Babies, Babies Everywhere!

It is the season of babies. Seriously! I know five people who are either pregnant and due soon or have already had their baby within the last week. It's crazy!

One person I know had her beautiful little girl on Friday. And then yesterday, one of my best friends, Victoria welcomed her beautiful little girl into the world too! I can't wait until lunch time today because I get to go meet her! And from all of the pictures that I have seen, she is absolutely adorable and has this super thick dark hair which I think is just so cute. Eeek! I can't wait til lunch time. 

I am more anxious than ever for the arrival of one these babies in particular, my Nephew, Hunter. He isn't technically due until Friday, but I honestly don't know if I can wait that long. And if he hasn't come by then, they have scheduled for my SIL to be induced on the 18th. That is still seven whole days away. Aaaagghhh! I just don't know if I can handle the suspense anymore. 

So Hunter, this is your favorite Aunt of all time telling you that it is time for you to make your entrance into this world. We can't wait anymore. And you are driving your Mom absolutely crazy. She just wants to hold you and not be uncomfortable anymore. And those sisters of yours are just absolutely going nuts because they want to meet you so badly. I know having three older sisters probably doesn't sound like the best thing in the world right now, but I promise you that they will be the best sisters ever. They will drive you nuts at times and probably try to dress you up in frilly things and make you play with dolls, but I promise you that they will love you more than anything in the world and will always have your back no matter what. 

There's one more person who I think is more excited to meet you than anyone and that's your Dad. Don't let him fool you either, he may look all big and tough on the outside, but really he is just a big ol' softy. He has been looking forward to having a son for years and now that you are almost here, he is more excited than ever. He will be tough on you at times, but that doesn't mean that he doesn't love you. That is just how he is. 

So Hunter, please come soon so that we can all meet you. We can't wait to hold you and love on you and just be excited that we are finally adding another person to this huge family of ours. I promise I will give you lots of candy and sweets and stuff too when you get older. No, I am not opposed to bribing you. I am your Aunt after all. It is my job to fill you up on sweets and then take you back home to your parents. It's in my job description as an Aunt. 

So yeah, there's that. Like I said, babies are everywhere. And K over at Down at Fraggle Rock is getting close to having her little man too! And I am sooooo excited for her. I know she is getting anxious to meet him too. So all of you babies that haven't come into the world yet, hurry it up already! We are all soooooooo anxious/excited to meet you!

Weekend Recap

Well hello Monday. I would say that I am happy to see you, but that would make me a liar. And nobody likes a liar. 

This weekend was well, not fun. It started on Thursday when I had all four of my wisdom teeth pulled and also had a dental implant done at the same time so I spent most of my weekend laying around with my mouth in pain.

Thursday morning the Hubby took me to my dental appointment and sat around and waited for me while they did my procedure. He then drove me home because I was completely out of it from the anesthesia. I remember them telling me that they were bringing in a wheel chair to take me down to the car, but I don't remember actually getting in the chair or the ride down to the car at all. I remember sitting outside the hospital and the guy asking me what color our car was and I told him silver, but I don't remember getting in the car, any of the ride home or even getting home and getting up the stairs and going into our room to lay down. 

I do remember however once I was up in our room. I was sitting on the side of the bed and Aran was trying to give me my medication that I needed to take. I put it in my mouth and took a drink of water and my mouth was still so numb that the water just spilled all over the front of me and completely soaked me. And then I proceeded to cry like a little girl. Yeah, that happened. Haha! The rest of the day I spent sleeping. I woke up to take my medication and that was pretty much the extent of my day. 

Friday was spent almost the same way as Thursday. I stayed in bed for most of the day. I got out for a little bit in the afternoon with my friend Victoria and her two little girls, but for the most part I laid in bed and watched Harry Potter and just relaxed. 

Saturday we got up and took Louie to the groomers and then headed to the Egg & I to have breakfast. At this point I was really tired of not being able to eat real food. So I thought I might try some French Toast, so I asked our waitress if she thought it would be squishy enough to eat and I explained why I was asking and she looked at me and said, "Well, we do have oatmeal." I was ready to kill her. When all you have been able to eat for two straight days is pretty much a liquid/mush diet, the last thing you want someone to tell you is that they have oatmeal when you are asking about French Toast!

Needless to say I was in a grumpy mood the rest of our breakfast. I ended up getting a pancake which with enough syrup was squishy enough for me to eat. After breakfast we headed to Bed Bath & Beyond to pick up some new shelves for the bathroom and then it was off to shop for a new toilet for our upstairs bathroom. It was a very romantic morning. Just saying. 

The rest of the day I spent laying down and sleeping. My mouth was really bothering me and laying down was really the only thing that helped.

Sunday I finally felt kind of like myself again. After sleeping in for a good portion of the morning, I decided to get up and try and get a few things done around the house. So I cleaned the living room and dining room up and then decided to head outside and soak up some of the beautiful sunshine that we had here in CO. I sat outside for a good hour and a half. It was so nice that I just couldn't fathom spending my time any other way.

