It's just one of those days...

Sitting here listening to Lana Del Rey Radio on Pandora, playing around with photos and hacking the husbands Facebook account. It's a lot of fun. :-)

Yesterday was Charlie's 9 month doctors appointment and of course Dr. Hubbs didn't tell us anything we didn't already know. Our little bug is perfect :-) She weighs a whopping 22 lbs and is 27.4 inches long. Last Friday she started crawling and then out of no where yesterday she started pulling up to her knees on her toy box. I guess this means she's going to be pulling up to standing position and walking before I know it. I can't believe how fast this is all happening! Make it stop! Just kidding, I enjoy watching her grow, learn and discover things.

She only had to get one shot yesterday so she was pretty happy about that. Here is day 20.

Today is the last day to post my week 3 image for the lyric "It's like you're my mirror, my mirror staring back at me" for The Photographer Within's P52. I had this whole idea planned out in my head that incorporated Charlie but she just didn't want to cooperate with me this week. So instead of Charlie, I completed another selfie.

Day 21. Week 3.

I feel like it was kind of cliche to take a picture of myself in the mirror. I guess I was a little uninspired this week. Hopefully I can have some fun with next week's lyric.

I haven't really talked much about my weightless journey recently. I weigh in again Saturday but I'm currently down 7 lbs. Hopefully I'll be down another 2 by the time I weigh in again. I've really been doing great running and eating right. I feel so much better than I did 20 days ago. I'm not really trying to diet, I'm just trying to focus on making lifestyle changes and not eating crap that I was before. Luckily for me I've got a lot of motivation $$$ and some good friends along for the ride. :-)

Christina Perri's Jar of Hearts just came on. Wow. I love this song, it reminds me of a million different things.  I think I'll go ahead and sign off for tonight and sing this song at the top of my lungs. (Hope my neighbors can't hear me.)

xxx

Ryan

xxx

Ryan

Days 9 & 10

I've been under the weather the past few days. I feel like I'm sick all the time. Once Charlie gets all these daycare bugs out of her system we are going to have some pretty healthy immune systems! I look forward to those days.

Day 9.

We have a lot of military books in our house. My husband was a sniper in the Marines and I was an ABH in the Navy. With that being said, we really wanted to get out this weekend and see Lone Survivor but he's had the flu and like I said earlier, I haven't been feeling so great myself so it looks like we're going to spend the weekend home relaxing and trying to get well.

Day 10.

Friday morning I woke up and felt like there was a fire in my throat. Seriously, I never get sore throats but on Friday I felt like I was going to die. Since I couldn't really eat much I decided to juice myself some breakfast. I LOVE juicing. This recipe is really simple and one that I use a lot.

Handful of spinach
3 small Gala Apples
1/2 lemon (peel and all)
1 whole cucumber
Kale
3 celery stalks
5 baby carrots

It really takes a ton of fruits and veggies to juice. All of that made this one glass of juice. Crazy. But it's so good. Especially if you're not feeling good and you drink some fruits and veggies the nutrients and vitamins make you feel better instantly.

I have something delicious cooking in the crockpot for today (Day 11) so I'm saving that photo for a recipe blog later. Have a great Saturday friends!

xxx

Ryan