New Schedule

Monday the 12th I started my new schedule at work. Some may think I am crazy for picking the hours I did, but here they are. I work 6-3:30 Monday - Thursday. Every other Friday I work 6-2:30 and every other, other Friday I have the day off. TODAY is my first Friday off :)

6 is a little early to start the day, but I love being home by 4. I never deal with traffic...although at 7 I didn't either. I do miss seeing Alex in the morning though. He leaves at 6:30 so I used to wait until he was out of the shower to jump in, but now I am gone before he even crawls out of bed. I pretty much just wake him up to say our morning prayers and he sleeps for another 20 minutes before he gets up.

Since I get home at 4 I have time to workout before Alex even gets home. Speaking of working out on the 2nd we went over to our friends Doug & Cassie's house and had our first wii fit session. I must say I really enjoyed it...I am not big on video games, but I am very tempted to buy one of these...although you can't find them anywhere and to buy the system and the wii fit would cost ~$350. Anyways, my reason for bringing this up is to say that we went over last night and played again. It had been 3 weeks since we had done it, so the fit test pretty much measured how much we had lost from eating a little better and using the treadmill. We both lost some weight. I lost just over 5 lbs and Alex almost 4. YEA! I have spent more time on the treadmill than he has. He keeps pretty busy with class during the week.

So for our first Friday of together we have both already done our workouts and I think we are going to work on some more projects at home. We are currently working on the garden and putting some shelves in the pantry.

2008 Family Pictures

Here are our family pictures for my side of the family on Thanksgiving 2008

This is the whole gang...Mom & Dad...6 kids...2 married into the family kids...1 almost married into the family kid...and 2 grand kids. I can't even imagine how big he family is going to get.

Daughters only

Mom & Dad

And here is our family picture from Alex's side of the family on Christmas 2008

This is the whole gang too...Mom & Dad...2 sons...2 married into the family daughters...3 grandsons...and grandma to us, but great grandma to others :)

Last but not least here is our little family

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I can't believe it has been over a month (practically a month and a half) since I posted anything. I guess since Alex was not in classes I haven't been on the computer much at home...and I have been keeping pretty busy with the holidays and 2009 plans. I will have to back post some Christmas stuff.

We are off to a good start this year. I jokingly told Alex on New Years that it was my favorite holiday since it is all about planning...but it was nice to have his attention and get some input from him on some plans for this year. We are planning to go snowboarding in March, so we decided to "try" and get into a little better shape before we get there. We have both been spending some time on the treadmill and paying a little more attention to what we are eating...but I hope to NEVER have to go on a diet because I LOVE FOOD!

This weekend we did a little project at home. We finally made some art work with some of the canvases I bought back in the summer.