First Football Game

Today we went to the home opening football game for the school district at which I am employed. They always have a home opener cookout and since grandpa Mueller just so happens to be the high school principal ( I work at the middle school) we just had to go! I picked our little guy up from daycare and took him over to the cookout.... I was the typical "new mom"!!! Everyone wanted to hold him and love him and usually I would have been okay with that but my little guys nose was running and he was coughing and sneezing so I was a little on edge and a bit reluctant to pass him around.

My husband joined us so that he could be apart of our son's first experience at a football game. We stayed until our team scored the first run, which was about three minutes into the game. And even though we didn't stay for the whole game and my son's nose was running the whole time, we enjoyed ourselves for the time that we were there. Our son loves seeing new things and definitely loves hanging out with dad in the jeep carrier! And he always loves seeing grandpa Mueller!

Me, our little guy, and grandpa Mueller.

Me, hubby, and our cutie pie!

Unofficial Fat Ticker Friday

YaY!! YaY!!! YaY!!! I am down two more pounds this week. I ran pretty much every day this week and now I am so tired!!! I have been so busy this week getting up early to get everyone ready for the work day, dropping and picking up my baby from day care, holding open house for my student's parents, trying to make some dinners while also trying to fit in time to spend with the hubby and my little guy. Alls I have to say is TGIF!!! We have a long weekend which will be nice because my house is in shambles!!! I feel like I need a vacation already and the school year has just begun!

Baby Update!!!

Our son is 17 weeks old today!!! His personality is definitely developing. He knows what he wants and when he wants it!!! He is holding his head up very well now and can be held side saddle like (because he makes it very clear that we wants to see everything and doesn't want to miss a thing). My most favorite thing that he does now is the nuzzling. When he gets tired or just wants to be loved he rubs his head into my neck or chest like he is hugging me... it's the best thing ever. He is also talking much more and letting out squeals here and there. He loves sitting outside on the front porch with me so that he can feel the breeze (he gets really happy when the wind is blowing on a windy day!!!). And then there's Baby Einstein. Baby Einstein is great but now whenever the T.V. is on his eye's are glued to whatever is on... he even laughs at the news. Not only is he my husband's mini me... he just might be the mini coach potato too! Not that my husband doesn't work hard because he does, but he definitely loves him some T.V. when he is finally done working. When he is eating I have to turn the T.V's off that is how bad it is getting. Actually, I just turn off the T.V's when we are spending time together because if I didn't he wouldn't even know that I am in the room! But I do know that he loves us and that's all that matters!!! We go for his four month check up on September 3rd. I will let you know how is goes!



Here is a picture of my son nuzzling me!!! I just love it!




By the way if you happened to read my meme.... I have a correction, my witness protection name would be Marie John... I must have been tired when I made that post!

Taking it off together Tuesday

When I reported my loss to Leigh yesterday I had not gotten the chance to weigh myself... I am actually down another pound!!! YAY! So technically, our group has only gain a total of 1.3 pounds for the week. I know we will all keep working hard and eventually these last two weeks of group gains will become losses! Keep working!!! Good luck!

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Chris - 2 GAIN
Tammy - 1 LOSS
Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog - 0 CHANGE
Grace - no report yet
Leigh - 3.5 GAIN
Clara - 4 LOSS
Dette - 2 GAIN
Julie - 0.2 LOSS
Cheryl - 0 CHANGE
Audrey - 2 LOSS
Christy - 2 GAIN
Tina - no report yet
Danielle - 0 CHANGE
Jessie - 0 CHANGE

This week's total - 2.3 GAIN!

A Fun Meme

I read Christie's blog and also thought that this would be a fun meme to do!

So here it is:

YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (First 3 letters of real name plus "izzle") -Danizzle
YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (Favorite color & favorite animal) -Pink Horse
YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (Middle name, and current street you're on) - Renee Bell
YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (The first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name, first 3 letters of mom's maiden) -Muedadre
YOUR SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd favorite color, favorite drink) -Black Diet Coke
YOUR WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (Mother's middle name and father's middle name ) -Marie Joseph
YOUR GOTH NAME: (Black, and the name of one your pets) -Black Koa
YOUR SPY NAME: (Your name spelled backwards) -Elleinad

Unofficial Fat Ticker Friday

Like I have already said, I am now reporting my weight loss for two groups. On Tuesday I reported that I had lost one more pound... YAY!!! There has been no change since Tuesday, so I guess you can say that I am down one pound for the unofficial Fat Ticker Friday weigh in!!!