After a while though I knew that I was probably getting sun burnt, so I came inside and did some more cleaning around the house. I also did massive amounts of laundry. Apparently it had been weeks since I had done any. Oops! After some more cleaning I ran out and did our grocery shopping for the week and also made a few other stops on my way home. The rest of the night I spent folding and putting away the rest of my laundry and tried to relax for the rest of the night.

It was a long weekend, but it definitely wasn't a fun one. I am so glad that I will never have to experience the whole wisdom teeth thing ever again.

How was your weekend?

Weigh-In Wednesday

Raise your hand if you just realized it was Wednesday and you haven't posted since last Thursday! *Slowly raises hand* Yep, that would be me. The sad part is that I didn't even realize that I hadn't posted since last week. Yikes!

Let's get on with it, shall we? It's time for Weigh-In Wednesday.

This week definitely has felt better than my previous weeks. I kept up with my eating healthy and clean and only missed one day at the gym which was Friday. I decided to take a break and go out with some friends. It was a much needed break. 

I had a session on Monday with my personal trainer. Over the next few weeks he wants me to try and build more lean muscle to help burn extra calories. In order to do this I need to be consuming extra protein and I have to up my weights but decrease my sets. So that is the game plan for the next couple of weeks. 

My weight as of this morning was 184.00, I am down 2.2 lbs since last week's WIW post. Although it isn't the 3 lbs a week that I was losing, I am staying pretty consistent with 2 lbs a week and I am not going to complain. That is still awesome. And hopefully I can keep up with that. 

This week is going to be kind of rough with working out and eating. Tomorrow morning at 8:45 am, I am going in to have all four of my wisdom teeth pulled and I am also having my dental implant done. So eating anything that isn't pretty much liquid is going to be out of the question for the rest of the week. I prepared myself for this though when I went grocery shopping. I got lots of yogurt and applesauce and good for me soups. I also bought some smoothie mixes and am going to eat those with a spoon, no straw for this girl for a while. Don't want to get that dry socket. But at least this way I will still be getting lots of fruits and veggies. 

And working out will be interesting. I am not sure how much I am going to be limited, but I am going to try my hardest to try and get some exercise in, even if it is just walking on the treadmill. 

That is all that I have for you in regards to Weigh-In Wednesday. 

Real quick, I want to say Happy Birthday to my best friend in the entire world, Lou! You are the most amazing friend that any girl could ever ask for. I don't know what I would do without you. We have been through so many things together and have always come out of them together. You will always be the Wayne to my Garth and I can't wait to see what other memories we make throughout our life. Love you Lou! Happy Birthday!

Baby Shower Decor Recap

Sunday February 16th, I threw a baby shower for my SIL and my Brother. Although they already have three kids, and a fourth on the way, all three of their first kids are girls. And baby number four is finally a BOY!!! So needless to say, they have no boy stuff whatsoever, so I felt that a baby shower was in order. 

You guys might remember that a few weeks back I showed you the invitations that I had made from Merriment Press. Well here they are again. But this was the jumping off point from which I tried to center my entire color scheme/decor around. 

Believe it or not, finding actual camo themed stuff was really tough! Even with the Duck Dynasty craze that is going on right now. This made my decor choices a little bit harder, but in the end I ended up just going with a color scheme more than anything. I tried to stick to brown and orange and added the camo/hunting theme wherever I could. I also tried to make it a bit more cutesy since it was in fact a baby shower.

I inevitably bought way too much stuff and ended up taking a lot of it back, but the things that I did end up using worked out so well and just all came together perfectly. 

For the favors I picked up some mason jars and some chalkboard labels and made every guest a drinking cup for the party. And for the kids, I picked up these cute water bottles and did the same thing. I also bought orange and green paper straws and had them available to everyone that wanted one. Each jar also had a tag tied around the top of the jar that said "You are deer to our hearts! Thank you for coming!" I unfortunately forgot to get a picture of these. 

We set all of the mason jars and water bottles up on a chalkboard table in the kitchen along with some tasty drinks. I also spruced the table up a bit with orange, green and brown balloons!

The dining room was probably by far my favorite area that we decorated. It all came together so great. I had Stephanie at Merriment press make this adorable banner for me that read" Daddy's Hunting Buddy" and we hung that on the window above the gift table. We also decorated the table with balloons and a diaper cake and we added some streamers to the ceiling for a little bit more color. And I also had one more banner in the living room that read "Hunter" which is my soon to be Nephews name. 

Something cool that I found were these small pieces of branch that were all cut up into small pieces. I found these at Michael's and just wasn't quite sure what I was going to do with them. I ended up filling four different mason jars with these pieces and used these to tie all of the balloons too. They worked perfectly for this and added an extra little touch of the hunting/woods/camo theme. 

