Race Cars, Driving, & Celebration!

The little cowboy is officially 8 today!  He told me he has 6 more years until he can drive & he's counting it down!! 

**He's not really driving the 4020 tractor ~ he just knows what to do to start it.  Thank goodness his feet can't reach the floor pedals.

His Papa restored the 55' Chevy & won first place at Chanute's car show.  The little cowboy loves classic cars and building engines, tree houses, & benches.  His birthday brought many nostalgic items to unwrap in the form of old records (think Shawn Cassidy, The Jackson 5, & the theme song from Happy Days) to play on his record player from Mimi's basement, a pair of 70's model trucks (one a grain truck and the other a flatbed truck) to use when he carpet farms (from the hubby's collection when he was a kid), and his Nonna surprised him with a kid size model of our old farm truck "Old Blue" that she custom built from scratch.  I told her it looked like it should be in the movie Cars! 

Old Blue even has a pull down tailgate, running boards, and the little cowboy can actually fit inside of it!  He played with that for hours. 

Now for the cake . . . . . . drumroll please . . . .

Donna, whom I work with created this masterpiece of a birthday cake!  The little cowboy described in great detail what he wanted on his birthday cake and she worked her magic to create it!  The scene involved the little cowboy who has just shot his first turkey, his black lab is with him, and of course there has to be a trophey of a turkey ~

And he had to eat the shot turkey first!  It was actually a yummy cake ball.

 

Thank you Donna for your creative genius-ness and for loving the little cowboy so much!  The hubby said it was too much of a masterpiece to eat!!  But we did:)

 



My stats for the week included a .4 increase on the scale and a 1 1/2 inches off of my waist.  Not sure why I had a slight increase but it was the week that we all tend to retain some water so I hope to see a decrease this week. 

Overall we saw a mixture of decreases either on the scale or on in measurements.  One but typically not both.  That's normal for the week we are in and I want to remind you that this week is a crucial week as far as momentum starting to wain.

For many Meltdown participants they start to buy in to the excuse of not moving as much as they have in weeks past, they start to nibble a little bit more, and before they know it they have derailed.  Don't buy into any excuse you give yourself!  The facts are there and you have witnessed it yourself.  If you exericise 3 X's a week for a minimum of 45 minutes a session or 4 times a week at 30 minutes of exercise time YOU WILL see a decrease either in waist measurement or on the scale!!

Don't stop doing what got you the results the past few weeks!  Keep the pace, stay strong, and stay moving!

**If you haven't tried the skinny potatoes you MUST!!  They are so good the farm boys even said they would eat them in place of regular potatoes.  I used Yukon Gold potatoes.