Winter morning for sure!

So last night I went to bed, but just before doing so my loving husband was like "Honey, its snowing and pretty good, its stuck to the ground" Me: "squeals, then runs to find jacket and shoes so I can go out and get pics of it" Never crossed my mind that it was dark.. but well here the pics are:

So that was my fun exciting adventure last night. Then this morning the bed felt oh so cozy and warm and yeah, me getting up was so not happening. Except I looked at the time and was like, oooohhhh my friends are going to be here,  I gotta get ready and clean! So that is what I jumped up to do but first I had to do one thing, Can anyone guess what it was??


I had to run and check for myself if the snow stayed, so I hurried to put on a jacket and shoes and ran out the door to find that it .... well you can just see for yourself,

That white car by the way in the first picture, was given to us graciously by my parents its an old car and this is the first time its ever, ever seen snow... :) I sent a picture to my dad just to make him happy that his "Betsy" Got her first Snow experience lol...

So after that I got ready and hung out with two amazing women and we chatted and learned more about eachother and laughed and it was uber fun. After they left I was still doing the happy dance, but then wasted some time on facebook and eventually calmed down after like an hour or so.

Then I cleaned up house and started dinner, for my wonderful, hard working husband. Now I am blogging to all of you about it... although I am about to get off of here and finish cooking dinner.. Just thought I would share a little bit of my day.

Happy Friday all.. hope to chat again, maybe on Sunday.

Oh and thanks for taking your time to read  :) 

Thursday, One more day and I am off... well hopefully....

Man this has most definitely been a week for the books let me tell you. I have never gotten on my knees and prayed as hard as I did in this last week in over a year I would have to say. My days have definitely turned around since doing so though, let me tell you.

Its funny Sunday in Gospel Principles our lesson was on praying to our Heavenly Father... I really think that was like the prequal to my week let me tell you.. I so needed that lesson before this last week, and I am so blessed for it as well.

Anyways, I thought I would post on my blog this morning because I am so proud of my hard work, and the fact that I was smart enough to photo the progress. I have been struggling with weight loss for a very very long time. I had a pretty rough child hood and I think I just turned to food as a comfort and man it most definitely got me in trouble. I never ever want to have to go through this again. So back to my smartness.. this week I have been like sitting on the fence on whether or not I am really progressing or just imagining that I have been.. today I decided I was going to take a picture, and then I remembered I had taken a couple other pictures of when I started hitting the gym. So I decided to post them on facebook, and look at them side by side to really see it for myself. Now I am blogging about it because I am just ecstatic and want to get my thought out.. This weight loss is such hard work, Its funny how it takes more work to loose the unhealthy fat, then it did to put it on... Amazing the things you learn.

So here I was March 1, 2012 4 days before I joined Gold's Gym.

This is me in July of 2012 Just after my now husband proposed :) 

And this is me as of today October 26,2012 

What Progress! Makes me want to run and jump and do a lot more!!!!

HAPPY DANCE!

Anyways, I am going to continue with updates like this... at the end I will just post One big blog with all of the before and after pics... it's going to be awesome... Maybe I will scrapbook it just so that I can remember that I never ever want to look the way I looked on March 1st of 2012 again.... But this isnt even all of it... I really wish I had a picture of how I looked in September of 2011 Because at that time I weighed 268 lbs... *shutters to think it* I will never be that weight again I promise that!

That is all this post was really for this morning... Maybe ill find something to share with later... Happy Thursday all!

Finding something, anything to be positive about today...

and so far failing miserably. Sure I can be positive that I cleaned my kitchen and reorganized it, that my living room looks like a living room and not well.. "lived in" but there was a reason most of these things were accomplished this morning, and no not really because they needed to, because yes they needed but any way so far that reason is non existent. I know, I know I am being rather vague. I have a reason for that really I do. It is just so FRUSTRATING!!!!.

Oh and to top it off I printed off coupons this morning, WHY? I have no clue... not like I am going to get to use them... I guess because secretly it made me feel good inside to just do it... :-/. So yeah if any one wants them they're sitting here on my desk! Oh and did I mention I used up the last, and I mean every last drop of Ink I had on these stupid coupons.. LAME RIGHT?!?!

I'm basically just ranting on and on ... I really have nothing to say this morning.. Just feels good to talk to myself.. lol I guess its not really talking to myself when others can read it..

I desperately just need to stay home today and cuddle up with a good book under a blanket with some hot cocoa or warm honey lemon water or something just so I can feel some kind of I don't know ... normalcy i guess... Lol but then again what in the world is normal.

I wish my husband were home with me.. I usually never ever feel this way but the last like day or so have just been to exhausting for words.