And of course when I started planning this whole shower I scoured Pinterest for hours and days trying to find some cute ideas. One of the ideas that I came across was taking a bow and hanging letters below it to spell out a name. It acts as a cute piece of decor but then can be used in the baby's nursery too. So after searching high and low for a bow that would work, my Mom found one and sent it to me. It was white, so I took some Real Tree Duct Tape that I bought from Michael's and covered it so that it was camo. Then I attached the letters of Hunters name to the string with some ribbon. It turned out so cute and I can't wait to see it in his nursery!

More decor pictures and the bow with Hunter's name

We decided that cupcakes were the way to go for the shower. I had planned on making them, but ended up not having the time to do this. I ordered these cupcakes from Sam's Club. They were delicious and they looked so cute. And Stephanie from Merriment Press designed these cupcake toppers. They turned out amazing and looked so great on the cupcakes!

I knew from the beginning that I was going to make a diaper cake. I love how they look and it is a great way to add a little bit of extra decor. And actually, I ended up making two. I had so many diapers left over after making the first cake that I decided to try my hand at an ATV diaper cake. I have seen these things all over the internet and just recently saw that one that K's friends made her and I knew that I had to try my hand at it. I found this video on YouTube and watched it once and then went to town. It was actually pretty easy and very inexpensive to make. The most expensive part was the stuffed animal that I chose. I chose a Scentsy Buddy, so it was a little bit pricier. 

For my regular diaper cake I found all of these cute woodland creature stuffed animals and decorated the cake with them and ribbon. It turned out really cute. 

The baby shower itself was a hit. We didn't do any games because it was a co-ed shower and I was told to not make it too kitchy, haha! So everyone pretty much just came, ate some food and visited with each other for a bit. All the guys were out in the garage talking cars and other manly stuff. All of the kids were outside on the trampoline or running around in the back yard and all of the women were inside just talking and having a good time. 

Most people came for a bit, hung out and then headed out, so by the time that we got around to opening gifts, there weren't very many people there. But this actually ended up working out really well because it wasn't too overcrowded and my SIL got to take her time and just enjoy opening gifts. They got some great stuff too!

Overall the shower went over really well. It was fun spending time with all of our family and friends to celebrate the upcoming arrival of my new Nephew. And I had a blast planning and decorating for the shower. I seriously think sometimes that I have missed my real calling in life, being a party planner. Oh well, maybe in another lifetime! 

Thanks for stopping by everyone!

Weigh-In Wednesday

It's time for Weigh-In Wednesday!

Short post again today. But I wanted to at least update you guys on how everything is going. 

I finally feel like I have gotten back on track with my eating. I did awesome last week with eating healthy and clean and it just felt great. So far so good this week too. It is amazing how great you feel just eating healthy. I can definitely tell a difference when I am putting junk into my body and when I am eating clean. I always feel a millions times better when I am eating clean. 

I missed one day at the gym last week. So in total I went five days instead of six like I have been doing. I felt awful about not being able to go, but I didn't get off work until 6:30 and I was absolutely fried after the day that I had. I just couldn't even fathom going to the gym. I went home, had dinner and went to bed. But I am back on track for six days this week as long as I don't have to stay late at work. Our auditors are here these next two weeks, so who knows what my schedule will look like. But, I am going to try my hardest to get all six days in. 

Okay, something kind of cool for you guys. I have been wanting to do progress pictures. However, I just haven't been able to find the time to do it. And I mean real progress pictures, the ones I hate posting because I am in shorts and a sports bra, but they need to be done to see the real progress that I have made. But I do have something kind of cool to share with you. The picture below on the left is of me last June before I went to a Zumba party. The picture on the right is of me in that same outfit last week. And HOLY CRAP! I couldn't believe the difference!

Kinda cool, huh?! Okay, now onto the good news. My weight as of this morning is 186.2, I am down another 2 lbs from last weeks WIW post and that officially puts me down 36 lbs since November of last year. I can't believe all the progress that I am making. I can't wait to see how much further I can go. I am over some of the hardest hurdles already, and I still have some hard work ahead of me, but it isn't anything that I can't tackle!

Thanks for stopping by today guys! Hope you are having a fabulous week! 

Well Damn!

I had every intention of posting a baby shower recap for you guys today, but unfortunately I am having issues getting the photos off of my phone. I blame Facebook for this one. I was trying to upload them all at once to an album so that I didn't have to go through and individually select and send each photo to my email, but my Facebook app kept crashing. Stupid technology!

I am hoping to have that post for you guys on Thursday now. Hopefully that will give me enough time to get all of the pictures off of my phone and get them organized.

In the meantime, I didn't want to leave you guys with nothing today, so I thought I would leave you with this video. I am absolutely in love with Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon. Every time these two get together it is just pure genius and hilarity. I firmly believe they should have a show together. It would be the best thing to ever happen to television. Here is to hoping that happens! Have a great day everyone!

Weekend Recap

So this happened this weekend...

Yep! We FINALLY got a new car!!!! It's a 2015 Kia Sorento and I am absolutely in love with it!

This was really the biggest part of our weekend and the most exciting, so I will just leave you with this for today. Hope you all had a great weekend!