Why do kids need toys.

When there are tons of packing paper and boxes around. Oh and the stairs really do help.

Moving and Catch Up.

Pretty Mountain

wishing I was her sometimes




The pictures are all out of order but ohhhh well I'm tired. SOOOOOOO Emma turned 7 and the kids helped with the cake. The kids all had tons of fun on the swing around at Grandma's house. Miriam loves to play in and eat fall leaves. Peter turned 5 and I made my first fondant cake and it was horrible. It tasted good (that's what the kids say) but it looked bad. We had a tiny tree for christmas this year but Peter loved it. He didn't have to be lifted up to put the star on.

ANNNNDDDDD we made a huge change and moved to UTAH. We had been praying for a way for Jonathan to not have to go to Las Vegas anymore. We were talking and I said that the only way that would happen is that he sold an account in Las Vegas that required his company to have a rep. that lived there. So if he sold it he would be out of there. He said yeah but there is another way. He could get another job. I thought no way not in this economy. So it came time for him to go to Las Vegas to do a walk through at this particular account and that morning at another account he sprained his ankle pretty bad. But he went on to driving 7 hours to Las Vegas and the next morning walking on it for 8 hours and then driving back home. As he was there he was told of an job opportunity. It was with another company and it was in Utah. Jonathan decided around a year ago that he was going to work for this company. It's all he's wanted in a job. So he called me up and told me about it. I felt that it was the right thing for our family and he would get the job. He got the information he needed and as soon as he got home he sent off his resume. Then I looked at his ankle and it was horrible. I really thought it was broken. So through this trial of his foot getting really hurt we were given this great opportunity. After a lot of waiting and praying we got the job offer and made plans to move to snowy cold Utah. We are here and we really like it. It's an adjustment but we will do fine.

I really believe if you have faith and a positive outlook on life you will get what you want as long as it's good. If you think of all the horrible things that might happen to you they just might. I've decided that only good is going to happen and if it seems bad it's just prepping me for something great in the end.

SUPERBOY

Peter MAN

Benjamin's hair

When Benjamin was born he had little to no hair. As he got older his hair came in and it laid flat on his head unlike all my other kids whose hair stood straight up. After his first cut this is how it's been. He's now called fuzzy by countless people. I just KNOW that when he's a teen ager he's going to try and grow it out like an afro. BTW it won't lay down for anything.

Happy Birthday Jonny!!!!

I've been able to celebrate 10 birthday's with this wonderful man. It's his lucky day but I feel as if it's mine as well. Without him I wouldn't have all this. 5 Beautiful children, and a very caring husband. He is sure blessed to have all these children that adore him. Each one of them LOVE their daddy. Happy Birthday Jonathan I love you so much!!!!!!!

5 months of weight loss.

Has it really been that long. When I first started I was overwhelmed. I had a lot to lose. It's hard to be disciplined. I'm an emotional eater and I had to "deal" with my everyday small issues another way. So I got through it one week at a time. I've lost 51.8 lbs and I feel great. It's coming off slower but that's healthy. I have just 32.6 lbs to go and that's cake (although I won't eat it). I can see my self smaller and healthier the rest of my life and that makes me happy. OHHHHHH big deal here................. I got my size 8 pants out and tried them on just to measure how much I have to go.......... I got them up buttoned and zipped. They were TIGHT, but they were on. My ultimate goal is size 6 but oh man it's so close I can taste it.

KooKoonut milk.

Emma tried some coconut milk today. She didn't like it too much and called it kookoonut milk. Hahaha.

While the girls are at school

What do we do?

Take naps!

soooo cute!!

Have fun

Name parts of the face OVER and OVER and OVER.

Wear pants that are just too big

Stop her from eating every last crayon in the house. SHEEESH! haha

Silly Faces

Here are my silly children (except Emma, she doesn't make funny faces too often)

Peter took this picture

I'm blessed

Halloween!

Baby Cow

SuperBenji

Buzz

Fairy Butterfly Princess, and Cowgirl. (Lily always has to be multiple things)

I don't wanna be a cow

The whole gang

Gotta Love This Kid!

Oh how I love this big little guy. There are some times I wonder what he's thinking. Like when he runs into the street seconds away from getting hit by a car. TWICE. Not like I'm being a neglectful parent or anything. He's FAST. I've never been around a kid this fast. I've been around a lot of kids so that says A LOT.
There are times where he's calm (rarely). He's a huge snuggler. He's happy all the time. He keeps me on my toes.
Even though I'm close to pulling out all my hair sometimes. I LOVE this guy. Now who couldn't with that face. Oh and his first sentence was "to infinity and beyond!"

3 Months of Weight-loss.

I haven't done before and during pictures in a long time. So here you go.

First pic is from my birthday a year ago showing my starting weight.

Last pic is just to show how big Miriam has gotten in the last year.

This is a weight loss of 44.6 lbs.

Growing old together

We have this app on our phones that make you look old. HAHA

My BABY is ONE!!!

Here's my beautiful baby. How did she grow so fast. SIGH!!!!

Horrible Horrible blogger.

Yeah I know I've done a BAD job blogging but it seems as if I'm kinda busy. 5 kids, how can you not. So I'm just doing a small update here. Miriam is almost walking. She takes up to 7 steps at a time. The 3 older kids are starting school in 2 weeks. I may have more time to blog while they are in school. I'm running a 5 k in less than 2 weeks. I haven't been training all that much. I know I can run that far. Maybe not necessarily run but you know what I mean. I finally got my Metformin (med for my insulin resistance) up to the proper dosage. It makes me sick at first but after a few days I feel really good. It's going to help me take some of this weight off of me for good. I'm really excited to get healthy. I'm 7 weeks into my journey to becoming skinny fit. I've lost 28.2 lbs and I feel so much better. I had lost 40 lbs from Nov 2009 to Feb 2010, but I was losing my milk and had to stop dieting and working out because both of those things made my milk supply diminish. It's weird that working out was doing it too but it is what it is. So...... I gained it ALL back. It really stunk. I'm getting back to where I was and past that. Jonathan and I discussed what is a good healthy goal weight. I have a point where I KNOW I can get too. I've done it before, but not the right way. I just dieted and didn't work out. I LOOKED skinny, but I really wasn't. I still had too much fat on my body. I was skinny fat. I could have lost another 20 lbs and been just skinny with no muscle tone. So this time around I want to be at a weight that is maintainable but that I have a healthy body fat %. I have to get out of my head that being healthy and skinny isn't about a number on the scale. It's about what the package (body) looks like. So that means I have to workout along the way. I really dislike working out. It's something I struggle with. I can diet with no problems, but working out..... ugh. I guess these runs that I've signed up for will help with that.