My new love...

The loud music, the sweat, the pain...Ahhh, the gym. Yep, I love the gym. When I was working, I used that as an excuse not to lose weight. I had to sit at a computer for 8 hours a day. I did go through spurts of walking and eating better, but I like carbs too much. French fries, chips, bread, not to mention chocolate and all that good stuff. Well, when I quit working, I had time to walk and I really wanted to join a gym, but didn't want to spend the money. Jonathan, being the good husband that he is, encouraged me to do it. And also, since I am now in school, I get a student discount, even better! Several of the girls at church go to my gym and a couple even teach classes there. I love the kickboxing class and they just started another one, Butts and Guts. I need that one for sure. I have to say I am so sore from that class that was two days ago. I told Jonathan next year my goal is to get in a bikini! That should be interesting.

Well, here is a "fat picture". This was probably 5 years ago, back when Jonathan was thinner and I was fatter. Now it's the other way around :) He is doing better though. He has started walking on his lunch break.

Can I say that I look so retarded in that picture. You can't even really tell that I'm "fat". Oh well,

here is a better, much more recent picture. It's from far away, but with a lot less clothes on :).

I hope we get to go back to the beach next year. That was SO FUN!

Summer Fun

Well, I suppose I should write about our trips this summer before my memory fails me. First, for Victoria's birthday, we went to Atlanta and stayed a couple of nights. (We got a REALLY good deal on a 4 star hotel!) Anyway, we went to the Coke museum which was pretty cool. We went to the mall and of course ate lots of Chinese food.

At the Coke museum, Brayden loved that bear! Victoria refused to take a picture with him. Jonathan tried to bribe her saying that he would pay her $5 if she would stand by the bear with Brayden. I was like $5! Are you crazy? I don't think he ever gave it to her though :).

This is all they did in the hotel room. Watch cartoons. Too bad the room didn't have 2 tv's! Well, I guess that's not ALL they did. Brayden ran around the room most of the time, terrorizing everything.

Our next little trip was for 5 days in Sandestin, Fl. It was so awesome. We made it before the oil got there. It was so nice. We stayed at a Hilton resort that had a private beach and there weren't that many people there. A lot of people cancelled their reservations when they heard about the oil spill. So that meant there were also more rooms to choose from. We got a room with a partial ocean view and it had bunk beds for the kids and 2 double beds. Victoria loved sleeping on the top bunk and they also had a separate tv this time! Brayden loved looking out at the pool and couldn't get enough "outside time".

To say he loved the ocean and the beach is an understatement. He had no fear of the water and just ran out into it. Scary for us, but not for him. Jonathan loved swimming in the ocean and I loved laying on the beach.

We went a few miles down the road to an Air Force museum. Not too much fun for me, but Brayden and Jonathan liked it. Brayden LOVES airplanes and helicopters.

Well, that was our trip. We hope to be able to go back sooner than later.