2 am..

I am soo tired! I can't sleep! I'm waiting up for Brandon to get home from work.

Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving is officially over! We had our final Thanksgiving dinner last night, which made 4 total for us. I'm sad to see the turkey and stuffing go, but I am extremely excited about the next holiday.. Christmas! Yessss! My favorite holiday. We usually set up our tree on the day after Thanksgiving, but we've been so busy this weekend, so we're running a little behind. We are going to set it up right after I finish this blog. :D

Black Friday was pretty exciting. We dropped over a grand for all of the presents, and I am jumping with anticipatory joy to see everyone open their gifts on Christmas morning! If I had my way I'd just hand out the gifts right now, but then we'd have nothing to give out on xmas, so I suppose I can wait a few more weeks. ;)

Now all I need is a huge blizzard. I only like snow in November and December. It puts me in the holiday mood! By the time January rolls around, I'm begging for spring to arrive, but for now.. bring on the snow. Right now I am giving the sunny warm weather a huge eyeroll. It's nearly December. Enough with the sun already!

Supplemental Blog

I created another blog strictly for weight loss and exercise business, so I don't have to bore all of you with it here. So, if you still want to read all about it, just go to my profile and start following my second blog. :)

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving!!! I have 3 Thanksgivings to go to tomorrow, and one this weekend. Oh my! Thanksgiving #1 is at B's aunt's house. #2 is at his parents' house. The 3rd will be at my house with my fam. I'm excited about this! I love having people over. There might be a couple more potential Thanksgivings to go to, but I don't think I could do that to myself.. lol my waistline will definitely not thank me if I go.

My older sister will be cooking the majority of the food (props to her!) as she did last year. She has the yummiest, most creative Thanksgiving recipes! Cheese balls, truffles, etc. YUM.

I'll be sure to take lots of pics, but I make no promises on when they'll be posted! My moronic little brother decided to seek revenge on me for "making him" move back in with my dad (he is the one who said he'd sleep on my couch for 2 weeks and leave if he didn't have a job at the end of those 2 weeks.. and I held him to it, lol).. He completely destroyed my desktop computer. He deleted the operating system and somehow put a password on the BIOS or something. I don't even know. It's a mess. There is also keyboard failure, and harddrive failure, I'm sure of it.. one thing I remember from working at eMachines is that an audible beeping noise at the start up of a computer is BAD news for the hard drive. UGH I'm so, so pissed off. I had literally thousands of pictures on that computer. And I hadn't thought to back them up on cd's because it was a basically new computer and I hadn't anticipated any kind of system failure in the foreseeable future. Silly me, I should have known that my little brother is chock-full of system failures. SIGH. I can't afford those pricey computer fix-up shops. If he files taxes I'll just force him to buy me a new computer with his return. :P

3!

Caydi's birthday is this Thursday. She's nearly 3! Ack! She can't be three. In my eyes, she's still a year old. A very intelligent and mostly-potty-trained 1 year old. Time flies wayy too fast when you're a mother.

We got Caydi's presents yesterday. I'm excited for her to open them at her party this Saturday! We got her a really cute doll, a doll pram/stroller, a pink Ikea lamp, a couple packs of pink/green sheets for her big girl bed, a Tinkerbell veterinary set, some doll accessories, a movie, a little treasure-chest thingy with some cute dress-ups, and a new leotard/skirt for ballet. Woo hoo! Makes up for all the crappy birthdays I had as a kid, lol.

Bah, I had so much to blog about, but Adam put in a movie with Mel Gibson and I'm finding it hard to concentrate. ;) I'll be back later!

Yawn

It's almost 3 am and I am tiiired. I think I'll head to bed. We have church in the morning and I'm excited to meet the ward. It's actually the same ward I was in when I was 12-14, but I'm pretty sure a lot of the people have moved away, boundaries have been changed, etc etc.. We'll at least have one friend there, though! We met a guy last week who was walking his dog past our house as we were trying to carry in a 75-gallon aquarium (thanks Ben & Lauren!), and he offered to help lug it in. He was really cool, and he's the umm.. president of something.. Elder's Quorum? I forget. He's about our age too. Gave us his number and told us to call if we need help carrying anything else inside, haha.

Speaking of 75-gallon tanks.. we got a baby turtle :) and she is so cute! And very fun to watch. She's a red-eared slider and she loves her new gigantic home. We built her a few underwater rock towers, and a basking platform. I'll have to upload a pic soon. The kids love her!

I'm going on a diet. For the trillionth time. See a pattern here? I diet, lose 5 pounds, then go out to dinner to celebrate and I gain 10 lbs. Lather rinse repeat. I think I started dieting at this exact time last year (I even blogged about it) and I lost a few pounds but then I lost my momentum. It's so depressing to know that I weigh even more than I did a year ago. Back then, I totally assumed I'd be super svelte and tiny by now. WRONG-O! Haha. Anywho, I bought the 30-day-shred from Jillian Michaels (the trainer on the Biggest Loser) and some weights. I've heard really good things about it. I love T-Taps too, but I lost the second copy that my sister has made for me. Maybe third time's a charm! Andrea, what say ye? LOL. I've also joined the family fitness center nearby, and I plan on going there at least 3x's a week. Who's with me?! :P I am hesitant to post my weight on a public website but it's no secret to anyone who knows me that I'm a fatty (unless they're blind), so.. blah.. I weigh 182. *hangs head in shame* Yes, yes, it's true! My goal for next Saturday is 175. After that I'll aim for 2 pounds a week. Wish me luck! Again! I'd love to be 150 by Valentine's Day. I don't think my poor husband has ever seen me at 150. A true pity. I was hot at that weight!

Goodnight!

P.S. I added some highlights to my hair. LOVES IT!

P.S.2. I bought a few pairs of too-small, way-cute jeans. They don't button. Not even close. Let's see how long it takes me to fit into them! TAKING BETS NOW! I'll say.. 3 weeks.

I need your help!!

Can you guys take 5 seconds to vote for Caydi's halloween pic on this website? http://livinglovephotos.blogspot.com She is number 7, the Golden Angel Girl.

If she wins, we get a free Christmas photoshoot! I need this! I have never done Christmas cards and I fully plan to, this year. I'll send one to everyone who votes and leaves me a comment on here ;)

Thank you!!

Halloween Portrait!

My friends Holly and Dominic invited us to their Halloween Portrait Party today, courtesy of Dom's dad (Anthony). He's a photographer and recently opened up his own studio. We dressed up the kids and headed over, and they had a blast playing Halloween games and eating candy.. and best of all, they got their pictures professionally done for free!! And can you believe we caught Liam's FIRST long-distance steps on camera?! He has taken 2-3 steps here and there, but today he was standing by himself in the studio bay getting his pic taken, and he took like 20 steps, laughing the whole time. Anthony was snapping pics left and right! We're definitely ordering a few of those. I'll probably post a ton of pics next weekend, which is when we go to pick up the ones we ordered.