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I am now in Hilton Head, SC.  My aunt wouldn’t think of me staying in a hotel, so I am in a house my cousin rented, which is four doors down – nice!  It’s hot!  No time to post, will download pictures for the morning and recap my trip.  So far so good!  Oh, and Hannah’s having a great time in Germany so far too!...

Can anyone find canned pumpkin this time of year??  I wanted to make pumpkin pancakes for breakfast, but I couldn’t find it anywhere – maybe its a seasonal thing??  So I went seasonal and made blueberry pancakes!  I didn’t have any whole wheat flour, so I subbed in one cup of this flour: I bought this flour when I made Clean Eating’s Mac N Cheese...

Hannah leaves for Germany today!!  Doesn’t seem like it was that long ago that Maxi left us to go back home!  You can see the pictures from the farewell dinner here.   We have checked the weather and it will be in the 70’s at least the first 10 days of her trip.  I am so excited for her – I am taking a half day...

I have to give a shout out to one of our 101 Days of Summer Challengers . . . Al of Losing Harry – he lost 11.8 pounds last week!  Woot! 😀  Sadly, his family was in a car accident over the weekend too – but thankfully everyone is okay!   Stop on by his blog if you have time today to tell him how great...

Even between rain storms yesterday, we had a great day!  I made another crustless quiche for breakfast, with a sliced apple on the side: Look at how good my herbs are doing! Probably the freshest tasting basil Tony and I have ever had! With the remainder of our .39 cent a pound tomatoes, we made a huge pot of pasta sauce.  Since we never know...

Can I just tell you how excited I am that we got to 50 participants!  Check out the full participant list here. I’ve gotten most of the weekly updates from all of you via email – thanks for checking in!  You can read all about this weeks successes on my Group 101 Page. I was meeting my Mom and sister for lunch and a spa...

We left for a party almost as soon as I got home and then we didn’t go to bed until 1:30 a.m.!  Although we were home from the party by midnight, it was such a nice night, we sat outside for a while! So I had slim pickings to work with, but was happy I found a zucchini in the fridge.  I shredded that and...

Okay, I hate to admit it, but I was wrong.  Last night was not our first date!  I thought by printing out our first emails together I would always have that right!  You know how Tony figured it out? The email that I thought was sent a couple days before our first date?  That was sent from my work email address.  I was at my...

10 years ago today I had my first date with Tony!  We had talked on the phone for probably 20 hours before we met.  I was just coming back from visiting my brother Charlie in Des Moines for the Memorial Day weekend.  You new readers can read the story of how we met here. It really was love at first sight.  Two days before we...

All I can say is WOW! We are not up to 38 people for our 101 Days of Summer Challenge – yahoo!  I hope together we can virtually keep each other motivated when the weather is nice, another beer would be nice, or maybe that extra scoop of your Aunt Bea’s famous potato salad! You’d think with the long weekend that I would go to...