Gifts, Weight and Halloween

I haven't been posting much lately so I'll try to cover everything in this one.. LOL Since I work from home, I'm pretty much in my office all day long on 2 laptops. Once 5Pm rolls around, last thing I want to do is hang out in this room and on the computer! LOL

This month was the big reveal for one of my Yahoo groups (CCAI). This is the month where my secret pal reveals herself to me with the last gift. Drumroll please... My secret pal for the last 6 months is Cathy from SC! And here is a pic of the last gifts from Cathy. A very cute ladybug bag, 2 little baseball hats, one pink and one denim with ladybugs, cute little t-shirts with ladybugs (see the theme here..lol) a little notebook with a ladybug, cute cute CUTE little dragonfly hair clips and a beautiful handmade pin with our LID month and year on it! She also wrote a great note telling me a little about herself. This was a great secret pal swap and definitely helped the last 6 months go by so fast! Thank you Cathy for everything!

Now as I said, under the denim hat there is an adorable little pink hat.

And it bears a striking resemblance to a certain pink hat that a certain grandma-to-be is obsessed with...

The pink hat has been replaced a few times, but always with another pink hat. I let Yoshi chew a hole in one of the pink hats, I've tried to "accidentally" loose the pink hat.. but noooo, it just multiplies. Ma, I thought your favorite color was blue? LOL Anyway, Grandma-to-be loved the little pink baby hat the most! Gee I wonder why! LOL

Ok next, on the other Yahoo group I'm in (April DTC) I received October's secret pal gift. This secret pal swap continues till I think next July. This month my wonderful secret pal sent an adorable little stuffed pumpkin head toy that lights up and plays spooky music. Yoshi LOVES that toy.. but too bad Yoshi, it's not for you! LOL There was also a cute bib that says "watch me as I grow",a set of 3 pre-school puzzles and a very pretty journal with a very thoughtful inscription from my secret pal. Thank you Secret Pal!! I loved everything!

Oh and a little Halloween critter was also included in the package and actually made me jump.. LOL

Let's see what else.. ah the weight loss journey. Well, since July 26th, just a little over 3 months, I have lost 17.2 lbs!! WOOOHOOO! Sometimes it goes back up a pound or two before continuing to go down but still, I'll take it! The hardest part of this is trying to eat good stuff, especially snacks. I try not to eat any white bread, not alot of pasta or rice, trying to eat more fruits. I have been doing SlimFast almost once a day since I have a bad habit of skipping breakfast, so that's better than nothing. I've been doing pretty good, except that today we had pizza for dinner. It's really hard to do this when one of us who shall remain nameless (but it's not me.. lol ) wants to order pizza for dinner. Oh yea sure, I could say "no pizza" and I even think I did, but it's pizza! If I can smell it I am going to eat it. The working out part isn't too hard at all though which is good. I do about 30 minutes on the bike every other day or so and sometimes follow that with the treadmill. Anyway, the combination seems to be working so far. And now that it's been 3 months, I think I'll be able to keep up this pace.

Here are a few pics from Halloween. First one is the pizza-ordering monster and Yoshi.

My fur-baby waiting for the trick-or-treaters to come by...





I'm tired of typing now... LOL I'll try to post more frequently. I am way behind on posting all the lovely quilt squares I've received so far. I'll have to make some time to update that site too.
Wow, it's November already! LOL