Almost to 10!!!

The scale said this morning that I'm 1/2 lb away from 10lbs GONE!!! Okay, I'm excited. It's been a lonnnnggg time since I've been motivated enough to lose some weight, especially after years of all that infertility crap and drugs and stress, not to mention a bit depressed. I'm feeling good and actually enjoying my workouts at the gym. Food is the hardest for me to change, snacking is in my genes (just ask my Mom). But I'm making small changes at a time. Though after 7 weeks of this I would have liked to have lost more, its okay, slow and steady wins the race! I do have a deadline though, Jeremy is dying for another baby!!!! We have an appt next month to talk about using our frozen babies w/in the next couple of months. So I'd like to get off a bit more before I become a whale again. But hopefully I'll be better at exercising and eating right while pregnant this next time.


All else is good around here. Ava still continues to grow and make us smile each day. She's copying everything we say, like today she learned cookie (well kind of) and got to eat a few too many of them. Dang Girl Scouts! We are getting excited to see all the family out in Minnesota in 2 WEEKS from tomorrow. Everytime Ava does something cute/funny, Jeremy says "Mom and Terry (sister) are going just going to love this." Though, those who know Ava already know she is cute & fun! I know his Mom and sister are way excited to see her though, and a bunch of other relatives as well! New pics to follow soon....are computer is OLD and running out of space, so instead of buying a new one (cheap husband), he ordered some additional memory to install. My computer comes to a stand still when I open Kodak pictures & try to edit them. Oh well!

9 Blissful, Happy Years! HA!

On the 5th we celebrated 9 flipp'n years together, not quite sure how we made it to this point, but its a shocker to some people that know us! :) So I planned this whole weekend up in WA on the Olympic Pennisula at one of my Dad's timeshare places, which was way nice! My Mom was so wonderful to put up with Ava for the weekend, our 1st time away from here. And they had a great time, Ava acted like this perfect Angel for Grandma until we showed up, then the true toddler came out w/ all the whinning and crying to go along with it. Glad she was good for Grandma though!

This is the view from our deck, it's on Discovery bay. The other above pic is from some tidepools we went to, didn't see alot but it was fun climbing around on the rocks.

Saturday we were out in the nature ALL day hiking and exploring the beautiful area. We went to some waterfalls and to the beach and the tidepools, not quite the relaxing trip I planned, but fun. At least I got my exercise for the weekend done.

The deer in front (to the right, can barely see it) walked right out in front of us and stood there for awhile while I shot lots of pics. Then he started walking toward us and stopped, then this other deer walked on out and they crossed the path together. Later on another trail we got close to yet another deer and we also saw a coyote booking it down the beach, gotta love animals out in wild!

So on our actual Anniversary, Jeremy made us watch our wedding video and re-live all the fun of that day. It's pretty funny to look at, we were SOOO young! Alot of my fellow bloggers where on there like Audra, Kerry, Jeniece, Korrie, Melissa, & Sarah. I think its pretty awesome that my cousin Kerry caught my bouquet and got married about 6 months later, guess it works sometimes! Memories are great! To another wonderful, joyous year of Marriage!!! :) Or so we hope!