My little man

So my little man, my little bubba, my crazy loud little dude is 5 years old!!

How did this happen? How did he go from tiny baby to this little person.

Marcus is the sweetest loudest funniest kid I have ever met. And I'm not just saying that as his mother. People all the time tell me that he's special that he has the sweetest heart ever, that he is so funny and kind and helpful. He is loved. I am so proud of the little man he is.

He is that kid that when he loves you or cares about you he does it with every fiber in his body. He is the best.

For his birthday since daddy was gone we just did a little thing with family. 

He said it was the best day ever.

He went to school and got to give out Dino cupcakes

Then we took him out to his favorite reatuarant red robin

I made him this Dino cake and he thought it was the best thing ever. So over all it was such a fun and relaxing day and he so enjoyed it. 

I also wanted to keep it low key so that in march when we are at Disney world I can spoil him like crazy 😀 

So it's been months...

I was just thinking the other day about my weight loss. I'm at a point where I'm not struggling. I've been maintaining my weight and I'm happy. But I'm not finished. I think it's hard to get motivated when I'm happy with how I look but I know I could look better or weigh less or have more muscle. It's hard to eat the way I should when I know I can eat all the yummyness (ie cake, brownies, chocolate, pizza) and maintain my weight. I need to get in the mindset that it's not just losing weight it's being healthy as well. It's not just working out and eating junk food to not gain weight. It's eating right and working out and being healthy. I think if I could get with that mentalility I would be golden 😀 

We leave for Disney world in 3 weeks and I'm going to try for the next 3 weeks to do it right and we will see what happens. 

But for fun I weighed in at 171 the last time I wrote on the blog and today I am ...

So hey in the last 5 months I haven't been doing bad. I have lost 11lbs and am only 5lbs away from pre Marcus weight and only 10lbs away from high school weight. 

Here's a shot of the difference 5 months and lots of strength training 😀

I was just thinking the other day about how happy I was at 171 and how good I thought I looked and then I saw what I looked like at 160 and I thought wow what would another 10lbs looks like but I'm so ok with how I look now that getting motivated is super hard. 

But I'm gonna try and the day before Disney I'm gonna post back here and hopefully there will be a change.