Where does the time go?

It's been a while since I've been on here! Ever since I've been introduced to Facebook that's where all my info and time goes! Where do I start......?
Paul is doing great since surgery. He's down 152 lbs now in not quite 7 months. He officially weighs less than I do now. Not good for me, but great for him. I just went out a couple of days ago and bought him a 35" waist pant! It's crazy! I've not been very supportive of his diet. Maybe I should say not as supportive as I should be. I've started trying to think and eat like he does. No sugared treats, no potatoes, no rice, no pasta and no bread. Basically yogurt & cottage cheese for breakfast with some roasted almonds, salad for lunch and then protein and veggies for dinner. I've only been eating his way for 3 days and it sucks. I just have to tell myself (as Julie says) "Nothing tastes as good as thin feels." Corey and I made a plan to each lose 20 lbs before Megan gets home from basic training.
For those who haven't heard, Channing and Brandon are expecting another baby in May. She's due on May 10th but will probably be taken by C-section a week early. That puts it right about Trinities birthday, hers is on the 4th of May. The Dr. says from the heartbeat he's going to guess it's another boy. He guessed on the other 2 and was right on both of them.
Corey is attending Snow College this semester and loves it. She has some great roommates and has made some fun new friends. She plans to not attend next semester but will probably not move back home. She's really liking living on her own. She signed a year long contract for her apartment and if she doesn't sell her contract she'll need to still live there even if she doesn't go to school. Her apartment is off campus so she does not have to be a student to live there.
Cailee has been hunting her little hiney off! She had 2 antelope tags down on Parker mountain near Fishlake, a deer tag and a cow elk tag! She filled one of her antelope tags but not her deer tag. Her elk tag just started yesterday and goes through the 18th of December. She did awesome the last term at school. She had 4 A's, 1 B+ and 1 C+. The C+ was in PE! I asked her how the heck you get a C+ in PE and she said it's because her participation was low because she doesn't dress, even though I bought her PE clothes from school when we registered. I explained to her that when I was going to school we made fun of people that failed PE! Anyway I'm still proud of the rest of her grades! She worked very hard now it's on to the next term. This one's the one that really counts! They'll look at her grades for this time when she tries out for the high school softball team in February. I can't believe my baby is in the 9th grade!
Megan is doing great at basic but is excited to come home. She has only 4 weeks until graduation! After graduation she'll get to come home for a couple of weeks and Christmas then goes to Texas for another eight weeks for the Army's dental assistance training.
That's all until we meet again! I'll try to blog more often

MORE BEFORE AND AFTER

BEFORE (LAST OCTOBER)



BEFORE (3 DAYS BEFORE SURGERY)



TODAY (LESS 109 LB)!!

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BEFORE

It's been 7 1/2 weeks since Paul had his surgery. He's lost 78 lbs and over 8 inches just off his waist! Overall he's lost over 22 inches. He's feeling really qood. He's walking 1-2 miles per day and working out on the total gym. He's still eating only 2 ounces per meal and he eats only 3 times a day. He can eat just about everything now except potatoes, pasta, rice, sugar and bread. He sure wishes some days he could have a soda or some other kinds of sugared treats but he's doing great! The before picture above was taken at Easter.....only 3 days before surgery. The after pictures were taken this morning in our front yard.



AFTER

Corey and her friends performed in the lip sync at the high school the day of graduation. They performed the Ho Down Throwdown and did a great job!




Watch for upcoming shots of Cailee's new hairdo! She's gone blonde with blue underneath!! It looks awesome!

GRADUATION PHOTOS!

It's been a few days!

SURGERY UPDATE:
Paul is doing great! He's lost 56 lbs in the first 4 weeks and feels great! He said he loves losing the weight because the more he loses, the better he feels. He even coached Cailee's team last weekend. Can't wait for you all to see him, he just keep getting smaller and smaller. He has adjusted very well to the eating side of his new life. On Wednesday he finally got to eat normal (well almost) and had 3 oz of steak with 1 oz of salad. Up until Wednesday he had only been able to eat canned meats and deli meats and no raw vegetables. He had one week where he was very emotional. The dr. said it's normal because the body stores estrogen in fat and when the fat starts to go away it disperses the estrogen into the body....explains alot about us females when we try to lose weight....anyway he's doing much better with that too.

GRADUATION:
We just got Corey's graduation stuff so everyone watch your mail for invitations! In case they don't get there on time her graduation is on March 28th at 10:00am at the McKay Events center (UVU) please come if you can! She's very excited. We are going to take some pictures today and I'll get them posted for you all to see.

LONGBOARDING:
Corey, Ms. "trips over sunlight" decided to try longboarding. I don't know what possesses a person who trips over their own shadow to try such a thing but she did. She made it all the way to "The shack" with only one minor fall. Then I said good job but you still have to get home. Sure enough within about 2 blocks of "The shack" she ate it hard core, hurt her knee and couldn't finish the journey home so I took Cailee down and her and Megan finished the ride home on the longboards. We ended up back at the dr. the next day to have her knee looked at and luckily it looks like it's just sprained. The dr. said with all the swelling it's hard to tell.

TRINITIE BDAY:
On May 4th Trinitie turned 3! I cannot believe it, she's growing so fast! Channing had a huge birthday party for her. She had a big BBQ and got lots and lots of presents. Brandon and Channing got her a power wheels jeep. She loves driving it and taking her brother for rides. Although brother does not like taking rides....



SCOPE:
For those of you who haven't heard: Corey has only wanted to donate blood from the time she turned 17 and was able. Every time she could, she went. Well she has tried over 12 times in the last year to donate either blood or plasma and has only been successful once! Her iron is always too low. We finally took her into the dr. for some blood work and they found that she is anemic. I guess blood / iron cells are big when they are new and the older they get, the smaller they get. Well she has no old blood cells which means they are going somewhere. The dr. said she may have some internal bleeding! She went in on Monday and had her stomach scoped to look for bleeding ulcers etc. They said it looked good, nowhere they could see that she would be losing blood. So the dr. has her on Iron pills and said to come back in 3 months for another blood screening to see if her Iron is coming up. If not they may do a colonoscopy to check for bleeding that way or she may have to start going in for IV Iron transfusions! I know crazy huh?! We'll keep you posted.

SOFTBALL:
Cailee is back into softball full swing! YAHOO! We've really missed it. Their first tournament was May 1st & 2nd in Tooele. If you remember it was a crappy weekend weather wise. Anyway they played 2 games on Friday afternoon and got rained out Saturday. The remaining tournament was rescheduled for Saturday May 9th. So last Saturday we went back to Tooele to finish up. They played 4 games. The 1st game they won 15-0, 2nd game they lost 8-0 (all because of 1 bad inning), the 3rd game they won 6-4 and the 4th game they lost 5-2. We ended up in 6th place out of 14 teams so not too bad after not playing since November! Cailee played great! Only 1 passed ball when catching and she hit great, only struck out once. This weekend we are playing in Orem. On Monday we start our league games. We will play to games a week for league. We play every weekend in June! I'm excited to see how well they do. They really are a great group of girls with great coaches! I almost forgot......take a look at that sunburn! And yes I put 50 SPF sunscreen on her 3 times!

Lots o new stuff! More to come!

So I was sick and tired of my hair and decided it had to come off! This blog is for those who don't have facebook (Mom) and haven't seen the new do yet. I went a little drastic.....short.....short.....blonde.....purple streaks! Really why not?! I'll try just about anything!







O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A!!