What they say is true!

There are many fishy's in the sea, but none of them as cute as me!!!

Kisses for the baby fishy!

This week's update

This week has been hectic but I wanted to blog about how our biggest loser is going if anyone really still cares? As of Tuesday I was down 11 pounds, and today 10 so who really knows?? Victor didn't work out last week and I doubt he'll want to get on the scale this week so maybe we'll skip him until next week! I hurt my back pretty bad yesterday doing pretty much nothing, so I'm hoping I'll be back to normal tomorrow to start working out again! I know 10 pounds is a lot and I should be happy about that, but I lost 9 the first week and it's only been bits and pieces since then. But 10 pounds is 10 pounds I didn't want! I'm not eating as healthy as I should be, I've been craving fast food this week but had to put a limit to it! So I'm trying to stay with it! Damn it's fricken hard!!!!! Especially when your husband isn't motivated anymore either! But hopefully we will have better news to report next week!

My BFF Ashely in CO is still doing great too! She's down 6 1/2 pounds!! I'm so happy for her! It's all slowly but at least we are all STILL trying!!! Keep it up Ash, I promise in Vegas I'll try and help keep us both on track... in Viva? Ya right! Liquid diet!!

Here is some motivation for me and Ashley... I think this was in 2000-ish? Oh, back in the days!

Too big too fast!

This morning Victor found Alana standing in her crib waiting for us to come get her! Time to take off the bumpers and put the mattress down! It's all coming to fast for me!

Happy Valentine's Day!

From our Sweatheart to you and yours!

25 Random Things

Michelle this one is for you...

1) My daughter and my husband are the loves of my life.
2) For a long time, I have considered my mom my best friend.
3) I have known my best friend Ashley since we were in 2nd grade.
4) Now that I have a baby, I'm SO over my 2 dogs. (Anyone want them?)
5) My birthday is in 15 days!
6) I'm trying to finish a book called "The Memory of Running" but it's taking me forever!!
7) Victor and I both love and collect James Patterson hard back books.
8) I own almost every Disney movie that has come out on DVD.
9) I am obsessed with pictures. (In case this is the first time you have seen my blog)
10) I think I have an addiction to water. I drink at least 12 glasses of water every day.
12) I had to call the cops on a bum that was peeing right outside of our patio twice!
13) I have a brother that lives in Utah.
14) The name Alana came from one of my ex-bosses friends, he named his daughter that 5 years ago and ever since I've been in love with it. Rose came from my Grandma that passed away the week of my wedding :(
15) Muse is the BEST concert I'd ever been too in my life!
16) I have the song "Informer" by Snow on my iPod.
17) My other best friend Crystal keeps me sane most days!
18) My husband writes the most amazing stories and I LOVE to read them.
19) Dirty Dancing is one of my favorite movies. I know most of the words.
20) I just got a part time job as the Assistant Manager at Gymboree at Main Place Mall!
21) I blog stock everyone I know that has a blog!
22) I clip coupons for EVERYTHING!
23) I LOVE to smoke Cigar's, mostly the flavored kind with filters.
24) I'm done drinking Vodka, it makes me so sick every time!
25) 25th random fact?? When I first met Victor, I couldn't stand him. I HATED working with him. My, how things have changed!

Vertical here we come!

Alana is now pulling herself up on everything! I think she's bypassing the whole crawling thing and just going to start to stand... She is very wobbly but she has very strong legs and no longer wants to really sit down, she automatically lunges forward to pull herself up on me or anything around her and just stand there! She is on her knees rocking back and fourth but no crawling yet! Instead she just wants to be a big girl and stand up!

100th post!!!

So in less then a year I've managed to post 100 times! This is my 100th!!! I started this blog in May right before Alana came into our lives in hopes that I would post pictures and stories of our new life with her so everyone can see her grow up with us! It's crazy how many pictures I take thinking "I'll take this picture so I can blog about it"... Between people like my grandparents, and my BFF in Colorado that don't get to see Alana a lot, I think everyone loves to look at the blog often so they feel closer to her because they can see her grow up while being far away! It's fun to rant and rave when I need to on here as well. But I'm glad that we can share our lives! I recommend to anyone that is going to have a baby to start one!!! I also wanted to thank everyone for leaving comments and keeping up with our lives! When I hit June 3rd which is Alana's first birthday (YIKES) I'm going to print out all of the blogs and keep them together in a binder so Alana will always have the first year of her life at her fingertips to look at when she gets older!

My baby girl in my arms 8 1/2 months ago!

Thank you to everyone for your support always and thank you to my loving husband and Alana's da-da-da! Here is to 100 more posts!!! Cause God knows I'll NEVER run out of things to say :)

Random Wednesday picture!

I found this picture of me and Crystal from a Chargers game we went to. This was obivously a picture on the way to the game... you don't want to see pictures after the drunken-ness has sunk in! But this is super cute, can you feel the love?!?! Love you Crys!

My Strawberry Shortcake!

Alana is learning to eat all kinds of new finger foods! Here is her latest Strawberry eating! She acts like it's sour. She makes the funniest faces!

Monday Morning Blues...

