My Dress!

It was on the Biggest Loser last night! It was crazy.

I don't remember if I blogged much about it or not, so I'm going to re-blog if I did. Sorry!

A few weeks ago was the Incarnate Word Academy Spring Auction. I go almost every year along with my family and see high school friends, former teachers, and former players I used to coach. Well when I coached at Incarnate a few years back, I was at my all time high for weight. I was about 210 lbs and wearing a size 16 pants. Yuck.

Then I got pregnant, had Dominick and finally started weight watchers. A lot has changed since I coached there.

I now weigh 167.8 (according to last Saturday's weigh in) and I'm wearing a size 10-12. This is huge for me. A big accomplishment. I wanted to show it off!

So I took two of my best friends shopping with me. This in itself was a big deal for me because I took two of my smallest friends shopping with me. All my friends are smaller than me, but these two are little. Size 0 and size 6 maybe (and that size 6 is pregnant!). But for the first time since college, I felt like I could go shopping with them, try stuff on for them, and not feel like the "fat girl".

I didn't feel like that. I actually felt skinny. I told one of my friends when we walked in that I'd either be a Large/XL or a 12-14. So we picked out a bunch of stuff and I tried on the first dress.

When I showed her, her response made me feel like a million bucks.

"That is huge on you! It looks baggy. We need to go down at least one size."

What?!?! Baggy?? Huge?? Go DOWN a size??

This was a great day. I fit into a size 10 dress. I haven't seen that size since early college.

Anyway, this isn't supposed to be about my weight loss journey. Sorry, I got side tracked. I was blogging to say that while I was watching the Biggest Loser last night, I saw my dress.

Here's how it happened:

One of my favorites, Stephanie, got voted off last night (I say one of my favorites, but I think they are almost all my favorites). When they did her flash forward moment I had a weird sense of Deja Vu!

They showed her "now" or 7 weeks later in a mall. She said that she wanted to get a brand new dress to show off her brand new body for her 30th birthday. She was going to White House Black Market (my FAVORITE store). I laughed and told Nick, "That was me two weeks ago!".

Then she went in with her friends and started trying dresses on. I kept watching and saying, "I tried that on...I tried that on...How funny would it be if she tried on my dress?!" but they never showed her in the dressing room with "my" dress on.

Then it flashes forward to her party, she is walking in the door and I see it! She is wearing MY dress! :-) It was like I just saw a celebrity! I was yelling at the TV and Nick thought I was crazy. And I definitely am, don't get me wrong, but it was something in that moment that really connected with me.

I understood her. I felt like her. I used to be ok with being the "big" friend, but I'm not ok with that anymore. I'm 5'9" so I'm always going to be bigger than my 5'2" friends, but I don't need to feel like the fat girl anymore. I've worked hard to get where I am and I'll continue to work hard to get where I want to be. I hope to buy many more dresses from White House Black Market that make me feel just as skinny and pretty as this one did.

Wiiii!!

We got a Wii! And a Wii Fit!

We got both of these at the auction a few weeks ago and I've been dying to set them up. I really want to start doing some workouts on the Wii Fit and see how they are.

Well we finally set them both up last night. Yay!

We each tested our fitness age on Wii Sports (I was 27 and Nick was 32). And I'm so excited we have it up and running.



Tonight I plan on playing with the Wii Fit. I want to do some "strength training" and some "yoga" and just really try it out. Get a feel for it.



I plan on buying the Biggest Loser Wii game and trying that out soon too.

Yay for technology! :-P

It's official

Ruby is a puppy.. A YOUNG puppy. I honestly don't even know if she's one yet.

This is a hard adjustment for me. I've NEVER had a puppy. We got Yosha from my sister when he was almost 4. We got Brady when he was almost 3. Both of those dogs were settled when we got them. Ruby is anything but settled.

We went to a wine dinner with my parents on Friday night. It was delicious and we had a great time. But we came home to Ruby having eaten our camera bag and all the cords. She didn't eat the actual camera, which is great, but she ate the cords so we can't get any pictures off of the camera right now, which is not great.

We give her chew toys, but she eats those so fast that she then eats something else to go along with it. Both food bowls are practically destroyed. Luckily (and please knock on wood here) she hasn't gone for any furniture. It's just things that are left out. I'm doing double/triple checks before I leave the house now just to make sure nothing will get destroyed.

