Never Give Up

I'm only putting these pictures up here because I know everyone who reads this loves me:) and has seen me at my worst times. Sometimes in my quest to lose weight I get very frustrated. I think that nothing is coming off and it infuriates me when weeks go by and I haven't lost a single pound. I'm not to my goal yet, I'm still working on it, but I thought I would show these pictures because I was impressed by the results that I didn't think were there. When I get frustrated I need to get on here and take a look at these, and then get back on the horse and keep going. I guess that's the new theme for my life, never give up.

Here are some pictures that I took in Feb. 2010. I still had a little baby weight on, but not too much.




And here are some pictures of me I took on Nov. 5.




I believe my weight loss for this time period is 29 lb. I think I'm in the best shape I've been since high school. I still have about 20-30 more lbs. to go. I know it's going to be hard, but when I get down on myself and think that nothing is coming off, I need to take a look at this and remind myself to never give up-it will happen. Sorry for rambling on about myself, but I just felt I needed to.

Halloween Fun

I love Halloween. It is probably one of my favorite holidays. I think it is so fun to dress up, I guess I'm just a very large kid:) We had a Halloween party at my house this year and had lots of fun. Anna dressed up as a spider. Her favorite song is the Itsy Bitys Spider so I had to find her a spider costume, which wasn't easy. I ended up ordering it online, but the good thing is that she can wear it next year too:)



Mark dressed up as the mad scientist who made the giant spider and I was the web that the spider made. I always like coordinating our costumes.



Here is me carving a pumpkin, I have to carve a pumpkin on Halloween, it's tradition!


I know I get a little crazy with making things around the holidays. It's just something I like to do and it makes people smile. Well this year I fell in love with these one eyed goblins with york peppermint patties inside. I call them Mike Wakowski's because they look like the one eyed monster in Monster's Inc. I made up a bunch of these to give people and had a lot of fun doing it.



I though this was hilarious. The other day Anna got stuck in our table. For awhile she thought it was fun, but then she couldn't figure out how to get herself down. Being the good parent that I am, I took a picture instead of helping her out:) It took both Mark and I to get her out without bonking her head on something.



I think I have a little too much fun with Halloween, but what's life without having a little fun:)