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 Monday!! Can you believe this is officially the end of September?!? Were you able to maintain beast mode for all of this month?? If not, no worries, were you able to have more good days than bad days this month??? Let's start our reflection of September today, what has been the best thing that has happened to you in the month of September???

Happy Sunday! I am flying out today for a quick 24 hour trip to Vegas. We have our big conference there in January, so I am doing some walk throughs of the venue today to talk about planning. Thankfully I have a friend in Vegas that I get to see today before I have dinner with coworkers. There are a lot of hard things about traveling so much, but a few perks as well. One of them is getting to see friends who live far away more often. This way of eating can be pretty isolating if you don't have a lot of support in your daily life (I am lucky to have support at home though). I've never really had a lot of friends in general, let alone any that live near me, so catching up when we can has always been special. Do you have friends you see regularly in your day to day life?

Reminder, I will be doing a YouTube Livestream Tuesday night.