Again, pic over-load!

Me, My Mom and Lauren went to Vegas for a fun little weekend vacation. We had soo much fun!! The first night we went to my Aunt Julies house and hung out then went to her Stake RS b-day part. Her and my Uncle performed as Emma and Joseph they did such a good job!! After that we went to one of our favorite places U Swirl mmmm I love frozen yogurt! Then we went back to their house and watched a movie that we all ended up falling asleep in!! The next morning we got up and went to a brunch buffet (soooo bad but soooo yummy!) Then we went shopping! All day! The babies were soo good and had a fun time in their little cars! Look how cute!

Cate hangin out and making silly faces!

Back to our Vegas trip! We stayed a hotel and spent the next day swimming and laying out. This was soo nice and relaxing! Again, the babies were so good and LOVED it! Cate even liked going under the water!

Cate got her ears pierced!!

Oh! I can't forget our new addition! Ella! Our little Pomchi! She is so cute and tiny!

Great Grampa Winder

Another trip to Vegas (Ok so with these 2 trips to Vegas I gained 5lbs!!! So sad! BUT I lost that 5lbs and I'm working hard at losing more! I'm in another biggest loser challange so I wont be posting weight loss till thats done...wish me luck!!)

Sleepover! I've been doing lots of these since Matts schedule changed to grave yard shift (yuck)! For those of you that didn't hear Matt got promoted!! He got a 3$/hour raise, benefits and PTO Yay!!

Not the best Pictures BUT Kamrynn won 1st attendant in the Miss Toquerville pageant!! We are so dang proud of her! Good job T!

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I won the weight loss challenge! It was soooo scary because it was sooooo close. Danielle was only less than a percent from coming in first! Whew!! Like I said...tough tough competition! Matt came in 3rd place! He lost 12lbs! Good job babe! Thanks for the Challenge Danielle!

Weight Loss

Thanks for all of the sweet comments!!

A couple of you asked how I am trying to lose weight. I'm just eating less (counting calories) and exercising (every now and then its the hardest for me!!) oh and not eating past 7ish. I haven't wanted to do a "diet" because I want to do something that I will do forever. I eat what I want, just not as much! So far its working out!

Since last time I posted about weight loss, 3 weeks ago, I've lost 6 pounds. Its been a little bit easier since I've know I had to post my weight loss (thanks for listening and supporting me :)) BUT losing weight is still HaRd. There are so many dang good temptations out there!

Matt and I have been doing a weight loss challenge with some friends since the middle of November (horrible-right before all of the holidays!) and we weigh in tonight to see who wins!! I'm so nervous!! We have tough competition! I'm a little nervous, this is probably tmi but... its that time of the month.. and so I'm bloated and I've retained a little extra water :( I hope whatever shows up on the scale tonight is enough! If its not I feel good and I'm fitting into smaller clothes that's kinda better than the money I could win...right?!

I'll let you know the end results of the challenge later!

Our Girl

Cate is getting so big and discovering so many new things every day!

She is discovering how to get into mommys diaper bag....

how to stand up all by herself...how to make make mom and dad laugh our heads off!...

we are trying to help her discover being nice to cousin!!

And lastly she has discovered a mean nasty screem! It drives me NuTs!! Hopefully my efforts to get her to stop will help SOON!!

(Weight loss post next week!!)

V-Day

Ward Valentine Day Dance

Lauren & Liby

I HAVE to do this!

Ok, so I've tried and then given up and then tried and then quit, again and again! Losing weight. Its hard. I've been doing good for about 4 months now and its taking a long time...but it feels good! So good! I'm starting to feel not so motivated again and so I need a challenge! I'm going to post my progress (and sometimes not so much progress). Maybe this way I'll have a little extra push...I DON'T want to post weight gain! Sometimes I wont lose any and that's ok, as long as I'm being healthy!

So here is a little history...

This is right before I got married. Me-weighing my lowest weight since I was a Junior in High School. At this point I still had about 35lbs to lose

Then I got married. I gained it ALL back plus some... 25lbs

(This is one of the only kinda full body shots I have..and I know exactly why!)

Then I gained 31lbs while I was pregnant! So that's 61lbs more than when I got married and 91lbs to lose to be at my goal weight (I can't believe I'm saying this, so embarrassing!)!!!!!

A week after I had Cate I lost most of the pregnancy weight, 21lbs. I think most of that weight was in my feet!! I weighed 10lbs more than when I got pregnant (no pic).

And here I am now 8 months later (I've been losing for about 4 months) and I've lost 30lbs. Soooo, 5lbs till I get to my weight on my wedding day and 40 to my goal weight! I like to make short term goals, my next goal is to lose 25 by June. It seems really easy but my weight loss has slowed way way down and so I think this is pretty practical for me.

I have lots of family and friends trying to lose weight right along with me. I know we can do it guys! Lets be strong!! I HAVE to do this (especially now!!! Haha)

And of Course...

More pictures of our baby!

Family Birthday Party

Hahhaha! My very awesome & fun Gramma Hawke started a new tradition. She and her husband are here for a few months of the year from Canada and every January she is going to have a huge family birthday party. Since there are so many of us, its much easier to do it all at once then trying to remember all year long! As you can see this year we played lots of fun/crazy games! Games like~ blowing marshmellows out of our noses and seeing who shot it the furthest (yeah...I won't be posting any of those pictures!!), throwing and aiming choclotate syrup covered marshmellows into our partners mouth & collecting as many spoons on our heads as we could. We also had cake and a yummy dinner and opened presents from her! Thanks Gramma! We had a blast!

Our Big Girl

Look how grown up our little girl looks!