Halloween

We had a great Halloween!

Lucy had 3 different costumes throughout the month and Abbey just wanted to wear a pretty dress! We made cheesecloth ghosts

Costume #2

 Abbeys 2 costumes

 And #3

We also love those wax lips.. we all have been wearing them nonstop:)

53 Pounds

I have made a lot of significant changes this year.. I remember this time last year I was pretty miserable.. Lucy was such a great baby, but i was having a hard time nursing her, and kept getting mastitis and it just wasn't working.. I was sore because I had to have a c-section and to top it all off.. I had gained a TON of weight with sweet little Lucy! I remember thinking something has to get better.. i started loosing my weight.. i was exercising eating pretty good, and it was slowly coming off.. then thanksgiving came and I gained most of it back, all but about 10lbs! I was reading one of Lane's mission friends blog, and she totally inspired me!

I am going to put it all out there.. numbers and everything! How fun right!

Right before I had Lucy weighed in at 201

I remember my sister being in the room and them asking me how much I weighed and feeling so embarrassed that I actually weighed that much!

After she was born, there are virtually no pictures of me.. but for we took a family picture the night we celebrated Lane's birthday! I looked at them that night and was just so mad that at what I had done.. I wasn't happy, and in turn it was making everyone else in our house grumpy!

I think i was about 185 or 190 here!

It wasn't long after this that i bought a bodybugg! It really made me want to change!

I didn't even really exercise all that much at first, i just kept track of what I ate and once the weather got good the girls and i walked ALOT!! I mean we would go for 5,6, 7 mile walks every night after dinner!

Now.. 10 months later i am at 148 and am really close to being where i want to be...

I lost 53 pounds in 10 months!

I remember reading Love's blog telling myself that when i loose my weight i will blog about it too!

I know that it is such a mental battle and once you get your head in the game the rest is easy!

It wouldn't be a fun blog if there weren't any pictures of these sweet things:)

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Lucy turned 1 on Oct. 6 but we were so busy with helping set up for Landon's wedding and running around that we didn't really have a "party" then we went to Disneyland and partied for 3 days.. so we didn't really ever throw a party for our sweet little girl (I know I am lame)

So when we got home my mom has a friend who makes cakes so she got Lu a cake and both my sisters were in town so we went camping for 3 or 4 days and the first night had some cake in honor of our sweet 1 year old!

 She loved the cake and at alot of it! My mom cuddled Abbey who didn't feel so hot and Lane and I got to just enjoy the view!

 She was so scared for the longest time about riding these things.. but once she did it we couldn't get her off

 Cute cousins at the pumpkin patch.. we miss these little Hawaiian kids:)

 I swear i stink at getting pictures of my kids together! I don't have any that both of them are smiling!!

 Out in the mountains looking for crystals.. we found a ton of really awesome ones! the ride down was way bumpy but Lucy loved it

 A little better minus the red eye! In Lucy's birthday wagon:)

We love Lucy.. she is such a big girl RUNNING everywhere and really turning into a toddler! She is a crazy woman.. way more wild than Abbey ever dreamed of being!

But life wouldn't be the same without her! Can't wait to see her change over the next year!

A Wedding and A Little Mickey Mouse

It has been a crazy 2 or 3 weeks, and we are now just getting back into our normal lives..

Lane's brother Landon got married on the 7th and it was a cold cold snowy rainy day but it was such a beautiful wedding! While we were waiting to take pictures we caught Grandma Julie and Abbey catching rain drops! She is such a great Grandma and I feel very lucky to have her as my mother in law! She is really something special!

 They had a luncheon after the wedding and these are 2 of my most favorite boys ever!

 Miss Kynsie, Me and Lucy!

 Kyndra and Me.. I swear I got so lucky.. i love her so much! I am so lucky to have her as my sister!

