Sunday night while on my way home from work it started to snow, and as we drove to my parents house for the Superbowl it started to snow more and throughout the night it just kept snowing and this is what we woke up to Monday morning...and I had the day off so it was even better and daddy got to stay home from work so even better!

building a snowman with dad

view from our front window

me and my baby girl

Johnny showing the snow

Johnny trying to run down the street, daddy bringing him back

I didn't have any good shoes for her to wear in the snow

Okay Mom we're ready to go inside now

snowball!

the view of our street

and the other side

The rest of the day we just hung out inside and cleaned. I'm glad I didn't have to work!

Losing baby weight

For some the baby weight falls right off, for me that wasn't the case. With my first it wasn't too bad. My second it was hard I thought until I had my third and it has been extremely hard! I also didn't breastfeed any of my babies. Part of me wonders about how different my weight loss would be if I had, but it just wasn't my thing. I want to share my story for all the Moms out there that don't lose the baby weight right away, to let them know they are not alone.


When I had Jackson I gained 38 pounds but lost 16 pounds by my 6 week check up. When he was 8 months old I think I only had a few pounds left to lose and by his 1st birthday I was my pre baby weight. I know I worked out going to the gym some and doing the Jillian Michaels 30 Day Shred. I also went on a lot of walks during the summer. I kind of watched what I ate, but I don't think it was very much.



36 weeks & 4 days. I had Jackson at 37 weeks 1 day

This was on Jackson's 1st birthday.



When I had Johnny it was bad, I had gained 46 pounds and was not active while pregnant with him. I rarely worked out and I sat at work answering the phones and snacking all day on not so great food. For my 6 week check up I had only lost 12.5 pounds. When he was 7 months I had lost a total of 26 pounds and that's when I got pregnant with Allie. I counted my calories and did jazzercise to help lose that weight.



38 weeks, I had Johnny 38 weeks 3 days.

This is around the time we started trying for our next baby. I was pregnant the first month we tried.

While pregnant with Allie I only gained 22 pounds! I did jazzercise the whole time I was pregnant and told myself I couldn't gain more than 25 pounds and I managed not to, go me. But let me tell you, those are the hardest 22 pounds I've ever had to lose in my life. At 11 months old I have only just barley lost those and mostly because I got sick and lost some weight and thankfully it stayed off. At my 6 week check up I had lost 11 pounds. During my maternity leave I actually had lost more at first I think it was around 15 pounds but I was so unhealthy and lived off of coca cola and dried mangos from trader joes...so much sugar.



38 weeks 2 days, just before we left for the hospital to have Allie! Who I had at 38 weeks 3 days too.

This is when Allie is 9 months, not much has changed since then.

After having Allie I did jazzercise for a little bit, but they moved locations which made it harder for me to get to the classes. I then tried the 21 day fix meal program and exercise. I stuck to that for a little bit but got bored with at home workouts so I joined the federal way community center again and have been doing step, weight training and kickboxing classes. They also I have a daycare I can bring the kids to at a reasonable price.


When I started the 21 day fix in June I was 177 and today I am 167, so over the summer and winter I have only lost 10 pounds. With the new year and our Mexico trip in September I am determined to lose the last 27 pounds!!!! I can do this. I've been counting my calories, not 100 % but I will get there. Better than not watching what I'm eating at all and aiming for the gym 4 days a week.


So now I'm on a mission to lose the rest of my "baby weight" if you can call it that now. I know I can do it I just need to commit! Wish me luck :)

Five on Friday

ONE. Trader Joes favorites. Whenever I go to Trader Joes I always get the light string cheese, Persian cucumbers, dried mangos and the pizza dough, sauce and cheese.

TWO. Johnny decided to turn the house into his own personal coloring book when Tim and I fell asleep last night. Jackson never did anything like this. #middlechild

THREE. 21 days thing so did not work well for me. I feel like I did worse because I was telling myself I couldn't have so many things and I also started my period on it so then I was craving everything. So I only really did it for a week... At least I tried.

FOUR. This time last year I was around 37 weeks, it's crazy how fast this last  year has gone by.

FIVE. Here is Johnny on February 11th 2015, one year before I went into labor with Allie, crazy how much changes in one year.

 

Tuesday

On Tuesdays I take Jackson to school and then I have two hours to kill with Johnny and Allie. This week we went to Target and returned a shirt, got Allie a cute vest and some candy and a few groceries. Then we headed to Trader Joes to get some yummy food. And these two really love their cucumbers.

After Trader Joes we went over to Home Goods. For some reason all Johnny wanted to do was sit in the chairs! When we were at Home Goods I got this awesome picture frame for Allies birthday party to put her monthly pictures in.

