A Look Back...

2011 has come and gone... it has been an exciting year full of new family and journeys. i have been very blessed in  my life with love, health, and happiness and i hope it continues into 2012.

Best of 2011:

Bringing in 2011 with family.

Celebrating the marriage of my younger brother and gaining another wonderful sister who is expecting twins in just a couple of months.

turning the big 3-0 and being thrown a surprise party by family and friends

traveling to mexico with tim to celebrate our one year anniversary.

Learning the importance of friendship through sickness and health.

winning the best couples contest by dressing up as a treasure map... ARRRRR!

finding out we were expecting a little odgers.
(picture coming in may)
looking forward to many new and exciting memories in 2012.

wishing everyone a happy and healthy new year!

drink up.

now that my life is focused on this little guy/girl growing in my belly, my focus on food has increased just a little bit more. when i was trying to eat healthy, my food consisted of sweetners. i never in a million years thought i would ever drink calories...but now being pregnant i refuse to drink any diet drinks... i also stopped drinking caffeine in my diet. so that leaves me drinking the following:

1. water- and LOTS of it
2. milk- we have been going through a GALLON a week!
3. ginger ale- for that party treat
4. grapefruit juice- my "go to" drink when i am taking those horse pill vitamins

i have noticed something getting rid of those sugar substitute drinks in my diet. i am no longer craving sweet things.  i no longer want something sweet to finish off a meal. or a piece of chocolate randomly throughout the day. tim thinks this really strange... in fact, he misses me wanting a dessert with him at the end of the night.

maybe it just a pregnancy thing (i am new at this)... or maybe it is the fact that i am getting sugar in different ways and my body doesn't crave it as much as it does normally...

now salty items, that is a whole other blog post...

Big News!

I was waiting to post until January 1st... but i happen to jump on my blog today and think... "i miss it."

i've been quiet on this blog because i am no longer able to lose and maintain weight... at least for the next five months!

my husband and i are expecting our first little baby in may. it took us both by surprise but we are so excited and counting down the days until we meet our little one!

so many thoughts are going through my head... most good thoughts but there are some i try to push out and think "theresa, you can't control it." i don't want to be that girl freaking out over every pound gained with this baby but let me tell you,  i start to feel very panicky as i inch closer and closer to 170. i have never seen that number in my life and it frightens me... but then i remember... "there is a reason why" and after this baby is born and in my arms, i will be determined to get  back to a healthy weight for my family... i want to feel good about myself being a mother and a wife, and what better way than to love and take care of myself after the baby comes.

so for now, i will try not to worry about the weight gain and enjoy every second of the this miracle growing inside of me.

oh. and enjoy every second of wearing those amazing comfortable maternity jeans!!!!!!

Where am I?

I am sitting on the couch eating handful after handful of sour cream and onion chips... Herrs potato chips.

I am sharing a bowl of Touchdown Ice Cream with my husband on the couch while watching Xfactor.

I am at Coppa 82 Restaurant eating a plateful of spaghetti with red sauce with my mom and dad.

I am sitting in the faculty room eating a plateful of chicken nuggets (gross, I know) dipped in bbq sauce.

I am walking around the mall with a peanut butter blizzard in my hand.

I am digging my hands in a bowl full of halloween candy.

I am at Kohls buying fat pants. i just couldn't take the pain of my tight pants anymore.

I am jumping in my sweatpants the minute i get home from work for comfort..

I am stepping on the scale and watching the number ever so slowly increase.

I am waiting for the moment when i realize i need to start taking care of myself again... and eating healthy.

vet visit.

this morning i had to get my sasha's face checked at the vet. just a quick update. during our moving process, sasha got extremely worked up in her carrier and cut her face. it really began to heal until she decided to start licking, scratching, and nuzzling it on everything around her. before i knew it, her face was coming off!

 i, of course, panicked and took her to vet two weeks ago. she was given an antibiotic and looks MUCH better today. 

when we arrived home, tim thought he would try a new smoothie flavor. he went to work and concocted an awesome berry smoothie.

Ingredients:

1/2 cup frozen blueberries

1/2 cup frozen strawberries

1 cup milk

1/2 cup nonfat plain yogurt

1 tbspn honey

Directions:

Blend these ingredients in a blender and you get a delicious smoothie... for TWO! 

heading out to dinner tonight with some good friends we don't see as often as we like to... looking forward to spending time with them... and hopefully watching the phillies' pull out a win!

Have a wonderful weekend!

a crumb.

i love when i get close to the bottom of a bag of chips or box of crackers. there is something special about those crumbs sitting at the bottom... they have been in the bag for the longest soaking in the flavors of their friends that sat above them.

some people choose to just trash these delicious crumbs... but i choose to embrace them. i pour them into a snack bag and finish them off... or i pour them onto a plate, lick my finger and dab away at them.  this seems to be the cleanest method... as the crumbs that tend to miss my mouth get caught on the plate and not on my clothes or even worse... the floor!

and the "best tasting crumbs at the bottom of a bag" award goes to...

THE DORITO CRUMB!

Thank goodness those are gone... moving on to healthier and better things... 

What crumb would you give the award to?

terrible tuesday.

i hate tuesdays.... three years ago i hated a sunday. i dreaded sunday evening around 4 and that feel of dread lasted until i went to sleep...

i now get that same feeling for a tuesday. having to get up at 6:00... teaching all day. and then heading to class.  and then dragging my tired butt through the door around 9:30. and then showering. and then i go to bed only to get up and start the routine all over again on a wednesday... luckily with no class in the schedule. tired and exhausted are the only two words that come to mind blogging about this and i am already dreading next tuesday.

tonight after class, i met a dear friend for dinner. we ate at one of my favorite restaurants... Cosi. we chatted about things happening in our lives and just enjoyed each others company. i ate a Chicken TBM. seriously one of the BEST sandwiches ever made.

my pants are feeling super snug... i am debating whether i should just bite the bullet and buy "fat" pants to  get me through until i lose some pounds. i should buy pants that fit me when i am twenty pounds up and twenty pounds down... there may be a shopping trip in the near future...

what is your least favorite day of the week? why?

step away from the dorito bag.

today i walked in the door famished from the school day. we had some doritos leftover from our little football party we had yesterday during the Eagles game. i thought about those doritos the whole car ride home.

i couldn't wait to grab the bag from the closet. i couldn't wait to pull out a cheesy chip. and i couldn't wait to eat it. and i loved every crunch.

(woo hooo for bananas in the background!)

we have a lot of "JUNK" in our snack closet. i am not sure how it happened but it did. i need to get rid of all junk food... and in my head, what better way to get rid of it, than to EAT IT! yikes.

weighed in this morning. new number is 156.6. i'll take it! it's a starting point!