My Thing...

I'm bored this lovely Sunday evening...it would probably be a wise choice to head to bed early, but I think I'll pass...

I mentioned that we were going to go to the student ward today, well let's be honest, going at 1:30 is tough stuff. We came up with excuses such as "next week is conference, we may as well just wait til the week after conference" "if we go to church we won't get out til 4:30 and won't be able to spend as much time with family" and so forth and so on. But then we finally came to an agreement and decided we'd just go to sacrament meeting then ditch. Hey...it's better than not going at all right ;)

Well, we showed up at 1:15, just to make sure we got the right ward and the right chapel, because the church has 2 chapels. Well...we had the right chapel but the wrong ward---Kohn has a friend that lives like 4 blocks away from us, so we assumed we'd probably be in the same student ward as him, and he starts at 4:30. No. OUR ward starts at 9:30. So we missed our whole entire ward. So, instead of going to sacrament in a random ward, we just left. We should really work on that, eh? :)

We'll be better after conference week.... ;) we're actually going to try to go to conference.

I work 7:30-6 Monday-Wednesday, and then have Thursday off. And Thursday I'm going to go to Grace and see my NICOLE! :) And her cute baby bump :) and give her her present! Because I won't be able to make it to her baby shower! Boo. But at least I get to see her on my day off! :) Then Friday I work 7:30-5 and then we'll be on our way to Provo for the USU/BYU game! We were supposed to go to a mission reunion. I'm pumped! Then (if Tyler wasn't so hard to get ahold of!) we are planning on staying with him and my cousin, Michelle! Then going to the zoo on Saturday! And I want to see Erin! My other cute friend with a baby bump :) And on Sunday, as I said, we're going to try to go to conference in the morning.

So, I feel like I spend most of my blogging time updating on goals and telling about my thankfuls. Well yes, this is the "point" of my blog, but I think I'll just take right now to update on our life.

Kohn goes to school in the morning and then works all day. Then he comes home and eats, sometimes he even cooks dinner, and then does more homework. And then sleeps. As for me, I go to work, and live there all day, and then come home and cook, and then if it's a good day I'll go workout...and clean. And then sleep.

Okay, that was boring, maybe that's why I never update on our lives! ;) Though it sounds ridiculously boring, and it can be, we still have a pretty great life! We live for the weekends when we get to do fun things and go to USU football games! The USU/BYU football game is on our 11 month mark, and we joked that if it was our year mark we'd probably still be going to the game! We love football!

Let's see, family updates! I think I mentioned it, Shawn got married at the beginning of the month, to Jen, and we all love her! And JR and Shanna set a date for their wedding! The day after Thanksgiving! Boy, things can sure change in one year!

Love is sure in the air a lot...Kohn is on the couch on the laptop watching TV and I am here on our desktop typing this. We are boring. Lots of love eh? ;) But really, I still love the crap out of him!

I remember saying that I was going to take up crocheting as my new "thing" but that's not really going anywhere cause I can only do one stitch. I'm sure I could do others if I took the time to teach myself, but I'm just not feeling it anymore. Good thing it was a cheap hobby... ;) I think I want to take voice lessons. And that could be from all the watching of "X Factor" I've been doing. But really, Kohn tells me nice things about my voice (I don't really want to boast) but he says I'm good enough to be heard. I'll only sing for him.

That's something most people don't know about me, that I love to sing! Always have! And like I said, I will only sing for Kohn! Maybe he's just being a nice husband when he says I'm good enough to be heard by others, but then again, Kohn is not like that. He would tell me if I sucked, in the nicest way possible, and I would think it was sweet ;) the kid has a way with words!

Anyway, I really just wanted to write a little blog post! And mainly avoid those cookies sitting on the counter ;)

Sometimes it's fun to just write, without having to worry about what things to talk about being thankful for and things like that! It's especially nice to not have to worry about feeling guilty as I type about my failed attempts at goals ;) I'm slowly getting better though, oh so slowly!

One day I will be a trophy wife.....BAHAHA.

Tomorrow is the start to yet another week of our fabulous lives...I hope you all enjoy it as much as I will ;)

P.S. We got home from Weston tonight and had a plate of cookies on our doorstep with a "Thank You" card! I thought it was going to be from the Primary presidency, but it was actually from one of our primary students....I cried. I'll miss those little chickens. But this is the right thing.

