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The diet bet I joined starts tomorrow. Which means I get to weigh myself tonight and submit my info. I will not lose $25.00 so I will be working out like it's the only way into heaven and only eating chocolate the week my monthly bill is coming. I have been doing weight watchers diligently for about a week and when I stepped on the scale on Saturday I was down about 2 pounds. I send my husband a text. I have not seen the 160s since I got pregnant with G. I'm so determined to be in a swimsuit that I will do just about anything to get in shape. My house is a disaster and it's driving me up the wall. I have done a few things on the 40 bags and 40 days but have for the most part been slacking majorly. Well this week I'm going to buckle down and get some stuff done. We are looking into renting a storage unit for some things that are just taking up space that we don't have. Our child has more things than we know what to do with and since we plan on having one more ...

It's finally Friday!!! Here are 5 things I'm excited about!!!! 1- I made this gift for my friends bridal shower this weekend. I like to give something with meaning. It was super simple and I'm going to make one for our house this weekend! Anyone interested in a tutorial? 2- The Bridal Shower!!! It's a super cute theme Brunch with The Bride. I'm going to try my hardest to stay with healthy foods and stay within my points for the day! 3- Grayson had his yearly check up and my baby is a lanky one. He was 10 pounds 4 ounces. 21 inches long at birth and now he is 10 inches and 12 pounds in a year. I'm in love with is long chuby legs 4- Speaking of Grayson he is down to only 2 ounces of formula at night and that is really to just use up the little bit we have left and then he will be on all whole milk! My wallet it happy. He is also down to one bottle at night and that is more for me than him. I promised Michael that by the end of a...

I have a hard time sticking with anything. In my dream land I would be stuffing my face with pizza and peanut m&m's and for a "light"day I would throw in some pasta and frosting. But then I would wake up and be 300 pounds so I try to limit my food intake to healthy crap that doesn't taste as good. I neeeeeeed to lose 25 pounds. Since January 1st I have only lost 5 pounds. And that makes me want to find whoever is eating the crap food that is going to my thighs and punch them in the face. But then it's probably just my fault. I can't stick with anything. I did the 30 day challenge but ended early due to a UTI. I started T-25 and I still have a hard on for it but you see when I get busy exercise is the first thing to go. Why? Because it's easy and let's face it I'm already tired. SO I have missed an entire week which makes me think I should just start over from  the beginning. My schedule does not lend well to working out unless it ...

It's not for me. Period. I was all high and mighty reading this post by Katie @ Loves of Life thinking holy cow thank goodness I NEVER have to do bedtime routine alone! Yeah I always pay for thinking that way. Because on my way home my husband informed me that he was going to play guitar with his two friends that night leaving me solo. Blah!!! I suck at bath time. I hate rinsing his hair because he cries like your trying to murder him. And he hates getting out of the tub.We have a little space heater in there to keep him warm because he is high maintenance. So here he is shivering like you just stuck him in an igloo and I'm sweating like they just told me I can never drink beer again. As I was giving him a bath and he had already drank half of the water that I'm sure he peed in and was attempting to stand up for 654656 time I said out loud to Grayson "Thank God for your father because Momma would be bald from pulling her hair out if she had to do this alone a...

I'm over Monday and it's just began. Monday is my husband's day off and he is home with Grayson so of course they only thing I want to do it stay home and soak up some family time but I have to be a grown up and go to work Saturday I ran errands like it was my job. I have a really fun DIY project in the works for my girl Marie's bridal shower on Saturday so I had to get all my supplies. If it works out I will post a step by step. Fingers crossed my vision comes to life. My mom is amazing let me drop G off at her house while I ran and grabbed the big things I needed that would have been close to impossible when dragging my wiggling child through the store. When we got home from my Mom's I fed him lunch and gave him a nap while I scrubbed all the bath toys and the tub because he popped in the tub the night before. That was hilarious. When G woke up we met Michael to head to Wally world so I could grab everything else I needed for my project and to pick up all ...

