FINLEY!

My sweet nephew is almost 1 year old. I cannot believe it. Alison has taken a picture of him every month so we can see how he is growing and changing.
Here are his monthly pictures:

ONE MONTH OLD


TWO MONTHS OLD


THREE MONTHS OLD


FOUR MONTHS OLD


FIVE MONTHS OLD


SIX MONTHS OLD


SEVEN MONTHS OLD


EIGHT MONTHS OLD


NINE MONTHS OLD


He is so cute! I love Him!

And A Year Later!

I just decided to take a look see at this here blog that I created a long time ago. And as coincidence would have it, it was exactly 1 year ago today that I posted something. Talk about consistency.

Well I recently, have become interested in a few things that I thought will fun to try to keep track of in some form. What better way than to put them here.

In the last year I have developed some new interests. These new interests include my Nephew Finley, decorating my not so new apartment, The Tracy Anderson Method 90 Day Metamorphosis, & Vegetarian diets/weight loss.

In my post exactly one year ago, I mentioned that I was going to be an Aunt soon. Well Finley arrived on September 1st, 2010 (or in America it was actually August 31st). He is now almost a year old. I can hardly believe that he is real! If it weren't for pictures and Skype, I would believe he is real. I got to meet Finley last December when my sister Alison and bro in law Scott came home for a month for Christmas. What a great Christmas it was. Alison has done a great job keeping up to date with pictures of Fin on her blog. I have hi-jacked as many photos as I could from her and will post some of my favorite pictures of Finley soon. (Hopefully).

At the same time last year that Finley was born, I moved into my own apartment. I think I have finally sorted through all of the hand me downs and gotten rid of the items I do not want or need. But my apartment still needs a lot of work. I have everything I could possibly need, but the aesthetics really need some help! I have got the function part covered! But, I really want to focus on the form part now! I hope to be able to replace a lot of the furniture I currently have with quality pieces of furniture that will reflect my design aesthetic. For me this will be a never ending process, but hopefully a fun one!

Also about a year ago I decided to try to devote myself to a vegetarian lifestyle. This was not a hard thing for me to do, because I was pretty close to it to begin with. I did not have any trouble giving up my chicken and turkey. I don't miss it at all! I still have cravings for fish, so I have allowed myself fish on occasion in the past year. The hardest part for me has been making sure I eat enough protein and not too much carbs and fats. I want to really focus on finding healthy vegetarian meals and snacks that will give me the protein I need for energy and to help me lose weight. It is really easy to order a cheese pizza. Its vegetarian. And is really easy and convenient, but it sure doesn't help me lose weight. And I don't want to have to eat salad for the rest of my life, even though I love a good salad.

Lastly, is my recommitment to losing weight. About 3-1/2 years ago, I joined Gold's Gym and got a personal trainer. She had me on a fairly strict diet of 5 - 6 small meals a day and 45 mins of cardio about 4 days a week and 1 - 2 sessions of training with her a week. I was looking really good, too. She changed careers, and I lost my motivation. And now I am worse than I was when I first started working out with her. So I discovered Tracy Anderson. She is my new pseudo-personal trainer. I have just started her Metamorohosis program. the program has 9 10 day phases that consist of 30 minutes of Muscular Structure and 30 mins of Dance cardio. I hope to track my progress here so that I can see where I started and where I want to
go. Wish me luck, because I hate to work out.

So, I am going to try to post some photos and ideas on here to keep me motivated and inspired.