The Hot for the Holidays group weight loss challenge is beginning soon. Click here for more details!

Thursday Thirteen Eighth Edition

Thirteen Things about Danielle We are adjusting well to the whole daycare thing! Our little guy went from crying and looking at me like mommy please don't leave to okay you can leave now in one day. He seems to really enjoy being around the other kids, which I am grateful for! I however, wake up much much much earlier for work these days. I used to hit the snooze button a million times but I no longer have that option. I have been trying to get up by 5:15a.m. in order to get dressed, change and feed my boy, and maybe even have a cup of coffee before walking out the door by 6:30a.m.. So far so good, but in order to continue having happy smooth mornings there are many things I need to prepare ahead of time. Here are thirteen things I need to do this weekend in preparation for the work week. 1. Restock our boys diaper bag with extra clothes and bibs (he goes through a million bibs, thank god I almost got a million from my showers)! 2. Packet my workout bag for Monday. 3. Iron my clothes for the week. About two years ago I started reading and ironing... that's when I new I was all grown up!!! 4. Go to the grocery store to buy lunch meat, fruits, and veggies for my lunches. 5. Reorganize car. Not only has having a baby taken up my house, all of his things have taken up most of the space in my car as well. And NO!!! I will not get a mini van, let me repeat that one I WILL NOT GET A MINI VAN!!! 6. Go through the traveling diaper bag to make sure I have everything I need for the baby in case we make a stop on the way home from work. 7. Do the laundry so that we all have fresh clean clothes (I hate this job the most)! 8. Vacuum my house (obviously this one has nothing to do with getting ready for the week but after working all week Christie's son could come sit on my floor and he would feel like he is at a buffet... you can take a look here to see what I am talking about). 9. Clean bathrooms. 10. Clean bathroom and kitchen floor. 11. Vacuum pool (well over due). 12. Box up the baby clothes that last a whole month. 13. And last but most importantly, spend the weekend enjoying my son because the work week will be here before we know it and back off to daycare he goes.

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Wordless Wednesday (Pooped after two long days at daycare)

Taking it off together Tuesday

I lost one pound this week for Taking it off together Tuesday! Hopefully, I will be able to keep up my workouts now that I'm working again. After today, I already know that there will be days that I will choose to not work out so that I can spend more time with my son. Today was his first full day at daycare. And his first full day with all of the other kids. He did okay, except for the fact that loud noises scare him and well with five other kids running around you can say it was loud and he didn't like it. On a good note, he did take to two of the other kids that attend daycare with him. Apparently, they sang Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star to him when he looked like he might get sad and it made him happy (thank you little ones!!!). I was okay while I was at work, but then when I picked him up I thought my poor little baby and HOW am I going to do this everyday???... I missed him so much and I know that he missed me.

Here are the results for this week:

Chris - 1 GAIN
Tammy - 0 CHANGE
Life With Hashi-Thyroid Blog - 1 GAIN
Grace - 0 CHANGE
Leigh - 0.5 GAIN
Clara - 1.5 LOSS
Dette - 0 CHANGE
Julie - 0.2 LOSS
Cheryl - 2 GAIN
Audrey - 1 GAIN
Christy - 1.2 LOSS
Tina - no report?
Danielle - 1 LOSS

Mystery Solved (and the ending of our day!)

My husband planted some bushes in our back yard about three years ago. When he's back their cutting the grass he always scopes them to see if they have flourished. The funny thing is, when he was cutting the grass today he thought to himself WOW these bushes have really grown in the last couple years. But then we saw what was really going on back there. Apparently, the bushes could be much bigger than they are but the family of deer that visits our yard nightly have been snacking

SEE

So we have come to the conclusion that all along we have just been feeding the deer.

Now onto the deep fried veggies that I promised to tell you about. I made beer batter with Commodore Perry (a great lake brew) you can read more about the beer here, it was great on the veggies but I personally did not enjoy the beer as a beverage for my drinking pleasure. We fried zucchini, broccoli, carrots, and onions with it, talk about delicious!!! I'm sure I will be paying for it tomorrow when my feet feel like their stuck in cement on my morning run with the dogs.

And then there was quality time with my son. He is the best and cutest baby ever and if I don't say so myself, I'm not looking to bad either!!!

We had an awesome day!