Sunday Solutions: GET HEALTHY CHALLENGE

From the time I was young I was taught in primary about how to keep your mind and body healthy.  As I am getting older and wiser  I am realizing there is a lot of truth to what I learned in primary.

  I often hear people talk about losing weight, what is something I can do to see quick results? 

My husband repeatedly says "You have to eat healthy and exercise, it's the best way to be healthy!"

(I married handsome and smart.)

 

I never paid attention cause I never really needed to, but back to the older and well ya my body has changed a bit since I was young and could eat anything I wanted anytime I wanted.

Suddenly the words from primary and then the statement made by my  husband kept coming back to me.

 

I have always believed but now I am learning it first hand, it's the best diet plan out there.  It is relatively cheap (no one is making a profit off it), no pills, special creams or oils.  It's very simple and summed up in 3 words.  Are you ready?

 

It's called the Word of Wisdom, you can read more about it in the  Doctrine Covenants section 89.   https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/89?lang=eng

Happy Sunday and good luck on your way to being a healthier happier you!

GET HEALTHY CHALLENGE: Week 2

I made it through week 1 of the GET HEALTHY CHALLENGE.  It's been a pretty fun "challenge". 
WEEK 2 CHALLENGE:

As you can see exercise is the big points this week!  So put on your walking shoes, biking helmet, or yoga pants and get to work!  You will feel so much better and remember it only takes 21 days to form a habit.
http://healthyliving.msn.com/health-wellness/exercise-as-medicine. 

Check back tomorrow for the stats of our participants as we take the journey to GET HEALTHY!

We've teamed up with The Pizza Factory, go to my page at https://www.facebook.com/Tracees3Ts and like it if you haven't already
https://www.facebook.com/StgPizzaFactory like the Pizza Factory's page
Be sure and comment so I know how many entries you have!
Winner will win (March 14) a $10 gift card to The Pizza Factory where I love eating healthy at their famous salad bar http://tracees3ts.blogspot.com/2014/03/giveaway-week-1-get-healthy-challenge.html

BeeYOUtiful

I am the Faith in God (Activity Days) leader in our ward. I love it. I love the girls, I love their excitement, and I love the blooming testimonies they are developing and already have. These girls are wise beyond their years (8-11 years old). I learn from them and I hope they are learning from me. Tween's (as society says) are at a very crucial and influential age. They are making decisions that could really effect the rest of their lives. I hope as they attend Activity Days they will know: 1 "I am a daughter of God, he created me and has a purpose for me.(Love yourself), 2 Everyone I meet is also a Child of God and I should treat them with kindness and love (Love others) 3 My Heavenly Father loves me (And I love him). I decided it was time to do an activity that hits those 3 things. We have a young married sister in our ward that is beautiful. The first time I met her she stood out to me as someone who knew where she was going. I got to know a little about her and she is equally as beautiful on the inside. She is currently serving on as queen on a royalty at the local University. So after a lot of thought and prayer I decided she was the one I wanted to speak to the girls. She accepted and went right to work on her talk. I was so excited when she sent me a link of ideas and I began to love her even more! It made me so happy to know as she was preparing her presentation she was helping me with ideas (see she is amazing). Here is the link she sent me:   http://ldsactivitydayideas.blogspot.com/2013/03/what-makes-you-beautiful-activity.html?m=1
I LOVED this what a great idea to incorporate the 13th article of faith into it. (The girls need to memorize all 13 articles of faith to earn the Faith in God award, so we might as well dive into the longest one). The girls LOVED this activity. We began with our special guest speaker and she gave the girls such valuable information about how they are daughters of God and should love and take care of themselves, but also love and be kind to those around them. She taught them what beautiful meant and how important it is to love yourself and not be ashamed to say it (confidence not cocky). She was the perfect speaker for this and I was grateful the Lord allowed me to see she was the right resource. Next the girls made crowns (Thank you to the very kind and generous ladies at Burger King I asked for 20 and they gave me 22 and insisted I not pay). I came home spray painted them gold and then bought stickers and jewels to decorate the crowns. The girls loved it, and the best part was our sweet speaker right down on the floor in her cute white pants and crown, helping and working with these girls. I hope the importance of this topic will resignate with these young sisters because every one of them is a Bee YOU tiful child of God!