Oh well... guess ill watch netflix, before I go to work. Hope everyone has a good Tuesday... Maybe I'll post later... Doubt it...something would have to happen to do that.. cuz really this is just how I feel today...

Fall Is upon us... Or should I call it winter???

At any rate I have lots of updates... well really just one big one. I got married September 15,2012. It was thee most happiest day of my entire life!  Here is a photo of my special day! 

Isn't he handsome?

At any rate it was a beautiful day, and our small ceremony was just perfect!

The week before my wedding I found out my aunt was sick, she passed away 4 days before my wedding day to cancer. CANCER is EVIL!!!  So in honor of her 3 days after my wedding I  cut my hair to donate to Locks of love. Here are the before and afters: 

So this is the new me for a while... I hope it grows back fast though.. I really miss my long hair. But its a selfless act to be able to donate something so small. Im thinking I may want to do this more often.. but Im going to let my hair grow out like a lot. Maybe down to my lower back so that way i can still have long hair.. we shall see. 

So today I had a pretty cruddy day. Just normal day to day life crap. Go to work, get paid, money all gone on bills blah blah blah wash rinse repeat. Its rather getting old. I have so many crafts I want to do, and cooking and just yeah. Why do hobbies have to come at a price I mean really. Lol. Then come to find out the program I wanted to go to school for is no longer offered at the one and only local college in this town. So that Just added to the whole depressing dreary cloudy wet day that we had. 

Then the thought crossed my mind that I have a natural knack for taking photos. I don't mean of myself just in general.. I can find beauty in all things, some sort of artistic view yada, yada, I have a really good Camera too! I also thought that its very relaxing. To just be looking at the beautiful nature that is all around us. Believe me right now with my stresses I could really use this to just unwind. So I think Im just gonna go have fun with it. Bonus to all of it, its a digital camera.... I can print the picture at a later time :) Score! 

So after this very long stressful, sad, depressing day there has been some hope... lol kinda funny to say since my Aunts name is Hope. I got to talk to her this evening. I love her, that made me feel better, just to talk to family. My cousin texted me today to to tell me that she loved me and missed me. Made me feel good, I thought I had upset her..somehow, some way.. it had been a while since the two of us had talked. It felt good just to hear those simple words. My new friend Mady and I are going to hang out this week.. I am excited for that. And although money is uber uber tight, I deserve a small treat so my friend Nicole and I are going to go for Ice Cream. I'm excited haven't seen her in a hot minute either. There is always positive around us and I love the comfort in knowing that. 

The seasons come and the times change, One thing I can say even with the holidays coming up is that I am blessed. I have new friends, old friends, and friends still to come, I have a loving husband who understands me, my needs, and supports me in all that I do, I have an awesome family! They are encouraging, and uplifting. That is all I need. 

This last weekend in church I remember the bishops wife in relief society talk about how there is materialistic things in life, that often we get jealous of others for being able to have, but you can't take them with you when you go.. Now im not quoting her verbatim but you get my drift.  I needed to hear that on Sunday. I didn't know that I needed to hear it, but today more then ever I promise you is an example of why I needed to hear that. In then end I can count my blessing and know that all I need is my family and friends, anything beyond that is just stuff. Stuff that of course offers happiness but only for a short time. Family and friends are forever!

Ive talked a lot. I needed to!! I feel good and uplifted to this day that most definitely could of been better. My boss is right challenges in your life do make you humble. I don't like this challenge I am going through, we are going through right now.. but already I feel the humbleness she was teaching me about this afternoon. I love my boss, I love my work, I love my life, and all that comes with it. 

I leave you this to read, to enjoy to ponder on, to love me more for, or to not lol.. at any rate.. just know that I am grateful for any and all who may read this :)

Wow I suck!

I haven't posted on here in quite sometime, how lame is that. Well things have been crazy, I keep getting sick from being around little kids at work lol. I finally started school! I'm currently reading two books. One is The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey and the other is Eat Pray Love. I love the Total Money Makeover it is a life savor!!!! Literally!! If you haven't gotten it or read it, do yourself, your family, and your spouse a favor and get the book! It has helped me open my eyes and make changes so drastically it is one of the best books I've actually taken the time to read. As for Eat Pray Love I am just getting started with that so I have no comments yet. I also have a collection of more books to read so that I can better myself. Plus I find it to be a fun recreation.

As for everything else in my life.. Well I joined the gym. Its paid off Ive lost 4 lbs and hopefully more this week. Ive been keeping up with friends, and like I said I started school. I am on this road to the new me and I am so loving it! By the way I have no idea how you post a pic to the blog just in case I ever want to lol... Maybe some one some day can tell me how lol. At any rate sorry to be brief but I have some reading to do. I will try to post something more informational, and fun to read soon!

