OUR NEW PLACE!!

Alright all you happy patient people...I've got pictures!! Some rooms are still a work in progress but I know you've waited oh so patiently for. So here ya go!!

Livingroom from front door.

From Dining room opening

Dining room. There's a whole other side across from the table that I'm trying to figure out what we'll put there. Perhaps a wall table and mirror?

Kitchen from Pantry opening.

Kitchen from window.

Back door and Pantry.

Pantry, and lots of cubboard space! Thank goodness!

Our room...A work in progress..We're looking at getting a desk maybe to put in the corner? And of course the bed is still not made with all the pretties on it...

The rest of our room..Please excuse the bra hanging..I'm a bra-less kind of gal...I'd fit perfectly in the 60's/70's.

Bathroom

Me standing in the shower to give you another angle of the bathroom.

Awesome large closet we're fully taking advantage of.

Bebe's room. A HUGE work in progress but I'm on my way! I'll be blogging about that soon enough.

And the cute kid who's waiting for his room to be done!

Front of the house.

Right side...I LOVE our trees! It'd be perfect if we had grass.

Left side of house...We had a garage to store MORE stuff in haha.

This is for you mom! LOOK! They're still alive and so pretty!

From across the street. We're the corner house!

Well that about sums it up! I'm hoping to have bebe's room complete in a week or so which I'm really excited about! So look for pictures coming soon!

Little TOO much to love...

Okay...So oooone more blog post before the new pictures. I promise they're coming! In fact I'll take them tomorrow. After I get the place fixed up haha. I'm afraid the place is as good as it's gonna get for now...Our bedroom and the babies room are a work in progress, but that's another blog post in itself! So. You may be wondering, what's this blog post regarding then? A little too much to love? Are you sick of your baby already? No, it's nothing like that...It's about something I've been trying to make a goal of mine even BEFORE I had the baby...See...When we decided when we'd start trying to have a baby I had a good ohh 6 months before that deadline. So, I had told myself I was going to get in shape and fit before getting pregnant so I'd be in tip top shape for pregnancy. Pwahaha! What a funny joke! Now I have a 6 month old, am still just as fat (if not heavier), and keep dreaming that I'm going to do something about it. At this point I just feel really trapped because I'm nursing and I am SO paranoid about drying up if I start exercising and "dieting". So the past 6 months I've just used that as a convenient excuse to not put forth a good effort. But there's just so many reasons that I really need to push forward and just be cautious and smart about what I'm doing. I really don't want to sabotage nursing! 

What has really gotten me thinking a lot about losing weight (other than thinking about it for the past ohhh...5 years or so?) is that I have a little guy now. And I want to be able to keep up with him! I don't want to end up being one of those parents who just watches my kids life from the sidelines. I want to be able to keep up if not be able to out last my little guy when we play around the yard. I want to be able to crawl around with him on the floor and not need a break because my legs hurt or I'm out of breath. Being able to experiences my baby boy's life right alongside him is one of the BIGGEST motivating factors. Along with that I have decided I REALLY want to be at my weight range for my body before my next pregnancy. It's not an option...I HAVE to lose weight and get down to the targeted weight for my body before we get pregnant again. Robby may hear that and start bringing home the ding-dongs and ho-hos, cause I'm not sure another baby is in his future at all right now. ;) I just know that even though I had an easy pregnancy I don't want to put my body through the strain of carrying around all this extra weight again. It's got enough work cut out for it for 9 months as is. Plus, looking back I really don't know how much my weight hindered how well things went in the end. Maybe if I hadn't been over-weight I would have had the baby vaginally? Or not had high blood pressure which complicated things. I'll never know unless I get down to that weight and have another baby! So ultimately that's where we're at...I HAVE to lose weight if I'm going to have anymore kids.

