78 degrees and sunny :)

I am loving being home. I have enjoyed such BEAUTIFUL weather, and worn shorts almost everyday for the entire week! I forgot how good it feels to wear shorts and a t-shirt! It is blissful. Also, I now only have one more week before I get back to Florida, and I cannot wait. I got a new stereo put in my car so that I can jam out to my favorite tunes on the way down, or listen to Harry Potter audiobooks, I'm keeping my options open :)

This week, I did something so incredibly fun and challenging and just overall amazing. I made a t-shirt quilt! It was very time consuming, and I spent many a late night at the sewing machine that my sister so lovingly has been letting me use. But, tonight I finally finished it! It isn't perfect, not by a long shot, but I am just so darn proud of it I could bust! I took 20 of my favorite t-shirts from Disney World, yes I had more than 20 t-shirts from Disney World, let's just not talk about it, and transformed them into the coolest looking quilt I've ever seen! I'm going to post pictures of it tomorrow on my "What I'm Creating" page, so keep an eye out for them.

This week I also went suit shopping with Kyle for his mission! He's serving in the Utah Salt Lake City mission, and I couldn't be any prouder of him. He is going to be such an amazing missionary, I can't wait to see what he's going to be doing and hear about all of the lives he will touch in his two years. I still can't believe it's almost time for him to leave. It was really fun to see the reaction of the lady doing alterations on his pants when we told her he was buying suits to take on a full time mission for our church. I think she would have shouted a few "glory-be hallelujahs" if we weren't in the mall. It is so nice to see that even people not of our faith recognize what he is doing as something so amazing.

So, all of these great things have been happening, however, I've done nothing but eat junk food all weekend, which is a serious problem. I feel absolutely disgusting, so tomorrow begins my "getting back on track," which will be so hard because I'm not buying my own groceries. When I was at school I got in a pretty good habit of buying only healthy snacks, so I'd have fruit, nuts, veggies, string cheese, etc. Now, my family has that stuff too, but we also have girl scout cookies, chips, and homemade sourdough bread, which is so delicious. At school, I would just eat carrot sticks for a snack, because I had enough will power not to buy the stuff that isn't so good for me, but at home when I could grab a handful of jelly beans leftover from Easter instead of those carrots, I think you know what choice I make 9 times out of 10. My self control just isn't quite that good yet. But it is my goal to get back on track, to shun the sweets and instead, nosh on the nutritious.

Also, my new favorite purchase is a pair of  Nike+ shoes and sensor, which I will finally be able to use starting tomorrow! It is the coolest thing ever, it tracks your workouts and tells you all of these stats about it. I'm on this Nike+ training schedule starting tomorrow called "Walk to Run" which is supposed to, if you couldn't already figure it out, get you from walking to running. I've never really been a "runner" so I'm hoping this will help me break into the whole running business. I'm really looking forward to it. Wish me luck because I'll definitely need it!

These are my sweet new kicks. They are so awesome. I don't even feel like I'm wearing any shoes when I have them on! It's crazy!

This week I'm going to see Les Miserables in the Peace Center with Memaw and Kathy, which is the first musical we all saw together 8 years ago, so I'm really excited! I also have to finish packing :( I hate packing.