The World Series

 

 

 

Claire just had to make sure she was here for the Giants to sweep the World Series!
She even made sure to arrive on a night when there wasn't a Giants game. Though she made sure I missed the BYU - Utah State game, and all of general conference since the hospital didn't have BYUTV.

Black Friday!

Not the greatest picture in the world, but this is Claire before our Black Friday shopping. I wasn't too crazy though, we went out at 10 am and were home by 2, but we got all the deals we went out for!

Cold Turkey

Today I took one of my friends approach to potty training and we went cold turkey.

Together we threw away what was left of the diapers and the pull ups and had potty time pretty much all day.

And now I feel like a cheerleader after the biggest game of the year. All day long I have been jumping and running and reassuring, and cheering, and being all out crazy about the potty.

The final score,

Potty:12
Floor/Panties:4

Hopefully tomorrow's rematch will not be such a close one.

*The photo is totally unrelated, I just hadn't posted one in a while... like since my last post 6 months ago...

The Smile

Getting Inspired

Lately I have been kind of uninspired. I didn't even pick up my camera for nearly 3 weeks, and when I did I just used it to get new shots of the YW at church.

Anyhow, we were outside playing the other day and I decided to snap a few shots. The second one is out of focus, but I love her expression, and the top one she was getting up from falling down on purpose, which is one of her favorite running around games.

Fall Fun

A couple weeks back it was super windy but Callie wanted to go play outside, so out we went. She loved the wind. Whenever a big gust would come she would start running around yelling. It was hilarious. So I grabbed the camera and captured a few of my new favorite shots.

It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

For the last 28 months (note Callie is only 21 months old), Callie has been the proud owner of at least 2 BYU shirts.

So to make things a little more even and to celebrate unity among the MWC, I made Callie a Utah shirt. This is a gift to celebrate the start of college football TONIGHT!!!

Don't worry for the BYU-Utah game, we plan on a compromise and she can support our high school by sporting some purple.

Until then, GO DEEP and GO MWC!!!

Mother Nature's Diet

It turns out that after last weeks fretting over what to eat and how much to exercise, Mother Nature had another plan for my weight loss goals.

All it took was 2.5 days of stomach flu, and I am nearly at my goal weight. I don't recommend the method, but it if you would like to try it come on over and we might be able to find you some germy love to take home and share with your friends and family.

The Cost To Be Thin

The last 5 days or so, Jeff and I have been doing the South Beach Diet. It is a diet that my doctor recommended when I was trying to get pregnant with Callie, so since we would like to have another baby, I decided to make the diet a first defense instead of the last resort.

The basic concept of the diet is that in the first two weeks you eat no bread, no fruit and limited dairy. You have to eat protein with every meal (and snacks too), and at least a 1/2 cup of veggies with breakfast, 2 cups with lunch and 2 with dinner.

I am pleased to report that after 5 days, Jeff and I have each lost about 5 lbs. Yep, it feels good! I would love to keep losing weight this quickly, and when I have just finished a "no sugar added" fudgesicle I think it is possible. Then I look at what I have left to cook for dinner... not too much. Then I think about I will have the pleasure of eating for breakfast tomorrow--eggs (bleh), while I serve Callie my favorite, cereal. Then I see recipes like this, and I want nothing more than to be a glutton.

Since Monday I have spent about twice as much $$ on groceries as normal, and we are running out of approved food. My time spent in the kitchen has about quadrupled, and Jeff's has increased infinitely (as he has COOKED his own breakfast two days in a row).

Can you infer where I'm going with this.

I am wimping out. I have lots of excuses. And they are all good ones. I want to be thin, but I think I gotta find a new way.

Once Upon A Time...

I had a little blog that I posted to every once in a while. Then my computer got a sad, sad virus. And when ever I would try to blog I would get sad because my pictures were all on discs, far away from my hard drive.

But now our computer has been reprogrammed and one day I will have it set up the way I like once again. Until then, I give you a couple pictures from our vacation. Which may or may not be where I left off when the computer fell victim to the horrible packed.200.generic virus...