Okay I haven't posted in awhile. I have been so busy I have only been posting what is absolutely nessasary to get by with. But I am checking in now. I have been doing okay. I am moving. I wouldn't say 30 minutes of a specific exersice but I am moving. With Hunter in football, I hardly sit down for his 1 1/2 to 2 hour practices 3 days a week and then I am on the field every saturday during the game which is 1 /12 hours plus the hour for warm ups before the game starts. Oh yeah don't forget we are in south Texas and it has been in the high 90's and 100's everyday since football started. I am the team manager and the side line mom so I am on the move all the time. So there is my weeks worth of 30 minutes plus more, that does not include the anything extra I might do on the side, which we do, my husband has been wanting to take walks on the weekend mornings or evening if it is cool enough. So exersice I am getting. Meals- I eat when I can, I try to have 3 a day or grab a slim fast for the vitamins instead of a burger or fastfood. I don't buy junk food anymore, I don't buy kool-aid or soda's. My son can't have any sugar drinks during the whole football season, team rule so I don't buy it. My husband does but only for himself and he buys stuff he knows I don't like, and leaves it in the garage where I don't go alot. I eat alot of salads, and have switched to whole grain pasta's, cholesterol lowering butters, whole grain breads, add wheat germ to stuff, 1 % milk, no-fat dairy on everything else. I even add whole wheat flour now to recipes, I usually do half and half, so my kids don't think it tastes terrible. We have even started eating ground turkey instead of ground hamburger, and added alot more fish to our diet. Not as much steak or hot dogs and brats as we used to. So the diet thing is getting better. Snacking, I believe I covered that in meals. I don't really buy snacks anymore. I have some for the boys lunches at school but I don't eat them. If I eat them it messes up my food budget because I have to buy more snacks for there lunches and that ticks me off. as for eating before bed I will have to work on that. I usually grab a bowl of cereal or pb&j sandwich, before bed if I didn't eat before football, but I will work on eating before football pactrice so I won't have to do that anymore. I know it's not good for me. And my progress. When we moved here from Michigan at the beginning of May I weighed 219. When I stepped on the scale yesterday morning I weighed 206. When we started football practice on July 31 I weighed 214. So I feel really good about my progress and my doctor says I am doing really well. I can pull some of my pants on with out unbuttoning them and I am walking around now pulling them up all the time. So I feel good. And I plan on loosing alot more. Amy

Oh Jodi...N I C E kitchen! Is that Uba Tuba Granite? Is that Travertine on the walls? Are you making stuffed peppers? I love the little niche behind the cook top. You DO need to share photos! Thanks for the compliments on my DS. He is very special to me. We are like best friends...and so much alike, it is scary sometimes. Thanks for sharing your photos every day...everyone. I just love this post and never miss checking it out. It is hard to ever pick a favorite...and comment on them all. Keep 'em coming!

Just raking leaves. The trucks are coming to do the curbside pickup of leaves. It's so much easier just raking them to the curb than the endless bagging. The leaves are hanging on the trees far longer than usual this year because of the extra-ordinarily warm September. Our yard waste pickup and leaf bagging programs are ending next week, and many trees haven't shed their leaves yet.

I started a different swim routine yesterday, recommended by a trainer I use occasionally to help me work through my sometimes debilitating fibromyalgia. It consists of five laps of steady freestyle, a few seconds of rest, then two laps each of back stroke, side stroke (both sides), and breast stroke, with a thirty second rest between each set. What a difference for me. I will be able to increase the 'mileage' as time goes by. After a swim, I like to shower and change and spend some time on Pilates.