Forever Beloved

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weight loss *august*

this month i’ve lost 2 pounds…i certainly wish it came off as fast as it goes on, lol…but at this point i think it might get a *bit* easier as now the rest of the family is on the train with me…we are going on FAMILY walks/runs and eating healthy dinners as a FAMILY…totally makes it easier when there are 4 of you doing it instead of just 1…
i’ve also bumped up from just walking all the time to running/jogging about half my walk…and i’m amazed at what my body can handle!  joey is my running buddy {his body can handle WAY more than mine, lol}…we are hoping that by this time next summer we could possibly do a 5k as a family…
here is my pic for this month…taken at 6 am…which obviously makes me look a bit like a hot mess…
and the flash seems to really accentuate the bags under my eyes, nice…
out for now
~kisses

we ♥ parades

finally…one of the posts i’ve been promising forEVER…the parade post
the first pic is from the curwensville parade weeks ago…i know i know, i seriously slacked on posting this…
this is MY fav part of each parade…all of the deere…and every SINGLE time i say to joe “someday i’ll get dads painted and we’ll be in the deere parade”…
the rest of the pics are from the clearfield fair parade…
you can see joey in the middle of the pic carrying a bass drum…with his little beret on…
i have to admit, for some reason he looked so grown up to me in this parade…and i got a little misty eyed…but i had to keep it together, jade was beside me…as she always says “don’t turn on the water works mama”…
oh the shriners…something i will never understand…i apprecaite EVERYthing they do, seriously, but i will never understand why they give elderly men with alzheimer’s 3 wheelers to ride through a crowd {nothing against elderly men, alzheimer’s or 3 wheelers, just don’t think they should be combined}…
this is always my FAV shriner float…the guy in the front always seems so happy to be doing his big dance and singing…
out for now
~kisses

weekend recap {minus pics}

we had an amazing non-work filled weekend…

friday night we had the BEST chicken and dumplings ever, seriously, everyone liked them…well almost everyone, my oldest little was hungry for his nannys pancakes….because, as i’ve been told a million times, she makes the BEST in the world…after dinner we went to work on cleaning out the attic…it’s first on our “home improvement” list…it’s last on my “favorite things” list…but we did manage to load the entire back of the truck up with junk…

saturday morning was kinda lazy with everyone sleeping in {except me of course, my body seems to prefer the 6 am wake up}…mid morning everyone else started getting up…i do have to admit i kinda like my quiet, non-rushed mornings on the weekends…at noon we had a memorial service for my besties father that passed away a week ago…i was so happy that we were able to be there for her {♥ ya bec}…we got to spend the afternoon together visiting, which was so nice…i miss that girl!!!  saturday evening we decided to take an impromptu drive and ended up in altoona at outback…ya’all KNOW how much this girl loved that!!!

sunday we went to work hard core on our attic…can you even believe i got rid of 10 bags of clothes?!?!  like, seriously, i might have clothes hoarding issues…clothes from way back in college, um really?  like i’m ever going to wear those agian?  we had an ENTIRE truckload of clothes/junk for goodwill…i actually got rid of ALL my fat clothes, which i have to admit felt wonderful…some of them i held up to myself now and just thought “wow”…it was a small victory moment…and it felt SO good to get rid of it…i had held onto them just incase i gained the weight back and i now know i will NEVER go back to that person…

i know i still owe some posts here…and i have all intentions of doing them soonish…promise 🙂

out for now
~kisses