Biggest Loser 2009

The Lakes have officially started a competition with the Proberts(Sara Lake's fam) to see who can lose the most percentage of weight by June. My totally awesome and totally dedicated husband won this weeks weigh in. Even though I'm not technically in the competition I have been working out with Matt every morning at 5:45 a.m. TOOT TOOT...that's me tooting my horn for waking up so stinking early...and I have been following the eating plan with him as well. No matter how many times I say "Oh babe I just want Taco Bell for dinner, or Oh babe I just want Red Robin for dinner, or Oreos, or chips(I love chips) he just smiles and says nothing...he doesn't even think about budging. Then I feel guilty for tempting him and I give up. We are supposed to have a free day once a week so Saturday I stocked up on all the crap I could(I'm sure the point of a freeday is to eat like one treat or go out to dinner or something but nevermind that) I had a nice healthy breakfast,then popcorn and a LARGE sprite at the movies, then a Blizzard from DQ, then fritos and cream cheese(my fav.) then 5 pieces of pizza, with jojos, 6 oreos(which made me want to barf) and finished the day off with a huge piece of banana bread. Matt lost three pounds on our free day...I gained 2!! Oh well right?

On another subject. I started school last week at Southern Oregon University. My parents went to school here, that's where they met, back then it was called soc. I odn't think much has changed since then. I am having trouble adjusting to being back in school. Since the college is so small I feel like I'm back in high school. At ORegon State I had classes with 300 people in them...my biggest class here has maybe 30. I also got a crazy counselor who doesn't know about my schedule apparently because she put me in the wrong classes, I got a $55 parking ticket for parking in a Motorcycle only space for more than 45 minutes, which by the way was not clearly marked and I have to take philosophy. Enough said. That sums up my first week...things can only look up.

Family Pictures

Family Pictures...whoohoo. We managed to bribe my sweet friend Marg(Margaret that is) into taking our Lake family pictures. It was the first time in a long time that everyone was home for Christmas and we've never had a family picture that had the whole fam in it. Margaret was so great and patient to practice her photog skills on such a large and noisy group. THanks Margaret! They turned out great! You can toot your horn now...toot toot!






This one might be my favorite. Partly because it's unusual and kind of artsy...but moslty because Matt looks hot, my hair looks BLONDE, and Molly looks happy...what more could you ask for??

Christmas at the Lakes

We started off our Christmas extravaganza with a trip to the good ol gilbert center to go bowling. Anyone who lives in Eugene can appreciate that coolness of the gilbert center! We had a blast bowling away except that the kids were going crazy, Kenna barfed and I hurt my back. Fun times fun times!






Don't mind Autzen's hand...


Rob and Matt...hmmm


Our great Chinese dinner...I felt like Ralph from a Christmas Story


After dinner Rob and Kim made us play this game...Poor Pussy...What? You've never heard of that game before? Oh...you didn't know Mormons played games with those sorts of titles. I guess Utah Mormons do :) Actually it was really fun. Someone gets blindfolded and has to go up and rub their head against someone's leg and say "meow" then the person has to pat their head and say "poor pussy" trying to disguise their voice. If you guess who it was then they are the cat if you guess wrong you have to keep going around the circle. Very histerical. And a little weird. Matt and I have been practicing our best voices for days now.

Leslie's Quilt

I've been so excited to blog about this quilt since I started making it but I never could because Leslie( Matt's mom) reads my blog! Now I realize I should have been keeping a note book of all I wanted to say about it along the way because I can't remember any of it! I'm not quite sure when I will get around to quilting again. It takes me a VERY long time apparently to make a quilt and a lot of patience that I sometimes lacked! Anyways it's done. YAY! And I'm pretty proud that I figured it out all on my own.





I also just wanted to document Matt's awesome wrapping skills. He's quite thrifty and creative:)

Merry Christmas!!

So can I please just tell you how much I love Christmas? We spent Christmas up in Eugene this year with Matt's whole fam...I love big Christmas parties! Matt had to work the day before Christmas so we couldn't get up their until Wednesday night and then he has to work today so we had to leave right before Christmas dinner! Luckily we get to go back up there tonight and spend the weekend...family pictures tomorrow(thanks to Margaret!)

