8 week Thanksgiving challenge

I set a goal at my Weight Watchers meeting 8 weeks ago. It was to lose 10lbs in 8 weeks. Today was my last weigh in before Thanksgiving and I made it! Over the 8 weeks I've lost 11.4lbs! I can't believe it, I feel so happy about crushing that goal. My total weight loss is now 28.2lbs. I only have 25.4lbs more to lose until I'm back at pre-pregnancy goal weight. I'd really like to reach my goal by Valentine's day OR sometime in February :) I'm fitting into jeans again that used to be tight on me. No one at work has said anything to me yet...which kinda bums me out, because almost 30lbs is a lot! I was my highest weight in the summer though (when I re-joined WW) so no co-workers saw me at my heaviest.

Anything is possible!

Tomorrow is Thanksgiving and Betty & Lou will be flying in. Their plane lands around 10:00am. We are so excited to see them! Tomorrow is also Betty's birthday, so we will be celebrating that as well :)

I have 5 days off now, well 4 1/2 left I guess. I'm looking forward to just relaxing and spending time with my family. I feel so lucky to have such a great family that I love so much!!!

I've got a fever...

...baby fever, that is!

I was looking on Baby Center at some of my old journal entries. I only made three, as I look back now I wish I would have made more!
I'm going to post them on here in the order I wrote them. It's so exciting to look back and think that the little unknown baby I was talking about is Logan. It makes my heart feel full of joy and love!

8/30/2010

So, this was our first month of trying for a baby. I thought I did really good by reading up on ovulation and the best time to concieve would be. My last period was August 3rd, 2010. Websites said I would get my period on August 31st and if I didn't get it I should take a test on September 3rd. I have been feeling different, not like I've ever felt before. I thought maybe it was because this is the first time in a long time that I'm not on birth control.
So on Friday the 27th I found an old pregnancy test from last year...don't worry the experation date was 2011 :) I thought "I'm going to take a test in the morning and see what it says." On Saturday morning I couldn't sleep...I woke up around 6:30am and went into the bathroom and sat on the toilet. I thought in my head "It's okay if there's not a pregnancy line...this is our first month trying, no big deal." I peed on the stick and waited a few seconds...nothing...and then it started to appear, very light - but it was there! I didn't know what to think of the "light line" so I went and woke up James and told him "Come look at this, I need your help!" So he came into the bathroom and he said "I see a line." I googled "Faint line on pregnancy tests" and it said "As long as there is a line, no matter how faint or dark - you are most likely pregnant."
Now I'm just in the disbelief stage where I'm thinking "Is this for real?" I am going to wait until Wednesday and I am going to take another test and if it's postive again, I will call my doctor and see what I need to do next! This is so exciting, I have wanted a baby for so long and now I might really be pregnant!!! Our baby would be due on May 10th, 2011. 


9/6/2010

On Wednesday the 1st I took a second pregnancy test - just to make sure! And it was POSITIVE!!!
Well, I am getting close to 5 weeks now. We are super excited to have this baby...I cannot believe we have to wait so long to meet our little bundle of joy! It will be worth the wait, though!
Today Target was having a sale: Buy a certain crib, get the changing table FREE. And guess what? It was the exact same crib/changing table I've been looking at! It was meant to be. So we purchased our first big item for baby.
I've been reading on here from other posts about people who are still TTC after many months. I just want to say how blessed I feel to conceive our 1st month trying. Granted, I waited over a year while I was losing weight to start trying for a baby. I really feel like since I waited until I was healthy and ready, this is the reward! 102 pounds later and pregnant right away...I can handle that.
I scheduled my 1st ultrasound for October 6th @ 4:00pm. That will put me at 9w1d. I'm going to try Amber's doctor that she had. She speaks very highly of him, and I trust her opinion very much! We've told our families and a few close friends, but other than that we are going to wait until after our doctor appointment.
Betty and Lou are coming to visit for Thanksgiving, I will be around 16 weeks then. So I'm hoping we'll be able to find out the gender before/while they are here. But with the Thanksgiving weekend, that might be impossible.
I love my baby - I can't wait to meet him OR her. Even though I've read on gender predictors it will be a BOY...which I have a really strong feeling it will be. Which I'm totally fine with, I will love either gender just as much!! I just want a healthy and happy baby

