Chocolate Heaven!!!

Just some brownie fun!!! Ethan loves helping me bake in the kitchen especially when he gets to lick the bowl...

He's in heaven

Jason & Noah in Texas!!!

Jason and Noah went to Texas for 4 days. It was the first time I had been away from Noah for such a long period of time, it was pretty stressful to let him go at first, but it gave Ethan and I a chance to have so much time together and we really had a blast. It was so much fun being able to focus all of my attention on him and I know it was so good for Jason and Noah to spend all that time together too. They got back yesterday and it is so nice to have them home safe and sound.

The "LOVE DARE" a path to UNCONDITIONAL LOVE!

Last night I was blown away by the experience I had, It started off as just another typical day, Jason was home though and we spent some good time together which was lovely. We had planned to have Family Home Evening last night as we have been making sure to do for awhile now. It's been very healthy for our family to take time out to do that once a week. Jason had mentioned to me that he wanted us to go and rent the movie Fireproof even though we both had seen it before and I thought that would be a great movie for FHE, not thinking anything else of it. He was acting a little bit secretive but nothing that gave too much away.

We watched the movie and of course it was very touching and I turn to him while the credits were going and asked him what was so secretive? He pulled out a large envelope and on top was a paper, he took my hand and then began to read the words. They were re-commitment vows so beautiful and personal that I wont be putting them on here, as the tears fell and as the words wrapped around me like words from heaven, I couldn't understand where this was all coming from and then he handed me the envelope, as I opened it I saw that it was the book "The Love Dare" and as I looked through it I had then realized that he had taken the 40 day journey of the Love Dare. It was such a beautiful and spiritual experience for me. I saw everything so clear afterwards.

I have felt God in my life and I have felt his love touch me, but this feeling took me so by surprise. I thought of the Love Dare when I first saw the movie fireproof and how great that would be to incorporate into our marriage, not really realizing that its a gift to help teach unconditional love, "Christ's love". I have never felt so loved in all my life, What an example my husband is to me, I have felt closer to my father in heaven this past month then I have in years. So grateful for Jason's prayers for me and his example. I am truly blessed to feel the love of Christ in my life and I'm so grateful for the peace it brings, I'm grateful to Jason for taking such a journey and for his unconditional love.

I put my favorite song on here from Fireproof Its called "love is not a fight" and I just want to write down my favorite part from the song, it is so touching!

"Love is not a place to come and go as we please It's a house we enter in then commit to never leave. So lock the door behind you Throw away the key Work it out together Let it bring us to our knees. Love is a shelter in a raging storm, Love is peace in the middle of a war And if we try to leave; May God send angels to guard the door".

It's was such a beautiful night and I'm so very grateful for the blessings that Heavenly Father continues to give me!

If your marriage is solid, this will make it even stronger. If it's in trouble, there's no better place to start.

24.5 POUNDS and a total of 20.5" GONE, GONE, GONE!

I am so so very HAPPY, HAPPY, HAPPY!!!! I can't say it enough I am so grateful for my weight loss progress. I got rid of the pregnancy weight!!! YAY!!!

It's been very hard on me being so over weight even if it was pregnancy weight!

After Ethan was born I felt and looked unrecognizable, I had gained 70 pounds with Ethan and I was so miserable with the way I looked after he was born that I decided to train for a half marathon to get the weight off. It took me 10 months but I did get the weigh off. It was a great experience but really rough running with so much weight baggage...lol

I gained 45 pounds with Noah not as much as it was with Ethan, but just as hard to deal with... When Jason became a cleansing coach and I saw his amazing results, he then coached my sister through a cleanse and I saw her amazing results, I knew I wanted to do the cleanse, I just wanted to be able to breastfeed for at least 6 months. I started the cleanse end of January and I was able to loose the weight in 5 weeks. I am so grateful for where I am and how I feel. Here's to living a healthy life! Living Cleansed:)

My Before Weight! My After Weight!
My Before JEANS!!!
MY GOAL JEANS (size 8), I actually hung these jeans up on my wall in my bedroom to motivate me...lol anyone who came over and saw them always questioned why I had a pair of jeans hanging on my wall. But Now I'm wearing them!!!


Me in my old size 14

MY SISTER'S VISIT!!!

My sister Tiffany and my cutie pie niece Katie came to visit us for a week this last week. It was so lovely having them here. We had a week together to just hang out and spend time together. I already miss her and Ethan and Noah already miss Katie... Ethan keeps putting Katie in his prayers, and saying please bring her back, it's so sweet. We miss them All ready!!!

Katie and Noah

Katie, Noah and Ethan
Ethan was so excited to be around his cousin and take pictures.

LET THEM EAT CAKE!!!

My BIRTHDAY was on Saturday Yay...I'm 27, actually I never thought that number would ever scare me, even though I know I'm still young and I have a lot to learn in this life. Its still scary thinking I'm only three years away from the big THREE-O. I know 30 is still young but, I just cant help but think how old I thought it was when I was 16 yrs old:)

I'm doing a cleanse right now and it is awesome and its been the best thing for me...I have lost 14 lbs so far and I'm very grateful.... Although it's been really hard making it through Valentines and my birthday with out eating everything I want... On my birthday I wanted to make all of my favorite foods even though I didn't eat them..lol. Not even a piece of cake, I just kept telling my self I'll have other birthdays so let THEM EAT CAKE... I was told it was yummy food though, Jason helped a lot in the kitchen.
This is my favorite dessert from Macaroni Grill. The Lemon passion cake! Yummy! (copy cat recipe on my recipe blog)

California Eggs Benedict.( This is my FAVORITE way to eat EGGS)
I love chili's Southwestern Egg rolls and I decided to make them at home they are much easier then they look... If you haven't had them ether make them or make sure you go to chilies and try them.

I saved some CAKE and I've frozen it in hope of eating it in the future, we'll see how that goes... It was a pretty good day, I was pretty disappointed when my sister had to cancel on me, she was going to take Ethan over night but the kids were good and my mother watched them for a few hours for us, it all worked out fine, I loved being with Jason, He got the day off for me and he got me the book I wanted for my birthday and took me out to the movies...

Yes, we have finally moved in but we still our not fully settled... Moving is so crazy specially with little ones. We still have so much work to do on our home, but I love it I really do, so much more space it's so lovely. Here is the before and after of the kitchen, I'm only posting the kitchen's before&after because our house still isn't organized and the kitchen still isn't fully done yet ether, but here it is.

Also, I have started another blog about easy homemade food and recipe swapping, for those of you who love cooking, baking or just want some new ideas for family food. I LOVE cooking and baking its one of my favorite things to do, I truly believe its a labor of love and their is no greater way to show your love then by making yummy food for those you care about. I wanted to start a recipe swap blog, because you can never have enough recipes! I would love to share and swap recipes that make cooking/baking fun, easy and yummy! Let me know if you want to be invited to post!

http://sugarnspicerecipecafe.blogspot.com/