Josh and Becca Thrap and Family

So last week was not an awesome week for me as far as eating and exercise go.  It wasn’t horrendous or anything, but not awesome.  Anywhoo, Josh and his brother Jason have struck up a deal for babysitting in order to get “date” time with their spouses.  We watch our neice overnight one weekend and then they watch our kids overninght one weekend.  (I know, it hardly seems like a fair deal, but hey, I’m not complaining!!!)  So we had Charley two weekends ago and this past weekend was their first time taking all our kids.  I’m not gonna lie, I was a little nervous about it.  But they have said the kids were fine so…okay.  Besides, I think they plan to have even more kids than we have so it’s good practice for them. :wow:  So Josh took me out for dinner.  We went to the Machine Shed in Des Moines because we’d eaten there once before and I’d seen what looked like fabulous desserts but we hadn’t gotten dessert when we were there before so it was our intention to get a fabulous dessert to share.  We had a fine meal and our server was very accomodating (Josh was a little high maintenance ) but by the time we got to the dessert portion of the meal I was STUFFED (even though I’d only eaten half of my burger and about 1/3 of my fries)!  So as we looked over the dessert menu we decided that instead of a dessert we’d order a cinnamon roll to have for breakfast in the morning on our way up to Ames where we were meeting my family to work on some projects (believe me, it’s a whole other post!) until our apologetic waiter explained (where the menu did not :rolleye:) that they only sold cinnamon rolls in the morning.  BUMMER!  So once again we went away from the Machine Shed without any dessert.  :(  So that was Friday night.  Now, skip ahead to this afternoon.  Josh had a meeting in Des Moines and usually he eats lunch afterwards with some co-workers, but today he surprised me by coming home for lunch.  AND!!!!!!!!  He brought me some cinnamon rolls!  What a sweetie!  Of course he didn’t know that I was back on my “diet” but luckily I had eaten very few calories so far and I DID exercise this morning, so I got to have a cinnamon roll for lunch!  YAY!  :D  And I must say, it was very very good.  As I explained to Josh, if I were to imagine the perfect cinnamon roll…ah…it would be nothing like this, but my imagination might be wrong!  This tasted like Big Old German Grandma in an Apron with a Rolling Pin Baking up a Storm in a Quaint Cottage Kitchen to Feed the Whole Family a Hearty Country Breakfast…Mmmm