I've been doing a couple biggest loser challenges and trying to get healthier. Always a battle for me but I keep going. I was wearing this shirt one morning while exercising and brought back some memories. Good 'ol home ward of SS1. #22 on the back of course! :)
Fridays Scott is usually off work early so we can walk to school together to pick up Charlotte. Always nice the little bits of family time we get.
We went to the church to play bball a bit and I actually beat Scott this day. I just got lucky his shots were off and he could have driven past me every time but technically I won! :)
Took this on our 9th anniversary of our engagement. Holy cow! 10 is creeping up on us fast!
Scott's mom picked up some alfajores from a store in SLC and we each got one. So yummy!
I got a lot of money for my birthday so I bought myself a new digital scale that is way more accurate than my last one. Also got a spiralizer. I can now make healthy veggies noodles instead of eating all the carbs in regular noodles. FYI it also is great for curly fries. We tried some since my parent's have a fryer. Yeah, they were dang good and super fresh. Guess I should add in that for my bday we didn't do much. Scott got a new additional calling as the stake young men's sports director. Which means our weekends have had way less family time than we had before. He was basically told they need to start up something for the boys asap which meant that games were scheduled most Sat through May and some Fridays. So my birthday was one of those days. He had bball from 1-5:30ish I think and by the time we got the kids fed and over to my in-laws we only had time to go out to dinner. We just went to applebees in town because we had a gift card. It was better than I expected. I used to hate the applebees here but its better than it used to be. I really wanted to go to the movies too because we haven't done that since before Charlotte was born. But by the time we ate, all the movies we thought about seeing had already started and would have had to get back to the kids between 8-9 so they wouldn't be grumpy and could go to bed. So yeah, it was kind of a bummer because I wanted to do so much more but with little kids and callings there is only so much you can do. Someday they'll grow up and things will be easier in some ways. For now, quick dinner dates in town is all we get.
So our Mia Maids wanted to do a bigger or better scavenger hunt. Our group scored this snow blower and it actually works! We were laughing pretty hard about it but the guy let us take it so we talked to the bishop and he was able to get it to a family that could use it. So not only did we have a super fun night hearing everyone's stories but even got to help someone in need! :)
For school Charlotte got to decorate a box for her valentines. This is what she wanted to do. Glitter, feathers and tulle,
Sat mornings for a while I'd go for a quick run. I've had to hold up on those recently because I'm pretty sure I have exercise induced asthma and its worse in the cold. The last time I ran in the cold I felt like I had fluid in my lungs for like 3 days but didn't feel sick at all. It was weird. But this was a pic one morning as I just made it back. Love our old school hoop but it does need to be repainted.
We usually celebrate Valentine's day with my birthday but this year Roots Tech fell on Valentine's Day. I got tickets for 50 for our ward and we actually used them all! I have never been so I didn't know what to expect. I ended up staying in the main hall the whole time and had a good spot up front and to the left of the stage. Elder Anderson added on to his temple challenge he had given the youth. He told everyone to take a picture of this and post it and share it. I love doing family history work and the experiences I have in the temple doing that work are incredible. I have felt my ancestors there and sometimes its hard not to just start bawling because you can feel them there. You know someone is with you and you can feel their excitement. It's seriously incredible. Roots Tech was a great experience and to hear from so many of the church leaders was awesome. At the end they had a presentation from Studio C which was so funny. The lip sync competition was hilarious. If you've never watched them on byutv you're missing out!
The pictures are not great because of my angle plus the camera guy but David Archuleta preformed in their lip sync skit too. Then he did a mini concert after. He sang a new song that was in spanish but sounded really good. He is amazing live! I always respected him for staying true to his beliefs despite his popularity from American Idol but was never a huge fan. He does have an amazing voice though and did a really great job closing out the session. The One Voice children's choir was also there and those kids are incredible too! So talented!
Jackson's birthday fell on a Tues this year so we decided to celebrate with my family on Sunday. Tuesdays are always long days for Scott so he's usually not home until 6:30 or 7. Then there was an RS meeting that night too so once Scott got home I went to that because they were handing out new routes for visiting teaching. My mom got him a Jake cake because he loves Jake. I think this is actually the same one we got last year too. Haha!
For a while I was really good at eating a lot of healthy stuff. Like just simple basic ingredients. Nothing packaged. Then I fell off the boat a bit and working on getting back on. I'll discuss more of that in another post.
My second counselor was getting ready to move and offered us their venus fly trap. How cool is that? So we are now the proud owners of one! We named her Sophia. Very cool plant and I have a lot to learn about them!
With a tax return coming we wanted to make some improvements in our home. We are going to be replacing our living room and hallway carpet with some stuff from Scott's brother's old house. Its in great shape unlike ours. So I wanted to paint before we end up doing that. I chose creamy mushroom for the walls and almond wisp for doors and trim. I love it. There was just too much white. Although I didn't mind it before I needed a change and we never painted when we moved in. So this makes our house feel more like a home. I love it so much. It was a lot of work and took a lot of time just to do the hallway, living room and laundry room because of the kids keeping me busy. But it looks so good. And the doors got updated doorknobs and hinges. No more brass!
One dish I made with zucchini noodles. Seriously my favorite.
Finally got my honor bee added on! That was a great accomplishment. The service part was fairly simple. I love personal progress and I love helping the girls but reading the Book of Mormon through in about 6 months (my goal) with two small kids is no easy task. But I learned the most I have ever learned this time around and strengthened my testimony more than ever. I have a greater love for the Book of Mormon and the prophets in there. They did amazing things! They have so much insight to offer to help us if we would just read and listen to them! They want to help us and this was their only way to try to reach out to us in this day. They know what we're up against. They saw us in our day. How can we ignore their pleas? After completing that I decided to try and earn my medallion again by the end of this year. We shall see! It won't be easy but I want to help more girls work on it and if I can be an example to them, I will. Anything to help my girls see the benefits of personal progress! Its an amazing program and I challenge every woman out there to do it. Whether you have your medallion or not. Everyone is invited to work on it and I promise you that you will see miracles in your life. And you know why? Because personal progress invites you to come unto Christ and by doing so, you will witness great miracles. I promise! :)
We had our dessert auction on March 21st. I made these two better than sex cakes (we called them better than anything). I think they went for like $40-$50 each.
I think these went for like $20-$40 each. I can't remember exactly. Its possible it was more.
I did this cake last year and this year it went for $190. I think last year it was capped off at $50 or $60. This year we made sure there were no restrictions so we could earn as much as possible for our girls. We didn't know we were allowed to request money in our budget so we're hoping next year we won't even have to do a fundraiser like this because it is a lot of work but it does pay off for the girls.
This one went for $180 I think? Something like that. It's like the ones I've made in the past too. I love this cake. Yum!
With all the new paint I decided to customize my light switches. I'm all about my dean miller prints and love hawaiian surf prints. So why not put them on my light switches? Keeping a little beachiness around even though the closest beach is the Great Salt Lake!
We love holding chickens. James isn't too thrilled but deep down he loves me.
Had a stormy day and the sky looked all cool like this. Just all these clouds churning in the sky.
While Scott was at priesthood we dyed eggs. The kids were getting kind of crazy and I was exhausted from helping my dad trim trees and haul branches so this was just not very fun. Next year I'll plan better and not do so much on the same day. Kids had fun though!
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