weekend ROLL out...

Hi guys, it's Monday again!

Why do the weekends always have to come to an end?

I had a super busy weekend again! My life story!

I didn't get too many pics this weekend, but I'll do a quick run down!

I called this post weekend Roll out for a reason......

Our house got rolled this weekend!

Luckily they did a horrible job and it wasn't a big mess!

Now that I think about it, do ya'll roll houses and yards in other places or is this just an Alabama thing??????? When we roll yards in Alabama we go buy lots of toilet paper and through it all in the trees in people's yards! Here is some pics.......They did a really bad job! I feel sorry for them because My husband and I can roll a lot better than them........and of course we will get them back! We already know exactly who did it! A couple kids from our church's youth group!!!!!!!

See I told you it wasn't too bad! I thought it was kinda funny!!!!! Ya'll let me know if ya'll roll houses in other places!

Here are some pics of us at dinner on Saturday night. We went with Anthony's sister to celebrate her husbands birthday!

Ant's sister and her husband!

Ant and I........I look really weird in this pic :(

That's about the round up of my weekend! I did church all day Saturday because we had a work day there so I was really tired from that. Then, on Sunday of course I did church all day again!!!! I made time this weekend to record a short video that I will post sometime this week! I also have plans to do a video on facial highlighters!!!!!!! Ya'll have a great day!!!!

Toodles Poodles! ;)

two faced.

So, this weekend I was at one of my favorite stores of all times. A store that I could just stay in for hours looking at everything in there! This store is called Sephora. My favorite! I have been dreaming about an eye shadow collection from one of my favorite make up companies called Two Faced. Like seriously I am OBSESSED with this brand. Like you have no idea. I am literally in love! So, anyway. Ant was with me. I know I have been talking about this eye shadow box for weeks that I wanted to him. I am so bad about really wanting something but when it comes down to buying I don't want to spend that much money on myself! I had walked over to check out the Urban Decay's eye liners when I saw him at the check out. He had bought it for me. The exact one I wanted without me even showing him the exact one I wanted. I am so in love with him! Let me just tell you that this eye shadow totally did NOT let me down. I love makeup and have tons and have tried tons of brands. This is the best. So pigmented, smooth, no creasing, stays on forever, perfect, perfect, perfect. I got the Natural eye set. The most perfect beautiful colors ever!!!!! I could just go on and on! Here is some pics! I was so excited!!!!

Sometimes it's the small things that make us the most excited!


Thank you Ant! I love you! :)


I have decided that from now on I will reward myself for my weight loss with things that make me feel good about myself......like makeup! I have a hard time with not rewarding myself with food, because that is how I was awarded growing up. So, I think THIS is the perfect thing!


Toodles Poodles

weekend blur...

It's that time again for Mary's weekend blur! I had the most fab weekend! Just a really nice refreshing weekend! My sister Meagan came home this weekend from college so we could celebrate her 23rd birthday! She hadn't been home since July......so I missed her so much! It was really just an awesome weekend! I took tons of pictures as usual! Guess what? I saw a new low this am on the scale 276 lbs. That is 34 lbs. down if anyone else is keeping track :) I feel great! I had a day of first on Sunday that deserves it's own blog, so I will post that sometime this week! I am still on a high from my weekend of love! So, here is the round up!

Ant and I in L.O.V.E.

Ellie Mae.

Ant playing the guitar!


My sweet sister Mandy!

My sweet sister Meagan!

Praislyn, my neice, not wanting to play with Uncle Anty!

Ant and I :)

My Mommie, Mandy, Meagan, and baby Praislyn!

Sweet.

Sisters and Praise!

She gives her sissy kisses all day long!

Such a big girl now!

Meagan, me, and Prailsyn playing!

It is days like yesterday....

It is days like yesterday when I come home and my grass needs cutting so bad it is this high.....

And my laundry needs to be put up so bad it is stacked this high.....

That I sit back and thank God for all he has done for me. For this amazing life He has given me and my husband. For all the small things in my life that I don't always take time to thank Him for. Like how much I love my Minnie Mouse key chain and key holder.

Thank you for letting me find and buy this key chain and key holder God! I love it :) It makes me smile!

I sit back some more and Praise God for His presence in my life! Thank you!

Then I go on about my night and head on to church. I come home and sit on the couch with Ant and watch a movie while I spend time with him!

And then, I smile and thank God again because I know my grass and laundry will still be there tomorrow!

It's the small things in life that aren't worth getting your panties in a wad for! It's the small things in life that are the best! Just remember to thank Him for those things too! :)

Ant + Mary = The Real Deal

So.....I was going back over the post I wrote yesterday and I noticed something! Well, I really talked around the question that my friend asked. I had full intentions of that whole blog fitting together perfectly, but in true MARY style I got side tracked and kinda went off on something else! A true "popular sanguine" at heart I must say! (that is a personality type.....if anyone else knew that extra Mary love points for you, oh and leave me a comment for what type you are!!!) Actually I must come clean that my husband just called me and nicely reminded me that he should get some credit for me loving myself so much, and he should it is rightly deserved! So.....on with the rest of this blog!

