8 years ago

8 years ago I met my husband. It was Spring break of 2005, my BFF Melissa was studying abroad in London and I decided to go visit her. She was planning a trip to Spain with some of her friends (including my hubby) and asked me to join them in the adventure. I clearly could not say no to a trip with Melissa and I am so glad I did. We spent a week in Spain then another week back in London partying and having fun. My hubby and I totally hit it off and the rest as they say is history in the making. Best decision of my life.

Here are a few pictures of us through the years. I had so much fun sifting through pictures and it was so hard to just pick a few. We have so much fun together and I am so glad that I never listened to him when he said we didn't have to take pics to remember.

Hanging out in a park in London, we were totally drunk at this point in broad daylight. Gotta love Europe

 Getting ready for my cousin's traditional wedding, love the matching African outfit

 Newly engaged in Luxembourg, totally showing off my ring

 Chilling in Austria by a lake, what else do you do in Europe in the Summer

Wearing my hat, English style, on a beautiful day in London

 Partying at a friend's wedding, we sure have a lot of fun together

 Hanging out in New York City, yeah, that's Times Square in the background

Laughing at a silly joke in Thailand, my poor hubby was sunburnt

 Watching a Dolphin show in Hawaii on our honeymoon and holding hands :)

 Big cheese in a cabin in the Poconos, pearly whites anyone

 Drinking our way through Las Vegas

 Chilling at a beer garden in London

 Making fun of my tangled weave

I am so in love with this man

It's been a great 8 years; we traveled a lot together, got married and made 2 beautiful boys. I am looking forward to many more years with my handsome man

#Projectmilf - week 5

We are in week 5, wooohooo. I swear time is flying by when you are having fun. This week is about adding something more to your life that is going to help with your goals. Well, the funniest thing happened, my hubby decided to join me in this fitness journey. Talk about adding something more to my life this week. I am so happy.

After watching me do jumping jacks for a few weeks, my hubby decided that he wanted to join in on the fun. He didn't want to do jumping jacks so he ordered a workout video. Remember Tae Bo? Well next thing I know, Saturday the video showed up. My Hubby was so excited he started setting up the video as soon as we got it

We managed to get 3 workouts in this week. We only did 20 minutes each day so far, it's so hard and we are so out of shape.

Our family room has become our gym. Eventually we'll start using the gym downstairs, but right now this is working just fine. We are making baby steps over here. I love doing everything with my hubby, I am so glad that he decided to join in on the fun

And what I am loving this week are these picture of my mom and grandma hanging with Jbird this past weekend. Check him out smiling away, such an awesome baby my Jbird

Oh and I am loving that my friend HJ was able to visit us, we love visitors

Hope you are all doing well with your goals this week

Weekend fun - Grown up time

It was another great weekend of fun in our household. We had lots of grown up activities planned that included dinner on Friday, brunch on Saturday morning, and drinks on Saturday night. Very busy as we like it around here. My mom and grandma watched the kids for us as they always do.

The weekend started with dinner out with some of hubby's friends

Then on Saturday I hosted our quarterly ladies brunch. We had one last November and decided to make it happen at least every 3 months. We had such a great time. I sent hubby and the kids to my mom's house so that it would be just us girls :). There was lots of good food and great discussions.

Some of the ladies after the brunch, there were 3 other girls but they left before my hubby got home so we didn't get a chance to have them all in the picture

After brunch, we hung out with the kids all afternoon taking a glorious 2-hour nap with Tman.

Tman singing the itsy bitsy spider, Jbird is just happy to be with his brother

My mom came over after 8pm to spent the rest of the evening with the kids. We got both of them ready for bed then headed out for dinner and drinks with some of hubby's friends. We were out to celebrate someone's birthday and had a great time.

Red and white sangria = delicious

We ate some crab pretzel and uber cute mini crab cake sliders top chef style, yum yum

Somehow the girls ended up doing this crazy shot called a bj. We all looked ridiculous trying to drink without using our hands but it was delicious :)

 

We didn't get home until 2am. We had such a great time but were obviously very tired. Thankfully our children sleep in and don't really wake up until 8am and Sunday was a chill day. We just chilled and relaxed with my mom and grandma. I was so slow all day that I almost forgot to take a picture with my mom and grandma. I only remembered to take one when they put their jackets on and were ready to leave.

Great fun was had by all. Grown up weekend fun was a total success. I definitely like the idea of doing lots on Saturday and chilling on Sunday. It gives us time to recuperate until Monday. Hope you all had a great weekend too.

Travel - Garmisch, Germany

We had an amazing time in Garmisch Partenkirchen, a beautiful mountain resort town in Bavaria, Germany. We  only lived a few hours away so we got to check this place out in the Summer and the Winter. Beautiful does not even begin to describe this place. 4 years ago we took hubby's sister and her then boyfriend here when they came to visit us. We had the best time.

We stayed at a beautiful resort surrounded by beautiful mountains. The view was breathtaking.

The first night we just chilled at the resort, hung out in the hot tub and enjoyed a nice dinner with lots of drinks. Fruity, girly drinks were always my favorite

The next day we tried our hand at snowboarding

 We didn't like it one bit, check me out falling on my butt over here

 We decided to just go back to skiing. I suck at it but my hubby looks way cool doing it

Hubby and his sister's then boyfriend went all the way up the mountain (because they are actually great skiers) and they took these beautiful pics on the way down. Beautiful I know

 The four of us at the end of a long day of skiing

That night we went to a nice dinner as you do when you are on vacation. We had a grand old time

We had so much fun and of course way too many delicious cocktails. That resulted in serious silliness later that evening

The next day we hit the slopes again but we didn't last as long this time, we were so tired after a few hours

We spent the evening playing pool and chilling at the resort bar

We had the best time in Garmish with hubby's sister and her then boyfriend. This town is seriously worth checking out. Bavaria is just such a beautiful area. It's no wonder every story about Germany is located somewhere in Bavaria. If you are in the Munich area any time of the year, check out this awesome resort town, you will not be dissapointed.

#Projectmilf - week 4

Week 4 is upon us. How awesome that we all survived 3 weeks already. This week is about sharing 4 favorite things that we enjoy that are also helping us with this challenge.

1. My new favorite thing are these 2 new bathing suits I just purchased. I just got them a few days ago and my motivation is through the roof. I want to wear them with pride on the beach this Summer. I didn't like the bottom of the black and white one so I didn't keep it.

2. I am loving my jamaican black castor oil, I have been applying it to my edges religiously everyday for the past 2 months and I think it's working :).

3. I am loving my go-to hairstyles that are allowing me to hide my edges that are not quite fully grown in. I haven't had the need to wear a wig this time around and that's awesome.

4. I am loving my new palette of eye shadow and experimenting with a variety of colors. I have been into matching my eye shadow with a color I am wearing.Thanks for your comments about my makeup.

As far as my goals go, I am still holding steady in the weight/toning department. My hair deserves an update thought because I think there has been some improvement since January.

The excessive shedding finally stopped sometime in December. The left is a detangling session from January compared to one of my worst one in December. The right is a detangling session in February compared to that same December session.We definitely have less shedding now.

The hair is starting to grow back and I am so happy about that. Check out my two month update on my edges. The pictures were taken on January 1st, January 29th, and February 27th. I am seeing progress and loving it. I think by my next relaxer in 2 months my edges will be looking nice and full.

The left side, which is my less dramatic side

The right side, where I suffered the most noticeable loss

I still have some time to go before I am back to myself but right now it's baby hair galore

The goals are coming along, slowly but surely. Hope you are making some great progress too.