Christmas Eve

What do you do on the afternoon of Christmas Eve to tire out the kids?  You take them to a trampoline park, of course and play. . .

We had Dave and Julie and their girls, Lee and Tricia and their kids, and our family all playing dodge ball together.  What a riot!

Gabby climbing the rock wall with bare feet!  Ouch!

Quincy climbing too!

Everyone playing follow the leader with Lee in the lead.

Cousins are the best!

Front:  Quincy, Abby, Mia, Gabby, Peter, Corban, and McKenna

Back: Andrew, Parlee, Emi, and Lauren

We got to go to see the Williams' cousins too in Tremonton to celebrate Uncle Darin's birthday and have a fun Christmas party.  This year we did a surprise gift exchange with the kids.  It was fun!

Cambric, Tanner, Kelsey, Corban, Gabby, Cass, Maren, Quincy, Olivia, Bethany, Conner, Keaton, and in the back Jake, and Parley.

Mini Cheer Camp

The cheerleaders at my school did a mini cheer camp as a fundraiser right before the Christmas break.  I signed my girls up and they had so much fun!  They went to a few practices and then performed at a girls basketball half-time.  I didn't have a good view of Quincy so the performance pictures are mostly of Gabby.  It was sure fun to watch!  What spirit!

Family Pictures

Family Home Evening/Dinner with Grandma and Grandpa Wright.  We each had $3.00 to buy something for dinner and make it for each other.  We had quite the dinner!  It was really fun!

Tracy noticed that we all matched when we came for a visit, so she had to take some family pictures of us!

Our niece Kelsey asked us to be models for her and gave us some free pictures for our time.  They turned out really great!

Fall Weight Loss Challenge

When school started so did my Chubby Challenge.  It was a competition between friends of friends to see who could lose the most body fat percentage.  I was VERY ready to do something and the prize winnings were very tempting.  Here is my before picture and a picture of the scale.  We had to send in a scale shot each week.

 173.5 pounds to start

My helper at the start.  Bump and I would get up early and walk.  After a few weeks it was just me getting up early to walk!  :)

My sisters and cousins all doing the challenge together.  These girls really rocked the challenge and all of us placed pretty high up the charts. It was fun to do it together.  We saw each other's results here at Grandpa's funeral.
(Tera, Jana, Me, Shayla, Sherilyn, and Jamie)

Down 27 pounds in 8 weeks!!!  I lost 13.53% body fat.  I was in 2nd place from week 2 right up until the very end when people starved themselves to win.  Ticked me off really bad, but I still ended up in 4th place and won $95.00 (first place was $700).

This is what I posted on the challenge blog after the competition was over:

Wow I can't believe it's over!  This has been such a great motivation for me!  At the start of this competition I was just at the point where all of my pants were too tight and I went to the store to buy a size 14.  I was 2 pounds shy of where I was just before delivering twins!  Yikes!  It was hard to tie my shoes and shave my legs and I knew I needed to get myself back in gear.

I joined with my sisters Tera B. and Jamie S. as well as cousins Shayla D., Jana C. and Gaylene P.  Everyone did so good!  I've gotten to see their before and after pictures and they are inspiring!  Way to go girls!  Thanks for the good motivation!  Even when we traveled to Grandpa's funeral last week!

I am now comfortably in size 10 jeans (I haven't tried on anything smaller).  My energy level is up, I can keep up with my 3 kids again, and I have motivated many co-workers to be healthier throughout the weeks.

I ate low carb, ran/walked a minimum of 10,000 steps every day, drank tons of water, and didn't have any sugar or soda.

I wish I had stuck with it better.  I really fell back into old habits during the holidays, but I loved it when I was competing.  I need to do this all the time.  Oooo there are too many yummy treats in the world!  For me it is 90% diet, 10% exercise.

Dance Recital and Halloween

The girls had their first dance recital at the Rec Center right before Halloween.  They both did such a good job!  Quincy was a witch and danced to "Love Potion #9"

Gabby was a skeleton pirate and danced to "Monster"

For Halloween Corban dressed like Fin from "Adventure Time"

Quincy was a beautiful mermaid

Gabby used her dance costume for Halloween as well.  We changed her makeup a bit though.

Cassidy came for a visit and wore her Jake t-shirt just for Corban.  

(In Adventure Time Fin and Jake are best buddies and go on adventures together)

Now that's a lot of candy!!!

We had a fun adult Halloween party too!  Bump was dressed as Bob Ross and I was a "Happy Little Tree" in one of his paintings.  We won the costume contest!  :)

John and Taleesha Baker

(Just creepy. . .)

Jeff and Christy Williams

(Garth and Wayne)

The Runyan's (What about Bob?)

The Gunnerson's

Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head

TJ and Camie Polster

(Minnie and Micky Mouse)

Ryan and Tressa Ririe

(Dog the Bounty Hunter and his wife)