Lucky Pennies

When I woke up this morning, the first thing I saw on facebook was this poem about Pennies from Heaven. And I started thinking about all the pennies that I found since the first of the year. Now I am not superstitious or anything, but I am kind of fond of the number 13 and I have had a great year so far. I have commented to my hubby several times that I "Found another lucky penny today".  I have found a penny everyday for the first nine days and I thought it was so unusual that I started putting them in a special box on my desk. Not really thinking about it I had decided I would see how many I find this year. Then I read this poem and my heart just sang... MY LIFE IS BLESSED WITH MANY ANGELS!!!

Official Biggest Loser Weight-in!

Ouch.... I had gained more weight in between this round than I had expected. So now I am going to have to work harder than I had planned. This will be good though, I made my cousin a promise at the wedding in October that if she seriously wanted to join me than this summer I would come to her home town and run my 5k there with her this year. So I have been thinking, maybe we should all get together and run a 5k all together as a group. What do you say?

Biggest Loser Sunday

It was a great Sunday...





AND I am once again going to attempt to lose another 25 pounds this round. I am so excited that the new season kicks off tonight. Who wants to join me?

Pay-It-Forward in 2013...

Yesterday, a friend posted the following on her facebook page: 

 "2013 CREATIVE PAY-IT-FORWARD -- The first thireen (13) people to comment on this status will receive a gift from me sometime in the next calendar year--perhaps a book, baked goodie, candle, music--a surprise! There likely will be no warning and it will happen when the mood strikes me. The catch? Those thirteen people MUST make the same offer on their Facebook status."

I really liked the idea, so I became one of her thirteen people... So today I am posting this for my own thirteen friends.

And so far we have....

Krystal Mitchell Leaaetoa
Melissa Stalvey
Mary Gardner

Back to work...

The holidays are over and the new year has started... so back to work for me! And I decided that I was going to move on into the new year with the keys that President Monson gave us today...

 

One More Holiday DAY & Sarah's Key.

      I have one more day off in my holiday schedule and then it is back to work for me. Now that I have spent the past week fighting the cold that my hubby so generously gave me, I am starting to feel better and see a light at the end of the flu season tunnel. Being sick this week and resting a lot has given me lots of time to think about the new year and what goals I would like to shoot for. I have always considered the number 13 to be one of my lucky numbers and so I am looking forward to this upcoming year and all it has to offer.

     


 Also while I have been resting this week I was able to spent time finishing the book we are reading for Book Club this entitled "Sarah's Key" by Tatiana de Rosnay. Awesome book, easy read and very heartwarming. I highly recommend it!

Happy New Year!

        I am so excited to be jumping into a new year. As many of you know, I am not big on making NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS. I don't like setting myself up for failure, but I do sit down and evaluate where I am at the end of the year and I do make a few new goals and always pledge to do better. That way I know that no matter what happens I will not FAIL!!!
        Does that make me a chicken or just tired of setting around beating myself up over all the little crazy things that I didn't get done in life? I call it looking forward instead of backwards!!! Plain and simple.... I think that if you spend more time looking back at what you should be doing (resolutions) than spending time paying it forward, then you never really get ahead in life and if you don't get ahead in life then you never move forward and you deny yourself a lot of blessings and opportunities that the Lord places in front of you. So there you have it! My goal for the new year is to do something very simple for myself everyday. It could be creative or maybe a simple walk on the beach...

And with that being said.... HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!