Arctic Blast 2008

The media called our snowstorm The Arctic Blast, but the snow storm made for some wonderful pictures. This is a layout I did showing Dylan and Miles outside on December 21. They were having a wonderful time!

Lynzi 2008-09

Sarah finally gave me Lynzi's school pictures! So here she is, isn't she adorable? That little grin is her father all over!

My dad's birthday is January 8, the same as Elvis. So I made a birthday card that says happy birthday KING. (I don't know why the h in happy doesn't show up in the picture.) That's dad's head on the caricature.) On the inside of the card, it says, "I hear Elvis had a birthday too. Sending you a Hunka Hunka BIRTHDAY LOVE."

Caught in the act - sleeping it off - even Dylan, who was allowed to stay up for New Year's Eve with me and was up for the fireworks. Miles and Kayla took Valerie out to the American Legion, and must have had a pretty good time, to judge by how tired they were in these pictures!

Goodbye to 08

Here's a layout I did as a challenge for my S2L team at Spark People. It's a collage I made from pictures from 2008. It will be going in my 2008 Year Scrapbook.

Actual Before and Virtual After Pictures

I found a website that will project a I weight loss. Here I am, my actual before picture and my virtual after 50-pound loss picture. Now here's something to motivate me. I'll have to check out if I really look like if - I mean WHEN - I lose 50 pounds!

December 31, 2008 Progress Report

Here I am after losing 6 pounds since starting on Spark. I'm happy that I lost it, especially since it was during the holidays. But I was doing so much yo-yoing, that I sat down and calculated how much I had actually lost and gained. I lost 26 pounds, but gained back 20! I couldn't believe it was that bad. So now I'm going to try to do without wine and salt this month and see if I can do any better. And after 4 days off of wine and salt, I lost 3 more pounds! I really feel hopeful this time. I just hope I can keep it up.