The Three V's

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Braxton's VERY FIRST BIRTHDAY!!!!!!

WOW!! WOW! WOW!!! The time has just flown by. I can't believe he is already one!! I remember just giving birth to him like it was yesterday!! Well, birthdays weren't really ever very big for me growing up. Yes I had a couple parties.. And we celebrated as a family. But I wanted Braxton's party to be a big celebration!! So, that it was. I have been planning and buying for his birthday since July!!! The poor little boy, all he wanted on the day before his birthday was his mom's attention. But I was busy making his cake. a good 17+ hours later, his cake was complete. A master piece I must say.. (Not as great as I had hoped.. but I still am happy about it) But I don't think I will ever attempt it again!! Braxton slept in on his birthday, my sister had to come wake me up, and he was just barely awake. We sang happy birthday to him, and our day began. It was uneventful until his party. He was the happiest I've ever seen him!!! He didn't have but maybe a half hour-hour nap!! He was just babbling and giggling the whole day!! We had his party at the Belle Monte clubhouse in PG. I had a ton of help from my mom, sisters, and my best friend setting everything up. I couldn't have asked for a more perfect night! Braxton was SPOILED!! We have a lot of people that love us and him. So THANK YOU THANK YOU to everyone that came! We did a nacho bar equipped with chips, cheese, olives, beans, salsa, sour cream, and jalapenos. There was blue, green, and brown soda there. (His "theme" was blue, brown, and green.) His cake was there and ice cream. My mom also made some delicious gluten free sugar cookies! (I don't think anyone really knew they were gluten free!! :) ) I did a candy bar. Equipped with all sorts of blue, green and brown candy. I.E. Laffy taffy, salt water taffy, chocolate covered cinnamon bears, chocolate almonds, airheads, sour balls, candy canes, frooties and razzles. The kids self entertained with movies and a basketball court. I had a cake walk game with some prizes. It was the perfect evening. We opened presents, I should say, I opened presents and Brax tried to squirm away!! Then we let him eat his smash cake!! FUNNIEST KID EVER... He ate one sprinkle at a time.. He would NOT dig into his cake. So I pushed his hand in the cake and he would get the most disgusted look on his face like he was mortified his hands were dirty!! Happy First Birthday Braxton!! I love you!!!

Making and baking the 12 cakes I needed

Cutting the cake

Brax helping momma make the cake

17+ hours later, and TA-DA!!!

Spoiled little boy!!!

I left out some note cards so people could write birthday wishes to Braxton, so I could scrapbook them

Grandma Ware and Brax

He LOVED this monkey blanket! Thanks Malachi!

He ate the cake.... One sprinkle at a time!!

Are we done yet?!

Untitled from Cozette Vreeland on Vimeo.

Saturday, January 15, 2011

Let it begin....

It is only a matter of time before I will have my hands full... I will be chasing this little guy around and around!!!

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

One more reason

I already have a million and one reasons why I love this little boy.. And he just adds to that list everyday!!!
*** Turn volume up so you can hear what he is doing!

He was making the funnies noise with his mouth!

Blowing raspberries on his crib and hand

Saturday, January 1, 2011

Drum Roll.....

**Disclaimer** The pictures you are about to view are very graphic, gross, and maybe even a little disturbing!
Ok... Now that, that is out of the way. Let me explain myself.
I got pregnant, I ate really, really bad, gained quite a bit of weight. I had the baby. But I still had some weight.. I wasn't happy about it, so I did something about it. I started On April 1st, 2010. I did the "diet" off and on. More off than on. I got super committed in October. I stuck to the grind and have done this diet (Live the Life.. Most AMAZING "diet" ever.) the reason I say "diet" is because it is intended to be a lifestyle change, not just a diet, or a quick, temporary fix. And it has, in fact, changed my lifestyle.
In April, I weighed in at a whopping 156 lbs.
October 18th, 2010 I weighed in at 146.2
BMI- 35.8
Belly Button- 32 inches
Hips- 38 inches
"Love Handles"- 36 inches
Under my chest- 33 inches
Thighs- 22 inches
Ok... NOW is the time for the DRUM ROLL!!!!!!!!!!
12 WEEKS SUGAR FREE!!! OH YA!!
January 1st, 2011
Weight 128.6 (at night, which means in the morning it is 125!!!!!)
BMI- 28.6 (Total loss of 7%)
Belly Button- 27.5 (Total loss of 4.5 inches)
Hips- 35 inches(Total loss of 3 inches)
"Love handles"- 31 inches (Total loss of 5 inches)
Under my chest- 30 inches (Total loss of 3 inches)
Thighs- 21 inches (Total loss of 1 inch)
That's a total of 16.5 inches overall!!
And a total of 28 lbs since April, and 18 since October.
And here are my before and afters...