Anyway...for real this time.

Have a good week!

Student Ward

It's me again. And I've got a semi-good update on my goals. So...here they are.

For the food: I did eat when I was hungry most of the time, but I may not have chose the best foods to eat. Such as cookies and well you get the picture.

For the fitness: I did work out everyday...other than Saturday, because it was a way busy day. But...I did walk 10 minutes from our parking spot to the football stadium, and then 10 minutes back to the car for the blanket, and then 10 minutes back to the stadium, and then 10 minutes back to the car after the game. 3 out of 4 of those 10 minutes were way hot and I was a sweaty mess. So that may just count as a bit of a workout, you choose.

For the misc: Dishes went well...until I decided to bake. And dirty a lot of dishes. And then I realized I had to do some other things, so I didn't get the dishes done at that point. Our sick is just 10 times smaller than any other sink I've ever seen. So it fills up fast. And I am using that as an excuse.

So...I did alright on these goals. So I'll keep on keeping on. And here are my goals for this week.

Food: Eat healthy. As I mentioned when I was hungry I would result to cookies. Now cookies aren't bad, but I'm not going to use them to satisfy hunger, I need to use like an apple and some pretzels, or a yogurt, or something like that. So let's shoot for healthy clean eating this week!

Fitness: So as I mentioned before, Kohn got me the Tour de France bike...and while I do love it, I also hate it, because it is dang hard. So lately I've kind of been avoiding it like the plague. So the goal is to ride it at least 2 times this week. That may not seem like a lot. But that bike is a beast.

Misc: Read scriptures every night. We used to be good at this, and then we got bad again. So I want to get good again.

So there's the goal update, now let's be thankful...

#269...I am thankful for key fobs. You know, the clicky things that unlock your doors for you on your car. They're great, and I like them. Because this sounds ridiculous, but I really don't enjoy turning the key a whole lot. Let's make life easy, and push a button!

#270...I am thankful for all the hours I have been working. Sure they make for long days, but the money is great. This coming week I have 3 10.5 hour days, and one 9.5, and my day off...now most of you are thinking that's probably nothing, but it's a long day for a person when she is taking care of multiple 1 year olds. I love those little munchkins, I do, I do. But it's a long day. But the point of this is to say I'm thankful I'm working.

#271...I am thankful for skype! I got to see David and Ang yesterday for a few minutes over skype, and of course Jaxon! I was on my parent's skype! I have my own account, I just don't remember any of the information! I need to figure it out then I could see them some more! But my goodness, little Jaxon isn't so little anymore! He's a tubby man and I guess skype is good enough for now, but it will be good to see them in November!

#272...I am thankful for the clanging noises I hear behind me right now. I just turned around and Kohn is doing the dishes in the kitchen. What a sweet boy. I sure am one lucky girl!

#273...I am thankful for sleep. Last night when we went to bed I didn't feel so good, so I slept it off, and now I feel fine! Yay for sleep!

It's Sunday and we're about to make a change for ourselves. We're no longer in the family ward, well I guess technically our records are, but we're going to go to the student ward starting today. I'm excited, it'll be good to meet new people. People that are in the same stage of life as us. Now the family ward was nice and all, but they couldn't really relate, so no one really knew who we were. And that was never fun. So we hope this is different.

Everyone have a happy Sunday and enjoy it with your families :)

Sort Of Goals

I failed to write on Sunday, but I did not fail at my goals. Mostly ;)

So I did so good on my calories, woo. Definitely made me feel good :) I however did not work out every day, but I did pretty decent. Now that the week is come and gone I couldn't tell you how many days I did work out, but it was a pretty decent amount, I just know it wasn't everyday. And I haven't worked out at all this week. I suck. Haha. Jokes. And then for my misc...I didn't look like an orphan all week! I was able to drag myself out of bed every morning and actually get ready. And I've done good so far this week too. I realize it's only Tuesday, and  Tuesday is normally just a bad day for me. For some reason it is just worse than Monday for me. I did wear sweats today, but they were cute sweats and my hair and make up was done :) so last week, I definitely did succeed at that goal. Look at me, I completely succeeded at 2/3 goals, no questions asked. How great will it be when I get 3/3 ;) 3/3 shouldn't be too hard, but for someone that struggles with goals it will be a big deal. Baby steps is the perfect place to start anyway.

