Spoiler alert: Bradley brag

I have really enjoyed my time at home. More than I thought. I told Bryan last night that I'm not sure I'm ready for a 40 hr work week again. I enjoy all these little moments, teaching Bradley, seeing him grow and learn and do things he couldn't do the day before. I like how relaxed I am. I like how clean the house is. I like being able to go to the gym everyday. I like cooking again. I like taking my Chinese class. I like how my marriage is. I just like it.

We have finally finished purging. We went through 9 boxes that have followed us from our first place together and have now just two boxes: wedding memories/dating memories and a box of comedy/humor/college memories. Everything else is shredded or trashed. It feels great!

This year for Christmas, I don't want anything. What is wrong with me?!

Bradley Brags:

He can say so many things now:

-animal noises oink, raaaaar!, neigh, hoo, and corresponding animals: cow/moo, cat/meow, dog/ruff, goat/maa, bird, duck/quack, brown bear/raar, lizard

-food: banana, raspberry, blackberry, blue berry, cracker (omg obsessed!), cookie, cheese, bread, poon (spoon), ork (fork), pepper, ot dah (hot dog), eeee o (Cheerios), pear, apple, broc (broccoli), milk, juice, water, peas

-things: chair, tick (stick), box, shoe, door, car, book, mote (remote), tee (tv), pad (iPad), roomba, up, down, bath, nurse, noo (necklace), pacifa (pacifier), art, yellow, purple, blue, outside

-body parts: head, toes, fee (feet), belly, belly buh (belly button), penis, nose, mouth, eyes, ears, hair, hat

-toys: lee (Lego), car, block, dog, popper, ball, duck, whale

-people: mama, dada, papa, meme, grapa, grama, lou, bryce, baby, Elmo, Oscar, Bert, big bird (bi bir), cook (Cookie Monster, Mickey 

-phrases: lo you (love you!!!), like that, all done, more, please, thank you, noooo, yessss, ouch, hot hot, coooo (cold), mine, hello, hi, byeeeee

I'm amazed. His language skills have taken off! I know this is the age that kids start learning more words, but it is so cool! 

Boom.

Booyah. I booked my Christmas tickets already!

Yesterday, my favorite airline to fly to Florida Allegiant Air opened up dates for the holidays. This year, we're spending Christmas with my family in Florida, and those tickets can be super pricy.

Unless you book NOW.

I got all three tickets (that's right, lap baby) for $450, round trip. Which left me plenty of room in our travel budget to buy seats in the first row of the plane (baller!) and three checked bags.

My plan: arrive to the airport, check everything, only carry the baby, diaper bag and purse with iPads. It should make flying with an infant easy when you have the first row on the plane and nothing to carry. Apparently strollers and carseats fly free, but we will wait until then to decide what we want to do.

I'm curious how much of this plan will be reality in six months.

I want a pic of my baby just like this.

All I know is that baby will get to meet and spend Christmas with all of the Manders, his great grandparents, all my cousins and most importantly: Mickey Mouse.

That's right: baby is having his first trip to Disney World. We haven't been yet this year, and in all of our time together, Bryan and I haven't let a year go by without a trip to Disney World. And we won't let a baby stop that.

Especially when we'll have aunts and grandparents to hold him while we ride Space Mountain and Aerosmith's Rockin' Roller Coaster.

Before and After

After the winter season, I weighed a health weight. This is May. Size 6-8.


After a month of running, I dropped two pounds. Size 4-6.


After a month of Jillian Michaels, I dropped 5 pounds. Solid size 4 with some being too big.


In total, this summer, I've dropped almost ten pounds. I am six pounds from my ultimate goal weight. Thanks to Jillian Michaels, I have lost ONE INCH in my bust (sad face), THREE INCHES in my waist and FOUR INCHES in my hips. I feel great; my clothes are looking great, my legs look incredible and I'm fitter than when I got married. I'm pretty proud of myself, and I know that I will reach my goal weight. I'm looking forward to shopping for size 2 clothes!!

Comedy and Love

I love all sorts of things, but my absolute favorite things in this whole wide silly world are Bryan, improv and chocolate.

Two outta three aint bad. Only 10 more days until I can have chocolate again.

N Crowd

Last weekend, Bryan and I had our first show as members of the N Crowd. It was exciting and really fun. We are looking forward to more shows, more fun and more hanging out with our new friends.


Because it came up in my Google Alert, check out what the veteran Jessica Snow says about Bryan Buckley, king of improv:
These new members are great fun. I may actually stop doing games with anyone but Bryan Buckley because he is the best. We also got the similarly-named Alyssa Buckley, the similarly-to-me-named Jessica Ross and the crazy-named Vegas Lancaster. Yep. I wish to give props to all of them. We had great people audition and we could have taken eight of them, but then Bryan and I would have never gotten our stage time.

YAY NEW N CROWDERS!!

It's going to be a great season of comedy.