ALYSSA IS 6 YEARS OLD!

I can't believe my little Lysa is 6 years old! I keep telling her that she needs to stay little and not grow up. She is such a fun little girl that is always by my side. She loves to go shopping, paint her nails, do her own hair (which she is really good at) and telling me and Lance that we are her best buddies just to get whatever she wants.


Alyssa and princess Jasmine. This was at an event at Barnes and Noble.


Cinderella was there too!


Alyssa is involved in the Kindergarten Club at Fairview Elementary for AR reading. She loves to read. This is her friend Gracie. They had an assembly for those kindergartners who were in this reading club.


They get prizes when they reach a certain amount of points when reading.


She decided that she wanted to have her birthday at Leo's Place. She didn't have one last year because I just had my tonsils out and wasn't up for throwing her one, so we had to make it big this year. She had about 25 kids there, friends and cousins. She opened presents for about 10 minutes straight! Who wouldn't love that!


Lysa loves Hannah Montana so she told me that she would like a Hannah Montana cake. Her Aunt Jarae made her this cake, which I think turned out so cute! (there is a link to her website, Frosted Tops, to the right if you are interested on more of her cakes).


Here is the shot of all her friends and cousins who came to her party. I was just very happy we didn't lose any kids! What a fun day for Alyssa!

THE ULTIMATE LOSER

For the past 2 1/2 months I have been doing a competition called the "Ultimate
Loser" at the Apple Athletic Club. I wanted to lose some weight so I thought this would be the perfect opportunity. We competed against another team, the Green team, for 10 weeks. I met a lot of fun people doing this and one of my favorite friends did it with me too, Katie (she did fantastic!!). I can't say it was always fun, but it was well worth it. They even did the pinch tests and measurements so you could see how you changed over the 10 week period. Our trainer liked this part way too much, we would wince and he would laugh! I had a goal of seeing 115 pounds on the scale, and I got to 114 and my body fat percent is now at 15%. Oh, ya I even won first place for the ladies! I won a free membership and a personal trainer, Steve, who is AWESOME! (This is the Steve Gardner that I have known since I was like 7 years old).





I am very self-conscious so to put these pictures on here is really hard,but hey I worked hard for this and I want to look back in a couple of years and realize that I was in pretty good shape!

My main focus now is to maintain. I am going to start a Beyond Fitness II class with the same "White team" so this will help me do that, oh and training for a half marathon (Lance is doing the full marathon, what a show off!!).

SNOWBOARDING

Mason and Taylor have absolutely loved snowboarding this year. Mason was a little hesitant at first, but after the first time he wanted to go everyday after that. Taylor has just loved snowboarding from the beginning.

Mason, it looks like he is still but Lance is taking the picture while he was snowboarding too.

Taylor jumping, they found a fun place with jumps and places to "grind" they say, whatever that means... I wish they had a picture of Lance, he is just as crazy as the kids when it comes to jumping!

Mason and his friend Sterling.

Taylor and Dylan.