 There is nothing like going to someones wedding to really remember your wedding and how special they are! Landon and Micall had a really great ceremony and while we were listening I just remembered Lane and I's wedding ceremony and how special it was.. i remember it like it was yesterday! I adore Laner.. he is the best thing that has ever happened to me:)

 The next day we took off to Disneyland for the 2nd time this year:) We drove to Victorville and crashed at an interesting place to say the least.. this little girl loves her picture taken.. i have at least 2 dozen that look just like this!

 These 3 kiddos sat in the back and watched movies, and giggled all the way to California:)

 Laner and Lu.. neither of my kiddos love the water so much they would play in it for a few minutes and then they both like to hang out in the sun.. wierd i know but i like to sit in the sun more than swim so i guess its fair!

 These 2 cute girls are just a month and a half apart in age, and for a while didn't get along so well.. but that stage has seemed to pass, and they are good buddies now:)

 Aunt Shelby and Abbers.. first day at Disney

 I love him:) We have come a long way! Its wierd to see us getting older!! I saw a picture of us on one of our first dates and man I thought i looked the same.. but i was wrong.. i am looking older its a really cool thing to see how much we have grown up together!

 Can you tell they are siblings?

 We had such a blast and were so happy that we got to spend so much time with our family! We love them so much and hate that we live where we can't see them more often, so it was fun to have a week full of just quality family time:)

At the Color of Wonder show.. if you are going anytime soon.. DON'T MISS IT:) Its awesome!

We have a Christmas trip scheduled that we can't wait for!!

Lane and Meg!

 We have been so busy this month! We have a huge apple tree in our back yard, last year we didn't have any apples on it but this year.. we have tons! My grandma Cowley came over for an afternoon and helped us make some apple jelly! I have never done it, and in my family Grandma's apple jelly is something to be fought over!! More than having a pantry full of apple sauce and apple jelly I am so grateful for my Grandma being so close and for playing such a big part in my children's lives these last couple years! I am so blessed to have her as more than just my grandma but one of my best friends!  My sweet Grandma didn't want to make our house hot, so we made jelly out on our grill! She has so much knowledge i just wish i had enough time to learn it all!!

 Lane is busy with work more now than ever i think! He has been working so hard to get an Assistant Manager postion at work and once again we are waiting to hear if this one comes through! We will see:)

Any extra time is spent "slaving" over my honey do list as he puts it:) We have finished a lot of our projects on our house and it makes me so happy:)

 I am so thankful for Laner.. he is my best friend.. the one i was made for! I know that sometimes its hard, and that things don't always go the way you want them to, but we will always have each other and that is more important than anything else in this world:)

 I am so grateful for the dad he is and for the great example of a man he is teaching our girls to find when they get older! He is a great leader of our family! He is always thinking of everyone but him, and lets be honest he is the only man in a house hold full of girls and that takes alot of patience!!

 I am glad he has stuck with me through everthing, and am so proud of our girls and the life we are creating!

love:)

Abbey

Abbey starts Preschool this week, and I am feeling a little crazy about it, makes me a little bit sick actually! I know it will be good for her, just makes me a little queesy!  She is changing so fast and it makes me really realize that I won't have her home to hang out with all day for very much longer!

 This little girl has so much love for everyone and everything! She treats everyone like they are her best friend, and she radiates with the most fantastic light i have seen!

 Don't let her sweet looks fool you though! She has got attitude, and she is the boss.. she does what she wants and it has to be her idea or she won't do it:) That is real fun! We are working on it!!  Every morning we have a slight meltdown when she wakes up and wants to go to Disneyland and I say that we can't! I reassure her that we are going to go soon, but dang it she wants to go today (EVERYDAY)

 She has an adventerous spirit, and is always out exploring! She has quite the imagination and i am grateful for that and love helping her to expand it!

 She is love with her Dad, and I don't blame her.. he is pretty fantastic! He loves her so much and is having even more anxiety about her going to school than I am! He is having a hard time wrapping his brain around the fact that she won't be with me all day everyday! "who is going to take care of her like we do meg?" i hear this all the time!

We love her so much and are so glad she was our first:) She is the best thing in the world! She teaches us something new everyday, and keeps us on our toes! I can't believe how much love i have for her!