Mommy’s Little Men – Week 14 – Mar 29 – Apr 4

This week had a fantastic 4 day family weekend with some awesome memories made. More pics from Easter will be up later today or tomorrow. For now it's this week's favorite Jordie pics to start this post. 

This is a new favorite photo of James! 

And just one photo of them together that I could find. Here we are on our evening walk and the boys are playing pass with the basketball. 

2015 Mommy’s Little Men Photo Project

“I love watching them become little men right in front of my eyes”

A healthier and happier me

After almost 3 years away from it I've decided to make a commitment to be healthier, to eat better and to get some exercise every day. Even if it is just a short walk after supper as a family, just to not sit around so much. I sit so much for work that I really want to make myself get up more. I know in the past how good I've felt about my life when I have made this commitment and I want to get back there again. Plus, I've gained 6-7 pounds back of the 10 that I had lost before we went to Mexico. I want to get back down to where I was, and would love to lose even a few more pounds. I will never be skinny unless I learn to give up the foods that I eat (which I don't see happening any time soon), but I can be more active, and happy with the body that I've got. I really want to focus on just being active with my boys, and just showing them that getting out as a family is really important. I asked James the other day as we walked down the street together holding hands if he would still walk with me even when he's a teenager and he promised me he would. :)

The kid really needs a haircut, but here is the proof that he still holds my hand when we walk down the street!

My view on the treadmill the other day. Playing crib on the iPad while Jordie watched Treehouse beside me. 

Family walk after dinner

James trying out the gym equipment near the walking trail at the school

And of course Jordie wanted to try too! 

On Easter Sunday the boys and I walked to Nana and Papa's house for turkey dinner. Jordie didn't want to look so I just took a picture of James and me!

How cute are these two photos?

James and I went for a walk the other night and it was absolutely beautiful out. Here is the view looking down Nootka Street towards the water.

And the view looking out over the school field

My handsome little walking partner. He is such a trooper and looks forward to our after dinner walks now and asks about it throughout the day. 

I had to stop to tie my shoe and he asked if we could just sit together for a few minutes, and before I knew it he was snuggled right up next to me. 

Another view from our walk, this time at the far end of the field looking down Massett Street

Hugs for Mommy while on our walk. 

Terrible hair from swimming that afternoon but who cares, my kid asked to take my photo 

so I said yes

That's it for now, more photos to come I'm sure! I would love to write an update post when I hit my goal weight :)

Mommy’s Little Men – Week 13 – Mar 22 – 28

Starting with my favorite together photos from this week! 

My top 5 photos of James this week

And my favorites of Jordie too!

2015 Mommy’s Little Men Photo Project

“I love watching them become little men right in front of my eyes”

Daddy and his boys hike up Valentine Mountain

One day last week Jim decided to be super ambitious and get out with the boys one morning before lunch and off to Valentine Mountain they went. I couldn't believe when he told me that Jordie actually climbed the whole way up the stairs by himself, walked all the way around at the top of the mountain, then all the way back down the stairs and half way down the trail before he just looked at Jim and put his arms up and said "up". That afternoon he slept for over 3 hours! 

I absolutely LOVE this new photo that Jim took of them at the bottom of the trail!

And this one's pretty cute too at the bottom of the stairs

hehehehehehe...Jordie's face in this one is awesome!

I love a great Barrows Boys selfie! 

James's photo taking skills are getting better all the time!

Post #500 and over 50,000 pageviews

Wow, 500 posts and at almost 53,000 views now, and I can't believe it! I love looking back through the old posts, and planning new upcoming posts, uploading photos and recording our memories for years down the road once my boys are all grown up. I can't wait to be able to show them all the wonderful things we did with them and how we celebrated the holidays. I'm so proud of myself for committing to this blog and really doing it. Here's to another 500 posts. If you are a reader of this blog, I thank you!

Thought I would finish off this post with some recent pictures of each of us. I'll start off with me because I'm probably the one that's on here the least. :)