Day after Thanksgiving

Usually, I try very hard to just stay home on the busiest shopping day of the year. No sale is worth the crowds you encounter in my opinion. I know a lot of you love it, but my patience with people rushing around to get the very best deal possible wears thin. But, this year with my sis being in town, we headed out in the afternoon, and evening and met up with Mom, Dad, Kristin and Theresa downtown. It was not as busy as we thought it would be. And we really had a great time. Keith was at a friends birthday party so we only had Kelly and she got to do some shopping with all of us catering to her every need. :) Mom planned on getting her a new winter jacket, so we headed to Nordstroms and got to shopping. She wound up with new jacket, new dress with adorable shoes to match and a new pair of Keen winter boots. (Very cool!) I wish I had pictures of all that, but they were all on Mom's camera. Kelly at one point got very shy and would barley speak and I asked her later why she did that and she said, "I'm not used to having Grandpa and Daddy shopping with me." The funny thing about that is she was just trying on shoes at the time. :) Crazy kid. When we were done shopping, we went to a movie (Madagascar 2), then went our separate ways. It was fun, and I'm glad I headed out. Here are a couple of pictures from the evening. Downtown is always so beautiful and festive at this time of year. I love it!

Thanksgiving

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving. My sister, Uncle Kit, Aunt Jan, Adam, and my sisters friend Theresea came to visit. We all went to Mom and Dad's house to enjoy thanksgiving dinner. I thought I'd pass on some pictures to give an idea of our day.

Uncle Kit, Aunt Jan, Mom and Dad

Adam, Keith, and Steve hanging out in the livingroom.




The ladies decided it would be a good idea for the men to serve us dessert. :) We did not make it easy on them with our many demands, but they were good sports and it was a lot of fun. :)





Uncle Kit, Aunt Jan and Adam spent the night at our house. It was a lot of fun having them to ourselves. Of course the kids were so excited to have Adam spending the night. :)

We have so much to be thankful for this Thanksgiving. But mostly I'm thankful for the relationship I have with the Lord Jesus Christ, and for the family and friends he has blessed me with. I hope your thanksgiving was as wonderful as mine, and you were able to take a moment to thank God for all he has done for you! :)

Did it!

I did it! I made my goal. I started in Feb. 2008 and have made my goal on Dec. 8th 2008. I've lost 49 pounds! Here are some before pictures. These pictures show how far I've come. :)

And now for a current picture! :)

It was a little tricky getting Keith to take a good picture of me, this was as close as we could get! I just want to thank EVERYONE for being so supportive. I could not have been as successful without your help and encouragment. I know that sounds cheesy, but it's true. I had people calculating my points before having us over for dinner. People calling on Monday's to check in to see how I'd done through the week. (I hated the few times I had to say I'd gained!) People made sure wherever we were eating, it had something that would be easy for me to figure my points. No one ever invited us to a buffet. Thank you very much. And others told me I inspired them to loose weight too. This meant a lot to me. So even though I know it sounds chessy, thank you from the bottom of my heart.

I've been asked if I'm going to lose even more weight, and so far I'm pretty happy with where I'm at. But, I think I will lose a few more pounds just so I can easily stay under my goal weight so that I don't have to start paying for weight watchers again! I've gone from a size 18 to a size 8. You have no idea how wonderful I feel. I'm so happy to have made this lifestyle change, and to not have to sneek off with peoples cameras to delete photo's of myself. I can stand tall again. :)

A Beautifully Wonderful Perfect Day

I've stolen the title today from a blog I would like everyone to read. It is a family down in Texas that just gave birth to conjoined twins. I'll let their blog speak for itself, but it touched my heart, and I know they could use continued prayers from as many as possible. Check it out, but have some tissues near by.

www.goodtimesdelgadostyle.blogspot.com

Halloween

We had a really fun Halloween. This year everyone got involved. We went for dinner and trick-or-treating at Erin and Scott's house. All the adults at the last minute pulled together costumes but I'll let the pictures speak for themselves. Thank you Scott and Erin for opening your home to us and providing a wonderful meal.