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I have officially decided to put this on blog. Which in turn I hope makes me more accountable.

I thought that it would be fun to give myself 100 day challenge. No matter what I have to work out for 100 days straight.

I have had a gym membership since August. I have been going about 3 times a week. I would really like to be better at this. My goal is to have membership for a year and then maybe get pregnant. My goal is to be healthier at the age 26 then I was at 25. So it appears in 113 days it will be my birthday. So in 13 days my challenge will start.

Please feel free to leave comments on any exercises I should start or try or just different workouts in general.

Hopefully after 100 days I will be healthier and more ready to add a second child and then get fat all over again.

Wish me luck.

Please also ask me how I am doing so i feel more motivated to keep going.

Dancing with Buzz

Buzz Aldrin was voted off Dancing with the Stars Last night. Sad day... but he sort of deserved to go home, no one really wants to see an old person dance.

I always wanted a reason to pull this photo out and show people.

We took this picture on my cruise ship and he signed it the next day.

Thanks for everything Buzz. "To infinity and Beyond!"

Easter Sunday

We had a typical Easter Sunday. We went to my parents house and watched conference in the morning. We had a great smoked turkey feast for lunch. And a great egg hunt afterwards.

Tori had a ton of fun picking up eggs.

She would carry around the little basket with her and then put them in the bigger one once it got full.

Sometimes when she bent down to get one all of her eggs would fall out, and she would have to start over again.

happy that she gets chocolate

Jenny, Shane and Parker

Hair getting in her eyes.

She got chocolate all over her face and dress.

aunt jenny helping Tori get up.

As you can tell I love taking pictures of Tori. I can't help it.

P.s. Yes I did feel the earthquake. I was at work and it felt like I was on a boat. I could really tell because all the lights above the tables were all swaying.

Not even a year...

Not even a year later I have already changed the color of some of my walls.

I didn't like the Yellow kitchen I always dreamed about after all.

Before we moved in

After, I found a place for my flower pictures to go.

Before- I liked my yellow kitchen

After- it makes everything look elegant.

I got going a little too much and painted a wall in my family room as well.

Also while everyone in our ward was practicing going without TV for a week we decided to upgrade.

Before- blah

After- !!!!!

Tori is getting the most out our new TV for sure.

Mickey Mouse is always on.

She makes sure if she is awake and the TV is on, it's going to be what she wants to watch.

now.. what else can i change?

Brother and Sister

I had the chance to take Rachel and Scott's school pictures.

Scott is actually a senior this year. Rachel will be 12 in May and is starting Young Woman's soon. I can't believe they are that old.

My siblings are beautiful aren't they.

Rachel actually let me do her hair all cute for some pictures.

Her hair looks like this everyday.

This is a typical "Rachel" look.

"What?"

Hair!

I have been having a lot of fun lately playing with Tori's hair.

I found these blogs that post SUPER cute hair do's almost everyday.

I thought at first there was no way I would be able to do any of them to Tori's hair but lo and behold I found some that work for us.

First you must see what I work with most days.

This is her hair in the morning before a bath and styled

These two pictures show what I normal would do it.

Cute on it own but with a little help....

This is one of the first ones we did.

I had originally done this one with two different colored ribbon but she took the other out before I took the picture.

zig-zag

Had to add this picture, just because she is so cute

pull-through crown

Again another picture of her just because she is so cute.

I usually do her hair 1/2 up one day after her bath and then all the way up the next day.

Day 1

Day 2

The front stayed in from the day before so i just added another row.

Criss-cross

Day 1

Day 2.

Yes the ribbon even stayed in all night.

Her hair today.

As you can see I am having a ton of fun with it every morning. And I can't get enough of taking picture of my little girl.

At least one of us looks good everyday.

And yes she just sits there while i do it.

To do these yourself check out these blogs.

http://www.princesshairstyles.com/ &

http://cute2tryhairdos.blogspot.com/

They give you step by step instructions on how to do each do.

Enjoy!

Being Creative

I saw these flower wall art things at Target and totally wanted them. However i didn't feel like paying Target prices so I just made my own. I just took all my flowers picture I had taken and put them on a black background. I haven't figured out how I am going to hang them up yet, and will worry about that later. Enjoy! Let me know if you what a copy of any of them.