Change is a Good Thing

I've never been keen on change. I don't like it, but sometimes change is a good thing. This spring, while giving the TCAP test to my students, I noticed two pictures of Sam and I side by side and we looked SO different! You see, I had plenty of time to really get a good look at these things because I wasn't allowed to do ANYTHING while the students were taking their test....NOTHING!! Anyways, back to the point, I realized that the pictures were taken exactly a year apart because Sam and I always take a picture together when we go down to the river to watch fireworks for the 4th of July.

Sam and I decided at the end of 2010 to start getting our act together and get into better shape. The proof of the need to do that is below in this picture from the 4th of July 2010.

In January of 2011, Sam and I got right to it and started working out and watching what we ate. There is a pretty clear difference in our appearance and it was only a year. Here we are July 4th, 2011.

 Granted these pictures aren't taken exactly the same, but you get the point I am trying to make. We have been working so hard and to be able to see the results and change is pretty awesome! Here's the most recent picture from this year. (Side note..I really wish I had my long hair like last year but that's what happens when you kill it with hair color and straightener. :( Also I look so pasty compared the picture above...oh well.)

 I am so glad to reach a goal and enjoy doing it! It's more of a habit that we both want to do instead of having to do it. We enjoy working out now..which is something that I didn't think we would ever say.