They turned out SO good!

While we were in AZ we had our pictures done by the amazing Shelly at Ivy Studio Photography! She ROCKS! Enough said :) I knew she was an amazing photographer from the pics I saw from some of my friends but I was still so pleasantly surprised when we did our viewing session.

I am not easy to photograph these days-still WAY to self-conscious. And although I knew she did great work, I was really nervous about how I would look.

I can honestly say that I don't think I look too much like a hippo in the pics haha. Theres only oh so much you can do with lighting and editing and point blank, I didn't lose the weight like I planned but regardless the pics are beautiful. Here are a few of my fav's and I'll be sure to post more when I get my CD :) YAY!!

Week 4 and 5

Time got the best of me as always and missed week 4's update so I'll just mush it in with week 5 :)

There really isn't much too report which has it's up's and downs. Week 4 I gained 1 lb but was on AF so that was the reasoning behind my back-tracking. I know now I need to really buckle down during that week cause I give in SOOO easily. 

Week 5 we were in AZ and I was so sure I would gain cause the diet went down the drain but thankfully I actually went right back down to where I was at the end of Week 3 so I am still down 9.5 lbs. 

Now that we are back home I have no excuses and plan to really stick to my diet and kick some butt!!

Home Sweet Home

It feels SO good to be home :) It's been quite the stressful trip since we got here though. Ethan really doesn't want to sleep which is hard. I'm not sure if it's just the change in itself or if something else is going on. We're working through it though and enjoying the moments he is happy. He's really enjoyed playing with his baby buddies and we love seeing the friends and the munchkins all together again :)

I'll update soon with pics and some more good stuff!

Week 3 results!!

I didn't post Week 2 results cause well one I was irritated by them and two things have been all sorts of crazy. Week two I did gain 2 lbs :( I think I got too cocky and let things slide when I shouldn't have. So that motivated me more than ever to kick it into high gear and for Week 3 I had a loss of 5 lbs!! That puts me at a total of 9 down so far...woo hoo!! Just 1 more pound til I reach my appointed goal loss for the AZ trip, although I'd like to go for an additional 5lbs before May 20th (the day we take our family pictures).

So off we go into my final week...

My hubby spoils me :)

Anyone who know's DH IRL knows he isn't exactly the romancer or the type to go above and beyond to do sweet things for me. But for my b-day he did!

It's been so long since we've done/bought anything for ourselves and yes, it may be materialistic but I love my presents. Before we even thought about Ethan, before we moved to WA, before the economy went down the toliet, we were doing good. I had a fabulous car, a new house, great jobs...money was stable and we didn't have to worry. Then we decided to have a baby thinking we had nothing to worry about. By the time I was in my 2nd trimester we knew things weren't looking good. The economy was slowly dying and so we're our careers. But we stayed optimistic, and promised that no matter happened we will pull through. 

After several bouts of bed rest, numerous times being told not so happy news about the baby and then everything turning out OK, and BOTH of us losing our jobs by summer time we didn't have much of a choice in what to do. So we planned our move to WA to rebuild our now jagged life. 

It took months to get settled in here, and things are FINALLY looking up. I'm doing really well at the nursing home, DH just got promoted with a huge raise, and we're now looking into getting our own place. We work hard for the things in our life. Yes we like nice things, and not everyone around us understands that. We don't think we're better than anyone by any means, we don't act snotty or rub it in others faces with what we do have(which trust me isn't much). BUT we are proud of the things we have, especially knowing how we got them and where we came from in the last 2 years. I don't know how a post that was meant to show how lucky I am that DH went the extra mile to spoil me this year into a gushy life changing post but oh well haha. 

Good-bye gummy smiles...

My little man turned 8 months old yesterday (I know I am SERIOUSLY lacking on putting those pics up), and we found out that he cut his first tooth yesterday as well! Me or my MIL have been inspecting his gums every night for the past week cause the tell-tale bump appeared a few days ago and last night during her "inspection" she said she felt it!

I'm excited but sad at the same time. I love the gummy smile :/ To me, they're a part of his babyhood and teeth are a sign of the big boy to come (which is now bringing me to tears cause I don't want him to grow up). Plus I was really hoping for some cute gummy smiles in our photoshoot on the 20th! Maybe they will grow in really, really slow...

Changing up again...

I think I "stole" a blog design from a fellow blogging buddy but I can't remember lol...so we're just gonna change it up again :) I knew it was familiar and I liked it for a reason haha!