And they're off!!!

Day One of the big competition! We have Chronicler, Bri, Adan, Myself and the Tall kid! It will be a nice little prize at the end. I will still take more participants if you want to join in! Good Luck to all! And remember that no matter what we are all really winning in this competition, but of course you will all have to hand over your money when I win!!! Hah! Tell me your first day thoughts! Remember to weigh yourself today so you know where you are at. Have a good week!

Everyone Needs a Support System

So I am sitting around today waiting for the sleeping dead to arise, when I flip through the channels to see my favorite motivational show on a marathon. In preparation for the Biggest Loser premier on Tuesday at 8pm, Bravo is running a marathon of last season.
I know you are all thinking right about now, "...and why is she telling us this???" Well I will tell you. As you all know I am on a renewed quest to lose weight and get into shape so I can have more energy and increase my chances of having children. So watching this show got me thinking. We all need some motivation, not just me, but you do too! We need a little competition to get us motivated. I know you all have been thinking about losing weight and have been wanting to start to workout or eat healthier. Well now is the time!!! I already have two other people in on this little friendly competition, so here it is. Who ever wants to join in can, friends, moms, dads, sisters, brothers, cousins, aunts, uncles...whoever!!! I want everyone to check in weekly and say what percentage of weight you have lost that week, by making a comment. Let's make it every Monday stop by and just make a quick comment telling the percentage lost that week. We will do this until December 17th. On that final Monday I will tally up everyone's percentages and announce the winner on December 18th. Now for the ante if you want to join in you must agree to eat healthier, workout more, and most of all give $50 to the winner of the game. This way we will all be competing to get that large prize at the end to buy some new clothes for your new thinner body!
So who is in??? I already have myself and two others signed up so that is already $150 to compete for! If you are in just leave a comment. Good Luck to everyone! Let the games begin starting Monday, September 10th! Any questions just let me know!

Passion vs. PCOS

There was a time in my life when I was passionate about everything in my life. It was honestly the happiest I have ever been. These past few years I have whine complained and threw a pity party for my self twelve thousand times over. Well I am done with that!!! Recently I have been feeling an overwhelming source of passion. I mean real passion, passion for life and everything hat is around you. I feel like I am getting back to who I truly am. Back to the person that the man I married fell in love with. The person that wouldn't be held back because someone didn't like what they were doing. This is me! If you don't like it tough!!! Suck it up Princess, as we say at work.
Tonight I watched a show on TLC called "Crazy, Sexy, Cancer." I know it sounds a little out there, but it really kind of brought things into prospective. The woman in it used to be an actress, until she found out she was diagnosed. She didn't let it take over her life. She knew she was going to beat it from the get go. SO she did everything she could. Never once lost her hair, and only a few times did she let herself feel bad about it. It really helped me along on my way back to being my passionate about life self. If I truly want to beat PCOS I need to do something about it. It isn't just going to go away by taking 1500mgs of Metformin and all of my Vitamins everyday. I have to do something about it! I have to get up off my lazy butt and get to work! I do want kids someday and if I really want to make that happen I need to clean up my body, get back into shape! Today I am setting goals! I am losing ten pounds every month until I get back to my normal self. Itr is interesting when I meet knew people I always feel like I have to explain why I look the way I do. In my head this is not who I am! I am a thin person! I have been my whole life until now. Why should I let PCOS take over??? I shouldn't! This is my life and I am in charge! I take action today! I will not let it ruin my life and my marriage! PCOS is not me nor will I let it consume me any longer. If you knew me then you know who I was, I have faded, but I am coming back and I will come back strong.