  It's Friday!!!! I'm so ready for the weekend! This past week we had an amazing photoshoot for out 1 year old and I'm sharing my top 5. Erin Townsend is our photographer and she is amazing, I cried when I saw the photos they take my breath away. Have a wonderful weekend everyone! ONE- TWO THREE FOUR FIVE BONUS (My mom came with us to help during the family photos and getting him to smile so I threw her in for a few of the 2 of them and this picture captures their realtionship perfectly)

Dear Grayson, I know you are a year old but typing out 12 months makes you still seem like a baby to me. This year has flown by. One year ago today you made me Momma. I still remember the feeling that washed over me as they told me you were a boy. Instant, amazing, unconditional love. You had my heart from that moment on. You have changed so much in the last month I don't even know where to begin. You have made some huge improvements on the eating front. You eat: Peanut butter toast, Peas, Carrots, Banana's, Teddy Grahams, Yogurt, Pizza and Garlic bread sticks. It scared us a little when you refused ALL tables foods at the beginning of the month but your making huge strides now. You are down to only 14oz. of formula a day and hopefully with in the next two weeks have it cut out completely. You love milk and drinking it out of your sippy's. Your teeth are killing me and you I'm sure. I can tell your in pain so I rock you and hold you a lot more than I have in recen...

  This day last year I was nervous as hell. I was being induced or so I thought. We got up and went to breakfast and then off to the doctors office for one last check. Nope still no progress measuring a big fat 0. And when I say big fat 0 I mean I was big and fat and my who who was a 0. The midwife sent us home and said come to the hospital at 3:00. They would start pumping me with shit. I was so nervous we didn't even check in. And being a first time scatter brained only think about the next meal going in my belly mom I didn't pre register either. So Michael had to go down by himself because once I got in that baby room they wouldn't let me leave. I put on that gawd awful gown. ( they really should get something nicer) and sat in bed. They hooked me up. I was contracting!!!! I got semi- excited maybe my body was working. So she decided to check me. Nope nothing. The midwife called and would not give me cervadil because of my contractions coming every 5-7 minut...

Its a big week in our house with my baby turning a year old. This time last year it was my due date and I was eating a gallon of ice cream straight of the container and squeezing chocolate syrup in my mouth. I was also the size of a house and couldn't get my own shoes on. This weekend was fun. We had a St.Patty's day party on Saturday and that morning my mom called and offered to watch Grayson so that we could go solo.I took G grocery shopping and I got all the food for my new diet I'm doing. Wish me luck it's like major portion contorl and cutting out all things white. We only went to the party for a few hours but it was a blast. Beer pong was played. A put put course was trespassed ( I know the owners) and climed on. Poker and scat was played and beer was consumed. We were home and in bed my 9 because we are crazy. Sunday Grayson and I relaxed and I food prepped. A first and hopefully weekly thing now. A little bit of laundry and some napping it was an easy day...

5 on Friday today and it's all about he big changes for my Grayson 1- Grayson had his second appointment at the Chiropractor* this week. He does amazing. He only cried for the first .235 seconds and then he was cool. In just two appointments we have cut his dose of baby zantac in half and starting tomorrow we will be cutting out the morning dose. The reason we decided to try the Chiropractor was because he tried cutting the dose our selves and he went right back to spitting up. I'm so happy with the results and soon he will just be going for maintenance. * Please hold any negative comments about me taking my child to the Chiropractor. It's my kid I know best and our doctor is amazing. 2- He got is first haircut. There may have been tears on my part not his but it looks super cute. I'm so proud of my big boy. We didn't go too short but he needed a trim for his big photo shoot coming up on Tuesday. 3-He is officially on the "waddler room" sched...

We got hit with a blizzard yesterday. And no I'm not just being dramatic. The weather people declared it a blizzard. I was at work for half an hour when daycare called. They were closing at noon. I stayed at work for a total of 2.5 hours long enough to pay people and then I grabbed my baby boy and made our way home. A normally 20 minute drive took us 45. Not too bad but it seemed like as soon as we got home the sky opened up and the snow started coming down, and the wind picked up. We could not see out our windows. It started snowing at 8am and had not stopped when I went to bed at 9. We got well over a foot of snow. I don't think that mother nature got the memo that it's MARCH! The snow can end any time now. It is in the single digits today and in true New York fashion they are saying it will be in the 40's tomorrow. Due to the crazy weather the birthday post will be pushed back to next week. Being home with my child and him wanting to close the laptop eve...

Since spring is hopefully right around the corner I'm so ready to get the winter clutter out of my house. Plus I have never felt organized since having Grayson. I felt like after the shower our house got bombarded with a whole slew of things and I have just never recovered. The walls are closing in on me and I need it to stop like yesterday. Which brings me to Lent. Every year I give something up for Lent. Once I gave up beer and then realized that St. Patty's day was during Lent and shit myself. I have not done that since then. I must also address something. I keep seeing on social media "Even though I'm not catholic I'm still participating in Lent" I'm not catholic, I'm Methodist and I grew up with Lent. It's not just a catholic thing. Anyway now that I'm way off track for Lent we are doing 40 bags in 40 days. It's all over the place. You can find easy printables to help you keep track. I wanted one I could type in so I just mad...

