What a great Sunday!!!!!!!!!

We woke up late once again for church since Brad went back to sleep after his alarm went off but we got up and had to rush to get things together but then we were off! Church was awesome and we had potluck afterwards so I ate some fruits and veggies! Our new friends from church came over to hang out with us all afternoon! We talked and played some SCRABBLE! It was so much fun and SO GOOD to have new friends that go to the same church, believe the same as we do and are around the same age plus Brad knows the husband from working with him at a past job so that is excellent! Not to mention HE’S the one who told Brad about the church!!!!!!

Feeling so blessed to have them come into our lives! We’re going to our church temple with them this coming Saturday so I’m really looking forward to that as well. It will be awesome and we’re hopefully gonna have a picnic after we get out of the Temple but we shall see!

Brad wants me to watch a movie with him so I’m gonna get myself a snack and watch that with him then get ready to put Katie to bed! Hope everyone has had an excellent weekend!

My feet hurt from running around all day cleaning house plus laundry and so I’m finally giving them a rest while I sit here and eat my snacks while waiting for my LOVE to get home from work to start our weekend, YEAH!!!! I’ve been attempting to work on my new layout but keep stalling for color reasons but I’m TRYING! I’m starting to listen to New Found Glory more again! I never fully listened to their “Coming Home” album but I really like it now that I’ve given it a chance! Would love to see them in concert. First and foremost would be my lovely INCUBUS… oh how I would love to hear and see Brandon Boyd in person. Sigh.

Tonight we shall watch the SERIES FINALE episode of Dollhouse… sniffles! I really love that show. Shame that Fox is cancelling it. Joss Whedon just does not have the best of luck with networks but I do love his shows! Speaking of his shows… I haven’t watched Buffy or Angel in FOREVER. Brad actually watched 2 episodes of Buffy last weekend so I’m hoping we can start watching Season 2 together soon. Ah, brings back High School memories. Haha.

This post is just a bundle of random ramble jumbo! We’re (hopefully) having COMPANY over tomorrow!! *SQUEE’s*

“So they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, no human being must separate.” ~Mark 10 2-16

I feel so blessed and lucky to have found my wonderful, adoring, handsome husband. I dreamed of having a love such as ours. Love isn’t easy but If the two work together as one then it makes it that much easier to get through each day.

*GUSH* Heh. I’m SLEEPY. I gotta check on the laundry but Katie and I are just relaxing the rest of the evening until it’s her bedtime. She was pretty cranky this morning but now she’s entertaining herself and playing… thankfully.

There is NOTHING more important than those and I will not let anything stand in my way of keeping God, my health and family top priority. Remember I posted how I was trying to figure out my body fat percentage? I did some measurements today and apparently my percentage is around 30%, YES!!!!!! I cannot believe it. I was feeling PUMPED today! I did 3.5 miles on the treadmill and was really getting into it, WOOT. Seriously, I love running. I once only DREAMED of being able to run and now I can!!! The highest speed I’ve ran at so far is 8.0 and to think I started out at barely being able to do 2.0 WALKING. I haven’t done 3.5 miles in a while and I can tell by how hungry I am right now so I better get a snack soon! Ugh, my left upper cartiledge ear piercing is infected I think so I’m hoping It won’t close up. I’ll keep an eye on it and hopefully be able to put the earring back in sooner than later.

Still working on my new layout and I’ve got it together but I have a lot of other work to do on it like colors, fonts, etc etc but I’m hoping to get it on site soon!

I honestly can’t come up with a blog title tonight, lol. I’ve had another busy day.. this evening I went to another church meeting but after some mishaps, we didn’t really get anything accomplished but thats ok!!! It was so cold by the time we left the church, brrrr! There’s a full moon out tonight and I could see the stars and they are absolutley gorgeous.

I have found 2 NEW LOVES. Soy Slender chocolate milk is SO GOOD!!!!! Also have a new love for a very petite peanut butter and sugar free maple syrup sandwich. DROOL. The soy milk is 60 calories PER CUP and 7g of protein, YES. I think this is going to be a new favorite.