Working out 5-6 days a week doing lots of cardio, weights, Biggest Loser work outs on demand... We've gone through 3 weeks already. The first week I lost 9 pounds, crazy right? Well week 2 and now week 3 I haven't lost another damn pound!!!!!!! Still at 9 pounds. How is it possible to be working out so much and eating good and for 2 weeks now not loosing anymore weight? Last week Victor went up a few pounds but now is down the few to the same weight as before! I'm so discouraged........

Happy Birthday Uncle Bob!

Today is my uncle Bob's 60th Birthday! Happy Birthday Uncle Bob!!! As sad as this sounds I didn't get any pictures of him, however I did get some good pictures of the girls and me with the girls, and the three of us!

Mommy and Alana!! I LOVE this picture!


My smiley girl!


This is what happens when you try to get 3 girls in the same picture all 3 years old and under! Hopefully we can get a good one of them soon!


My sester and Ellie


Ellie cheese-in it up for the camera!


Alana never smiles when it's the 3 of us!

Tired Girl!

Yesterday while I was cleaning and getting stuff put away in Alana's room she hung out in her crib. She loves to play in her crib during the day if I need to get something done. Apparently she got tired and decided to take a nap! I didn't hear her for a few minutes so I looked in the crib and this is what I saw! I was laughing so much, I'm such a horrible mom, instead of moving all the toys and laying her down, I ran and got my camera. But seriously this picture is so funny! She was a tired girl!

8 months old today!

As we get closer to a year old it makes me so sad! 4 more months away! Alana is gaining such a personality. She is SOOO loveable and loves to give hugs and kisses. She waves now and puts her hands up and waves to be picked up! Her top teeth are still growing in but no sign of any other one's right now! No crawling yet but she's close. She kind of crawls backwards, she's up on her knees and rocks back and fourth. It's pretty funny to watch! But she gets around anywhere she wants to go by rolling around and turning her body, so she many not feel the need to crawl anytime soon! Plus being a bit heavier baby, it may take her longer! All is well in the world of Alana, she is such a happy girl, smiling and talking all the time!

This is her 80's Hairdo!

Alana & Lexie Time!

Alana loves her baby cousin Lexie! She is learning how to be "gentle and soft" with her because she wants to just grab at her and love her!


Lexie is getting so big these days with her rolling around! Look at that face!! She's got the most beautiful bright blue eyes! Poor girl looks just like her dad, hopefully she'll grow out of that soon! :)


My happiest girl!

The curse of week 2...

Yep, we all knew it was coming... the curse of week 2 of the Biggest Loser. Week one people drop tons of weight and NO MATTER WHAT, week 2 those same people either gain or loose no weight! It's so crazy and no one can ever understand it! Not even the Bob or Julian the trainers!

This week we have NO WINNER and NO LOSER!!! What I mean by that is Victor gained back a few pounds and I didn't loose anything.... So no one really wins because not loosing any weight is really not winning and no one is a looser because no one lost weight. UH!

Now that week 2 is gone and done, we can get over it and strive to make great progress for week 3 and it can only be better from here on out right? As long as we can stick to working out and eating better the pounds are bound to come off at some point! So as we move into week 3, wish us luck! This week will be hard for me not to cave into my needs for sweets! But I will try to resist!!!

Don't dig your grave with your own fork and spoon!

Haha! I found that headliner quote and thought it was funny, cause seriously how true is that? Sooooo.... this week has been a really hard week trying to stay motivated to work out and eat healthy. I know as the weeks go on we'll loose some steam, but this week was hard! I did cheat a few times. The girls and I went out to see the Pirate Show in Buena Park, they had a really good dinner, appetizers and dessert... um... not good as in good for you, but just yummy. I had several glasses of wine. So I'm sure that didn't help week 2 not being good for loosing weight, but I've really been trying to be very disciplined. I worked out every day this week except Friday, that seems to be my day off. I've even gone as far as doing some of the Biggest Loser work outs that are "On Demand" on TV and then working out at the gym too... I'm trying!!!
I have to say that having everyone jump on the band wagon with us is great too! Crystal has been here a few days a week to work out with me. Sarah came one day this week and I'm sure more next week. But Sarah and Jake are trying to get back into a better life style to! My best friend Ashley in Colorado is doing Weight Watchers and has lost 4 pounds!!!! YEAH ASHLEY!!! I'm so proud of everyone who is kicking butt with us!! We weigh in tomorrow morning so I'll post again our results. But at this point, I will just be happy if I don't gain any weight since last week. I'm ok with not loosing any this week, ONLY because I know how it goes when you work out! But as long as I haven't gained any I'll be fine!
This week was tuff but there was some light at the end of my tunnel! My sister Julie, her Husband Brian and my Hailey Lu moved back here from AZ!!!!!!!!! Anyone who knows me knows how much I love my Hailey and I've been waiting since the day they moved away for them to move back! I'm so happy that I'll be able to spend more time with Hailey! She's 13 and if I remember correctly these next 10 years to come are SUPER important in a girls life, so I'm really happy that I can be around to be there for her! Just be an Aunt. I love my Hailey and am so happy to have her back! And of course my sister to, but more excited about Hailey :)
That's is for now, see you tomorrow with our biggest looser results!!!