It's Almost Time!!!

In two weeks, Scott and I are flying to Los Angeles for a week. Here is why:

As some of you may know, we went to Vegas in 2007 for a live casting call for the Biggest Loser. Two days after we got back, we got a call asking us to come to Los Angeles the next day! But, since we'd just spent all our money on our travels to and from Vegas, we couldn't go to L.A.! I was SO disappointed. We wanted to be on the show SO badly! And we had to pass on what might have actually been our shot!

Scott and I at the Vegas Casting Call - with our Biggest Loser sashes!

Well, there is another casting call on March 14 in L.A.! We decided to use our tax refund to fly to L.A. and go to the casting call!!! I am SO excited!

It's weird, but watching Biggest Loser this season has been really emotional for me. I don't really know why. I feel like I relate to Kristin a lot. I don't weigh as much as she did when she started (although she weighs less than me now!!) But her reason for losing weight is to have a baby. That is one of my key reasons too. I feel like if I lose the weight, then I'll have a better shot at having a baby. I also feel like I'm a lot like Kristin. I think if I were to meet her, we'd be good friends, because our personalities are so much alike! She is such an amazing inspiration to me, also. Tonight when she weighed in, she had lost 10 more lbs, and she started talking about how she used to sit and home and watch the show, and want what these people were getting: a life transformation. I just started to cry! I know I'm a nerd, crying at a reality show, but that is exactly what it is. Reality. For me, I constantly battle with my weight. And it's HARD. I feel like everything that goes wrong in my life is somehow related to my being overweight. That may or may not be the case. But I can't help but feel like if I were a normal size, an average size, that things might just be easier.

Kristin Steede- Season 7, from Wisconsin.

The past two years, as I've hit my heaviest weight, I've started to come to the realization that this is my life battle. I've also decided that I am done. And here's the thing. I CAN do it on my own. I've done it before. I lost that 70 lbs in 6 months in 2003. But it is so much harder for me to do it on my own. Scott and I both want this SO bad, and I know there really isn't that great of a chance for us to actually make it on the show, (I mean, they see hundreds of people a week for like 4 or 5 weeks!) but we're going to give it our all and hope for the best. I know that being on a show like The Biggest Loser would change my life, and that's what I need. I am stuck in this rut and I feel like I can't claw my way out of it without some serious help.

I watch Bob and Jillian kick trash every week, and I just want it to be my trash they're kicking! Honestly, I succeed so much better when I have someone cracking a whip over my head. I know if Scott and I got on the show, we would win it! Without a DOUBT! Especially if we're working together.

Anyway, I just thought I would let you in on this information. Wish us luck!!!

Valentine's Day!

Scott is the best husband ever.

Isn't he SO STINKING CUTE????

On Valentine's Day, he had to work from 7 am till 3 pm, so we didn't have plans till later. Around 3:15 he calls me to tell me he had to take a co-worker home so he'd be late. A couple minutes later, there was a knock at the door, and when I answered, I was greeted by a bouquet of white roses and a GIANT velour balloon! A couple minutes later, Scott walked through the door asking where I got the flowers and balloon!! Silly boy.

The beautiful flowers and balloon Scottie surprised me with!

I should know better, this isn't the first time he's done this kind of thing. When we got engaged, we had a ring custom made, and it wasn't going to be ready till a certain day. The day it was supposed to be ready, he was planning on coming to Provo (where I was living at the time) after he got off work to give me the ring and hang out with me. That night I got a call from him telling me the guy that was making the ring had cut his finger, and the ring wouldn't be finished for another couple of days. Then when Scott finally got to my apartment, he was dressed in a tux, with a huge bouquet of roses (which, BTW are my fav flower ever) and he got on one knee and asked me to marry him, with my ring in his hand! SO stinking CUTE!

So anyway, he's done that a couple of times - told me a little white lie and then gone and done something super sweet. And me being the naive blonde I am, I believe him every time!!

After he laughed at me for believing him AGAIN, he took me to my favorite restaurant - TGI Fridays for my favorite meal of a Jack Daniels Burger! Then we went to see He's Just Not That Into You. I read the book a couple years ago, and it was so great! The movie was good - I was impressed at how many big stars were in it! We had a lovely evening, and I was reminded all over again as to why I fell in love with him. He makes it hard for me to forget!! He is such a great husband and I am so lucky to have him! He works SO hard, and he's doing so well in school, and I'm constantly impressed by him. He never ceases to amaze me. So needless to say, I had a FANTASTIC Valentine's Day!

Not the best picture of either of us, but we had fun!