Grandmas Obituary

This is the link to my grandmas obituary.
http://www.legacy.com/Link.asp?I=LS000125999947X

Heaven....

Last night my sweet, beautiful, amazing, gracious grandmother passed from this world into the next. Our hearts are heavy. We are mourning the loss of this beautiful daughter of God but with the peace and knowledge that God lives and that our Savior has felt every earthly pain we move forward. We feel blessed that she did not have to suffer any longer and I am eternally blessed to have her as my Grandmother. I feel honored to have known her on this earth and can't wait for the day I will see her again. My Grandfather invited us to attend the temple today, so we went to feel the spirit of peace. It was beautiful! I am grateful for the knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and his eternal plan, I know that she is in heaven and that I will see her again because of the Atonement of my and your Savior Jesus Christ.

Funny things

I have been sick all weekend so I ended up not going to boot camp today. Hopefully missing one day won't put me too off of schedule. I am also super duper bummed that I wasn't able to go to Paul Cardall's benefit concert. I am sure that it was amazing and I am mad that I had to miss it. I hope that it was a raving success.

I wanted to share a few funny things my kids have said in the past little while....

-yesterday we had a water spill on our front room floor. I went to the closet and pulled out the sham-wows that I bought a few months ago and have never used. Mady looked at me and said "SHAM-WOW!!, that is awesome, those things really work!" Ryan and I looked at each other and thought how the heck has she heard of the sham-wow? Oh ya we remember, it was all those late night info-mercials she would watch instead of sleeping, little stinker.

-The other day we went to my grandmas house to visit it was dark when we were getting ready to leave, Mady and Ellie were walking out the door while I was saying goodbye to Grandma, we then heard Mady say "just keep going Ellie-NO matter what!" I wonder what she thought was out there?

-The other night after the priesthood session of conference Ryan came home and was helping put the girls to bed. He was telling the girls what he learned-one of his comments was that he learned how to be a better father-Mady responded"Finally" It was pretty dang hilarious. Ryan is an amazing father.

Kids are so silly! Love my girls!!!

Day 5!!! Yahoo!!!

Holy Crow I can't believe i actually completed a whole week. I was trying to decide if I was even going to make it this morning but my downstairs neighbor helped motivate me and offered to watch my kids. I didn't go at 5 am I ended up going at 7am, which was way better. Today we were testing how fast we could run/fast walk a mile I did mine in 14 mins. That is alittle dissapointing but hey first week. Then we did the ladder how many steps we could do in a minute I got to 61 which again isn't that great but definatly room for improvement. Then we tested on pushups-I did 10-girl ones-so now i know and I can work on improving those results. I am really feeling good. I am not as tired as I normally am and my body is not nearly as sore as it was the first part of the week, so thats nice. Thanks super much for all your encouraging words, before I go to work out I look at the posts and they help me get motivated. Thanks

Did you know that April is National Donate Life Month!! This is obviously a very near and dear topic for us. Organ Donation saved my sons life and everyday we are so grateful for the amazing gift our heart family gave to us. I am so thankful to them for saying yes! So if you would click on this picture and you can register to donate life!! It really is a hard thing to think about but if you do it know and let your loved ones know your decision you could literally save lives. Thanks a million!!

Day 3 and 4 of Boot Camp

So yesterday wasn't as bad as I thought-don't get me wrong it was super duper hard but once I started moving my legs they didn't hurt(it also might have helped that I took two ibuprofen before I went to work-but that's besides the point) Today was super hard we worked on abs and arms- I am just not a strong person but I will be(hopefully). Tomorrow is my last day with the 30 lb weight pack-Hallelujah! I have to go exercise tomorrow at 5 am, I am not a morning person and have never claimed to be so hopefully I get there....

Day 2 and Goodbye Mustache March!

So today went really well with the boot camp. We worked on arms which was hard but not nearly as hard as legs. I am so stinkin sore. I just might become addicted to ibuprofin. Tomorrow we are working on legs again so that should be interesting because I can barely stand up.

This month Ryan decided to join in the mustache march ritual(thanks a lot Topher). He had a lot of fun with it, doing differant styles, etc. It was fun while it lasted but I am sure glad its over. Ah, he is handsome no matter what. Love ya baby!

Day 1

So I was a total basket case all day long. I was so nervous and just was needed a lot of pep talks. I hate the unknown. So I got to boot camp a little early because I knew that I needed to sign some papers,etc. I walk up to the door and... it was locked no one was there. Ahh! It took all of my courage to come this far. So I went and sat in my car and thought well maybe I'm not as fat as I think, I can maybe go to the rec center, or maybe I will buy an eliptical trainer. Then I look up and see the number to call if you have any questions. So I called and the lady said she would be there in five minutes. A few minutes later this super skinny cute girl unlocks the door and goes in. I am thinking um I need some encouraging words, so I called Ryan. He told me I could do and that I would be fine. OK, still feeling nervous I called my friend Natalie-no answer. So I think if I can just get my butt out of this car we can do it. I did it ya, I got out of my car. That ended up being the easy part. Today we worked on legs. We started out on the tredmill then we did lots of reps for leg workouts. Ouchie!! I am not in shape at all. Who knew that kneeling down and then standing up again 15 times would be so hard. That was the hardest thing I did today. Oh and I forgot to add we had to do this all with a 30 pound backpack on. You only have to have the backpack on the first week so hopefully I won't die this week. My legs are super sore but not as sore as I thought they would be, nothing a little lortab won't fix...j/k...maybe. This will be one of the hardest physical things I have ever done but I can do it.!! Thanks for the encouragement it helped alot!!