3 Months of Weight-loss.

I haven't done before and during pictures in a long time. So here you go.

First pic is from my birthday a year ago showing my starting weight.

Last pic is just to show how big Miriam has gotten in the last year.

This is a weight loss of 44.6 lbs.

Growing old together

We have this app on our phones that make you look old. HAHA

My BABY is ONE!!!

Here's my beautiful baby. How did she grow so fast. SIGH!!!!

Horrible Horrible blogger.

Yeah I know I've done a BAD job blogging but it seems as if I'm kinda busy. 5 kids, how can you not. So I'm just doing a small update here. Miriam is almost walking. She takes up to 7 steps at a time. The 3 older kids are starting school in 2 weeks. I may have more time to blog while they are in school. I'm running a 5 k in less than 2 weeks. I haven't been training all that much. I know I can run that far. Maybe not necessarily run but you know what I mean. I finally got my Metformin (med for my insulin resistance) up to the proper dosage. It makes me sick at first but after a few days I feel really good. It's going to help me take some of this weight off of me for good. I'm really excited to get healthy. I'm 7 weeks into my journey to becoming skinny fit. I've lost 28.2 lbs and I feel so much better. I had lost 40 lbs from Nov 2009 to Feb 2010, but I was losing my milk and had to stop dieting and working out because both of those things made my milk supply diminish. It's weird that working out was doing it too but it is what it is. So...... I gained it ALL back. It really stunk. I'm getting back to where I was and past that. Jonathan and I discussed what is a good healthy goal weight. I have a point where I KNOW I can get too. I've done it before, but not the right way. I just dieted and didn't work out. I LOOKED skinny, but I really wasn't. I still had too much fat on my body. I was skinny fat. I could have lost another 20 lbs and been just skinny with no muscle tone. So this time around I want to be at a weight that is maintainable but that I have a healthy body fat %. I have to get out of my head that being healthy and skinny isn't about a number on the scale. It's about what the package (body) looks like. So that means I have to workout along the way. I really dislike working out. It's something I struggle with. I can diet with no problems, but working out..... ugh. I guess these runs that I've signed up for will help with that.

10 months old

I love my sweet baby. She's crawling, but mostly army crawl. She's pulling her self up and cruising around the couches. I can't believe she's getting so big so fast. This last year has flown by. She still only has two teeth but my kids have been slow on getting teeth. I'm ok with that. She says baba dada mama googoo, and loves to babble really loud. I love her

New Puppy

This is Sunny our dog. She's a Dorkie, no really she is. She's half yorkie and half Dachshund. She is so tiny too. It's good and bad. She can jump on the kids and knock them down cause she's less than 2 lbs right now and won't get much bigger. But she has little chance against Benji. He doesn't know how to hold a dog. His idea of holding a dog is by both back legs and swinging her around. Poor thing. He's getting better though. Hey he's two what do you expect.
Here's Miriam and Sunny chewing on stuff together. See how small she is. She's really a good dog.

Haven't posted in forever.

Because some how all the pictures I took on my camera's memory card disappeared. Some were Jonathan's work pictures. Oh that's why too. Jonathan had my camera for a while. Ugghhhh some of the pictures were of the kids with my Grandma that they just met. I haven't seen her in like 20 years (very sad I know). Boooooooo I'm not too happy about losing those pictures. Ohhhh well. So I'll try to update my blog better in the future.

More hair do's

I haven't tried new hair styles on the girls for a long time. So today as we are all home sick I thought the girls could still look cute.

Emma's took forever and my arms were on fire during it.

Lily's is kinda rough but my fingers weren't really warmed up. I think it's cute.

First Tooth

Hooray she got her first tooth today. It took forever to come in.

Emma's Sick

Poor girl has a tummy ache. She hardly ever gets sick and asks to stay home because she loves school so much.

New Hair

It's gone and I couldn't be happier.

Peter's Arm

Poor guy hurt his arm. So I put an ACE bandage around it and he chilled for the day

Peter's home work

Can you tell what letter they are learning.

She's growing up.

Lily decided that she wanted her ear pierced. Lily and I headed out the Clairs and made SURE that they were done right. Jonathan wouldn't want to have her ear rings all crooked. They look great and she loves them.

8 months.

She's sitting up by herself great. She's a proficient army crawler. She'll be getting teeth any day.

Poor Lion

Peter doesn't know stuffed animal hair doesn't grow back. oppppsssss

Happy Emma

Emma is such a happy and upbeat girl. She is always willing to help. I sure do love her.

Awwweeeee

Look what I have....... :D He is such a good Daddy.

Life Saver

I LOVE LOVE LOVE Miriam's bouncer. She loves to play with toys and so this has toys that can't be dropped. Thus saves me from picking up toys to give back to her every 30 seconds.

My Boys

They love to run after each other and squeal in delight. I love being a mother.