So I don't really know what to do about this week because I haven't really started the week off with much in mind as far as setting goals goes, and I've really been pretty lazy so far anyway. But I don't just want to not set goals and have a dumb week. So, we'll just choose some repeat goals that I didn't succeed at before and go Wednesday-Sunday. So...

Food: Eat when I'm hungry. I sometimes get so hung up on calories that even if I'm hungry I won't have a little snack because it won't fit into my calorie "budget" for the day. So, I'm going to make snacks fit and I'm going to keep myself fed.

Fitness: Work out every day from here on...haha, oh boy.

Misc: Dishes. So far so good ;) only thank to the hubs though.

So this week is still somewhat lame, but not as lame as it could be if I didn't set goals. So ready, set, go!

Anyways, I really think this goal thing is working for me. I just need to figure out a way to make them broader. Maybe I'll start categorizing them as all misc, because then I can really work on really random goals, that don't only pertain to my food and workouts. We'll see what happens. But now, I'll be thankful.

#264...I am thankful for our fun new fire pit. We've talked about putting it together all summer long, and just never did. And now that summer is over and fall is here we finally finished it...and had lots of fun with it on Friday. We babysat some nieces and nephews and roasted hot dogs, marshmallows, and starbursts. It was way fun, I sure love those kids! And the fire pit ;) I felt like I was camping, and I love camping.

#265...I am thankful for Kohn's friend Clint. I was wondering what I'd cook for dinner tonight, and was just not feeling it...when Kohn told me that Clint had invited us to come eat with the missionaries at his house. And Clint is a good cook. So it was fantastic.

#266...I am thankful for my knowledge. I was writing today and I just started thinking how cool it was that I knew how to write every letter, and that we even have letters, and that I could put together full sentences and read them...I think this probably stemmed from an episode of Cold Case that I watched where none of the girls knew how to read...ya know, back in the old days. So I am just grateful I know all that stuff.

#267...I am thankful for printers. And I just love how they can connect to computers so I can get all the stuff I want. Really though, whoever figured out all that technology stuff for it is a champ to me.

#268...I am thankful for Thursdays this week, because Thursday is my day off this week, and Thursday a day closer to Friday, which is closer to a weekend with the hubs. It's gonna be fun.

Really though, we'll have a fun weekend. Because we spent all of our weekend last weekend babysitting. Now we love those nieces and nephews of ours, but we love our time too. So Friday night we're having a temple date and Saturday we're going to the USU homecoming game. It'll be a good time. And I just love spending my weekends with my Kohn. I sure love him.

Well I think I will just wrap this up now. And hopefully write again soon.

Just Another Post

Heyo. Still alive here. Yes, it's only been a few days since I last wrote, but I feel like it's been forever. And I just feel like this has been the longest week ever. Ever. But tomorrow is Friday so there is light at the end of the tunnel.

I didn't realize how important sleep was to this body here. I don't know how I survived in high school. I would wake up and go to cheer practice every morning at 6, so I would wake up at 5 to get all ready and pick people up, and then I would have school and work and possibly cheer at a game that night, and then throw homework in (I was an honor student, so I must've done my homework ;)) and then I would get to bed way late. Plus I would always lay in bed and text all night. I swear I didn't get to bed til midnight, and then I'd wake up 5 hours later. And I did just fine. So why do I struggle with anywhere from 6-9 hours of sleep now? Okay, so the 9 NEVER happens, unless it's the other night and we just decided to go to bed way early and actually did it...maybe it's cause I would get exercise in at cheer practice so I started my day off with exercise....? Who knows! But I'm tired of being tired, and that's the main point I'm trying to make here.

Goal update: Food---going SO good. Fitness---pretty good, though I didn't work out yesterday. Crap. Even though I'm still convinced chasing 1 year olds around is a dang good work out. Misc---I have got ready every morning so far, even if I really don't want to. Today was a close call, I was borderline orphan ;) but I still passed...I think...

I still have some stuff to do tonight, like get the exercise in for today and I'm going to make some banana bread...if I still feel domestic when time for that rolls around. I just have lots of bananas that need to be used up. But anyway, my point of saying I have a lot of stuff to do tonight was to get rolling into my thankful posts...so here we go.

