New pictures

We went to Walmart yesterday to get pictures done of us as a couple. Last time we did that was when we were engaged and then when we were married. Eventually I'd like to get more professionally done photos of us but Walmart had to do for the time being. There are some more poses that we did but we'll get those distributed out later on. Here's just a taste of what's to come. :)

ps. This time, both of us had our hair cuts and we also had on nice, new clothes. That's always a plus!

Turkish food...a party in the bowels

We ate Turkish food tonight. Let me tell ya...it's rough on the colon and the gas. Whew! hahaha!!


Anyway, we're enjoying being home so far. We've had the wonderful family gatherings and lots of time to relax. Although for some reason, I always feel like I can't get enough sleep! It's so hard to get used to the eastern time zone after staying so long in mountain time. I've been eating such wonderful foods too and way too much food at that! I'm feeling very remorseful for all that I've eaten but I intend on taking it down several notches beginning tomorrow and getting myself way back on track since my train has totally derailed this past week! Oh well--it's the holidays and you can't fully enjoy yourself if you can't let go a little and eat what you don't normally eat. I know I'll be okay this week.


This morning, I went to the gym with my dad and I participated in a step aerobics class. It was fun. It made me feel good that I got it done. Hopefully it'll get my metabolism back to where it was before all the foodfests! I plan on going several times again this coming week so I can get back into the groove and hopefully take off whatever I've gained. I probably oughta weigh in this next Saturday so I can assess the damage. Although, if I'm REALLY good this week, I should probably do okay--even if it means staying the same on the scale. Better to stay the same than to go up and be really discouraged. I've been getting mad at myself lately whenever I have a gain. I know I shouldn't be mad but I can't help it. It seems whenever I have an awesome week, my subconscious tells me that I can go ahead and go for the second helping or the not-so-healthy choices because it's a reward for doing so well. I HAVE to retrain myself!! I fear I've trained myself really bad way back when I was hardcore half marathon training and I was losing close to 2 lbs/week and then I'd treat myself to some donuts that Saturday morning after weigh-in. Ugh...it's a nasty trap to fall into and I'm slowly trying to climb out of it.


I got to see an old classmate of mine from high school today, Brian Nelson-Palmer. He was like a brother to me all through high school band camp because we'd always carpool in the beginning when we couldn't drive ourselves. I also would stay at his parents' house sometimes when my parents went out of town and so they were like my 2nd family. I also used to babysit his sister, Brigitte. I was SO happy to see him walk through the door at the holiday open house at the Cornelius's!! We haven't seen each other in years and then when he walked through the door, we all grabbed each other in a group hug--me, him and his sister and were laughing! It was an awesome feeling! It seems we always missed seeing each other at the holidays because if Kyle and I were coming into town, he'd just be leaving or vice versa. Needless to say, it was awesome getting to see those two. I might get to see my friend, Danny Herres, this week too. We might be going out to lunch or something on Tuesday. We'll see if I can get in touch with him. He was also a close friend of mine. I can't wait!! :)


Well, that's it for now. I'll probably write more later.

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night!! :) Hope Santa's good to you!

Winter Wonderland

It started snowing last night and hasn't stopped yet today. We've got a nice blanket of snow and it just keeps coming down. That's alright though. We like it. For now. We'll probably be sick of it in a month or so. ;) Or at least, I will.


We leave early Friday morning for the ATL. We're so excited!! We've been longing for the comforts of home--the smells, the food, the hugs...Anyway, we're totally ready to come home for the holidays. This weekend is probably the time I need to spend really cleaning and getting clothes ready to pack, although, I don't think I'll pack that many clothes because I might want to go shopping for some new outfits. I'm down a few pounds and I'm wanting to celebrate it. I want to lose another probably 10 pounds altogether to make myself feel comfortable. I hate being so close to my Weightwatchers goal weight because if I get too close, there's a chance of going over and I'll have to pay. Plus, I've got more motivation now that I've started my new class. I'm feeling good about going to the gym again and I don't want to ruin that.


Kyle got some news earlier this week about promotions: Micron will start promotions again in March! I figure that's a good sign if they were able to pinpoint a month now. In the past, they've just had a "wait and see" policy. This is really good. One of the newspaper headlines read, "Micron's big success for 2009? Surviving it". That's the truth! It was very scary for a long time! Now it seems they've jumped the hurdle and are aiming at doing well this next year. Once they do well, maybe the house prices in the Boise area will begin to recover because they'll be wanting to hire out again, which means they may be pulling people in who want to buy houses!


Progress was made last night: I finished hat #4 of my senior hat project. I've got to make 9 more. I'm planning on making hat #5 today and tonight. I need to prove to my kids that I haven't given up on it. They keep asking about it and I keep pushing them off. I have to get one of the hats done relatively quickly because one girl is pregnant, who's a senior, and she'll be leaving probably in mid-late January since her baby girl's due in February. I'm debating whether to make her a baby hat or not. My department head said that we shouldn't give her gifts for the baby because it'll seem like we're promoting it. Maybe I'll make it near the end of the year and give it to her in private. The Knitwitz club is still kicking but lately I've had really low attendance. I think it's because a lot of the students are being held in their 6th period classes due to having low grades in their subjects. That tends to affect the attendance sometimes. That's okay though. I want to start making hats with them soon. I'm hoping a lot of them will go ahead and buy the knitting looms at the store so I can show them how to do the hats before Christmas break is here--that way they can be whippin' out hats over the break when they're bored or they can make Christmas gifts. I think they'll really appreciate having those looms because they'll be able to produce stuff so quickly and feel accomplished.


Well, I better get going. Kyle and I slept the day away just about it. We had to get up kinda early this morning to meet the garage door people so they could fix the sticking of the door. After I went to weigh in at Weightwatchers and attend a meeting, I went back home to pick him up and we went out to a late breakfast--SO YUMMY! When we got home, we decided we'd go back to sleep for a little bit. He stayed up almost 40+ hours Thursday because of a stupid class project that he neglected to work on during the week. He stayed up all night Thursday night, didn't go to bed at all and then got a shower Friday morning and left for work, worked all day and then came home that night and we watched a movie until about 10:30pm! CRAZY! I would've died! Now our cars need oil changes and the line shouldn't be too long *fingers crossed* because of the snowing. I've gotta go to Walmart and buy some more yarn for my hats and I have to pick up another yarn needle for it because I left mine at school in all the knitting stuff. I might just buy a new kit because mine is getting really scratched up and the pegs are looking a little worse for wear. I might donate my set to the knitting club for the year.



Okay. I'm done for now. Gotta go. :)

Front and Center

http://caldwellschools.org/News/Newsletter/2009-12-04-CSDNewsletter.pdf

I'm in the district newsletter! There will probably be some additions and deletions later because I had to add that I was currently earning my Master's degree in ELL and the fact that I actually don't want the CDL advertised, as I may be getting phone calls about driving buses--I wouldn't want to do that. This is exciting though!