Here...let me get on your level...

I'm cracking up because I know this picture is not flattering by ANY means...however the little man behind the camera had a blast taking it. He kept saying "move down a little, I cant see your head mom" So again.....(sigh) I KNOW ITS HORRIBLE....but when he was done he said "beautiful mommy!" which melted my heart. Truth be told, in his little head and through his very young eyes Mommy is beautiful at any degree.
Love you Dalton Lee

Then and Now

Dalton was 4 months or so old in the above picture. My chunky monkey has grown into a gorgeous young, young .....young man.

I love my little country boy. He is so serious in the picture. I am pretty sure he was tired and possibly eating candy at this moment :)

Happy Keaster!

Easter-was great this year :) Dalton has really started to believe in the "magic" of the Easter Bunnies, Santa Clauses, and soon the Tooth Fairies! It's all exciting as a parent to get to relive your childhood through your child's eyes and heart. Here are some family photos that were taken at Easter Brunch at Mom and Dads house. The food was delish and the dishes....well there were a ton! I went through two drying towels and literally just walked away. It was ridiculous. :) My poor grandmother was left standing at the wash sink all alone...and I didn't care. She could have walked LOL! Craziness! We had brunch, we mingled, we drank mimosa's and bloody marry's, we mingled more, we did an easter egg hunt outside, a really large group picture, ate desert and we headed home in a food induced coma! Oh my goodness it was all good :) As always, thank you Mom aka Martha Stewart for the beautiful brunch. Thank you Ashley for helping her plan the menu and carry things up and down the stairs, even though regardless she add entrees and carried more glasses up!! LOL Another Happy Easter written down MY history.

Always a Bridesmaid...Never the Bride

The title of this post describes my weight situation the best. Always the bigger, funny, really nice girl, never the hot, double take, body type.
So I was a weight watcher and one week(surgery week) I wanted comfort food and wham back in the old routine I was. Maybe I made the WW program to difficult. A friend said it best this week, mind you this friend weighs maybe a buck ten and has done a marathon (sigh) but she said to quit looking at it so hard, put the good food in my mouth and enjoy the bad food every once in awhile. You will eventually hate the bad or not crave it at all. I am not so sure about that...those darn yogurt places are going up on every freakin corner LOL but I understood her!
I get what she means. If you have always been "the bigger girl" then when trying to lose the weight you DO have to know constantly what goes in your body. I got this way by not knowing constantly! :(
Last Friday I met up with a longtime friend Lori Meyers, who is what I call a fitness guru, a fitness junkie. Her drug of choice is exercise...mine is coffee! LOL I told her "I wanna do 4 or 5 miles today, what ya got?" She said "Meet me after my aerobics class at 9:15am for 4.4 miles"
So I did. HOLY HELL! I can walk! I really can! Hell Val--the marathoner jogs next to my walk. 5K no problem, sign me up! She failed to mention 4.4 miles ALL UPHILL! Holy crap batman! i did it and I felt really good with myself..but I hurt everywhere and honestly Saturday morning I could hardly get out of bed! She kept saying Aleeve and water! It got better. Sunday i put another 2 miles in. Tuesday 1 mile and today another 2 miles! Go me. Tomorrow maybe 1 or 2 and then Friday another 4. I LOVE IT! Lori pushes me to be better physically. I want a camel back water thingy and better shoes but I got this. She also insisted I look at Livestrong.com and so I did and I have been tracking my food and my exercise for 6 days now! Its easy! There is even an app on your phone for it!!!
LONGTERM goal: to walk-jog a marathon! I have a standing appt. with Lori every Friday.
Here is to becoming a hottie totty with a rockin body!