The Booker Family Blog: Whoa, a novel!

Today is officially December 16^th—8 years ago today, I was blessed with my second child- my first son. Blake Joseph is an amazing and kinda quirky little man and I count myself lucky to be his mom. I can’t believe he’s already 8 years old. Looking at Mason, I realize just how fast time is flying by for me. Blake’s 8 now, and in a little over 2 ½ weeks, Sydney is going to be double digits (10) and I’m going to be OLD! Well, 29 isn’t too bad, but I’m getting up there for sure. Family- we’re doing a bit of sledding for Blake’s party, since we have some snow, at 2:30PM this Saturday. Then we’re going to do dinner and cake at about 5PM. We hope to see ya!

Let’s see… we’ve had kind of a busy week otherwise. Let’s try to recap for you- Monday night I had a regular School Board meeting, Tuesday night we had our Challenge Party, and tonight I had another School Board meeting (negotiations) and then a Girl Scout meeting. Let’s back up—a Challenge Party?

Yep, Josh and I, as well as my mom and brother, are joining the Visalus team and are going to take the 90 Day Challenge—it’s a challenge to use the Visalus products and lose weight. With the help of these products, we’re expected to lose double digits WITHOUT exercising and I hope to put a bit of exercise with it to tone things up as well. I have to just say too, so far, a few of my really close friends are signing up to do the challenge with us and I’m SOOO excited about that. I keep telling them that by summer, we’re going to look smokin’ hot! Woot! Woot!I’ll have my website up hopefully by the end of the week, but for now, if you want more information, you can visit one of my team member’s sites: www.gotmysexyback.bodybyvi.com (just don’t sign up through there). Also, if you want more information, just call me!

Anyway- Tuesday before the party, Mason and I had a lot of running to do. We had to run to Blake’s school to drop off some clothes donations, then Sydney’s school to drop off more clothes donations and her $$ for her little recorder thingy for music class. Then we ran to the grocery store quick. I realized midway through Leppinks that this was mine and Mason’s first trip to the store without Josh. Usually Josh pushes the cart as I’m a little vertically challenged. Needless to say, I was careful to not run into any displays!!! We made it though.

So we got home and were getting things around for the party, and I was majorly hustling, and majorly multitasking. I was making dinner, eating my own dinner (Chinese YUMMM), talking to Josh, and cutting vegetables. I was cutting the carrots and talking when I slipped and cut my finger pretty bad. *Warning… look away if you have a weak belly*** Picture at the end of this post*** Anyway, I was quickly relieved of my culinary duties! I hope it heals quickly and am thankful it wasn’t worse…from the amount of blood, we thought it was worse.

Anyway, back to the challenge party- for motivation, I made a display board and asked my guests and team to write on my most favorite pair of jeans (size 11) so that I will look at them and get motivated to completely skip over size 11 and keep that number going down. Here’s a few pictures—Josh’s made me cry—love him!