Reflecting

So I just had to go through my blog and delete off some foreign comment off of EVERY single post since my blogs creation. I don't know what that was all about but what I did realize was how much fun and how blessed my life truly is. I realized how much weight one can pack on in two years, how much fun you can have with your spouse, how your beginning in a marriage is so exciting, and how pictures of your sweet baby make you appreciate everything you are given. Being a mom has been AMAZING yet not working has been really difficult. I feel at times that I have lost part of who I am when I quit my job. I took immense pride in my work and always did well for myself. It pushed me to my limits and I lived for that feeling. By looking back through such silly things as blog posts I have realized that my work away from home is not what matters. My husband, my sweet baby girl, these are the things that define me. By working in my home and really pushing myself is how I am going to be happy. I need to really put all the energy I used to put into work and put it into my home. Meals, a fierce budget, keeping a super cute house, I think it's all possible. I need to find a hobby though and just incorporate my Keeley girl into it. She's getting to be such a fun age and I am sure that I can find something with her that I will enjoy so much more then I ever enjoyed making a spreadsheet or typing a letter. Thank you Blog for bringing me back to the joys in my life.:)

2 Years Today!

I can't believe that it was two years ago today that I married my hubby. I never thought that I would marry someone like Dean but every day we are together I am grateful that I did. He is an amazing husband, a great daddy, and I know that he loves me. Two years down, an ETERNITY to go!

Regis and Kelly

I sent this picture into the Regis and Kelly cutest baby contest. I couldn't help myself and what have we got to lose!

Family pictures with the McLeods

Here are just a few of the pictures takin with the McLeod bunch. I'd love some more of just my family but this one will have to do. Thank you Theresa! This is the only family pic I've got really and I love it!

Needin to get it together!

So I realized that all my posts since the baby were born were all pretty much the same just updated pictures so I haven't blogged because I didn't even want to read the same thing again. So here is a new topic that I have been strugglin with. Why in the world can I not get my weight loss together. I am miserable with all this extra baby weight on yet for some reason I can't seem to get my crap together. I go to the gym once, maybe twice a week, if that. Come on people, we all know that's just not going to cut it!! I can't find the time. I try to figure a time that I can take the baby with me but it seems like there is always something else that takes over my master plan. Then lets get into the food bit of the skinny plan. Being fat makes you want fat people food!! It's a horrible cycle. I have done it before with no problems. Lost weight like it was nobodys business but this time when it really would help my self esteem it's like I can't pull it together. UGH!!! It's so frustrating!! I just want to feel like me again!! To end this post I'll leave you with a smiley face. Here is my beautiful girl!

So every day I am amazed at how much I love my little girl. I always wanted babies but I didn't know you could love this much. Well folks, you can!! I seriously cry sometimes when I look at her because I can't believe she is mine and I just feel like I am going to burst with love for her. She is the best baby in the whole world. So happy all the time and just melts your heart with her smile and her eyes. I love my Keeley girl!!

Just a few things....

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To begin with I love being a mom. I adore my little girl like noones business. As of this point, I don't think there is a single moment I have regreted having her join my life. To me, and Dean for that matter, she is the most beautiful baby that ever was brought into this world. I am however in the process of trying to get her into her own bed at night. She is 3 months old and as of thus far has slept with Dean and I every night. I've loved it but I know it's important for her to sleep in her own place. Any suggestions on the transition are welcomed:) Dean and I bought our first house yesterday!!! YEAH!! We are both super excited and although it's just a townhome it will be perfect for us for a long time. Now on to the life lesson that Heavenly Father seems on insisting to teach me. Dean and I when we first got married rented a townhome that was in a ward I thought I would love. Well let's just say I didn't. It was a really hard year for me church wise and I started to not want to go. Well, we moved in with his folks and their ward has been amazing!!! Within the first week the relief society was here to greet us and the countless welcomes for Dean in the Elders quarom were there too. It was such a different experience. While we have been looking for a house I have purposely been looking outside of what I thought our old ward boundaries areas were. Our townhome is on the south side of the 215 so I thought, great, we're safe! I was wrong!!! We are back in that same ward that I disliked so much and it's in a home that we purchased to live in for several years. I was really upset at first when I found out the reality but like I said, Heavenly Father is teaching me something here. Dean and I are both really going to try hard to go in with a better attitude and hopefully, with some persistance of course, I will come out with maybe not a love for the ward but for a renewed love of the gospel. The ward would just be an added bonus! Well here are a few pics just to share. Self portraits of course so don't laugh :)