Go Me!!

Ok so I know you probably don't need a reminder or maybe just dont want one but this is me before and me 82 lbs later. WOW!


Ok so I have to brag one more time before I get fat again. Over thanksgiving I got the flu and I was horrible but at the same time it was wonderful. I lost about 4 lbs over the holiday so I was ok with that. So I am proud to say that I finally weigh in the 130s!!!! I think I weighed that much in 8th grade and never again until now! I weigh about 30 lbs less than when I got married. I'm in shock!! Really, I cant believe it. I went from an XL kinda tight to a Small and it feels so so so good. I dont know if i should say this but I am so proud of myself!! Woohooo!!

Happy Birthday Kylee!!

Kylee just turned 4!! We had a little Tinkerbell Party. A few friends came and they played some games. Kylee enjoyed every second of it. She just thinks she is so big. She really is such a big helper usually and she loves all the girly things like fingernail polish and lip gloss and dresses and the list goes on and on. We love every bit of her.

We did cupcakes for the friend party and then I did this Tinkerbell cake for the family party. Heath did the eyes and the lips and we were in a big hurry at the end so I'd say it turned out pretty good. Thanks to Amber for the tinfoil and some powdered sugar!!

Kylees loves loves to take pictures so we decided to get a fun kid friendly camera. It was perfect for her,(and the other kids.)

Heaths Grand Idea

Heath decided to join the rest of the world and make a blog. It will be from both of us but hes the one that has done everything on it so far. I'm not sure I like it cause well if you visit it you will see why. Anyway you should check it out. Its about our weight loss journeys. Its www.weweresofat.blogspot.com Im a little embarrassed but oh well.

Week 2 in AZ

WOW! This week has flown by I can't believe it. We had tons a fun! Saturday my dad offered to watch the kids while they were napping so we could get a few things done. We were only planning to be gone for about 3 hours or so. If you know my mom and me we cant only go shopping for 3 hrs. duh dad!! We left at about one and didnt get home until 9:00 pm haha. ooopps!! My dad, well let's just say I dont know if he will offer to watch them anymore. Haha. I got a new phone but the guy wouldnt sell it to me unless I got insurance on it. For those of you who dont know how bad I am with phones, I have used about 4 differant phones in the last year, and have to get a new camera. Ya, I suck.

Oh I went to WW and I was so excited I lost .6!! Thats good for being here. We are always going to lunch and have at least one or two treats a day. Well see how I do tomorrow!

Sunday the kids were so excited to go to church and they went to their classes so good.Kylee gets to lead the music in Primary on Sunday and I am going to sub for her teacher. After dinner I decided i would hold Anders down so my mom could squeeze his face and he didnt like very much so he kicked me on my back. I pretty much couldnt move after. I thought maybe he hurt my kidney so I went to the Dr. and he just told me it was a soft tissue injury and to RICE it. It sucks cause I havent been able to go to the gym. I now know, I NEED the gym! For my on sanity.

Kylee gave the FHE lesson on Monday night. She is so cute, she did her little talk she gave in church awhile back and then Kaleb had to do it too. It feels so good when they want to learn and do good instead of fight fight fight. Then my dad pulled out the old book he used to read poems from to me when I was little and read to us. I was so touching to see my dad have so much joy in being able to do that and the kids loving every minute of it, especially "Little Orphan Annie," that was my favorite growing up.

Im getting alot of scrapbooking done I have done 25 pgs or so. It nice to be here because I can just leave all my stuff out and when the kids are napping or playing nice I can just go in the other room and start where I left off. I definitely need a craft room.

We have been having tons of fun but the kids like to mess and we are missing daddy quite a bit now. The kids talk about him a few times a day. We love you daddy.

AZ, Week 1

So I am in AZ staying with my mom for about 5 or 6 weeks. I've been here for about a week and we started off the week by swimming, shopping, and some scrapbooking. I dont have pictures to post because our camera got ruined when we went to lake a couple months ago.

