50!

My sweet, sweet Momma turns 50 today! And yes, I am telling everyone! My Momma is 50! After the loss of a lot of precious people way too young I am proud of my Momma turning the big 5-0 and I'm pretty sure she is too!

My mom has been the most supportive person in my life from day one. Through some of the hardest struggles, from financial, family and medical issues, my Momma has always been the strongest person I have ever met. It doesn't matter what she was faced with she has always handled every situation showing the love of Jesus even when you knew it was hard by the tears rolling down her face.

One of my greatest joys in life is dragging my mom on random road trips and to fun vacation destinations. She always makes life fun and has given me more than I could ever repay her for.

Momma, I love you so, so much. I cannot be more thankful for having you as my number one role model in life. Thank you for always teaching me to do what is right, not necessarily what is easy. Thank you for leading me to Jesus. Thank you for being the best Momma and "Ganma" in whole world. My babies and I love you more than we could ever express.

Happy 50th Birthday!!

life lately

So, it's been a bit.
Life is crazy. So crazy. Just when you almost have things figured out you realize every day really is just a toss up. Fortunately, the constant changes have all been in my favor, even if it doesn't seem like it at the time.
Since August I've started a new, fabulous job. I have amazing co-workers, bosses and employees. I have stability. I can take my kiddos to school in the mornings and pick them up in the afternoon. It's pretty much heavenly.
The kids are now 10 years (girl-L) and 8 months (boy-Z) (tomorrow). We celebrated that 10th Birthday in a big way. We've gotten our first tooth (Sept 13th it officially broke through!). We had our first Halloween together. I had the cutest little witch and fire fighter. We are crawling...errrr scooting/bouncing. We had our first, and definitely not last, meltdown with L. Homework is not our favorite thing. And just in case anyone was wondering, Common Core SUCKS! I can't even help her with her homework because I still haven't figured out what all of the dots and boxes represent. Needless to say, 23 and no kids to 24 and two is sometimes a struggle, but definitely worth it!
Oh yeah, I turned 24 since my last post! I now consider myself officially in my mid-20's. Kind of depressing, kind of cool...I guess.
I went on another cruise. This time to Grand Turk (Love!), Half Moon Cay (Love, Love!) and back to Nassau (Third time here so not really anything new but still beautiful!). It was a good time but I've definitely decided extended vacations are better spent with friends than family. I love them but I cannot deal with the gripey people that are my family (mostly aunts and uncles). Either way, I got to see new, beautiful places and I met some really cool new people! South Beach is still up there on my list of favorite places, too.
Anyways, there it is. A little bit about life recently. I'm going to get back in to the swing of things now that things are starting to calm down a bit. I'm super excited about the upcoming holidays and can't wait to share my favorite recipes, decorations, traditions, etc.!!
Loves! <3

It's Go Time!!

So, with 205 days and 17 hours until I set sail for Mexico and my 24th Birthday, I have decided it is really time to buckle down and make this healthy living thing a bigger part of my life. I started back to the gym in early December, and I've lost a little weight, but I'll just be completely honest. I am large and in charge. A little weight is good, but I need to lose A LOT of weight. I always have been bigger and quite frankly, I'm over it.

I've got the working out down, but the whole prepping meals and eating regularly has been difficult. I'm on the road a lot for work so eating breakfast and then eating every 3ish hours has been hard. BUT tonight I FINALLY sat down and planned out my meal plan for the entire next week AND I went grocery shopping! The hard part is done!!

So, now that that is all out in the open, this will be my place to be held accountable! I can do this!!

Ya see! I bought groceries!!!

My new favorite thing! Kale chips! Yummo!

its kinda cold.

I feel like the movie Frozen threw up all over Arkansas over the last week. Thank God it has slowly...and I mean VERY slowly melted away, but for a few days it was absolutely miserable around here. I was without electricity for three days. THREE DAYS! I mean, I'm pretty good at roughing it, but three days in below freezing weather was intense. We had an abundance of ice (the pictures here are after the ice had been melting away for a few days) so leaving the house was virtually impossible. After weather reports that we could possibly get up to 10 inches of snow yesterday into this morning, we woke up with no snow but rather a beautiful glimpse at the sun. I hadn't seen it in so long I might have done a happy dance!

One very positive thing about being stuck inside (on the days that I did have electricity) is that I was able to officially plan my 24th birthday cruise! This year I will be spending my birthday in Mexico!! I absolutely cannot wait...and thoughts of the warm beach makes these horribly cold days a little more tolerable! (Let me go ahead and start the count down...206 days and 16 hours until sailing!)

I'm puppy sitting for a friend right now so my sweet Maylie had a cuddle buddy!

After we could get out and about I had to go visit my grandparents. Their home is absolutely beautiful in the snow!

baby girl be 3

Do you ever have one of those days (or weeks...or months) that just seem to go on and on and on? 

I feel like I have been constantly on the go for forever, yet I really haven't gotten anything accomplished that I wanted to! This is like the most frustrating feeling in the world! Ughh!

BUT on the up side, yesterday was my sweet baby cousins birthday! My little Roxy turned 3! I absolutely cannot believe she is already 3!!! As crazy as that seems, it is even crazier when I think about what life was like before she joined our family! The first baby on my moms side of the family in 20 years and she came at such a perfect time.

Like I cannot even explain how much I love this baby girl, she literally is my favorite thing in life. 

The first time I saw her! Her Pappy was real proud!

So, she basically cried for the first 6 months of her life...true story. But now she loves me! 

We took her bowling for the first time on her birthday. She LOVED it...and she beat me...bad.