took us to Kopacz Nursery to get some flowers for the yard pots. I am not done planting yet, but the lawn guy showed up right when I was about to plant my mint, so I had to get out of his way and come inside. Yesterday we went to some yard sales and I got this adorable little bench/table thing for the front of the house for $5.00!!! It has a lid that opens up and I can put my little garden tools, and the bbq tools in it. Our poor bbq, that old charcoal thing is going on its 4th summer. I really need to think about getting Den a new one for father's day.

Its a gorgeous day out....... peace!

Have you heard about this?

It could be fun! I think I am going to try it.

Curves Fitness Study

For my BFF, Cindy

Cindy, this will either make you sick, or make you laugh. Hope its the 2nd one....

What we had for dinner:
Click on the pictures to get a better idea of what "fence" is...

The eggs had a lot of "fence"


Bubba likes to eat the fence