Photo Sessin with Baby Lily

My friend Sarah Jane asked me to do pics of her baby girl Lily.

 She is just the sweetest little thing!

Here are a few of the Pictures I took.

She was so good during the photo shoot, and as you can see we had her in so many different things..lol

The stocking is my favourite...lol

Weigh-in

I got weighed last night after turbo, I only lost a pound this week.

I did good(not great) with my eating, and excercising, but I didn't drink much water.

 In-fact somedays I didn't drink any. And we all know how inportant it is to drink at least 8 cups a day!

I also didn't have the drive I had the week before, but I do this week.

One pound off is better than gaining, or even staying the same.

So this is a total of 5.6 pounds in 2 weeks!

I also came across acouple other weight loss blogs that are very inspirational!

This girl  Zoe went to the same school as me, she looks amazing and is only about half way thru her weight loss journey.

And this girl Jen has lost a ton of weight ( 90 pounds) and is so inspirational! Just reading her blog gives me will power!

What did you do today?

It's Monday! Ha! I actually really like mondays, anyone else love mondays? probably not..lol

anyway, here is what my day looked like....

I went to work at 6:45

got back home from the morning route around 9:15am, and started my morning chores.

When I looked in on Kiki ( she is my only baby home in the mornings), this is what she was doing

Hehe, she is up on her big sisters bed, barbie house, dolls and play laptop in hand...lol

When I looked in the living room this is what I found

and

LOL!

So much for giving me a hand with the cleaning...lol!

Oh well!

While I had the camera out I decided to do a self portriat photo shoot.....lol

Like my new purple scarf? I took it from one of my sisters....LOL

Cheese!

I know, I am such a goof..lol

Okay, that was fun, but I had to get back to cleaning....

this was not going to clean itself.....

By 2pm it was time for me to head back to work, my house was clean,
and I had dinner in the crock pot.....Homemade Chicken Noodle Soup, and homemade biscuits!

Raven has hockey from 5 -6pm then I have turbo at 7pm

It is weigh in night!

My post tommorrow will be my weigh in post!

oh! and here is my scent of the day....lol

Gold Canyon's Sweet Cinnaroll!

It smells soooo good!

Have a good day!

Weekly Weigh-in

For the past week, I have made healthy food choices, I have sweated (yes it is a word, in my vocabulary at least) my butt off at turbo jam classes, and I have LOST 4.6 pounds! Yay! It's a start! Now to keep the momentum going!

I am focused, I am driven, and I am ready!

Another great, busy weekend in the Scanlon household!

Keilee had ballet first thing Saturday morning, then it was off to the rink for Raven's hockey practice, and then River & Keilee's hockey practise followed right after Ravens.

Neither River or Keilee stayed on the ice the whole practice.....I have been having a problem last weekend and this weekend with them at practice.

I sit upstairs at the rink ( the heated area with a large window looking onto the ice surface, there is also a 52 inch tv up there that the kids like to watch cartoons on) when the girls see me up their when they are on the ice, they want to get off the ice and come upstairs with mommy!

Sorry but I didn't pay hundreds of dollars for them to come upstairs with me and watch tv on the big tv!

SO I have come up with a new rule for hockey practice.....Mommy needs to bring a blanket and dress to sit in the cold bleachers.....theres no fun in the bleachers, and hopefully they will want to stay on the ice!

After River & Keilee's (short lived) hockey practice, we headed 25 minutes to another town called Murrary River to watch another hockey game!

Friends of ours that live in Nova Scotia, were over for the weekend on a hockey tournament.

That evening, hubby and I went out on a date to the movies. ( I did have some popcorn, but no butter, and diet coke) We went to see Paranormal Activity. It was horrible. I wish we would have gone to see A Christmas Carol. :(

Today, was a little less busy, I had to return a bus to one driver that I was subbing for and then go and pick up another bus, for another driver that I am subbing for mon, tues & wed. This took me almost 1hr 30 minutes to do ( they lived 40 minutes away from each other).

My grandmother (Nan Gillam) fell hit her head and blackend both her eyes, and is in the hospital. She is doing better now, but for a few days, she was completely out of it, talking nonesense, freaking out at the nurses ( which is so not her), and worrying us all half to death. She has to have another CT Scan tommorrow, please pray that everything comes back good, and that she gets better and can go home soon!

She is my best friend, and I love her so much! I hate seeing her like this.

I also managed to get a few pics of my 2 baby nieces...

and Miss Ava Lynn!

Hope you all had a great weekend!

I decided to start a blog to track my journey in weight loss,and to also, keep me on track. But, its hard to keep two blog's going, and seeing as it sometimes takes me a few days between entries on this blog that I am going to combine  the two.But don't worry I will keep my "weighty" posts to one a week. :)  I have a lot of weight to lose, and need to lose it NOW! I have tried so many times, but always fall off the wagon after 3 weeks or so. I need this to be the last time I start a "diet", I need this to be the time I succeed.

