pumpkin fun

Here are some pumkin pictures we took of the girls and Ben carving pumpkins
i was the photographer so that is what i did and that worked out for me. Michelle
is now making roasted pumpkin seeds as she loves them but only the ones you roast
yourself as she said the others do not taste too good.
The girls are having a halloween party friday so will post more pictures from that too.
I will try to get back into blogging seems I have been busy and just not motivated to
do it but i do enjoy doing it so will try to get back into it. These pictures are not really how
I want them on there but dont want to mess with them at the moment and you get the picture
of what i want shown.

just some thoughts and other things

I have been surfing for things to cut and found this and wanted to share this.

Body Measures – dress size, waist, hips, neck, arms, fitting into favorite clothes

Performance – more endurance during exercise, doing them at a higher level, jumping higher, walking longer, running faster, playing a sport better

General Feeling – rate energy level, rate attitude and outlook, track how often you feel very sleepy during the day, rate your confidence level

Health – blood pressure, cholesterol level, blood sugar level

Intangibles – how you look, compliments you receive, how others respond to you


just also wanted to put on here how at times you are going through life just all good and content and then something happens and you have to look and see why those things happen. My dad has been in the hospital out of the hospital and then had a biopsy and the test for that came back cancerous. What does this all mean i am not so sure as he does not have the full report yet. In the meantime I have been calling him more to see how he is doing and we have had some talks about both of our health. I am doing so much better since losing the weight but there are things that are just hereditary that may be out of my control so we have discussed those and he wants me to keep an eye on those things. Maybe this trial was a way to wake me up to talk more with my dad and to let him know how much he means to me or to see what may be in the future for me. I do not know but I do know that I can not go back to how i was. seems lately that stress is calling my name and i been eating a few things not so good so that was what the things above were meant for for me to really look at them and to make sure i keep going and not go backwards.

I also put this on here so i could let it out and not have to answer to anyone but to me. I do not know a lot about this yet and so telling people and having to talk to them right now is too hard for me even if they got all the cancer out it still worries me a bit. I always worry though when it comes to my parents and their health so nothing really new really.

catching up

Here are some of the pictures from my weekend get away. It was fun but have realized I am not one for staying up too late anymore as i just can not sleep in like i used to. The first night was not so bad but then i got up early and so the second night i was ready to crash by 11 and the other two they stayed up a lot that night. It was fun though and i got some scrapping done and some starts on some cards that i need to finish. I just have so much i want to do that i then want to come home and do more but then i get so busy that i just do not have time for it. I will make time to do more this week. I love fall so it was fun seeing some of the trees starting to change colors. I will have to go and find more trees to take pictures of.

I have been training more this week and then i work on friday so it seems to make my weeks go from not so busy to really busy. Wish there was some sort of in between it could be at. I do like working for weight watchers and just helping others that might be struggling or something with the weight loss. I try to tell them what has worked for me without making it seem like I

know it all because that is not what i want to see like.

scrapbook retreat!!

Doesn't this picture look nice and colorful? well not sure how colorful it will be but this is one of the pictures on the website of an area near the bread and breakfast we are going to as a group of friends to scrapbook. we are leaving on friday afternoon and will return sunday afternoon. It will be a nice relaxing weekend. We are going to Annapolis Missouri it should be a fun weekend and there will be pictures to post when i get back.

No time for fun sometimes

Lately have had no fun to really blog or do all that i want to do. I am working 2 times this week and am not going to my regular weight watcher meeting as i just do not have the time to do it all this week. I am also going on a scrapbook retreat with a few friends so really need to get things ready for that so I have things ready. I just feel on the go this week and it is only tuesday. I think this week i am more busy because for a service the young women are making freezer meals for a gal in our ward who is pregnant and would really benefit from them so have been looking for recipes and getting the ingredients and pre cooking some of the meat.
Over the weekend i did get a few layouts done so that was finally good and it felt so good to actually do that. One of them was a bit harder to do as it was for Noah who passed away last year but i wanted to scrap that and have a memory of all of that and the feelings that i had for that time. I will go take a few pic and put them on here when i get that done.

realize your life

realize your life

You may have noticed something happening in the land of Scrapbooking Blogs yesterday. October 1st was the kick-off day for a Blog Blitz, conceptualized by the extraordinary Stacy Julian, and carried out by many scrapbooking bloggers like myself.So I'm a day late. But in case you haven't heard about this from other blogs yesterday, here's the deal:Stacy has been inspired to issue a challenge to women to become more aware and more intentional about recognizing life as it happens. This is the “Give Yourself a Present” challenge! And as she puts it, "You have everything you need right now to be vibrant and fully engaged in the creative process. Sometimes you just have to slow down, look around and realize it!"Here's what you do:1. Snap ten photos of your life right now.2. Compile these photos in an itty bitty album.3. Keep or carry this album with you (in your desk drawer or purse) for one year.4. Promise to glance through the album every time you stumble upon it or pull it from your purse.5. On October 1st, 2009, create a scrapbook page about your experience. (If you read Stacy's blog, she'll remind you.)


I am planning to take some pictures saturday to do this as i think this is a great idea to do.

Taco soup

Taco Soup

1 lb ground beef browned and drained
1 can black beans
1 can red kidney beans
1 can pinto beans
2 cans corn drained
1 can crushed tomatoes
1 can diced tomatoes
1 can rotel tomatoes
1 envelope taco seasoning
1 envelope ranch dressing
2 cups water

mix and simmer at least 30 minutes
1 cup is 2 weight watcher points

Todays meeting at weight watchers

It was all about looking back and seeing what kind of mistakes we made in the past and how we then took those mistakes and dealt with them. Are we now doing things better or the same or worse. For me i think for the most part i have learned to do things better. I am no longer a stress eater or a boredom eater. I now look at the exercise i do and think after exercising like that do i want to go and put all that stuff i used to eat into my body that i am trying to make healthy?
I now enjoy exercise never thought that would be something that i could share with others. I like to get on the eleptical and then do weights. I can not say i enjoy the weights as much as i do the eleptical but afterwards i do feel so much better.

Here is something our leader gave us today


Learn from experience

Master this habit and you will look back and learn. you'll recognize what's worked for your
weightloss in the past and what hasn't. Instead of constantly critizing yourself about your failures, you'll be curious about them and decide to do it differently this time. members will treat any obstacles along the way as challenges. You'll stick with it, setting realistic weight-loss goals and more than anything else, you'll be fair to yourself. This past you'll use your past experiences to help you lose weight successfully.