We are home and glad to be here! :) We had a FANTASTIC trip to Colorado for Spring Break!! I will have to post the pictures we took while there later! Lots of sun, family, snow and outdoors! the girls had a wonderful time meeting part of the family they have never had a chance to meet and we all had a great time exploring the great outdoors of the Rocky Mountains! :) I will post more details later!!
So this is a short note to brag about my amazing husband! :)
Glen entered the "Biggest Loser" Contest at my work. It was 8 weeks long and he worked really hard to drop the weight! In 8 weeks he lost... are you ready for this...
35 POUNDS!!!!
Amazing huh!? He looks fantastic and he took 1st Place!!!
I am super proud of him and how hard he worked and is still working to take care of himself!
Way to go GLEN! :)
Riley: "Mommy, I know what I want to be when I grow up!"
Mommy: "Oh really what is that?!"
Riley: "A cowgirl!!"
Mommy: "Ok, why do you want to be a cowgirl?"
Riley: (very matter of fact) "because I can help horses!"
Mommy: "oh, well you know that you can be Veternarian and help all sorts of animals when they are sick or hurt."
Riley: "Can I still be a cowgirl and help horses!?"
Mommy: "yes Riley you can still be a cowgirl and help horses!"
Riley: "OK."
two days later....
Riley: "Mommy when I am a veternarian, can I wear high heels like you?"
Mommy: "yes, but you might want some boots for when you go outside to help the horses."
Riley: "But I want to wear high heels!" (very distraught)
Mommy: "well you can wear high heels inside, but if you have to go outside you might want some boots for walking in the dirt and mud and stuff!"
Riley: "But I can still wear high heels?"
Mommy: "Yes Riley, you can still wear high heels."
So starts the path of the high heel wearin' cowgirl veternarian!!
I just wanted to post a quick update on the happenings in our life right now! Glen will be graduating in May (May 9th to be exact!) and we are not sure where we are to go after that! We love Tulsa and have thoroughly enjoyed our time here! If there is anyway we get to stay here we would be thrilled! We were supposed to head to Texas for a job, but that has changed and we are not sure where we are supposed to go now. :) So we are on the hunt again! Or rather, Glen is on the hunt again! He is working so hard to provide a better future for our family, I am so grateful for him! :) So who knows where we will end up within the next 6 months!? :) I am sure it will be where Heavenly Father has the most need of us. He has truly guided and blessed our lives for the past 3 years of this adventure, I know he will continue to take care of us!
Aleis is really growing up fast. She is loving Achievement Days with Sister Pepple and Sister Stentzel! They are awesome leaders and really love those girls! :) Thanks you two for making it a fun experience for them!
Charissa is reading up a storm! She reads everything from road signs to trucks to chapter books now! She has started to take an interest in the Magic Treehouse series that Aleis loved to read in Kindergarten! We have been able to collect the whole series, so it should keep her busy for a while! :)
Riley is finally figuring out the whole "if you want people to be nice and play with you, then you have to be nice when you play with them" concept! She has a little friend that has really become her best friend at Daycare. Unfortunately that little friend is leaving the daycare this Friday! :( She is a little sad, but I am hoping having had this friend has taught her to play nicely with everyone!! We'll see next week! :) Her big sisters are teaching her to write and read! I will often find her and Charissa sitting in the chairs in their room next to the bookshelves with books in their laps. Charissa will be working with Riley on a word or the sounds letters make! It is really cute! :)
I am still serving with the Young Women at church and loving it! If we do end up leaving, that will be the hardest part for me... leaving such wonderful young women! We have an amazing group... ALL OF THEM! So any of you moms that read my blog, know that I love your girls and feel that I have learned so much more from them, then I have taught them! :) They are amazing, strong, smart and beautiful young women who will grow into even more amazing Women some day! I feel truly blessed for having had the oppurtunity to know each one of them! Thank you for sharing your girls with me!! :)
Ok, gonna start crying if I think about it anymore, so I am going to go now!! I have some funny Riley moments to post! :)
It's that time of year again! TAXES!!! :)
Some people may think I am one sick individual, but I actually enjoy doing them! I am certified and have access to some pretty neat software through a fantastic (former) employer! Anyone need help? Just give me a call! :)
YEAH for getting money out of Uncle Sam! :)
Ok, so I consider myself in pretty good shape. I exercise at least 3 days a week. I try to eat right. I take pretty good care of my body. I have not always been this way, but I realized after having 3 babies that I was not the same and I needed a change. I started taking some fitness classes here at TU during my lunch hour a couple days a week. Then on my off days, I am able to go to the gym and do a 30 minute workout on a machine or two. I have taken Cardio Kickboxing for the past year, so I thought for sure I could handle this BOOT CAMP that my kickboxing instructor was running. BOY WAS I WRONG!~! Today was the second day and I feel like someone has taken all my leg muscles and tied them in knots. When I go to take a step, my brain is saying "Ok leg muscles flex and move forward!" But my leg muscles have suddenly developed some mind of their own and say "HECK NO! We aren't doing anything!" So then I end up looking like some drunk woman walking around work! :) Hopefully having the weekend to stretch and walk it all out will help me feel normal again!! :)
I did hear a quote that is helping me get through the pain! :)
"Pain is weakness leaving your body!"
Man, I must be getting rid of a lot of weakness right now!!!!