#261...I am thankful for people that can take jokes. I've been in the weirdest of moods the last 2 weeks at work. I have some very sarcastic comments to make, cause I'm sort of irritable. And instead of getting offended they laugh and say things back. And it ends up being a good thing and I laugh, and then for a few seconds I'm not quite so irritable ;) but really guys...I'm not that irritable, I just don't know how to explain my mood? Ridiculously tired fits it well. Anyway...enough about being tired...

#262...I am thankful when sometimes numbers drop at work sooner than planned. For instance, today I was scheduled until 6 but numbers dropped at 3 and I was out of there. Of course it's probably best that it doesn't happen all the time, because I do need to hit my hours every week. But I had more hours than I needed this week so it was all fine and dandy. And I liked it. A lot.

#263...I am thankful for the nice TV fixer man that came to my apartment the other day. Because now the problem is fixed and I can watch "Cupcake Wars" again...and trust me, that's a big deal ;)

I should probably stop complaining about being so tired all the time, I'm sure you're tired of it. So I'll work on it...that will just be a random little goal I have :) yay for goals...most of the time. If I don't at least achieve this goal then someone kick me. Or maybe something a little less painful...

Anyways...I'm going to head out and get the things done that I need to get done this lovely Thursday night.

Happy Thursday :)

The Voice

Whoops, I didn't get on here Sunday to update on goals and make new ones...oh well. I'll just report now.

Food: Count my calories....I did it. All the way this time :) So that's what's up about that.

Fitness: Run. I did run, and I did run 3 days of the week like I said I would. Unfortunately I didn't do the cross training the other days, but I at least did the running which was the goal.

Misc: Dishes. Didn't happen. We got the dishes going the first day, but now the dishes are piled in the sink...maybe I'll do them on my day off tomorrow, or in a few minutes...we'll see...

So I did do better this week than I did last week...and that's progress. And progress is what we're looking for. So yay! Now let's make some new goals...

Food: Don't go over my calorie range that sparkpeople gave me...here we go :)

Fitness: Work out every day. I know this was the goal the first time, and I failed, but I got my running goal last week, so there's hope this week around. We'll see what happens.

Misc: Be presentable. What I mean by this is sometimes I wake up and just don't feel the need to get very ready at all. Like I'll comb my hair and throw on some grungy clothes and then go to work. I always figure that I'm just working with 1 year olds so it doesn't matter what I look like. But it actually does. Because I have to have adult conversations with their parents, and I work with adults too. Plus, when I am put together I just feel a lot better about the day, and my days are always better. Soooooo.  The goal is to not look like an orphan ;) But seriously.

Alright so I'm still sticking to this goal thing, because I realize I've only done 2 weeks of it, but there's was already progress in week 2, so we'll just keep hoping for some progress. And now...

I'll be thankful...

#257...I am thankful for cute surprises my cute husband leaves me. Most of you probably already saw it as my facebook status, but dear Kohn bought me some shoes today! Wasn't even expecting it! But they're way cute and I love them! And they made my day! :)

#258...I am thankful for bubble baths. Some times on Sunday evenings I just like to take a nice warm bubble bath, and...I just love it.

#259...I am thankful for a fun little experience I get to have in a few weeks. So, we know the guy that we got our wedding rings from pretty well, well Kohn does anyway, so we're friends with him on Facebook. Well, he's got a new line of jewelry coming out and he posted a status about needing some models to wear wedding dresses and such and model the jewelry. So, I thought I'd at least tell him I would be willing if I was "what he was looking for" and...I get to be his "retro bride". He said he was hoping I would be, because of my short dark hair. I've never done this before, but I'm way excited and think it'll be a fun experience!

#260...I am thankful for warm clothes. Because I was really cold this morning, so it was nice to put on a nice long sleeve shirt. Wahoo!

Well I'm just sitting here while Kohn does homework and I'm watching The Voice, I sure love shows like that! I wish I could sing like some of the people on the shows, but I can't, so I'll just keep watching it!

Anyways...I'm done. I'll type again, tomorrow, maybe...see ya.

Can I Go Home?

What a day it has been. At 8:30 this morning I said I was so done with this day. And I didn't clock out until 5:33. You can sure bet I had a looooong day. Now, I love my little kiddies, but I am just so tired. I just can't seem to snap out of it. I should google how to not be tired. The only thing I really got out of it was to drink a lot, and take a deep breath. My question is, drink a lot of what??? ;) haha jokes, I know they mean water...

