Mmmm Monday

I know, I know...it's Tuesday! I seem to be late on these Monday posts. But to keep everything straight in the wash I titled this for Mon.

Anyway, I have some good news. I don't know how many of you know that my digital scrapping hobby has turned into a job. I design kits now (long story). I am going to sell my designs at ScrapMatters. Feel free to follow me at my pressed petals blog.

We have been busy, hot and I have been down right TIRED lately. We start school Aug. 10Th. I am excited.

I have started running. A little over a month ago I started a thread (a line of communication in a forum) at ScrapMatters called the Queen of Flab. Anyway, it was just going to be for encouragement for those who needed/wanted to lose weight. There I found out about a running program called Couch to 5 K. It's supposed to get you off the couch and running a 5K in 9 weeks! I have been doing it for about 7 weeks. I am behind for this and that, but I can run more than I ever had in my life! Basically, you walk run, walk run more and more until you run the whole time. Since starting the Queen of Flab I have lost 4 pounds. Not too much, but I can tell the difference in my body and clothes.

Now for the food portion of the blog!

Onto COFFEE!
I wasn't always a coffee drinker. To be honest, when R would make coffee, the smell...ugh! Now I really like coffee. I still have my tea every morning. But I wanted to talk coffee.

There are different degrees of roasts with coffees. Some people think that the stronger the roast the stronger the coffee. Actually, it's the opposite, as far as caffeine goes. The more you roast the coffee bean the more it burns off the caffeine. We prefer the light roast. Much smoother taste, more caffeine! R LOVES his Dunkin Donuts coffee (original blend), I like Folgers Morning (something)(it's light roasted). If we could we'd get Gevalia Breakfast coffee...mmm so good. (light roast). N just bought us a coffee from Jamaica. Very good, smooth flavor. I will/do drink instant coffee. It has to be flavored though.

Anyway, enough babbliling! Have a great day!

I had dentist appt. today. Just a cleaning. I just had to tell you that the new hygienist goes to our church in L.C.! Small world. Is was really nice going to the dentist today.

Back to the flies.

Tape: 8
Swatter: Close to 20.

Anne, the tape is hanging over our sink, sort of.

Tape vs. Swatter

I don't know about your house, but our house seems to be taken over with flies. R even hung a fly tape in the kitchen...I know...gross. We were desperate. So. which works better the tape or the handy swatter...

Fly Tape: 3
Swatter: 8

The tape better perform or it's coming down tomorrow!

Oh, and a little note I forgot to tell C, was if you're going to dry your Adidas outside when it's 100+ they will melt! Yup! I didn't realize she left them outside.

Blocks and Teeth

The Friday before J left for camp he lost one of his fillings. So today we went to the dentist. The reason why his filling came out was because he developed another cavity under the filling. So I had to get the tooth capped or pulled. He now has another cap.

We have to go to the next city for the kids dentist. On our way, we ran into a road block. This is only the second one in all the time here. Basically, the road is blocked off since there is a missile (test) coming from somewhere, another state. They don't want anyone to get hurt if it's off at all. So we were a bit late to the dentist.

Some Photos

I think I am back to my normal life now. I wanted to show you some photos from Aunt N and J's trip. Here he is swimming at camp.

N and C took some "commerical shots" with the mustang. I thought I put C in here too. Will have to in the next post!

Action shot of bball.

Have to grocery shop today. Tomorrow I take J to the dentist to have his tooth fixed. His filling feel out right before he left for the week.

Here's one with my boy at the parade! Brother and sister...can you tell!

Photos from the 4Th! C in front of her dream car. Aunt N rented it. C got to drive around in it for a day! R went early and got great seats in the shade for the parade!!

J, waiting with his dog.

Second attempt at Peach Cobbler by Paula Dean. Who's recipe is different depending on where you get it from. It turned out really yummy!

We are watching our pastor's boye for the week. C already has an owie on his head.

Hope you had a great 4Th!

Happy 4TH of July!!

Just a few photos for ya. The kids love putting the sprinkler under the trampoline. Looks fun! Smile pretty...MOM!

Our first tomatoes! Between the heat, the soil (we did nothing to it) and the squirrels we only have a few plants left. Everything has some sort of small fence around it too.

We are in for a busy weekend/week. Nancy is coming tonight. She and J leave for Denver Sunday for basketball camp. They come back Friday. Sun. we start watching the scarry (not scarey) boys for the week through Sat. J was flossing and his filling came out. Both of our dentists are out of the office. So we wait until he gets back from Denver.

Happy 4Th!!