Spring is here!

OK, time for a family update!  Its been a while since I posted about our going-ons around here, so here is a brief update.  I got my tonsils out 2 weeks ago.  It was AWFUL and no fun at all (Imagine someone cutting out 50% of the back of your throat and then cauterizing-AKA burning the flesh enough to seal the wound--the back of your throat to stop the bleeding.  Yep, it feels just like it sounds), but hopefully I won't get sick as often now!  My throat is almost healed, and I am feeling MUCH better, just in time for Matt and I to head out to Rochester tomorrow!  Hopefully this time next week I will be updating that we put an offer on a house!

Anyway, my WONDERFUL mother came down and took care of me and the girls for the first few days after my surgery, then when Matt had a few days off, she left me in his care and took the girls home with her for a week.  What would I do without her?!

Anyway, not too many pictures have been taken over the past month, due to the surgery and also me just being lazy!  In March we finally started going to the gym again, and even got to take the girls swimming for the first time this season, which was lots of fun!  We tried to stay healthy, only somewhat successfully and both my and Lily's allergies were HORRIBLE.

Speaking of going to the gym and getting my tonsils out, HERE IS WHERE I BRAG.  Which, I usually try not to do.  This blog is really not a "look how much I get done and how fabulous I am, you should feel fat and lazy and super guilty" type of place.  However, I am really proud of myself, and since this is my journal, I am gonna come out and say it!  Today I put on my skinny pants and they fit nice and loosely!  WOOT WOOT!!  I can't take all the credit, after my surgery I hardly ate a thing and lost 4 lbs, which is what put me over the top.  I have held onto these pants from my pre-babies days.  I got rid of all my jeans, and most of my other skinny clothes after about 3 years of being no where even close to fitting back into them.  They took up too much space and it was depressing.  However, I kept  two pairs of pants that were more baggy on me, and I have been able to fit into them for about 7 months.  This one particular pair is the only pair that I kept that truly fit me nicely back in the day that I kept (and I only kept them because they are super thin and take up hardly any room, and I had to hold out hope that just maybe one day I would make it to my goal).  I put them on this morning, because I only have 2 pairs of jeans, and I want to be able to pack them for my trip tomorrow and they are both freshly washed, so I didn't want to get them dirty, but without real hope that they would fit.  I have tried these pants on every month or 2 over the last 6 or 7 months and though I have been able to get them up, they have been skin tight and disgusting.  But today, they fit fantastic, and it only took 5 years to get there!  :)  Ha!  It's been a long road for me, and a big struggle for lots of years to lose all my baby weight.  I still don't look as good as I once did, because I am still not as fit.  But its a huge improvement and it feels SO GREAT to put on the goal pants that I really didn't know if I would ever fit into again!  No more dieting in my future, just trying to be healthy and exercise, what a great feeling!!

Anyway, back to the family update.  We had 2 different big parties here over Easter weekend.  My kids were gone and I was SEVERELY drugged and in pain, but I managed to make appearances at both, albeit in my pajamas.  Matt was working and couldn't attend, and I didn't take any pictures at all.  But I got to see lots of Matt's family and had a really nice time. 

 Late Easter Sunday my kids came home.  They were all asleep and got put straight into bed, so on Monday we celebrated Easter with them.  Don't mind the fact that Kate (the baby) is still in her PJ's, she came home sick and I didn't even bother to get her dressed, or comb my girls hair.  Gimme a break I felt pretty terrible.

 Easter baskets, and gearing up for the Easter Egg hunt!

 Nana trying to encourage Kate to pick up the eggs

 Lily as the oldest and fastest naturally collected most of the eggs, but being the sweet girl she is was willing to share.

Katie's newest obsession is balancing her food on her head, then wiggling her head to see how long it takes to fall off.  This works with cheerios, fish sticks, peas, pasta, green beans, hot dogs, or whatever else we happen to be eating.  As the mom that has to wash her hair out afterwards, this is irritating.  However as a person, it is HILARIOUS.  I have to try hard not to laugh, so that I can scold her.  A couple weeks ago we had a family home evening about David and Goliath, then acted out the story.  the girls got to be David and Daddy was Goliath.  They used marshmallows as stones and threw them at Daddy.  Then we ate the marshmallows.  After Katie had slobbered all over her marshmallow, she tried her head balancing trick.  However a slobbery marshmallow is very sticky and won't fall out.  Good times.