I'm such a loser (but I love it)

So a few posts back I wrote about my family doing a biggest loser competition. Well we are going month to month so each month we start over. The first month nothing happened. I just sat there week after week with nothing happening and this month....well..tada tada....this month I lost 9 pounds....that is a HUGE HUGE HUGE accomplishment for me and I officially am the biggest loser for this month. That means not only do I get to feel wonderful for losing 9 pounds this month...I also won like $100 dollars. I have to partly congratulate the new medication I'm on for my fibromyalgia because one of the side effects is weight loss (ya ya) and the fact that I haven't had any carbonation in two months (another side effect is that it makes carbonation taste disgusting)....so anyway I'm just glad that even though I've had a few moments of bad self esteem (like going to the temple and having my temple dress not fit and having to have the temple workers rent me a new dress and trying not to cry in the changing room and having my 5 year old son randomly tell me I'm fat while we are eating dinner---thank's Connor that's a motivation right there)....I'm still happy that I am a big loser and I hope that I continue to be a big loser for many more months to come because I know that I have many more pounds to go!!!

Books...books and more books

Okay so some of you know that recently I've become a reader. I've always wanted to become a reader and I've listened to all you readers talk about books you been reading but I've always said that I never had time to read...well recently I've found my time to read. I found that special hour right before bedtime that is my time to read. It has been something that I've really enjoyed to do and something that I can do that is for myself and I look forward to that hour (sometimes less) every night (and sometimes not everynight) that I get to escape in a book. So I've decided to list on my blog on the right hand side the current book that I am working on and then when I'm done with that book give a little rating of whether I liked it or not and whether I would recommend it. A few of the books that I have already read are: Twilight Saga (of course), Harry Potter series (of course), Percy Jackson Books 1-3 (currently on book 4), The Undaunted and a few little love story books my mom gave me but honestly couldn't tell you the name of the author now. My sister-in-law Alyssa has a whole list of books she is going to give me so I'm going to get reading. It works out great for Chelton because he can watch his sports or Modern Marvels show and I don't complain because I can read and not be bothered by it a bit.

A new deadline

Well now that March 20th came and went and I got my New Moon DVD (my early birthday present) I now have to wait for June 30th when Eclipse comes out. I watched my New Moon DVD last night and today I watched all the extra features. The features were okay I was just a little disappointed because on the discs I got there weren't any deleted scenes and those are really the only special features I really usually like watching more than once. I'm excited for Eclipse to come out. I hope it is as good as New Moon. I think New Moon was definitely better and truer to the book than Twilight and I hope it continues with the rest.

A wonderful grandma

Yesterday morning my Grandma Girardo passed away. She was a wonderful woman who I really loved. She will be greatly missed.

This is a picture of her and my Grandpa Girardo on the day of my wedding.

Sick, sick and more sick

Well we have had two weeks of sickness, sickness and more sickness. It has not been fun. It all started with taking the kids for their well child checks. Of course you go the doctor well and a few days later you get sick. Connor and Chelton started getting a cough and then I kind of got a little cold and then we all stayed home two weekends ago and didn't get anything done. Once the weekend was over I remember thinking that we got by okay and I was glad that was over....but that was just the beginning (but thankfully it was over for kids). Well this last week has been horrible. Last Tuesday Chelton woke up and he went to work and he called me and told me that something was wrong. He came home and laid on the couch and told me he needed me to take him to the hospital---this coming from a guy who doesn't like to go to the doctor or even take medicine. I quickly called his doctor and got him in to see him a couple of hours later. Well after the longest trip at the doctor's office we have ever experienced and a few tests and x-rays later we found out that Chelton had an extreme case of Strep and a bad case of pneumonia and some other crud on top of that. He has literally been bed-ridden for a week (and yes he is still in bed one week later as I am writing this post). I got the crud on top of the pneumonia and Strep that he has and it too has lasted this whole week with me. But sadly I have not gotten to lie in bed for a week. I get to work and take care of kids and the house and all that fun stuff. Anyway....any other news besides sickness----as it seems that has been our life for the last two weeks----Kylie has lost more weight after we took her to her well child check. She dropped from 20 pounds down closer to 19 pounds so her doctor is worried about her. She has not been feeling great this week as well and has not been eating so of course I have been worried about that. She has slowly been filling into her role of the terrible two's. That is not fun. But she is still a cutie and we love her dearly. Connor has been slowly learning to read and will have nothing to do in Kindegarten next year. I keep joking with him that they are going to send him to Garrett's grade when he goes because he knows too much. Garrett is getting excited to start soccer soon and is excited that his baptism is coming up. I am excited also that spring weather is slowly around the corner. So that's our life in a nutshell in the last couple of weeks. Hopefully we are on the mend of sickness and some good stuff starts coming our way.....