God made us SISTERS...

...then time made us friends!

just gotta toot my own horn!

okay, so i've been with Let's Lose since the end of May.

we've had our ups and downs...many, many downs...and then several surprising ups...but today was great! i have finally surpassed my 20 lb 'mini goal' and hit 23 stinkin pounds today!!

my consultant, alicia was really proud of me and she even emailed my picture :)

why yes, thank you for noticing! i am wearing a smaller scrub top!! i got to move down a size because we had an extra at work and it just happened to fit this morning!!

what a great day it was!!

Goal Recap:

Longterm goals = -65 lbs/healthy bmi/i want to fit into the jeans i wore before i got married

So far = -23 lbs/bmi has gone down about 5 or 6 points/ i can wear jeans from 2 summers ago!! (about 1 1/2 dress sizes so far!)/ -24.25 inches!!!

now what do i do?

UPS just delivered the cutest, white, a line dress (see picture) to my doorstep. i ordered it from Gap a week or so ago to wear on the beach for those quintessential white top/khaki pants pictures :)

i jump on any opportunity to make my husband take pictures with me!!

so i laid noah down for a nap then ravenously tore into the little gray bag...there were a couple of other items, a cute gray top, an adorable blue flowery print dress, and a hoodie for cool nights on the beach...but what i wanted was the white dress. i ripped open the package and ran back to the bedroom to try it on.

i shook out the wrinkles and unzipped the side zipper...stepped into it and pulled it up.

then i slowly zipped the zipper back up.....

WAIT! HOLD ON!

it won't stay on!! it's TOO BIG! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

okay, i thought, it came with optional spaghetti straps...so i quickly find the straps and attached them...but all they do is hold up the big dress....

we are leaving for the beach in less than 10 days...

yes i wanted to lose weight, but i really wanted to wear this dress! :(

now what?

facelifts and tummy tucks

i've been "trying on" new looks for my blog today..but i think i'm in need of some real help! it still just doesn't 'feel' right! 

so let me know what you think so far...and feel free to leave me any comments/suggestions on what would make it better! anyone know any good, free header designers??  i'd love to add pictures to my header! 

in other news...i'm still dieting with Let's Lose! at my last weigh in i was up to 21 lbs/ 24.25 inches lost!! i am still daily amazed at how much i have really lost, especially when i try on pants that haven't fit in 2 years and they are too big!!! Heck Yes!!

...keeping it in perspective, i still need to lose about 40ish more lbs. but hey! i have lost 21 lbs!! that is FABULOUS!

of course, having a baby completely changes your body. duh! 

i just didn't realize how much it would change it.

my thighs will never be the same. thunder thighs does not begin to cover it. my tummy sags in ways i never knew it could {cesarian scars are just not pretty! i'm gonna ask my ob to do a tummy tuck after the next baby!} my boobs...oh heck, i'm just gonna say it. a few months ago jamie called them "swahili woman boobs." don't pretend you don't know what i'm talking about! but ladies, there is life after breastfeeding! they will shrink back down to normal proportions! stretch marks, varicose veins...these are the reasons i will not be wearing a bikini to the beach this year! 

it is perfectly respectable to wear a swim skirt to the beach! 

come on ya'll show me some love!! ;)

11 days left til our vacation to the Outerbanks, N.C. and Washington D.C.!! i can't wait!! 

hi. my name's kacee. and i'm an addict.

...of Lost and Twilight that is...

i started reading Twilight about 2 weekends ago and i'm LOVING it! i just wish there were more hours in the day so i could actually finish a chapter!! haha!! right now i'm carrying it around in my purse waiting for a delay at a stop light, or a chance to sit in a parking lot and read a few pages...maybe i need to be like Linda of My Trendy Tykes and start hiding in the bathroom so i can read a few pages!! (if you've never checked out her blog, you so should! she's hilarious!! and so down to earth!!)

then last night, for lack of anything good to watch, jamie and i found Lost season 1 on netflix instant play! do you have netflix? if not you should!! it's the best thing ever!! you can instantly download tons of tv shows and movies straight through your xbox 360, or you can buy a little tiny black box called Roku ( i think ) and watch it anytime!! so handy!

my lastest find was the first season of Beverly Hills 90210...hahaha!! that's some funny stuff!!

well, we are on episode 5 i think..so i better go!! it's getting good!! 

let me hear a "whoop whooop"!!

i fell off the wagon for a couple of weeks

but now i'm back!

 

i weighed in today...and i finally reached my 20 pound goal!!!

woo hoo!! 

gotta give a shout out to Let's Lose for helping me get this far!! i couldn't have done it alone!!

i still need to lose about 45 pounds to be where i want to be. my goal is to get there by christmas!

lots to look forward to in the coming months:

august 21st-29th family vacation to the outerbanks, nc and washington dc!!

october 21st noah's 1st birthday!!!!! tear tear...my baby's growin up!

december 3rd-6th new york with my dental office!!!!

december 31st weight loss goal of 65 pounds lost! :)

in other news, i'm taking noah for his 9 month shots and check up tomorrow! can't wait to see what he weighs and how long he is! he's so big!! crawling all over the place and into EVERYTHING!! he is also using anything he can get his hands on to walk around the living room/kitchen (ie chairs, his tonka truck, the stepstool, the cat)...this kid loves to be moving!!

we had a rough week about 2 weeks ago where he was having trouble sleeping, i blame it all on jamie of course, because he let noah sleep in our bed!! big no no! but after a couple of nights of getting  back into the routine of bedtime in his crib he did fine and now goes down around 8:30 in his crib every night! 

he is cutting another tooth also! this one makes 7 now! it's the lower left lateral incisor for those of you who care! haha!! just a few more months and he will get to go to dr. willis' office for his first check up!!! "first dental exam by the first year"

in other, other news...jamie and i celebrated our 4  year wedding anniversary on july 23rd!! can't believe it was 4 years ago that i married that crazy man! hahaha! we went to Hot Springs for the weekend..it was uneventful...we watched at least 4 movies..2 at the theatre...we are so boring!

oh and in other, other, other news...i started reading Twilight!!! sooooo good!!!!!

well alas i must retire...have to go talk to some children tomorrow morning about brushing their teethies!! :) 

gotta get back on track!

all right, let's face it...dieting is HARD work! 

the first few weeks i was so motivated, so determined, so STRICT! 

then last week i dove off the deep end and got myself in some trouble...wah wah wah!! 

for the record, i'm blaming it all on PMS!

now it's week 9 and i'm still having a little trouble getting back on track...but yesterday i got a comment from a sweet little lady, Heather. her encouragement led me to take a look at her site and i noticed she was joining this thing called "body after baby"...of course that spoke to me!! so today i've been looking into it...you can find out all about it over at Samantha's site.  

now for the hard part! for the first leg of this challenge i have to send in...gulp...pictures of myself for her to post on her site! yikes!! i admit i'm having a hard time finding a picture of myself where i haven't strategically cropped out my lower half or turned in such a way as to hide my mommy tummy...hahaha! 

i had no problem taking full length pictures of my ever expanding tummy while i was prego with noah, but now it's all i can do to hide it from the camera! 

so the challenge starts monday, you can look for all of the participants pictures to be posted then, along with our weight loss goals, starting weight, etc. 

i will not tell you my weight..it's never gonna happen...forget about it!

in cuter news, noah learned how to drink out of a straw on 4th of july! it's adorable! here's one of my favorite pictures from the 4th and a couple of family pics we managed to get!!