Preston pants is 5!

Five years ago today at this very minute I was in labor and delivery pushing. I cannot believe that was five years ago! At 1:27 pm on December 2, 2008 my life changed forever and I had a new very important purpose on this earth. I was a mommy. I had this tiny 6 lb 13 oz miracle to nurture and love and help grow. They say you never know the love your parents feel for you until you love a child and I fully believe that to be true. My life really began when I had you!  

Preston,

     Wow! I cannot believe you are five years old! This day will forever be engrained in my mind and my heart. It's hard to believe you are the same baby I brought home from the hospital on the cold rainy day in December. You have grown into such a big kid! You know my phone number and address and are learning your bible verses left and right. You are strong and stubborn yet loving and oh so caring. You still love to give hugs and kisses and it will really make me sad when you grow up and don't want to anymore. I pray for you daily and will continue to pray for you to grow and be healthy in mind and body. I pray that you find and know The Lord and love and trust Him with all that you are and all that you have. You will make mistakes in life but know that I will always love you and I will always support you when you need it and pick you up when you fall. I will always remember you at this age. You have such an imagination and are so creative. You love superman right now and you also love all things transformers. I will always remember the smile on your face when you ran through your birthday door and the look of excitement when we saw the birthday garbage trucks on the way to school. I will love you forever my sweet sweet boy! Happy 5th birthday P! You will always be my favorite oldest child :) 

Love you!

Mommy

In the last week...

We've all been sick. It started Tuesday with sweet baby love

He was by far the hardest part of this week long bug that has run through my family faster than anything I've ever seen. 

I mean really?! Do you know how hard it is to make a two year old throw up in something and not on you, him, and everything surrounding? I'm pretty sure it's impossible.

Victim #2 was my fav big kid: it got him Friday causing R and I to miss an out of town overnight trip to Birmingham. Boo :( but big kid felt so bad that I just couldn't help but not care about missing our trip. His virus was worse than SBL's and sent us to the doc for a Zofran shot. 

He was by far the most pitiful. Literally though the Zofran=miracle cure! He was better by the time we walked outta there.

Yep you got it! Victim number three was me! I came down with it Saturday afternoon. But it took me way longer to re cooperate and I didn't feel better til Sunday night. 

Last but not least my poor husband. He felt fine Monday and left on his outta town trip to Auburn. He texted me Tuesday morning saying it had gotten him at 230 am. He was like Preston by far the sickest. I ended up dropping everything to take him the Zofran prescribed to big kid and taking him tons of fluids crackers and chicken noodle soup to help nurse him back to health. After two zofran and a good nights sleep he is back at work today. It's been a really tough week I tell ya. Mama is def happy all my ducklings are feeling better. I hope that that nasty bug hasn't affected any of y'all and if it has bless you is terrible. 

 

Happy Boy

This little guy has been waking up so cranky for probably the last few months. Instantly screaming and crying in his bed probably bc he is woken up before he is ready by a loud brother. This morning I dressed P downstairs and we were quiet as mice. He woke up after 8 (which is rare) and he laid playing in his bed talking and laughing until 845 when I finally decided to go get him up. This is the smile that greeted me at the door. He instantly wanted to get dressed (another rarity). We started his morning with chocolate milk and a chocolate chip pancake and a whole lot of this:

Light sabers they "won" at the fair. They have been so much fun! And the light saber noise he makes is even funner lol. I hope everyone is having as great a morning as we are. If not I hope that sweet smile makes you smile this morning. 

Life so far

So far life's been busy as everything but in a good way. Both boys have been in school, P five days and H two days, so I spend a bit more time in the car. Mondays and Fridays I take p and pick up then Wednesdays I just have to pick him up. My mom is awesome and takes the boys tues-thurs bc she works there so that is a big help! Thanks mom! So what's been going on you ask? Well we went to the beach for a week and it was so nice! The boys had a blast and even though my job didn't stop while we were there I had lots of help since my parents went too. The water was great with little seaweed most days but we did see quite a few jellies :( P got stung in two places by one jelly and my mom got stung too. White vinegar works wonders to stop the sting. He is 4 and cried for like 2 minutes then went back in. Such a brave fella. I won't bore you with every last detail so enjoy the photo bomb :)

This was right after :) 

So that's it! The weather was gorgeous and we really enjoyed ourselves. We LOVE Destin. If you ever get the chance to visit do it! 

Ok pure barre take two!

So I have revamped my eating today. I had boiled egg whites for lunch, and rediscovered how much I like tuna at lunch. Then I had ham (which wasn't my first choice but it needs to be gone before next weeks shock to the system) and green beans. I have consumed 3 big camelback bottles of water and have for the most part passed up snacking. Oh I also had a banana and a tsp of peanut butter.  I know the first week is the hardest so I am doing my best. I did have two cups of coffee this morning too :-/  I will shorten it to one but I don't think I want to leave coffee in the dirt and honestly I don't know that I can drink it black. I love it too much haha. 

I did my second pure barre class today and it went better. Not quite as tough but still pretty tough! I am def going to be sore tomorrow and prob the rest of the week. I didn't do insanity yesterday :( I know shame shame ya know my name. I was too sore and by the time I talked myself into a motivated frenzy thing 2 woke up from his nap :(  so there ya have it. Night time is the hardest to not snack so if I do it won't be anything delicious haha (like those two Reese's cups I had last night). 

Inspired fit vs flab

Ok so I will admit it! I am skinny fat lol yes it sucks and I hate to admit it but yo yo dieting just isn't a long term thing. I am not over weight by any means but have extra "love" in places I wish it weren't lol. So I came across all these pictures of people that got inspired to get fit. I started taking Pure Barre classes on Tues and holy heck batman! I am sooo sore today. I won't lie I have considered not doing my insanity today...(I'm determine to make myself do it tonight before bed). So now I am trying to decide whether to follow paleo for 30 days or to do this inspired to be fit challenge on IG. Decisions decisions lol so my plan is starting Monday I will be clean eating and working out 6 days a week. The working out part I've got bc I've been doing it just got lazy after my beach trip last week.  So it will be 3 days of Pure Barre and three days of insanity for 30 days. Once that is done I am thinking maybe either keeping up pure barre (it's soooo expensive though) or just giving in and doing 30 day shred. I am also interested in the new Shaun T workout T25! I am ready to be firm and fit and not live by my scale. So wish me luck, lots of motivation, and pray for me bc I LOVE LOVE LOVE food. Mainly food that tastes good haha. I don't really like veggies so this will be tough for me to learn to like new foods. 

Update!

So after six weeks of praying and worrying I loaded up and went to my follow up appt this morning. I was so nervous of what they would say that I couldn't eat anything. I even skipped coffee. Got to my appt and had follow up scan. Went up to see the doctor and he said he was quite surprised with my results. He said he thought for sure that we would have to do surgery. He said the cyst was 5cm six weeks ago and today my scan showed that not only had it shrunk but it completely disappeared! I am totally relieved and feel carefree for the first time in six weeks! So nice to breathe! Thank you for all the prayers and reassurance bloggy friends.