Evolution of Dance!

My friend sent this to me yesterday and I was cracking up! This guy is so good! You might have seen this before but it is well worth watching again! Enjoy! :o)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMH0bHeiRNg

Diet Update!

Well, yesteday was day number 9 that John and I have been on the South Beach diet. So far so good! John has lost 10 pounds and I have lost 9 pounds!

Our kids!

Johnathan, 14 years old.

Nicholas, 10 years old.

Kristen, 8 years old.

I had fun Sunday afternoon doing what I love to do best . . . taking pictures of my children!

John bought me a new camera back in February when we were in Indiana but I never had time to really play with it and figure it all out. I was happy when I figured out how to take black and white pictures! I had the kids go outside and start posing for me! HA! They hate it when I do this to them but they obeyed with somewhat joyful hearts! :o) I really liked how these pictures turned out . . .so much so that I sent them to Walmart.com's photo lab and picked up 8x10's in an hour! So last night I framed them and hung them on my wall!

You gotta love today's technology!

Eli

I had to share this picture with you!

This is John's cousin Stacy's little boy Elijah eating a Frosty from Wendy's.

He is so cute! He is the sweetest little guy. His grandma (John's Aunt) sent this picture to me. Eli keeps them laughing! He is only 3 years old.

South Beach Diet

Okay folks! The real reason I started this blog was so I could be held accountable to losing weight. We were doing good, but then the tragedy with my sweet dad happened. I was not focused on losing weight during that time as I am sure you can understand. But, John and I really want to get back to fighting the fight against being overweight. There are so many families here in our church who are doing the South Beach Diet. John really wants to do this diet, thinking since we are with these families a lot, it will make it easier on us to just be able to eat what they are eating and vice versa. So, we are going to join them starting today! I must admit I already cheated! I forgot I was on this diet and ate a peice of my birthday cake!!!! Well, I actually only ate a few bites before I realized what I had done, then got up and threw out the entire cake so it will not tempt me!

Please pray for us . . . I am serious! I know this diet will be hard for me since phase one you cannot have any carbs or sugars at all! YIKES! I am expecting a pretty big headache by morning. :o)

"Whatever you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God."

1 Cor. 10:31

I will be finding new recipes and posting them if we like them. If any of you have any recipes that you have tried and love, please email me those as well at lenfestey5@aol.com . Thanks so much!

Thanks!

Thanks to everyone who made my birthday a special day! Thanks for the many cards and emails and thank you Kendra, Lisa, Elizabeth and Bennet for the flowers, balloons and cards and for your fellowship! Thank you to my wonderful children who told me Happy Birthday a million times and loved on me all day long. My sweet husband took us all out for one of our favorites . . . . . Chinese food! YUM! And he is treating me to another one of my favorite things . . . . a pedicure! I will go today or tomorrow for that.
So thanks everyone . . . I love you so very much!

Be back soon!

Hello my wonderful family and friends! I know I haven't been as faithful to blogging this past month. I am sorry! We have been so busy lately. Well, the fun continues . . . .we head out tomorrow for Maryland to attend a conference there, and will return Saturday afternoon. Please pray for us that we will have safe travels and that God would pour out his grace upon us and refresh us anew at this conference. We love you all so very much and thank God for you.

I did get some good news this week. My mom is coming to visit us May 3rd and staying for a couple of weeks! We are very excited! John's mom is coming to Florida for her vacation at her timeshare in Daytona for two weeks and called and asked my mom if she wanted to ride down with her and she would drop her off here and then come pick her up on her way back to Indiana. That was very kind of her to do since our house is out of the way about 6 hours. We will get to see both my mom and John's mom plus John's sister Kandi will be coming her also.
God is so good to us!

I will be back next week to blog! God bless you all!

Got eggs?

Kristen with an overflowing basket of eggs!

Nick joining in on the fun!

Fun pictures from last week! Enjoy!