Blue Team

Megan, Mandi, Mom, Me, Emily

We went to our first weigh in yesterday and have now started out Farewell to Fat program. I think it will be really fun. We get to have 4 personal training sessions and 2 trainings with a nutritionist. (who is the same person, by the way) That's ok though. We got our bandana's yesterday and we're apparently the Blue Team for lack of a better name. I suggested the Blue Blobs, but no one went for that one. ???  Oh well, I thought you would all enjoy our way cheesy picture. 

Farewell 2 Fat

Gotta start packing on the pounds before Thursday!

I am starting an 8 week program at the at the Clearfield Aquatic Center called Farewell 2 Fat. It is kind of like the biggest loser. During the 8 weeks, you have a personal trainer and a nutritionist. Each week the nutritionist gives you a different nutritional goal like cutting all sugars out for the week, or cutting all soda out for the week. Everyone is on a team of 5 and you workout with the trainers and weigh in each week together. Then at the end of the 8 weeks, whichever team has lost the most percentage of weight wins. I am way excited to do it. Not so much for the weight loss, but I think it will help me be more healthy and motivated. And hopefully get me through the holidays without wanting to eat everything!!
Our team is me, Emily, Mandi, Mom and Megan. Our first weigh in is on Wednesday, where they take all your measurements, give you t-shirts, team bandanas and take team pictures. I know it sounds kind of corny, but I think it will be so much fun. There are a ton of girls in my ward and neighborhood that have done it every year and they say it is awesome. So we'll see. I'll have to post my teams picture after we weigh in on Wednesday. Wish me luck!!

Sod Saturday

This is what it looked like in the beginning. 

Spencer working hard

I know that it looks like I didn't help at all, but I totally did. 

Ryan and Spencer

The finished product: I am so proud of our new grass!!

This morning Spencer and I woke up with plans to prep the back corner of our yard, so we could put sod down sometime soon. It supposedly used to be a "garden," for the people who used to live here, but I'm not sure they ever used it for that. We just figured we could sod it and make our yard bigger. It was about 400 square feet of nothing but trash and dirt. 

Then Ryan (Spencer's brother) called this morning saying that someone in their ward had a ton of extra sod they needed to get rid of. We had to first get all the weeds out, rodatill it, and level it out with a few loads of dirt, but we got it done and we were able to buy the sod for a way good deal. Amazingly enough, it worked out that we had just enough sod to cover the back corner. I thought this little project was going to take about 3-4 Saturdays and we're done! Yay!! Thanks so much for all your help Ryan and for thinking of us. 

Utah State Fair

Yesterday Spencer and I made our yearly trip to the state fair. It was awesome- I love hangin' out with all the carnies. I feel like I can act however I want and no one is going to judge me. We started out by Spencer getting a foot long hotdog and me getting a giant bag of kettle corn on our way to the rodeo. Then we went to the Freakshow, where we saw a cow with two noses and a cow with 6 legs. They were just sitting there minding their own business while everyone pointed and stared. I kinda felt bad for them. Then there was this girl called the human tripod, she only had one leg and it was about a foot long. She was doing all sorts of tripod tricks to show off her freakiness. It was really awkward actually. Then we saw the animals, got cotton candy and corn, always a must, and watched the hypnotist. We had a way fun night at the fair.  I absolutely love everything about the fair: the food, the people, the rides (I sadly missed the zipper this year), and I love all the decked out cowgirls walking around. It was awesome. 

Midnight Sun Postponed Indefinitely

I have really sad news about Midnight Sun. For those of you who don't know anything about this book, I'll give you some background info. Midnight Sun is the next book Stephenie Meyer has been working on. It is the Twilight story, but written through Edward's perspective. She has been working on it for a while now and is about half way done. She has the first 11 chapters done. (almost 300 pages!!) Somehow one of the copies of her rough draft got into the wrong hands and got posted on the internet. Her website tells all about it and how she feels violated and very disappointed. She says that she has a good idea of who did it because there are only a few drafts around. Because this has happened she is going to put it on hold until she isn't so angry. I think that is so sad that someone would do this. At first she asked that her readers don't try to find and read her draft online because it is very rough and could ruin the final draft in the end, but then she decided to just post it. So you can read the first 300 pages on her website. Honestly, I haven't read it yet, and can't decide if I will or not. What do you think??

Amusement Park Fun

Wicked is by far our favorite ride

We have been doing lots of fun stuff together and we haven't been taking any pictures, but I decided I could still post something. We have been busy with our jobs and such, so on the weekends we have been trying to do some fun stuff. We went to Cherry Hill (after 4:30) it's way cheaper, and then we also went to Lagoon-a-beach/Lagoon.  We had all our favorite foods like churros, corndogs, chicken finger, and icees.  We went on all the body slides and got plenty of wedgies. Yahoo!!!

Happy 20th Birthday

Today is Dan's real birthday, so I thought I should post a real happy birthday post.  We love you Dan! Keep working hard- we know you are!! Don't worry, we even sang "Happy Birthday" to you and had raspberry ice cream in your honor- LOVE YOU!!