Yesterday we surprised the kids and brought home a puppy!! They have been begging for one for years and we felt like the time was right to bring one home.

Meet Angus 🐕 He's a Golden Retriever/King Charles Cavalier Spaniel mix. He's 11 weeks old and currently weighs about 8 pounds, he should be around 35 pounds fully grown. I know it will be an adjustment for a while as he gets potty trained etc but we are so excited. 😂 Wish us luck! 🤪

Cheese is good! I ate a block of chipotle oven baked cheese with lunch yesterday and it was divine. I love it, but know that it halts any progress I'm making, and will even trigger eating in excess to where I'll gain weight. It's sad but I have accepted it. If I eat it in small quantities with a meal, it's ok, but I really have to work to keep it in check.

What's your favorite cheese? How do you incorporate it? Do you see negative results when eating it?

Happy Sunday! Sharing a video today from our week, one of the highlights. This was Wednesday evening church, normally they have a more casual prayer meeting where someone plays the guitar, but they were doing some construction in the fellowship hall so they had their prayer meeting in the sanctuary. No one was there to play the piano so my my Grandma did it, she's been playing the piano in church for probably 80 years.

For context, she's 88, she had a really bad fall 5 years ago now and hit her head and ended up with a lot setbacks, similar to having a stroke. She has a lot of dementia like symptoms also (I am sure related to her Type 2 diabetes), she really can't read music anymore, and she has trouble seeing well, and she needs to wear hearing aids to hear but hates wearing them, so on this night she didn't want to wear them. My 93 (almost 94) year old grandpa takes care of both of them on their farm. Anyway, on this night she sat down on the piano and led worship as people called ...

Happy Sunday! We are changing our Sunday schedule around for the next year. Long story short but we are normally early service people at church, and then we come home and get a break and then have a big lunch as a family. But due to the schedule of classes offered at church for our kids ages, we need to switch to the last service of the day on Sundays. So that means we don't get home from church until after 1 pm.

The bonus is I get to work out in the mornings and we all get to sleep in a little bit. But the downside is trying to plan a big meal starting at 1:00 where we end up eating around 2:00, it makes it feel like your whole day is gone. So we'll do a brunch before church probably and then just a quick/easy mid afternoon meal.
Our family lives a pretty structured routine day to day so this type of schedule change is usually an adjustment for us all (even Angus with his nap schedule).

Situations like this just remind you that while having an ideal meal time and intermittent...

Happy Saturday! Super excited it's the weekend. Chris and Penelope are going to see Forrest Frank in concert tonight, in a huge arena. We originally were all going to go but Nathaniel and I don't love crowds so we decided to we would rather stay home and play games while the people that enjoy loud music and screaming crowds go by themselves. 😂 Which would you choose?

What are your plans for the weekend? How are you going to avoid temptations to ensure you stay on track this weekend?

Just a funny puppy thing from this morning. I was trying a new lotion of whipped tallow with vanilla and coffee oil today. Not sure if it's the tallow or the scent, but my puppy is obsessed! Wouldn't stop trying to lick me until I washed it off.