Soccer

This years soccer season has been a lot of fun. Devin has started almost every Varsity game and they have had a great season. They ended taking first seed in our Region, tying with Timpanogos High School. We played two games in the State Finals and lost to Viewmont. Lehi High School was the first High School to play in the new Rio Tinto Stadium. We played Copper Hills and beat them 2-0. It has been fun to watch Devin play and grow in his sport. We will miss going to the games, freezing at the games, and most of all enjoying watching Devin play the game he loves so much.

Working Hard!

At the beginning of the year I told everyone that I wanted to lose some weight. I have been working really hard and am still working hard. I have been asked at Curves to do a before and after picture and write a short paragraph about my hard work. Since I am feeling pretty good about things, I am sharing with everyone. I have lost 27 pounds and still want to lose more. It is possible to live pretty normal and still lose weight. Now, the trick is to keep it off.

New News!

I am going to try to update some of the new things in our lives.

1. Devin got accepted to BYU and will be attending in the fall.
2. Daniel had his 25th birthday!
3. Steve had surgery on his eye. They were able to correct quite a few things and he is doing pretty good. He is in some pain and has some discomfort still. He still has to wear a patch and he doesn't like that. It will be a few more weeks with the patch.
4. Devin finally got all his paperwork turned in for his Eagle and we should be having the board of review soon and then we can plan a Court of Honor.
5. After a tedious and nerve wracking (for mom) soccer try-out Devin is on the Lehi High Soccer team again this year.
5. Today is Devin's 18th birthday and we are having a party tonight with all his friends. Should be fun!

That is our life in a nut-shell. We are all fine but I, especially have been crazy busy!

TAGGED

I have been tagged by Karolynn, my cousin to take the 6th picture from the 6th folder and post it on my blog. Mine is not too exciting. It is a picture of our backyard when we were putting in the grass about 2 1/2 years ago.

I tag Shauna, Krista, Nicole, Betty Jo, Sarah, & Stephanie!

We are pretty boring

We have had a fairly nice, not too interesting month. I survived the first week of intense dieting, no chocolate all week long. I am craving something sweet but am determined to stick to the plan. I have been exercising all week, too.

The snow just keeps piling up and Steve is snow shoveling addict. He shovels even when it is still snowing. He is crazy! He is the joke of the neighborhood because he even shovels the street. I appreciate his hard work and he was in heaven when I told him one of the preschool kids asked me how my driveway is always so clear. It is snowing again so he will be shoveling again tomorrow.

We went the BYU basketball game Saturday night against San Diego. It was a great game and BYU won! BYU was ahead the whole game but at the end they almost gave it away. We stayed almost until the bitter end. It was fun and we got to spend some time with Linda and Mark. We didn't get any of the royal treatments Krista and Chris got because we were way up in the nose bleeds but we still had fun. Darn, I am getting old, I have forgotten the BYU fight song. Oh, well, it was fun to try to remember the words. Go BYU!!!!

New Year's Resolutions!

We went to Vegas the day after Christmas and enjoyed the wonderful warm weather there. We had fun visiting with relatives and lots of old friends. If we didn't get to see you, we ran out of time. We rang in the New Year with everyone playing Rock Band, they even got me to sing a few songs, playing games, and eating lots and lots of junk. We had a great time and reluctantly returned to the "Frozen Tundra" on Traverse Mountain. It was good to get home even though it has been extremely cold, BRRRRR!!!!

Now that we are home it is time to start thinking about all those New Year's Resolutions that I should write down but usually don't take the time to do it. That is probably why they usually don't get accomplished. I will start with my most and foremost resolution. I want to get healthier this year and so am going to try to exercise every day and eat better, hoping that I will lose that extra 50 pounds that I have been carrying around. That is my number one goal. One day down and I did pretty good. Now I need to try not to eat anything else today!

I also want to try to get into a better routine at reading my scriptures and reading the Ensign, personal prayers and maybe even take up journal writing. Those are all the goals that I usually have every year. Another one for this year is to get more organized and weed out some of the "stuff" that I have been hanging on to for way too long. I know, I know, a lot of you already think that I am pretty organized but, hey, how can I stay organized if I don't keep setting those kinds of goals. I also would like to get my scrapbooking for my Alaska trip and my China trip done. Well, those are a few of the goals I have. I would like to include another trip to somewhere exotic but I think our finances need to recover for a few years.

Good luck to all of you with all your New Year's Resolutions and maybe, just maybe at the end of the year, I will let you know how I did.

Completing Devin's Eagle

I am sorry that I have neglected the blog lately. Life during the holidays has hit!

Devin completed the last part of his Eagle Project. We raised the flag pole and had a nice flag ceremony. Devin asked the Cub Scouts to come and do the flag ceremony. The guy who sold us the flag pole came and helped and gave a great talk on patriotism. It was pretty cool because you could hear the artillary going off at Camp Williams during the raising of the flag. Steve said we had the "Rockets bursting in air". Now we need to get the write up done and then schedule the court of honor. Hopefully it will be soon after the first of the year.