I have been over weight for the past 7 years. I had my first child at 19, and gained 70 pounds. After having her, I only lost 50 of it. Then with my second child I gained another 60 pounds, and did not lose any of it. Luckily, with my third child, I didn't gain any weight, in fact I lost 15 pounds, but gained it back within a year after having her.

My husband has many health issues, which have included cancer, chronic pain, and chronic kidney stones. I HAVE to be the healthy parent. Thus far, I haven't had any health problems due to being over weight, but I am almost 30 and I am sure if I stay this size any longer it will catch up to me. My children ( 3 girls) are ages 8, 5 and 3. I need to be happy and healthy for them, and right now I am neither. So here I go, here is a before picture of me.

I have signed up for a exercise class "Turbo Jam" its 3 night a week for an hour a night and it is mid-high intensity. I am also going to go to the gym at least 3 times a week. So that covers excercise, and as far as eating goes, I am going to make healthy food choices, make sure to eat 3 - 4 small meals a day, along with healthy snacks, and the big one....drink at least 8 cups of water a day!

I am also going to reward myself for every 20 pounds I lose. The first 20 pounds I lose I am getting a mani/pedi. The 2nd 20 pounds I lose I am buying 10 tanning sessions, etc. Things that will make me feel better about myself, and want to keep going!


I know this is going to be one of the hardest things I have ever done, but I am so ready for it. I can't wait to get to that point where all my clothes is getting loose, and people start noticing and commenting on my weight loss.




My sister Chandler lost 40 pounds last year, and she looks amazing! I also have a friend who for the first time in years in below 200, and she too looks amazing.

This is Chandler last October ( before she started getting fit)

This is her last June, and she has lost a bunch since that!

Val 2 summers ago

Val now! She looks so good!

And look a this lady, her name is anthea, she was one of our neighbors in Shearwater. He husband was so proud of her accomplishment he put these pics of facebook himself.

These pictures are all of women I know, they are not pics I found on the internet of people I don't know, so I can see the real difference, and it just blows me away their transformations. I want to jump on hte band wagon, I want to see what my transformation will look like!

In a year from now, I want to look back at this entry and that before pic and just say "WOW, I have come a long way!"

I will do an entry each week, about how the week went, weight and inches lost, and what I did or didn't do, and how I can improve,and how I feel. I really hope if anyone reading this is on the same journey as me or has lost a significant amount of weight, will leave me a comment to incourage me, or give advice.

For those of you who have been reading my blog for awhile, you may ( or may not) know, that we are buying a house from my parents. The house was a 6 apartment complex for over 20 years. Before that, it was an executive rancher home. My dad bought the house 35 years ago, built  a peice on, and converted the whole thing into 6 apartments. We ( meaning me as a child, my sisters and parents) never lived here, we always had our own house elsewhere.

Last year when my parents moved back to  ("HOME") PEI  from Yellowknife, NWT, they decided to build a house, and sell the apartments. They offered the apartment complex to us for a very VERY great price, and the deal was that we ( meaning my husband & I , and our kids, my mom & dad and only sister living home Chandler) would all live in the apartment complex ( hubs, me and 3 girlies in the 2 bedroom top floor apartment) and my parnets and sister on the main floor which they converted back into one ( was 3) living quatrter, until their house was finished being built. The 2 basement apartments contiue to be rented by previous tenants.

Are ya lost yet? LOL

So this is where we are all still....Mom & Dad's house is almost half way finished!

I CAN NOT WAIT to move into our house ( meaning down to the main floor), and take over this entire building! We already have a family that wants to move into the 2 bedroom top floor apartment as soon as we move out!

We also plan on doing an entire makeover to the outside of the house, new siding, windows ,doors re-shingling the roof, new landscaping, new patios,etc.

To keep my sanity, I have been on HGTV's Rate my Space and some of the home tours that people like Kelly from Kelly's Corner has done, searching for decorating ideas, and dreaming of what I am going to do to "my" house.

So here is the "before" pics of the master bathroom

( DISCLAIMER: THE PICTURES YOU ARE ABOUT TO SEE ARE VERY DISTURBING, UGLY AND IT MAY HURT YOUR EYES! LOL)

(SEE I TOLD YA!)

Ok, here is one of the pics that I have found that is similar (in layout only) to the masterbath room.

We are not planning on replacing the existing vanity ( just counter top and sink), and I really like the one in this picture that is painted black....., also I like the 2 wall sconces and placement next to the window, and the picture above the toilet.

I love everything about this bathroom! Really love the curtains, and the crown molding.

We want to put laminet in our masterbath, I know, I know, its not really meant for bathrooms, but my aunt has it in her bathroom and in her kitchen and she hasn't had any problems with it. amd it looks so nice!

And speaking of my Aunt ( Barb), she has a beautiful house, that when they bought it was nothing the way it looks today. I will go and take some pics of her house and post them on here, I love her style, and my style resembles hers( just hers is way better).