Have you noticed that on Facebook (or any social media site for that matter) everyone’s life looks like it is perfect and Pinteresting? I was just talking with my mom about this last week…the Facebook Phenomenon…people comparing themselves to others thinking their lives are perfect and nothing ever goes wrong. I wonder why people think this because of course people are going to post the good stuff on Facebook, why the heck would they post the bad stuff? So you often see stuff like “my kids were SO much fun today, we had the best time doing fill in the blank” you rarely see “I wanted to kill my kids today. They were awful and horrible and I didn’t want to be around them at all!” I think you get what I am saying here!

So, in my efforts to be as real and candid as possible on this blog, it’s about to get real around here, y’all!…

Ok, I have been really bad about tracking Elliot’s progress as a human, and I know I need to be better about it! Time is going by SO fast and I want to remember these sweet days, so I am going to *try* to do an update every month!

At 4 Months Elliot is:

• 14.8 lbs
• 23 inches long
• bald…very, very bald
• smiling whenever she sees mommy or daddy
• smiling when people talk to her
• giggling…especially at night when it is time for a bath!
• watching Jack walk around her
• chatting up a storm, typically at the times when it would be nice for her to be quiet (i.e. in church, when someone is praying, etc…)
• sleeping 12 hours at night (woohooo!)
• rolling from tummy to back
• tripod sitting
• grabbing toys and immediately putting them in her mouth
• drooling like Niagra Falls
• standing in her Jumperoo…but not quite jumping yet!

Still waiting on her to roll from back to tummy, but it will happen soon enough!…

I’ve been wanting to write this post for a long time now, but just haven’t had the time to sit down and really hammer out my thoughts. The past 4.5 months have been the most shaping and amazing months of my life.

I never really wanted to have kids – I thought it would mean I would miss out on all of the “fun stuff” like traveling, seeing movies when I want, doing what I want whenever I want, and losing my own social life which seemed like the most horrible thing in the world. I babysat A LOT in high school and college, spent several summers nannying and thought I knew it all about raising kids…which is what made me not want to have them! When I babysat all I wanted to do was put the kids to bed as early as possible and just get on with my own agenda of watching TV, I got super annoyed when they actually wanted me to play with them, and just generally hated babysitting, so I figured I would hate having a kid because it’s just babysitting for the rest of your life, right?…

we just got back from an AWESOME few days in Orlando for the Acts29 Members Conference. It was a great time to be with other church planters, but soooo encouraging to spend some time with other church planters wives. We are so blessed to be part of this amazing network! I have some awesome stuff I want to share, but not gonna lie…traveling for 3 days an sharing your room with a 4 month old makes for 1 tired mama! So, I will update later.

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Hey there! Can you believe it is Wednesday again?! Sheesh, time flies!!! Well, it’s that time of the week again on Loving Dangerously! If you are following along on this journey yourself, be sure to link back here so I can follow your progress! Here is what I am tracking each week:

Weekly Loss:

Total Loss:

Workouts Completed:

Days staying within caloric range:

Other Updates:

Annnnnd, this weeks stats:

Weekly Loss: 1.8

Total Loss: 7.9 lbs

Workouts Completed: 3

Days staying within caloric range: 5

Other Updates: I am feeling so so great this week! I had a BIG NSV (non-scale victory) in that I put on all of my pre-pregnancy jeans and they all fit!! Wahooo!! Now, mind you, they were pretty tight and I am not going to wear them quite yet, but it made me feel really great that they all buttoned. We are headed out of town next week for a few days so I won’t be able to weigh-in, but I am going to try really hard to keep my eating pretty clean!…