Ryan (my brother) was here and he was obsessed with scorpions, we had about 6 of them in little containers, they were eating each other, it was rather discusting. He also took some really cool pictures of them with a black light. It makes them turn green and glow. It was pretty cool.

Kylee was showing ryan her purse and everything she had in it. He said, "I have a purse, do you want to see whats in my purse? I have lots of purses!!" Kylees thought he was being silly but when Ryan brought his "purse" in she was so interested. He started getting things out and telling Kylee, Kaleb and Kortnee all about his stuff. He pulled out the camera and started shooting. Kylee wanted to try so he helped her take a few pictures and then she went around taking pictures of everyone. We looked at them after and I must say she did a pretting good job with a few heads cut off. I thinks she will end up being our little photographer. Its was so funny to watch Kaleb try to take the pictures. It was a camera you have to look through the eye hole but Kaleb would put his nose on it and Ryan was getting flustered trying to show him. We were laughing so hard, he was so cute!

Kaleb hurt himself so I was loving him better and Kortnee grabbed a statue my mom had sitting there, I said oh no Kortnee and she threw it and well my mom has tile in most of her house and it broke, well shattered. Oops!!

Last night me and Jamie (my sister) went and played softball with the stake and we were first up to bat and she got on base and then it was my turn I had 2 strikes and 2 balls, I was getting nervous and the next pitch came and I wacked that ball clear out there and I got a HOMERUN! I was so proud. That was the only points our team got the whole game but we had a blast!

We went to Weight Watchers on Saturday and I had gained about 3 lbs. So I am working on losing that plus more while Im here. I got a free 7 day pass at 24 Hour Fitness last night, who knows what I will do after that.

Yellowstone!

Ryan Ben Mom & Me

Me and my cute teddy bear of a dad. Love you dad!

If you can't tell I'm a little frazzled, the kids and I went to Yellowstone without Heath. It was hard without him but my mom was willing to help. Everyone was willing to help witch made it a lot easier.

My mom & me

These falls were amazing! We had a long 3 days of driving in Yellowstone! It was fun but I probably won't go back for a long while or at least wait until I don't have babies. While we were there Kaleb got sick and then Kylee got it and then a few days later Kortnee got it. I got sick about 2 weeks later as they were getting better so now I think its taking another round. O Brother. oh well.

yea me!!

I finally did it! I reached my WW goal. I am proud to say that it has taken me 8 months and I have lost 56.6 lbs with weight watchers. I have lost 71.6 total. I have also converted two of my siblings to Weight Watchers well three if you count my brothers wife. I am so excited to for them to start their weight loss journey. It is amazing what 70 lbs. can do to a person. I literally feel like a new Woman and a better mom and a way better wife. I am so much more willing to get my butt out of the chair or couch or out of bed to help my kids or play with them or make dinner or clean the house or whatever. The list could really go on forever. Maybe Ill keep going for a sec, I can run a mile well at least 2 without stopping, I can tie my shoe without being out of breath and I feel like I could talk to whoever and when ever. Don't get me wrong I will still get nervous in front of a big crowd so I haven't changed that much but I am way more confident.
Well I got brave and decided to post my before and after picture. Thanks to Rebekah who put the pressure on.
Now brace yourself, don't laugh either! These are BEFORE pictures and my baby was a good two months or more so no it's NOT because I JUST had a baby. No excuses, please.

Ok, so you can laugh, Heath and I about died laughing at these pictures. Heath says he doesn't remember me like this. So I'm sure he has just blocked these images, poor guy had to look at this every day and night. I'm surprised he can still see! I just can't believe I was this big! Yikes!!


These are the AFTER pictures. What a HUGE difference! Even if I do say so myself.
I went down 5 or 10 sizes however you want to look at it!


WOW!!

SuMmeR FuN!!

Kylee was the most daring, she was soaking wet, she loved it!

Kortnee would scream every time the sprinkler would get her it was so funny to watch her so mad. She has such an attitude!!

Kaleb saying the sun is too bright!

