Jamie had a Lillie Lamb, Lillie Lamb

Happy Halloween!
We love our little lamb!

Rachael

Kristen and Taylor

Rachel, Reagan and Lillie!

We spent Saturday visiting great Grandmas and Grandpas, Great Grandmas, Aunts and Uncles and Cousins. We are so blessed to live closely to family!

P.S. I made it through Halloween without any Candy : )

Blessings in Disguise

I received terrible news when I picked Lillie up from daycare yesterday - our current daycare provider could no longer watch Lillie because she had to go back work to provide for her family. While this was a shock, I knew it would end up a good thing. With us moving to Lehi, it was going to be a challenge to drive to Orem everyday to drop her off and knew we might find someone even better.

Well we did! We found an amazing family to watch Lillie a little more than two miles away from our new house and right by Josh's work so he can help take Lillie to daycare. We are so excited that we found this family and are excited that they are willing to share their lives to care for our daughter!

While yesterday evening started bad - we ended up in a better situation all around! We are so blessed.

Good-bye Time and Life, Hello Bisk

I have been complaining about taking the CPA exam all year - if I spent as much time studying as I do feeling guilty about not studying or stressing about the test I would have been done months ago. Well the time has come. I scheduled my last sections for the test for November 22 and the other for January 24th (Yep, that is the very last possible day I can take it without having to pay again - I can't believe 9 months went so quick.Well, Bisk, we are about to become great friends for the next month. Please help me pass the exam and make miracles happen!

PS: I made it through day three with no candy, deserts or soda. I am on my way to breaking my addiction which might not be the smartest thing with all the studying I will be getting to do : )

The Weight Loss Challenge

Josh and I weighed ourselves today and set our goals for getting healthy again! (We also took "before" pictures that are just too frightening to post.) After working full-time and going to school full-time we put on quite a bit of weight and now with no more school or pregnancy we no longer have any excuses for being overweight. Here are some of our goals:

Jamie: 47 pounds to lose, 22 by Christmas, 25 by March

Josh: 56 pounds to lose, 26 by Christmas, 30 by March

How we are going to get there:
Eating:
Jamie: Daily Caloric intake: 1600 calories. No soda, no candy

Josh: Daily Caloric intake: 1890 calories.

Exercising:


During the winter it will be harder to exercise, but here are two tools I have found to enjoy exercising indoors. Immediately after putting Lillie to bed for the night I will be doing the 30-day shred followed by cycling.

We will be updating our results each week and hopefully this will help us make progress!

Two months, back to work and a Halloween tradition...

Lillie has been in our lives for two months now! We are so lucky to have her and love her so much, but how could you not love this???Since Lillie is two months old it means it is time to go back to work, as in 8-5. I was crazy and did not end up taking more than a couple of days off work when she was born. I felt so good after labor and she was sleeping so much I needed something to do so I started back working from home.

I am actually excited to be back at the office so I can focus on work when I am working and on Lillie and family when I am home. No more trying to combine the two or going into the office at 4-5:00 am to get what I needed done there to be back before Josh left for work. After the first day back I did have a breakdown wondering if I was doing the right thing. Things have been better and we found a great family that is watching Lillie. The little girls love having her there during the day.

Two Months

One of my favorite Halloween traditions is decorating sugar cookies with my mom - I am excited for the all the upcoming Holiday traditions coming! Don't they look good? Don't worry I am going to start my lose-the-baby-weight plan soon

Five Years Together!

Last week we celebrated our 5th Anniversay! It is about time that we start documenting our journey - here are some highlights of the the last five years.

~YEAR FIVE~

October 2009 - September 2010

Signed papers to start construction on our new home on our 5th anniversay. It will be in Lehi, UT and will be completed around December 6th

Blessed Lillie on September 5, 2010

Welcomed Lillie Ann Solomon into our lives on August 16, 2010 at 12:55 pm. She weighed 7 lbs 3 ozs and was 20 inches long and had hair! Here is a picture just hours after she was born.

Found out we were having a girl in March 2010

Jamie graduated in December 2009 with her Masters of Accountany.

Found out we were pregnant on December 6, 2009 - due around August 12, 2010

~YEAR FOUR~

October 2008 - September 2009

Both graduated with our BS degress from UVU in December 2008 - Jamie's degree in accounting and Josh's in Information Systems Management

Jamie started her Master of Accountancy degree at the University of Utah in January 2009. She commuted every day to be in class at 7:30 am

~YEAR THREE~

October 2007 - September 2008

Purchased our next home - a condo in Orem in May 2008. Growing up, Monopoly was my favorite game so we decided to pursue it is real life. We rented our townhome in Provo and decided to purchase a Condo that needing fixing up and the we would rent it. We planned to only live in the house six months and then move, but we ended up hear for for 2.5 years. We spent an entire year retexturing and painting the walls, new tile & carpet, refinished the cabinets, put in a new bath and adjusted a wall in the bathroom.

Jamie started working part-time at Universal Industrial Sales, Inc in August 2008. Planned on only being there during school, but ended up being a flexible place to enable us to start a family.

We added the first addition to our family in November 2007- Tobias J Solomon aka Toby - our handsome miniature schnauzer. We got him when he was six weeks old and we sure love him.

Josh took first place in the UVU business competition winning $3,000.

~YEAR TWO~

October 2006 - September 2007

Went to Mexico for 10 days in April 2006 - Unfortunately we lost all our pictures to a hard drive crash, but here are some on facebook - http://www.facebook.com/#!/album.php?aid=20706&id=513118780

Purchased our first town home in Provo, UT in July 2007

Josh starting working for ACR in March 2007 and we both continued school at UVSC.

~YEAR TWO~

October 2005 - September 2006

Both graduated from the LDSBC in December 2005 (We will not miss that place) and Jamie started Spring Semester at BYU on a full tuition scholarship and had to transfer to UVSC in August 2006 to complete her degree where she could work full-time keeping our insurance benefits to maintain Josh's health care while finishing school

Jamie worked at Washington Mutual, BYU and then started at Countrywide Home Loans, Josh started working at UVU in September.

Josh had to start 8 weeks of radiation treatment in November 2005 on his pituaray tumor and was not able to go to school or work for about 9 months of our first year of marriage - we had so many miracles and were so blessed during this time in our lives.

Moved into our first apartment - great location in Orem - but it had its quirks from the interesting landlord to the crazy drains!

Married on September 30, 2005 in the Salt Lake City Temple.

~PRE-MARRIED LIFE~

Engaged in May 2005

Started dating in December 2004Met in August 2004