My 25th Birthday

First of all ... yes, that says 25th. I'm still coping. I can't believe it.

Second of all ... I had the greatest birthday with the greatest people a girl could ask for.

My birthday started by waking up and working at daycare:

Tyler sang "happy birthday" to me all morning long .. ironically, not annoying - I'm all about the day being all about me once a year. Selfish? Sure. But its the truth.

Mom made us all whoopie pies! THEY WERE SO GOOD! (which was probably not a good idea seeing as my Weight Watchers update is 25.8 lbs for my 25th birthday!! WOO HOO!!!) The kids ate lunch and sang to me in the kitchen and then we moved the party outside. I was in the seventies in March, can you believe this? Here are some pics of the birthday extravaganza :)

 

 

Then when I was done working at daycare ... I went to the gym to run in my NEW RUNNING SHOES :) My birthday present from Jeff .. and I LOVE them! Check these puppies out!

Next we went to Outback for dinner .. and Jeff surprised me by having my friends Jake, Megan,  Baby Jonathan, Angie and Dan meet us for dinner! Happy Birthday to me!! I had so much fun! :)

I LOVED having my phone go off every 2 mins with a Facebook message from someone wishing me a happy birthday ... how can you say that's not fun??

Afterwards Jeff and I went to go see "21 Jump Street" which was totally stupid but really funny.

Over all ... the best 25th birthday a girl could have! 

I have the best boyfriend, the best parents and the best friends (including the little ones) 

anyone could dream of.

Thanks for visiting!

Project Life Catch Up! Weeks 3-7

Hi Everyone!

First of all ... it's been a little over a month since I've posted!??!! Ouch. Sorry.

I've been busy and distracted. Normally I blog in the afternoons when the kids are napping - BUT the good news is that I have been going to the gym in the afternoons .. and I love it. Which is only helping my Weight Watchers goal! My goal is to loose 40lbs and as of yesterday (Saturday March 17th) I have lost a total of 23.4 lbs! WOOOO HOOOO!!

So anyways, on to the good stuff! I'm officially caught up through week 7!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What do ya think?

Good... Okay... AMAZING .. Valentine and Facebook News!

Good news is...

I STILL LOVE Weight Watchers ... are you kidding? 15.6 lbs lost !! I'm soooo loving this so far. I love how I feel. I love that I'm skinnier than my "skinny jeans". I can't remember if I mentioned that we got Planet Fitness memberships - but we did. $10 per month! I actually LIKE getting out of the house during the day (after daycare of course) and running .. it gives me a second wind - which I didn't really believe in before.. I also love that it's something "almost free" Jeff and I can do together at night after dinner. Don't get me wrong, I love being lazy and not doing anything too ;) I'm not completely changing who I am! Come on now!

The "Okay" news is ...

I'm going to be working on my Project Life catch up this weekend! Looking through all my pictures and deciding ordering ... maybe doing the journaling before I get the pics .. it's going to be a wild weekend friends ;)

The AMAZING news is ...

Becky Higgins HERSELF talked on Facebook about my blog and I got like a gillion hits...or 1,900 Are you serious? I was hyperventilating :) with excitement of course!!! Check it out!

The Valentine's Day news is ... 

I made this fun banner with all the kids names on it ... I totally stole someone's idea and then changed it .. but I still love it :) It's our little Valentine's Day decor and the kids love that each of their names is on it. In other Valentine's Day news ... Jeff and I have a date planned and I can't wait because we are going out for dinner, which we haven't been doing because of WW lately! I'm really looking forward to it.

The Facebook Page news is ...
I started a Facebook Page for my Jewelry Business! Feel free to like it ... I'm really excited about it :)

 

and that's a wrap ... for now ;)

Good News ... and Bad News

Both the good news and the bad news are completely unrelated ... however:

The good news is: Mom, Dad, Jeff and I had all started Weight Watchers together on Monday January 16th ...... and I've LOST 10.5 LBS TO DATE (about two weeks)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Eeekk! Are you as happy about this as I am??? Hopefully you aren't or that would be weird, but I am THRILLED about this.

EVERYONE is doing super awesome and we are all THAT much more willing to stick to the plan. I lost 9 the first week and 1.5 the second week (which is more like how it's supposed to go). With Weight Watchers they are all about portion sizes and how much you eat in one day. We have our WW books which tell us what foods are what points and an awesome WW cookbook... almost all veggies and fruits are zero points so you can pretty much eat as much healthy food as you want! No reason to ever really be hungry! We have also been writing down everything we eat to help us keep track of where our points are. 

I started off with 31 points per day (which is figured by a WW calculator) and now I have 29 per day since I lost all that weight. Do I have before and after pictures? No. Do I wish I did? Yea, kinda. Would I share them here? Absolutely not ;) I'll tell you another benefit of doing this together, is I think it's bringing us closer together. My parents absolutely LOVE having Jeff over for dinners. He had to work a bunch of overtime last week and they were like "aw man .. we liked having him around for dinner!" So stinkin cute. I love that they love him too.

I'll tell you what, if I can eat 3 Oreos with a 1/2 cup of milk per night and STILL loose this kind of weight .. this is the diet for me! True story. We just measure EVERYTHING out .. we bought a handy little digital scale and weigh lunch meats and chicken etc. Honestly, it's more work than making a normal sandwich / meal / etc but it's not too bad and totally worth it!

What is the bad news you ask?

 My Project Life 2012 is N.O.T. up to date ... is it killing you? It's killing me. Snapfish took forever to mail me my prints ... or maybe I uploaded them super late ... but at this point, I'm blaming them. 

I'll be working on it and posting new pics eventually .. come on .. two PL weeks in a row I was ready a day early, you couldn't have thought THAT would last for long ;)