My current battle...

I've always really enjoyed food, and certainly I've enjoyed it too much =)

Since we moved nine months ago I gained over fifteen new pounds I didn't need. My back started being in pain every day and none of my clothes fit anymore. So two weeks ago I started learning about how many calories I actually consume normally (and what I should be eating) and exercising every day. It has made me grouchy a few days - eating less that is - but it's starting to pay off already.

My wedding ring fits back on my finger now (I had to move it to my pinky especially with the warm weather), my back doesn't hurt every day and I've lost three or so pounds. And I haven't been starving myself at all, just eating reasonably and being active. So wish me luck to keep up my willpower. I don't want weight-induced diabetes and I want to wear my clothes again...

Adios preschool!

Here's Avery holding his 'graduation' certificate for finishing preschool. The kids did a presentation thing of singing ten or so songs before they presented the kindergarteners-to-be with their certificates.

Belated Easter..

So I realized that I'm waaay late in posting easter pictures, sorry. Avery obviously enjoys making faces at the camera. This goofball did however manage to test into Kindergarten with flying colors (early cutoff date in our state). He starts taking gymnastics this coming Monday, and he's very very excited. It's been over a year since he last took gymnastics, but he has really happy memories of it. Our city pool opens soon too, so we'll see how he takes to that :)





Here's Curran munching on jelly beans. They were one of his favorite candies at Eastertime (takes after his mother he does *grin*).

He's beginning to speak in 3-syllable words; well he tries his best to say them... And apparently some words like "more" he always says english/spanish/sign together just to be sure he's understood. Like "more-mas" jelly beans!!!

Catching up...

This is a much-belated picture from the very happy day in January that I became a deacon. ------>

Below is just a cute picture of Curran playing with great-grandma's pitcher collection...as apparently every visiting child does :)

A trip with wild animals (not just the kids)

We recently went to a wild animal sanctuary with the kids and some dear friends of ours. Here you can see Curran's favorite part of the park. He kept running back to the entry point so that he could see the animal that he could touch, and the dog loved it too :)









They had tigers, ocelots, lions, bears, wolves, and cougars to name most of them. Nearly all were rescue animals. Here are a couple of the many many beautiful tigers they had. There was lots and lots of roaming space for the animals, and even a pool area that they got to rotate in and out of.








Here's Avery trying hard to look just like them! He enjoyed watching the tigers play with giant exercise balls and play in the pool.











Here is Curran all dressed up for Mardi Gras a couple weeks back. He went around with his brother begging beaded necklaces off of everyone. (They were just laying on all the tables during our potluck.) He thinks he's pretty hot stuff in sunglasses, let me tell you!