Cute Friends and Better Choices

This lovely lady watched Quinny for us last Monday night while we went out for dinner with the permanent staff to say 'good-bye' to Kelly who has resigned her position at camp. Nice night, nice to see the staff and have a yummy dinner! Sarah was awesome and played with Quinny and we gave her a gift bag full of goodies that she likes as a 'thank-you' - Q was most excited to give her the bag, in hopes that Sarah would share her fuzzy peaches with her haha (she did). It's nice to leave Q for two hours (something I realized that we haven't done in a few months) and come back to her full of smiles. 

She was sad to leave! That made me happy. It also made me happy that it was Sarah who watched her - our relationship has had a few bumps and we now have a deep respect and appreciation for the other, which I find amazing. She is such a great girl and we love her!

Park date with her BFF! We don't see these guys nearly enough these days with the busyness of spring! So nice to spend a morning together in the sunshine

Those dimples of hers when she smiles a big, real smile are just heart melting. They get me everytime.

Notice her blankets? I asked her if she would go please make her bed, not totally sure what would happen. She says "Oh sure Mom!" and runs off, and I find this a few minutes later when she yells "Mom! I'm done in here!" She was so proud of herself - under that Frozen blanket is another blanket that she pulled up over the pillows all neatly as well. What a big girl! (and yes naked, because she sleeps naked. Getting PJs on this kid is pretty much impossible)

On Thusday Ady called and FaceTimed with Quinny - they were so cute chatting away to each other. Q grabbed a book and tried to 'read' Ads a story, and Ady was running around showing Q how she can be an airplane haha! Such cute little buddies.

Family workout time! I've been struggling a bit lately - still on top of workouts, but not feeling as though I am giving them my "all" - just feeling run down and tired. And my eating has still been good, but I have been a bit more relaxed with it, which leads to not always awesome choices. So all around I've been feeling a bit discouraged, so I am thankful for a family who is eager to workout with me and motivates me to get going!

Jon told me that I needed to take pictures in order to feel better, since I have been feeling down. He said there is a change, and I just don't see it. He took pictures of me at the start of this challenge 8 weeks ago that I never looked at, because I was embarrassed by them and didn't want to see them. I am still embarrassed, but wanted to put them up here, because I have nothing to feel ashamed of. This is my body, and I am who I am and that is good enough. I am working hard to re focus myself and re train myself to make better choices so that those choices become habits. I want to be healthy and strong, and that is not something to be embarrassed of. So here is my picture from 8 weeks ago of my back, and the picture now. My favorite change is my bum - it's higher and harder, and that superficially makes me happy haha!! It's been quite the journey for me.