Feb 27, 2011

150 DAY CHALLENGE!!!


1) Both of us have to loose 20 lbs - 250 points
2) Home and Visiting Teaching - 100 points every month
3) Individual Morning and Evening Prayers - 1 point each
4) Couple Prayers - 1 point each
5) Individual Daily Scripture study - 1 point
6) Couple Scripture study - 1 point
7) Exercise at least 30 minutes - 1 point
8) eat 100% healthy - 1 point
9) Mark read Awaken the Giant Within - 100 points
10) Kalinda Read Awaken the Giant Within - 100 points
11) any other book read - 10 points
12) Save our Land Taxes - 100 points
13) Save $5000 - 250 points
14) Have a VISA that has no payments for the whole 150 days - 100 points
15) Organize our house to get ready to sell or develop the basement - 250 points
16) Mark finish school - 100 points
17) Kalinda finish her continuing education - 100 points
18) Walk the Dogs everyday - 1 point
19) Get up every morning by 7:00 - 1 point each


possibility to earn over 5000 points, must earn 3500 points and save $2000 to go on a trip this summer that we both really want to go on.


Last August Mark and I started a 90 day challenge to try and save some Money for a vacation, it was a great motivator, the more we saved the more fun we got to have. When I found out I was pregnant in October though, it kind of got put on the back burner, especially once the miscarriage happened. So now with another trip in mind this summer I feel to learn discipline we should not just be able to go, that we need to earn it and save some extra money on the side aside from the rest of the money we need to save for the hundreds of things we want to get accomplish. Not to mention all of the challenges will help us to become better people. So good luck to us and the future trip.

THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES!!!!


This past month Mark and I have had the opportunity to read together "The Five Love Languages" by Dr. Gary Chapman. It was an absolutely fabulous and easy read and will help our relationship forever. I learned so much about myself and why I sometimes get frustrated with Mark, as well so much about Mark and how I can learn to help him feel more loved. I recommend it for every single relationship. Good, Bad, Terrible, Wonderful. It will help a broken relationship mend and a good relationship become wonderful. Upon finding an image to post on my blog I also found that he wrote many other books about The five love languages of teenagers, children, and the single person. I know 100% I am going to read the other books once I have children, and again seriously recommend it to all of you to read.

BIRTHDAY BASH!!!

So I unfortunately forgot to take pictures, but I wanted to make a quick blog post for memories sake.
Today we had a very enjoyable time with friends (Harker's, Low's, Isackson's) to celebrate Mark's 29th birthday. We had some delicious burgers, salads, chip's and I think my best ever made SKOR cake. We played The Celestial Companionship game to get to know our new friends better, laughed with the children as they played with the puppies, enjoyed some good stories and had some great laughs. I think Mark was very pleased and had a very enjoyable birthday.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABE, LOVE YOU FOREVER!!!