I shall call you my squishy

I really do like being married, but one thing I haven't enjoyed has been the post-marriage weight gain. I vowed I wouldn't be one of those people who starts to get a little squishy around the edges just because they are now married. Well I stepped on the scale a little while ago for my annual after holidays assessment and was shocked. Not at the amount gained over the holidays, that was pretty normal, but how much I had gained since getting married. In just eight months of marriage I have become very squishy. I  guess all those times I chose to hang-out with Carver instead of heading to the gym finally caught up with me. Wanting to try all the awesome desserts on my pintrest board probably hasn't helped either. That is why I am really thankful for the health competition the girls and I started at work. We've deemed it our Healthy Quest. You get points every day for healthy behaviors like working out, eating fruits and veggies, going without treats and other stuff like that. It's really given me a wake up call as to how off track I have gotten. It's nice to have other people to do it with as well. I don't see myself as a really competitive person, at least in comparison to the rest of my family, but it does drive you to do more when you see how many points every one else has. I'm excited for the motivation and the changes it will hopefully bring.

Today for church we had stake conference and got to have Elder Ballard there. They said that a stake gets to have a general authority preside over a stake conference about every 25 years! The talks were all really good, but it was wonderful to be able to hear Elder Ballard. I am so grateful to have living apostles and prophets and to be able to hear their words so easily. He talked about making sure that our testimonies are deeply rooted so that as things become worse in the world we are not moved from what we know to be true. He brought a great spirit to the conference and it was a blessing to hear from someone with such a strong and unshakable testimony in Jesus Christ and His gospel.