Sorry not sorry I don't have a party re-cap with pictures. My sister took most of them and I have not had a chance to get them all organized. So I will give you a little breakdown of the weekend with a few photos that I have on my phone. Friday- I had the day off!!! And I still dropped G off at daycare. Honestly I needed to get things done and an 11 month old as cute as he is slows things down. So I ran all my errands and baked his smash cake while I was off. Plus I cleaned the house! Which went so much faster than I expected. Saturday- Michael was off. Which is like heaven and I wish it would happen all the time. I offered to get up with G and let him sleep in. I brought G downstairs and we made a big breakfast for Michael. Then we woke him up and ate as a family. Since I was a mad women on Friday and got everything around for the party that night I had a pretty chill day on Saturday. I felt very little stress. We got to the club and decorated the room and still had time to ...

Simple post today because I'm already checked out. I have the day off of work today and I'm running around getting shit done. I'm so excited for tomorrow and I can't wait to celebrate my beautiful baby boy with my family! Full photo dump post I promise! Happy Friday and have a fabulous weekend! You can find the blog quiz here@ Two Thirds Hazel !

Most of the time my DIY projects turn out like a giant Pinterest fail. However this one worked out in my favor so I will share it with you now. I really wanted G's to put around at the party. That was part of the compromise with Michael. That we would do mustache and G's. I found ones that I loved but they cost almost as much as my total food budget. I knew I had to figure out a way to do it myself or just forget it. Joann Fabrics saved the day, and I competed this project for $12.00 and only half an hour of my time. I bought 2 of these paper mache letters from Joann's. They have great sales all the time and the day I ordered they were on sale for $1.99 each!! They always have 40% off coupons but even not on sale $4.99 they are not badly priced. I used Martha Stewart Satin Acrylic Craft Paint I bought the 2oz. bottle and that was perfect for 2 coats and there is still some left over. I chose Spring Pasture and Indigo. The two colors...

So what that Grayson's 1st birthday party is this weekend.... I have found the key to have a stress-free party. Have it somewhere other than your house. The amount of stress I'm feeling about his party is 2 on a scale of 10 which in my book is a success. I also took Friday off to do the cooking and finish the decor, plus momma needs her nails done! Not having to clean my house for everyone to come over and then clean it again once they leave took so much off my plate I just feel awesome. And my family is amazing. Most of them are helping with food and my mom,sister and best friends are coming to help me set up. The most stress I'm feeling is the fact that my boy will be ONE!! I can't believe that we are here already. That and if I'm going to have a breakdown on his real birthday because I want him to stay a baby forever.

I had to make my monthly trip to our wholesale club BJ's yesterday. They had a smoking deal on diapers and coffee which are both like gold in our house so I did what had to be done. I stopped off at Target first to grab a few things. I called my husband on my way there and we discussed dinner and how Grayson was doing. I told him I would call him once I got done with both stores. I figured it would take me about an hour. Then he would start dinner. Shopping solo is so nice. I still rushed because I just wanted to get home since we now live in the frozen tundra. I called Michael an hour later and he did not answer. I figured okay no big deal he is feeding Grayson. I tried 5 minutes later still no answer. Now my blood is boiling. (see yesterday's post about my monthly bill making it's imminent arrival) I then went all high school on his ass and called him every 30 seconds until he answered, over half an hour later. "Why do you have a phone if your not going to ans...

PMS,I have it bad. The arrival of my monthly bill is approaching and I can see all the warning signs. I vote that they create a once a month vacation place that women go to. They have these places they are called the spa. However in my dream land the spa would be attached to a bar and I would be as happy as a pig in shit. The past few days were full of hints that PMS was happening I was a nut job. Grayson is not eating table food I decided to call the doctor because I freaked out that something was wrong. (sign # 1 irrational thinking) So I talk to a nurse. She said " Unfortunately for you it takes work on your part to transition kids to table food, your going to have to try a little bit harder" Hearing this I started to cry (sign # 2 crying when I normally would not). Normally I would have been bitchy right back at her instead I cut her off said thank you and hung up so that I could cry (sign # 3 crying over ruled bitchyness). I then proceeded to call my husband a...