Wii Fit Plus 011410

So we got a Wii for Christmas this past year from Santa and I have heard a lot of good things about the Wii Fit Plus. So I decided to use some of my babysitting money to buy it. Kevin laughed at me and thought it was kindof stupid, but I got it anyway. It came in the mail (free shipping to home through walmart.com!! right on!) yesterday and I HAD to test it out. So I did a couple of the things and while I have a few complaints overall I really like it. Complaint number one is that it makes my "Mii" FAT!!!! Even Tye said, "look at you mommy, you're really fat!" lol Great! Another complaint along the same lines is it says I should get down to 119!!! That just sounds WAAAAYYYYYY too skinny in my opinion. I guess I will see when I get down there, but yeah. Oh and it says I am obese....dang I would hate to see what it would have said before I lost the 70 pounds!!! YIKES!

Anyway, tonight I wanted to show Kevin how it worked. (Oh BTW he had already asked if he could create a profile on it too, hmph, and I thought he didn't want me to get it! lol) Anyway, so I showed him the obstacle course, the snowball fight, and step aerobics. Then he wanted to create his profile. Well let me tell you his mii is fatter than mine! hehehehe Can't wait to see what Tye says about that!!! (He was already in bed when we made the profile.)

So Kevin tried the running game. He said, "wow this is really fun, I could definitely do this every day." OH YEAH!!!! Guess my purchase was a good one afterall, eh?! lol Then he did boxing and finally I convinced him to do the hula hoop. I laughed so hard, I about fell off my chair. Then I got him to "try it again" and took a video of him without him noticing, well at least not until half way through. He did give me permission to post it on the blog. I think I should send it America's Funniest Videos though! lol What do you think?

After that I did the hula hoop to show him how it was done and then I decided to try out the running thing. So I did the basic run first and then the free run. Holy cow I RAN 10 MINUTES!!!! OH YEAH GO ME! lol I have not ran 10 minutes straight at least since high school! (And maybe not even then, I probably stopped to walk! lol....I used to "run/walk" a 15 minute mile and I went over 1.5 miles in 10 minutes! COOL!!!) Poor Sal, though, she called while I was running and then I talked to her right after and she had to listen to my heavy breathing! lol

Anyway, hope you had a great laugh at Kevin's expense!

Baby, It's Cold Outside! 1/10/10

So if any of you follow my scrapbooking blog you have seen and heard a little bit about this. But here in Florida we have been experiencing some unusually cold weather. It has been freezing temperatures for 11 nights straight. It has been soooooo cold here, even the gloves, coats and hats are all picked over or gone in all the stores! Every time we go outside Tye sings the Baby, It's Cold Outside song. So I got it on video. Too funny!

The other bad thing about all this cold weather is we live about 5 minutes from Plant City, which is the winter strawberry capital of the world. The cold weather of course kills the strawberries, so to prevent that the farmers run their sprinklers all night which coats the strawberries and actually puts a layer of ice frozen over them to insulate them. Strange but true. Anyway, since there has been so many cold nights in a row the farmers have used a TON of water from the aquifer. Because of this we are having a HUGE number of sink holes. In fact, there was one on I-4, the main interstate between Tampa and Orlando. Last week I went to the temple in Orlando and on the way home I went past the sink hole on I-4 and took that exit (that we normally take) and went down the road and there was a sink hole on that road too...so I had to detour and go another way. Got to another road we normally take and it was closed too due to a sink hole! So of the 5 roads I normally take to go to the temple 3 of them had sink holes on them! YIKES! Tye even said the road his bus takes to go to school had a sink hole on it so the bus had to go a different way!

Oh and this same morning I took this video we were going to church and on the way we passed this house that has quite a few citrus trees in their yard. They had their sprinklers going that night and the ground was covered with cool ice formations. I wish I had had my camera because it was SUPER cool!!!! Just like you see in those neat ice pictures. Icicles hanging every where and all over the ground!

Barnum's Funundrum! 010910

On Wednesday after I got home from work my supervisor called me and asked if I wanted to go with her and take Tye to see the circus! I was so excited and said YES! I had been debating for quite awhile and really had wanted to go but didn't want to go without Kevin (since he had to work), but if someone else invited us I figured what the heck! Thanks Noami for inviting us!!!!!

