I hate spring...

Or at least this kind of spring I should say! I keep telling myself that I have to get used to spring in Utah, but at this moment I refuse. For Heaven's sake it is April 15th!!! I want the sun to shine and temps to be warm so I can wear shorts and flip flops. But instead, we are dealing with this today and it is only the beginning!

I hope my Bleeding Hearts and Golden Queen Globes can take it!

Latest project

Dave was out of town for a couple of days this week so I decided while he was gone I would re-do our half bath. We got a new light fixture a month or so ago and we've stared at the mismatched paint where the old light fixture was since then. It was finally driving me crazy so I decided to re-paint. The bathroom used to be a bright yellow. I decided to tone it down a little and go with a more neutral color. I think it turned out nice. I also heard about a company from my aunt that sells frames to put around boring basic mirrors to spice them up (Mirror Mates). We hung up the frame last night and it looks gorgeous!!!

Top corner of the mirror with no frame (new paint color)

Better picture of the new paint color

Black frame around the mirror

It is REALLY hard to take pictures of that bathroom because it is so small. I also didn't want a picture of me taking a picture in the mirror so I had to be careful!!


This has nothing to do with our bathroom project, but I wanted to publicly say thank you to my sister-in-law Tonya. She did a post on her blog last fall about a swimsuit she bought that she absolutely loved. I decided to get one of these swimsuits for my upcoming cruise and absolutely love it too! The company is called Diivine ModesTee. If you need a swimsuit I would definitely recommend it! I couldn't figure out how to get a picture of my new swimsuit downloaded from their website so I just took a picture of the computer screen with the suit on there.

Broadening our horizons

We've been approved to adopt for about 5 months now. We've received a few calls from our caseworker about potential babies, but none of the situations have turned out to be the right one. When we first started this process we learned about an online adoption profile website (Parent Profiles) that we could be a part of to get our name out there more. There is a monthly fee involved so we decided that we would wait about six months first to see how things went without using this service.

A few weeks ago I decided that we weren't getting enough "activity" and asked Dave if he thought we could proceed with Parent Profiles earlier than originally planned. He gladly agreed. I'm happy to announce that our profile went live this morning and we've already received 45 profile hits!!! Impressive, huh? I'm crossing my fingers that this extra marketing effort will pay off and that we'll find our baby soon!

Check out our new profile by clicking here.

Shedding Pounds

I'm happy to report that I've lost 14.2 pounds since the middle of January and Dave has lost 22 pounds! Dave and I decided back in January that we both needed to lose weight and get in shape! We've spent too much time eating what we want and not getting enough, if any, exercise. So, we decided to join Weight Watchers. We've done Weight Watchers in the past and were successful with it, but with several different moves and me doing infertility treatments the pounds have added back up. So it was time to take a stand!

We do the online version of Weight Watchers and find it very easy and helpful. We've also been testing several of the recipes on their site and so far have enjoyed almost all of them. I love Weight Watchers because it doesn't necessarily limit what you can eat. You can still have that huge juicy hamburger, just know that when you eat it your daily points will most likely be gone. It teaches you how to make better food decisions and also the importance of exercise.

These are a few of the things we have found helpful while on our new diet.

This soup is amazing! You can get 0 or 1 point options and they taste so good!



Dave and I are huge snackers and these things hit the spot (Hostess 100 calorie treats)! The Chocolate Cupcakes are only 1 point and are by far our favorite!



In the last week I've started doing Jillian Michaels' metabolism boost workout on Exercise TV. She is on the Biggest Loser if you've never heard of her before. Her workouts are INTENSE, but definitely do the job!

Am I nuts or what?

In about 64 days I will be boarding a ship with a couple thousand women and five guys heading to the Bahamas! These five guys are better known as the New Kids On The Block! Call me crazy! After months of discussion between Dave and I we decided that I should jump on this once in a lifetime opportunity and go have fun for 4 days. I'm taking this trip in honor of my 30th birthday which will happen this summer and hopefully as my one last hoorah before becoming a mother! The cruise ticket and plane ticket to Miami were purchased this week and I can't express how excited I am to go...even if you think I'm nuts for doing this!

Annual Ski Trip

Last weekend we had the opportunity of going skiing with my aunt and uncle! They have a timeshare at the Powder Mountain Ski Resort by Ogden, UT. For the last three years they have invited us up there to go skiing with them. Although we are still novice skiers, we enjoy it very much and are getting better and better. This year we even willing went down a couple of blue runs and had a blast. Typically I prefer to stick to the green runs, but one of those blue runs really is a lot of fun. I find myself doing the snowplow a lot, but one of these days I'll feel confident to learn how to really ski!

We had perfect weather both days. There was only one "incident" where we listened to my uncle's advice and ended up on an ungroomed blue run. There were two drop offs on that run that I just could not force myself to go down. My uncle found an alternate route for the four of us to go down instead. It ended up working out all right, but it wasn't as enjoyable because I was focusing on not falling flat on my face! Overall we had a GREAT time and are so thankful that my aunt and uncle invite us to go every year!

The view from the condo

We look very stiff!

Dave & George on the chair behind me and Cathy

Cathy & George

Me & Dave

Gorgeous view from the lift

More views

Steep drop off next to the lift

New goggles (huge, huh?)

View from the top of the mountain

Dave videoing the wrong person!!!

We both thought he was taking a still picture...we got a good laugh out of this video and thought some of you might as well!