So with that I started eating right yesterday. I'm still not sure what I want to do exercise wise...My favorite thing of all time is working out on the elliptical. But we don't have the room or money for one right now and I don't have a free Gym I can go take advantage of anymore. So right now it's just figuring out what works for bebe and my schedule and what I enjoy. We've been going on walks of an evening, but I just don't know if that cuts it. As far as food goes I started a food journal yesterday and I'm just trying to be aware of what I put into my body. Not really trying to diet, but just be mindful of my carb and sugar instake. So with that I took some pictures...So I can remember how chubbilicious I was when I'm hot and skinny. ;)

There are a few things I've come to terms with...One is I'm always going to have a booty and always going to carry fat around my belly. But since having the baby the belly fat as multiplied and that's just no bueno! I think my biggest goal is to get a flatter smoother tummy.

I mean...I don't want to still look like I'm pregnant here!

I've also come to terms that I'm never going to be shapely. I'm not going to be that hour glass\ pear shape I've always drempt of being. No hiplicious boy legged figure for me I guess!

A face shot as well...Because I know my face will thin out as I lose weight!

So, I feel like I'm beating a dead horse here...But I REALLY am going to lose weight! It may be slow since I'm nursing and all, but I am! I'm determined! Because no cute siblings for baby Robby if I don't! And I do want to have more babies! So if anyone has tips\trips or wants to be my cheerleader I'd greatly appreciate it! I need all the help I can get. Food is just too dang good so it's going to be a struggle!

In other news...I just wanted to post a few pictures of my adorable bebe! Ugh we love him so much!!

We don't have an actual bathtub...So he gets warshed in the kitchen sink!

You blinked!!

Smiled like this all on his own!

Lovin's from mommy! :)

Mommy's Day

Ok ok...So I said my next post would be a tour of our new place, BUT! I failed to remember that Mother's Day would probably be coming around before I got another post in. After all, it took me 2.5 months to finally post? Plus I'm not ready for the big un-veiling just yet...I'm still trying to get it looking how we'll be living in it for the next 4 (hopefully more) months. Plus there's like what...2 maybe 3 of you who even read this so it's not like I have a BIIIG audience awaiting photos or anything...I'm full of excuses so don't try to fight me on this! :)

So yesterday I got to officially celebrate Mother's Day for the first time! Last year I was pregnant and I remember Robby getting me a card and making me dinner and what not...But I didn't feel like I deserved to really celebrate; boy did I this year!! I was happy to call this holiday mine and celebrate it. After all...I've put in enough sleepless nights, blow-outs, and screaming fits to at least celebrate a wee bit. Not as much as you momma's going on 10+ years or experience or anything! So it was neat to get to celebrate being a mom and having my guys around me all day. I'm thankful for the one who helped make me a mama, and for the one who made me a mama!

Being that I love flowers (pretty much any shape, size, and color) my hubby got me something more practical...A potted flower (I'll still end up killing it cause that's what I seem to do!). He got me orchids which I think are very pretty and very delicate, nay, difficult to keep alive! Pretty none-the-less and I love having greenery in my home!

The other thing my hubby gave me was a gift from him, credited to my son. It was his hand prints with "Happy Mother's Day 2012" around it. I love it! It still needs a frame and then it's going on the bookshelf most likely. Going to keep it forever!!

Awe!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Being that I'm married to a chef (a chef who no longer cooks for a living!), I got a mouth watering dinner and dessert! Robby's signature dish (at least that's what I'm calling it) is Chicken Samarino. He practically makes it for every special occasion for me because it's soo good and takes hours in the kitchen to make. But it's sooo good! Dessert I thought was sweet (literally and emotionally) because my hubby made Red velvet cake, which I LOVE! And I've been going on and on lately about Red velvet cake so the fact that he remembered and thought to make it was sweet. He's so good to me.

Dinner!

And half of dessert, yum!