Prior to the circus starting they had a "pre-show" and had the clowns a a couple of the animals out there and people could go on the floor and check it out. I didn't realize this and didn't really know what time the circus actually started and we were quite high up I didn't want to miss a part of the actual show just to see the pre-show with the huge crowd of people and we probably wouldn't be able to see anything anyway. Oh and also in the meantime Tye said he was hungry so I went and got a box of popcorn. We were oh so bad and ate most of it just the two of us! lol

Then the show started (oh and I apologize the pictures are kindof blurry, we were pretty far away and it was dark so I had to zoom as far as I could and then use the night snapshot, but the time the picture took the people had moved some so it turned the pictures blurry.) Tye thought it was way cool that the theme had to do with the circus train so it kept coming out and he could see the train.

The high wire act. Pretty cool! Especially for Tye since this past week at church on Tuesday night he was in the "nursery" and was the only kid there and the guy that was in charge had brough this large chain and hooked it on one side of the room and then a cabinet on the other and they used a broom stick and he helped Tye "tight rope walk" on this chain. So he did the same thing and thought that was cool that he saw real people doing it! lol

The steel cage with motorcycles in it. They started out with 4, then 5, then 7!!!!! Yep there were 7 motorcycles in that cage! He loved the motorcycles.

One of my favorite parts, the elephants. I love how these huge animals can do things like stand on a little platform......

Sit up on their backside...

And "stand" on each other!

Then they introduced the new baby elephant (well he is actually 1 year old, he was born on the "eve" of the President's inauguration. So his name is "Barak"). He was soooooooo cute! And I thought it was super cute when he came out the baby elephant's mom held his tail! Sooooo sweet!

Then they had this act that did all these tricks on the trampolene. Very cool!

Enjoying the cool things going on in the show!

A video of Tye jammin' out to the music of the finale. I was so sad because I shut off the video right before he stuck his hands up in the air and yelled "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!" Sorry it is so dark again, but I think you can see it fairly well.

Again, thank you Noami for inviting us to go with you. We had a blast and as we were leaving Tye said, "That was so AWESOME!!!" He could not wait to get home and tell Daddy all about it. Unfortunately he had to wait until the next day. But he was so excited to tell Daddy all about everything he saw!

Blast from the Past

So a couple of weeks ago in the Friday chat we were talking about pictures from the past. So a couple of the girls posted them on their blog. I was thinking I would have to go searching to have any pictures to post and with the holidays I really did not want to spend the time on that. And now I am glad I didn't! For Christmas my oldest sister Laura had scanned a TON of old family pictures and put them on CD for everyone in the family. I was stoked!!!!!! It is one of the best gifts! So it made my job easy. So without further ado, presenting Michele.....lol

My newborn picture taken in the hospital (the L is for my last name, they always did that in the hospital I was in). This would have been probably on December 14 or 15, 1975.

Then when I was one year old 1976 (I always thought I was weird looking at this stage! lol)
My little sister (biological), Stephanie and I. Not sure what year, I would guess around 1979. I was starting to get cute again here! lol

Not sure how old I was here but this is one of my favorite pictures from when I was kid.

November 1980

My dad and mom got divorced when I was 4-5ish and then when I was 6 my dad got remarried. She had 4 kids from her previous marriage. Since they got married when we were all fairly young except for my oldest sister, we don't consider each other as step siblings, they are just my brother and sisters.

Left to right: Gary, Sally, Mom and Dad with Laura behind, Stephanie in front, Bonnie and Me. This was in 1983.

My senior pictures. As many of you know I LOVE the theatre and I loved masks. So here is a combo of them. This was the fall of 1993.

My other senior picture. Also the Fall of 1993. Yes I was a letterman. I got my letter in several things, I was the manager for the sports teams...Volleyball (1 year), Basketball (3 years), Track (2 years) and then I was in the Choir.

Our wedding pictures. November 6, 1999

I think this was a fun thing to do. Hope others will join us!

Amanda, Devin and West's Sealing 010110-010310

So many of you know that I watch my friend's little boy while she goes to work a couple of times a month. Well the adoption was finalized the middle of December (I think lol, how time flies and I have already forgotten when it was finalized) so on January 2nd Amanda and Devin were going to have West sealed to them. The only problem was it was going to be in Raleigh, NC. But I REALLY wanted to be there, so I figured it out and Amanda was able to find a place for me to stay at Devin's sister's house (thanks Shannon!).

At 7:10 Saturday morning on Jan 1st Tye and I pulled out of our drive way off to NC! I was very concerned when it started raining shortly after we left. I worried it would rain the whole time and that would make it a little stressful for me. Thankfully it only rained intermittantly and by the time we got to SC it was totally clear and sunny.

