New Year - New Me!

So my New Year Resolution for 2010 is to change my lifestyle! I want to eat healthier and lose the excess weight! I want to get in shape and keep myself healthy! This has been my resolution for the past several years now, so what's different about this year? My one year old daughter!

I have found that I get tired faster now that she is fully mobile! Keeping up with her takes much more energy than I was used to! Plus, I want to be an example for her to be healthy and active! I want to be able to play with her!

There's also other things that really pushed me to make this change. I haven't been happy lately with the way I look. I know I put on some extra weight during my pregnancy but never really did enough to take it off after Hayden was born. I want to be able to look in the mirror and be happy with what I see, and right now I'm not!

So I on Friday I started working out to Jillian Michael's 30 Day Shred. It's a combination of high intensity cardio and strength training broken up into three different levels in 20 minute intervals. As of today, I am on day 4 level 1! I've been a little sore the past 3 days, but I feel great after completing each session! I've decided to start a new blog to keep track of my progress. As of right now, it's set to private, but if you want to follow along let me know!

Caught Red Handed!

I knew all my pens kept on disappearing!

She wasn't too happy when I took the pens away from here!

Christmas Parties Galore!

What a weekend! It think I've had my share of Christmas parties this year, but no, there's still more to come! From Friday to Sunday, I had one party after another to go to!

It all started at the Philly 1st Crhistmas party (not my home ward, Philly 4th, but my parent's ward). My ward's Christmas party was on Saturday, but I had another committment, so I went with my parents' to their ward party and we had a blast! I got to see some friends from the old "Broomall 1st" ward and Hayden saw some of her friends too! It was a really fun night. Here are some pictures of Hayden being her loving self! She's been extra loving lately wanting to give everyone hugs and kisses all the time. Here she is hugging her friends, which she hasn't seen in about a month or so...

Hayden simply loves her friends! She's just such a loving baby!

Hayden & Caroline! Caroline was a little tired and wanted nothing with Hayden's hugs! That's ok Caroline, Hayden still loves you!

She took these antlers from Caroline's stroller since Caroline didn't want to wear them!

I think her favorite part about the party besides eating cake was this balloon.

Our little Yaya! It was so cold and we left her hat at home (I know, I'm a bad mommy!) so here she is wrapped up in my scarf with grandma!

Saturday we went to our Little Gym class as usual, then lunch with dad and then I had to get ready super quick to go to my boss' house for his Christmas party. It was just a few people from work that report directly to my boss and their spouses. I work with a great group of people. The party was only supposed to be from 5:30 - 8ish, but we were there till about 10! I was the first to leave since I had to catch the last train back home or else I would have been spending the night! Dan unfortunatly had to work and couldn't get the night off, so I was on my own. I had a great time even though he wasn't there (I did wish that he could come, but work has to come first!) Hopefully next year Dan will be able to make it!

I had completely forgotten that Dan and I were invited by one of the customers at the restaurant to come to his Christmas party, so Sunday morning while I was getting Hayden her lunch and Dan was getting ready to go to work, he reminded me to make sure I had someone to watch Hayden that night. I asked him, "Why? Are we going somewhere?" He quickly reminded me that we had the Christmas party that we "have to at least make an apperance at!" Great! I was so looking forward to just relaxing Sunday night, but no we had to go to this party. It would be an insult to these people if we didn't show. So Sunday night I got myself ready and dropped Hayden off with my parents. The party was... well, to put it lightly... interesting! It was definitely an interesting croud of people. I'm just glad that we were only there for about an hour, then we both looked at each other and made a quick escape!

So that was our weekend! This coming week will be just as rough! I have my work Holiday party on Thursday, my dear friend L's cookie exchange the same night that I have to attend, my own Christmas Recipe Swap Friday, a Last Minute Shopping party (where I'll be displaying my jewelry if anyone is interesting in come!) as well as our usual weekend chaos! I hope I survive the week! Wish me luck!

Christmas came early

Christmas came early for my dad this year! Dan and I surprised him on Sunday with 2 AWESOME tickets to the Eagles v Redskins game here at the Linc. Our seats were row 12 seats 14 & 15 right by mid field. We were so close to all the action! I had such a great time with my daddy!

Merry Christmas Dad! Hope you enjoyed your present!

Lisa's Baby Shower

My dear friend Lisa is having her first little girl in February and I made her a diaper cake with lots of goodies for the baby! Here's a picture of my attempts at making my first diaper cake!

Hummm... maybe I should go into business making diaper cakes???

Breakfast at Ruby's

Hayden and I go to Ruby's once a month for our Mother/Daughter breakfast date after her gymboree class! I look forward to this every month. We have so much fun coloring and eating and playing.

Happy (Early) Birthday Stewie!

Hayden and I went down to Baltimore, MD this weekend with my in-laws to visit my brother-in-law and his family for Stuart's 5th birthday. His birthday isn't really until next week, but my mother-in-law had this weekend off, so we decided to celebrate early! We had such a fun time! Hayden loved her cousins, Stuart and Eden (even though I don't think Eden was too thrilled with Hayden...) They had a great time playing, dancing and singing. I was really happy that we had a chance to go down to visit them! Looking forward to the next visit!

(I've been really bad about uploading my photos lately! Oops... coming soon, I promise!)

A Much Needed Girls Night

I got to have a much needed girls night last night with my friends! My dearest friend, Lindsey, is getting married next Saturday and we got together to help her with the final preps for the wedding. I know, girls night is supposed to be about having fun! Well, we did have a good time! We sat around sorting candy, eating candy (probably more than we should have!), eating the yummy treats that Lindsey so kindly whipped up for us! And sharing stories of the past years. Currently, I'm the only married one in the group, so for some reason that deems me the "go to" person for relationship problems and advice! I'm also the youngest in the group too, so it's a little strange sometimes giving advice to someone that is older than me! I don't know!

We exchanged stories of boyfriends past, encounters with the horrid "swine flu", and gave Lindsey our two cents about marriage. We're all so happy for Lindsey and Ed! They've been together for almost 4 years now and they are finally getting married! I've know Lindsey for about 3 years now and she's been talking about Ed proposing to her since then. Last September Ed finally proposed and we couldn't be more estatic! I'm looking forward to the wedding!

So last night was a blast! We should definitely do that more often (the getting together part, not the sorting out candy!) I don't think I want to see any more candy for a LONG time! Love you Linz! And thanks Sarah for babysitting! I don't know what I would do without you!