Had to post this pic of Kylie, makes me smile :)

WOW

Ok so I have admitted this before, "I am horrible at updating this blog!!" I am so horrible at it that I feel guilty even having one if I am not going to treat it right..hahaha So anyways, a lot has happened in the last couple of months. First off I love my family....I happen to have the best family in the world! I have learned to love and hate a 7 letter word. CANCER it sucks! My brother was diagnosed with it last month and it has been such a scare to us all especially my brother and his family...but at the same time it has allowed me and my family to remember what is really important in this life. It's hard to think of losing someone I love so I am committed to making myself better. It has really put things into perspective for me. We just have to live the best life and hopefully everything will fall into place for us. Another great piece of news in my life is after 5 months of being unemployed I got a job!!! YAY!!! It is not the best job as far as hourly wage...in fact that part SUCKS but hey it's a job....and I have free flight benefits for myself, Kylie, my parents, and since I'm single I can pick 1 person to have the same benefits as myself. I happen to have a brother back east so this will be awesome to be able to see him and his awesome family more. Kylie loves, lives, breathes DANCE so I have posted a recent dance she was in...she is in the right end and I stopped because another mom went right in front of me so I didn't want to record her back the whole time....so enjoy. My little Kylie is quite the dancer I love watching her and her team. They won 1st place in all 3 of their dances at Lagoon. Go MCD dancers....so proud of my little princess :O)

New Year, New Resolutions??

Ok so I know everyone makes the resolution to get healthy and lose weight. I have been really lazy lately when it comes to taking care of myself so I signed up for a half marathon in January thinking that would get me in gear. The months kept going and finally Jan 1st hit and I still hadn't trained for the half....so with only 3 wks to train I decided to do the 5k instead. The whole time I was running I was so mad that I hadn't trained. I was mostly disappointed that my 5k finish time was 50 min....YUCK! This was enough motivation for me to really get started and this time I mean business! The last 2 weeks I have worked out 6 days a week, I am eating healthier, and here's the best part.....I am down 9lbs. YAY! I went running today and did 4 miles in an hour so I am not at my goal of 10min miles but I will gladly take 15min miles for now.

As far as Kylie goes, she is off track and I am actually enjoying being home with her and being able to do "stay at home mom" things with her. She is still my little dancing diva. She loves it. If I can't find Kylie she is surely downstairs with music on making up a new dance to teach the cousins for Sunday. I signed her up for a mini cheerleading camp and then she performed at the Highschool basketball halftime. Now she is really wanting to get into cheer. Who would've thought that I would have a girly girl. She thinks that she should be wearing powder, eyeshadow, lipstick, and mascara. I told her I can handle a little eyeshadow but I have BANNED the mascara. I am just not ready for her to be into that right now. She is only 11! It's strange but the kids these days are learning the things I learned about in highschool. How sad is our world becoming!

I am still job hunting but not finding a fit. It is rough right now. I am considering becoming an insurance agent with Farmers. I already have my Life/Health license so I would just need to study for the Property/Casualty and get that license. We shall see what happens.

My cute mom making New Years hats out of newspaper for all the grandkids! I love her!!!

Deer eating on sume shrubs...we convinced the kids they were Santa's reindeer

Christmas morning. Ky in her new PJ's

Kylie's 11th Birthday party. Do you think she likes Zebra patterns?! I made that cake by myself...it only took me 4 hours but all the kids loved it!

We always go to Gardner Village in Oct to look at all the witches and then we have lunch at Archibalds.

Halloween, Ky was a 80's rocker, I wanted to do her hair bigger but she didn't believe me that people back then poofed it bigger!

Ok so I am HORRIBLE at this blog thing!!! But at the request of my sweet sis-in-law Jen I will be better :)
So it has been months since my first post, a lot has happened like Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years...Whew!
Kylie turned 11 last month and thinks she is big time now since next year she will be 12 and will be out of primary and into young womens. I keep telling her to be a kid and enjoy it because once your an adult you can't go back! I had such a fun childhood and I want her to have awesome memories like I do.
As for me, I am still in school and while I hate it I will keep a smile on my face because in a year and half I will have made my goal of obtaining a Bachelors Degree...YES!! I got my life/health license in Sept and was working for a company where I was selling Medicare Supplements to retirees. That job was temporary and ended in Dec so I am now on the job hunt again. Surprisingly, I am not as stressed out as I thought I would be. I have been able to "pretend" that I am a stay at home mom and do things that they are privledged to do like laundry, cleaning house, cooking, etc. My favorite thing that I have had more time to do is be home when Kylie gets home from school and spend more time with her. The next best thing is I have had more time to do Temple work. I have been more times to the temple and I am thinking that is why I am not as stressed out as I should be. I just know that I will be ok, when I am there I have a peaceful feeling everytime and I know that everything will work out for me.
I am posting some pics of the last couple months mainly for Jenny from the block! I love ya and miss you all!!