A Crazy Red Head: October 2011

I have lost a small child

Friday, October 28, 2011

Or the equivalent of Seth

{His New Kindergarten School Picture}

weighing in at approximately 43.3 pounds

Or you could say I've lost 43.3 handfuls of this stuff:

{this is one pound of fat}

There has been so much going on in our lives. We just finished with our semi-annual activity days project. We took on the Daddy Daughter Date and had a really good time. I will try to back post about the lost weeks since Chloe's Baptism. There's been more fishing, more loose teeth, Halloween Parades, Pumpkin Cookies, but most importantly ~ I have managed to continue to loose weight throughout my favorite CANDY season!!! Happy Trick-Or-Treating!!!

Thanks Grandma & Grandpa Davis!!!

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Grandma and Grandpa usually invite the family to dinner and then take the birthday girl or boy to Toy's R Us for 2 hours of indecision. This year Chloe decided to forgo the toys for fashion! When we went out for Lunch on the Saturday after her birthday they didn't have her size at the Kohl's we were at. So the next Monday, Dan came home from work with a wrapped gift box and her shoes! For some reason the twinkles went out and we had to go back to Kohl's were they replaced them with the last pair of size one's in the state!

Inedible???

Monday, October 17, 2011

So last November we got to go to the scout auction with Dan's family and we bid on a quarter side of beef during the silent auction and lost. Then during the live auction we pooled together with Dan's sister Kate and outbid the crown for half a side of beef! This was Last November. Today we got to FINALLY go and pick it up in Hoytsville. It was a beautiful drive and a lovely day but this is the picture I took an will always remember that outside of the butcher shop was these big garbage bins that read: "Kuhni's Inedible"

We have been waiting so long for this meat and are so excited to have the freshest we've ever had! We drove past Park City on the way up but drove home the opposite way and drove past a very full Echo Reservoir ~ but no fishing we had half a cow in the back of the truck!

The butcher said that the meat is very lean and comparible to 9% fat that I buy at the store. We got quite a few chunks of ground beef, some roasts and a number of different cuts of steaks. Can't wait to try them...

Chloe found this little whooly bugger when we dropped off Kate and Ben's share ~ so cute☺

My day in the Kitchen

Friday, October 14, 2011

Since starting weight watchers, I haven't made many treats, possibly none at all. (Poor family) I promised Dan I would bake him some of his favorite sugar cookies. So I made the dough last night and let it chill. Rolled it all out between wax paper. Then cut it out into halloween shapes ofbats, ghosts and pumpkins.

While they were cooling, I made six square lasagnas that serve four for the freezer. I don't hate making lasagna but I do think it takes a lot of work and I appreciate it when I can make many in advance!

This sugar cookie recipe is from Dan's Mom, they are so, so good. I don't like to sample while I'm baking, I don't like raw cookie dough of any kind but these sugar cookies. So today I chewed some gum while getting these cookies ready. I was so proud of myself for not tasting even one bit. I made vanilla icing for the orange pumpkins and white ghosts. I also made anise icing for the purple bats.

Sadly I should have tasted the dough because I must have done something wrong... They didn't taste right and even though they were alot of effort, I threw them away.

New Motor

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Dan took his boat in to be winterized towards the end of the season and he had them check the motor because it was having troubles starting up the first time in higher elevations, sad. They determined that the evinrude motors that year had some defects and replaced it with a brand new motor and 3 more years of warranty. I swear Dan leads a charmed life!!!

Dan caught the smallest fish he's ever reeled in!

What a Special Day

Saturday, October 8, 2011

It has been 13,824,000 Seconds

Friday, October 7, 2011

or 230,400 Minutes,

or 3,840 Hours,

or 160 Days,

or 22 Weeks,

or 5 Months.

It has been unbelievably long but incredibly short.

But I finally reached my goal of 10% weight loss!!!

What in the World

Thursday, October 6, 2011

I was stopped for a train, counting the cars...

When I saw something strange

Does it jump out at you or am I just crazy?

The bird painted red on these rail way cars reminds me alot of

the Nazi symbols from the Indiana Jones movies.

Don't worry though. This is an emblem for a company in Singapore.

APL has been named Asian Container Shipping Line of the Year.

I think it's a little strange birds are sujectd to such propaganda

Especially eagles and hawks or birds of prey

What country or company for that matter wouldn't

benefit from a little tropical representation?

Do I or Don't I?

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

I had my sleep apnea over night test last night. I got there about eight o'clock, just before it started to rain. The technician took about 45 minutes to hook me up with all of these wires to monitor my brain. I was just relieved that he could locate it!!!

What kind of test can't you study for?

This morning it took the technician about three minutes to take the tangled mess off, but there was still a little bit remaining:

I can't believe how rested I felt after just half a night with the oxygen. I brought my Dad's sleep PAP machine and he checked it all out and it will work for me with a simple change of mask size. I rushed home so that Dan could head of to work and am going to go back to bed soon. It took me three times shampooing and two times conditioning to get everything out of my hair. Each little electrode/cord was held in place by white sticky paste! It will take a few weeks before I should hear back from the doctor either confirming or denying I have obstructive sleep apnea...