 9/18/2010

So I am 6 weeks 4 days pregnant now.
Last weekend on Saturday I started to feel really sick...and this sickness doesn't last just in the morning - it lasts ALL day
I even had to leave work early on Thursday because I was feeling so horrible. It's really hard too when I work with people and am not telling anyone yet that I'm pregnant. So I just say that my tummy hurts and my back is sore...
My first ultrasound is in 18 days, I am so excited!! I just hope that everything is fine with the baby. That's all I keep thinking about and hoping for - is a healthy baby!
I can't wait until May 10th (or around then) for my little cupcake to arrive!!! I love it so much already


It's so funny to read those old entries, brings back crazy memories of when I first found out I was pregnant and how excited I was to tell everyone!

Holidays on the way!

I had my Weight Watchers meeting yesterday and to my surprise I didn't gain OR lose any! I stayed the same. Which is pretty awesome considering what I ate up there. I was cautious of my portion size, but not what I ate. I guess that really helped...not eating the whole serving of "whatever" I had ordered. I made a goal 7 weeks ago to lose 10lbs by Thanksgiving. I have one more weigh in and 2lbs to lose. I'm going to try and be really good this week! Even if I lose 1lb or 1.6lbs I'll still be happy because I came so close!

Logan is now 18 months old...I have a one and a half year old boy! :) He's supposed to have an 18 month check up, but his doctor was so booked up that his appointment isn't until December 14th...and he'll be 19 months by then! But I guess it doesn't really matter. I think he gets the last of his shots for awhile...I hope! He's been really fussy the last couple of nights. I'm wondering if his 2 year molars are already starting to come in (1st tooth at 4 months and he had his 1 year molars before he even turned 1). He's been loving watching Thomas the train on TV. Every time he wants to watch it he says "Choo choo!" and he will keep saying it until we turn on the TV or tell him no. If we tell him no he usually throws a little fit. I am fine with him throwing fits, he gets over it. He needs to learn that he can't always get every thing that he wants.

I'm having a 31 bag party tomorrow evening at our house. So tonight I bake 3 different treats. 2 of them are WW friendly and the other one isn't. I also have cheese and crackers and chips and salsa to put out. Oh! I'm also trying a new punch recipe. It's technically for Halloween but I figure Thanksgiving and fall is still orange, so I'm going to give it a try! I hope it's yummy :)

Tomorrow is Friday and then next week we only have to work Monday and Tuesday then we have FIVE days off! I can't wait, it's going to be so nice to be at home and just relax. We don't really have any big plans. For Thanksgiving Betty and Lou are flying up here. I'm not sure if Uncle Ed will be having dinner with us or not, and I think Eric, Joanne, and Dylan are coming, too. It will just be  a small gathering, which will be nice. I think Uncle Dave, Aunt Robin, Sarah, and Jacque will be coming over after dinner for desert and to hang out. That will be nice, I haven't seen Jacque since the end of August! She's living in Arizona right now and working there. James, my mom, and I are going to get up early for Black Friday shopping and then go out to breakfast afterwords.

I love the holidays!!!

Victoria Trip!

