I Almost Forgot!

Ok so upon my daily blog check i read my friend Laurens blog and she posted about weight loss and a beautiful looking cruise she is taking well it totally made me remember that although I had taken my pics for my blog post i NEVER posted about my adventures in the same area! Thanks for the reminder Lauren sorry bc i am totally copying you:)
Any how after having Will i lost most of my humongous weight fairly quickly i gained around 45lbs ( i think the finaly weight was 204 eek!) Any how i got down to 175 pretty fast and well i have stayed in the 170 world since then but i must say i havent even tried to do anything to rid these pounds so there is not much complaining i can really do. But that is about to change! I have been checking out the gym option and Joey and I are about to join the dac they are the only gym in our area that offers child care. They also offer a team training class that is pretty intense, its a big price increase to add that class to your membership but i think i may do it in a couple of months. I was going to do it from the start but its a twelve month commitment and i dont want to pay all that money if i dont go. I went one day last week and it kicked my butt literally which was good but it made me realize im sooooo out of shape that i may wanna start slow in my own and with the regular classes for a month or so and then do that class for a couple months before the trip! And secondly i know i wouldnt conitnue that class when i get pregnant again ( i want to stay active during my next pregnancy but with all my complications i think that class might do more harm than good) so anyways enough about getting skinny we have established that that is the plan! Now onto my 2 incentives..... First off we have decided to go on a last hurrah trip of sorts. We are headed to the Dominican Republic in April with some of our closest couple friends and well to put it nicely im the largest of my two friends going so we got to work on that! I dont want any beached whale sightings hehe! the second incentive if you couldnt guess from this post is that Joey and I would like to expand our family this year and i do not want to even start until im pre Will weight ( and of course now until after April lol) Of course after meeting the newest little addition to the Oconnell household ( Miss Ainsley was born 1/6/11-pics to come) i got a surge of baby fever I must admit she is sooo cute although i would have no clue what to do with a girl, Will is soo all boy that i would be lost. And im not so sure what he would think of a sibling he kept saying baby baby walking into the hospital and then when we tried to introduce him he freaked out and wanted nothing to do with Miss Ainsley he was too funny! We will just have to wait and see what the good lord blesses us with. Speaking of speaking Will is getting so good with his words just this morning he walked into his bathroom and saw the empty tub he looked at me and said and i quote " There is no water, where is the water" of course although pronounced very well it still had quite the baby accent added to it ... translated der is no WA-tur, wer is da WA-tur but i we got tthe point hehe.

Excellence Punta Cana ( Dominican Republic) We started the vacation talks with Costa Rica in mind but couldnt find a place we just loved other that the beautiful Los Altos de Eros but it was more than we wanted to spend on this particular vacation (since hopefully all vacationing parites will be saving for baby number two at some point after the vacay) And for me personally i dont wanna go somewhere unless i can go how i want so one i WILL visit Los Alto de Eros and be in heaven every minute of it ( check it out it is amazing!) So after scratching CR we talked about the Dominican, Jamaica, the bahamas and Mexico. We had all been to Mexico so that was out ( not to mention have you seen the new eek) a few had been to Jamaica( plus we hadnt heard to many good things about there) and a few had been to bahama so we wanted to go somewhere no one had been and DR is what we came up with. I think we are going to have a blast. Its all inclusive ( a must) and they have tons of resturants, a casino, a disco-tech and a Micheal Jackson show I mean what else do you need!
The gorgeous rooms although i plan to be out about most of the time

My new work out clothes and lens ( sigma 30mm, 1.4=Amazing) I know this is so one of those cheesy self pics but i want some "before i get buff pics" HAHA

My starting weight...yup thats right 170lbs (for the record i have always weighed ALOT even when i was skinny!) pre Will weight was 162 lbs so I have 8lbs to go to get rid of my baby weight. I would like to reach 150 but in the end since the number on the scale is always high when i look at it i would just like to get fit and lookk and feel better ( maybe get rid of a chin or two!)

again just playing with my new lens but at the same time i feel a lot of my weight is showing up in my face so i wanna keep picture tabs of any loss. Ive noticed I can totally feel skinny in my skinny jeans and sweater and then see a pic i snapped and be like WHOA i went out of the house looking like that so picture documentary will be a must this time! I would love to be as brave as this blogger i love reading her blog bc well it is up front abrupt probably not the most politically correct and well just down right hilarious. In this post she puts it all out there for eveyone to see ( and well im just not so sure everyone would wanna see me this way haha)
http://www.lowefamilynews.com/2010/06/resurrection-of-hotness.html

So this is my new years resolutin in blogging therefor i must stick to it after all. I wish everyone luck with there resolutions and ask for a little prayer that i will stick to mine :)