Winter Photos

This past Friday Kevin and I got the privilege to get our photos taken again by Jenna.  She did them in the summer of last year and then again our family photos. She has changed her name to Shutter Iowa Photography, however still the great amazing work as always. We went to the fair grounds for this location and they turned out even better than expected. If you would like to contacted her check out her facebook page at this link, Shutter Iowa Photography Facebook, like I said she is wonderful and really works with you. Can't wait for the next time we get to see Jenna!

Two Weeks Down.

Kevin and I are now two weeks into our weight loss and change in life style. I can say that I have lost six pounds and Kevin has lost five. It is progress but we still have a long way to go to get where we need to go. We have started to go to a gym as of last night to start running and working out since we have not been able to go outside due to weather. I hope this will also give us some more progress. I found some information that I found very interesting that I wanted to share with you all about running.

The things that stand out most to me would be first off Mental Health. If you do not know me I am prone to get migraines often.  I am hope that with the start of running on a regular schedule it will help and I can come off my medication.  Also it helps with your over all immune system that is great. Who would not want that. I feel like if someone is sick in the office I will be the one that gets it no matter what. All of this is on top of burring the calories and getting fit.

Something else that is very important to weight loss is drinking water.  If you know me I do not have a problem with that. Some people in my family like to call me a fish. I have always picked water over pop or juice any day of the week however to get Kevin to switch has been a little bit of a struggle. I found this and it kind of put it into check for him about how much water he really need to be drinking a day.

Just keep that in mind if you are trying to drop a few pounds. Also I have started to drink something to reduce water weight. It takes seven days so I will let you know how it goes.

ISU.

Last weekend Kevin and I headed north, and by north I mean Ames. We watched the men's basketball team in hopes to break their loosing streak they had. We were able to get some good seats off craigslist at a good price.

We enjoyed some walking tacos and my tweet thrown up on the jumbo TV in Hilton.

After all the fouls, technicals, and trash talking Iowa State came out on top with the win!!!! Couldn't have asked for a better game to go to!

Till next year Hilton!

New Journey.

Kevin and I decided that together we were going to take a weight loss journey. We have decided that we wanted to live healthier.  What we have done is we have both downloaded the FREE MyFitnessPal Application (they have it both for iPhone and Android.) We chose this application for the main reason because it was easy to use and it was also free. It is already hard enough to try and keep track of everything you eat in a day and if you have to enter it in your phone by hand with everything I have going on I know that would take way too long. No thank you. This is the perfect application due to the fact it gives you the option of just scanning the bar code if it has one and pulls up everything for you! Easy as pie!!!! Also when you go out to eat it has most restaurants all ready in the application so you can then select what you are eating! The following photos are our before photos and as hard as they are to post I cannot wait to keep you updated and let you know other ways we are burning calories. Thank you for your support!  We have our weigh in every Saturday!!!

Moving Day.

Control Panel - aka my computers.

On Thursday at work it was moving day. For the first time in my life I had to move where I had been sitting for over a year. I had to pack everything up in a blue box, wait for the movers to come and then unpack everything. I now sit right next to the window at Nationwide and have a great view of the park. That means if you are out and about on a warm summer day I might see you, however I don't really have the time to be looking out side as I am working. I took some photos of how I have my new desk set up. I also asked them to remove my shelf above my desk because I am not using it and it really opens up the area. 

My View

Photos of Family right above my computers
(so I can see them all the time)

Christmas.

Kevin and I

Everyone playing games.

We traveled north this weekend for our fifth and final christmas of the year with Kevin's Mom. I have been feeling very under the weather since christmas day so this was going to be a large test for me. Friday we loaded up the car and Kevin drove north. We had good weather so that was nice and we got lucky.  We spent saturday enjoying time with all of his siblings and their other halfs as well as his mom. We also enjoyed playing games. We ducked out kind on early so I could get some rest. Overall it was a great day and fun spending time with family.

Kevin and I with all of his Siblings and significant others.

A small clip of a game we were playing - Todd and Heather arm Wrestling.

Woodpecker!

Kevin and I have gotten into giving back to the animals that live around us. Starting in December we put out our winter bird feeder. We had not seen much activity but with me being home sick I have been kind of keeping my eye on it.  Today I had a little friend show up who had not come before; a little woodpecker! I sat and just watched him for about an hour it was kind of neat. I was also able to grab some photos before he went on his way!