yay for the weekend

so its wednesday, and i'm talking about last weekend.

 

so friday the lets make a deal thing happened. woot! then that same night was the Annual Crandell dinner/gift exchange. awesome!

 

This years pick was to Pita Jungle. 

I had not been their before.

so i tweeted if anyone had and what i should get and i got a response to try the black bean burger. 

so i did and it was amazing! YUM!!

 

 

it was huge and amazing and i ate the whole thing.

didn't even phase me. i guess i was hungry.

so flipping good.

i could eat another one right now.

i need to stop thinking about it.

 

mmmmmm...black bean burger.

 

 

oops.

 

so after we ate

 we skipped the cheesecake everyone ordered and went next door to the frozen yogurt shop and ate some delicious yogurt!

when i say we, i mean my husband and i.

 

HIS all about the candy

 

HERS all about the fruit.

 

it was so good and so needed even though i was stuffed

there is ALWAYS room for frozen yogurt! ALWAYS!

 

it was a great time with my brothers, sisters, and parents.

we all got some great gifts.

lots of loud talking, lots of laughs

its just so much fun to be with family and have a good time.

especially over great food!!

 

 

 

the factory

i'm finally getting into the swing of things with myself. figuring out what works, what doesn't and i think i've got my system, and i'm just nervous about sabatoging myself right now.  especially if i'm asked to go out where there may be any food.  still not my strong point. it is getting better though. 

one thing i was not able to weasle myself out of was going out to dinner last friday.  my parents for a birthday take that person out to dinner. well this year for my birthday, which was two months ago, we just plain forgot and i was totally okay with that. well they invited me to go with my other two sisters to their birthday dinner so we could go all together.  to none other than the cheesecake factory. kill me now. haha. 

i had to prepare myself. how awful it that.  i was nervous to go. so i looked at the menu online before i left and picked exactly what i was getting so i would not even look at the menu when i got there. of course i forgot that there is bread on the table and appetizers ordered. i resisted, i knew i only have a certain amount of calories to eat and that was it. i was not going over and that was final.  i was good, the food i got was great. i didn't want to eat the whole thing but i had to in order to get my calories in. what a shame :)

everyone ordered their cheesecake. i'm actually really glad my husband doesn't like it. it saved me from sneaking anything he ordered. i was scared to go just because that is alot of delicious temptations to deal with but i'm glad i was able to stay focused and have a great time too.  thank you to my parents for taking us all out. it was a great time!!  the best part was my brother in law came up to me and said how great i looked! yay. so people do notice!

i'm trying really hard not to be a food nazi but it may seem like i could be headed in that direction.  oops. :)

and i totally swiped this picture from my sister in law amy's blog. sorry, i had to at least have one picture with all these words, and they look hot so it make this post better.   

(me, kim, amy)

thanks for sticking with me peeps. i'm even more crazy now. heaven help me.