Another Weighty Issue!!

For this last month i'v been super motivated to be healthy and fit and guess what..... I HAVE BEEN!!  I'm so impressed with myself and my commitment to the cause this month.  I decided that enough was enough and excuses were no longer acceptable, and most important i found some like minded friends!! (Accountability is a hideous marvelous thing!)

This month i have worked on cutting out chocolate and bread....How's that going i hear you ask!?  Flippen awesome!! I'v had no bread, choosing instead to make myself healthy Pita pockets, and the chocolate? You know, the stuff i'm hideously addicted to....I managed to cut down, (The first day of my food diary does contain an entire packet of chocolate biscuits...ooops!) and then this week i thought, enough is enough!! I'm currently on day 4 with ABSOLUTELY NO CHOCOLATE!!  I know right!!!


I'v been exercising at least 4 x a week, but usually 5, and i feel fantastic!!!  Weight loss...only 2kg so far but i'm pretty darn impressed with that!! What's most important to me is that i'm so proud of myself for actually sticking with it!  And i'm so super thankful for my friends that are dragging me out for my walks (thanks Sally and Loral!)  I'm also amazingly thankful that my wonderful hubby has jumped on the bandwagon and is refusing to buy me chocolate (Silly Brave man).


So that's how that's going!! I apologize for the wordy post with no pics but i haven't taken any recent ones of myself!! 2 Weddings coming up though so brace yourself for some Picture-Mad-Posts!!

I'l leave you with this picture of the new Nude-Stretch-Pants!! These are awesome!lol!!  I almost cried until i realized you could see where the tights end at her ankles!!

Have a great Friday everyone!!
Toodles!  :)

The Paper Mama photo challenge - Friends

This week i had fun trying to think of who i was gunna take pics of for the 'Friends' theme!! Then i realized that my boy was holding the answer!!  Meet Donkey (in the purple) and Moo (the blue....well, cow...possibly bull)!!
Lachys been attached to Donkey for quite a while now, and Moo's just joined the ranks of toys that go everywhere with us, so these are his friends!!

Lachy, Donkey and Moo!

Check it out at The Paper Mama photo challenge!!

This little piggy....!

After waiting all day for the rain to stop and the sun to come out, i found a wee patch of fine weather in which to torment my wee man with a cute suit (courtesy of his aunty) and a camera shoved in his face!  After learning a teeny bit about aperture and ISO and other things i cant remember choose not to mention, i went out and tried my luck!!  I also learnt a bit more about sharpening a pic when editing, and played a wee bit trying to catch the fading suns rays with minimal success!
So the following pics are the results of our wee outside adventure, and i figured, even when my photography skills have failed, my sons just so damn gorgeous that he makes them look good!!

Ps: Please ignore the unhappy look on his face, he really did enjoy this novel form of torture wee family adventure and i'm sure he'l love these pics even more at his 21st birthday!

Have a great week!
Toodles  :)

Watermarking!!

This evening i finally found out what all the fancy names across peoples pics are and how to do them!!  I must confess i'v only done it because i think it looks neat (and makes me feel a bit flash!), but it's a really good way to ensure no one steals your pic's and claims them as their own!

I found this awesome tutorial here on Paper Heart Camera's site (among heaps of others!) and now i have my very own watermark!! It's a basic one for starters, i'l try and get a bit flasher later on when my photography skills improve a bit more i think!

Check out my Watermark!!

So what do ya reckon???  Makes my pic look a bit flasher huh! (If it can get any flasher with that gorgeous wee man in it!!)  I'v also been annoying having an in depth discussion with my hubby about fancy sounding things like aperture and shutter speeds and i think tomorrow i'm gunna go take my new found knowledge and see what i can snap!! Yay!! I'm ridiculously excited about this!!

Anywho, I'l be back tomorrow to show my efforts!!

Toodles  :)

The Paper Mama photo challenge - Red

This is my entry for The Paper Mama's photo challenge this week!!!

This is Lachy in his Racing Bucket!!  He's so scrummy!!!