Blogging would be so much more fun if...

I knew that more than one person actually read it, LOL.  Oh well, I guess I could think of it as a journal for myself.

Well I guess the biggest thing in the Jones household is our healthy lifestyle changes!  The husband and I have started eating much healthier and exercising nearly everyday.  We're both trying to lose weight and just improve ourselves.  I got on the scale when I first started so I knew where I was starting at, and that was the last thing I remember before I apparently experienced cardiac arrest from the mere shock and had to be rushed to a trauma center.

Kidding, lol.

Seriously though, I had never seen that number before and I never want to see it again!  I guess since my whole life I have just thought of myself as fat no matter what size I've been, I didn't really notice all that much when I started steadily packing on pounds and inches.  Well no more!  I am determined to reclaim the hottie that is smothering underneath all of this cushiony layer of fat, haha!

So right now, I am down 9 pounds after about 4 weeks, and Keith is down 11 pounds after 5 weeks.  We leave for Myrtle Beach on May 26, so my goal is to lose about 15-16 more pounds by then.  It might be a lofty goal, but at least its a goal!

ITS A NEPHEW!!!

My sister-in-law finally had her baby this morning, Friday, January 9, 2009, and its a boy!!!!! Little Josiah Paul was born at 7:35 am and weighed in at a little over 8 pounds!!! WOO HOOOOO!!!!

Kicking the Habit

Well I have decided to get a jump start on one of my new year's resolutions. I am determind to kick my mt. dew/caffeine addiction. I just know that its not good for my body and therefore I want to stop consuming it! I am two days into my recovery.

Anybody got a valium? Xanax?? Anything?!?!?!

Just kidding.

Sort of.

Yesterday I ended up with a terrible headache and today I am just flat out exhausted. I had so much planned to accomplish tonight and it looks like I'm going to get none of it done, lol.

Here's to recovery!

AAAHHHHHHHHHHH

I've taken this moment to step away, breathe, collect myself, and prepare to get back to work. So pardon me while I momentarily freak out...



*AAAAAAHHHHHHHH* *RAAAAWWWRRRRR* *GRRRRRRRRRR*



Okay. Much better.



Its just this crazy time of year. I love every minute of it even if it does make me a little crazy. I devoted the entire day today to Christmas shopping, hoping that I could complete it all. Boy were those lofty hopes, LOL. I spent the entire day on my feet in Lexington and the three people that I went to Lexington to shop for, I bought nothing for! I'm just not very original, I'm a person who needs specifics. *sigh* But I did get some others marked off my list, so I'm happy. I also had a marvelous lunch and some fun shopping with Haley, she came down to Lex from Georgetown to meet me for a while.



As for the moment, this is what I am buried in:

Tonight I have to finish the Christmas cards I volunteered to make for the gift baskets the church is giving out tomorrow night when we go caroling. They're the burgundy ones with the gold christmas trees on them. I also REALLY need to get my butt into serious gear to finish my personal Christmas cards and get them in the mail. *doh* And throw in there somewhere finishing the last of my shopping.

Can somebody get me a valium?

Kidding, kidding! Sort of.

;-) Here's to wonderful holiday madness!!

I <3 Gatlinburg!!!

Every year since 2004, the Jones family has taken a family trip to stay in a cabin in the Smoky Mountains for Christmas. It has seriously become one of the highlights of the year! We always have so much fun, see beautiful sights, eat like pigs, act like dorks, relax like slobs and love each other's company!! ^_^ I'm usually a picture taking freak on these trips, but for some reason I just wasn't this year. I did catch some good stuff, tho!!

I am hoping that this kid's *serious* adorable-ness is distracting you from the strange distortion of my face....wait now I told....dangit!

We love getting in an outdoor hottub when its 30 degrees outside! Its a tradition!

Movie time snacks!!! Yay!!!

I know...we're adorable. ^_^

Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas!!!

I LOVE CHRISTMAS!!!! WOOO HOOOOO!!!! I love everything about it, the music, the decorations, the gift buying and wrapping and giving!! It truly is a magical time of year. I do realize one important thing about myself this year. For my family (which currently consists of Keith and I LOL) I want to make sure that the true meaning of Christmas--Jesus' Birth--is the center of our holiday. I don't want that to ever get buried under the glow and magic of the season!

I've started my Christmas shopping, but I'm not done yet. But hey, I've done better than I usually have by this time of year!

Hopefully soon I'll be posting some pics of our family trip we took last weekend to Gatlinburg, fun stuff!!!

Poor, dried up and shriveled, neglected blog...

Don't you just *love* it when life steps in the way of all the fun stuff you wanna do?? LOL My poor little excuse of a blog has been so neglected and dejected. Courtney, you've inspired me to get in touch with it again......more to come!!