Weight Loss

Why is it when I get up at 5am and go to spinning class, I feel great and then I proceed to sabotage everything I accomplished? I have seriously been eating EVERYTHING in sight today. I'm in a "biggest loser" challenge that I paid $50 dollars in to. I am supposed to lose 20 pounds by the middle of March. If you lose the 20, you get your money back and whoever loses the most, gets the money of those who didn't lose. Seriously, even money isn't enough of a motivator??? I don't know what to do!!!

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Seriously?

It's a New Year

Ryan moved up to her new class in Primary yesterday. There wasn't much change for her because her teacher from before is moving up with them. She was very excited to be in CTR 5 now!


Then, since Peyton turns 18 months this week, I took her in to nursery for the first time! I think I was way more excited than she was! She was fine when I left, but after a few minutes, they brought her to me. After rifling through my bag for her cereal she went walking off down the hallway. I decided if she was going to wander off, she might as well wander back up to nursery and so she did! Since she had her cereal with her, she was good to go for the rest of the time!! Yes, that's chocolate peanut butter cereal all over her clean white sweater! (That's what I get for not taking pics before church)

Happy New Year!

We had a great time spending New Year's as a family.

We started out the night with an early dinner at Applebee's with Scott and Cristie.


We then went to Jay and Shannon's with Brian and Shanda to ring in the new year. Ryan and Kaiden had fun playing dress up! The kids all enjoyed a late night movie of Tinkerbell.




New Year's Day was spent taking down and putting all the Christmas decorations away. Then, Ryan and I finally got around to building the little gingerbread kit I bought her at the last minute. Oh well, it's something to do, right?

Zoo Lights

We have been trying to take the kids to the Zoo Lights, but with this crazy weather, no day has worked. But since it wasn't raining today, YET, we figured now was as good a time as any. We invited the Bradshaw's to come with us and it turned out to be a great time. A little WET, but still fun! Also, it would be nice if Starbuck's stayed open past 9pm.
This is how the night started:
This is how it ended:

This One's For Grama

Christmas 2008

What a wonderful Christmas we had! Christmas Eve we were invited to Jake's parents. Ryan was so excited to go to Kennedy's grandma's house. We played bingo and I even won a round! We were then very fortunate to have Santa make a visit! He brought each kid a present of new Christmas jammies. Ryan was so excited and not at all shy about Santa, but Peyton just kept screaming at him. Troy had to take her up to get her present and she wasn't about to have her picture taken. She did enjoy opening her present and wanted to put her jammies on with the rest of the kids. We then had a wonderful dinner prepared by Jake's mom, Cheryl. The children then prepared for the nativity. All the children participated and most of them, including Ryan were beautiful angels. Thank you Sarah and Jake for including us in this special time!
Christmas morning we woke with two very excited girls. Peyton woke extra early and we gave her some bread, chocolate milk and animal crackers to tide her over until Ryan woke up. We finally sent Peyton in for Ryan and she was SO excited! We went downstairs and the girls were so happy that Santa had come. They both have enjoyed their presents so much and played so well together. Peyton was really in to opening the presents. She loved ripping off the paper and handing it to me! We spent the day watching the girls play with their toys and enjoying afternoon naps! We then had a wonderful Christmas dinner and just really enjoyed our time together.