Really I don’t have much else to blog about! We hung up some of our church certificates on our living room wall last night and I love it. I had better go get dinner started and dry plus style my hair since I didn’t get a chance to earlier today! Have an awesoooome evening! =)

Patty cake is just one of the many phrases I repeat every day, haha. Katie’s been quite the whiney pants today and I think it’s her tummy. She cried this morning while trying to fill her diaper because of constipation and then the rest of the day she hasn’t been exactly content like usual. Hopefully some good sleep tonight will give her some refreshment.

I AM SO COLD. Since losing all this weight, I think that’s my biggest problem is that I get cold so easily! My hands are freezing right now and my toes are pretty cold too. I was attempting to figure out my body fat percentage online but I’ll have to dig out the ole tape measure and get all those together before I can figure it out. Brad’s gone right now to the mens church meet up that they always have on Tuesdays and I’m glad he went because it will help him spiritually. When he gets back, we’re gonna hang up some pictures on our living room wall which will make me happy!! We went grocery shopping today and BOO, they were out of my almond milk and my spinach! Instead I got chocolate soymilk and organic baby spinach. Ugh the baby spinach was $3 MORE for the same AMOUNT as my usual, wtf. I’m excited to try the chocolate soymilk! SQUEE.. tonight we’re having our baked, seasoned, breaded chicken breasts with veggies and sweet potato fries! Also happy because we get to see last weeks eppy of THE BIGGEST LOSER, yeah!!!

I meant to mention this sooner but I’m SAD that Conan is gone! TEAM COCO TEAM COCO! I hope he makes some sort of come back again, lol. He’s hilarious!!!

HOLY WOAH.

Another energizer bunny day! Here’s a short run down on the day!
– up early for breakfast and exercise
– shower, fed baby, got ready
– got paper to get blood drawn, went & got blood drawn at the hospital for another look at my liver enzymes
– stopped by wally world for a few things
– next was the local produce store for fruits and veggies!
– home so Katie could take a nap and we could eat lunch
– decided to go visit my MIL so got Katie up and fed her
– spent a few hours with them
– came home, put babe to bed
– started dinner, read our scriptures and church study together

Now we’re sitting here eating a really late dinner and I FINALLY get to just sit and relax and it is awesome!!! AND NO MATTER WHAT God, my health and FAMILY come first in my life, ALWAYS and I have received some amazing blessings from that! Hope your day has been awesome!!!!

There is a married couple at church who are around our age and they just started attending our church not long ago because they came from another LDS area church. I’m so delighted because their gonna come hang out with us next Sunday after church!!! We have really been praying that we would find new friends to spend time with and I feel so blessed that they transferred to our church! It’s sad but we haven’t had any friends over in a long while because our other friends who aren’t close to us either live too far away or don’t keep in touch anymore. I can’t wait to get to know our new friends more!!! What’s cool about them is the husband worked with Brad at his old job and was the one who talked to Brad about the church!

I LOVE going to church now!!! This coming from someone who used to not want to talk about religion or even THINK about “wasting my time” to get up early Sunday… yawn. I look back on how I used to be and just laugh!!! Now I am THANKFUL that I make the sacrafice to get up early on Sundays to learn more about how I can BETTER my life! Brad went and got Katie from nursery when church was done since I was busy talking to my new friend, heh. Of course the nursery teacher said Katie was good… no surprise!

What a wonderful day. We came home and Katie went down for her nap. Brad and I just hung out then we both wound up falling asleep. I fell asleep for around 30 minutes sitting on the couch then Brad woke up and we went upstairs and I watched him fall back to sleep then had to get Katie up to feed her. I shouldn’t of taken that nap because now I’m feeling more tired but ah well. Rest of the evening has just been laid back! We’re having our healthy chicken burritos and crab meat salad plus some mustard greens for dinner and yes I get excited over all my meals, LOL.