I'm so grateful for a husband who appreciates me and recognizes all I'm doing for our son. I try to be the best mom I can but I know I fall short a lot of the time. I just hope I'm giving him enough hugs, kisses, squeezes, and lovin's to make up for my short comings. I use to have such a fear of not being able to become a mom (cause I'm a debby downer like that) and so I was so incredibly happy and grateful to become a mom! No matter HOW hard it is sometimes!

I have a 6 month old...

Sooo...It's been a while since I've blogged...And in this space of time I went from having a 4 month old to a 6 month old! Lots has transpired in between my last post, but I'm going to start most current and then go backwards, because I'm crazy like that.

So yesterday our sweet chub-muffin (as he's been nicknamed by friends) turned 6 months old. Looking back at the last 6 months it has FLOWN by! Time has flown by so much that I still think my buddy is in 3 month clothes; to mommy's dismay he is now in 6-9 month clothes! That 3 month shirt just can't get any tighter momma...time to bag it. Darn. Here's looking back at how much chunk-a-munk has grown! <3

2 weeks old

6 months old

2 weeks

6 months

 So me being the sentimental person that I am I took about a billion photos of bebe yesterday and went out and bought him his first 6 months+ toy. He was a little hesitant of it at first with it's fancy music playing and the way it wobbled back and forth, but I think he warmed up to it in the end..

I just cannot believe he's ours...I'm so incredibly blessed to have such a fun, happy, precious, joyful little man in our home. He's incredibly trying at times! But he's making me such a better person through it all; and he's making me a more patient momma for his siblings ;) I couldn't ask for a more perfect spirit to start our family...I just wish he'd slow down with the growing up and getting big stuff!

Snuggles for mommy, my favorite <3

And kisses from mommy! His favorite? :P

My big boy!!

Ooook. So now for some scattered events...You can't really tell in the pictures above, but at the beginning of April chub-muffin here got a haircut...Just a trim mind you, and it was only along his for-head and neck that I trimmed. 5 month olds aren't the most cooperative and easiest customers to get a haircut mind you!! So daddy held and I did my best to get the hair out of his eyes...It looks pretty dorky since it's combed straight down and it's freshly cut, but it looked better with time ok!

Makes me think of a Ninja or something...

Before

After

It's been quite the adventure having a baby with such luscious locks from the get go for sure! But I've learned how to trim a 5 month old's hair and I've learned how to keep a 5 month old distracted long enough to de-tangle their hair as well! :)

SO. Onto the next event! Most of you are aware that Robby got an internship down in Arizona and we are now residing in Miami, AZ. Needless to say a 16 hour trip with a 5.5 month old seemed daunting and impossible, but venture on we did! We split the miles up into 3 days and I couldn't have asked for a better backseat rider. Bebe did FANTASTIC! We ended up stopping more for the adults than we did for him. I'm so incredibly thankful that my mom was able to come along for the ride as well! When bebe was getting a little fussy my mom was able to get in the back with him and play his Baby Einstein's for him. PORTABLE DVD PLAYERS ARE A GOD SEND! It ended up being a rather pleasant trip and I'm so grateful we made it here safe, sound, and our sanity in one piece. Thanks for not screaming bloody murder the entire 16 hours bebe! :)

Family water photo op!

His first time in a pool and all he wants is to suck his thumb! :)

Welcome to Arizona! Please excuse our dorky Prom type pose.

Budget truck!! Oh...And Robby's gun which he speedily put on after we crossed into AZ!

When we had to take the Budget truck back the drop off was in Mesa. My Grandparents and mom and uncle were sealed together in that Temple, so we took a little pit stop so my mom could get a few pictures of it and we could see it. It's very pretty grounds I think with the palm trees and water pools!

Baby Robby, Daddy Robby, Me, & my Mom

His first time on grass...He wasn't THAT into it!

I just thought this looked so cool, so I took it!

Next time on Brittany's Blog: We'll be taking a photo tour of the new place! Yay!! Till then here's a sneak peak...

It's not much of a looker on the outside...But the inside is Great!