Pepsi

As most of you know, we have a number of horses staying in our corrals right now. Avary is enthralled my the horses. The other day I took Avary over to the corral to get a hands on experience with the horses. The other kids were with us and the horse closest to us is named "Pepsi". All the kids called for "Pepsi" to come over so that they could pet her. With all of the kids shouting the horse's name, Avary decided that the word for "horse" is "Pepsi". Now, when she sees the horses in the corral, or in a book, she exclaims, "Pepsi!"

Independence

Lately when we get out of the car, the moment someone u buckles Avary and sets her on the ground, she takes off walking as fast as she can on her own. We have to chase her down, or at least keep an eye on her. She loves the outdoors and could spend all day running away from home if we would let her!

In Vitro Update

Hi everyone! Greetings from Utah!

Jake and I want to thank everyone for praying and fasting for us. We feel so loved and supported. We are hopeful everything will work out and trust in our Heavenly Father.

So far things are going good. We had 5 eggs retrieved on Thursday and 4 eggs successfully fertilized. So we are hoping to have 2 eggs to transfer. The longer the embryo's have to grow outside the uterus the more likely they will successfully implant when they are transfered. We have a tentative transfer date for Sunday but are hoping to transfer the embryo's on Tuesday, day 5.

Thank you for all of your support and love.

We love you guys!

Jake & Shantell

2010-2011 LeadingLosers.net Challenge

Hello family and friends!

My gut is getting a little bigger and I need increased motivation to drop some pounds!  In order to do so, I have created a weight loss competition and I would like to invite you to join.

If you have a big desire to shed some pounds between TODAY and February 2011, then join me in the LeadingLosers.net challenge.  Everyone donates $25.00 to the weight loss pot.  Once you reach 10 pounds lost, or 5% weight loss, you start gaining points fast!  EVERYONE has the chance to win some money!

I have created a new website to show you how you are doing versus everyone else.  It also shows you how much money you are currently set to receive.  The website for seeing this status is called:  http://www.LeadingLosers.net.

You will need to join a third-party website to enter your weight (and exercise minutes if you care to).  The website is http://www.workoutzone.net.  As you update your stats each day your status will immediately be reflected on the http://www.LeadingLosers.net website.

Send this to whomever you would like.  The more the merrier ... not to mention, the more people, the bigger the pot!

Here is what you have to do to get involved:

1. If you haven't already, sign up for an account at http://www.workoutzone.net.
2. Become part of the LeadingLosers.net workout group by sending John Andersen your username for workoutzone.net. You can contact John at:  http://www.john-james-andersen.com/contact-john
3. Make a $25.00 contribution to the pot. You should pay at:  https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=JEBRWHP4PFNP8
4. Enter your current weight at Workout Zone AT LEAST ONCE EVERY TWO WEEKS between now and February 1, 2011.
5. Earn Points -- they determine what portion of the pot is yours!
• Once your weight is 10 pounds under your starting weight, you get 1 point for every pound lost.
• Once your weight is 5% under your starting weight, you ALSO get 2 points for every percent of weight loss.

Let's have a lot of fun with this!

John Andersen

http://www.john-james-andersen.com