I did my weigh-in this morning and I’m the same weight as last Saturday — 138 so I am pleased with that!!! Means I am doing a good job maintaining! Of course today was cleaning day and Katie was SO GOOD this morning. She was playing and It was almost her snack and nap time but she was just sitting quietly playing so I let her play for about 15 more minutes. Washed, folded and put away the last load of laundry so I am done with laundry for the week!!!

I wanted to give some insight on how I keep my life so motivated in general!
– Orginization: I am SO organized and I like to have everything in certain places and this helps me keep up with all my things.
– Prepation: I take our fruits and veggies and chop them up ahead of time so that we can have them in bowls in the fridge for whenever we need them for meals and such. Also being prepared in the money area! In December, I started using Excel to keep up with our bills and it has worked WONDERS just seeing everything put in front of us. I plan out my meals every day and keep up with them on sparkpeople.com so I can see around how many calories and at first I was hesistant and resistant to logging my food but now I RELY on it and it keeps me happy seeing that recorded and accountable.
– Routine/Schedule: YES my Mom raised me ROUTINE ROUTINE and that is 100% how I am now and same for our baby and I dunno, it’s just awesome!! Katie has been sleeping through the night since she was 3 months and STILL DOES and I know it’s from keeping her on such a good routine. It MATTERS so much!!!
– Determination: For all the things I used to “put off” or “wait till later” NO MORE! Whenever I need to do something, I JUST DO IT and I am better for it. I am using my energy and that is what it is for! I used to spend ALL DAY sitting idle at my computer and now I only have certain times when I’m at the computer and then even when I am most of the time I’m still running around the house doing things, LOL.
– MUSIC: I’m a stay at home Mommy and we don’t have cable TV so I am 98% of the time playing music and that keeps me upbeat and going forward all day!

I have changed all the way around and ANYONE CAN. I can testify to that much! I was an overweight, lazy, negative, hopeless, person who had no motivation and look how I have turned around!!!! I owe it all to my husband for opening my eyes to our religion because that has been the biggest “lightbulb” in my life, really. I learned that HEY, I have a purpose and I DO matter and I won’t just sit back and let my life pass me by and I am definetly making the best of my life now. SQUEE. I say this often but I am truly thankful for my life and I’m so glad I can say that now!!!!!!

My hunny bunny is home and we’re gonna start dinner soon! Last night we watched The Office and BONES! Gosh, I love that show. Booth and Bones are the best!!!! Tonight we’ll be watching this weeks episode of Fringe. Walter cracks me up and I still drool a bit over Josh Jackson, heh.

I am seriously like the ENERGIZER BUNNY these days but I wouldn’t change a thing! I get everything DONE!!! I’ve been busy all day long today with the usual and then this evening I went to another church meeting like I did last Friday. The sister that came to visit me yesterday was the one to come pick me up today and yesterday we were discussing hair and she actually picked up some leave-in creme for my hair!!! AHH, she didn’t have to! She is so sweet. It has gotten so much cooler outside, brrr! I had to turn our heater back on and my hands are still cold.

I was looking at some old photos of myself from High School. WOW. There’s a picture of me sitting at my computer desk in my old room and I just — I look TERRIBLE. I had the HORRIBLE short hair cut and my face was so chubby. Makes me want to HOLD TIGHT that much MORE to what I have transformed into and to NEVER, EVER let it go and I WON’T. I remember how I used to feel. I used to want the fat and weight gone SO BADLY that I would just sit and cry. LOOK HOW FAR I’VE COME and I’m only here because of my Heavenly Father. I give all credit to Him for guiding me to where I am today. Again I say I am SO grateful, thankful and blessed. I truly and really am. I understand and appreciate so much more about myself, my life and the value of it all. Now it’s my turn to help inspire and motivate everyone and anyone I can!

Welp, time to put baby to bed and wait for my LOVIE to get home so we can eat dinner and watch some online shows together! YEAH! Have an awesome night!!!!!