New Year's Resolutions.... UPdate.

I have to say that I am just a little bit proud of myself...  I have never really followed through with resolutions much, mostly because I think I was too vague or unrealistic in what I set.  This year, I posted about what my resolutions were going to be, I just went back and read them and I was very pleasantly surprised.  I have succeeded in all but one of them.  And it's only April!  Wahoo!

I have been going to church in our new ward, which I love because it is a lot of young people with kids.  There are so many kids in the nursery, they have 4-5 adults in there at a time to help out and they put name tags on the kids so they can remember them all.  HAHA  I even went to a relief society dinner last night and got to know some of the other new people in the ward.  I was hesitant to go, I really am not a social butterfly in any form, but it was a lot of fun.  We have even went and talked to the bishop about going to the temple and we started paying tithing!!

I finished reading the Book of Mormon!!  I have done this before, but it was when I was either in seminary or when I was in New Jersey 17 years ago.  I plan on starting over and also adding in some Bible since our Sunday school is doing the Old Testament.   So.... wish me luck with that!

I have been doing a lot better at keeping the blog updated, either with pictures or just with stuff we have been doing.  Compared to last year, I have done great.  Now I just have to keep it up.

The hubby and I have had a date every month so far.  I would like to make this more often, just have to find a babysitter and have him in town on a regular basis and at a normal hour.

Keeping the house decluttered and more organized...  This one depends on who you talk to.  It still is not good enough for Jeff, and I doubt I ever will be.  I think I have been doing better.  There has only been twice in 4 months that I have not put the laundry away as it gets done, and that is something I hate doing.  I have been making my bed, keeping the kitchen and bathrooms wiped down, and toys put away mostly every night.  Of course, there have been lazy days (or painful days, whichever way you look at it) but on the whole, I have been doing well.

The budget... HHHMMMM...  This is still an issue, but not like it was before.  I have bought some stuff online and spent money on getting Jeff and I some church clothes and had to fix my car a couple times so we have gone off budget quite a bit, but we have not gone into debt to do it and we have paid for everything not on credit or anything like that.  Which leads to...

Putting money in savings accounts...  At the moment all three accounts have money in them.  Not as much as I would like, but at least they have some.  Really going to work on this one.

Getting healthier is one of the things that I spent money on.  I went around and around on which diet to try...  I really wanted to do the HCG one, I think it would really work for me.  Once I got the paperwork, I read that I could only have 1 TBSP of milk a DAY!!!  That totally does not work for me AT ALL!  I drink milk a lot and I love it.  I could handle the 500-900 calories a day diet, that is not a problem at all, but I have to have milk, so I know I would fail at that diet, so I didn't start it.  I decided to try Herbalife.  I have a friend that is on it and he has done awesome, so it was my second choice.  So far it has been two weeks and I have lost approximately 10 lbs (I didn't buy a scale until part way into it) and dropped a pants size.  I am pretty excited about that and I feel great.  I have been exercising more and going on walks with my boys.  I haven't had the energy to do that in a LONG time.  I don't really see a difference yet, but I know my pants fit a lot different, in a good way!

Paying off my car will take a while...  So I guess making payments on it and adding a little to the minimum each month will have to count as progress. 

So, there is the quarterly update... haha...  I really feel like I did well at making goals that I could keep up with and see progress on.  Sorry this was so long and boring, and if you made it this far, thanks for reading it.  

Capt. Unnaware....

So Connor has this thing about putting pants and underwear on his head and thinking it is funny.  He runs around being proud of his headware, laughing and showing off.  That is what he was doing until I pointed my phone at him and it clicked.  That is when I got the glare!!  I think it is mostly the waistband squishing his poor little forehead, but apparently, he didn't think it was funny that I took his picture.  I think it is quite hilarious and it has kept me laughing all day. 

Easter 2010

Last year we went to the Easter Egg hunt that they do at the Vernal ballpark.  It was AWFUL!!  I could not believe how people behave.  This thing is supposed to be for kids, but the parents were dragging the poor children, their coats flapping behind them, as they themselves were grabbing and snatching the eggs and candy even if it meant stealing it right out of the hands of someone else.  I vowed to never go back.  This year, we went to the one in Naples instead.  It was so much better!  They had so much candy strewn on the lawn and they had large areas for each age group.  They also had bigger prizes on each area as well.  People started from all four sides, instead of being all scrunched together like cattle.  Brenan was being his normal anti-social self and decided he would rather lean up against a tree by himself than join in the fun, so there are no pictures of him.  Connor caught on pretty quick after I showed him that it was not trash all over the lawn, but he did look at me funny with the first few pieces he picked up.  It was like he could not figure out why he was doing this with my encouragement, when usually he gets told to NOT pick stuff up off the ground.  Even though there were quite a few people there, and the parents were helping, most people went for the middle where the bigger stuff was and left Connor to his own devices on the edge to pick up candy at his leisure.  I picked up a handful for Brenan so he had at least a little bit and tried to get him to come back out to the egg hunt with me, but he stayed by his tree.  When all the candy was picked up, Connor was so proud of his little basket of treats!  It was so cute!  Brenan was upset because he only got a little bit compared to what Connor got, but I told him if he wanted the rewards, he had to do it himself.  He said if I took him to the other one in town, he would do it there....  Despite the experience of last year, I agreed to take him up there.  We got to the ballpark and there weren't that many people there yet.  They had a little area for 0-3, but when I parked, Brenan insisted he was staying in the car.  I took Connor over to the truck that was handing out bags of candy, got one for Brenan as well, and then went to stand by the egghunt area.  If I would have paid more attention and realized that all that was on the lawn was real eggs, I would have just left.  When it started, the lady in charge (at least she was the one with the megaphone) said that each spot had 2 plastic eggs with writing on them, and if you got one of those you got a prize.  Everyone else just left with a bunch of eggs that had been cooked and colored who knows how long before hand...  We had gotten there early and were in the front until about 10 seconds before it started, then we had about 8 people come crowd in front of us.  Guess they felt they were more special.  They said "GO" and you would have thought those eggs were made of GOLD!  It was even worse than last year.  I almost had to punch a lady in the face when she bent over and hit Connor in the face with her butt and knocked him over.  I was hanging on to his hand so he didn't actually fall all the way down, but I was FUMING!  I picked him up by both hands and RAN to the middle of the lawn where no one had made it to yet.  I put him down and showed him the eggs.  He got 3 before he was manhandled and pushed around by all the parents trying to get their kids more than anyone else had.  There were a few other parents that I heard make comments about how ridiculous it was and I have thought seriously about planning MY OWN Easter egg hunt and having RULES!!!   I know I pissed one guy off pretty good, because his kid was after the same egg as Connor, but Connor was closer, and when the other kid (who was NOT 0-3) tried to snatch it out of his hand, he saw me standing there and I said "yeah, try it"....  needless to say, Connor got that one.  The dad was not happy and was glaring and saying how "chickens**t" it was, but I was just in the mood for him to start something, I would have enjoyed beating the living daylights out of him!