Diet Coke is evil...

Once upon a time, I was addicted to Diet Coke.  What I once started drinking because it was supposed to be better for me, turned into the cause of quite a few health problems. To name a few: brain fog, irritability,  weight gain. I stop drinking Diet Coke and bam I feel normal again.




I guess some people are simply not affected by the artificial sweetener, aspartame, that is in the majority of diet drinks. I am not one of those people. It effects every aspect of my well being. There are a gajillion articles online about the horrible effects this ingredient can have on your body, so I’ll let you do your own research. Suffice to say, there is study after study proving it’s negative side effects. I hate to sound like one of those crazy people who thinks the FDA is behind some evil plot to poison us all, but this stuff is horrible for you and they approved it. You cannot trust the government to tell you what is and is not good to put into your body.



Like I said, it’s in almost every artificially sweetened drink or product on the market. The two main things I had to eliminate in my every day life were Diet Coke and "lite" yogurt. Aspartame is even in some vitamins and medicine. Diet Coke seems to have the highest concentration of it that I’ve experienced, and in quitting drinking this alone I saw a drastic improvement in my mood. Every now and then I think I can have one Diet Coke and be fine, but 100% of the time I feel the effects. It’s so strange how something millions of people drink every day can effect me so greatly.



If you currently eat, drink, take or chew anything that is artificially sweetened I challenge you to eliminate these things from your diet for a week and take notice of the improvement in your quality of life.

Now, stepping off my crazy conspiracy soapbox.

Ressurection Weekend

What a fun, three-day weekend! The boys and I did a lot.

Thursday afternoon was filled with their parties at school.  I had to run home before joining them, so I was a little late. By the time I arrived, Cason and the four other toddlers in his class were doing this:



Clean-up was fun!

 After I got Cason cleaned up and re-dressed, we headed to Luke's class for his egg hunt. 



Luke, Cody, Paxton, and Vance

We had a game that evening and Lucas was on fire! I lost count of how many runs he had, and he had countless RBI's and got several people out! He almost had a triple out one inning, which was awesome! A double out is pretty cool, too though. We are so proud of him and all the boys on his team. They won 20-10.  A win is always good, but the most important and best part was they played as a team, and learned while having fun!



Our rainbow cakes in a jar were plenty yummy! I took a picture with my phone, but I can't get it to upload. I did post a pic on facebook, so if you are "friends" with me, then you saw them there.


We had plans to dye eggs with friends, but they got sick, so we had to change our plans, but that was ok too.  Lucas, Cason and I colored eggs at home on Saturday.  Lucas is a little on the artsy side (gets that from me) so he really got into it.  Cason, on the other hand, hasn't quite discovered his artistic abilities just yet.  He did paint the eggs and did well with that. He also squished one and launched one across the room which resulted in a nice crackle effect on the paint. Ha! He also decided that the paint looked yummy, so he bit the sponge roller.

After we colored eggs, Papaw and Nana came over !  They had been in Ft. Worth visiting Nannie for a few days so the boys were really excited to see them. (We usually see them at least 2-3 times per week).  And, they brought goodies! They got the boys some really nice clothes, and of course an Easter basket each. 

Lucas asked to go home with them, so we went ahead and gave the boys their baskets from us also.  They were so excited. I made them a basket with a Scentsy buddy and lots of goodies. I made similar baskets for my Scenstsy customers who purchased Buddies for their kids. Lucas kept asking, "Why don't me and Cason get one too?" That made the surprise that much better when he saw that he did get one afterall!

Cason smelling his buddy, "Ribbert". The Scentsy buddies have an opening in their back for a ScentPak.

Cason's basket



Luke's basket

Lucas went home with Papaw and Nana for the evening.  The next morning we had a special Easter lesson during Children's Church. More on that later !  My boys looked SO handsome in their "preacher suits", as Lucas calls them:



If Cason looks a little concerned here, it is because someone dressed
up as the Easter bunny after church and this event  left him somewhat traumatized.
He did not care for the big hairy thing in the polk-a-dot vest.  He is still in recovery mode
in this picture, and keeping his eye on the "EB".

 I will work on a seperate post about our special CC lesson, and more pictures of our Easter celebration!