Pirate invasion and the moment of truth....did I meet my goal?

Well the big pirate party was this weekend.  Hunter has been looking forward to this for weeks.  I'm going to have to pat myself on the back for this one.  It turned out pretty cute and everyone seemed to have a great time, even the grown ups!  The decor was a lot of fun.  I grew up with a sister and my first born is a girl so I've had girly parties for as long as I can remember.  So to throw a pirate party was a fun change. 

Of course the food also had to be pirate themed.  We had "Pirate Booty," "Peg Legs" (aka Corn Dogs), "Golden Nuggets" (cheese cubes), "Fish and Chips" (gold fish and potato chips), and fruit swords. 

The games were a much bigger hit than I had expected.  We had "Walk The Plank," "Hook Toss," and "Dig for Treasure."  Dig for Treasure was such a huge hit that we had to break out the water hose to clean off the kids.  Even the grown ups got in on the fun.

My kids are my everything.  We don't buy them birthday presents because I'd rather take that money and make their birthday party extra special with memories that they will take with them forever.  I think we accomplished that yesterday.  I had one happy little pirate and that fills my heart with so much joy.

Now on to the business of my mission.  Did I or didn't I reach my goal of a size 10 by Hunter's Birthday?  Well here's your answer!

I did it!.......sort of.  They fit and I could probably wear them out, but I'm not comfortable in them yet.  Probably 5 more pounds and they will be perfect.  But I was happy that I had them on, zipped them up and was able to take a decent picture of me in them.  Yay for meeting goals!  Time to set some new ones :)

A Tale of Two Weddings

Back in July we flew out to Colorado for my sister in laws wedding.  It was so beautiful and so much fun.  However, after looking at the pictures of myself I wanted to hide in a closet.  In fact we had to DIG to find an actual picture of me because I hid from the camera all night.  Such a shame because it was the first time I had my whole family together all dressed up and I didn't get one picture of the four of us together. 

Last night we had another wedding to attend and I felt like I had to redeem myself so I bravely put on that same dress.  I was pleasantly surprised when I looked in the mirror so I had to do a comparison photo. 

The hard work is paying off.  The counting calories, 5 days in the gym....all worth it so far.  I'm still a work in progress, but I'm confident now that I can do it.