Busy Busy Busy

Life has been so hectic at the Burton house. Since Grant and I both work and go to school full time, quality time is sometimes hard to find. Grant and I are getting excited to head to Washington to see my family soon for Thanksgiving and we can't wait. I hate having my family live so far away!

Grant and I spent the weekend having fun. We had to make a trip to Orem for my friends wedding reception so we made a day out of it. We stopped by City Creek and did some fun shopping and even stopped for some Cheesecake, my fav!! Then we headed to my Grandma Lyons to visit them and hang out for a few hours. We the headed to the cutest wedding reception ever. My friend from High School got married and they had the cutest reception with dancing and a photobooth. We the ended the weekend with dinner with Grants family.

Update

Life has been the most crazy lately! Grant and I are both working and going to school full time and its rough, but we both want to get done with school as soon as we can. Recently we've just been concentrating on our classes and have little time for fun. We did get to go to the circus which was an absolute blast! We had such a fun time. I'd never been to a circus before and it was so neat the things that people can do! It was so great.

We also have plans to go to Washington, to see my family, for Thanksgiving, and we can't wait. We love going up there. We also got to see my family a few months ago and had fun going to lagoon and spending time with them.

The diet is going great. I've had such a fun time learning to substitute foods for others less carby and sugary and its made cooking fun and experimental, not sure if my husband likes that :). I'm hoping to continue to work hard at the gym and eating clean.

New Me :)

Recently, well about 5 months ago, I had decided to change my life. I decided that I was tired of being overweight. I never knew what to eat and I was always unhappy with myself. I met a friend at my work, Amy, who gave me the motivation to want to change. She came to the gym with me a few times and started giving me tips on how to change my life. I thought, you make it sound easy, and I still wasn't convinced I could do it but I decided I would try it. I started to limit my carbs and sugar and really paid attention to my serving sizes and went to the gym at least 3 times a week. I was so amazed at how fast the weight was coming off. I lost 7 pounds in 2 weeks just from those small changes!! I continue to lose a pound to 2 pounds a week. I started to lift weights and always chose the healthier choices when eating. Can I just say that this has been one of the hardest things I've done. There were times during the first month that I was ready to give up. The thing that kept me going was I felt so much better about myself, even if I didn't lose any weight I know that I was eating healthier and exercising an that made me happy. As time progressed I started to experience with weight lifting and really made sure I did my cardio. I started experimenting with my cooking, my poor husband, and tried to find ways to eat healthier. It now has been 5 months and I have lost 30 pounds! Can you believe that?! I can't! I didn't realize how out of control I'd let my weight get. I knew I was heavier but I never realized how heavy. I have been sticking to a low carb low sugar diet (it's too hard to totally eliminate them) :) and it's really been working for me. I attend the gym at least 4 times a week and I try to lift weights, on my lazy weeks, at least twice a week. The thing that has been so near and dear to me is I truly thought that I could never do this, I still have a long ways to go but I can't believe the progress I have made. Today at the gym a gentlemen, who I've never talked to before but have seen at the gym before, came up and told me how great I was looking. I didn't even know a total stranger could notice the changes. I only post this to share with people that you truly can do it. Fad diets are not the way. If you maintain a healthy diet and exercise regularly... You can do it. I am ashamed and also very happy with this picture. It's my before and after this this point. :)

Playing Catch Up

Life has been so crazy for Grant and I lately so be prepared to read a lot. :) I can't believe I haven't been on here since Easter!! So much has happened since then. I got a promotion at work so I still work at Davis Hospital but I do their Quality Assurance. Grant is still working on Hill Air Force Base and we both are doing school full time! I am excited to be graduating in the spring and for Grant hopefully in the fall! I can’t believe how close the end is getting!! So excited.

Since I have posted last a lot has happened so I’ll try to just recap the big ones. Grant’s younger brother, Steve, came home from his mission so I got to meet him for the very first time since I have known Grant! What an awesome kid Steve is and it was great to meet him and have him home.

The next big thing that has happened is Taely got married!! What an exciting event and I was so happy to be able to fly up there and spend the day with her on her special day. I flew up on Sunday and Grant flew up on Tuesday. We had people sleeping on the floor because there was so many family members, it was chaos but it was oh so fun!!

 Bride and Groom tying the knot!!

 Cute Mommy and I!!

 Huzbie and I going to Seattle with the family before we flew home!

Cousins! All crammed in the car!

I also have been trying to lose some weight! Down 16 pounds!! Sounds drastic right? Still lots to go! I attend the gym regularly and I feel so much better about myself and I fell like I am more happy when I go to the gym. LOVE IT! I also recently got my wisdom teeth out which wasn’t very fun, to say the least.

Grant has been busy with work and he is also playing on a softball and baseball team. What a busy boy!! 

Hopefully I can get better at this whole blogging thing cause I tend to forget things when I don’t write them down. Lol!

EASTER!

This weekend my mom, Taely, Kaden, and Eric (Taely's fiance) came down to Utah to visit and to have a bridal shower for my sister. On Saturday I headed down early so I could spend the whole day with the family while Grant did some homework up on campus. When I got down there we went shopping with Grandma to get food for the shower and had some good girl time. The shower was such a wonderful hit! We had a lot of wonderful people and old friends come to visit and celebrate Taely and followed the night with dinner with the grandparents. Grant and I were fortunate enough to come down Sunday too and had so much fun playing in the back yard and soaking up the wonderful sun! We also had a fun time cooking and playing board games! I am so happy that my family was able to come down so that I got to see them since I never get to!

 Grandpas new bike!

 The cutest boy I ever did see!

Le Stat did not want to get out of there. He loved riding around the yard and could spend hours out there. What a cute boy!

School Post

For one of my classes in school I needed to create a blog but since I already have one I am going to just post it on here. I have this blog because it is a wonderful way for me to connect with my family since they live in Washington and I live in Utah. It's great to see other people's blog so that I can keep up with them as well. I post all kinds of things on here like day to day things, recipes, and any activities that my husband and I do. The social media can be a wonderful thing as well as a scary thing. I love it to keep up with news and things that are going on.