We got this snake sprinkler thing. We set it up it the backyard it was fun for the kids, it just whips the water all over.

Kalebs a Big Boy Now!!

I'm so excited!! Kaleb is potty trained finally! He's really only 2 yrs. and 3 mo. but when you've had two in diapers for 2 years it seems like forever. It was so easy too. I put him on the toilet and he was fussing but I just held him there and he finally went. He was so excited and he just wanted to wear his big boy undies. He has had a few accidents but not too many.
I have such a good boy. He's getting so big and loves his sisters. He is so funny and always is trying to make us laugh. I love him so much!!

What a Day!

Kaleb had a trigger finger but it was his thumb. It wasn't able to go straight most of the time. We decided to get it fixed so he could use it better.

Waiting for the surgery. We had to be there at 8:00 and we were home by 10:00 so it wasn't to bad.


Kaleb waking up from the anesthesia. Poor kid all he wanted was the bandage off until he woke up all the way and then he was fine. What a good little boy.

We had been home for about 5 minutes when Kylee was trying to put a movie away standing on the kiddie chair. It flipped out from under her and she fell. She was complaining that her knee hurt and so I was holding her and when I set her down I saw her shirt was all bloody. So I thought O Great! I looked and looked all over her head and finally found the gash in her head. I headed to the Hospital but ended up at the Doctors office to get stitches. She only got 3 stitches so it wasn't to awfully bad. The rest of the day they were running around acting crazy (the norm).

My Baby is 1?!

The Birthday Girl!


We had a yummy barbque with the family and friends.

We taught Kortnee how to blow out the candles but when it came time she froze. I made this little lady bug cake, what a fun project.

She did not want to put her hand in the cake but I helped her and made her tasted it. She would scream until I got it in her mouth and then she would like it. It was so funny to see her get so mad one second and then love it the next.

The next morning my Mom, Dad, Meredith, and Anders showed up from AZ. Benny boo and Julene came from ID. They surprised the heck out of me, I was in shocked and confused when I opened my front door and they were all standing there. It was so fun to have some company over the weekend, even if there was nothing to do.

Shake It!

Kylee was so excited for her first Ballet class and the teacher didn't show up. Kylee and Maylee were so sad so Marcie (another teacher) offered to teach them a couple dances. Here is the one that we couldn't get enough of!

Funny Kids

Just a quick peek.
Kaleb always says I wanna show mom!, after we put his hat on.

Kylee likes to copy Kaleb

This is Kortnees new thing she likes to do. shes so silly

oh man! thats all i have to say

Kaleb would not get out of the truck for nap time. he still got a nap.

Gramma brings my kids stuff even when we don't see her she sent these cute shirts with Jamie when she came to visit. Aren't they so cute!

Happy Birthday Kaleb!

The Birthday Boy is 2!! 2/24/07

He had been waiting to blow the candles out and finally he got to...

again and again and again! Heath kept relighting the candles. He'd rather blow out the candles than eat the cake!

He got to open lots of presents and loved them all!

He really loves Mickey Mouse right now.

This is Kalebs little freind Will. They love to play together.
Wow! I cant believe how fast the time has flown by. I can't believe he is already 2. Kaleb is such a funny little boy. He is alway trying to make us laugh. He is loves to run and play and hit. Pretty much he is all boy rough and tough and thinks he is so funny!! ha ha

Happy Valentines Day!!

Grandma Bell made us some very yummy cookies!

This is what Grandma Jones sent for V-Day! They loved it and we loved the chocolates! yum! thanks mom

Happy Valentines Day!!


Feb 7 We celebrated Heaths and his dads Birthday

Family Pictures!

This is the Dean & Susan Bell family







We just got family pictures taken, well tried anyway. Kylee usually loves her picture taken but today was just not her day. yet...



What a day!



By the end she had a permasmile. What a stinker!



Our funny little Kaleb.



All in all I must say the pictures did turn out pretty good! Thanks Jess for taking them!