I'M BACK

Well here we go. I have been wanting to get back to my blog for a long long time now. So much has happened. Our girls are getting so big Abby is 2 now and is wearing big girls panties and sleeping in a big girl bed. Emily is now 6 and in a few short weeks she will be out of kindergarten and officially a 1st grader. She has a slow start and a bit of a struggle this year. She has really started taking off now. She is reading everything she can get her hands on and writing notes , telling time , and doing math non stop. We are so proud of her. We found out right at the beginning of the year that Bill was a diabetic. It was shocking and scary. I am so happy to say that he is doing great! He did not take the news lightly. He completely changed his life around. He lost 65lbs and is eating right and exercising. He is on his way to being off the medicine. He will always be a diabetic but he will live a very long and healthy life if he keeps up his new way of living. Me well I have doing my best to eat right and exercise too. I have lost 35lbs since January. I have a long way to go but I am pretty proud of myself. I have done so many diets and started so many exercise routines in the past only to give up. Well this time I am sticking with it. I am 21 days in to a promise I made to myself. I promised that I would get on the treadmill everyday for 25 days (I heard or reads somewhere that if you so something for 25 days in a row it will become a habit?) I know that it is pretty sad but this is the first time in my life that I have stuck to this kind of commitment. There has been many days that I did not want to do it and tried to let myself off the hook. I must say that it has really become a habit that I am really liking. I plan to stick with it . I will keep you posted on my progress.
It has been so long since I posted on here there is no way I could go back. I will just start from here and maybe go back a little and hit the high points from this past year,
Today was a Great day. We went to church and heard a really good message about how God wants us to have a humble heart (something I think everyone can work on now and then). On the way home we decided to load up bikes and a picnic lunch and go to the park. The weather was great and we had a really nice time. Here are some pics from our day.