Memories...

Hooray for a post with pictures!!! Here are some of the pictures that I was looking at. Now, I don't think I'll ever be as skinny as I was in, say, the picture right below here, but you can see that I have some motivation here. Anyway, enough of the sob story of me, here are some fun pictures that I found from high school and shortly after high school! :)

This is me and my friend Buckwheat (aka: Erik) at the Valentine's dance. We were ballroom dance champions, so here we are showing off our East Coast Swing. (Just as a side note, I couldn't really breath in this dress very well - it was a size 2! Aaah!)

This is me right after chopping my hair off my Senior year - just 1 week after Senior pictures. I cut 15 inches off and put in Brown low-lights, so it was a pretty big change! It looked great as long as I straightened it though! :)

This picture is the one that got me thinking in my last post. This was taken when I was dating Jon. Yeah, I looked gooooood. :)

I also found a few pictures from Colorguard! I know I have more somewhere, so I need to get those on here, but those of you that knew me in high school will like it. :)

Here's some pictures from when I did the Dairy Princess Pageant. For those who don't know the story, me and my friend Mandy entered as a joke, then I won and she was named 1st attendant! I felt bad because there were some girls who took it very seriously and were crying! I really honestly didn't care if I won or lost, and actually I wasn't expecting to win anything. Oh well, that's life.

Here's some random High School pictures. Just fun.

And here's just some random others - mostly from just after high school, including pictures from my Network Marketing days (NEVER again!), me just being goofy, and me and my roommate when we were bored and living in Bear Lake. We called our late night adventures "Operation Nightmare". It was awesome! :)

Anyway, just wanted to reminisce about the past for a bit and share it with you. Also, if any of my high school friends happen to have more pic's that I might like, then you should totally sent them to me! I'm realizing that a lot of my pictures are missing or gone or who knows - the could be lost in Narnia for all I know - so if you guys have any I would appreciate it! Just email it to me and if you don't know my email then let me know, because my blog isn't private so I'd rather not post it on here. ;) Anyway, enjoy!

Stupid New Year's Resolution

So, I'm not a fan of New Year's Resolutions. I've never been able to keep to them, and I don't think that anyone else really does either. Even when I decided that I was going to go a year without a boyfriend and just date around, Jon had to come around and ruin that one! (Okay, I don't mind that I didn't keep that resolution!) But the whole idea of a New Year's Resolution just always makes me cringe because I know that I'll be all gung-ho about it in the beginning and then I'll slowly just forget about it. Even so, I'm trying, yet again, to make a resolution that I can stick to.

I was going through some older pictures last night, and found some from when I met Jon. Let's just say that I was a lot thinner then. The worst part is, in some of them I was in my old bikini and I looked good. Like, really good. Then I looked in the mirror and realized that 30 pounds later, I didn't look that good anymore. The bigger problem, is that most of this weight gain has occurred in the last 6 - 9 months.Now this isn't a post so that people can leave comments saying, "Whatever you look great!" or "You don't need to lose weight!" (and p.s. Laura, you're not allowed to compare our weights because you're pregnant *wink*) because that's relative to the person looking. For me, I'm not happy with my body right now, and that's really the only opinion that matters. I really have no excuse for these extra pounds - I don't have any kids, I'm not so busy that I don't have time to work out, I really have no excuse. So, this year my "resolution" or just my goal is to lose the weight that I've gained since being married, and to look hot in my bathing suit again.

So yeah, I'm mostly just ranting and complaining in this blog, I know, but I thought that maybe if I put it in writing, then I would follow through. I may even post the picture that got me all fired up about this, just so when I look at my blog I can remember my goal. We'll see though. Anyway, if anyone would like to lose weight with me then let me know and we'll do it! :)