I have one more day of work this week. Thank goodness. I really thought this week would never end, and it sort of just snuck up on me. And that's totally alright. But tomorrow I go to work at 8 and get off around 6:20, even though we close at 6...and then I have a work party at 7 in Providence. Then we're going to look at a piano at 8:30. I'm never going to be home tomorrow...until like 9ish. Oh boy. I better get some good sleep tonight.

But if you think that's bad...Monday, I have to be to work at 7:30 and then am closing, so that's 7:30-6, but then I get to go to a staff meeting. 6-8. I know you don't care, I'm just trying to make you feel bad for me ;)

My goals are still going good. Counted my calories today, and I'm going to go run in just a few minutes. The only thing is those dang dishes....I hate them.

I am going to be thankful now...

#256...I am thankful for google. But really. I can ask stupid questions that I'm too embarrassed to ask other people, and get pretty decent answers...usually. I like that.

I'm really tired, I hope I can make it through my 5 miles tonight. I'm going to do it outside tonight though rather than on the treadmill. Cause that way I can't really stop. I could, but I'm less likely to stop. I'm not going to stop though, so I don't know what I'm saying this for.

I wish I could sleep in on Saturday, but no, we get to go clean the church. Still considering a student ward...primary program is Sunday, then we'll see what we can do.

One more day then it's the weekend! Yay!

Lazy Days!

Progress on the goals is going pretty good so far, if I don't say so myself. I've counted calories since Sunday,  and I ran yesterday. And am going to run more this week too. And the days I'm not running I'll be on my Tour de France bike :) As for the dishes goal goes...well we got the dishes done the other night, and now I just need to go fill the dishwasher again. So in a sense I'm failing, but also getting it done too. However you want to see it.

I ran 5 miles last night, and holy crap I am losing my running touch. It was hard for me. I was out of breath, fast, and I just wanted to quit the whole time. I even wanted to quit at 4.90...seriously, though. It was tough for me. But I have to keep telling myself I won't be where I was if I don't work towards it right now. So I'll keep it up. Because I do love to run, I just gotta get back into the shape to run the distances I was running before. At least it's something to work towards. I can't believe I thought about giving up running for biking. Ha. It was only cause of my fancy new toy. But I love running too much, so forget about that :) the bike will be used for cross training...

It is my day off and I really should be cleaning right now. But I just have no energy. It took all I had to drag myself to the shower. Today is definitely a worthless day. But later I will be going to make peach jam with Shannon, so that'll be accomplishing something! And who knows, maybe a cleaning mood will hit me later. Because it does tend to hit me late at night. Who knows why, but if it hits then, that's fine with me, I just need it to hit. Because I like to live clean, but I'm just not feeling it right now. Haha I don't know, it's weird.

Now that I've rambled about things that don't really mean much, I will be thankful...

#253...I am thankful for airplanes. Why, you ask? Because yesterday at work one of my sweet little 1 year old's was having a really hard time. She cried all day, literally ALL day, other than when she was taking her nap. And she would not let me put her down. She would only let me hold her, so I held her all day long. I'm not even kidding...but, I'm thankful for airplanes because quite a few flew by yesterday when we were outside, and she LOVES airplanes. When we would hear one, the crying would stop, and she'd get all jabbery and excited, for at least a minute. And those minutes were what saved me. I think I went a little crazier yesterday than I already am...

#254...I am thankful for towels. Can you imagine how unpleasant it would be to have to get dry after a shower without a towel? No bueno.

#255...I am thankful for carts at grocery stores. (I think I've mentioned this one). But really, there's no way I could ever carry all the groceries I get when I go grocery shopping. Thank goodness for the brilliant idea of carts.

Alright, I'm really putting off a lot of things right now. I'm putting off getting ready for the day, I'm putting off cleaning, and I'm really just being lazy. Bleh. Maybe I should just get the things done, but right now it's easier said than done. I need a good kick in the butt.

I'll be done now, because I'm obviously only still typing to avoid having to do something different. So I guess I'll "face that fear" and get to work. Maybe.

Thankful Posts

I have to admit, I'm actually pretty impressed with myself for getting back on to write my second blog post for the day. And I have done good on my food goal so far, calories have been counted. But don't doubt that it was a pain in the butt. Because we ate dinner at Shannon's house and I had no idea on any of the recipes or anything, but I still managed to make it work. And I feel pretty good about that.

