Dinner at the Outback

Mike and I joined John, Nor, Little John, Michael, Uncle Jimmy and Nor's brother Mike at the Outback today to celebrate John and my birthdays. John and I are the same age for one week every year--I'm 55 until this coming Wednesday and John just turned 55 last Wednesday.
I had the wedge salad, which comes with a little steak. I could have done with just the salad, honestly. Mike and I split a piece of carrot cake. All told my dinner cost me about 18 points. I've lost almost 18 pounds and plan to keep at this. I'm looking forward to going down another size (I'm a 14 now) so I can have a whole new spring wardrobe!
I have more than one "Daily Picture" today!

Uncle Jimmy, John and John's little boy, John Joseph.

Noreen is using a 'magnifier' app on her phone to read the menu!

 Noreen and Michael.

Mike scans the menu. He chose a Cobb salad with chicken because it is almost impossible for him to cut a steak with his arm in a sling! (I shared most of the steak from my salad with him.)
No pic of me or my sil's brother, Mike, since I was 'manning the camera' and Mike was sitting too close. Probably wouldn't have wanted his picture taken, anyway.
After dinner, we picked up my BP meds at CVS then came home. Mike has been watching the football games and I've been catching up on some knitting and crocheting as well as writing this blog. A nice Sunday!

Meals together

It is rare we get all four kids here (not to mention the future son-in-law) for dinner. Well, me missed Erick yesterday but, wonder of wonders, Michael, Katherine, James and Nick were all here for Mike's sauce. Which, of course, came out great.

Michael had fun trying out my Wii Fit. He beat a lot of my scores so the bar has been set higher for me. Frankly, I'm more interested in calorie-burning than scores. Although it would be nice to rank higher than 'amateur.'

Today I did a few balance games and aerobics and burned 54 calories. So far I have lost over 2 pounds!

No matter what else I do in a day, if I get in exercise it is a productive one.