Chris 2016

I usually don't post about myself very often. I would prefer to see pictures of my kids but I guess I want to remember my successes and life changes as well. 

In 2015, the thing that I am most pleased about is my weight loss. I started eating healthier the end of February 2015 and lost 11 pounds. I kept it off pretty well until about September/October, I was bouncing up and down between 4 pounds. So between November 5th and Christmas I did a couple programs that mostly used Carb Cycling methods and I did some strength training; lifting weights and doing short cardio workouts 20-30 minutes a day and lost another 15 pounds. So in total I lost 22.6 pounds in 2015 and have just maintained the last 3 weeks. I'm back to wearing my pre-wedding clothes and I even wore some wranglers the other day I wore when I was Miss Rodeo Utah. It is such a great feeling. Casey bought me a couple pairs of skinny jeans and some gift cards for Christmas to buy new clothes. I have been buying 3/4's and 5/6's. Before I was buying size 8's and 10's in some dresses. 

In May/June I took a promotion at work as the Payroll Manager and took over payroll for all of our companies. I pay between 400-500 employees and will be doing about 900 W-2's in January. I still work from home and go in the office once a week to print checks. I love my job. This year, I have been there 9 years. They are really good to me and I really like the people that I work with. 

At church I was released as Primary Secretary last week after 2 1/2 years and was called to be a Primary Sunbeams teacher. I was kind of looking forward to going to Sunday School with Casey and being in Relief Society but I'm willing to try it for while. I think Sunbeams is the funnest age to teach in primary, my only concern is that Cael is in my class and I think he might have more to learn from someone else being his teacher but you never know. Maybe we both will learn from it.

2015 was a good year for me and I'm looking forward to 2016. 

New Years Eve 2015 at Casey's sister's house. The boys had a blast.

I feel great about my weight loss but I still struggle with looking in the mirror and seeing myself the way I think I should. I remember the night of this Christmas party I was pretty self conscience about wearing these red pants, but looking at a picture of myself on Casey's phone, I should be a little more confident. They don't look all that bad. :)