New Journey

I started a new journey yesterday, and that is a quest for a healthier lifestyle which I'm hoping will result in permanent weight loss. I'm not starting any fad diet or using any weight loss pills, but I am reading this book called "Healthy for Life" by Dr. Ray Strand. It has been a real eye opener for me. I don't usually put things out there in the open for the whole world to know what I'm doing (especially dealing with weight issues and weightloss), but I feel that by doing so will help me be more accountable for my new lifestyle. I'm going to admit that I'm nervous and scared of failure, and that my motivation will quickly go away (like it has in the past), but I'm determined more than ever to be healthy, to look healthy and finish what I've started. So I hope you don't mind that I periodically let you know how my new lifestyle is going and I'm going to post before, during and after pictures as well.

Halloween 2009

Our Halloween week started off with a neighborhood party. We played (of course), decorated cookies (they didn't quite know what to do with them), and played games, the girls were so cute, we played duck duck goose, and when they'd say goose, they ALL got up and ran around chasing each other. Here's a few pictures of our PaRTy:








On Friday we ventured over to the school's Halloween parade. We re-used a costume that Ian was in 2nd grade, a Colonial Soldier, he loves history, I love the fact that he wants to be completely different that what is the normal or most popular thing to be.

we dressed Morgan up in her ladybug costume from last year for the school parade.

Jeff had some vacation days to use up so he took Wednesday-Friday off to work on this:

his mad scientist lab

this is only a portion of what he did. He had the outside taped off, spiderwebs, and 3 different scary music soundtracks playing in different locations. He even went as far as shaving his head for.

And here are the pictures of Jeff and the kids all dressed up. One of these days I'll get my act together and find a cool costume that I can make, I'd love to dress up too, but can't find the time to make a costume for myself.