Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Quick Reflection

Disney World Pictures from Thanksgiving 2009 Trip!

So my mom posted something on her facebook last night and it made me start thinking. She was talking about how much she loves life and how your life can be as GREAT as you make it! She has a point here. She also mentioned that you are the one to decide how your life will be. This is very true. So, as I was running last night on the treadmill, I was thinking about what she said. Here is what I took from it...

Your happiness is not measured by how much weight you lose or how much debt you pay off, how much money you make or the size house you live in. It doesn't make you happier if you drive a fancy new car or have top notch decorations in your home... happiness is so much deeper and simpler than all that! I didn't lose weight and all of a sudden realize I was happy... it was a process. I had to look at all the things that made me happy and work from there. For example... I have a wonderful family, 3 healthy children and an awesome husband! I started there and worked around that. I want to be healthy so I can teach my children how to be healthy too, I want to live as long as I can so I can watch my children grow up and become adults! I want to have a life with my husband AFTER he retires like I do now! I don't want to get the kids off to college and realize we can't do all the things we planned because we are too out of shape or have too much debt and not enough income! So, I MADE A CHANGE! I am a very happy person, my life rocks, however, that doesn't mean that everything goes perfect all the time... because it doesn't! Life is a roller coaster, you have to learn to take the bad with the good. The journey is way more fun than the end result!

I hope that all of you will take the plunge too, it's sooo much fun! JUST LIVE!!!

Monday, January 4, 2010

Weight Check after Christmas!

A picture of Carson and I on Christmas Eve... he was so tired!!!

Well... I weighed in and after Christmas and New Years and 10 days away from home... I'm now 120 pounds!!!

I'm so excited, because I haven't been this small since I started college! The best thing is I'm losing weight now by being athletic, which is totally different! I feel GREAT and my tummy is shrinking! YAY!
I'm going to put some before and afters on here of my husband too... his transformation is amazing! Stay tuned... kids go back to school tomorrow so I'll have a little more free time to write on here!

Saturday, January 2, 2010

Out of town for 10 DAYS!!! HOME!

Well, I did it... I survived Christmas and New Years without eating everything in sight!!! Usually the holidays are pretty rough, because all the goodies just sitting out asking for you to eat them, but I resisted! I stopped myself from eating a hundred smores, but I did have ONE last night and it was sooo yummy! Probably better since I held off so long! Anyway, I have not weighed myself yet to see what change I have in 10 days! I've been eating well and running so we will see find out...


On the financial front... everything is looking well. We have been paying off our debt with the Dave Ramsey snow ball. We made a payment on the 31st to put our current credit card balance under $2000! It may not sound like a big deal, but we have managed to pay off more than $14,000 just like this since March 1st. I need to get busy listing some more things on ebay now that the holiday are past and life is slowing back to normal.