The Healthy Game

Well, it's been a while since I've posted anything. I was holding off because I thought my Christmas blog should come frist but since it's February tomorrow I give up. I might still make a post with some good Christmas videos and pictures. There is some good stuff I think.
You might have heard Eric complain about it, but I've recently decided that I'm going to make a renewed effort at being more healthy. Before you get annoyed with me becaue I'm not technically "overweight" (I hear it from Eric everyday) I would like to have a chance to defend myself. There are several reasons that I've decided to get into this.
First, I have a whole stack of jeans in my closet (6 or 7 pair. No Joke) that I can't fit into and I'm tired of wearing the same pair of jeans just because I lack the self control to stop eating junk. I cann't justify speading the money on bigger clothes.
Second, I had been feeling very lathargic lately and I felt like I couldn't get enough sleep. I know I'm not pregnant and I sit on my butt all day at work so it has to be my eating and activity habits.
Third, a personal trainer here at work told me that I'm in the bottom 10% for strength (my endurance is in the TOP 10% in my defence)and painted a vivid picture for me discribing how when I'm 60 I will have to have help getting off the toliet. If that's not motivating I don't know what is.
And Lastly, since Eric is so busy with work and school I find I have a lot more free time lately so I was looking for a hobby. I figure this is the kind of thing I could spend a lot of time doing with researching, excersizing and planning meals and it would be benificial for both of us.
I would also like to state that I'm not doing this for Eric as I have been accused of but I don't think it would hurt him either. I'm trying to motivate him with out being pushy. So far he just thinks I'm crazy but he loves me anyway.
So I joined the Biggest Loser Club online. It's so handy! They make me a meal plan and shopping list for the weak and include yummy recipes. The website also made me an excersize program and I get to personalize.
Last week I lost 2 pounds but, unfortunately I gained one back because I over did it on Eric's birthday and on a trip to Tooele to visit Eric's grandparents (what a hoot!). My ultimate goal is to lose about 25 pounds to be back were I was when I graduated from high school but I would be happy with a 15 pound loss.
Some of my immediate results have been very encouraging. I feel like my energy level has gone much higher and it's more stable instead of spikes and valleys. My skin is clearing up from all the water I'm drinking and I'm proud of myself for working out. The endorphins make me happier and "happy people don't just shoot their husband."
There is a negative side effect though. I have to get up to go potty a billion times a day because of all the water I'm drinking.

It's a Race

This is just to let everyone know that I added the funniest video ever at the bottom of my blog. Enjoy. :)

Wedding Pictures

YAY!! Kalli finished our wedding and reception pictures! These are just a few I pulled off her photography blog. I will make a slide show soon but I wanted to get these up asap. :) Here is her blog if you want to see a few more of us and some amazing pictures she's done for other people. http://www.kallinasmithphotography.blogspot.com/

This Christmas I gave you my heart!

Merry Christmas!
I've never had time fly by so quickly! I'm using a cute advent calendar I received as a gift this year and every time I change the block I can't help but think "I just did this!"
Eric and I are so excited for our first Christmas together. We are all kinds of mushy and lovey dovey. Not that we aren't all the time but especially so this month. We love looking at our tree and having hot cocoa. I like the fireplace on more than Eric does. He thinks it's a waste of gas. And that's probably true if you are Scrooge but it's magical at Christmas time and it's worth every penny!
We were both pretty frustrated that most of our presents to eachother won't be surprises. It's hard when you only have one car and one bank account but we did our best! Actually, Eric is sure that I know what's under the tree for me but, honestly, I have a guess but I don't really know. So it's still really fun for me. :)
Our good friend, Kalli, gave us some good newlywed advice. She told us to take lots of pictures for the first everything. She said she and her husband (who celebrated their first Christmas last year) regretted not taking more pictures. I hope we are too lazy to get it out. We have trouble with that.
My sister Jen let me borrow her book called The Christmas Sweater by Glenn Beck and I read the whole thing last night. I highly recommend it!!

Have a good season!!

Happily Ever After

I was telling my friend the other day about the night Eric and I decided to get married and I thought maybe I should post it so I don't forget. Plus, it's cute and mushy so maybe ya'll would like to hear about it.

I was at Eric's apartment late one night (that happened a lot) and he was on the phone with me while I was driving home to make sure I didn't fall asleep and kill myself. We were having a fairly deep conversation but unfortunately I can't remember the details anymore. However, I do remember perfectly how he sounded when he said "maybe we should look at rings." I was about 2 minutes from home and I did an illegal U turn and headed the 20 minutes back to Provo.

When I got there, he was waiting for me on his porch. We were both grinning when I parked illegally and ran at him. He grabbed me and we just hugged and kissed and laughed for about 15 minutes. It really was late and I had to go home but this time there wasn't a chance I would fall asleep and I don't think I slept that night.

The next day I was waiting for Eric to get home from work and I decided to go look at dresses. I ended up buying the second one I tried on. With out my mom, my friends, my sisters or anyone's opinion. I loved it. Nobody even knew we were talking about marriage. (We had only been dating for 6 weeks.)

I couldn't believe it was real. That it was my turn to have my dreams come true. And Eric is my dream come true.

This was taken on my phone by the girl who helped me at the shop. I sent it to Eric. :)

Here's the back.
All before it was altered and ironed. :)

Tag

Where is your cell phone? In my pocket. Not that I get a lot of really important calls but I feel naked with out it now.

Where is your significant other? At work. Across the hall. :)
Your hair color? What naturally? Hmmm... Don't really know for sure. Some kind of brown.
Your Mother? Gave me her personality.

Your Father? Organized.