It's been a fun filled, laundry Sunday. Boy am I sick of laundry and all the issues with it. Okay, I guess not really issues. But I'm sick of Sunday being laundry day. We desperately need our own washer and dryer. We could have bought some from Cache Valley Classifieds but someone else beat us to them. Bummer. So keep your eyes open and let us know if you see anything :) thanks.

Well we are living in a "mess" yet again. So I am going to quickly be thankful and then help my lover straighten this mess up. Okay, so here we go...

#247...I am thankful for everyone that lets us use their washer and dryer. My mom and dad, Kohn's mom and dad, Shannon and Brad. Thanks guys. It's very much appreciated!

#248...I am thankful for all the fun family time we've been able to have with the Thedell's this last week. It was definitely really good for the fam. And we can't wait for Shawn and Jen to come to Utah again so we can do it again :)

#249...I am thankful that my husband motivates me when I need it most. I've talked about cleaning the apartment forever, but haven't gotten around to it, because by the time we get home I am just too tired. But tonight he is making it happen. Thanks, babe.

#250...I am thankful for our new fan that Shawn gave us when we were packing up his apartment this weekend. It will be fantastic for our hot apartment, and it definitely saved us some money! Thanks Shawn!

#251...I am thankful for the Atonement. None of us are perfect. And I'm so glad we can repent to take care of mistakes we've made. Cause I've definitely needed it.

#252...I am thankful for my husbands wise money skills. Without him I'd be broke and spending my money on things I don't really need. He keeps me in line and is making our saving for a townhouse happen.

I'm almost to the point where I only have 100 more thankfuls to write about. And it's been fun to have to really think about things to come up with stuff for my posts. It has definitely helped me realize how important even little things are. Which is exactly what I hoped this blog idea would do. I'm excited to continually discover new things.

Well I am going to clean this place up now. Wish me luck.

Happy Sunday!

Goals and Marriages

Oh what a failure I am, and how embarrassed I am to write this post. What a crazy, busy week...I suppose that shouldn't justify my goal failure, but I'm trying to make it work. Okay recap...

My goals were:

Fitness: Work out for 30 minutes each day. Well...we just had a lot of Thedell family stuff going on all week because Shawn is in the process of moving to Colorado right this second, so it was our last week all together. So, I didn't work out EVERY DAY but I did work out maybe 3/6....oh my that is terrible. Someone kick me.

Food: Count my calories every day. I didn't do too terribly at this one. I always counted my breakfast and snacks and most lunches, but when we didn't eat at home it was hard for me to do all the work to add up all the calories, and besides that who would have wanted to find the time to count them when you are enjoying family time? Right? I counted what I could. And that's good for something....I think.

Misc: Take a picture every day. And of course I didn't do too hot here either. I took a picture Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. So 3/6 again. But that's better than what I've done. I just have a real issue of taking pictures with me in them...

Here, I'll show you the pictures I took...

 We were getting ready to head out for the night and we found a pretty dove that let us go right up close, it was pretty cool we thought.

 We didn't find the BYU "Y" to be appropriate ;)

 Having a good ol' time at the USU vs Utah game. Which was an awesome win for us! 

 These were the shirts we were sporting! 

So there was a picture from Wednesday that I didn't add cause it was just stupid, but I'll have you know that Shawn took a good amount of pictures for us at the Brigham City Temple so I think that should count enough ;) 

Well even though I failed at this weeks goals, I'm not going to just quit it now. Practice makes perfect eh? So this time around I'll altar my goals...here they are.

Fitness: Run. After Epic I just kind of stopped my running. Well shoot, I love running so what's up with that? I can't just start next summer to try to get ready for Epic again, I've always gotta be training cause it's a tough little thing, Epic is. So. I will run 3 days this week, and then cross train the other 3. I got this...

Food: I had to ponder on this for a bit...but, my goal will be to count calories again. But this time, I won't miss a beat. Wish me luck.

Misc: Keep the sink empty. This has been a real problem for us all our marriage, we just hate dishes ;) so my goal is to keep the dishes going this week and not let them pile up :) 

Alright, here we go folks, let's see if we've got this in the bag, or not so much. I'm so embarrassed for this last week so maybe that will help motivate me this week. 

Well this is already pretty lengthy, so I will just wait to be thankful til later tonight, and then I'll write another post. Or something. But let me just tell you about this week real quick...

