New Years Goals

This year I have a few goals that I am going to be working on. My first big goal is to organize all of my kids pictures that are on the computer and get them in a photobook. There is a website on the internet called Shutterfly and it is so cool. I am downloading all our pictures onto the site and creating photobooks for all my children. Then hopefully I can just stay caught up by scrapbooking the rest of the albums. The thing is though is that Shutterfly is so handy that I might just do all my scrapbooking online now. I am addicted. I have went through all the pictures that I have already and organized them. Now I just need to get their books put together and get them printed out.

My next goal of course is to lose more weight and keep it off. I lost 35 lbs last year and I have been able to keep it off. This year I want to lose another 30. I am a Biggest Loser fan and the season that is on telivision right now there is actually a dad and daughter couple from Shelley ID that is on it. I decided to go onto the Pound for Pound website and donate 20lbs of weight that I am going to lose by the end of May. Every pound you donate they will donate a pound of food to the food bank. I am way excited and it helps keep me motivated. We have our exercise room down stairs all set up complete with free weights, ab cirlce pro, mini trampoline, and a eliptical that we are borrowing from my parents. Robert has been getting up at 5 in the morning to exercise and I usually exercise during the day or at night. Now that Robert is going to Rigby to work I get up at 5:45 to make breakfast and his lunch.

My next goal is to get my craft area all organized. I have been going through my ribbon, beads, and scrapbook stuff and trying to get things oraganized. I have been wanting to do it for a while but have not been motivated.

The other big goal that Robert and I are doing is budgeting. We are doing the Dave Ramsey envelope system if you are familier with it. It helps us keep track of where our money goes and how much we spend. I hope all is well with everyone and that you will all have a great year this year.

Varolo

I just joined a free site that pays you to watch there advertisements. It is all free I have friends trying it and it works. The money goes straight into your pay pal account. Go to my link at www.varolo.com/village/Halltown and watch the 2 minute video. It is worth a try!

SNOW!!!!!

We had a couple good snow storms here. The kids are very excited to be playing outside. Here is a picture of the snow falling!

Robert and I helped the kids build a really big snowman. It was great packing snow and the kids loved it!

Robert thought the snowmans head was to cold so he decided to make him a really nice hat after the family pictures. But here is Frosty!

Halloween 2010

This year was different for us. The school did not do any kind of trunck or treat and they didn't even have the pumpkin walk going during Halloween. Last year during the pumkin walk they handed out candy, but not this year. So this year we hit the neighborhood and went door to door trick or treating. I was sick with a way bad sore throat, so I drove slow and followed the kids through the neighborhood as they walked. They loved it! Matthew as a motorcycle rider!

Brianna as Cinderella!


Dyllon as a motorcycle rider!

Trip through Palisades and Jackson Wyoming

We decided to pack up the kids and go for a little drive to see the colors of Fall. We went through Palisades and then through Afton Wyoming and into Jackson. We stopped in Afton at a Gun Shop there that Robert wanted to look at. There were no good deals or anything so we bought and icecream bar and headed to Jackson. On the way there Dyllon got car sick so we had to stop and clean the Surburban out. We then went into Jackson and I went and found a cheap outfit for him to change into. It looks like a church outfit, but that was all they had on clearance. We came home through Victor and back through Swan Valley. We were going to stop to get a square ice cream cone but decided against it from the car sick experience. We did have a lot of fun though!

These pictures are backwards, sorry.

Here the kids are riding a bear. This is in Jackson Wyoming!

We had to show the kids the antlers. They thought they were so awesome!
A view from Palisades!

Matthew took a picture of Robert and I. He did a pretty good job!

Kids playing on the shore.

Family Picture

We got our family pictures taken a while ago. I think we got alot of good ones. This is one of my favorites so I decided to share. The kids did great until at the end, they were getting a bit tired of getting their picture taken. My mom had a guy from pocatello come take them and she is going to have a book put together for us of all the family.

First Day of Preschool!

Dyllons first day of preschool was September 1st. He loves going to school and the first day he wore his backpack all morning until it was time to go at noon. Then the next day he did the same thing. The next day was Friday and he did not have school and he through a fit and got mad at me. He is so excited to learn and he loves his teacher!

Mrs. Ottley and Dyllon