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We were party animals tonight! We went out at 8:30 ... PM ... to go bowling with our friends, Deb and Greg.

It was Buck Bowling night.

You got shoes for a buck! You got hot dogs for a buck! You got beer for a buck! AND it was a buck a game! Since we didn't have hot dogs or beer and could only manage to play two games, it was quite the cheap evening.

I still have it, though. I managed to get a 134 on the first game. After I got warmed up I bowled a 161. Then everyone pooped out on me and we DIDN'T bowl a thrid game. I just KNOW that was my 300 game. I just KNOW it!

What a busy Sunday! Weekends like this make me want another day added on, so I can just kick back and do nothing.

We did yard work and house work this morning. But the house is along way from being done. (cleaning all those disgusting ceiling fans took most of the morning) But the yard looks great.

Then we were off to a birthday party for a girlfriend that I use to work with. Regular BBQ with hamburgers, brats, chips and dips. The usual BBQ fare. But unfortunately that is NOT the stuff that Hubby (or I) can eat on this new diet. So we survived on a couple of chips, a whole lot of water and a brocolli-cauliflower dip/salad that one of the other girls brought. Hubby was amazed that there wasn't a veggie tray or fruit tray. But I reminded him that it wasn't that long ago that our BBQ's were EXACTLY like that.

So we came home and had a BBQ of our own with the "kids" and grandbaby. Chicken, red potatoes, veggie tray and crusty bread. Yeah! all that is on our diet. We just have to only eat until we are almost full and not STUFFED like the Thanksgiving day turkey.

I am hoping that when I get on the scale tomorrow morning that I will have hit my 10 lb lost mark. I was 1/2 lb away from it this morning. Hubby has lost almost 18lbs. So this thing IS working.

I got a call yesterday from one of my neighbors. She wanted to let me know about her last 9 days.

Her 20 year old daughter, who was born and raised here in AZ and goes to ASU, decided to go "ice climbing" with her friends. So they headed off to Colorado.

To make a long story short since I don't know these details. She fell. They weren't sure if she fell 50 feet or 100 feet but she slipped and fell.

She is now in the hospital in Grand Junction, CO with a broken wrist, broken, ankle, several fractures in her pelvis, a separation of the lower lumbar region. She had a helmet on but still suffered contusions of the head and body. They have already removed her spleen and have temporarily set her broken bones. The doctors feel at this point, she is going to make it. But she is going to have a long recovery.

She could definately use everyones thoughts and prayers right now.

J and I did crafty things today. J is absolutely the best at coming up with cute things to make. Today we set out to make name tags for the baby shower. We made them from felt, shaped them like diapers and wrote the names in fabric paint. Then we added little cute feet and hands and blocks and pacifiers things that she had found at one of the crafty stores she goes to.

But the best part of the day was making this:

We are off to a wedding at the zoo! No really. People are getting married there.

A friend, I have known since high school, is finally getting married after 16 years with this guy. He really is a great guy for her and they have been living together most of that time. Don't ask why now, cause I don't know. And no she isn't pregnant.

But I am anxious to go to a wedding at the zoo. We have a really pretty zoo here. At Christmas time, they have "Zoo Light". They decorate the different area of the zoo with thousands and thousands of lights. There is even one area that they have a light show to music. We will get to enjoy that while we are there also.

So off we go. I will try to remember to fill you in when we get home.