8 Week Healthy Challenge: Websites

Just a couple apps that might be helpful in this new undertaking.
Exercise document:  http://www.mapmyrun.com/
My Fitness Pal (calculate food and exercise):  http://www.myfitnesspal.com/

Any tips you find helpful?

Get Healthy Challenge Starts Tomorrow

Here is a link The Six Sisters used for their 8 week challenge.  It will help you keep score.  I am super excited and hope we can get a few more willing to try the Get Healthy Challenge, Remember tonight at 9pm is the deadline.  And if you get a friend to challenge you will receive an additional 5 points.  LET THE GAMES BEGIN!
8 Week Challenge Printable Calendars

Feel free to call, text, or e-mail me anytime.  tcschneiter@yahoo.com

 

The Six Sisters Stuff

http://www.sixsistersstuff.com/

Check out their amazing website, these girls are great!

 

8 WEEK Challenge

Here are some guidelines:
         --The challenge will begin on Monday March 3, so I will need to be contacted by Sunday night
            to know you are in on the challenge. Call, Text, E-Mail, or Comment below.
--Please get some kind of notebook, journal, or something to document your progress such a
--You will earn points for certain things and you will need to track them

--Your weight, each day (please weight yourself around the same time)

 --Food journal, account for what you are eating.

                       *On Sunday by midnight  I need you to email or text me 3 numbers.

                            ** Weight gain or loss (NOT how much you weigh just loss or gain lbs.)

                            **Your total number of points for the week

                            **Total number of points overall

                             (If I do not receive these #'s by  Sun. @ 12:00 am you will receive a 0 that week.)

                        *Monday points will be posted again no one will know what you weigh or what you

                           are or are not doing just a total so it makes it competitive

                                                                                          tcschneiter@yahoo.com

       It's more fun with a friend, each week I will post new ideas, challenges, and double point opportunities.   Two prize packages will be given at the end of 8 weeks, one for biggest weight loss and one for most points.  I am so excited and hope you will join me on the 8 week challenge!
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THIS IS WHAT THE POINT SYSTEM IS AND HOW YOU CAN GAIN THE HIGHEST POINTS
Starting Weight from Sunday night: ___________ WEEK #1 
 
1 pt: Contact with Teammate       
 3 pts: 64 oz Water       
 3 pts: Stop eating before 9 pm       
3 pts: 2 Fruit Servings (1/2 cup each)       
5 pts: 3 Vegetable Servings       
 5 pts: No Sweets/Sugary Treats (Only 6 days a week)       
5 pts: Keep a Food Journal       
5 pts: 30 min. exercise OR  7 pts: 45 min. exercise (Only 5 days a week)       
 TOTAL POINTS: (205 possible for the week)         
10 Points per Pound lost AND 5 points for Maintaining Lowest Weight. 
Total Points from Week: _________ + Points from Weight Loss: _________ =
Grand Total of Points from Week 1: __________


For questions please email me.

8 Weeks will be April 21st just in time for Swim suit weather.  GOOD LUCK!

Start TODAY

Just one question, do you have a journal?  Do you write in it?  I am realizing more and more the importance of keeping records.  If you do not do anything else for the next generation and your family,  KEEP A JOURNAL!  So if you don't why not?  My life's boring! I don't know what to say!  It's embarrassing!  I don't have time.  K, I can't think of one answer that is worth NOT writing in a journal. A Friend shared a web site with me and can I just say this is Journaling for dummies  everybody.  It gives you a question and that is how you start.  In the end you can bind it and save it for a future time.  To cool try it you will love it. 

http://www.ldsjournal.com/Default.aspx

My History

So how do you start your family history?  Compile items in a special place. I chose a plastic bin.

