I HAVE to do this!

Ok, so I've tried and then given up and then tried and then quit, again and again! Losing weight. Its hard. I've been doing good for about 4 months now and its taking a long time...but it feels good! So good! I'm starting to feel not so motivated again and so I need a challenge! I'm going to post my progress (and sometimes not so much progress). Maybe this way I'll have a little extra push...I DON'T want to post weight gain! Sometimes I wont lose any and that's ok, as long as I'm being healthy!

So here is a little history...

This is right before I got married. Me-weighing my lowest weight since I was a Junior in High School. At this point I still had about 35lbs to lose

Then I got married. I gained it ALL back plus some... 25lbs

(This is one of the only kinda full body shots I have..and I know exactly why!)

Then I gained 31lbs while I was pregnant! So that's 61lbs more than when I got married and 91lbs to lose to be at my goal weight (I can't believe I'm saying this, so embarrassing!)!!!!!

A week after I had Cate I lost most of the pregnancy weight, 21lbs. I think most of that weight was in my feet!! I weighed 10lbs more than when I got pregnant (no pic).

And here I am now 8 months later (I've been losing for about 4 months) and I've lost 30lbs. Soooo, 5lbs till I get to my weight on my wedding day and 40 to my goal weight! I like to make short term goals, my next goal is to lose 25 by June. It seems really easy but my weight loss has slowed way way down and so I think this is pretty practical for me.

I have lots of family and friends trying to lose weight right along with me. I know we can do it guys! Lets be strong!! I HAVE to do this (especially now!!! Haha)

And of Course...

More pictures of our baby!

Family Birthday Party

Hahhaha! My very awesome & fun Gramma Hawke started a new tradition. She and her husband are here for a few months of the year from Canada and every January she is going to have a huge family birthday party. Since there are so many of us, its much easier to do it all at once then trying to remember all year long! As you can see this year we played lots of fun/crazy games! Games like~ blowing marshmellows out of our noses and seeing who shot it the furthest (yeah...I won't be posting any of those pictures!!), throwing and aiming choclotate syrup covered marshmellows into our partners mouth & collecting as many spoons on our heads as we could. We also had cake and a yummy dinner and opened presents from her! Thanks Gramma! We had a blast!

Our Big Girl

Look how grown up our little girl looks!

Christmas!

We LOVED Christmas this year!

Ahhhhh she makes our hearts melt!

Christmas Pjs!

Of course she loved the paper (and ripping it apart!) more than the gifts!

Christmas Morning

Grampa and his girls

(Mom! You HAVE to let me get a picture of you!)

Our favorite Rexy boy!

Cate had so much fun with Gramma and Grampa I know she for sure wishes she could see them way more often, I know we do!

Cates new favorite friend "little piggy"

Cates Room So Far!

I still have lots and lots of work to do (hanging everything up on the walls, I want a cute little girl saying that I'll put up with vinyl letters and even hanging her door!) but its getting there!

I need to do something cute with this old rocking chair Matts grandma gave us, still not sure how I want to do it though...Any ideas?!

6 Months

Cate had her 6 month check up today! Totally healthy! She is 26in and weighs 13.2! I can't believe how fast they grow (even though she is still tiny)!! Cate is sitting up by herself (she actually started at the end of her 4th month), she likes to play patty cake, she LOVES hearing her voice, she waves bye bye, she likes to eat baby food especially butternut squash, she's laughing up a storm lately, she likes to sing along when mommy sings, she knows a couple baby signs I could probably go on and on and on! We love this little girl so much! She makes us sooo happy!

Family Pictures