Fitness

Battle of the Belly Bulge

So instead of posting a meal plan today, I wanted to let you all know what plan of attack I plan on taking to fight my 3 years of baby lbs.  I saw this segment one morning on the Today Show and it looked interesting to me for a few reasons:

  1. It gave me a cookbook with photos and recipes to choose from.
  2. There were meals that I could make for everyone in my family.
  3. The diet targets BELLY FAT, HELLO! 

elbow, elbow, tummy, knee...

Elbow, elbow, tummy, knee.

I repeat these words all summer long.  It is the phrase Addie’s first swim instructor, when we were on a vacation last year, taught her for climbing out of the water.

I cannot begin to tell you how important water safety is to me and my husband.  Obviously it is to every parent that has a child, but for us, we have a VERY DEEP POOL in our backyard (came with the house) so safety is SUPER important to us.  When I hear…

friend favorite ~ tight bod with a pod

Melissa Heuser is a hero to me!  She saved my backside, quite literally, when I was pregnant with my first baby, Addie.  I was still working full time in an office and she came to my house 2 mornings a week and whipped my booty into gear.  I wore my pre-prego jeans until I was 5 mos pregnant and then switched to maternity clothes.  I loved that people would tell me they couldn’t tell I was pregnant until I turned around (I’m sure they were only humoring me, but I loved it anyway!).  This…

friend favorite ~ pl&m ~ protein does a body good

As most of  you know from stopping by each day, our third Little is going to be joining us Tuesday, March 9th (still keeping my fingers crossed we make it to the date!)  As such, I have a treat to share with you all!!!

First off the truth, as I tell you repeatedly, I’m not super human!!! I’m a regular mom and regular person just like you, that just has lots of tricks up her sleeve!

The only thing I may do differently than others is organize our life to try…

studio seaside ~ for moms and kids


It was beautiful Monday!

Soooo sorry to say this to anyone in the rain and the snow, but we’ve had our share of rain in the past few weeks.  My Littles and I have been CRAWLING the walls.  We couldn’t really leave the house with their colds, so it’s been really FUN!  Needless to say the past two days of 80+ degrees have been FABULOUS!

And today was a treat!  Hubby was off work with the holiday, so he spent the…

favorite finds friday

These weeks keep flying by, HOW does that happen?!?!?  I must say, I LOVED my week off from cooking!!  Such a treat!  I can honestly say I have never done that before, but will definitely again.  It was obviously a little pricier than cooking every meal, but if you balance it between some lower priced places, it’s not too bad.  And fun for older kids too, you could have everyone pick a place for a night.

(And YES,  I Have posted

favorite finds friday

It’s been a busy, but slow week!  Anyone else in So Cal feeling a little HOUSED with the Littles this week???  We have been reduced to having all the chairs back on top of our kitchen table.  BOTH Hayden and Addie are having fun climbing on EVERYTHING!  Addie now thinks climbing the drawer handles to get into the upper kitchen cabinets is fun…OH JOY!  Our biggest saving grace outing was Frogg’s Bounce House. WOW, did we LOVE this place.

This was Addie about 30 seconds after we…