Here are some pictures of the big day

My new kicks...pretty rad huh?


Matt's new kicks...he now has two pair since I bought him the white ones and my grandma bought him the black ones. Oh well


Molly got her IPOD!! Woohoo!


Matt's mom opening her quilt! That dang quilt has a lot of blood, sweat, and tears on it...literally


This is my look of joy that I actually finished it on time!


Molly got Matt this rad sweatshirt


Merry Christmas!

Upon Further Review

Matt is really very overly obsessed with checking my blog...he claims that it is because he wants to see what I wrote about it but I know the truth. He checks it..Oh my gosh he's doing it as I type I can't even finish my stinking sentence...as I was saying he checks it to make sure I haven't made any gramatical mistakes.
First of all I meant to say lose not loose in the last post.
I also should have said "it has been brought to my attention" not "called"

And since I have been typing this post he has corrected me, maybe 10 times, and made himself cry by laughing at me so hard. This is why I insist he leave the room anytime I am writing anything :)

His next request is that I end the post by saying how much I love him and that Sara would never write a post like this about Spence.

I really do love him though and think he is just the greatest. Who would laugh at me so much if it wasn't for him? He really thinks I'm quite funny.

Oh no know he's sad. I hurt his feelings. I love you babe! Don't cry, dry, your eye...sorry sorry no comma after dry:)


He really is my favorite

Thanksgiving a Month Late

It has been called to my attention by an un-named friend that I am really sucking it up on my blog lately. It's not as if I have stopped stalking all of yours, I just have been neglecting mine. Everyday I check to see if anyone has posted anything new and when they haven't I get all bent out of shape about it and mumble to myself something to the effect of "What's the point of having a blog if you're not going to update it?"...blah blah blah. So here is the post I've been saving up since Thanksgiving. We were lucky enough to get back in town from Boise to get to go to Eugene for Thanksgiving(I was really worried about having to have Thanksgiving alone). It was lots of fun, filled with lots of food, and lots and lots of shopping. On Friday Matt's mom took us to the mall for Matt to look at work clothes(yes that's right Matt finally has a REAL job)...anyways she took us because I loose my patience too quickly in situations like that. This is what usually happens
Me: Babe that shirt looks so cute on you, you look great
Matt: (turning in front of the mirror constantly to get a good look from every angle) Really? Do you like it? Do I look ok?
Me: Yes babe, seriously I love it, you should totally get it
Matt:(still standing there) Hmmm...I think I like it. Are you sure you like it?
Me: Yep I'm still sure
Matt: Hmmm..(takes it off thinks about it puts it back on with pants, shoes, belt the whole stinking outfit) Okay seriously you like this shirt?
Me: Nope I don't you look totally gross don't get it...seriously how many times are you going to ask me that...do you want me not to like it or something?
Matt: Just checking
Then he will get the shirt...I will be exhausted from all my hard work and in need of some kind of food and then 20 minutes later he will ask again if I'm REALLY sure I like it.
This is why I like good ol Leslie to come along. She is great at pretending like Matt has never asked her the question before and gives him constant reassurance with no sarcasm or hint of irritation. They can stay in the dressing room for hours with no need of a treat. She is essential when shopping with Matt!
We really did have a great time though and I just love the Holidays!! I'm sad that now they are almost over.


Isn't she so stinkin cute? I just think she's so cute!


Here is Matt resting after a hard day of Turkey Bowl...he dreams about Turkey Bowl all year long...and loves to brag about his skills when he comes home


This is Matt driving his dad crazy by eating all the Turkey he is trying to carve for dinner


We just love them and think they are the best


I feel like when I die I will have all her thick beautiful hair and then we can actually be sisters


Happy Turkey Day!


Grandma Lake...she kept asking me what I was doing and why I was taking pictures of her!





Autzen was not a fan of having his pants pulled down...he asked Matt to please not pull his pants down anymore


Grandma and Mattie





New baby Lake