Weight Loss Since Surgery

Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts
Showing posts with label holidays. Show all posts

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Amazing week

I spent this past week in Spruce Pine. It was such an amazing week. Mama and I spent the week doing.. well whatever we wanted. I arrived on Monday so we just hung out and talked that night. Tuesday found us in Asheville with my Aunt Lula. After mom’s Dr appt we met up with Christy and Alyssa and off to the Grove Park Inn we went. The gingerbread houses from the National Competition was on display. All I can say is WOW.. some people put a TON of time into their houses. Afterwards we went to Olive Garden and then to AC Moore ;)

Wednesday Mama and I just hung around the house and Christy and Alyssa came over. Christy and I worked on crafty things.. she finished a bead bracelet that I was having trouble with and I worked on crocheting Christmas presents. Mama and Alyssa decorated the tree.

Thursday was another wonderful day. Mama, Lula and I went to Biltmore House. It’s such a beautiful place. We spent about 5 hours in the house. Mama did alot of walking and quite a bit of it was stairs. For being 3 weeks out of knee replacement surgery I’m so impressed and pleased with her recovery. Oh, on Tuesday they scheduled her other surgery.. Jan 22nd.  If you visit Biltmore House, I highly, highly recommend getting the audio tour. WOW it really made the tour. Afterwards we were too tired for shopping so we had dinner at Fatz and headed home.

Friday I headed back to Columbia. I was really missing my honey and our furbabies. I’m very happy to be home, but I miss Mama already.

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Thursday, November 26, 2009

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Today I am very thankful for my family. I have a very loving and supportive husband that I love very much. (Happy Anniversary (yestrerday) Honey!)
I have a family that is simply the best.
2 very loving furbabies that came into our lives quite quickly and are wonderful.
and I have some pretty great friends too. What more could a girl want or need?

We are going to Chris' moms today for dinner.
I spent yesterday cooking.. was supposed to make potato salad and bring rolls.
Well I made the potato salad and then made homemade yeast rolls, a sugar free coconut cake (well more like no sugar added as the coconut is sweetened) and also some sugar free cookies.
I was extreamly pleased with the rolls, pretty easy although very time consuming. The cake is pretty flat and dense.. but when you take the sugar out and use splenda there isn't anything to help with the rising of the batter.. so I'll have to do some more research and figure out how to fix that. And the cookies were surprisingly easy and pretty tasty.

Cream Cheese Cookies - http://www.bariatriceating.com/BEhealthnutrition/recipes/creamcheesecookies.php
I used SF Orange Marmilade and SF Peach Perserves.

The other two recipes (Rolls and Cake) came from a wedding present cookbook. Thank you Tina and family :)
http://www.amazon.com/Naomis-Home-Companion-Treasury-Favorite/dp/1577192710
It's a great book, not just a cookbook.