Oh Dear..

It seems that I have forgotten to elaborate on my close to out of body experience seeing Sir Paul McCartney on July 13th. Now before I begin, let me say that this was TRULY a dream come true, and I will never see a concert as fantabulous as this was.


Wow wow wow. SO incredible. He was so full of energy and Alex and I became full-blown hippies the entire night. [Not sure if Alex has a hippie bone in his body.... but for Paul, oh yes he does.] I'm pretty sure I threw a peace sign or two, danced and sang along with almost every song. Sigh... it was a little disheartening to leave however because we realized we may never have an experience quite like that again.

It's like Christmas as a kid... you wait and wait and wait and wait and on Christmas Day, you're almost sad because it's going to be over for another year.

BUT regardless, great great show and we're both pretty pumped that we had the opportunity to attend.

And we're both still smiling.

On another note... in only a month- fall will be here. I can't believe another year has passed. I have to say, fall is my favorite season... I've enjoyed the sunshine and warm weather- but I love cute jackets, scarves, and hats. Plus, the holidays are spectacular. I mean, let's be honest. Who doesn't love Thanksgiving and Christmas? That's what I thought. :)

Til next time...

At This Point

I am happy.


There are many things a'happening in the Teran household.. nothing huge or groundbreaking, but we are busy little bees. We are both through with the diet! We are still trying to be extremely active [going to the gym 5 days a week] and eating well. It's been a lot easier than expected! I think when we finished that diet, anything was better than the routine we'd had. :)


I am running my first 5K in October. I gave myself a few months to prepare for it.. I know, it's only a 5K, but for a marathon beginner, I want to be totally prepared. I'm thinking of continually running in small marathons to keep myself in shape, and to eventually run the Wasatch Back. (A girl can dream, right?)


Alex starts back in school this month. He'll be gone a lot, so we're thinking of expanding our little family with a puppy within the next couple months. (We'll have to see how finances go). I know that I will be lonely Mon-Fri if I don't have SOME company. I am very excited for him to be back in school. We're just going to try and push him through as fast as humanly possible so we can be done!!! I'm thinking of picking up a sewing class, and I'm also going to get involved in Yoga and/or Pilates. I'm trying to keep as busy as possible.


In a couple weeks, we're hiking Mt. Timpanogous! VERY psyched about that.
 Life. Is. Good.

We're Still Alive..

I'm sure many are wondering if we are surviving the diet. We ARE! We're currently on day 12 (almost over day 12, actually) and going strong! There have been a couple meltdowns, I'll admit. But usually the other one is right there to help the other out. We can both proudly say we've lost 5 lbs in a week, and counting! We're working out 5 days a week, and it has improved our quality of life 10 fold. It's amazing what energy from eating well and regular exercise will do. We have made plans to go on more hikes, Alex has been mountain biking with his brother Paul, we want to start playing tennis, and we LOVE to run! I love being active. (This is coming from 2 ex couch potatoes who loved to eat pizza, drink Dr. Pepper and sit on our rear-ends.)


The diet becomes quite repetitive... and sometimes hard to handle, but we've found if we push through it, we never regret it. We take it a day at a time. On Thursday, we'll be half-way there. I can't wait to see how far we've come on July 31st.


*Note: We made it through July 4th, one of my favorite holidays, without cheating. Not even a little bit. They brought out the grilled hotdogs and potato salad, we ate chicken and veggies. They brought out the HOMEADE cookies and cream icecream, we ate sugar free jello. Yeah. I know!


So, things are going pretty well right now. I've never had a flat tummy, so I'm hoping to achieve that. Also, in other news, we both got callings. I am a Nursery leader and he is a Second Counselor in the Sunday School Presidency. Our nursery is very small (4 kids) and it's actually a lot of fun. I miss my Relief Society though....


Anyway, that's what we're up to as of late. Still kickin'! :)


Oh, and Paul McCartney is tomorrow............ woop!

This month..

...will be an interesting one.


Alex and I have done some lifestyle changes during the past month... and those lifestyle changes consist of our diet and our exercise! Over the past couple weeks, we've stopped eating out- started working out- and have been so pumped about losing some weight!


It seemed to be fate when my sister, Heather, called me and asked us if we wanted to do a free month of personal training via e-mail with a friend of hers. We jumped on the bandwagon, and starting Monday- we'll be on a strict diet and working out schedule! We're SOOO excited!


Our diet for the next month will include: egg whites, chicken/tuna, oatmeal, natural peanut butter, apples, green veggies, brown rice/sweet potatoes, and protein shakes. Nothing more, nothing less.


It will kick our butts... but many members of mi familia are doing it too, so we'll have a great support system.


I would put before pictures on here, but I am not going to. ;)


I'm probably not going to be on the computer much this next month so I can fully focus on whats ahead of me. Plus, I'm just on the dang thing too much anyway. :)


And they're off...

A Perfect Week

A couple weeks ago, my beloved and I both had about a week and a half off from work to do whatever we want. I will let you know that we took FULL advantage of this opportunity. Our week included:

• Browsing the mall and eating goodies from Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory
• Going to home decor stores (lots of them)
• A zoo trip (I haven't been since being in UT.) It was fun! I haven't been to the zoo in ages....
• Went on a hike. (Our new passion...)
• Went camping (It was wonderful!!)
• Celebrating our two year anniversary!!!
• Eating at Macaroni Grill (we went there on our honeymoon)
• Eating at Nauvoo Cafe (we just really love their sandwiches)
• Eating at Cafe Rio (we just eat there all the time)
• And probably a bunch of other eateries.... we like to eat. A lot.
• We stayed at the same bed and breakfast from our honeymoon. Same room. It was just fantastic!!
• Our bed and breakfast is right in the middle of SLC, so we did nothing but walk all weekend. We did all the typical touristy mormons do... tour of the conference center, church history museum, browsed temple square and on Sunday morning, saw Music and the Spoken Word. It was an extremely spiritually uplifting weekend.
• We made out. We held hands. We hugged. Even more than usual!!!
• We spent a night with Alex's sister, Marlene and her lovely family.
• Went to This is the Place heritage park, where I had a not-so-wonderful headache. I did manage to buy a bottled rootbeer though. This made me happy.
• We talked about things we loved about being married, and things we could work on. I LOVE having conversations about how we can improve as a couple, or as individuals. Believe it or not, I like to hear what he would like me to improve on. It's weird...

Well, I suppose I should post some pictures from our week of bliss. I'm not going to post too many, but here are some of the highlights!

Everytime I see anything of President Hinckley I have to take a picture :) He's just wonderful and I miss him dearly!

This was at This is the Place Heritage park. They had a petting zoo. Cute!

Alex and I taking a breather. We walked soooo much that weekend.

Our adorable bed and breakfast!!!

This was on top of the Conference Center. It was such a neat tour. I had never been so it was extra special for me. A must do for everyone!!

Alex at the zoo pretending to be a monkey.

There aren't too many pictures on this, solely because it takes a bloody lifetime to upload each picture onto blogger. And it's getting late as it is. And I'm starting to feel a cold coming on... which means it's probably time for me to sign off. Adios!