Running milestone!

So this is a few days late... I'm going to change the post-date on this post so it is in chronological order...

But...

On Tuesday October 9th... I ran 2 miles straight!!!!!!! It's the first time I've ever been able to just run that long without taking a short walking break in the middle.

I've stalled out on my weight loss a little bit, but I'm still thrilled with what I was able to do. I'm at 153 lbs, so I'd still love to loose another 10-15 pounds, but I'll be fine loosing it slowly.

General Conference

This past weekend was LDS General Conference. It was a great weekend and I always love to hear the talks that are given. I came away feeling so much positive encouragement that I am doing okay, but I can do better. It was great to hear and I hope that I will be able to implement some new things in my life and my families life to help us to have the spirit in our home and make our home more of a haven for our family.

I also am reenergized to write in my journal each day. This blog is like a journal to me and sometimes I'm good at writing regularly, and other times I don't write as often as I should... so I'm rededicating myself to writing regularly, and printing out my entries to put in a journal.

It's me again

It's me again. Last week we completed moving around stuff in the house. The week before Alex moved into the previous office/playroom, and last week we got his room painted so Ashley could move into it. In Alyssa and Angela's room we took the bunk beds down and now Angela is on a twin size bed instead of her toddler bed. Ashley has her own room, and the toy room is now upstairs in our previous home theatre room. Rich boxed up all the electronics we had up there and will be selling them. He did get a new tv to go downstairs now since he was giving up his home theatre and we got that set up last week too.

Oh we also got a hole in the ceiling...lol! Rich was putting the ladder from the bunk beds up into the attic and lost his footing and put his foot through the ceiling below. That'll give him a little project to fix it sometime in the next few months. :)

Here are a few pictures:

Alex's New Room:





Ashley's New Room:








Alyssa and Angela's Room:





The new Toy Room: (it's not organized yet... :))






Rich's "hole" in the ceiling after he cleared the insulation out of the way so we could really see the damage:

You have to play this... it's too funny!

This is a hilarious little comedy routine about a mom's life... lol!

Happy Anniversary Honey!

It's been 10 years! Wow! So much has happened in those 10 years, but I love Rich even more today than I did 10 years ago. We are really going all out celebrating our anniversary today. Rich and I will celebrate it tonight by painting Ashley's room together... isn't that romantic?? lol! We figure our trip last year was a year early but it was our big anniversary trip. I know it sounds sappy and trite, but just spending time together is all I need.