The girls first birthday!

Ok so it was November 18th. I'm a little slow, but since I just started this blog yesterday, I'm backtracking. We had a pretty big party at our house. I guess there was in excess of 25 people there not including the kids, I couldn't stop them long enough to count them. We just got our house last July so I didn't know if it would hold that many people with all of the furniture in it. On July 4th, we had a HUGE pool party, but we didn't move in yet so it didn't matter how many people were there. Anyway, back to the birthday party, it was the day after Joey's 6th birthday party at Little Scoops, I know what was I thinking. So, we made lots of food, Dennette did, I made Baked Ziti and she did the rest. Love ya Necky! The whole family was there. It was a blast. I made this huge cupcake cake for the girls, and 2 smaller ones for them to play with, they didn't really care for it too much. But Keira did end up wearing most of her frosting. Here are a few pictures from that day (hopefully I can do this):


Jimbo and Keira

Tori and Kendall



YUMMY cakes!


ONDERLAND!
So, I hit a big milestone in my WL journey yesterday. I didn't say anything about it because I didn't really believe it. It was the first time in 12 years that I saw the #1 at the beginning of the scale. I almost passed out. I thought this was going to be a lot harder than it has been thus far, but I really do not miss eating that much. I just started back on soft foods from a full liquid diet that consisted of yogurt, pudding, and cream soups. Pretty much anything that would flow through a funnel at room temperature. I got pretty sick of cream soups by then end of 2 weeks. So, now I get to eat tuna and chicken salad, soft low fat deli meat, soft cheese, fat free refried beans, soft meats, soft veggies, and soft fruits (canned in light juice). It feels good to chew again. In 2 weeks I can start incorporating solid foods one at a time to see what I can tolerate. Right now I have a scrambled egg sitting in my throat for over an hour and it is starting to bother me. Not sure what to do about it. I guess I just wait to see if it goes down....HHMMM!

Joe had a beer last night, I took a sip. It didn't taste good. Glad I take that migraine medicine, makes life much easier on that end. I could really go for a Margarita, but that is way too cold for me right now, maybe by summer. I did have a taste of wine (by taste I mean sip), it was Pomegranate, and it was good, and I was buzzed. Oh well, guess that is what happened when you do not consume solid food for 3 weeks.