Sunday, January 31, 2010

Our Shining Star

Ya know, ever since Optimus Prime was a wee little pup, we've been trying to tell him "Go to school, get an education, don't give up, earn that degree." Well it took him awhile but he listened. Last Tuesday Optimus officially graduated from Puppy Kindergarten!!!!! After 8 gruelly weeks of Tuesday night classes, our pup is finally ready to go out into the workforce or at least go on to the next class called Puppy Intermediate.
Optimus has learned all sorts of cool tricks like "Sit" and "Down". He knows "Take It," "Off," "Leave It," and "Stay". Don't get "Take It" and "Off" confused with "Take It Off". He doesn't know that one...maybe that will come next, although, I'm not too sure what he will be taking off...
On the last night of class, Optimus got to play some games with the other dogs. He did really well in the preliminary rounds winning with his stellar performance of "Sit" and "Down". But in the final round for both of those commands he was sorely defeated...I'm thinking those other dogs were Decepticons. They better watch out because our Autobot will kick their little furry rears in Puppy Intermediate! Well, okay he might not kick them, but he could definitely smell them!
Here is a video of the preliminary round for sit. Please pay no attention to the bad color combination of the person on the other end of his leash.


That's my boy!  At the end of the night Opti-pup received his diploma.  He was the first one to be given his diploma so I'm pretty sure that meant he was vale-pup-torian, although he didn't have to give a speech or anything.  Yip, Yip, Hooray!  We couldn't have been prouder!  Here he is about to be handed the diploma and then after he brought it back to us.  Dang camera wouldn't take a picture when he was actually handed the diploma!  Oh well.  We got some good ones after the fact.




I can't believe he is growing up so fast.  Next thing you know he'll be going off and getting his zippity taken out of his dooda.  Which by the way is next week!  (For those of you who don't understand our humor, he is getting neutered!)

Monday, January 25, 2010

Weight Loss Challenge Week 2

Well this week was not a good one for me.  I knew it was going to be bad.  The question was, just how bad was it going to be?  Here are the stats:

Sarah:
Last Week:  224.8
This Week:

That is a 2.4lb gain.  Oh, well.  I know what I did wrong, and I will try to change that this week.

Steve:
Last Week:  220.8
This Week:

That is a 3.2lb gain.  I'm telling ya, we did not do our best this week.
Now I'd like to say we already started being good with today, but I can't.  Gabor Brothers in Layton opened back up after being closed due to a fire for over a year....we couldn't help ourselves!  I really think we just enable each other and that really needs to stop!

Thank You Betsy for shaming me into a pedicure before this weigh in.  As you may have noticed I now have pretty pink toenails.  And Steve even trimmed his for you too!

This week will you please leave a comment on with your favorite low calorie snack?  I need some good ideas.  Thanks!

Monday, January 18, 2010

Weight Watchers Drop-outs!

As many of you know, Steve and I have been members of Weight Watchers for over a year now. We both were doing really well, but we are trying to save a little more money each month. Now instead of losers we are quitters! We vow that we will rejoin Weight Watchers by July. But until then, we need your help out there. Each Monday we will still weigh in just as we did at Weight Watchers, but in our own home. To keep us accountable, we are putting our weights on our blog. So please help us out by either letting us know how well we are doing, offering tips, or just leave a comment so we know you are watching...

So Steve's stats are:
Original Weight: 261
Last Week's Weight: 221.2
Current Weight:
Way to go! A loss of .4 lbs!

Here are Sarah's stats:
Original Weight: 254
Last Week's Weight: 225.2
Current Weight:Woohoo! Another .4 lbs lost!

One thing I learned this week is that I definitely need a pedicure! You can now keep track of our weight on the ticker at the top of the blog.
We look forward to your encouragement and support!