Just a Little Bragging

I have recently decided that it was time for a change in my life. I have been over weight for some time, well forever, and have finally decided to get SERIOUS about it. Everyday I am telling my patients the importance of weight loss for there health, but how can I do that when I am more overweight than most of my patients and have the same health problems. Emily got a Wii Fit for Christmas, so Jason and I were thinking we would love to get one. Well Jason bought us a Wii about 2 weeks or so ago, and thanks to Mom we got a Wii Fit. I started working out with it on Sunday Jan. 25. I worked out Sun, Mon, Tues, and Wed. I watched what I ate all week, didn't have any fried foods or sweets. On Friday we went to Birmingham to spend the weekend with Jeremy, Nina, and Bronner so I didn't work out and didn't do as well with my eating as I could/should have. I started back Sunday night on the Wii and back watching my calories and I am proud to say that I have LOST 6lbs. YAY!!! I am so proud of myself. Not only for the weight loss, but just knowing that I can and have been excited about this. This is just a tiny step into my life change, but I have to start somewhere. I never even thought that I could exercise like this, within a weeks time I can already run farther without giving out of breath as quick, I also feel LOTS better already and it hasn't even been 2 weeks yet.
I set my goal in weight loss as 15lbs in 1 month, so far so good. Please pray for me and Jason as we continue our quest together.

Nothing much else going on around our world. Jason has been getting all his paper work sent in for his class in June, so hopefully he will be ready to find a teaching job come August. Pray for him as he will be able to complete all the requirements and the Lord will open the door for him somewhere.

I would also like to Praise the Lord for the wonderful church/church family that we have. The Lord has blessed us in many ways and our church is continuing to grow. We have recently paid off our church note in approximately. 5 years and will be having a note burning ceremony this Sunday. Also the youth class is growing and growing. We are averaging around 20-25 in class. We are trying to find a bus/van to accommodate this growing number. My life has truly been blessed in the past several months in watching Jason and the youth interact and me learning as much, if not more at times as the kids. I feel the Lord is working on me as well with these kids. I see myself in so many of them and I just pray I will be able to make a difference in ones life. So many are on the edge and Satan is working so hard in the Youth's life to pull them away, but I pray these kids will be able to stand up against Satan. Pray for Our Youth and their daily struggles also pray for Jason (and myself) as he works with the youth and as I figure out what exactly I need to be doing with some of the kids.

Hope everyone has a great rest of the week. GOD BLESS!!!

We are still here.

Sorry for such the delaying in posting an update, We are still here. I don't even know where to start this update. I guess I will get the worse part out first. Grandma Jaudon went to the be the Lord on Thursday, December 18th around 4:00am. We all knew this was coming, but I can't say that it made it any easier. I got the call early that morning and it was going to be several hours before hospice could arrive and the funeral home was already getting ready to come get Grandma, so they needed someone to take the catheter out and they called me. Mom was just going to let me explain how to do it over the phone, but I told her I would just come do it, WOW! It was hard having to do that, but well worth it in the end. The nurse with hospice was a male and Grandma would not have wanted him to do that to her. Anyways, we had the prettiest service for Grandma, she would have been proud. Her favorite color was purple so all her sons wore purple ties and the preacher wore a purple shirt and tie. Any of the family that had purple also wore it. All the songs were just as she wanted and my cousin Donna even wrote a song for Grandma the day before the service and sang it. Grandma would have been so proud. I guess the jealous part of me still wants her here and still wants to be at church on Sunday mornings and look down from the choir and see her sitting in the crowd so attentive. I catch my self driving home from work on my 1/2 days planning to go over to her house and see her (which is normally what I did). Jason and I was cleaning out the refrigerator the other day and I looked and I have less that 1/2 jar or pear preserves left and started crying b/c it is the last jar of her preserves I will ever have. Sorry, I am getting carried away, just needed to let the feelings out. I just catch myself thinking of something everyday and just crying.

Onto Christmas.
Everything with Christmas went great. We headed over to the river in Aberdeen to my Mawaw and Papaws on Christmas Eve and had a great time with my family, with some more crying moments. Grandma Jaudon always had Christmas Eve with us:( We left there and headed to Millport to Jason's mom and dads house. We also had a great time there. This was little Bronner's first Christmas and he pretty much just slept right through, can't wait till next year when he is into everything. Christmas morning we were at my parents house with my Grandaddy and also had a great time. Then it was over, way to quick I think.

New Years came and went with nothing much going on. Several of the kids from church came over and hang out playing games and xbox. I was ready to be in bed around 11:00, but managed to stay up till 12:00, I am really starting to tell that I am getting older.