Your favorite thing? My ring. It means so much and it's from my favorite person.
Your dream last night? We had a really big house (old but big) and Shannon kept changing rooms and she was mad because I got the one she wanted. I have a lot of dreams.
Your dream/goal? To be a mommy

The room your in? The Customer Care room (people don't seem to care that it's QA too)
Your hobby? Reading

Your fear? Messing up my kids

Where do you want to be in 6 years? I want 2 babies and to own some piece of property.

Where were you last night? With Eric on a double date with Kalli and Joel. We saw Madagascar 2. Good. But not as good as the first.

What you're not ? Pregnant but thanks for asking.

One of your wish-list items? Nintendo DS and some good books.

Where you grew up? Riverton

The last thing you did? Graded a call
What are you wearing? Jean jacket, gray T-shirt, and olive green cargos.

Your T.V.? Given to us! 32" flat screen LCD. Tube technology so that beast is heavy.
Your pet? Kitty Tigerlily. Lily or Lils for short.
Your computer? Laptop bought on credit for college. Still love it though!
Your mood? Abnormally tired. Eric woke me up when he came to bed at 3 am. That man...
Missing someone? Jen. I should call her.
Your car? Honda Accord. 1993 baby!
Something you're not wearing? Sombreo

Favorite store? Best buy or ... Wal-Mart. Or the Mall in general. Basically I just like to shop.

Your summer? Married my best friend.
Love someone? Well that would be sad if someone didn't!
Your favorite color? Yellow

When was the last time you laughed? Watching Eric this morning. He's way too tired.
Last time you cried? I'm sure yesterday. I cry a lot.

I tag:
Kalli
Aubri
Emilee

Away Games

This was 3 months ago. But at least I'm doing it!

Eric and I flew to San Diego for our honeymoon! Thanks to Aunt Shawna, we were able to fly out to San Diego and have the nicest rental car for more than an affordable price. Well, more than affordable for others, just affordable of us. :) Thankfully, Eric's parents let us take the GPS system so we were able to find our way around. The roads in California scare the daylights out of me. I got on Eric's nerves quite a bit by sideseat driving. He asked if I wanted to drive so I shut up after that but I was still very tense every time we were on one of the billion freeways/exit ramps/on ramps/side streets/ect.

Anyway, we were pretty proud of ourselves for navigating the airport, the roads and booking the hotel all by ourselves. That is something you take for granted that your parents take care of. Our hotel was pretty nice, except that we booked a room with a king bed and got 2 double beds. We used one bed for our luggage and snuggled on the other. Part of the reason we chose this hotel was the pool and (go figure) we never used it, but all in all we were happy with our choice.

We actually made it back to the hotel pretty early every night and we were usually out of the hotel by 8 in the morning. We liked to go get breakfast and Denny's ended up being our favourite place. The weather was perfect all week and we didn't get in a car wreck so I was thankful for that. I think sports center was almost constantly on the whole time we were in our room. I got pretty sick of hearing about Bret Farve going to the Jets but it was a good indication of what was to come with regards to the TV in our home. Oh well, I guess it's better than trashy shows.

As for our activities, we bought Gocards. The cards got us into all kinds of places and came with a book that told us about other cool things to see. We went to the San Diego Zoo, LegoLand, Knottsberry Farm's water park, Old Town and to a small amuesment park right on a boardwalk next to the ocean. We also went to Corona Island and played at the ocean, to see the Dark night, and to Dave and Busters.

I will now give you a small review of the above attractions.

The San Diego Zoo was huge! The best part was watching the Polar Bears play with toys in the water. We went underground and could see into the pool through glass. (Did that make sense?) I didn't see any penguins though and I thought that was kind of weird. The monkeys were pretty fun too. We took a bus tour to see most of it and were done about halfway through the day.

LegoLand would have been really fun if we had children under the age of 10. The best part was watching the toddlers in the water play area. Otherwise, it's not for adults.

Seven Peaks is way better than Knottsberry Farms water park except for one ride. You come down a slide into a giant funnel and go up and down and it's pretty high. I bet you could see it online.

Old Town was fun for shopping and just wandering. I've heard the mexican food there is the best ever but Eric preffered to eat Jack In the Box's meat sandwhiches the whole trip.

The amusment park was awesome! You go up on the wooden roller coaster and you see the whole ocean! We then got giant ice cream cones and people watched. We saw a real beach bum too! He had to have been in his late 20's and was carrying a boombox on his shoulder with his pack. I wish we had gotten a picture.

Playing in the ocean was Eric's favourite even though he carried me most of the time because the seaweed touching my legs really grossed me out. Seriously, you can't see the bottom and then you get slimed and tangled in it. UGH. I had a really good time too though. It was fun to try to body surf. Mostly we just ate a lot of seawater but it was funny.

Dave and Busters is like an adult Chucky Cheese. We got dinner for a really good price and got a lot of credits to play arcade games! There are little tables everywhere for people to put there beer down. That was different. It was really fun to play games with Eric. I beat him at every racing game including the motorcylce one. Eric didn't seem to like that but he beat me at everything else so I think its fair.

The last day I got a UTI and that SUCKED. Basically, there was nothing we could do till we got back to Utah. The day we flew home we wanted to have the rental car back early just incase and ended up sitting the in the airport from 10 to 6. I had to go to the bathroom about a thousand times but thankfully I had Breaking Dawn to read. There were 2 little sparrows that lived in the airport and they are really fun to watch so that was a plus. Eric didn't have a very good time with his new grumpy and sick wife that day but he made it through unscathed.

Unfortunately, we didn't take very many pictures at all but I'll include some that we did manage to get the camera out for.

This is on the bus tour of the Zoo. The baby pandas were freakin adorable.

This is at the amusement park and Eric is sporting his new Old Town T-shirt.
Big ice cream cones! I got cookie dough, I can't remember what Eric got but he didn't really like it I recall...


This is the best picture we took of the ocean and that's our rental car.