We are locking her and Brady in the kitchen during the day now, because that way she can't eat anything that matters a lot to me and then they can still play. I don't want to crate her if I can help it. Hopefully this "phase" ends soon.

We FINALLY have her trained to "stay" when we open doors. She hasn't run in almost two weeks. I don't trust her yet, but we're getting there.

Every time I get frustrated and say that we're taking her back, Nick defends her and wants to keep her. So I was right about one thing...

I knew that Nick would pretend he was mad that I got her but then he'd come around and love her!

Baby Sale!

It's that time again! The Story Lady baby sale is this week! I'm so excited about it.

Here's the website if you want to take a look: Baby Sale!

I found out about this the fall before Dominick was born. I spent a TON of money but got some really cool toys that Dom still plays with, like a big plastic toy box, and a plastic tool bench with toys, and a basketball hoop, etc. We also got some cool things for the house, like a pack n play for $5, our diaper bag for $10, a TON of burp cloths (since Dom was a spitter) for less than $1 a cloth, and a bag of bottles for $10.00.

Well it was so great that I've gone back every sale since and the sale has gotten bigger and better.

It is now located at the old Macy's at Crestwood Plaza. It's a HUGE sale that has baby and kid toys, clothes, furniture, bottles, diaper genies, strollers, and it goes on and on and on. They expanded to have stuff for pregnancy too (maternity clothes, etc.) and even stuff for the house (like toaster ovens, and VCR's).

They have kids books, movies, and DVD's. They have books for expecting parents. They have video game consoles, and games. They have a TON.

Volunteers get to shop early so I started that last year and I loved it. It's a lot of fun to work at it. I get to shop tomorrow night and the sale doesn't open up to the public until April 1.

I'm so excited! I'm hoping to get Dominick some more clothes, maybe a little tricycle, some DVD's, some books, and maybe even a big boy bed if they have one. We are getting ready to move Dominick out of the little bedroom upstairs and put him in a big boy room on the first floor.

I can't wait to go shopping tomorrow!

Memory

Dominick amazes me every day. He is picking up on so much and he is so smart. He likes to play with my phone. A lot. If you give him a "fake" phone, or an old one without a battery, it's not fun because it doesn't make noise or light up. So I let Dom play with my phone a lot. He loves it. He will just walk around and talk and talk and talk. Then he puts it down and moves on to something else.

Sometimes I don't see where he puts it down and this makes me nervous. But so far, Dom has remembered where it was every time! All I have to do is ask.

"Dommie? Where is Mommy's phone?"

And he stops whatever he is doing and goes and finds it and brings it back with a big smile on his face.

Such a sweetheart.

He amazed me even more than that this morning.

I know Dom knows what a phone is, or what Mommy's phone is. He plays with it everyday. But this morning, I was finishing getting both him and I ready, when he wanted his socks out of my hand. I wadded them into a ball and gave them to him to play with until I was ready to go downstairs and put them on him along with his shoes. Well, when I was ready to go downstairs, Dom didn't have the socks in his hands anymore. 'Great' is what I was thinking. I have a hard enough time finding any two socks, let alone socks that match, so this was going to make us late. I started digging through laundry baskets with Dom just watching me and I couldn't find a single sock of his. Finally I turned to him and asked,

"Dommie, where are your socks?"

Well wouldn't you know it? Dom got up from the floor, walked over to the bathroom door and picked up the socks he had set by the tub. He brought them back to me and sat down for me to put them on his feet.

Are you kidding me?? When did my baby get so old? Or so smart?

I just need to come to terms with the fact that my baby is getting to be a big boy. And I'm so proud of him and so excited to see what tomorrow will bring.

Another new cousin!

My cousin Tommy and his wife Val, had their baby this morning!!

They had elected not to find out the sex so we were very excited to "meet" their baby girl! Gianna Lynn, 7 lbs. 10 oz.

A beautiful baby girl!!



So now this is two new babies born this week, I have 2 friends that are due with their babies in the next 3 weeks, 4 friends pregnant and due in August/September and another one due in November!!

The baby fever is coming on strong!! If I hear about one more pregnancy, I'm just going to have to go and get pregnant! Geez!

Uh oh!

I just was looking over my blog and noticed one of my tickers on the right hand side...The one covering the St. Louis Marathon...

It's in 18 DAYS!?!?!?!?!

Yea, I'm SO not ready for this. At least my Mom and I are walking it instead of running it, but still! Geez!!

18 Days??

Wish me luck. I'm gonna need it!