So much "cooler"

Old and Busted.......

New Hottness!!

Well folks it was a sad day here on Wednesday. My little fridge gave up the ghost and died. I was devastated, how could I keep my sodas cold for my good paying customers!! I started doing some research online and was trying to decide what I was willing to spend and what I wanted to do. I came in to work on Thursday morning still contemplating my choices. Imagine my surprise to find a huge box wrapped up on my desk! My boss had bought this awesome fridge for me!! Let's just say she definetely gets free sodas for life!

Locked Up

My aunt Lori works out at the prison and every once in awhile they have a Corrections Week where the people that work out there can have their family come out for a tour. I was able to go a couple of years ago on my birthday and asked if Matt and I could go this year. So we spent last Saturday in prison!



It's quite an interesting experience for sure. We started out with a tour of the maximum security and death row cells. These guys are locked down for 23 hours a day and their "yard" is a concrete box outside. This definetely is not the kind of life I'd like to live. Then we went to the execution chamber and saw the table where they do the lethal injections and also saw the set up for the firing squad.



Next we went out to one of the other buildings were the prison looked more like what you see on the tv shows. Four stories of nothing but cell doors. That experience was pretty intimidating and the prisoners were less than 5 feet away and of course they were acting up because they felt like they were on display.

All in all it was a very fun day, that ended with a demonstration of the SWAT team's dog. Those dogs are amazing!!

Smash Mouth, Sunday School and Success

Matt and I have the lovely job of teaching the 11-12 year old boys in our ward. There are 8 of them and needless to say they can be quite the handful. We've had to crack down lately and they've been much better. I don't know what happened last week though. One of our most well behaved boys who always knows the answers and sits quietly snapped. He raised his hand and when I called on him, he said "My worlds on fire, how bout yours, that's the way I like it and I never get bored!" Of course the entire class erupted and I couldn't help but start laughing. The poor kid was laughing so hard that he face went red and then purple. I'm not sure if we ever regained control after that.

And now for the success part. Matt and I have gone and received our free gym memberships from his work!! And I've even worked out twice this week! It feels good to be going back and to be working out. I can't wait till I start seeing results again, hopefully with this week's weigh in, i'll be able to move my little scale in the right direction!

Weight Loss

Both Matt and I maintained this week, but I thought I'd at least post a little note to let everyone know that I am not dodging my updating responsibility. There just isn't any progress this week :(

The good news is that both Matt and I now are signed up for this program with his work where we have access to several gyms for free. Our plan is to go try it out tonight. Wish us luck!

When life hands you lemons......

Open a lemonade stand. And that's what I did. Well sort of.........

I started working here at Headwaters just about 4 years ago. This whole time we have had the wonderful perk of having a fountain machine with free soda. Imagine my dismay and horror when they decided to discontinue the benefit. I spent several days sulking and paying way too much for my soda (anything more than free is too much). And then I came up with a brillant idea. I could open my own soda shoppe! So I did and business is booming. I've been open for a little over a week and have been averaging sales of 5 cans of soda a day. With the profit I am making, I am again able to drink my soda for free.

However it has created another dilemna.....Matt is quite concerned that I have started depleting our stash of soda in our basement. What are we going to do if there is an emergency??? Don't worry honey, I'll buy some more soda, so you can have your 72 hour kit full of soda.

Ok so it's been awhile since I updated our weight trackers. It may or may not be due to the fact that we are struggling in that area and the scale has moved in the wrong direction :( It's a new day and we're still trying.

Weekly Weigh In

So today I was asked the question, "if I gained weight, would I still post it on here?" The answer to that question is yes. That's the whole reason that I decided to put it on here, to help me be accountable for where I am at. Besides no one wants to tell somebody they are gaining weight, so that's a great motivation for me.

Anyways the walking to the church thing didn't turn out so well, apparently I can't do anything after 9pm. All but 2 nights last week I either fell asleep or was so too cranky to go with Matt for the walk. I think those of you that know me best know the mood I am talking about, and well it's not pretty. I'm very proud of Matt though he walked over there every night even though I was being a bum.

I'm very happy to report that the # on the scale went down for both of us!! Weight loss trackers have been updated :)