On January 1st we went to the Junkin's Christmas in Kennedy AL with Jason's Grandmother and Aunts and Uncles. We had a good time with family there. We had to have it later this year b/c Jason's Aunt Rhonda found out she had colon caner and had surgery the week of Christmas. She is recovering well and the doctors got all of the cancer and she will not have to have any kind of treatments. Praise God, he still answers prayers.
Later that evening we had plans to go over and hang out at Randy and Denise's to spend some time with Jeremy, Nina, and Bronner. While we were there we received a call from the nursing home telling Denise that Aunt Myrtle had passed away. This was such a blessing, she was lonely and couldn't wait until the day she would be with the Lord. She had been in the nursing home for about 5 years and didn't want to be here any longer. She to had a wonderful service. Denise, Nina, and myself had the opportunity to go buy her a dress. She had wrote in her papers that she wanted a blue or pink dress and gold ear rings. Well we found the greatest dress for her that was blue and found some gold ear rings, she looked great in the dress. Aunt Myrtle had wanted Jason to do part of her service and he did a wonderful job, she too would have been proud.

On December 23rd my Great Aunt Rose went into the hospital after going into cardiac arrest. She remained in the hospital with no change until January 2nd when she finally went to be with the Lord. This happening the day after Aunt Myrtle died and just 2 weeks after Grandma died. This was not expected and just so heartbreaking to us all. Aunt Rose was Irish and was just a doll. Most all of the flowers at the funeral home was green and white and lots of people wore green.

This has all been hard on all of our families, but yet it has been a "happy" time. All of these great ladies are with the Lord now, as the bible says, to be absent from the body, is to be present with the Lord. That gives us as Christians the joy in knowing that one day when the Lord is ready for us will also be with the Lord and get to see our loved ones again. That helps me in my grieving in knowing that I will see my family members again.

Sorry for the sad and long post, hopefully no more of this to come. I will also try to start posting at least once of week and that way it want be one long post as this one was. Hope everyone has a wonderful week and God Bless.

Thanksgiving, Anniversary, and Alabama Football

Sorry it has been a while since I have posted. Things have been great but busy here.

Papaw is doing great. Grandma Jaudon is still hanging in there. Bless her, she hasn't been feeling well, but still hanging in.

Well Thanksgiving has come and gone. We had a great time with family. We ate lots of food at my parents and Jason's parents.

Uncle Jason, Aunt Dyana, and Bronner on Thanksgiving

Today is our 5 year anniversary, hard to believe in some ways, but in others seems as if we have been together forever. On Thanksgiving 6 years ago, Jason proposed to me at his mom and dads with all the family present. This has been 5/6 wonderful years together, can't wait to see what the next 5 years have in store for us. I posted a picture of us 6 years ago today at my Grandma Jaudon's 90th birthday, which was just 2 days after we got engaged. I also posted a picture from our wedding, sorry it isn't the best on, but all the goods ones are in frames our in our album.

For our anniversary we had planned to go stay at Ross Bridge Spa and Resort in Hoover AL, but with everything going on and it been one of the busiest weekends of the year we decided to put it off for another weekend. So, we went to Little Tokyo, my fave, and had sushi, then went and watched Four Christmases. It was a cute movie, we hadn't been to the movies together in a while, so it was nice

Us on our 5 year Anniversary

6 years ago

5 years ago

Of course, we can't forget about "THE GAME" today. That would be Alabama Crimson Tide vs. Auburn Tigers. All I have to say is ROLL TIDE ROLL!!! The only thing better than a win, is a shut out...36-0, can't get any better than that.

Getting ready for the game

I did get the Christmas tree put up on Friday. It is too cute, can't wait to get all the presents bought and wrapped, though we are almost done buying, just got to get busy wrapping.

Our Christmas Tree

Hope you enjoy the pictures. Hope everyone has a great upcoming week. God Bless

Prayers were answered

Just a quick update on my Papaw. He did have heart cath Sunday in Honolulu and was showed to have a 70% blockage which was able to be corrected with a stent. Praise the Lord!!! I talked with my Mamaw yesterday and they were at the airport waiting on flight back to Maui and said Papaw was great. My mom talked with them last night and they were headed to a Luau, guess nothing is going to slow him down. They should arrive back home on Friday.

Today is my Grandma Jaudon's 96th birthday today. I went lastnight and spent a few hours with her, then Jason and I went over tonight and stayed a little while. I asked if there was anything I could do for her, and she looked up at me and said, "I just want to feel better." This broke my heart, b/c there isn't anything I can do. She will feel better one day soon I pray. Bless her!!

This is a picture of my Grandma and her only daughter Carol in April 08

Not much going on with us this week. We are planning on going to see Jeremy, Nina, and Bronner on Saturday. Can't wait to see how much he has changed.



