Rhi's Designs

In 2009 my husband started running and getting back into shape. We had lost our slenderness, blame it on work, raising little ones that only ate McDonald's or just the fact that we had become lazier than we had in the past. He encouraged me but to his dismay I didn't want to do anything about my weight. I was realizing that I wasn't going to be the size 2 girl he had married. I had excepted the fact that I was going to be soft in the middle. I was a working mother with a lot on her plate.  I didn't need another thing to do.  Looking back I'm grateful for his push to get out and exercise. I believe that this has help my children  to more become active. Plus seeing their parents trying to eat healthier and lose weight. We aren't weight obsessed but we have made changes in our eating habits and the activities we do as family.  On Saturday the children and I ran in a neighborhood 5k and mile run. I had already ran 9 miles in the early morning. I was hea...

In my quest to lose weight. I have decided to join Weight Watchers. My work is sponsoring the program so I thought I would jump on the band wagon and give a real "diet" a try. I know WW is not called a "diet" but a lifestyle change. I think I have changed my lifestyle a little bit. Instead of eating 5 king size candy bars a day I have limited myself to one a week. Another thing is I have cut back on my Coke intake. I was drinking on everyday. Now it's maybe once a week.  In the 6 weeks I have done this I have lost 5 pounds. I really thought I would just lose so much with all the exercise that I do. Running, swimming and biking. I get a bit frustrated when I go to the weigh ins because I want better results but the scale isn't giving them to me. So this week I am going to try harder in tracking my points. Maybe that is what I'm doing wrong? I track them but not very well. I have 6 more weeks of the program. I was hoping to lose 20 pounds. That might no...

Moms, what would do without them?  I can't stand to not talk to my mom for more than a few days. Sometimes I call her just to hear anything that she might be doing even if it is the same thing she did yesterday.  It's hard to live so far away but even though I'm not a tear drop away, I am a phone call.  My Mom and I at Temple Square, shortly after she arrived. It was a beautiful spring morning. My Mom came to visit for two weeks. I had so much fun. She was a big help to me. I took on a project that was bigger than I could handle. She help me through it and we finished the project. She wasn't so excited to help with this project because she had to use a glue gun.  Something I learned about my mom while.  She doesn't like glue guns.  The leftover flowers that we made. We made 300 rolled fabric flowers for a Daddy Daughter dance the school was putting on. I volunteered for corsages and decorations, mostly with the lights....

Last month my friend Sarah and I went to the Utah Symphony. (wow, I can't believe it's been a month) The Utah Symphony was playing the music of John Williams and the famous classical pieces that inspired him. If you haven't heard of John Williams he wrote very very famous music. Some of his pieces, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, Close Encounters of the Third Kind , just to name a few. I like classical music and pop culture, this was perfect mix. We went with out our husbands because well they don't find the symphony or any classical music enjoyable. My mom was in town she came with us too. We had a fun night!  Before the performance began we got to take some pictures with characters from the movies. Chewie, some stormtroopers and at the end Gold Leader and Snape. I had fun acting like a dork.  Afterwards we walked over to the new shopping center Downtown and ate at the Cheesecake Factory! Delicious!