Madelyn Counting & Trying to Walk...

It won't be long now and our almost 16 month old baby girl will be walking!! She's taking up to 8 steps, but I couldn't seem to catch that, but I got some of it!! ENJOY!

WOO HOO WEIGHT LOSS!!!

After no progress last week, I'm very happy to blog that this week I'm down 1.6 pounds making my total weight loss so far 6.4 pounds!!!

Our Valentines 2011

It's been a tradition in our home (since having kids) to make Valentines Day a night in!! I always cook a special meal and make a heart shaped crispy treat. Well this year my entire day was full of party fun up at the school. So without a second to myself there was no time to prepare a meal this year. We decided on Cheddars to go and before heading off to the school parties I tried to make the dining table look festive for Valentines!! The kids and Jason each got a gift and card and I decorated the table with Hershey Kisses, Brachs Heart Candies and I did find time to make the crispy cornflake heart as well as some white chocolate dipped strawberries!!! The smiles on my kids faces (and Jason's) would have been enough for me on Valentines Day!

My sweet husband surprised me Saturday (before Valentines) with a dozen roses. He and Mason had gone to get haircuts and when they came home I was busy cooking lunch and I hear Mason say "we got you something, Mom". I turned to see the beautiful roses. Of course I raved and raved about them and Mason says "I picked them out". He's just adorable!
I love my husband and all 3 of my kids so much!!

I Am So Good At Maintaining!!

Well another week of going to bed hungry, waking up feeling empty and wishing I could snap my fingers and be 30 pounds skinnier!!! I didn't lose an ounce!! I'm not gonna let it get me down, today is a new day! Right??!! Wish I could be as good at losing as I am at maintaining!!

I Finally Got Past The Plataeu!!!

Thank you all for your encouraging comments this past week!! I finally made some progress losing exactly 2 pounds to the ounce this week!! Total of 4.8 lost! I love knowing that I have readers and I'm feeling accountable to stay on the right path each week!
GO ME, AND THANK YOU!

Madelyn Realizing Snow For The First Time...

We have had quite a few snow days in the past 2 years and in Madelyn's short 15 months of life. This morning was the first time she really knew that something was different. We stepped into the garage this morning as Jason was getting the snow off his car to let Madelyn touch the snow and she just laughed and then frowned a bit when she realized how cold the snow was on her hand! Enjoy the video!!

Getting Past This Weight Plateau...

I have been trying to get this "baby weight" off for almost 15 months now. My friends get a kick out of this story, but I tried really hard not to gain as much weight during my third pregnancy and I did really well considering my first two pregnancies I gained nearly 40 to 50 pounds each time (and I got it off pretty quickly). So, during my third pregnancy I only gained about 30 pounds. I for the life of me cannot figure out why I pushed out a 6 pound 1 oz baby and came home weighing 3 pounds more than I did before I had her. It baffles me to this day!!! Well, fortunately I'm down about 15 pounds since November 3, 2009, but I still have 10 to 12 more to go to get back to my pre-pregnancy weight then an additional 15 on top of that. I began doing my diet before Christmas very strictly and in the past 6 weeks I've lost only 3.2 pounds. I'm doing great maintaining, but my goal is to lose, not maintain. I even did 2 to 3 months of P90X and I gained instead of losing. So today I have started back even stricter than before doing my weight watchers (it's the easiest diet in the world). To make me more accountable I thought I would blog about it here so that my one reader (Hi, HOLLIE!) can read this and I can at least feel that I have to do good so that each week I can post a blog that shows progress!! I will not show my actual weight, but I will post the pounds I lose each week!
WISH ME LUCK!!