6.5 lbs

And this is the secret recipe to weight loss!!!

http://www.idiet4u.com/diets/sacredheart.html

Thanks to the sacred heart diet, these are my results. 6.5 total lbs in one week.

However, the true weight loss stands at 4.5 after stopping the diet and eating normal for the weekend.

I'm happy 4.5, thats alot more weight that the "normal" diet can produce in 1 week. It was tough, but this week I find myself less hungry and not craving anything bad.

Today, I'm picking back up on the weight watchers diet as well as the treadmill to try and acheive more weight loss. I started with about 30 lbs in mind to lose. So, I'm going to continue until I reach my goal. Changing diets and weight loss methods so I dont get bored!

Kinston's 1st Birthday

Happy 1st Birthday to Kinston! What an exciting couple of days we've had! Kinston's birthday started last Friday when Gee, Papa, Uncle Jeremy, Stina, Sterling, Mommy, Daddy, Sissy and Bubba took Kinston to the beach! We stayed in a house on the beach for the night! We had pizza and celebrated with cake and presents! Then on Saturday we spent the entire day at the aquarium! Mommy figured that it was a perfect place to bring Kinston because of all of the things he could enjoy to look at! The big kids all thought it was great! We even saw an Imax movie! The day was full of fun and family! Then, on Kinston's real birthday Mommy, Daddy, Sissy and Bubba and Kinston went to build a bear workshop, that was so fun! We all three picked out a bear and and made them, washed them and dressed them! On the night of Kinston's birthday Gee, Papa, Uncle Jeremy and Stina came over and we had hotdogs! Kinston had his very first hotdog on his birthday! ha! Sissy and Daddy had made Kinston cupcakes and Kinston's cake that morning! Kinston loved to make a mess and eat cake! What a perfect couple of days for Kinston's first birthday! Lots of memories were made! Thank you to everyone who made Kinstons birthday so special!

One of the days we've feared most....wasn't scary at all!

Today came and went just as any other normal day. A day that, as parents, we were a little frightened by....Kindergarten Registration day, April 7th.

When you can't sleep at night, when you can't stop thinking about something....you can't help but seek God and ask "whats your will, Lord" ~ When the peace overcomes your body, when things fall into place....you can't help but seek God and tell Him "Thank you Jesus for showing me your exact will for our lives"

"Train up a child in the way that he should go; and when he is old, he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6

After much, much prayer and consideration, Joey and I have decided that we are going to keep Kaylee in the home for her education. Joey and I have always given all that we have to our children, sacrificed and made sure that they are our absolute first priority! God blessed us with three beautiful children, but we can't just look at it as a blessing - we have to look at it as God gave us three full time jobs! We are soley responsible for these three little human beings who are absolutely depend! We absolutely do not take this responsibility for granted. We understand that we are purposed in this life to lead, guide, direct and protect our children. We are not choosing to expose our children to what todays society has to offer! We are just not ready to hand our big girl over to the world, we want to do our best to lead her in learning to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. We want her to learn to be a christian girl, shes already asked Jesus to come into oher heart - this past year. She is very interested in her Bible, loves daily devotions and talks about Jesus all of the time. I ask that you would pray for Joey and I, we know that at times it may get difficulty and adversity is out there - but we just pray that Jesus Christ would continue to be our guide us and we would be completely in his will through all of this. We know that Satan will try to attack, but just as Kaylee and Camden so often remind us in their precious song....

"My God is so big, so stron and so mighty. There's nothing my God cannot do"

Joey and I are so incredibly excited as this opportunity unfolds, we're constantly meeting people and learning about their experience with home schooling! We can't wait to learn together as a family! There is a huge Home School Convention in June that we'll be attending, we've heard that it offers an abundance of information and is so beneficial. Of course, right now we're looking to anyone that can give us advice and we're thankful for excellent Christian leadership at our church that can provide such great information and encouragement!

Promising that they'll be much more blogging where this came from! Sorry its been so, so long!

This is Kaylee's new desk! How fun is it? Joey went to donate at the Rock Thrift store one day and came home with it! So excited, it was priced $35 and they gave it to him for $25. Kaylee thinks its great! She'll be doing a lot of learning here! =)