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My weigh-in was a success!

Today I went to Weight Watchers and I was very happy to see that I had lost 2 and a half pounds. Hurray! As of today I have lost 18 pounds and it makes me feel so good. I have gone down a size and love being able to fit into clothes I haven't worn for 4 years. Exercise is a great help, but the WW program is what is so awesome and it is something that is easy to do and can be done for a lifetime. I love it. I am learning so much about myself.

I also got my keyboard out again and am re-learning to play some of the songs that Erin taught me a couple of years ago and hopefully I can go on and learn more. It is fun and I love learning. It is good to learn something new everyday.

I am finally feeling better and getting over this darn cold. I talked to my mom today and she now has the gumboo and so does Erin. I hope they both get well before Thanksgiving. I am also excited, because I talked to Marla today and she and her family are coming to our home for Thanksgiving. It will be great fun to have them come and we will really enjoy having the with us for the day. We are then going on Friday to Tremonton for Lyndon's family get together and then that afternoon we will leave there and go to Pocatello and visit my family Friday night and all day Saturday. I am looking forward to it. I called Lisa and asked if we could stay with them. She said they would love to have us and so it will be fun to get to visit with there family. That is something we never get to do.

Well I need to get myself to bed early tonight because I am working in the temple tomorrow from 6 a.m. until 10 a.m. I have to be up by 4 a.m. and leave by 5:30 a.m. The group from my ward that I go with, they decided they wanted to go to breakfast tomorrow at Hagerman's. They serve all the french toast you want for $3 dollars. I will have to be careful and not go overboard. Well that's all folks!

It is a beautiful day!

Well I went to Weight Watchers today thinking I was going to gain a pound. I was sick all last week and didn't feel like exercising. My scale at home said I was up a pound and a half and thought to myself, "Self, you can just stay home and not face the scale and go next week". Well that is what I have done in the past and I promised myself that I would not do that again and give up on myself. So I exercised and then got myself to Weight Watchers. I got on the scale and I had lost .2 pounds. Not very much, but it was better than a gain and so I was quite surprised and happy and decided that I need to throw my scale out. I am glad I went and I needed the support from the lecture and the members. It was really great. I am now feeling better and hope to be back to my exercise routine and following my good health eating guidelines again. There was this lady there at weight watchers that is a life time member. She lost 98 pounds in a year or so and she looks great. I would say she is in her sixties. I thought if she can lose 98 pounds I can lose the 40 or so that I need to lose. Then this afternoon I saw this same lady at Costco with her husband and they both looked so happy and as they were walking through the fruit and vegie section I saw her husband give her bottom a little pat and could tell he loved her and was proud of her. I just couldn't help but watch. It was sweet! I hope to look that good in my sixties and beyond!

Lyndon and I are going to Steve and Karen Nelson's tonight. They are a couple we are working with to get active in the church again and hopefully to the temple to be sealed. It will take some time and the missionaries are giving them the discussions. I hope they will make it. They are a wonderful couple. We have been working with them since the end of April. I hope they start making some progress. We just have to have faith and offer lots of prayers. It can happen! Well goodnight all!

I have a cold!

I have a cold and I have a terrible dry cough. It has been going on since last saturday. I am feeling a bit better today and it will probably just take it's sweet time going away. Lyndon flew to Las Vegas with Don Koyle for the NACE Show. He will be home on Friday night. I am going to a Christmas Card class tonight. "While the cat's away, the mice will play." as the saying goes. So I am going to have fun and not worry about leaving my hubby at home. It should be a fun class. I called Erin and had her help me change the background on my blog. It is nice to change it. Change is good! I went to the Library this morning and got a couple of books on tape by Mary Higgins Clark and I am going to listen to them while I work on a Christmas cross-stitch that I want to get done in time for December. I am going to have to really get working on it if I am going to have it done. I might even take a little nap today and rest. This cough just wears me out. Oh well, life goes on! That's all folks!

I am feel fit and strong and better than I have felt in 5 years!

I went to my weekly weight watcher's meeting Monday morning and guess what? I survived Halloween and lost weight!!!

I lost 1 and a half pounds and I am now 15 pounds down!

Hurray!!!!

I came across this cute quote by Erma Bombeck and I think it is so true of many women...

"I've been on a constant diet for the last two decades. I've lost 789 pounds. By all accounts, I should be hanging from a charm bracelet"

I thought that was pretty cute and accurate. I am trying to not be on a diet but learning to eat more healthily and to understand why and why I need to eat. It has a been a great journey so far and I am going to keep learning and growing and knowing myself better each day! I love how it feels to have my body be stronger and leaner! You can be fit, lean and strong at any age!

Have a good day everyone and keep smiling!

Halloween Trick or Treats!

We had a very fun and scared out of our wits Halloween! Hee! Hee! Meg looks real frightened!
Todd's costumn would have won the Halloween Costumn contest, had he been in one!
Good thing this is only a hat wig and awful looking teeth. He looks pretty creepy!
Here's Shane our Ooompa Loompa! Everyone that saw him at Costco, love the costumn!
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Here are our sweet little trick or treaters getting ready to go out and trick or treat in the neighborhood. They had fun evening and got lots of treats. It was a fun night Tricks, Treats and lots of fun Scariness!