Day 712; Since my life, well, changed.

I can not believe it has been a year and a 11 months since I decided to better my life.  September of 2011 was a huge month for me.  I decided to go back to college to pursue my dreams of one day becoming an architect.  I started writing an article for a website called Examiner, where I would write about local, family oriented things.  I started my first round of Insanity and started living a healthier life style.  I started feeling so much more spiritual, and enjoyed my new found love for MY God.  I began baking my own bread and planted a few herbs on my tiny apartment porch.  We also welcomed a new friend to our family on September 25th, his name is Marley and he helped to make our lives a happier place.  We saved him, and he saved us, that's for sure.

Since doing all of the above and uplifting my spirit and making sure to not allow anymore negativity to enter my world, amazing things have happened.

When I say amazing, I mean....

AMAZING!!!!

For one, I got healthier than I had ever been in my entire life.  After trying since April of 2010, so almost a year and a half, we got pregnant in November of 2011.  By the grace of God, we had a beautifully stunning baby girl on August 21st 2012.  I made the Dean's List every semester through 2011-2012 and worked really hard in each class to maintain A's and B's.  We found and moved into our perfect family dream home, I had envisioned this home for months, and it was set at my feet like a gift.  Rafal has received numerous raises since then, and we are actually able to sustain a happy healthy and sometimes fun lifestyle. Dylan started kindergarten after a great year of VPK.  Life has flip turned upside down, that's for sure.

Today is 712 days since I posted Day 1, on September 30, 2011.  How crazy to me that it has almost been two years since I started documenting this crazy journey.  The worst part is, it has been since January 8th, 2013 since I last posted anything on my blog, and I have missed it terribly.  That's 246 days since I last felt I had the time to sit down and have some me "blogging" time.  That is NOT ok.  I am upset with myself.  If I can't find 30 minutes a few times a week to blog about anything, then I need to manage my time a little better, because I want to thank my blogging for initially getting me on this healthier path in life.

SO as of today, September 11, 2013, I pledge to find more time, for ME.

I hope you guys will pick back up and follow along as I catch you up on my journey!  Nothing has changed much, the blessings are abundant and just keep flowing in.

Day 408 Of A Better Me :)

Who knew life with a new born would be so chaotic?  I don't remember this with Dylan, I always had "free" time when he was a wee little pickle head.  Maya is much more demanding than he ever was.  Maybe she is how most babies are and I just got lucky with Dylan?  Who knows!

All I know is that I haven't had time to blog in WEEKS as you can so obviously see.

Maya is huge now.

And so beautiful its nuts!

I have started exercising again and taking pictures and measurements... hopefully in a few more weeks I can post some obvious transformation pictures and stats!  :)  Excited!

339 Days

My oh my, what can change in a year is almost mind boggling.  I actually started this blog last year on, Friday, September 30th. And in those 365 days my entire life changed from amazing to better than I could have ever imagined.

After giving up last September, and realizing that another child was not in our cards I started college online at DeVry University.

By October I was a full-time student finally pursuing my dream of becoming an Architect.

November rolled around and I had started taking amazing care of myself and my body, and started the Insanity workout with Rafal.  I was eating healthy and getting in crazy shape.  I remember one day Rafal came home and said how great I was looking and that was even MORE motivation to keep up the hard work.  Thanksgiving was spent with our dear friends Veronica and her whole family.  We got our Christmas tree and made cookies.

December was full of excitement as we found out we were EXPECTING! I have never been so excited in my entire life.  We traveled to TN and surprised our family with our exciting news. Spent NYE with the Ski family and had a great time!

January and February were full of morning sickness and hormones.  Not exactly fun.

March Dylan turned 4 YEARS OLD! Holy cow I can't believe it!

April Rafal turned 24, I can't believe he is still such a baby, two years younger than me, thats nuts!

May, June and July revolved around packing and moving and nesting.

August our baby girl Maya Riley made her debut.

September I started back up at school.

And, here we are, October, a year later... In 365 days I got pregnant, and had a baby.  How exciting!!

320 Days [My Month in Pictures]

Well, since being a mom of TWO seems to be so much more demanding than just being a mother of one... I seem to have neglected my blog for nearly a month, even after stating I hoped to blog at least once a week.  *sigh*  Due to homework overload and diaper overload that hasn't happened.  SO in order to catch you up quickly, here is our month of September in pictures :) It's a whole bunch of FIRST's in the world of Maya-licious!

 Maya's First trip to Cracker Barrel :)

 Maya's First trip to Nana's House!

 Our first family journey to a place in Tarpon Springs called "Katz", its an Italian place with an indoor playground for the kids! Had a blast!

Maya's first BIG GIRL bath with big bro!

She used to be in my belly!!!

 Maya's First trip to the Aquarium!

Daddy is baby-wearing :)

Mommy is baby-wearing too!

 ONE MONTH OLD!!! :)

SO tiny in such a big bed!

Hope you enjoyed our month in pictures, hope to have more time to actually write some fun stuff soon!