 

 

What kind of items?

--Birth Certificates, Marriage Certificates, Special dates, Journal Entries, Cards, Letters, Photos, other items of interest.

NEXT START WITH YOUR INFORMATION AND WORK OUT TO YOUR PARENTS (AUNTS, UNCLES) Grandparents.  What do you ask or say to get the conversation flowing?

Here are 50 questions to get you started.

http://familyhistorymadeeasy.blogspot.com/2010/08/50-questions-for-family-history.html

 

Remember the information you gather will be useful to the next generation.

 

and last but not least if I can suggest one major part of your personal history

WRITE IN A JOURNAL.  No matter how boring and dull you think your life is, one day it may become someones most prized possesion.

My mom was an avid journal writer.  She wrote simple information, like when someone had a baby, bought a new car, concerns, hopes, and feelings.  It is PRICELESS gift you can leave behind one day.  To you life may be boring, but to know my parents paid $50 for rent in their first apartment and when they raised the rent to $55 they were going to be forced to move is interesting to me today, so don't forget tidbits like that.  Have I rambled enough?  Seriously though I am a strong believer in preserving your life for those who are in the next generation!!!!

FAMILY HISTORY CHALLENGE

Found this challenge on pinterest, if you are interested hop on and ride with me till the end of February.  This is what I call BEGGINERS family history at it's finest.   So log on to the site below scroll down and type in your email address, and they will instruct you for the 28 days of February.

http://familyhistorywritingchallenge.blogspot.ca/p/challenge.html#!/p/challenge.html

Family History

I am sure to some of you this will sound dumb, but I suddenly have been curious about my ancestors.  Not only what their names were, but what did they do, who were they.  As I have heard stories about different generations I am growing to love and learn more.  For instance they came from Switzerland, but why?  How did they end up where they died?  It is an endless supply of  questions and for people like me the questions could go on FOREVER!  So I started by going to a website my sister recommended.  https://createfan.com/ This is where you can find the names and dates. From there start researching these people. 

Also how do you start your family history?  Come back Thursday to find out.  In the meantime print your family Fan Chart it is SO AMAZING!

UPSTART with RuSTy and RoSeY

 

Just another little tidbit from me.  I found this program a few years ago, thanks to a neighbor and friend.  We tried it and it is AAAAAAAAAAMAZING!  My son who is in 1st grade participated the year prior to Kindergarten.  I did enroll him in a pre-school for the social and school environment.  The way this technological world is going this gets your little one involved and knowledgeable about the computer and how it works on their level.  I LOVE UPSTART, and can't wait for my little man to start it in the fall.  Here is a few things you need to know;

 

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE? 

UPSTART is for Utah children the school year before they go to kindergarten.

Participants agree to use the program at home at least

15 minutes a day, 5 days a week.

 

WHAT IS THE PROGRAM?

 

UPSTART provides families like yours with a computer-based preschool program called Rusty and Rosy Learn with Me™ that your child uses at home for at least 15 minutes a day.

• Complete. Rusty and Rosy Learn with Me automatically progresses through complete lessons first in beginning reading and then in math and science. Parent preparation is NOT required.
• Easy to Use. Your child can work on the program without help.
• Waterford Quality. Millions of children across the nation have successfully learned with Waterford programs and now your child can too!
• Simple to Monitor Progress. You can quickly access your child’s progress reports at any time.
• Lots of Fun. Your child will love the games, books, songs, and activities.
• Supportive. Convenient training and support

WHAT WILL MY CHILD LEARN

Your child will experience something new every day. Here are some skills that your preschooler will learn

Reading	Math	Science
Spell his or her name	Matching	Five senses
Recognize capital A–Z	Sorting	Seasons
Recognize lowercase a–z	Recognizing and making 1–20	Sun, moon, constellations
Nursery rhymes	Counting and making groups	Water and clouds
Letter sounds	Shapes	Living and nonliving
Alliterative books	Positions	Plant or animal
Print concepts	Sizes	Categorizing animals
Songs from around the world	Measurement	Ecosystems
Vocabulary words	Logical reasoning	Push and pull
Hearing the sounds in speech	…and much more	Observing an egg develop into a chicken
…and much more		…and much more

 

WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO?

