Counting My Cow-lories

Today, Vannah had a day practice for her band festival.  The rest of us were invited to Brad's folks for lunch and a time to visit with the Amish family we met several weeks ago when they invited us to their home for a sleigh ride.  This is the family who decided (and I found out today it was unanimous...there are 11 in their family) to name their newborn calf, Heather, after they met me......HAHA!  I'm still loving that story!  What an honor, right?! :)  Today, I got to hear how Heather is doing.  I know I should be very excited that there is a cow named after me and I am....but, there is this part of me that is like..."OKAY, I AM LOSING WEIGHT....FOR REAL!" I think I have burned a good amount of calories laughing about that little calf.

We heard we were going to be sampling some Amish jam at our lunch gathering and Savannah got so upset that she was going to miss that opportunity because of her practice that she said, "Man, I can't even get my Amish jam on!" HAHA!  :P I was able to pick her up from her practice and take her back to the gathering so she could sample some rhubarb jam and have some fun playing games with everyone.

Then, the elementary school was sponsoring an ice-skating event, so we took all the girls to skate.  All their lessons definitely paid off from their Christmas gift!  We didn't have to help any of them and they were buzzing by people left and right....even skating backwards a little bit.  I even skated without hugging the wall and didn't fall...yep, and my ankles are pretty sore...but, it was a lot of fun! And, just think of the cow-lories I burned :)