Here's our turkey! It wasn't so bad to fix. It was a little daunting to do this but we were extremely careful and it turned out DELICIOUS!! :) The sides that I made were candied sweet potatoes and green beans with slivered almonds (both WW recipes and they did NOT taste like they were from WW at all--that was what Kyle said). They were very tasty and his favorite was the candied sweet potatoes. I'll have to make them for ya'll when I come down to GA in a few weeks! The green beans were also extremely delicious too! I will make both for everyone at some point in my visit. Maybe I'll make them for Christmas Eve (if I have time) or Christmas Day or anytime ya'll want them. :) We had a lot of turkey leftovers so tonight I'm going to make turkey noodle soup. Should be good!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

We went to Walmart last night plenty of times and each time, Kyle saw this deal on a 40" tv for just under $600. He said that it was a screaming deal and he felt like he couldn't stand to pass it up! We remember when we kept looking at the televisions and they were all under $1,000 and we thought those were great deals but we just kept waiting and waiting and finally, this Christmas the deals came to us! This was intimidating to make the purchase but this was the first time in a long time that we felt like we could do something special like this! It's quite an amazing feeling! :)


I will post pictures of our Christmas decorations soon. I have to clean up the house though. It's a tad bit messy right now but I must say that I'm quite proud of my window decorations in the living room! Oh yeah and we did take pictures of our fried turkey too! I'll post those right now.

Still Zumba-ing

I've gone through my first week of Zumba class and I'm still not tired of it. Tonight was irritating though because I wanted to go to the 4:30pm class and the instructor was 30 minutes late!! She didn't get there til about 5pm or so and I was ANGRY! I got so angry that I ran over to one of the elliptical machines and started going full force on it! hahaha! Kyle was right next to me and he couldn't believe how fast I was going. I just needed to get some calories burned because we had driven all the way over to Boise to do this class and then she was not there! Finally as I had completed about 15 minutes of elliptical, I looked over my shoulder to the classroom and the teacher had arrived. I ran over there and joined class for the next 30 minutes. I think I got enough exercise but not as much as I had anticipated. Oh well. Here's to another week of ZUMBA!!!!!! :) :)

It's about time!!

ZUMBA dance class is finally here!!! My gym finally started having Zumba class here in Meridian!!! I was ecstatic when I looked on the new schedule. I'm going to start going to those whenever I can get a chance! Unfortunately, I can only go 2 times this week instead of the 3 or 4 times I had actually planned. I have something blocking up my Wednesday evening class (unless I can get away early) but I probably won't be able to get away.


In case you're wondering what Zumba is, it's a latin fusion dance class. It has a little of salsa, merengue, bachata and hip hop all in one. It's so much fun and it doesn't even feel like a workout and before you know it, you're drenched with sweat by the end of the hour. It's about time that I feel excited about going to the gym again. I haven't been in the last few months to a class because I'd been bored out of my mind. I hated going there because it was the same stuff ALL THE TIME. I know Zumba might get that way after awhile but it didn't seem like it was the same at all when I first tried it. I think it'll be different though because it's not a Les Mills program where they have certain routines and whatnot. This is more independent. I think it'll be refreshing and new most of the time.

Knitwitz. A club.

I'm starting a club at school this week. We're going to knit for fun and for charity. I've set up an account with the Donorschoose website to see if donors want to put money towards our projects. Any yarn we get will go towards making projects for Goodwill or other donation places. We'll also have fun making different things for people as gifts and whatnot. I'm excited about this and I think a bunch of kids will be excited to start too! Only thing I'm worried about is having the knitting needles or looms for the kids. I'm going to ask them to get their own tools so that they can take the stuff home and work and plus it'll allow them to take pride in their work if it's all their own stuff. If they can't afford to buy needles or the looms, then I can lend some out and just expect that they bring them back when they're done.


You can take a look at my donor proposal, if you'd like:

<http://www.donorschoose.org/donors/proposal.html?id=338743&sharebar=true>