Have a good day!

What a busy February

This month has been pretty crazy, if I do say so myself. I think I am finally getting this money thing situated, it feels so good to be paying off bills. I however have failed horribly at my goal to only eat out twice this month.. the Friday I had to go to work early and then valentines night of course! So its back to the grind of getting that on track, its just so hard when its so convenient and easy to just go through a drive through and pick something up or you just get that craving... but I just have to remember that its not good for me and to only use it as a treat every now and then.

So Valentines this year for me was amazing, more then it ever has been in the last well id say 10 years. Pretty sad huh? It was very pleasant. I started off the morning with Heart attacking the house with words I put onto hearts to express my love for the one I admire so much right now in my life. Followed by having his gift wrapped and neatly sitting on the couch where he sits at night. We just snuggled and laughed and talked before dinner, and it was just really pleasant. We left to go to dinner, and such a gentlemen he is he opened the door for me to the car, and on my seat was a little red bear dressed as a devil holding a heart that said love. Under the heart was a white and black box. In that box was a very pretty necklace the charm on it was a red heart and it had little horns and a tail. On the tail has a diamond.. cutest ever! Ill try to post pictures of it later!. As we were driving he put on a cd with love songs it was amazing. We went to Texas roadhouse for dinner..so yummy! For the first time we both tried Fried Pickles, which I know sounds odd but they were actually delicious.. definitely not something I would order all the time but an occasional treat is nice. Dinner was good and the rest of the evening was very relaxing!

I'm happy to say I have paid off a total of 3 Bills, with two more being paid off this coming weekend. :) That makes me so happy. They aren't really major but more of pains in the butt, but still excited to of gotten that far.

I managed for my three day weekend to get sick, and still feel like crap today. Hoping however that tomorrow I will feel somewhat better.

That's pretty much all that's new in my world... Sorry I've been slacking at this whole blog thing but hopefully it will pick up soon!

Today Marks an Amazing Day!!!

So I have been working on my weight since September of 2011. I vowed to myself that the 268 Lbs I weighed then would be a number I never wanted to see again. It has been a slow process. I have been trying to eat more at home, I have cut back on soda a ton, I for a while there incorporated a lot more water into my diet, but then I seemed to of sidetracked myself, I am now on a soda, kool-aid rotation with some flavored water mixed in every now and then. Eating at home has been such a blessing and I have managed to portion my food so well that it has been working for me. I used to use the program weight watchers and I have found that I was basically paying 18 dollars a month for them to basically tell me what was the right portion. Since I am good at eyeballing things I have been able to just do it on my own and saving that 18 dollars a month to spend towards something else.

I have also cut back on pastas, potatoes, and bread. Then again when you live in a state that is full of potatoes you tend to get tired of them anyway lol. Anyway, I used to eat some kind of pasta, potato, or bread with every meal, I also used to feel that you had to have Three different things on your plate. I used to have a meat, a carbohydrate, and a veggie. Now instead of having both carb, and Veg. I just have one or the other. Veggies to me aren't very feeling, and I found through weight watchers veggies and fruits were basically a plus item now so you could have more of the portion and it wouldn't hurt you. I like the new methods I have been using. I have incorporated basically veggies at almost every meal. On nights that it is carbs it tends to be either Wednesday night's hotdogs with mac and cheese, which i know isn't remotely healthy at all but tends to be a nice treat, or Chicken Alfredo, or Spaghetti. Very rarely do i make anything with potatoes, and I don't really keep bread in the house unless its one of those times where I have decided to make my Nonie's delicious rolls.

At anyrate that was a  long off tangent rant, my point that I am trying to make is I've made it to my goal of losing 25lbs so far. My first goal was to make it back to the weight I had weighed 4 years ago.. technically I made that goal 3 months early. I now weigh 243. I have lost inches off my waist, and I went from a size 24 jean to a size 20.  The 20's have even been pretty loose so it will be no surprise to me if I start to fit into my size 18 pants I have held in the closet for a while. My new goal is to lose another 20lbs. Im hoping I can accomplish this by the end of April.

I think if I really strict myself on the soda part and start drinking more water, as well as not eat out after valentines day this will be absolutely achievable. Im also going to be hitting the Wii Zumba a lot more. Im setting my self up for success and making my goal time frame further, but will be so ecstatic if I achieve this by my birthday.

Well that is really all that is on my mind today. I feel that this blog is very theraputic for getting my thought out and not having them in my head and my brain just constantly fumbling over it.. ah..

Well ciao for now. Happy Tuesday :)