Christmas Week!!

Ugh. I really, really suck at this! I just feel like I am so busy and when I think about my blog, I'm not anywhere close to a physical or mental place to write! Sorry friends.....
Not much to update on either, though, so maybe that's part of it. The most exciting news is, the other day I realized that, I'm officially down 70 POUNDS!!! I have 2 lbs to go to be at goal #2! I should have no problem making that by Dec 31st! :) I'm so so so excited! Every time I step on the scale, I just stand there staring at the number until it finally disappears because I just can't believe HOW far I have come. 7 months ago I weighed SEVENTY, let me say that again... S-E-V-E-N-T-Y P-O-U-N-D-S more than I weigh today! That is just unbelievable to me. Or I think about how a year ago July, (before I was even pregnant) I weighed roughly FIFTY pounds more than I do right now. I just think about all those numbers that were, and that now have gone, by a LONG shot, and not gonna lie, I am damn proud of myself. I have come a long way. It really does take a lot more mental effort than anything and you really, really do have to be really, really ready before it will happen, but I am living proof that it can and will! I never dreamed I would be able to get to this point. I mean, I STILL, by 10 pounds, weigh less than I did the day I got married... and I've had a BABY since then! :) I am just feeling really good, inside and out. I'm thankful for the perseverance that I've had, the Will to do better and BE better. It really does feel good to set goals and meet them!! :) So! After these next 2 lbs, I will only have about 15 or 20 lbs (depending on the day/week!) to go to be at goal #3! (Weighing less than my husband, for those who have forgotten!) I would LOVE to be able to be at the point where I feel comfortable with my husband picking me up, carrying-over-the-threshhold, style... lol if you know what I mean by that. I can't think of what it would actually be called. I know he can pick me up right now, and doesn't seem to struggle, lol but I just don't feel comfortable with it. I have only had 1 guy in my past that was able to do that with me, and I felt comfortable with it, but I weighed probably 40-50 lbs less than I do now. (It was in HS!!) So yes, that would be another exciting thing for me, personally. IDK why I think that would be wonderful, but it just would. It would make me feel really good to have my husband be able to do that, without ME feeling like I was going to give him a hernia. lol. We'll see! :) Otherwise, My ULTIMATE goal (right now anyway) Is about 30-40 lbs away. We'll see how I feel the smaller I get. Who knows, I may end up being satisfied with a higher number on the scale if I feel good about it. But still, 30-40 lbs to be at my IDEAL weight??? That just doesn't seem like that big of a number, at all, to me! So that's really exciting!! But anyway, that's the update on that. :)

Nothing new with the AD stuff, unfortunately. Justin is going to talk to the higher ups at the next drill, in Jan. since nothing is getting done with the ones that are doing it. So we'll see how that ends up. Otherwise, he doesn't have drill in Feb. so the next time he'd go back after Jan. would be March, aka a year after he first turned this paperwork in. Gosh I can't believe it's coming up on a YEAR already. I mean when I think about it, yes it does feel like it's been forever, but a year is just.... ridiculous! Please pray for us, that we get some kind of concrete answer, no matter which direction, that way we know which direction to move from there.

We had Christmas with Justin's family this past weekend. It was wonderful! It was so much fun to watch Griffyn open up her gifts. She was wayyyyy more interested in the wrapping paper and tissue paper than what she actually got, lol but she got a lot of great stuff! We were going to finish up our Christmas shopping for her tomorrow, but it's icey and crappy out and supposed to snow tonight/tomorrow so we probably won't get to. Hopefully, if not, we can finish it up on Fri. (nothing like waiting until the last min. right?!?) We have a few gifts for her under the tree so far, but it's mostly just clothes, not much "fun" stuff. lol We did wrap up a box of kleenex (after someone suggested it!) for her to be able to just pull out all the kleenex. lol And after watching her this weekend with her gifts, I think that one will be her favorite one!!! lol I'm excited to take video and pictures of that, particularly. So, we have Christmas with my dad's family this weekend, on Christmas Eve in GB. Looking forward to that, as well! :) I'm singing in Church on Christmas morning :) pretty excited that I was asked to do that, then we'll come home and have Christmas with just our little family that day. I really can't wait for that. I'm looking forward to being able to spend all weekend with my little family! :)

Other than that, there's not much to update on. We are reeeaaalllllyyyyyy looking forward to tax return time so we can get some things paid off and finally have a good chunk in savings again!! :) That will be really exciting! Can't believe Griffyn turned 7 months old this past weekend! She's growing up sooo sooo fast! We are officially on the downhill slide to her 1st Birthday! I can't believe it. Here in a few months we'll have to start planning the party and that just seems CRAZY to me. It still feels like she should be so little, and she still is, but not as little as I feel like she should still be! She's getting more and more of a personality every day! :) We are definitely enjoying every single minute of it.

I hope you all are enjoying the start of your Christmas week! I know I am definitely looking forward to it. Stay warm, stay safe and have a wonderful Christmas if I don't get on to update again before then!
1. I am thankful for so many wonderful friends and family members. I have a great family I was born into and a wonderful family I married into. I'm so blessed!
2. I am thankful that we are able to give Griffyn a great Christmas and start so many traditions with her!
3. I am thankful that even though it will be cold the next few days, Griffyn should get to experience her 1st Snow!!! :)
Love