On Thursday we left bright and early to drive up to Port Angeles, WA. We were taking the 2:00pm ferry over to Victoria, BC to visit our friends Josh & Allyssa and their new baby Carlo.
We got there 2 hours early (you are supposed to be there 90 minutes early). Checked in and parked our car and then went and got some lunch at the Dairy Queen across the street. The ferry ride over wasn't as bad as I remembered from a couple years ago. It was fairly quick and Logan loved running around on the outside deck. Thank goodness the weather was nice.
Our hotel (timeshare) was about 3 minutes away from the ferry. So it was super nice to just get off the ferry and be at our place. The room was stayed in was so nice! We had a 2 bedroom 2 bathroom, so Logan had his own room to sleep in.
We met up with Josh, Allyssa, Kyle, Megan, & all the kids for dinner that same evening. Logan was over tired from not getting his nap that day so he was a total mess. It stresses me out when he acts like that - I know he can't help it, it just sucks for me.
We got lost a lot. Driving around in the dark with no map/phone is really hard! We did a lot of shopping during the trip and a lot of eating. I didn't eat as good as I planned on. Which kinda sucks :( I also was naughty and got a DQ treat tonight - which was NOT needed.

Last Wednesday before we left I went to WW to weigh in and I was down 3.8lbs! Which means I have now lost 8lbs and I still have 2 more weigh ins to go before Thanksgiving. I need to lose 2lbs over the next 2 weeks to meet my own goal I made. I think I can do it, I really just need to start working out again and staying away from the junk food we have.

Tomorrow Logan is going to be 18 months old. I can't believe how fast time has gone by. A year and a half old already! It's almost time for me to start thinking of birthday party ideas :) I can't wait! He is such a fun little boy. I love him so much!

Over the last month...

In my last post I wrote about going to the Pumpkin Patch. Last year we didn't even go, maybe because Logan was too young to even know what was going on - OR I don't even know why. I think we just keep saying "Next weekend" and then before we knew it, Halloween was over! We went to 2 Pumpkin Patches this year.
The first one we went to was Lee Farms out in Tualatin. We went with our friends Brandon, Sarah, & Owen (who is only 3 months younger than Logan). I love that they are so close in age! We had decent weather, and lots of fun. The boys loved it! We even took home some delicious home made apple cider/pumpkin donuts!
The second we went to was over on Sauvie's Island, it was called Kruger's Farm. We went with just my mom, my dad decided to stay at home. We went there because my mom had a Groupon. Besides taking a wrong turn, it was a really nice Pumpkin Patch! We rode a hay ride, got some candy apples, roasted corn, and picked out our pumpkins. It was raining but only a tiny bit, not enough to get us soaked.

Tomorrow is Wednesday and then on Thursday morning we are leaving for Canada to go visit Josh, Allyssa, and their son Carlo! I'm so excited to see him - and them :) It will be a nice little weekend getaway. I'm a little nervous for the drive. It's close to 5 hours. Logan can handle a car trip to the beach, which is like 2...the last long road trip we took was to Reno in March when he was 10 months old. I'm hoping if I give him some books and snacks he will be okay - and I cross my fingers he takes a nap!

It's so hard to believe that in less than a week Logan is going to be 18 months - a year and a half! Time has gone by so fast, but I just keep thinking about all the fun that has yet to come! We took him trick-or-treating this year. He was dressed up as a monkey. The first few houses we went to he was a little nervous, but he warmed up to the idea and actually started grabbing candy out of the bowl. Next year is going to be so much more fun. I hope he will be able to pick out his own costume and maybe I won't have to carry him all over, hehe.
Even though Logan's words aren't very clear he surprises me with how much he can say and understands. He's been super sweet lately giving me lots of hugs and snuggles. I just love him so much! I must kiss him like 874641 times a day.

Two weeks ago at Weight Watchers I gained .6 of a pound. I knew that I would gain, just because I hadn't been making the best food choices OR working out. Last week with Halloween being on a Wednesday I didn't even go weigh in. Tomorrow is weigh in day and I'm hoping that I lost something! Even that .6 that I gained would be great! I set a goal to lose 10lbs in 8 weeks (deadline is Thanksgiving). I have 3 more weigh in's to Thanksgiving and I still need to lose 5.8lbs. I'm not sure if I can do it...I might be looking at maybe 8lbs total. I'm going to try really hard to make good choices in Canada! On a happy note: I wore some skinny jeans today that I haven't worn since last October/November! And they even felt more lose than they did last year when I bought them! So that was a happy thing :)