Rebecca is going to the prom!!

Saturday I rushed Rebecca out of the house so that her perspective date to the LDS prom could "ask" her to the prom.  We went to a few stores to get the stuff for the cake that she was going to use to "ask" the same boy.  Well we got home and I made sure she was the first one into the house.  Lagged a little, took extra time getting out, shut my door slow, all that so she could be the first one in the house.

Sitting on each stair up to her room, were two hershey kisses.  She started laughing, thinking her dad had done it.  We told her to head on up.  She did, gathering kisses as she went.  When she got to the top of the stairs, there was a sign:

Then she followed the rest of the kisses to her bedroom door, to find this sign:

As you can see there is a pink piece of paper behind it.  So she lifts up the top sign and finds:

This was the boy she was going to ask him the same day, but he beat her to the punch!!   So she got together her cake supplies and answered him with a cake!

Now to find a jacket to go over her dress and get the laces put on her dress.  We are going to the gym everyday this week to help her to lose that 2 extra inches she has on her waist that is keeping the dress from zipping closed!  I will post pictures of the dress and the jacket soon on another post!  :)

Rain Rain Rain!

I know I know, we need the rain!  I just am so tired of it!! It brings my mood down.  A gloomy outside makes for a crabby Rhonda.  I just want the kids to go outside and play and not come inside in five minutes because they are cold!!   Plus we can't work on the garden!  We need to get stuff planted and the boxes put in.  I hope to be able to do that this weekend!  Though our artichokes, potatoes and asparagus is in the ground, we need to get the rest in the dirt at least!  I love having a garden.  It is nice to not have to run to the store when you need tomatoes.  Just go out and get some!  

We did have a small wading pool for a short time.  Not wanted but we had it none the less! 

Weekend Warriors and hopefully water resistant?

This weekend it rained and rained and rained and rained!  SO much I have a six inch wading pool on my back porch.  Totally awesome, but not what I was thinking to add to the decor of my backyard, especially when it is still cold!   It finally stopped raining early this morning, but still we look like flood victims in my neighborhood. 

Other then the rain, it was the 2011 Women's Conference.  We chose three classes and got a light lunch.  It was pretty cool.  I took a class on how to communicate with your husband, how to become a forgiving spirit, and how to decipher the five love languages.  Rebecca went with me because the Laurels were invited.  We went class to class and then to a great lunch where I ate, get ready, hummus!!!  Totally delicious and wonderful and I hate hummus!  This one was excellent!!  I need to figure out where they got it or who made it because I want more!  Yummy!  I did learn alot at the classes and got in a little bonding time with Rebecca even though she spent most of her time talking to everyone around me. 

Sunday Richard was asked to be on committee for the upcoming Adult Fireside.  Very interesting group of people.  Two couples I especially like, one couple that rubs me the wrong way, one couple that I KNOW does not like me at all, and another couple that I have never heard of and they weren't there!  We are meeting again on Friday to plan out the fireside.  Not sure how I am going to handle two of the couples, but I have to figure it out.   I am not putting names down at all, just feelings.  I am sure the one lady that does not like me, knows who she is and if she reads my blog will totally try to deny it.   I guess this is a test from Heavenly Father to see if I can change my feelings toward one couple and change the feelings towards me of the other couple.  Who knows!  I just do not like the feeling that you get when you know someone does not like you, so I am going to try to not do that around the one couple that rubs me the wrong way. 

On a lighter note, I finally got back my one hour of lost sleep!  Yeah!  Not tired today and looking forward to the gym tonight!  Yeah team!!  Power up the treadmill, I will be there after 8!!

Weekend plans

This weekend is already turning out to be a busy one.  On Saturday it is our Women's Conference at the Stake Center.  We did the same thing last year.  A broadcast, classes and a light lunch.  Though unlike last year, classes are first come first served basis.  Luckily they have invited the Laurels to come to the conference, so Rebecca will be going with me.  We need to be there at 8:15 to get the classes that I want.  Not that I can remember what exactly they are.  I signed up for classes and hopefully I get the ones that I originally signed up for.

Then on the same day, Rebecca will be doing a fashion show at Fashion Bug on Herndon.  She has a cute black and white dress and jacket to wear.  I can't wait! You all should come out and see her strut her stull on the catwalk! LOL!  That is a line from one of the dumbest songs ever recorded, but one that is in my head forever!!  It is funny how things catch on!

While we are doing the conference, Richard and the rest of the kids will be working in the garden getting the mulch into the soil and planting the seeds in our little greenhouses.  We are going to change the boards around the planter boxes to make them more defined and put gravel in the walkways.  I know this is alot of work for a rental, but why not.  Why have a rental that looks like you cared nothing for it?  I prefer to have a rental that looks like I really cared about it.  I have been taking pictures, so I will post before and after pictures and during pictures also.  We are also going to teach the kids how to can what we grow, not sure if I said that before.  It will be a good family activity, something they can pass down to their children and so forth. 

Sunday is church and then relaxing at home.  Maybe an after church nap!!  Now to get the kids on board!!

