My Papaw

This was in the house he had in Florida where he and my mamaw went every winter.Here are Jesse and I sporting very cool Kool-aid mustaches. I'm on the left just in case anyone was confused.

Papaw loved fishing!

And here is my baby, enjoying life just like his namesake.

My cousin Jesseca recently got in touch with me and we are actually going to be at home at the same time, that hardly ever happens with people that live away like I do, hence Tiff and I never being in at the same time. Well in our correspondence, she sent me some pics of my papaw and of us with out Great-Grandma McDougal (I don't remember her, but I looked like I was having fun). For those of you who didn't know my papaw, he was one of the greatest people I have ever known in my entire life. He thoroughly enjoyed life, especially food :) and never met a stranger. Unfortunately he passed away a couple of years ago, but he is in my thoughts daily and I have also named my son after him and after one of his favorite past times. He loved hunting (which every guy in both mine and Colt's family do) and my papaws first name was William, Hunter William Guthridge. So, here are a few pictures of my papaw Earl and of me and my cousin Jesse when we were little.

I'm going to South Beach...

Of course I had to throw a pic of Hunter in here...he's wearing my glasses cause he's already so smart! But with Colt and mine's bad eyes, he probably will end up with glasses at some point.

Ok, well not exactly. What I am doing is the South Beach Diet. I have been trying and failing miserably to lose weight. Those of you who knew me in high school remember that I was very little and when I went away to college I gained a little more weight. When I got married I was pretty ok with my weight, but then Colt started working at Domino's and then it has gone down hill since then. I have steadily gained weight and even though I have tried multiple time to take it off, I just can't. Now that I've had my first child losing the weight is just about impossible. It doesn't help that some of the meds I take make me gain weight but also make it impossible to lose. It has finally gotten to the point where I am just uncomfortable and I hate looking this way plus I have no energy. I'm so tired all the time which I always have been but it's getting really bad, and with a one-year-old to run after I need all the energy I can get. Another motivation is that Colt and I are going to Florida at the end of June and I would love to look half descent in a bathing suit; although because of hideous stretch marks a two piece will never again cross my mind. After all that, Colt and I have decided to try the South Beach Diet. I have heard many good things about it, read the book and I really do think that I can do it. Now whether Colt can do it is another story. The boy only like two vegetables, corn and frozen sweet peas, and he can't even have corn in the first phase. The only foods you can have are meat vegetables and dairy, so I'm hoping he will do ok, but we'll see. I also have doubts for me because the main focus is to get off sugar and bad carbs, well I can get off the carbs, but man do I love my sweets! I can have sugar-free things so that will help. Needless to say, this is going to be quite an undertaking and I could use all the prayers and encouragement I can get. My overall goal is to lose 35 lbs which I know will take a while, but I really want to do this. So everyone, wish me luck!

Such a Cutie!!!

Here's an adorable picture of Hunter. Nothing else to say, just showing off my adorable son.

Hunter turns "1"!!!!!

Blowing out the candles on his Seasame Street cake.Digging into his own little cake.

Realized he loves birthday cake!

Opening birthday presents.

Yesterday my baby boy turned one! It was a great birthday and a wonderful party. We had the party at Paul and Sharon's house and a ton of people showed up! We counted about 43 people who came to celebrate Hunter's birthday with us. It was so wonderful to have everyone there (my mom and sis traveled from WV to come also!) to help celebrate his first year.

Here's a video of Hunter enjoying his birthday cake.

Just some pictures

A picture we can use at Hunter's 16th birthday!Lola taking Hunter for a ride.

Just a cutie!

First Week

Isn't this the cutest picture of my dad and Hunter?!?! This was taken the day they left after Christmas and Hunter had just woken up, he's so cute! And you can just tell how much my dad loves him, he's papaw's boy.

Well, I'm into my second week of class and I have to say that I am quite rusty! There is so much reading and because these are accelerated courses, there is so much to do! I do like learning, I just don't like homework and not being in school for 4 1/2 years, I'm kinda stuck in the routine of watching a lot of tv and being busy with household chores. Its a big adjustment, especially since I can only study when Hunter is asleep and he has not been taking very good naps lately. I know this all sounds really negative, but it's not, it's just very different. So, if everyone could keep praying for me, I could really use it!
On a lighter note, Hunter was playing with my phone today and somehow called my mom and dad's house twice! My mom called and said she was worried cause I called 2 times in like 5 mins and it was Hunter, he's so rotten!

Walking!!!

Playing in his chair with his new computer keyboard. It fits right over our keyboard and has a program with it, he loves it!Playing with Lola.

I'm afraid Hunter is gonna be as addicted to coke as Colt is, he hasn't had any yet though, just likes to play with the cans.

Hunter has started walking!!! I'm so excited! Everyone says now he'll be everywhere, but he's everywhere already so oh well. He started Thursday night by Colt standing him up a little ways away from him and then getting him to come towards him, and he did it! He's walked like 5 or 6 steps 4 or 5 times since then and it almost made me cry. He's just getting so big and growing way too fast!