Update and Goal for the New Year

So much to do in my 4 hours at the infodesk... so little time!

So I thought I would spend some of that time blogging. It's been a while. Few key things that have happened since the last blog:

1. Christmas that the Hartung household -- it was a good time had by all. Hard to catch up with everyone but we tried.

2. Eli's baptism the weekend after Christmas 12/28. It was great to have family around and to see him get baptized. I might have started to tear up a little.

3. The mom came up to stay with us for a few days the week after Christmas. We took her back to South Dakota with us when we headed out again to the Mitchell/Sioux Falls area. It was great to have her around and nice to have the help. It felt like the time went by so fast. Makes me wish we were closer!

4. Christmas at the Goldammer's in Ethan, SD was celebrated the first weekend in Jan. It was really good to have everyone home. All day Saturday we hung out and didn't make it anywhere because of the snow. It was actually really nice just to stay in all day.

5. Sunday Jan. 4th we took off and headed to Sioux Falls for a few hours. I had my approval interview. I was approved. YAY! Then we had pizza with some friends really quick and took off back to the Cities. I wish we would have had more time to see more people. Maybe in the next visit. It was good just to be able to see the few we got to see.

6. I started a J-term class. Genesis to Revelation. It's 2 weeks, the whole bible. It's in the afternoon so Eli has been going with me. He seems to really like it and so far has learned most ofthe Old Testament. This week we are on to the New Testament.

So that's pretty much the catch-up.

Before you read the next paragraph I would like to start out by saying.. I don't like New Years Resolutions and this is not one of them. It's just time to start loosing some of the baby fat and trying to fit into my non-prego pants again.

Today starts the Eric and Sarah weight loss program. It's going to be awesome! Our goal is to lose weight. I know.. pretty obvious. We want to lose 50 lbs between the two of us by C and A's Wedding July 10th. I want to loose the majority of those lbs. 35-40 lbs would be awesome! It will just be nice to have Eric on board to eat better with me. For me to loose the 35-40 lbs by July 1oth I will have to loose an average of 1-2lbs a week. That is pretty easy to do. I was really struggling with how to get exercise in these next few months when it is too cold to take the Eli for a walk outside. I originally was not walking up the hill for work because of the shoes I wear up here, butI have now decided just to pack dress shoes and wear my tenni runners up the hill. Even that 10 minutes up and 10 minutes down 3 times a week will help this month. I will probably have to renegotiate that in Feb. once classes start up again.

Working at the desk again I am gong to try to be better about blogging. With that being said... off to get some more of my me time in!