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My Friend Christie!

My friend Christie is pregnant with her second child. Her first darling little one (who she waited a long time for) is a little boy named Logan James. This next gift is a little girl whose name is Delanie Christine.

I found out this morning that Christie's water broke (this morning) and she's planning for "a long day." I would ask anyone who reads this to say a prayer for Christie and Delanie and ask God for a peaceful (well, okay, as peaceful as it can be) appearance!

New Yummies!

These are pretty healthy yummies, too! Give them a try, if you haven't...

The first one is Yoplait Whips yogurt. Yoplait makes a great product anyway (always tastes good), but these Whips are UNREAL. I've tried the Chocolate Mousse and the Dulce De Leche. The Chocolate Mousse has 160 calories, 4 g fat (2.5 saturated/0 trans) 15 mg of cholesterol, 105 mg of sodium, 230 mg of potassium, 25 g carbs (22g sugar) and 5g protein (which is pretty darn good for a container that small. I'm telling you...they are awesome!

The next one is a cereal made by Archer Farms (which is sold at Target). Actually, all of the ones I have tried are fantastic. This particular flavor is Multigrain with Yogurt Cranberries. I won't bore you with all of the details, just this: 200 calories (1 cup serving), 4 g fat, 0 cholesterol (how do you beat that?) and 8g of protein. This is the kind of cereal that you can just pour yourself a handful and have it for a snack. And there is no need to add any sweetener to it, either. Oh...in addition to being really tasty and pretty darn healthy (especially for cereal that does taste good), it's pretty eco-friendly, too. They've condensed the packaging and use less paper product - no plastic bag, either.

The Weekend

Pat went to play in a softball tournament on Friday night, Mikel was with his girlfriend somewhere, so that left Evan and me to hang out. I had U-Verse (SO AWESOME, thus far) installed on Friday, so we spent quite a bit of time channel surfing and catching some channels we didn't have before. We have the SPROUT channel now, and once Evan got ahold of that information, he was all about it - mainly because Addy watches Sprout. (Awwww...) We also watched a few of the On Demand shows for kids and they were really good. There was one, in particular, that had him almost glued to the television. It was about earth moving equipment. It wasn't animated, either. It had a bunch of different segments about different kinds of equipment, with kids "driving" and playing (supervised, of course) and the equipment operators narrating what the machine does. Anyway, he watched that a couple of times and Sprout's The Goodnight Show after that. In fact, I dozed off on the couch and when I woke up at 10:25, he was still watching. Granted, his little eyes were cllllloooooooosssssssssiiiiiiiiinnnnnggggg....and then SNAPPING open. Cllllloooooooosssssssssiiiiiiiiinnnnnggggg......................SNAPPING. (I know, I'm a horrible mom...) Anyway, that's when I got him in bed (me, too, for that matter) for the night.

Pat played ball again all day on Saturday. Mikel slept most of it. Evan and I went to Bed Bath & Beyond and got a couple of media racks. "We" put those together in the afternoon, then went to Wal-Mart for a few essentials. By the time we got to Wal-Mart, Evan was SOUND asleep in the car. I mean G.O.N.E. I got him out of the car...he didn't move. I carried him around the store for about 20 minutes - while pushing a cart, thank you - before I finally thought I might drop him. So, I found some towels and thought I would lay him down in the cart (making a pillow out of towels, of course) and maybe he could just sleep. Oh no. That woke him up. Apparently a little power nap was all he needed. After that he was raring to go. So he helped me shop (ha ha) and then we headed home. He was all over the place. Playing this - doing that. He was hilarious. He did crash kind of early and it was fairly peaceful after that. Pat did come home Saturday night so he could sleep in his own bed before going back to play ball again on Sunday.

Seriously...how do they stand playing softball ALL. DAY. LONG. in 100+ heat? No thanks.

Anyway, on Sunday, I got up and washed a seriously nasty softball uniform (had to use carpet stain remover to get the stains out), got Pat on his way and then Evan and I went to church. Boy, was that series sermon something I needed to hear. I'll get to that later, but I'll just say it did give me a different mindset.

After church, Evan and I went to his friend Cooper's house (his mom and I have been friends for years) to swim. He had a blast. And let me tell you, it was a fight to get him out of there! I was so proud of him, though, because he did not go potty in his pants the entire time he was swimming! YEA!!!

When we left, he was asleep in the car in no less than five minutes...and he slept almost FOUR hours. He was certainly wired for sound when he woke up, and was really excited to see his dad!

Mikel and his girlfriend were at our house Sunday night. I think they (well, it's really him) are finally starting to get the fact that money does not grow on trees and you better find less expensive forms of entertainment than going to a movie and paying $9 or so each. Yeah, rent a movie and stay home. That's what they did and then they went walking around the pond. Maybe, just maybe, he's starting to listen...

It was a pretty good weekend, all in all!!! I'm constantly Blessed!