Yesterday was Emily's first birthday! WOW! How time flies! We had a great party with family! Thank you all for your wonderful gifts to Emily! We love you all and are so grateful to have you as a part of our lives!
Here are some pictures of Emily when we were singing Happy Birthday to her!! She started clapping when we all started singing to her! She is such a blessing to our family and we love her so very much!
I saw this on Jen's blog and just HAD to do it!!!
You're an American classic -- fast, strong, and bold. You're not snobby or pretentious, but you have what it takes to give anyone a run for their money.
"Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.
Emily is such a funny little girl. Her little personality is coming on STRONG!! She had Clay and Jared laughing so hard last weekend. She knows how to give the scowl, but then she is right back to smiling. I was finally able to get a few pictures. At first, when I turned the camera on, she just cheesed right up and was super smiley. I had to tease her with the remote or the camera and then take it away to get her to scowl at me. We love our girls!!!!
Jared got me a Flip Video for Christmas. I LOVE it. I had never heard of them before and I really am loving it. I just have to be able to get it to download the videos onto my computer. This morning, Emily started walking with her walker toy we got her for Christmas. Here is a cute video of her walking!!
Here is another cute video. I couldn't figure out how to download the videos, so today I finally took the time and figured it out. The girls got plasma cars for Christmas and here is Jayce trying to give Jar a ride!!!
WHY CAN'T I REMEMBER???? I can never remember to take my camera with me. Jared and I have had some awesome weekends and I have no pictures to prove it!! AGH!
The weekend before last, Jared and I went with some friends to the cabin. It was so much fun to get away and go up there. It is beautiful with all the snow and nice to stay inside where it is warm! Kylee and Matthew lived outside I believe. It was so fun to watch them sled down the driveway. They were so funny! Megan and I worked on a puzzle, but didn't finish. I thought about that puzzle the whole next week and since my parents went up there this last weekend, I had my mom bring it down for me. I want to do that puzzle!!! (Does that sound like a crazy person?)
And then again, this last weekend, Jared and I got away to Sunny St. George! Oh my heck, it was so nice down there. Justin and Michelle and their family and Clay went with us. Ryan and Jenny couldn't make it this trip. Next one, right guys!! The kids played outside the WHOLE weekend!! It was 60's down there. How wonderful! Kylee and Ella played so good, I didn't see Kylee all weekend, she was just too busy playing! When I was packing to go, I found my roller blades downstairs, remember those things? They were a big hit with the kiddilies! I need to use those this summer! I believe that we need to go again. Again, sorry for the no pictures!!! I am so angry at myself! How can I remember that camera? Maybe I need to permanently keep it in my purse! Any ideas?
Today is a journal entry day for the Keisel household!!! Our kids do not sleep in! That is probably my fault, because really, I don't either. I usually am up at 5:00 to do MY stuff without kids bugging me and then its time to get to the running without the kids bugging me either. A little LESLIE time is all I need. I know it sounds crazy, but I don't get that alone time any other time and I need it to start a good day off. Since winter has come, I have had a really hard time getting up early and just end up doing my running when Emily goes down for her first nap. I have really noticed that I am a little bit ornery becuase I don't get my time and when kids wake me up before I am really ready. I know it sounds selfish, but I need it just to gather myself together. Also since the winter and DST adjustment, our kids are up between 6 and 7, usually around 6:30. I need to get back into the routine of getting up early.
Anyway, on to why it is journal entry day. MY KIDS DID NOT WAKE UP UNTIL 7:15 TODAY! CAN I TELL YOU HOW WONDERFUL THAT IS! I didn't get up either and had a little nice sleep in! WOWZER!!!
I challenged my family to the Biggest Loser! I know that there are a lot of people out there that do the challenge! There are rumors floating around the Jeffs' family that there is a cruise in the future for us. I want to look my best for that!!
I just want my family to know that I will probably kick their pants, so you better be working hard to beat me! :)
I have found some fun things that are helping me. One is tracking your calories. I have been really good at the exercising thing, it is the eating thing that throws me off. I keep saying to myself, "Les, you can't be working out as hard as you do, and not eat right so you can lose the weight!" So, I found this fun website, it is free, that will track your calories. It is called MyFitnessPal. You just put in the food you eat, the exercises you did, and it will count it all for you! A lot of it may be an estimate, but isn't that better than not knowing at all?
I have also taken the 200 sit ups challenge and the 100 push ups challenge. And this is the military style push ups and sit ups for me! I think it will be so awesome to say that I did that! 200 sit ups and 100 push ups! WOW!
The basement is finally all sheetrocked! Jared has worked on it SO very hard this break and got it done. I think he has gotten tired of it. It is a lot of work and IT IS DONE! YAHOO!!! Now he is going to work on the mudding, tapping, and texturizing of the craft/exercise room, and the 2 bedrooms!! Then it is my turn! I am in charge of the painting. The main room is already primed and ready to paint! I am so excited. We are on the downslope here!
In other news, last weekend, Jared's parents took Kylee for the weekend. It was so nice both for Kylee to be out there and for us! Thank you!! Here are some pictures that I took while she was gone.
Miss Emily! Such a happy little girl. She is getting her top teeth in. I keep wondering when she is just going to start getting big. She is so tiny, but eats SOOO much. She eats a lot more than my other girls, but still is just tiny!
Me and Jayce before we went to church! It was so fun to have some one on one time with my little girl. I gets lots of time with Kylee, but not so much time with Jayce.
Here is my baby girl ready for church!
We hope that you all had a wonderful New Year! I love the New Year, I just wish I had enough energy to stay up all night!!! :) Ryan and Jenny had a fun party that we went to for a few minutes (naw, we stayed longer than that). One of these years I am going to stay up all night!! I promise!!! :) Maybe that can be one of my goals for this coming year!! I think we missed out on some great fun at the party!
The last couple of years, I have really looked forward to the NEW YEAR and starting to work on some goals, some old ones that have always been with me and some new things too!! I was listening to John Tesh on the radio a couple of years ago and he was talking about people and setting goals. I have tried to find what exactly he said, but it was something to the effect that a lot (I am thinking 97%) of people will set goals or New Year Resolutions. Most of us will not keep them, but a small number (I am thinking only 3%) write their goals down on paper and only that small number actually keep their goals! I decided from then on that Jared and I would write our resolutions down, make it look pretty, and put it in a place where we can see it everyday.
I am going to share with you all my New Year Resolutions so that you can help me! You can all be my support group!
1. Make it a Great Year. Read scriptures every morning and pray every morning and evening.
2. Read Ensign cover to cover every month.
3. Read Relief Society lesson each week.
4. Read 1 book a month, 12 books a year.
5. Stick to Biggest Loser Challenge.
6. Organize pictures to be put on DVDs.
7. Run 1 race a month (May through September).
8. Do a better triathlon than last year
9. Make quilts for girls
10. Learn to make cream puffs (we had some awesome cream puffs at Ryan and Jenny's party and I decided that I need to learn to make these suckers!)