Or I'll just start on Thursday...so we were having a family dinner for us to all meet Shawn's girlfriend, who would later be his fiance, and then in May be his wife. Well, I was late for this dinner, and Kohn kept telling me to hurry because I was in for a big surprise. Well I thought that maybe Shawn was just going to propose tonight, or that Shannon was having a baby, or something...but no, it was neither of them. 

I walk into the house and Hallie comes up to me, whispers that "Shawn is married" and then I kind of freak out a little inside. I ask Kohn and Shannon and Shannon's like "No, she just thinks that since he's with a girl." Well that was a logical explanation for a 1st grader. 

But no, Hallie was right, Shawn walks in with Jen and goes "This is my wife, Jen." I didn't know what to say. I thought they were lying, and then after 5 minutes of back and forth I finally believed them. They had gotten married that afternoon up Logan Canyon. It was all kind of crazy to take in, but that's alright because we love Jen. And her cleanliness will be good for Shawn ;) haha! 

Anyway this week was pretty exciting, we celebrated Jean's birthday yesterday and we got her a pretty special Justin Bieber birthday card with her present. Breklyn sure loved it, so I guess if Mama didn't then Brek can keep it ;) 

Maybe this just seems longer cause of the pictures, but either way I need to be done. Time to get ready for churchy church. And primary shouldn't be too bad today, we didn't have to prepare a lesson because we're spending class time practicing for the primary program next week. 

We're thinking of a student ward lately...we'll have to see. 

Anyways, I'm really finishing now, everyone have a great Sunday!  :) 

Goals.

So much for writing my goal every Sunday...good thing that wasn't a goal (yet) otherwise I would have already failed from the very beginning. I think that's why I'm going to make my first couple sets of goals super easy...so that they can be done. And I'll gradually make them more "challenging" as I get better at them.

But just so we know, I didn't have any time on Sunday to write on the blog. It was a fun filled Turnbow kind of day. And I think we both would rather have been playing Werewolves and Shanghai than sitting at home having him watch TV and me writing a blog. So I am okay with it.

So with that said....here are my 3 goals:

Food: We'll start simple. And count my calories. Get a good idea on the amount of food I'm eating regularly. So yes, the goal is to track my calories all week.

Fitness: At LEAST 30 minutes of exercise every day. Ever since EPIC exercise hasn't really been my friend and I kind of left it. So we'll slowly get back to spending more time with it.

Misc: Take a picture every day this week. Earlier today Kohn and I were laying in bed looking at old pictures (well, I was looking at the pictures, he was playing on his iPad) but, the point is...I enjoyed looking back on the pictures and I want pictures to look back on all the time. So. We're going to get back into our picture taking habit. And even if it's nothing exciting, we're going to make sure we take a picture every day this week. This week should be an easy one to do it, because we do have some fun stuff going on this week, actually. BUT, to sum it up, the goal is to take a picture every day.

Okay, so there are my goals. Yay. I will report on Sunday. I swear it. And then from there the goals will go from Sunday to Sunday rather than from Monday to Sunday. My first week is an easy one. Let's see how I do.

Now, we will be thankful...

#242...I am thankful for the cleaning kick I've had lately. We had a pretty successful day on Saturday cleaning our apartment up, organizing things, and making more space for ourselves. It had been a while since I'd had any kind of motivation to be honest, so it was definitely nice.

#243...I am thankful that the grocery store is so close to our apartment and doesn't close til 1 am. Why? Because I was making a dessert for the baby blessing and it failed miserably. I just don't know sticky, marshmallow desserts. So, I had to run to the store to get some oats to make some no bake cookies. At least I can make those.

#244...I am thankful for cameras. Ya know, they capture all those fantastic memories you never want to forget. I just really need to learn to use mine again.

#245...I am thankful for a big crazy family. I'm sure we're overwhelming to people who aren't used to us. But  we have fun.

#246...I am thankful that every day is a new day. A new day to try something new and to sort of "start over". I feel like this is one I've mentioned before, along with many others, but oh well. I guess I'm just really thankful for it.

Now I'm all caught up on thankfulness, and holy cow it's September. Just like 4ish months til Christmas ;) which is really close to New Years...and then that means I have to find an actual "point" to this blog...better get thinking eh? :)

Well, I'm off to find that cleaning motivation again, because we've still got some work to do around here.

Happy Labor Day! :)