Reiner Cherries

Funny thing happened yesterday. I read Kristen's blog about the new pool at the Y and eating Rainer cherries. Rainer cherries is kind of like a tradition in my family. Whenever we would visit Grandma and Grandpa Townsend in Washington in the summer time we would always get Rainer cherries. They are delicious. So i read Kristen's blog and was jealous they had cherries and a pool to have fun in. i miss having a pool near. We have one at home and Cinnamon tree apartments had a nice pool that was fun to hang out by. Anyway the funny thing was Jared came home from work yesterday with a box of Rainer cherries! and some roses. lol both were very suprising and very nice but i was thinking about having these cherries all day and he didn't even know!

Happy Memorial Day!

At home during the summer my family would BBQ a lot well... i guess not a ton... but we would do it for every holiday such as memorial day. Mom would make potato salad, fruit salad and baked beans. While dad would grill hamburgers and sometimes brauts or hot dogs. In Arizona it definitely is hot enough to swim so we would swim and eat outside too.

I tried to recreate this in my home with just Jared and i. When i went to walmart today blackberries and grapes were on sale so i got those and we already had strawberries so i threw a little fruit salad together. Corn on the cob was 20 cents each so i got two of those and that was it our own little memorial day BBQ.

The corn wasn't ready when everything else was so imagin it in the empty spot...

Blooming

Here it is! My flowers are blooming and growing. They are supposed to attract hummingbirds...

Uh oh...

I'm sorry Kendle. i think this plant wasn't supposed to be outside. It definitely wasn't as hardy as it was inside when it was outside....

so i got this plant today and replaced the one that i killed. This one takes full sun and its really cool when it blooms. When it does i will post again.

Don't worry mom i haven't let this die and look how big its gotten!! the yellow guys are supposed to be growing up but they are leaning to the side and up. I turned the basket around so they would maybe lean the other way toward the sun but it didn't help.

Yay for flowers!

I now have this DVD...

I just got this DVD....

When i blogged about the other one and was looking for a picture of it i ran into this one. I'm all about girls having to work out differently then boys so i had to get this DVD. I bought it off of amazon for pretty cheap and i got it today and i absolutely LOVE it! The main difference with this one is that it has a yoga section and a pilaties section. So today i did speed intervals which in that they have someone doing lower impact which i need right now because i'm so out of shape. the other DVD didn't have that. Then i did Yoga. Love it! Love working out now which is a BIG step! The only problem is now Jared and i are waisting money on our gym memberships. We went for awhile everyday but it just kinda stoped. At least i'm working out.

Last Night

Jared is working a lot these days and yesterday i worked on cleaning the house and i organized the second bedroom AGAIN and i think I'm finally happy with it for now. theres only so many things you can do with suitcases and boxes. now it just feels more open and organized. I work out in that room now so I'm in there more then i use to be so i had to do something about it.




Once i was done with everything and just sitting watching Baby Mama and i was like hey i should do something. I had hung two canvas on the wall in the second bedroom to inspire me to paint. one some of you may know. I started it while jared and i were dating and then never finished it. So i put on a painting movie...(Painting movies=Sabrina, pride and prejudice, sense and sensibility...etc) and finished it! i wasn't too happy with it while i was doing it but i made some changes with what i was doing and i think i like it now. here it is! All you painters out there please be brutally honest... any thing i might need to change or anything.

Looking for a Job

So I'm still looking for a job still. I've been filling out application after application. Most applications these days are done online. Those are the worst. They always have the "questionnaire" section. Seriously its the most stupid section. They ask stupid questions that don't apply to anything to try and figure out your personality and then they ask the same stupid question over and over again only reworded. I just finished Macy's application. No joke there was over 200 questions and they even repeated the same question once or twice not even reworded! What is that?? I'm so frustrated with the job search!

I give up!!

No not the diet. I'm giving up on slimfast bars and switching to special k instead. i was trying to eat my slimfast bar this morning and i couldn't stomach it any longer. When i lived in Thatcher specail k is all i lived off of. I love it! I'll probabl still eat one for lunch just because i have at least 10 more bars left.

Dieting and Exercising

So i have this DVD...

And i love it because it has three levels all in one DVD. I'm obviously on beginner and it kicks my but everytime so i'm working out six days a week... they have schedules of what to do if you work out so many times a week. I do a strength exercise which is abs and big muscle groups every other day and then i do the cardio section which is a low intensity to high intensity workout for 27 min. Thats were I'm having a problem. Basically its nice easy jogging in place for 30 seconds and then jump roping for 30 seconds and it goes back and forth with the high intensity getting mixed up once in a while to like jump squats and jumping jacks. Aerobics at the gym is pretty much the same thing only with dance moves and loud fun music. Theres no music on my DVD. None! just a dude telling me what to do. Why don't i just go to gym classes? for some reason thats hard for me. to get up and get dressed and drive to the gym and look like a fool in front of people is hard for me. SO i need good workout songs stat! anyone have any good ones?

Also another hard thing for me on this diet is the slim fast bars. Kristen had a pretty good eating system from when she was dieting. You eat a slimfast meal bar for breakfast have a snack of 10 baby carrots and 12 wheat thins for lunch have a slimfast meal bar and half a turkey sandwich or small salad and have a snack of 2 T peanuts and raisins and for dinner make pretty much whatever you want just eat less. Not bad right? well the two kinds of slimfast bars that i got aren't that yummy. Kristen what kinds did you eat?

AND Jared and i were out and Jared needed to go to applebees and talk to some people so we decided just to have lunch there so i got half a house salad no cheese or bacon and low fat dressing on the side and a cup of tortilla soup which wasn't bad but when the person next to you is eating fries and a burger its kinda bad.

Oh the joys of dieting! It will all be worth it in the end right?

The race is on!

So you all may know my sister Kristen got second place by losing 27 pounds in her apartment complexes biggest loser. Kristen has always been a workout freak. She loves to work out and she loves to eat. I love to eat and don't love to work out. I don't hate it though so thats a start. Anyway, she came to visit Provo and Jen and I were with her and she started talking about doing the biggest loser with us because she started to slack on her diet after the competition was over. So now we are doing it as sisters and today is the first day! Kristen is pretty dang excited. Jen and i are worried about losing 20 dollars. We all put 20 dollars in and who ever loses the most gets it. The deadline is the family reunion at bear lake!

My starting weight is 158

So good luck to my sisters! We are all going to look smokin hot!

Happy Birthday to...

So all of my one niece and two nephews on my side have birthdays right next to each other so just like we had one birthday party for all i am doing one blog for all.

Starting with Kate. April 29th.

Kate and I had a lot of fun together when i lived close by but for the past year and a half i haven't been able to spend much time with her. Kate is now in Houston and I'm in Provo. We have fun talking on Oovoo once in awhile now and the occasional phone call. I sure love her and love when we do get to spend time together! I Love you Kate! Happy third birthday!!

Next Sawyer. May 2nd.

Sawyer has been in Houston most of his life so I've only gotten to see him in Kristen's blog and on Oovoo most of his life. He is so cute too and I'm sad i don't get to be his favorite aunt like i was with Kate but i still love him all the same! Love you Sawyer! Happy 1st birthday!
And last but not least Ethan. May 5th.
Ethan lives in Provo so i get to see him a lot! I LOVE it! and i definitely love being his favorite aunt. We have a lot of fun and I'm excited for the summer so we can have tons more fun times! I love you Ethan! Happy 1st birthday!


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