Happy New Year!
We celebrated the New Year in Gilbert. My mom stayed with us for a few days, which I loved! We had a fun night, with a new years eve feast and watching movies. Lily fell asleep just 10 minutes before the ball dropped. Better luck next year. Of course, praying for an amazing 2016, full of peace and happiness.)
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| Crab legs, Shrimp and the finest meats and cheeses for our feast. |
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| Jacob, longing to eat crab |
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| Finally she got to munch on the chocolate Christmas house. |
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| (note: she only had a few pieces, she did not eat the entire house as she thought she would. I'm not that terrible of a mother!) |
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| New tradition. Open fortune cookies for the upcoming year. Top: Amma, 2nd: Mine (I agree. lol) 3rd: Mark 4th: Jacob...lily was asleep, but her's was something that made no sense. |
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| Another year accomplished with My Love |
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| Jacob getting apple cider wasted, and Lily Chocolate wasted...we are good parents. |
We will start with Mark:
-Pass the CPA Exams
-Attend the temple at least once per month
-Read three books
Andrea:
-Attend the temple at least two times a month, once with Mark, once alone.
-Take an Adobe Photo shop class (online)
-Take a canon photography class (online)
-30 minutes of personal meditation a day
-Complete the Warrior Dash April 9th
-30 minutes of Scripture Study at least 3 times per week
-Make at least two friends in our ward
-Purchase a Car
-Save 1k per month for house.
-Cook dinner at home, only eat out once per week.
Lily:
-Join a sport/athletic class
-learn phonetics
-start joy school
-Start Pre K in August
-Limit to only one sweet per day
-at least one hour of active time per day
-1 hour of alphabet study and Numbers
Jacob:
-Learn to walk
...and anything else that comes with his milestones.
Then there is the 'every year' goal of personal health.
Mark and I have really enjoyed ourselves these past 6 months. I was unable to attend the gym from June to September due to delivery and surgery. Mark had bad Static pain and could not workout, I had stopped attending the gym once we moved and we have not found a crossfit gym to attend. We enjoyed eating out at many new restaurants, I've enjoyed eating fatty food once again...so needless to say, we have gained a few pounds...like 30 each...but whose counting, right?! Anyways...
We now need to take back control of our health. I feel disgusting with the weight that I've gained. Not because I've gained weight...but because it is unhealthy gains. It's all been with food I should never allow myself to consume, and with no exercise? terrible.
We have joined a weight loss competition, scheduled to end April 29th. This should help motivate us to stay on track. I've decided to not do paleo, but to stick to a similar diet I had with Jacob. Low fat, high fiber/protein diet. It worked for me, I felt good doing it, lowered my blood pressure and hypertension. I did not feel frustrated doing it, and did not feel starved/deprived of things I enjoy. I never want to go back to depriving my body of food it desires. I'll just monitor how much of it I'm eating. We will see how it goes.
My goal is to lose 25lbs by end of April. Marks goal is to lose 30 lbs by that time as well. We are confident we can achieve it.
We have found a gym that has day care, so that will be good to return back to crossfit. I've been having a lot of back/rib and knee pain lately (possibly due to weight gain) so hopefully that won't get in my way too much.
Marks overall weight loss goal is to get to 215 lbs by the end of the year. Mine has no magic number, I just want to feel healthy and confident about my body (but getting back to 170 would not be bad) :)
Alright, there you have it...goals set and we are ready to begin!
(Quick thought/recap of 2015...it was crazy...but awesome all at once. grateful we made it in once piece.)
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| Just a random photo, we finally got our Fogo de Chao dinner to celebrate our anniversary (3months ago) |
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| And a random photo of lily with an arrow in her hair...she is such a nut! |
