Weighed myself Sunday and was down to 150 again! Woo hoo! I've plateaued for a few weeks so was glad to see a bit of progress. It won't feel like real progress unless I get under 149, since I already hit that weight once this year, but I'll take what I can get.

I was glad it's paid off to eat tons of veggies and fruits. Even for a vegan I've felt like I'm eating a lot of them.

The weekend was way fun and food-oriented. I had Friday off and kept AA home with me. We went to meet NT at his job for a couple hours, then back home. We needed NT to hit the grocery store for our planned dinner but temps were in the high 90s, so I made the first course (tofu spring rolls) and that tided us over until the temps dropped to a reasonable level for him to walk to the store. Then I made a very tasty pad thai. We had some beer and wine, watched TV and played video games. Nice mellow night.

Saturday AA and I played for several hours in the morning, reading, playing music, dancing. NT and I went grocery shopping and saved nearly $50 in coupons and sales. Lunch was super easy Asian lettuce wraps with a sugar snap pea salad NT had made up earlier. Oh, and we ate the first Rainier cherries of the season! They haven't hit their peak yet but they're already delicious. For dinner, NT grilled veggie burgers, garlic scapes, zucchini and cauliflower on the balcony, and I made kale chips in the oven. Later that night, I went out with some friends to a drag-queen show. It was so much fun! I got home late, thought I'd unwind in front of the TV for a couple minutes before I went to bed -- and woke up at quarter to 6 on the couch! LOL. Went to bed and slept a few more hours.

Sunday I had some tummy troubles and took it really easy, mostly just lazing around reading. NT went on a long bike ride with friends and AS got caught up on some work. NT made lunch of fresh spinach and sundried tomato pasta, and for dinner we went out to one of our favorite pizza places (it's a huge plus that they have vegan cheese options). AA was really good, and for the first time we accepted their offer of a colorable kids' menu and crayons. She's working on some fine motor skills at the moment, including trying to learn how to color, brush her hair and put on her own clothes. (She's not very good at any of them yet, but she's just begun.) We walked home from the restaurant, about 15 long blocks.

Monday we had pancakes for breakfast, then headed out on our bikes (NT towed AA in one of those attached chariot things). We met up with a friend, biked over to a grocery store to pick up deli stuff, then rode to a nearby lake with a beach. We ate in the shade and then NT and our friend took AA into the water. She freaked at first, but once she got used to it she didn't want to get out! Then she just wandered around the lakeside for about half an hour. When she started to get cranky, we headed for home, and she fell asleep in the chariot almost immediately. We stopped at a neighborhood ice cream shop and she slept the whole time we were there.

We were thinking about heading out to NT's work where there's a perfect view of the downtown fireworks from their 33rd floor balcony. But the fireworks weren't starting until 10 and we were tired out. We can see lots of displays dotted on the horizon from our 18th floor balcony at home, so NT watched that. We get an even better fireworks show in a couple weeks during the Minneapolis festival called the Aquatennial, so we'll probably go watch those from his job's balcony.

Oh, and I booked a trip to Ohio at the end of June for my family reunion. While she was visiting last month, my sister convinced me to consider going by saying Dad would pay for the trip. When he heard there was a chance I'd come he called to tell me the same thing. AS didn't want to go this year, so it's just me, NT and AA. NT hasn't been to one yet so I'm glad he'll get to experience it. And of course my mom has only see AA in person one other time (when she was 4 months old), so that's the real reason for the trip. It came to over $1000 for the two plane tickets and two nights in a hotel. Yikes! Because we needed such specific timing on our plane tickets, they cost over $400 apiece. But my dad didn't seem to mind. He's a frugal guy but doesn't think twice about shelling out money for certain things, especially where his wife and kids are concerned.

So let's see, I went to San Fran in March, New York in June, going to Ohio in July, doing an overnight trip to Memphis in early August for work, and doing a plane/train combo trip to St. Louis and then Chicago at the end of August. I usually average two trips a year, so five trips in six months is unprecedented for me! AS is going to NY again in September for work, so if you count all travel for our family, that'll make six trips in seven months! (If three of them weren't being paid for by others, it just wouldn't be possible!) Only some will be really fun, but I kind of dig traveling even if it's just for work or family obligations, so I don't mind.