What I've Been Up To

Work Life:

Sometimes the universe aligns and both of your managers need the SAME Friday off! In almost two years, this has NEVER happened! But we make it work! Hubby opened (actually he ended up being there all day because we were CRAZY busy) and I closed!

Ready for work:

And then once you get to work you have to make two of these guys:

They turned out so cute though!

And during the week, we've been heading to the store to organize the back room:

Ah, the fun life of owning a business!! After this is done we get to do our own inventory!! Along with the constant ordering for everyday business and planning for future holidays! I love my job, I love everything I get to do even if it means working til 7 one night and being back at work at 6 the next morning!

Craft Life:

We have been so busy setting for Halloween, reorganizing the backroom, and just all the everyday stuff of running a business that I haven't had too much time for crafting but I have been able to check off two crafts on my list.

I made this adorable sign for our front door! Fabric-wrapped board, then another board glued on top and vinyl letters! Super easy actually! And I ordered the fabric from fabric.com and I am hooked! No more standing in line at Jo-Ann's waiting for fabric to be cut? Sign me up!

I just made this one earlier today:

Board and hooks from Home Depot and vinyl letters = towel racks! Can't wait to hang these guys up in the bathroom and take down that awful towel rack!

And of course, Exercise Life:

Mostly just trying to run on this guy every day:

I love having him in the basement!! (He was all I wanted for my birthday!) I also have an exercise bike down there. I usually run/walk one mile on the treadmill and then do 1-2 miles on the bike depending on how I feel and how much time I have. I skipped Friday because of work and I usually don't workout on Saturdays (because we work) and Sundays I rest. I have another post planned for my running routine so I won't spoil anything here!

Well that's what I've been doing lately!

thanks for stopping by!
xo nikki

My First Post

Hi! Welcome! I'm Nikki and this is my journey through weight loss as well as stories from my life. My husband and I run a party store in Boulder, we have a fur-baby, and I love doing crafts!

This blog is going to be full disclosure. I want to put my journey out there in the hopes that I can inspire just one person (and if it's more than one, yay!). So let's get started.

Here's me in 2010. I was always a skinny, skinny girl. I weighed 105lbs through high school and around 110lbs when I married my husband in 2010.

I LOVED being skinny. I loved my body, I loved how I looked. Then my husband and I decided to try to start a family. But we couldn't. We tried fertility treatments, during the first one I gained 20lbs, now I weighed 130lbs. But the treatment failed. So we tried again. This time I gained 30lbs in ONE WEEK. I was now 160lbs. This was in 2013. It was depressing, to say the least.

This is me now:

 

Currently I weigh 151 lbs. And my stomach measures 38inches. I am a size 8. My goal weight is 115lbs or a size 3.

I do realize that there will be some hate against me. I know that there are people who will say that I am skinny. That they wish they were my weight. I believe that it is all about how you feel. If you weigh more than me and are happy, then I am happy for you. If you weigh less than me and want to lose more weight, I hope this blog inspires you. Whatever weight you are, if you are happy, then you are the perfect weight (as long as your weight isn't causing you health problems). For me, I am not happy in this body. I do not want to weigh 151 lbs. I want to be skinnier and healthier.

I hope you follow me in this crazy journey!

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