If you had $100 to spend

If I had a hundred dollars to spend in my current situation I would want to use it to pay off bills. Spending money specifically on fun things makes me feel guilty all the time I mean ALL THE TIME. Karl hates it when we go grocery shopping because I always ask him if he really needs the name brand, yes I will admit name brand tastes better, but I have resigned myself to store brand things because I can use my money for other things that lasts longer than food. This argument works on everything food related except for dr pepper and chocolate, don't get me started. Anyway so we were given $100 to spend but it had to be on something fun. We did go out to Jimmy Mac's last night and it was nice to see our friends and I explained the situation and how nice it was for the person to think of us and give us the money, but it was still hard for me to justify spending the money on something fun. It was Sunny's birthday so Debbie, my bestest sister, watched Tyler while we went out. After dinner we all decided to go to walmart, to find something fun. Well it didn't serve the whole purpose, but Karl and I did enjoy spending time together, we bought a new scale, hopefully this will jump start me on my diet, which starts tomorrow. The only sad thing is is the scale I was using at home before was 20 lbs off. This makes me very sad.I am starting off higher than I thought I was and it makes buying more clothes more difficult.
Thanks for reading my rambling, thanks to you for the $100. We loved the time we got to spend with my friends.

My New Years Resolution

I am going to lose weight AGAIN. I know I have done this many times and it does seem to be a yo-yo effect sometimes, but the fact is I HAVE done it so I know I can do it again. When I lost weight before I lost 30 lbs. I weighed myself last Saturday and I have gained 10 lbs back. I was surprised that that was all I gained because it seemed like more.
I am very sad because my most favorite pants are broke! I have worn these for years and for most people it would be time to get rid of them but they lasted so long that they became my favorite.
I am excited and nervous about this round of weight loss, but I have a goal to lose 70 lbs by August 21, my 30th birthday. I can do this.

ZooLights 2009

I love this picture. Tyler is completely bundled up. Two pairs of pants, a onesie, long sleeve shirt, coat, hat and two blankets. It was a very cold night.

Karl was having fun with the camera and he got a picture of Sunny's favorite tree.

We went with Superwoman and her sidekicks to the Point Defiance Zoo. We bought the tickets a LONG time ago but then the white stuff happened and it was pushed back until last night. We were supposed to have more come with us but Jennifer had a baby earlier this week so that didn't work out for her.
It had been a long time since we had gone to the zoo and so I was just going by my memory and that proved to be wrong. Thankfully it didn't put us too far behind. Tyler had a lot of fun looking at the lights and clapping his hands at random things. When we were in the shark aquarium room Tyler just wanted to climb the stairs until we caught his attention with a giant shark going by.

The Big House

Daryl and Rachel, having a great time together.

This is Jennie, Karl's cousin, and Mike, her husband, and their little girl Sophie. In the front is Uncle Kent and Kyle, Karl's one of many cousins.

Kyle and Scott just relaxing.
Hazel taking a break from the crowd. She is getting so big!

This is Donna and Leif, Karl's other aunt and uncle who used to live in the big house, now they live in Sequim. They areso much fun.
Sorry that I didn't get everybody on here from the party. There was just so much going on at once, I thought I could get everyone but it didn't work out.

Winter Storm

This is a picture of Kent Kangley and 132nd Avenue at about 3:45pm on our way to pick up Karl's mom to go to the Big House. Sounds like jail huh? Actually its Karl's Aunt and Uncle's house and we go there every Christmas Eve. This year we, the WHOLE family, decided to have the party today so all the families could be with their own families on Christmas Eve, with all the little grandkids its getting bigger and bigger.

This is a picture right outside our apartment after we got home. We are expecting snow and winds through the night. Hopefully we do not lose power, or its off to Grandma and Poppy's house we go. (Don't tell them it will be a surprise!)
Coming home from the big house it was windy and snowing pretty good. I was very relieved that we got home safely and we didn't ice skate too much with the car. I was very brave and I drove to the Big House. On our way we picked up Diane and the headed over yonder. It took us alittle over 45 minutes to get to our final stop, but it was worth it.

This is a picture of two zones together on my mission. My companion at the time was Chelsea Nash. In every zone there was only one set of sisters and if you got lucky there might be one other set of sisters. My mission president's last name was Peterson, as well as my maiden name, so it was fun to play with elders minds at times. I never completely convinced them but I made them nervous.
I don't remember where we were in this picture but I think it was Fort Smith Arkansas. It always took us over an hour to get to a Zone Conference and so we treated ourselves to Olive Garden after it was done, even though we did eat at ZC, we seemed to have room for bread sticks. Man I miss my mission sometimes.

Our Tree

This is our cute little Christmas tree. Tyler is very upset that the pretties are all too high to reach. I am alittle nervous to even put lights up with Tyler's curiosity burning his hand on Thanksgiving. I am blowing it out of preportion but ya'lls didn't hear the scream that came out of my baby boy's mouth that night. I never want to hear that again.
We need to get more ornaments up but over the years it will be filled.