 

Here is a picture of Allie in the cute vest we got at Target... my Mom did her hair and it is so cute, she looks like Boo from Monsters Inc.

How my first week of 21 days is going...

Candy...I gave in and had a little bit on Friday night :( Considering I usually eat candy everyday that is pretty good for me.
Cake...No cake for me, but I did have a twinkie...
Chips...I gave in and had some yesterday. I also had some sweet potato chips on Wednesday, I've never had before and those are good. But this is good for me, I usually eat chips a lot. So I'm still proud of myself.
White bread...I haven't had white bread, but I've had a cinnamon roll at our work bake sale and some pizza Saturday night so I don't know if that counts or not...
Fast food...Friday night we did have Herfys and it was so good...I love corndogs! and their fries are really good too...and Saturday night we had pizza...and I did have a cheese quesadilla from Tropical Smoothie Saturday too. So I'm not doing to great on the no fast food. But it probably could have been worst. I did turn down blazing bagel on Sunday!!
Chocolate... No chocolate over here!!!!
Ice cream... No ice cream either...whoo hoo!!


I was trying not to drink coca cola, but totally failed on that one. I haven't been getting my coffee everyday so I've been having my soda. I can't live without one of those...LOL.


So not bad, but I could have done better. We will see how this next week goes...

Five on Friday

ONE. We are doing family photos in a couple of weeks and I'm having the hardest time picking out what I am going to wear. When we did our photos in July I loved the tank top I got and it was pretty flattering. Then this fall, I thought I had got the perfect shirt but come time to wear it not so much and I wasn't as happy with the pictures because I didn't like my outfit. So this time I'm trying not to have a repeat of that. I have a hard time finding tops that look good on me because I still have a belly and I'm not comfortable in my own body. I don't have a lot of clothes because I'm usually wearing my work uniform or gym clothes so I'm not very good at dressing my current body. I also don't want to end up wearing the same thing or something similar.


Here are some pictures from some of our family photos from the past.

This was for Jackson's 1st birthday. I loved my pants!



I love the dress I wore for this one.

I really liked this outfit.



I'm pregnant with Allie here.

Even more pregnant and my maternity jeans made my tummy look funny.

This is the tank top I really liked.

And this is our last one, with the really unflattering shirt.

TWO. I keep hearing on the radio and reading blogs and instagram talking about The bachelor and I've never watched it before so I finally gave in and I've been watching this season on HULU. It's okay, kind of awkward but I'm hooked now and dying to know who he picks.

THREE. This week I went to they gym 4 days in a row!!! That's my second time this month :) I'm pretty proud of myself because it's hard waiting for the classes to start and I don't get home until 7pm. Monday and Tuesday is Step, Wednesday is weight training and Thursday is kickboxing.

FOUR. This boy can be so sweet and then so not sweet the next minute. Earlier in the week out of nowhere he punched me in the mouth, and it freaking hurt! That same day he was jumping off the couch to the floor where I was laying and landed on my head!! But then yesterday when I put him in the truck to go home he said kiss or something like that and I had to go back and give him a kiss. Like seriously melts my heart. I'm always asking him for kisses and now he is starting to do it without me having to ask and I love it.

One of my all time favorite pictures of him.

FIVE. Next Friday is my works holiday party. I'm excited they always have some yummy food and good prizes. Here's some pictures from some of the other ones.

one of my favorite pictures of us.

allie in my tummy, due in a few weeks.

johnny was in my tummy and we didn't even know it yet. we found out the next Monday and this was Friday.

Only child here. So cute!

I dont' know how to really link up so...



21 days

So I never ended up starting the 21 day fix meal plan because I didn't get all my shopping done and I realized it's really unrealistic for me to follow. I thought okay I will count my calories...that only half worked for me because I have no self control. My sister is starting this today and I think I'm going to try to too. Sadly I eat a lot of chips and candy on my way home from work trying to keep myself awake. I get some type of fast food in the morning at work because we are all always hungry and we get either blazing bagels or McDonalds breakfast. I love chocolate and like to get it when I go grocery shopping. So I'm really really going to try not to eat this stuff. I only have about 21 days until Allie's birthday and I really was hoping to have lost more weight before then. I've struggled the last year trying to do it all and I never really committed to eating healthy and consistently working out. Both things I'm working on this year.


I'm also going to try and not drink soda... that's a big one for me and try no to drink my coffee everyday. I want to make a smoothie in the morning and hopefully that will help with a lot of my bad eating. Wish me luck, it would be nice to lose 5 pounds before Allie's birthday which is February 12th.