its the most wonderful time of the year!

life has been so fun lately! i LOVE this time of the year!!! last weekend I went with Stephanie, Lori, and Darlene to do the Walk through Christmas that the Waters church in Sartell does, basically its walking through a Christmas story and this years theme was Scrooge, so that was great- and then we sang Christmas carols too! so fun!

then Mary, Lori, Stephanie and I had a Christmas party and it was so fun! we even played pool and it turns out I'm pretty good at it! LOL!!! who knew?! we even did a fun white elephant gift exchange! now i'm getting so excited for Disney! YAH! just gotta get through work tomorrow! so exciting! i just hope i can keep up with my old man!!! :)

i'm 30!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

i cannot believe it!!! its like CRAZINESS to think that I've been on this planet for 30 years! I had such a fun day though!

it started with church this morning with Lori and Stephanie-and I got to see Susan from the NW campus too, so that was great and then after church i went to hang out with the family! although kevy was sick, but it was fun to hang out with my crazy family. we didnt watch the Sound of music this year, because skating was on! LOL!!! so i wore a sound of music shirt that my mom got my sister when she went to austria and now it fits me! YAH!!

and then i proceeded to eat everything in sight at my party, so its time to get back on tomorrow!

after the party i met up with Sara for my free dinner at La Casita, which was so yummy and free food is always awesome!!

so its been a great day! thanks for all the birthday wishes, so far 30 is pretty awesome!!!

FANTASTIC day and I'm almost 30! wait, what?!??!

I feel like my fellow reception girls are gelling together and i LOVE it!! Its me, Karen, Kaitlyn, and Tara. its like the dream team at SCMG! so things are great there- and then i went to my awesome book study called "The best yes" by Lysa T! LOVE her and my J girls- Mary, Stephanie, and Lori-great group of women! so happy and I'm almost 30!!!! less than a week! which means I only have 5 days to find a guy, get married and get pregnant! wish me luck!!! LOL! :)

my dad got a clean bill of health!! HALLELUJAH!!!

YAH!!!! here i was thinking all the worst possible scenerios like surgery and no Disney, but he got a clean bill of health! so happy! I think it just freaks me out seeing people bringing in their aging parents to there appointments and even sadder yet when a facility brings in someone because they don't have any family- i had to help an older lady fill out paperwork because she had no one with her-although i think she answered no to everything i asked her, so im not sure how much that helped! LOL!!!

praise God for the good news! on to other updates- we got our first snow fall of the year and it was over a foot!!! WOOF-DAH! I usually love the first snow fall, but this one was EPIC-ALLY bad!!! boooo!! the first snow fall is supposed to be a small amount and beautiful, not huge and having to figure out how to get to work and home again, when i only live 5 minutes away. Although it was nice seeing all of us coworkers helping people get out of the parking lot-snow angels literally!!!!

other than that things have been good. working out like crazy (especially in preparation for December-yes I feel like December is going to be a bad eating month-ugh!) with potlucks at work, Disney trip and I plan to cheat Christmas Eve and day. oh boy. so working out and being good!!!

and right now it is snowing a small amount and i don't have to drive in it, which is PERFECT!!! now i can sing "it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas-everywhere you go!!!!!"    :)

wow-its been awhile huh?? (pretty predictable though!!) LOL!

i have a very serious prayer request. I need prayers for my dad. his doctor (who i work with-ironic huh?) discovered his cholestoral (i'll be amazed if i ever learn how to spell that medical term or diahrea correctly) was really, really high, so i am begging for prayers. I hate that this could be something we have to go through again. I know nothing, but we are waiting for lab results to give us some answers and of course this had to happen over the weekend. ugh. please be praying.

otherwise things are good-working (almost been at my job for a year-craziness!) and just laying low. nothing much else to report. Please pray! Thanks!

Camp Lebanon

was AMAZING!!! we had so much fun! and i ate SOOOO much, but it was SOOOO good! I gained 7 pounds! YIKES! i knew what was going to happen and it did-my cheating days lingered until Tuesday, so in 5 days i gained 7 pounds- i thought it was going to be A LOT more, and so far this week has been going well, so i am hoping that this shows up at weigh in next week. kinda nervous, but if i gain or maintain, then i still have until the beginning of November to lose and i am still in my weight range, so I'm actually not too worried about it and kinda feel like its okay to get off plan like this, as long as i get back.

it was so nice to go up north for the weekend and just get away from it all-the worship was great and so were the speakers. Stephanie and I had so much zip lining too (even though it was FREAKING outside!) and we even went on a boat ride-BRRRR!!! it was also fun to meet some westwood girls too!!

great weekend was had-how was yours?!?! let's kick this weeks hiney butt and make it awesome! GOOOOO team! :)

i lost 5 pounds this week!!! HOORAY! Happy October!!

so exciting!!! I feel like a huge weight has been lift, like 5 pounds! LOL! i think i am figuring out that i am much better when i have to lose weight then maintaining, so I was nervous about this coming weekend because I am going to Camp Lebanon and won't have control over my meal plans, but I think I am just going to wing it and then come back guns blazing and if I linger off plan for a couple days after I get home I think I'm okay with that. Last week I used up my 49 extra points (when normally I use like 10-20) and I ended up losing 5 pounds, so I think I need to give myself wiggle room. So I'm doing another experiment this week, I'll let you know how it goes!

BTW-how crazy was I to experiment with my 49 pts right before the beginning of the month and needing to be within my goal or I have to pay my fees-I KNOW RIGHT!!! i wasn't planning on it, but I just keep eating an eating, but at least I was tracking! so that's good!

Well let's finish off the rest of this week with a bang! Looking forward to a peaceful weekend up north with Stephanie-peaceful HA!! more like peaceful with a zip lining adventure (and Im still nervous, even though we did it last year!) LOL!! wish me luck!