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.

Holidays!

I LOVE the holidays! Grant and I were able to go to Seattle for a week over Christmas break and we had a blast! I was so happy that we got to see the family since we haven't seen them since the wedding! Way too long! We took family pictures, played SO may fun games, danced on the xbox, made a lip sync video, and did some touring in Seattle! Grant and I go spoiled for Christmas! We got new embroidered towels, all new pots, an xbox with kinect (I wanted it SO bad!), and clothes, and shoes. We had such a wonderful time and it is always the best when we get to be with the family!

 Just goofing around!

 This was the neatest house that we saw driving around! SO many lights!

 The falls! We had a lot of fun touring some places in Seattle and showing Grant around!

 Gingerbread houses! We made these and I would have to say that Kaden did an amazing job on ours. haha.

 We love dance central for kinect! Taely and I couldn't get enough! And plus it is a great workout!!

 SEATTLE AQUARIUM!!! This place was so neat and if you ever get the chance to go visit you will love it!! There were so many neat things there and you would never believe the kinds of things that are in the ocean! These don't even look real!

 Could you imagine swimming around with this stuff?

 Star Fish!! Lots and lots of them too and we go to touch them! They had a hands on exhibit that was so neat!!

These otters were my absolute favorite! They were so adorable! They were cleaning themselves while floating on top of the water and they would rub their feet together! They were so cute!!

Date Night

Grant and I went on a fun date night last night. We went to the Gateway and ate at California Pizza Kitchen which is my favorite! We looked at some shops and then went to see the lights at Temple Square. I love seeing the lights and seeing how pretty the temple is. It was so crowded and freezing but we had a great time!

Christmas Time

Christmas time is my favorite time of year! What better then to have a break from school and get to spends loads of time with family! I love it! Yesterday we went with some friends to the Willard Bay lights and we went and saw the mini village lights in Ogden. We got hot cocoa and had a great time with friends!

They have this whole village set up in Ogden and this is inside one fo the houses. It was so neat!