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Written by Karli, 7 years old

Hi, it’s Karli and this is a book that I am writing about cats and dogs. My mom says I always have messy handwriting but my friend Karli taught me how to write neatly. There are two Karli’s in my class, me – Karli G. and Karli R. We even spell our names the same. The other Karli has a metal thing in her mouth to make her teeth wider, it’s gross. Sometimes she gets food stuck up there and has to pick it out. I went to her birthday party at the movie theater and seen Puss in Boots, it was funny. Everyone ate pizza, but I hate pizza so I ate two pieces of cookie cake instead. Mom said I am probably the only person in the world that doesn’t like pizza. My favorite food is macaroni and cheese. I would eat it every day if I could.

Day Two – Words #FebPhotoADay

Today my mom brought me McDonalds to school for lunch because today was pizza day and I hate pizza. I could pack but I am sick of ham and cheese and its like the only thing to pack. I like Lunchables but my mom won’t buy them because my stupid brothers sneak them up to their bedrooms and then get food in their beds. This morning my mom found a spoon with pudding stuck to my brother’s sheet. That is disgusting! This one time my brother Chase leaned over his bunk bed and drooled on Blake’s face while he was watching TV. Blake was so mad I thought he was going to kill him. Blake hates germs! He won’t ever eat food if someone else has touched it.

Two of my brothers have girlfriends named Ali – that is WEIRD!

Day Three – Hands #FebPhotoADay

February 3, 2012 by Candi

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Scary moment

The scariest thing happened yesterday. I was on my hands and knees trying to find some envelopes on the bottom shelf of a cabinet. Out of nowhere I sort of threw up in my mouth, or I guess you could say it was sort of like really bad acid reflux. On instinct I had stood up real quick because I wasn’t sure if I was going to actually get sick or what. Then I couldn’t breathe! I kept gasping for air and my lungs would not fill. Finally I opened the basement door to get Ken’s attention but I couldn’t get my body to walk down the stairs, I just kept gasping for air. Ken heard me and it felt like he took his sweet time getting up to see what I was doing. I don’t know if he thought I was just standing there crying from watching a sad movie or what…but geez…when you hear someone making crazy sounds it can’t be good- move your ass! By the time he came upstairs I was able to catch short breaths, but couldn’t talk for another minute or so. That was the strangest scariest thing!

February Photo A Day. I know I said yesterday I was going to wait and share the photos weekly here on the blog, but I decided to use the photos as inspiration to blog. I am sure I can come up with something to write about along with each photo. Knowing me all I have to do is start typing about one thing and plenty of things start popping in my head.

Day One – Your View Today

This is basically where my butt is planted from Eight to Four everyday. Yep, that’s Tori, my Yorkie sitting on my desk. Her bed is actually on top of the filing cabinet and she drives me crazy all day long whining to get up there so she can lay down and gaze out the window and take naps. Whenever I get up to do something she jumps down and follows me. Once I sit back down she wants back up. It’s a vicious cycle I wish I never would have started.

February 2, 2012 by Candi

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February Photo a Day

Since my blog content has been lacking I decide to join in on a fun February Photo A Day thingy ma bob that I seen some others signing up for. Basically you just share a photo each day based off of the topic set forth by Fat Mum Slim. I’ll probably post my photos on Instagram and share them through Facebook and Twitter and well as create a blog post once a week to share the previous week’s photos. Sound fun? Let me know if you decide to join in. Be sure to use the hashtag #FEBPHOTOADAY.
Here is the list:

February 1, 2012 by Candi

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Kids are climbing the walls…literally!

These are the moments that I love getting on video because I can show the kids years later and they get super embarrassed! We have so many videos of Andrew when he was younger that I love watching now that he is 16 years old. They just don’t stay little long enough do they? Andrew used to dance and sing around the living room in his Bob the Builder underwear and now he is getting letters in the mail from colleges. Time sure flies!

Hope you get a little chuckle out of this video. Everyone could use a little smile…it’s Monday!! I hate Mondays!

January 30, 2012 by Candi

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Week Three Weigh In – Hubby is a LOSER!!

Ken did awesome this week….a 10 pound weight loss! I however only weighed in with a 2.4 pound loss….Booooo! We changed up our diet this week which helped Ken tremendously. I followed it best I could with some minor cheating :( I am not as disciplined as Ken, but now that he is beating me percentage-wise…it’s ON for next week. Ken better watch out!

(‘ll write more details about our diet later…gotta get Karli to a birthday party!)

January 28, 2012 by Candi

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Typical Saturday

Our weekend went to fast as usual. Saturday I had all sorts of running around to do and then later that evening we had a few couples come over to play cards. I actually won the first round of Texas Holdem’ – $35! Sunday was kind of a lazy day and I did a whole lot of nothing. I didn’t even cook, we got pizza – which yuck. I felt so terrible afterward. It made my stomach hurt and I felt so bloated and I only had two pieces. I sort of enjoyed it though because it was like my body was saying, “Get this crap out of me and eat something healthy”…which is a great sign.

I recorded some snippets of my day Saturday and thought I would share with you all. I should have had more of the kids in the video because after awhile I got sick of looking at my face when I was editing. It was a busy day and the kids weren’t with me for most of my running around and such. I love that it snowed Friday night and today it all melted and I am back to staring at the dried out front yard grass again outside my office window. Spring is hopefully on its way. I can’t wait to start getting some exercise outside.

Hope you all had a great weekend, what was the highlight of yours?

January 23, 2012 by Candi

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Weigh In Week #2

I’m kicking butt! Ha, Okay really I am just kicking Ken’s butt. This week I lost 3.7 pounds which means I lost a total of 5.8 pounds in 2 weeks. Not too shabby. I don’t know what happened with Ken, he started out having a really good week and then I think he blew it last night when he ate Chinese Food. I told ya not to eat that fried rice babe!

My goal for next week is to most definitely break the 10 pound mark. It seems kinda silly to be happy about weighing 227, but I am thinking if I keep at this rate I will be down under 200 by week 11.
Ugh, that doesn’t sound so good when I put it in writing. That 2 months from now.
Well wait that will be the half way point to my goal of 166 so I guess that is not too shabby.
No, no…that means it will take me 22 weeks to lose my goal of 71.4 pounds.
Ummm, that is ONLY 5.5 months. Now THAT makes me excited…to possibly accomplish my goal in 6 months?
Okay, now we all know that might be wishful thinking! But you never know…so quit judging me for being so number crazy!
I’m working on convincing MYSELF people, not you.

My Goals for next week:
Lose 4.2 by next weigh in
Start using free weights to strengthen my muscles and lose fat
Smile…even though this isn’t much fun (yet)
Go to specialty shoe store and get properly fitted for tennis shoes

January 21, 2012 by Candi

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Weekend Recap

A vlog post about our weekend and my attempt to start the Couch to 5K Program.
{I’m catching on that my Flip camera produces horrible quality when used at night with our normal room lighting.}

January 17, 2012 by Candi

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