God Bless whoever reads this and I hope everyone has a good rest of the week.

What a great feeling...

...Being an Aunt. I never really thought much about it, but Wow, I love that little guy. Can't imagine what it will feel like to be a mom!!

Bronner made his appearance Monday the 10th at 4:47, he was 7lbs. 15 oz. 21 in. long. He is just adorable! I am so proud of Nina, she did wonderfully, she is for sure my role model and will be right by my side when I experience childbirth! She was absoultely amazing, she never complainned and I still haven't heard her complain, Hope I will be that way!

Shortly after his arrival

Jason holding Bronner

Proud Uncle Jason and Aunt Dyana

My favorite pic of all I have taken

My Grandparents left on Wednesday for Hawaii, were suppose to leave on Monday, but were delayed d/t some back problems my papaw was having. So, after a steriod dose pak the discomfort was better, so on their way they went. They were meeting 2 other couples there. Well after a day of chest pain, that has I guess, steadly gotten worse, Papaw has ended up in the Emergency Room in Maui. My Mamaw called mom very upset, glad she has friends there with her. They were hooking him up to monitors and we haven't heard anything yet. It is hard being here and unable to do anything, all we can do is PRAY!

Grandma Jaudon is still not doing well, slept most of the day today. Mom and Aunt Ronda are staying the night, hopefully all will have a good nights rest.

We had planned on going to see Baby Bronner, Nina, and Jeremy today, but decided against it. Jason had to take another part of his praxis II test today and didn't make it home till noon and he was exhausted and just felt very bad, he slept most of the afternoon. I hate we missed Bronner today, but we didn't want to chance going with Jason not feeling well. Plus, it was Alabama home game against Mississippi State, so we would have ran into game day traffic, so our plans are to go next weekend.

Please Pray for Papaw and continue to pray for Grandma Jaudon. Also pray Bronner has a good check up next week, he has been jaundice, but it is improving, so hopefully they will have a good checkup.
Hope you enjoy the pictures.

Tomorrow...We will be Uncle Jason and Aunt Dyana

Bronner will be here sometime tomorrow. We can't wait to meet this little boy! We are over excited. Please pray for a safe trip for all the family traveling and most of all for Nina, Jeremy, and Bronner. I will try to update with maybe a picture or two tomorrow night, if I remember to bring my camera cord. God Bless whoever reads this and hope y'all have a great week!!

Happy November

Wow, can't believe November is already here, time flies when having fun!! Jason and I had an uneventful fun week at home this past week, which was nice. We did go to a couple of Caleb's and several of the youth boys basketball games, which was exciting.

Friday afternoon we decided to go over and see Jeremy and Nina, our last visit with them before baby Bronner. We went and spent a little time at the Galleria. Jason has been wanting to find a teddy bear for Bronner. His Uncle Ronnie gave him one when he was a baby and he still has the bear, which his name is Teddy. Jason has looked online and several places for the "right" bear, but has been unable to find one in his price range. He decided to go to Bulid a Bear and found the "right" one. It is just a simple soft normal looking teddy bear, which he named Teddy.

We then went and had supper at BoneFishGrill. We got there early, so we were able to walk in and have a seat, which was great not having to wait. Supper was AWESOME. We had never been there and it was everything we expected and more. After supper we went to a grocery store named Whole Food. It was the coolest grocery store ever. It was very unusual and organic type foods. They even had a olive bar with like 20 different type of olives, GREATNESS!! Can't wait to go back there!!

Saturday not much went on but football, love college football!!! Went over to Drew and Sayonia's and had take out for supper, we always enjoying spending time with them!!

We do thank the Lord for another month he has given us. We do have a very eventful, exciting, busy month coming up. We will be awaiting the birth of our nephew Bronner, he will be making his entrance between now and the 10th. We are planning our Fall Festivial at church for the 8th. My dad's bday is the 6th, he will be 51, and we do thank the Lord for all he has given us with my father this past year, it has been long and hard for us all, but the LORD never puts more on us than we can handle. Happy Birthday Daddy!! Also it will be my Grandma Jaudon's 96th bdady, if the Lord willing her to have a birthday here with us, she has had a long couple of months, but still hanging in there. I love you Grandma!! Also we have Thanksgiving, Our 5th Anniversary, many JR high Basketball games, and Alabama football games!!!

Sorry no pictures, I forgot my camera at home :(

I will leave with a quote I found online yesterday. I thought it was very fitting with all that has been going on with my Grandma... "If I had never met you, I would not like you. If I did not like you, I would not love you. If I did not love you, I would not miss you. But I did, I do, and I always will." ~Unknown