• You can pre-register children who will enter kindergarten in the fall of 2014 and beyond, and we will keep you advised of your participation status and other program related information. However, program participation is limited.

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.utahupstart.org/

FREE FONTS

I don't know about you, but I love to use different fonts.  I have been using fonts from this website for years and think you might find some you might like too.  http://www.kevinandamanda.com/fonts/

CLIPART

This is the cutest website for cute clipart that is FREE!  Check it out!  http://www.mycutegraphics.com/graphics/family-graphics.html

TUACHAN

I love to catch a play at Tuachan every year.  It has become an annual event.  Well this year it is Aladdin.  (I have never seen the movie before) This play is a MUST see.  If you have even the slightest chance, GO!  I could not belive the amazing things they did from a flying carpet over the audience, to the real live camels, to the 3d portion.  It is worth the money.  GO you will not regret it.
https://tickets.tuacahn.org/Online/default.asp?doWork::WScontent::loadArticle=Load&BOparam::WScontent::loadArticle::article_id=513EE5B4-F9A9-48AE-A312-7AB69A50C6E0&sessionlanguage=&menu_id=4B7AF5DF-6362-4559-8FAC-D2582B7F5F92

REACH OUT TO THE 1

Can I please just tell you a little something that has been AmAzIng for me.  I was recently called to the primary presidency in my ward.  A calling I have never had.  I have been in activity days, primary teacher, & sec.  but never in the presidency.   Well don't worry my 2nd week I was doing sharing time.  And can I say this is right up my alley.  My cute little girl said "Mom I think you were made for this calling!"  Well at least I have 1 fan.  So I jumped in to see if I would sink or swim.  I loved doing this, I just completed my 4th Sunday and I am alive to tell about it, and even elated with what happened.  Soo . . . I had the strongest prompting to reach out to the children who did not attend once during the 3 weeks prior to my 4th sharing time.  I first got permission from my very awesome president (who I love already and am excited about the things I have and will learn from her.)  I took the little handouts for each week and on wrote a letter explaining what we learned each week.  As follows:

Week 1:  We learned about the importance of choosing and being a good friend.  My hand out was a black boot cut with my cricut with nickels and a quote.  (I also included the story Pres Hinckley told of two boys and the value of having good friends)  http://www.sugardoodle.net/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8115&Itemid=200138


Week 2:  We learned about the good and bad of media.  We had a don't pet the rattle snakes lesson by Elder Sorenson.  I made a snake with a small chico stick attached as the rattle. http://perglersprimaryplace.blogspot.com/2012/07/reading-listening-and-looking-at-things.html

Week 3:  We learned about keeping the sabbath day holy.  And invited a member of the  bishopric to come in and we made him a Sunday, discussing the good things we can do on Sunday and putting yummy toppings on.  Then including things not appropriate for Sunday and asked would this ruin your Sundae?
http://www.sugardoodle.info/Sabbath%20Day/Would%20this%20ruin%20your%20Sundae.shtml
I gave them little ice creams cut out with my cricut with a dum dum attached to the back.  I also attached suggestions of things to do on Sunday.

SO I typed this up with a little letter saying We miss you at primary and hope to see you soon.  Next week we will be playing a game, it will be from the stories above. 

I placed the goodies in a brown bag and delivered to those who we have not seen in the last 3 Sundays.  I was completely overjoyed when 7 of the 15 children showed up to church.  I cannot tell you how happy that makes me, to know just a little love and encouragement and we can be blessed with these children in our primary.  I would strongly encourage you to become whatever it may be but reach out to those who others may give up on.  It is amazing!

