A Fairly Festive Fourth

We had a really nice 4th of July weekend! I'm fortunate and my company always gives us 2 days off, so I got a 4-day weekend, and it was wonderful.

First off, I can't talk about this period of time without mentioning HAMILTON. I have been counting down to being able to stream the original cast for months, and IT. DID. NOT. DISAPPOINT. I let Trent watch it with me, and we had to watch it in chunks, but he and I were both giddy watching it. AND Brent has also said he wants to watch it because he is curious about something Trent and I both love this much. I almost died.

Watching with my guy - gosh he's cute

Saturday morning I went for a run with Kelly. {She is one of my HS besties who moved into our neighborhood!! Here's where I shared our backstory.} It was a great way to start off a day of non-stop eating.

My view when I left - all the heart eyes

We had our 2 neighbor friends from RBC {I created a new label for all our neighborhood activities} come over to enjoy the day together - we kind of bubble together.

I made this delicious trifle - it was so good!

We hit up the pool for a few hours - so glad we are still able to swim!

You guys know themed outfits are something I LOVE!

Trey, Drew, and Tanner {Tanner and Trey are Kelly's kids}

The neighborhood parade was canceled, but Brent still decorated our golf cart.

We got lots of waves and honks driving around the neighborhood!

We had a great time eating, talking, drinking, and the kids played together so great. We got out the bounce house, they ran around, and Brent got sparklers. Someone in the neighborhood set off fireworks, so we got a great view from our front yard.

I forgot to put Paige's headband on her, so I decided to wear it, ha.

Susie got Prosecco Pong for her birthday so we HAD to play.

We stayed up way too late and ate and drank way too much, but we had a great day!

Weight Loss Update

Well, as optimistic as I seem to be...it was bound to happen. I backslid this month and gained back 2 pounds. SOB! I said at the beginning of June that I had a goal to get my eating back under control...well joke's on me because it was worse in June! 

But I do not want to spend the rest of this post beating myself up! It could have been worse, and I do have things to celebrate:

• I have continued to be really active! I do 6 real workouts a week and then try to just move some on day 7 {take a walk, do pilates, etc}. I've stuck with my routine of Jazzercise, Body Combat, and 1 day of jogging. I am so excited though because we just got some Body Pump certified instructors, and I CANNOT wait as that is my ultimate FAVORITE group exercise class.
• I've had more comments from others noticing! It's exciting when people are noticing and commenting on the weight loss being visible. I know it shouldn't be about this outward validation, but I was DEFINITELY an unhealthy size, so this is nice.
• Things still fit great. I am really close to being down another size, and that will be 1 size away from my goal, yay!
• I didn't go back up into another 'decade'. My mother-in-law calls every 10 pounds a decade.  So while I gained a little I stayed in the {high} 140s. I'll take anything at this point ha.
• My BMI has improved! Under a normal BMI calculation, I'm still barely overweight, but I found an updated BMI calculation called 'Smart BMI' which takes a lot more into account, and under this I'm normal. Yay!

My 40th birthday is 4 weeks from today. I weigh 149 pounds, my pre-Paige pregnancy weight was 143. It's going to be a BIG stretch, but I would LOVE it if I could hit my pre-Paige weight by my birthday. Ultimately I want to continue to lose weight, so if I can just get myself going back in the right direction, I'll be happy, but my stretch goal is to lose 6 pounds. Fingers crossed!