Spritual High

I love Sundays. It has really been a long time since I have been able to say that, but today I can. You see as you all know I live in small town Idaho and it isn't all it's cracked up to be. When the Tall Kid and I were first married we moved up here and went to the regular student ward we were assigned to. After a few weeks of church the Bishop calls me into his office and asked me to be the Primary President. I accepted, knowing that I would not get the opportunity to meet anyone in the ward and that either myself or the children would be dead by the end of it. So for almost a year I went to church begrudgingly and not wanting to be there at all! I didn't know anyone, the few supposed friends we had never said a word to us at church and I didn't want to be there.
So after much discussion we decided to move. Although it is just a block or two from our first apartment I feel like I am in a totally different city. We have the most amazing ward. I don't want to brag, but really this is the best ward I have ever been in and I am afraid to say that I think it may be the best we will ever be in. We have an amazing bishopric, these guys will truly bend over backwards for you if you need them to. The Elder's Quorum President, one of our good friends, will not stop until the job is done. I mean heck he always invites the new people to his house for dinner on sunday, just so they feel like they belong. Amazing guy really. Our Relief Society President another amazing person, her husband is in the bishopric and they have recently become some of our closest friends. In fact we are having them over for FHE tomorrow. It is just a great ward to be in. I wish you could all experience a ward like this sometime in your life. It is one place that I actually feel like I belong.
I had to teach the Relief Society lesson today, and it couldn't have gone better. It was on Neil Andersen's conference talk, "It's true isn't it? Then what else matters?" It was an excellent opportunity to share stories with each other about the trials we face as young married Latter-Day Saint women. I feel so close to everyone in our ward although I may now know everyone personally I love them and would do anything for any of them. If any of you have not heard or read this talk I would suggest that you do, even if you have read it and then read President Hinckley's April 1973 talk, "It's true isn't it?" I got so much out of it and I Can't help but think that my trials are nothing to others who struggle so much and yet will give up everything for the gospel. Today I feel truly blessed to be in the ward that I am. I know I complain alot about the place I live, but I know that I can always go to church on Sunday and feel the love from the Sisters and Brothers of our Ward family. I know that the gospel of Jesus Christ is true. I have struggled with it in the past but I know now without a doubt that it is true, and that is what truly matters.

Idaho, wait no I'm not!!!

Just thought I would share some pictures since I have been such a slug recently!!! We have been having alot of fun and are now en route to Pismo Beach! YAY!!!! The first few are when we went camping with friends. Next is from a time we went Hiking and finally going to a really boring minor league baseball game for the tall guy's birthday.So enjoy!








See Idaho isn't all that bad....well at least in the summertime:o)

Hello again!

Life is good again! I am actually in Provo right now. The tall guy is preparing to leave to Seattle and is busy with all of that so I came to visit one of the sisters! If you have been to chronicler's blog you know that we have a new little one to add to our growing extended family. He is just the cutest little boy yet! I am so happy that things are going well for them. I miss the tall guy like crazy, but I guess I need to get used to it. After he graduates he will be working late and slaving away for the advertising world. Although we won't see each other as much I will be so excited when that day comes, because once he is finished I get to go back to school!YAY!!!!! As some of you know I will be finishing my Art History degree with a minor in Photography. It will be so fun! Unitl then I am preparing to take my Optician's lisence while I am working for a couple of eye doctors. It is pretty cool! So yes things are looking up! I will try to write more a little more this week, since the tall guy will be in Seattle. Until next time!!! :o)

Slacker!!!!!

Okay sorry I have been such a slacker recently! It has been a little crazy around here with my job and the new car! At work I have been running around like a mad woman and then not getting off until 6pm. So that means that dinner gets put on the back burner and poor hubby has to help me think of something quick and healthy, hah good luck! But he does a good job! I actually haven't felt like eating much recently though, the metformin the doctor has me on hasn't been doing much except make me feel pretty sick. I am think I need to call him and tell him that it has stopped working like it is supposed to, oh joy! So maybe he will up the dosage, eeek, or just change the medicine, which may be a good thing. Sorry if I am being really whiney today I just am feeling kinda down. Missing home, my family and the warmth. Missing my thin body, hating the fact that being insulin resistant makes you think about everything you take into your body.
I guess I need to look on the bright side though! I am healthy, my family is healthy, we all have strong testimonies of the gospel, and we will be welcoming a wonderful new little nephew here in a couple days!!! Yay! The tall guy and I found a cute little onesie, jumper type thing that will be so adorable that we need to send to him. I can't wait to see the picture of the cute little guy, I just wish I could be there to see him. It is amazing how much you appreciate your family when you are so far away from them. I am sorry for all the Idahoans that love this potato filled land, but I cannot stand it and I am ready to be done with it. The tall guy is going to Seattle in a couple weeks for an internship expedition for a couple days to see what internship opportunities may be out there when he is finished and I will be here by myself. It is actually a little scary because it will be the first time since we have been married that he will be gone for about a week. I will be okay though:o) I have work to keep me busy. So guys if you hear from me alot that week that is why, hehe! I won't have anyone else to talk to! Anyways I will stop rambling and complaining to you! I love you all!