still sick

sorry - no new news to share other
than i am still fighting off this
bug and feel like crud....

sorry

sick

I have the ickies - went to the dr this morning -
starting stages of bronchitis and double ear infection.
Ick!
Started meds and hopefully will be myself more tommorrow.

Darla

Chris and Sofia - Sweetheart Ball 2009

Our oldest son Chris took our friends exchange daughter, Sofia, to the sweetheart ball at her school - they made a sweet couple, had a blast and Chris made some new friends! Thanks to Sofia and Lisa for sharing their pix with me since I was in Boise during all of this fun!

Darla

Happy President's Day Weekend Is Over

Spent my weekend in Boise visiting Ed's family - long weekend but a good visit! Have pix to share but Ed is updating my PC soooo you'll have to wait!

Working tonight at the hotel - long night. LOL Almost done though.

Tommorrow I have some serious making up to do. I had a close encounter in Boise with Pizza, Chinese Food and a few other misc bad food choices. Tuesday will be my repentance with the gym. OYE!! 2.5 miles running - that is the main goal!!

Darla

Wanted to share......

Had a very nice evening tonight. My Aunt Dee celebrated her 80th Birthday with a HUGE group of family and friends and we were lucky enough to attend. My sister Carlee came from Twin Falls and was there as well, it was a great night! I begged for a quick photo with my 2 Aunts, and was successful at getting a quick group photo with them and my 2 sisters Carlee and Lisa. These are my Dad's sisters... two of them anyway, one could not be there due to health issues. :O( I would have loved to have seen Aunt Belva as well.
Anyway, here is the photo, and we are in the following order:

Lisa on the end in red, then Aunt Tina, Aunt Dee, Carlee and myself on the other end in green.

I am SO blessed to have such a great family! XOXOXOXO My Dad would have LOVED this evening too....


Darla

I had a momentus night!

Well, a momentus day really. First off, I took the kids to Church this a.m. which has not happened in a while. Still not 100% sure on how I feel about that but we went and it was a great service.
Secondly, I actually took some TLC time to myself tonight and sat down and did some scrapbooking! WOW!!! I have not lost it completely afterall! LOL I really have been wanting to do some pages for quite a while but tonight I just did it.
So, here are my two pages, sad as they might be. The pink one is all full of fun embellishments and crazy stuff, it was last summer when we were in Boise for Ed's sisters' family baptism. The photo itself is of two of his sisters, Carla and Odessa - along with their daughters and then myself and Tiffany. These three girls were all born the same year and two of them the same month! There is one more sister too, Tammy, whose daughter was ALSO born that same month but unfortunatly they weren't there for this visit. THAT would have been an awesome photo I think! Anyway, that is layout no one.
Page two, not so creative and a bad photo of the layout too! This was from the 4th of July last summer. Both Carla and her family and Odessa and her family were here in Idaho Falls for the 4th and we had a super crazy busy day. The end of the evening was the big fireworks display and I had to get photos of all the couples... we also had our close friends Blake and Lisa with us that night too so we all got these great lovey-dovey couples pictures -- awwwww so sweet! So, this page was SUPER fast and SUPER boring. I didn't put much on it other than a few little paper strips and borders and some fun red-white and blue buttons. The rest is just handwriting and blah.
So, there ya go! I scrapped!!!!
Darla

NOW it is WAY past MY bedtime and I am outta here and hitting the pillows!
And I took today off from the gym but tommorrow is 2.25 mile day!!!!!!!!!!

A REALLY GOOD SONG!

Never Gonna Be Alone Lyrics

This is on the new Nickleback CD Dark Horses.... LOVE this song, so awesome!

Sat Night - Big Date with the Hotel Desk!

Here I am again... hot date with the front desk here at the hotel, whoopee! LOL Hey, they were nice and let me have last Sat night off so I couldn't/shouldn't complain right?

So, what has been going on with Darla? Well, I have been really really focussed on my fitness once again. Have been spending a lot of time working out and planning for running and training and getting my body in the groove to be out pounding pavement when the weather warms up enough! I can't WAIT to get to run outdoors more!!! The treadmill has been fantastic but I just love the outdoor running so much more! Fun fun fun stuff!
In the meantime, I am up to 2 miles (and a wee bit more) straight on the treadmill again, just trying to increase that distance frquently and build up some endurance again AND trying to up my speed a bit - I am slow slow poke runner at 4.0 - 4.5 mph and I need to boost that up. Also, I have been shaking up my workouts and not just running all the time. I have been sort of alternating days on doing weights, other cardio like ellyptical and bike and doing floor stretches and yoga ball stuff and also kind of interval training too. Right now I'll do a long run one day, then a day of the three cardio workouts in 10-15 min segments and a day of yogaball and weights with some treadmill walk/run with the incline cranked up! So far so good! The numbers on the scale are creeping down slowly so it must be working??

Kids are busy - Ed is crazy busy and we are all doing well. No new photos to share, well, at least not here from work right now. I have a few on my camera I need to download at home.

BE GOOD!
Darla

Very quickly

Wanted to say HI and HELLO to those who visit me and are totally disgusted with how infrequently I've been updating. Sorry.

On the news front - I am back up to running 2 miles straight.... I am pushing REALLY hard to reach several goals for the month of February including that ^%$#@ evil one of hitting below "one-derland" on the scales. That has been my goal for one too many months in a row! UGH! I am very on track right now though and things are going good.

Kids are all busy. Ed is working like mad. I am working a lot. Life is just pretty much nonstop chaos around here. Wheeeee!

That's about it!
Guess I'll play catch up more on Sat night when I am at the hotel...


Darla

Oh Yeah!

I got up to 1.75 miles today - STRAIGHT! No stops, no side stepping the treadmill, just a good long hard run - missing music 1/2 the time too! WHAT?! yea, no music, no tunes, no good. OK so, my agenda was to go for endurance today. I was all set to go and my body was totally cooperating then WHAM! off went the tunes. My long life battery lost it's charge. Now, I cant' really complain because since I got my Sansa back in Sept I have seriously only had to charge it TWO times and this time I just let it go. Silly me. But I'll tell ya, I cannot run w/out music. I did plug away and at least beat my distance from last week but I think I could have and would have been able to go even more than 2 miles if I'd had music to keep me going. Danggit!

That is about it. Working hard, both jobs keeping me on my toes. Football today - pooey, not my thing, sorry.

Later guys!
Darla