Update

We never did get to the gym five times last week, but we did four days.  I noticed a change in my body and in my energy level.  We did the treadmill, bike, elliptical, and the weights.  We are really enjoying our time together and our workouts.  Now we just need to be more careful with what we eat and that will help us feed our muscles and eliminate the fat.  The guy who works there, that I am always picking on, told us to try supplements with Oxyprolein.  It is suppose to dissolve the fat in hard to reach places and helps you to get more benefit to the workout.  Not sure if I am willing to try that yet, but I willthink about it.

We went last night with our friend Ruth Cox from the ward and we kicked her butt (her words not ours)!  It was awesome!  She kept up with us but she said she was going to be sore in the morning.  She showed us how to use a new ab machine and it hurt!  I need to do mroe reps on it though and still use the other one for my obliques.  I am really starting to look forward to my twenty year class reunion!  YEAH!!  Does that make me sound bad?

Weekend updates

Friday was one crazy day!  It was the San Joaquin Valley Color Guard and Percussion Review.  Richard was running hospitality again and I was doing the concession stand.  Not bad, but it made for a crazy week and one LONG day!  Everytime a team performed we could get swamped right after that!  It was a mad rush for nachos, cup of noodles, hot dogs, hamburgers, sodas, etc!  The biggest pain was when the kids would ask for a fountain drink and look dumbfounded when you asked them what kind.  How hard is that? Coke, Sprite or Barqs?  Apparently extremely hard for teenagers these days!!  We were done right around 11 pm!  CRAZY LONG HECTIC DAY!

Saturday, we started in on cleaning up the Garden to get it ready for mulch on Wednesday.  We bought new boards and stained them redwood color, to go in the garden.  I took pictures, so hopefully when it is done, you will be able to see why we have the boards.   We are planting tomatoes, zucchini, yellow squash, carrots, beets, green beans, peas, eggplant. jalapenos, bell peppers, potatoes, artichokes, asparagus, etc.  The etc is because, we are still deciding for one section of the garden as to what to plant.  The kids love vegetables, so it is a win win for us.  Plus we are going to start canning the vegetables this year.  Teaches the kids something that they can use when they are older with their own families, and we all work together as a family for a common goal.  Besides how great is it going to be to eat our own food that we canned together?  We are not growing any fruit, but we will be buying strawberries and peaches to make jams this year.  And we will be doing another herb garden and preserving those also!  It is interesting that years ago that is what everyone did, canned their own food and then they could buy canned food in the stores and now we are all back to canning our own food to save money in this horrible economy.  Sort of like the saying fashion trends always come back.   Canning your own food is now back to becoming a common everyday occurance in the lives of many families!  But sad to say stillnot enough people do it.  I think we should have a Super Saturday to teach the women who do not know how to can, to can.  What do you think?

Sunday was funny because half our ward was gone, we all thought that they forgot to set their clocks, but there is some sort of illness going around the elementary schools that is pretty bad.  3-5 days of fever and gross sickness.  I am glad they stayed home, but sad that they missed church. 

Sad note, I read a news article that is Japan there are 9500 residents of a coastal town that are completely unaccounted for after the Tsunami.  Only 7500 of the town residents were rescued.  I am sure that that number will rise, sad to say.  My heart and prayers are with them. 

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Weekend and Challenges

This weekend was another crazy weekend!  Richard and I were in charge of the hospitality for San Joaquin Valley Jazz Festival.  We served breakfast and lunch and then dinner for a well renowned Jazz Band from New York.  I have no idea who it is, but they are pretty famous in the jazz world.  No idea of their name either, I just don't get jazz.

Got home after all that and Rebecca had planned a surprise Anniversary party for us.  It was really nice and we all sat around and ate and talked until 10:15.  It was pretty cool!

Here is my challenge for the week.
 Rebecca and I will go to the gym five times this week for at least an hour.  We went last night and did the treadmill and went around half of the nautilis equipment. Poor Rebecca keeps trying to do way too much weight on the arms and complains that her arms hurt after.  She will figure it out one of these days.  We evenused some new equipment too.  While we were on one of the new ones, one of the guys that work there came over and told us we were doing it backwards.  Becca was worried, I knew he was full of beans, just messing with us!!  Can't wait for tonight!!! Yeah!!

Gym or Plot to kill me!

I went to the gym last night with Rebecca and I sware she is trying to kill me!  We did thirty minutes on the treadmill, fifteen on the bike, 30 minutes worth of weight training and then the attempted murder!!!    She talked me into getting on the Elyptical machine for five minutes!  I thought I was going to fall off!! Took me a few minutes (3) to figure out how to do it correctly.  My legs felt like they were going to fall off until I figured it out!!  Man does it get your heart pumping and sweat pouring!  We got a great workout last night and I did not get smacked in the leg with any of the equipment by Rebecca this time!  Bonus!!   I will post a before and after picture as soon as I start to see any change.  I keep crossing my fingers that it will happen every night after I go to the gym.  I wish it was that easy!  But they do not call it a workout because it is easy!   If losing weight was easy, then people would not be making millions on weight loss programs!!