It's not a New Year's resolution, but...

I'm not going to say it's a New Year's resolution, because those never seem to work out, but as of 1/4/10 I am officially following the Weight Watchers Points Program online. So far so good, after the first week I have lost 7 pounds and really haven't felt deprived. I'm off to a great start and my hope is that by posting this on the blog where anyone in the world could follow my progress, it will make it harder to give up. I have gained 50 pounds since I started my job just over two years ago and enough is enough! The picture I have posted is of Brian and I this past New Years Eve (12/31/09). Hopefully next year at this time I will write a similiar post with a much more flattering picture and will be bragging about my tremendous success. I guess only time will tell, but I've done it before and I can do it again! Wish me Luck! On second thought, wish me WILL POWER!

Alex is Student of the Month!!!

Congratulations to Alex for being selected as one of Wentzville South Middle School students of the month for January 2010! Each month one student is selected from each team to be student of the month and Alex was selected to represent team 6A for January 2010. Each team has over 150 students so it is quite an honor and he gets to celebrate his achievement with a pizza party on Monday 1/11. Brian and I also get to attend, so thanks bud for the free pizza and for being such a great kid! Congratulations, Alex!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!!

Hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2009. We all did had a lot of fun, although I am personally glad its all over. Alena was very excited about her big dollhouse Santa brought her and the boys will be playing the 10 new Wii games they got for many months to come. We are all completely addicted to the new Super Mario Brother Wii game and its brought many hours of family bonding time. We also got new furniture right before Christmas, which was desperately needed, although it is still in the process of being broke in. Brian finally got a GPS unit which will help us tremendously on our trip to Toronto and Niagara Falls in June! We got a lot of nice stuff, but most importantly got to share some quality time with all our family and friends. Christmas was a little crazy, but it always is and its well worth it in the end. We had 6 different Christmas functions within 2 1/2 days, so things got a little hectic but it all worked out fine.

New Years Eve was also fun. We had our usual group of friends over, minus a few who have gone through some serious transitions over the past year or so, but everyone in attendance seemed to have a good time. We ate well and drank well and were definitely merry! All the children stayed up until midnight and Brady even helped clean up after the party at 3 am! Unfortunately Brian had to work 14 hours the next day, but the rest of us enjoyed sleeping in and being lazy the rest of the day. The boys went back to school on Monday (1/4) after their long winter break and seem to be back into the swing of things. They both have had a great first semester of 6th grade, with Alex having straight A's and Brady having all A's with one B. After only three days back they already had a snow day on 1/7. Alena was upset that day that she still had to go to school and didn't get to have a "stay home day" too.

Happy Halloween 2009!

Okay so I'm a little late, but I've gotten several requests to post this pic on the blog, so here it is...the Fast Food Trio from Halloween 2009.