GIVEAWAY (6x6 photo book)

Hey out there, we have another giveaway TOMORROW.  So excited I wish I could win this {lol}.  It's a free 6x6 book from My Memories ( http://www.mymemories.com/).  They are giving these books to everyone, so anyone can get the free book, but I will pay the shipping which is $7.99.  So go get entered and tell your friends.  GOOD LUCK!
P.S. those that entered he software giveaway that happened Sunday are automatically in the drawing, but come on do as your mama taught you share (this info).

MY MEMORIES ON FACEBOOK

So the drawing is in a little over 48 hours and I am excited.  Not had as many entries as I hoped, but maybe everyone is waiting till the last minute.  Either way good luck, whoever wins will be super lucky and if not you will automatically be entered to win the FREE 6x6 photo book (Shipping on  me).  Anyway but I have been playing with the my memories software and you can add a facebook heading to the timeline.  SUPER CUTE and fun.  Check these out.  By the end of today I hope I will have one of these up on my facebook header.

FREE Photobook

Anyone like FREE stuff.  Currently My Memories has a special for a FREE 6x6 book.  (Heck at the very least make a book to take to church with the kids, they always seem to love pics of themselves).  All you need to do is go to this link:  http://www.mymemories.com/lifetime

It will take you through a step by step process to make your FREE 6x6 book.  You do pay shipping of $7.99 but who minds that when you get a 20 page book on My Memories dime.

Step 1:  Create a MM account and download trial software for FREE
Step 2:  Choose a FREE template
Step 3:  Upload your book for FREE printing with Promo Code:  BK6FRE
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I was just thinking if you enter my drawing going on right now, you will also be entered to win a FREE book.  Yep I WILL PAY the $7.99 shipping for one very lucky winner.  So get entering.  Remember you can enter a total of 3 times, look at the previous post for rules. 
**Drawing will be next Thursday so enter until 11:59 am**

MY MEMORIES (GIVEAWAY)

I had a real struggle moving from scrapbooking with all the paper and JUNK, to digital. Ya know the kind where it's you and your computer and that's IT. Well I think it's one of those things that has made my life less complicated. Do you think it's time to switch or have you already joined the life of DIGITAL SCRAPBOOKING. Right now I am going to make this decision a little easier for you scrapbookers or scrapbook wanna Be's. . . . .

I have been using scrapbook software and love it.  Let me share with you the one I am
using and absolutley love. you can check it out at www.MyMemories.com

** GIVE AWAY TIME**

You can enter up to 3 times per person.  That means you can choose 3 of the 4 options.

  Giveaway will be Sunday August 5th, 2012 at SIX pm

                                      

                                      

1.  Go to Pinterest, pin the photo from this post to your pin board

2.  and/or share this post on Facebook
Then comment on this post for each entry! Simple as that! !   

 3.  Go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/MyMemories/140359372717593 

                                                and like!!!~

                                          Make sure you come back to my blog and let me know you LIKED this page.

4.  Invite friends to join my blog. 

                                         Every friend that joins needs to comment YOU sent them.

                                              That will enter you and the friend.

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IF YOU WISH TO PURCHASE MY MEMORIES DIGITAL SCRAPBOOK SOFTWARE, I have some exciting news!

My Memories Suite

My Memories Suite Version 3 digital scrapbooking software is a fun and creative way to keep and share memories, whether you have a Mac or PC. The software's design tools will help you to build entire albums effortlessly using one of the many installed templates, or designing your very own pages from scratch.

Available worldwide. Intended for English-language computers. Technical support is English-only.
$39.97 USD 
but you can enter code STMMMS12166 and receive this for $30 (you can't buy paper, tape, scissors, and the mess you have when scrapbooking the old fashion way for that price.) THATS NOT ALL. . . you will also receive a $10 coupon for My Memories store for $10.  Seriously you CANNOT beat this price.  So here on my page you can receive a $50 value for $30, plus access to over 200 free kits.  Think about

the time and mess you could save yourself. HAPPY SCRAPPING AND GO GET ENTERED! 

                    

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