While Mom's (and Dad) Been Gone...

Here's what the yard looks like as of yesterday afternoon:

Trip South

Just before we left for our California/Arizona visit, I snapped a couple of photos of the first part of the tulip bloom. I'm thinking that when we return, we could be in for an exciting display.

We left about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday and drove to Mesquite and stayed at the Virgin River Casino/Hotel. I was busy a lot of the way with phone calls I needed to make including a phone appointment with a client for an hour. Wednesday we answered email for a while and then got going south again. We stopped in Vegas to get Dad a shirt from Las Vegas Harley Davidson (he's getting quite the collection going now). It was a great showroom--large, lot's of bikes. And they had a bunch of mannequins modeling Harley clothes with a Las Vegas flair. Also, notice the gas tank autographed by Bruce Springsteen. Then, naturally, we stopped for lunch at the Mad Greek in Baker.

Spring Snowstorm 2009

Last week we woke up to winter, again. A few shots around the house.

Healthy Habits Challenge

This is being done in my ward right now for the second time. The first time I started it but dropped out, and the second time I knew myself well enough to not even sign up. (It started the week of Amanda's surgery and I knew I was headed into survival mode.) Anyway. . .

You have been challenged live the following habits for the next 12 weeks! The idea of the Healthy Habits Challenge is to motivate each other to develop 10 healthy lifestyle habits.

To participate you score yourself "on your honor" every day and then each week send in the number of points you have earned to me. I'll send out a weekly email with point totals for all participants. You can earn up to 10 points per day. Sundays are days off- you get to take a break with no points earned/lost. The person with the most points in the end wins a small prize.

The competition runs April 27 - July 18. Let me know if you plan to participate by emailing me by this Sunday, April 26th.

Daily Habits (1 point each)
1. 7 hours of sleep (not necessarily consecutive--naps count too)
2. 30 minutes of exercise (not necessarily consecutive)
3. No sweets/unhealthy snacks
4. 64 oz. of water
5. 3 servings of veggies, 2 servings of fruit
6. No soda
7. No eating after 8:00 PM
8. 15 minutes of scripture reading (family reading counts)
9. One journal entry in the journal type of your choice (personal, blog, etc.)
10. Choose you own habit (flossing, prayer, service, etc.)

For those of you who are pregnant or nursing:
You may eat after 8 pm if you have an extra serving of fruit or vegetables that day.

Oh, and everybody's lowest week will be dropped from the tally.


GOOD LUCK!


Any takers? Email me if you want to participate.

Oh, and if anybody else got sucked into the infomercial for Power 90 and bought it, I'm going to start it tomorrow and would love a partner to start with. Let me know.

Iris knows how to conduct herself during Easter egg hunts - to the point of ONLY collecting eggs, and passing by the candy. Jimmy, on the other hand, didn't see eggs, he saw "balls."

Some Easter Pictures

I wish I had more pictures of everyone! Lili and Caitlin, you should add some from your cameras! We missed all of you who weren't there. Iris and Jimmy were the only ones there to do the Easter egg hunt... we are excited to see you all in July!

Just for fun

In no particular order, and for no other reason than I came across these while going through a box of pictures during conference.

Enjoy, but don't count to make sure there's an even number of everybody -- there's surely not. But, there will be more to come (although those will probably not even the score either, that's why we're not keeping score, we're just enjoying -- and laughing).