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/

Yippee!!! WE'RE MOVING!!!

So we are finally packing up and moving on! It is so relieving, I can't say it enough. So much work has gone into this house and I'm just so glad to finally be moving in. Once we are in our new home we will still have work to do on the house, but its so close to being done. I have put some before and semi after pictures up. Once we are all moved in I will put up a ton.

It's like a brand new home in so many ways to us and the extra space is going to be amazing, I couldn't be more excited to move in!!! Thanks again to all those who have helped and all the support.

Visit To See Santa, Making Snowman Cookies And Gingerbread houses!

We went with our friends the Whitaker's to go see Santa and then we went and decorate a gingerbread house... It was a a lot of fun!

Ethan was so excited to see Santa Claus he was thinking really hard about all the things he wanted to ask for. He is so excited for Christmas this year, he keeps saying "Santa's coming"and "open presents soon". He'll pretend to be old saint Nick by putting on his Santa hat and saying "HO HO HO Mewy Cwistmas"...Its adorable! These were the only pictures we were able to get with Santa and then our camera died on us, but Noah actually grabbed Santa's beard it was the sweetest thing ever!Here is our gingerbread creation, it was a lot of fun. Ethan and his friend Tycen had fun decorating a tree and a snowman and after that we couldn't keep them interested. They loved nibbling on the candy though!

My sister came over to help Ethan and I make my yummy snowman cookies, Ethan had a blast making these cookies. We delivered this batch to Jason's fire crew to wish them a Merry Christmas!

My cutie-pie sister!!
These yummy little candies have quickly become a favorite to make for the holiday's, not only are they yummy but so easy to make....

Cookie Dough Truffles!

If you love the taste of cookie dough you'll love these sweet treats! If anyone wants the recipe just let me know!

I hope everyone is enjoying this holiday season, We wish you all a very Merry Christmas!

CHRISTMAS DECOR, SUGAR COOKIES AND HOT CHOCOLATE!

IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS!

I love this time of year, no other holiday can beat the feeling you get during this time.

One of my favorite things to do, is to decorate for the holidays and to bake yummy goodies, nothing brings warmth into a home like homemade cookies and hot cocoa.... Jason and I love going and getting a Christmas tree and decorating it, than making sugar cookies and having hot chocolate, naturally with marshmallow's.

This year was particularly fun because Ethan loved being apart of decorating the tree and cookies. It was such a blast to fill our home with the Christmas spirit!

This tree has been the smallest tree that Jason and I have gotten in the past six years and I have to say, so far it's been my favorite one. Just perfect for our little condo!

Ethan was so excited to cut out his cookies... Every time mommy did it, he kept saying "I try, I try". He was trying to ask me nicely to stop stealing his thunder.

Ethan just loves making cookies, it's one of his favorite activities... I guess it's because he knows they'll be in his tummy soon enough!

Little Noah just enjoying the night, chillin on the floor, he is growing so fast! Soon enough he'll be sharing hot cocoa and making cookies with us!