So along with that, back in Sept, I was working with my mom to find family names to take to the temple. We had a youth temple trip in Oct to Jordan River and it was so awesome to see the youth be baptized and confirmed for my ancestors. So great! I also had volleyball going and we had waaaaay more girls sign up than I thought. 22 on my roster! 22! Do you know how hard it is to substitute 16 girls in? It's ridiculous. We're so doing 2 teams next year! So every Monday we had practice right after Charlotte got home from school. Then the games were Thurs nights. So it was crazy for a bit but I did finally get a coach and an assistant to help. The assistant was kind of busy with work but would be there whenever she could. The girls won about half their games. Our new beehives really made some improvements. It was neat to see them grow and develop as they learned to serve and just hit the ball over. They were awesome and had a blast.
The last 6 weeks I have been exercising every morning. I decided to start getting up at 5:45 (changed my alarm every few days so now it's about 5-5:10am) and I exercise and do my scripture reading before the kids are up. My day is so much better and I feel better. I'm not dropping as much weight as I hoped. I'm not being super duper strict with my diet. We're finally paying off some medical bills and money has been a little tighter grocery wise so I can't just spend whatever to buy what I need to eat super strict. But I am trying to eat healthier and my muscles are toning up and the fat is slowly burning away. I just knew that spiritually I needed to get in a better place before I could start trying to conquer my love of food :) I was going to need extra help before I could do this. It is a slow process but I am learning that this is how it should be. Baby steps. Eventually I'll get there. For now I know I am trying to grow closer to my Heavenly Father and everything else will fall into place in the process. Some mornings I am dreading working out but I push through it and I feel so much better when I follow through. I sweat a ton. I'm just doing my biggest loser workouts. I'm in the last week of the last chance workout one and its about a 55 min workout and I sweat a ton! I am growing stronger though. I think I'm going to do the yoga one next and try to run a bit too when I have some free time. I did a 2.5 mile run the other day and it felt pretty good. Hopefully I can stick with it all.
Scott has been busy on and off with work. Sometimes he's been working long hours then there have been some days where I've actually exercised and read scriptures before he even leaves. Which is super rare! So its been nice to actually get to say goodbye to him but I'm always in favor of him working all the hours he can get. Especially until we get out of debt, minus the house. I do want to have more kids someday. It'll either be when we can get out of debt so we can purchase a bigger vehicle (used of course) or when Charlotte will be 8 so she can sit in between 2 car seats without a booster. And I guess if we're supposed to have more. Back to Scott though. He's having fun teaching the 6 yr old class in primary. It is a pain when the kids are sick though. Especially if I'm supposed to teach but so far we find a way to make it work.
I can't really remember what else has gone on but I'm sure my memory will be refreshed with the pictures I have from the last month. I have a ton on my phone! So here we go:
Charlotte had 4 days off in October. One of the Fridays Scott was off at a decent time so we thought we'd try to do the aquarium and the aviary. The aquarium was packed. I think it was UEA weekend. I couldn't even find parking. So we headed to the aviary and figured we'd check out more of Liberty Park. It's been years since we've walked around that park. And it is an awesome park. We are so going to that splash pad in the summer. It's pretty awesome! It wasn't on but it's really really cool! But back to the aviary pictures. Here are the ones I took from that day.
This macaw was cracking me up. He was playing with this ball in the water. He'd pick it up and throw it down in the water. He was cute.
This bird was just wandering around. I think its a guinea fowl. It was kind of neat to just see this big bird wandering around.
They had a hay maze so the kids had a blast running through that.
Andy is such a cool condor. I think their wingspan is like 10ft maybe more. He was stretching out so I had to snag a picture.
Scott loves to do things backwards sometimes :)
After the aviary we walked around. There is a big hill by the lake and the kids had fun running on it and rolling around.
There is a green house there and flowers were still in bloom. It's a very pretty park. I really need to go there more this next year.
Good thing this fountain was empty. Little punk thought it'd be fun to climb in there.
There's this cool pioneer house there too.
This is one of the playgrounds there. Jack ran right over, climbed up, and went down the biggest slide there. Sometimes that kid has no fear. Charlotte had fun trying the mini rock wall there.
There was this gorgeous tree there. It was like the only one in the area that was this amazing yellow/gold color. I had to take a picture. Although this was slightly edited it is pretty dang close to what it looked like in person. It was amazing. I love nature!
The kids always love sitting on/near Scott
I haven't scanned Charlotte's picture yet but this was her school picture. My mom had posted this on facebook. This is kind of zoomed in but it turned out pretty dang cute and totally her style.
I love being in WVC because its just south of the airport. When I was out there shopping a huge military plane was getting ready to land. The picture does not do it justice. It was a beast. I am amazed that those planes even leave the ground. I'm fascinated by airplanes and I love them. I love air and space museums. It's in my blood though. Thanks Grandpa Zapka!
Our last combined activity with our youth was a cake decorating contest. Our youth are awesome and I loved their creativity.
Look at all those girls! Love my girls! And I love that there are so many of them!
They used homemade marshmallow fondant! The boy second from the left made it from scratch. He's awesome!
Our first snow of the year. Got a nice little coating but the poor trees are still losing leaves. Some people lost their younger trees. Ours were fine though.
Someone squished or knocked over one of my pumpkins. Sad day!
Jack and I found a praying mantis one day which was surprising. With it getting colder they usually start dying off but this one was in our way on the side walk and I couldn't very well squish it.
This nasty critter is a german cockroach found on Charlotte's door. Ew! I am super OCD and have NEVER had nor did I even know cockroaches lived up here because of the cold. Apparently they can if they find their way inside. This is a female with an egg sac. Gross! So I threw it out but we have one tiny part of our front door where whether stripping isn't sealing it all the way. It can't because then our door doesn't close. But the thing found its way back in and by then I figured out what it was. Apparently they can't survive the cold outside so they're good at detecting heat and getting inside. Hence it coming back! I caught it and squished it and flushed it. No signs of anything else. Our basement gets pretty cold we're not messy and don't leave food out so I think they'd have a hard time finding stuff. Hopefully we're in the clear. Just saw the pest control across the street today and actually got a tip from an old neighbor that when they lived next to those people they had to call pest control a couple times. Yuck! As long as I don't see more!
Proof my kids get along sometimes and even work together!
Caught Toby sleeping with his tongue out
So I think that about sums it up! :)
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