Pieces of my life lately

I have had this blog for several years now and recently I have had a feeling to write more about personal things than fitness things. It's just not really my interest anymore. I do enjoy eating healthy and I used to enjoy reading about healthy living but I feel that now that I am personally in a maintenance mode in regards to my weight my focus has gone else where. I do still enjoy my Beachbody workouts and toyed around a bit with barre and Buti Yoga and have started to do the Kayla Itsines workout too I am just in a place where fitness and nutrition isn't such a HUGE part of my life anymore it just became more like brushing my teeth therefore pretty blah to talk about.

I have taken a big focus on my family lately and getting into other hobbies that I truly enjoy partaking in. I did a photo shoot for a friend, and really just spending time with my family and reading a whole bunch of books on everything. I have just been doing me and trying to steer away from living my life online and in real life but I still feel a pressing calling to write so here I am......writing.

My daughter turned a year last week and it was so fun getting her cake and photo background all ready for her smash cake session and.....well... that didn't really happen. She was scared of the cake and my husband insisted on making her put her hand in the frosting and her hand got sticky and well it was then over because she did not like sticky on her hand LOL.

There she is looking just like her father. She is just an amazing determined baby and I love her to pieces but man, does she give us a run for our money. She pinches us and hits us when she gets frustrated so we are totally in a season with this one! I can say that she has been my most challenging baby yet for sure. She is doing well in day care and her favorite person is her brother. She has a thing for our dog and she hooks him up with food whenever he can so he totally just lets her climb all over him within reason because she sneaks him some treats here and there. I totally am in love with this little. Yesterday, for the first time she ran up to me screaming Momma Momma! I was seriously about to cry because she has refused to say Momma FOR. EVER! Needless to say she never said it again after that moment outside but it will be a pure joy when she says is consistently for me. Her Daddy is still by far THE MAN of the house everything revolves around her Daddy even though she has taken to Brother and I a bit more.

My job is going pretty well, we are up to transfer from Mass to somewhere next year and we are waiting to see if we are going to get promotions or not so we are excitedly awaiting the news on that. It's been really hard for me to lean on God lately because of all this craziness that is going to happen in our lives in the next few months. I can't remember where the idea came from but a few times I have had a faint thought about becoming a Company Commander for my job in other words a Drill Sergeant or Drill Instructor. Basically, the same thing. I am torn between this thought because I don't know if it is Gods will for me and my family so I have been praying about it a lot lately. I don't know where this life is going to take us but applying for and accepting this job is going to take me away from my family more than I would like but it would also be so rewarding and would maybe give me that extra push to become an officer which is something that is TOTALLY my end goal with my career. If you are reading this any quick prayers about direction would be great!

My parents are coming up next week too with my oldest son and that is going to be pretty amazing. I can't wait to show my parents around. They were up here last year helping me out with Molly when she was born so they really didn't get out to do much because my husband was working and I was busy healing and resting all that I could while my parents were here so now we can take walks and I can show them some lighthouses and some good food that the Cape has to offer. I am sure I will have a million more stories once they have gone and I can put together my thoughts on the whole visit. I am super excited to have Brandon up here for a month, I love waking up with the ability to see him every morning. It really makes me happy to be able to have that time with him and to see him so flawlessly just blend right into our family without an issue. It's a wonderful thing to see. I am eagerly awaiting his arrival.

Well I will leave you with some pictures from my photo shoot last weekend and hope that you enjoy them!