Tye is such a GOOD traveller! I put in a movie for him and he watched Up twice and then put it down and played his trains and chatted with me and watched the GPS (Kevin got it for Christmas and it was our friend on the trip, so much easier than trying to shuffle papers and read while driving to make sure you take the correct road! lol) He thought it was cool everytime he could see we were coming up to water, he would let me know! lol

I think we surprised everyone when we made it there at 5pm. Yep only took us 10 hours to get there. I promise I was not going more than 6-8 mph over the speed limit. I stayed with the faster group of cars, but wasn't always the fastest. We only stopped one time on the way up just south of Savannah, GA. Got gas, went potty and ate our lunch.

It was nice to meet most of Devin's family and to see his mom again. We had a good time hanging out and I learned a new game called Hand and Foot. Let's just say I stink at it. You play in teams. Lori and I got our hineys kicked by Amanda and Shannon! lol I MIGHT try it again, but I better hope to do better or I don't think I would want to play it again! lol

On Saturday we joined them at the temple. What a sweet experience! I think that is my favorite part of the temple is watching children that have been adopted sealed to their parents or converts and their families sealed together. The kids make it so special and it reminds me of when we had Tye sealed to us. What wonderful memories both of the days were! I am so happy for Devin, Amanda and West! Tye was well taken care of and had a blast playing with the other kids while I was gone! And true to form, he was upset when I came home. Luckily we shuffled him and a few of the other kids over to Shannon's house and let the party begin! lol

Here they are...isn't it such a beautiful picture? The sun was shining but it was chilly. A great day!

Here is West and I hanging out!

After most of the festivities were over I laid down to take a nap. My concern was how busy the road was going to be on the way home, so I was determined to beat the traffic. I slept for awhile but kept waking up. Finally I could not sleep any longer even though I was pretty tired and just decided to hit the road. Everyone was concerned and I must admit I was a little bit too, but I knew if I got super tired I would pull over and get a hotel and sleep. So at 11pm I hit the road. On the way out of town I stopped and got a root beer and a hamburger, filled up with gas and officially hit the road. It was windy and cold, but I was glad the car was warmish (tried not to get it too warm or I would probably fall sleep! lol) I did really well I think. I took little sips of root beer and would have a hand full of snacks if I got a little weary. I was rocking out to my Christmas music and Tye was fast asleep in the backseat. It wasn't until I was almost to Savannah, GA that I started getting really tired. I thought if I could just make it to the gas station I stopped at on the way up then I could get out and stretch and wake up a little bit.

I made it there, got gas, went potty, got another root beer. Tye saw a truck he really liked and told me he was putting it on his Christmas list for next year! lol Had I been able to I probably would have gotten it for him and put away for next year, but you know, kindof hard to do when I am carrying him, my drink and my purse, not to mention he is with me! lol So I got all situated again and hit the road. It wasn't until I got to Jacksonville that I started getting really tired. I was a little worried and wished I had made plans to stay at Amanda's parents if I needed to. lol But I hung in there, me and my root beer, snacks and Christmas music. I ended up calling Kevin around 7:30 to make sure he was up for church and have someone to talk to for the last little bit. I also asked him to wait to go to church until I got home so that he could take Tye with him. I figured Tye would be wide awake at that point and I would be dead to the world, so I didn't want to be responsible for watching him. Shortly after that Tye woke up which was great because he is SUCH a chatter. Sometimes a bit too much! lol So he kept me awake the rest of the drive home. We pulled into the driveway around 9:10am! Again 10 hours. Whew, long drive in one trip, but we did good.

I went in, Kevin brought all the stuff in from the car for me while I got Tye dressed for church and off they went and I hit the sheets. Completely and utterly exhausted. But so worth it! When I spoke to Amanda later that day she said, "and so the moral of the story is you would be an 800 pound trucker." YEP! lol Pretty much sums it up! lol

New Years Eve 123109

A tradition in our house on New Years Eve is to have banana splits. Not the most healthiest tradition but one that has been since Kevin was a kid, so who's to mess with that?! lol However, I do TRY to do better each year, but it always ends up being like a last harrah for the holidays before we get back on the healthy wagon. Now I want to say I did NOT dish this, Kevin did (which kindof made me mad, I guess I should have put it back in the container, but I didn't). Either way it was super yummy and I enjoyed it fully! lol

Our midnight happened about 9pm because Tye needed to get in bed and I needed to get to bed at a decent hour so I could get up and on the road early to go to NC.

The boys had a great time blowing the horn. Tye thought it was the funniest thing he had ever heard in his whole life!!! lol

Happy New Years!!!!