Goal ATTAINED!!!

We don't have a scale in our bathroom. But we do have Wii Fit. Santa brought it two years ago. We've had a blast charting our weight since then, especially through my pregnancy and following it. We created a Mii for Joshua, and have watched his weight increase, and maintain for the past 7 months.

Today, I reached a goal of mine. I have been working on it off and on while chasing a 15 month old, working half-time, trying to continue to make noticeable improvements to our partially "set up" home, being in the Primary presidency at church, etc. I hit an all-time low on my weight, since April. Wohoo!! And April was the first time I hit this target since before Joshua was born. I figure April was the peak of nursing, and it's only been downhill since then. Well, I guess my weight has been a little uphill...

Anyway, congratulations to ME!!

(the hola-hoop should remind some of you of some

super funny memories we have together...)

(*photos borrowed from Nintendo)

Christmas Tree Drama

We picked out our Christmas tree this past weekend. We found a place to cut our own, and had fun bringing it home. We set it up, lit it, and started with ornaments.

About an hour after we finished decorating it, we heard a huge crash. We found this:

We called in for some reinforcements, and had some help re-fitting our tree into a larger base. But it still kept falling to one side.

We discovered upon further investigation that the trunk of our beautiful tree is not in the center of the branches. The tree is definitely growing fuller on one side, despite the symmetric appearance.

If you look closely, you'll see some fishing line holding our tree to our window, preventing it from diving into our room again. But don't look too closely...

We restrung the lights, and waited to see if the tree would flop again. We may have lost our energy to decorate a tree this year....But this morning, we finally put ornaments back on the tree, and it is beautiful.

Thanksgiving 2010

This year we joined the Heatons in Kiawah South Carolina for a few days before Thanksgiving. Joshua loved being on the beach, and we enjoyed riding bikes, beautiful weather, playing games,

and eating wonderful food the entire trip.