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Thursday, March 30, 2006

A new scrapbook page that I made...

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

I can wear my ring again...



For the first time in 3 ½ years I tried on my engagement ring from Matt and it finally fits again. My wedding band is ½ a size bigger so I have never taken that one off, but when I got pregnant with Riley, I had to take my diamond off because it just got too small for my fingers. It hasn't fit since I was pregnant with Riley and now it does. I am so happy! It is like getting a new peice of jewelry. I can't believe I have finally lost the baby weight from Riley. I feel so happy. I am not going to say how much I have lost total this month until the 15th of April, but let's just say that I have made my goal for the month already. I still have quite a bit more to lose, but I finally feel like I have made a big dent in the total amount. :)

Monday, March 20, 2006

2 New scrapbook pages I made today...


Saturday, March 18, 2006

Spring blog challenge...

Spring Fever!!!! 8 Questions about SPRING!
1. have you gone on spring break before? if so, where, and if not, why? I have never actually gone somewhere for spring break.
2. do you take a spring vacation? We usually go during the summer.
3. if you had (or have) a spring vacation, what would be your first choice to do? Go anywhere warm.
4. in your home/apartment, do you do spring cleaning? I try to.
5. in your area, what is your weather generally like in mid-march? Very rainy
6. spring is one of my favourite seasons ... do you share my sentiment, or do you prefer another season? I prefer summer.
7. do you do anything differently in spring than you do any other time of the year? (plant flowers/garden, take off the snow tires, etc.) Hopefully I will be planting the plants and trees that I bought at the end of last summer this spring. They lived through the winter. I am so happy!
8. what are your plans for this weekend?
Cleaning!

My latest scrapbook page...

I just wanted to share the my latest scrapbook page with everyone. I used my very favorite photo of the kids together on it.

Our trip to Portland...

All four of us went to Portland, Oregon on Wednesday to see Matt's Sister Jennie and meet her husband Jeramie. We all went to the Family Fun Center in Wilsonville, Oregon. and had a great time there. Matt hadn't seen his sister in about 16 years or so, so he had fun catching up with her. I think us adults had just as much fun there as the kids did. We rode go-karts, played lazer tag and played a ton of games for tickets which the kids cashed in for prizes. I had never played lazer tag before and I was surprised at how much fun it was. We played boys against girls and the girls won. Yay!

After we left there, we went to our hotel in Portland which was really nice. It was right across the street from the Lloyd Center mall which is where we had dinner that night. We wanted to try ice skating, but we had already spent so much money at the Family Fun Center that we decided not to.

I was hesitant about going at first since we had to take Monica out of school for 2 days, but I am glad that we went after all. The kids had a great time and it was really nice to have a little mini vacation for all of us. Here are some pictures from our fun time in Portland: (Click on the photos to make them bigger)
Riding the go-karts

Riding the go-karts Riley watching Rocky and Bullwinkle

Rocky and Bullwinkle

Jennie and Jeramie
Matt and Monica riding the go-karts
Jeramie and Riley on the go-karts

Jennie on the go-karts

Monica playing a game
Monica playing skee ball

Riley's new teeth
Riley's new whistle lips

The only photo taken of me for the day

Tuesday, March 14, 2006

10 on Tuesday

10 Things You'd Tell Other People to Try

  1. Philosophy body wash
  2. Mountain Dew MDX (sugar free)
  3. the stair climber
  4. Prince's new album 3121
  5. Nike Celso flip flops
  6. Canon Digital Rebel camera
  7. scrapbooking
  8. Newport, Oregon
  9. Hempz body lotion
  10. cooking for your family

Down 36.5 pounds...

Ok, so I didn't quite make my goal of 42 pounds by the 15th of this month, but I have been fighting this plateau I have been on. I had been really discouraged until I went shopping for new clothes this past week-end and realized that I am down 2 pant sizes from my highest. That gave me a little extra motivation. Then that night, my daughter proceeds to tell me that she was telling her friend about how we took her to Marble Slab to get ice cream once and one of her other friends said to her, "no wonder your Mom is so fat." So that put a little damper on my excitement of being down two pant sizes. I have decided to not let it get me down though. I have been amping up my work-outs by working in the stair climber along with the elliptical every time I go to the gym now. I do 35 minutes on the elliptical on level 8 and then I do 13 minutes on the stair climber at level 2. I am working up to do 20 minutes on the stair climber after the elliptical so I try to go up 1 minute every two days. I sure hope this wakes my body up from this slump and kicks my butt in gear. :)

Monday, March 06, 2006

Some great photos that I took this week-end...





Matt and I went to visit his Grandma this week-end and I took some photos from her farm. The view of Mt. Ranier is unbelievable and the weather was perfect for taking pictures. Here are a few from this week-end. You can click on the images to see them larger. :)