What did I learn/think of the marriage conference?

This post is to answer a friend who left a comment on my previous post, so I just thought I would make a new post out of it!
I really enjoyed going to this marriage conference! I would recommend to any one who is married to go to a marriage conference at least once in your lifetime! It's such a nice time to get away from it all and spend quality and quantity time together! This weekend made me think we need to do this more often! We do get away for our anniversary, and maybe a couple other nights out of the year, which we are thankful for! But, I think we need to do it a little more often than we do!
The speaker was Timothy Lane from CCEF in Philadelphia I believe. And the theme of the conference was, Marriage: A mess worth making. He talked about having good communication, having good conflict, and practicing forgiveness!
I think the biggest thing I took away, was that when conflict and problems comes, I need to check myself out first, and see what I am contributing to the problem. And how I need to choose words carefully cause they can either build up, or tear down. And then lastly would be that conflict can be good! If you have conflict, and you make it through, it will bring deeper intimacy into your marriage. It was all stuff that applies to marriage, but it was also nice because all these things can apply to all your relationships in life too!
That's all for now!

A Cool Thing we got to See

This morning we were driving to a brunch at our church, and as we were coming down 35E in Eagan, we got to see a really pretty rainbow. Bill said that it must have been an ice rainbow, since of course it was not raining, and it was really cold out! It was fun, cause some other people at the brunch said they saw it too. And, we found out that it is actually called a Sun dog. I wish we would have been able to take a picture, but a friend looked it up on Wikipedia, so here's the link if you wanted to check out what one was in the scientific terms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_dog

A Goal Reached

So, I am not usually one to make goals. Partly cause if you don't reach them, it's kind of like you failed, and who likes to do that? Or, you may even forget about them. A lot of people think setting goals is a good thing though. Gives you something to shoot for. So for whatever reason, when we got our membership to the Y, I decided to set a weight loss goal. I am happy to say that after 9 1/2 long months I finally met my goal. It's cool, kind of strange too! Like, what now? Do I have to set another one? The first one took so long to reach! We'll see. The Y in Eagan is doing a fun thing. You have to weigh in before Nov. 26th, and then they will reweigh you after the New Year. If you have maintained or lost weight during the Holiday's you will get a free T shirt! I may decide to do this. It's hard though cause some of the foods you eat during this time are only things you get once a year! This could be a good thing though, helping me to intake all these yummy foods in moderation! We'll see how it goes!

Snow!

Well, it snowed here for the first time this season! It is always beautiful and there is almost something refreshing about the first snow fall of the year! And makes me think of Christmas, my favorite Holiday! Funny how I'm always excited for the first snow fall, but I am always wondering when Christmas is over with, when all the snow will leave and when it will be spring!

Random fact

I feel like I should blog a bit, but that I don't have much to blog about at the moment. So, here's a random fact for you I guess. Did you know that there is 100 calories in only one tablespoon of butter? That means that there are 800 calories in one stick. I hope this post has inspired you somehow:)