I think our relationship is going to be fine! Yes, I really do! Here is why! It was what I was trying to say yesterday it just never made a full circle! Ya'll knew what I meant didn't you??? :) Not only am I happy and in love with myself, I feel the same way about where our relationship is......I love it! I think it is great! I feel PERFECT exactly where I am at with myself (on the inside) and in my marriage!

When me and Anthony started dating I was 21 and weighed 163 lbs. I was pretty hot! My weight has always gone up and down drastically in my life, this just happen to be a time that I was at my absolute skinniest. I was at the same weight I was at the day I graduated from high school. I was skinny for MARY, almost too skinny! Anthony was engaged when we first meet. I couldn't help it though. We feel in love immediately! It was one of those moments where I JUST KNEW!!!!! I knew right then I was in trouble because he was engaged, and I was going to fall in love with him. I knew we would be together FOREVER. I JUST KNEW! It really is a great feeling when you can take one look at someone and know that is your future!

Soon after we started dating I had to come off the diet pills I had been on. It had been a good run (over 2 years) on this particular kind and it was getting hard to get a prescription. Let's just say I gained some weight back, really quickly! I can remember going on vacation with my family and Ant to the beach and I gained 13 lbs. in like 5 days. I couldn't even button the pants I had worn on the way on the way home :(

Over our 6 year relationship I have gained lots of weight and lost lots of weight, but one thing has always remained the same.....Ant and I! I love him and he loves me, the real me that I know and love so much also!

So that's why I have so much confidence in our relationship, he has seen me at my best when he feel in love with me and he has loved me through my worst.

He is so supportive and so encouraging to me at all times!

I could never ask for a better husband, he makes me feel so SPECIAL!

Through him and God is how I found me, and that is a great feeling :)

Hello.....my name is Mary :)

I know, I know.....I have been gone for way too long this time! I need a spanking! :)

No great excuses just a busy life in general!

I was talking to Amy @ http://babblesofabandster.blogspot.com/ and she said she missed my blog! Sweet isn't she!! She is also sending me some clothes!!!!!!!! I just love her! :)

I have really just been busy with work....church....church......home.....just everything!

I promise to start doing better! :)

On the weight loss front I am doing awesome I have lost 0 lbs!!!!!!!! Cool huh! Just joking...about it being awesome, I really have lost not one single lb :( Sad I know! I just have had to come to terms with the fact that I can just not loose weight on my own. It just doesn't happen for me :( I really don't know what to do about it, other thank just sit back and wait and pray really hard that when I do finally get this tool inside me I will succeed. Kinda depressing :( I need encouragement :) Maybe ya'll could help me with this.....hint hint ;) !!!

On the life front everything is going great just bust great! I am not sure if ya'll remember but my husband Anthony had hurt his foot while dancing at church the last time I posted! Well, praise God everything is fine! The first ortho we saw was here in Jasper was not really that good

:( Of course he wanted to do surgery like he does with every patient he sees :) Get my drift!!! Surgery was not in our vocabulary for a lot of reasons! So we went to see an ankle specialist in Birmingham at the Andrews clinic!!!!! Awesome experience! Guess what he said everything was fine :) Oh, and Eli Manning was in there the day we were! Pretty cool huh!!!!!!

On the Mary needs a vacation front everything is moving right along! Disney is less than a month away! Since I haven't managed to loose any weight :( I have just come to the terms that I am going to be doing Disney as a BIG GIRL!!!! But you know what, I am a hottie and you better believe that I am going to rock it big and beautiful style! :) I'll just have to squeeze in the rides!!!!! :) I have been doing a little shopping for my trip......here is some things I have bought!

Ok blogger is being weird and will not let up my upload my pictures :(

I'll try to post them later!!!

Now, ya'll get to leaving encouraging comments! :)

Thanks in advance! :)

"No we don't have any kids.........Oh it's ok, you don't have to be sorry."

This is my response to a conversation I have very often with random people.

It goes something like this....

random person: Do you and your husband have children?

me: No, we sure don't. Not yet, at least.

random person: Oh my goodness I am so sorry....

me: Oh, you don't have to be sorry it is fine, we just haven't had children yet.

random person: Well, how old are you?

me: Ummmmmm, I'm about 27ish

random person: OH, how long have you been married?

me: Almost 4 years.....

random person: Wow, ya'll haven't had any children yet, you better get started times a ticking.

It is always worse near Mother's Day. Mother's Day was the day Ant hurt his foot. EVERYWHERE we went that day someone would ask me if I was a Mother and then this WHOLE conversation would be started. It goes pretty much the same EVERY time. Sometimes I get tired of it. I mean I do know how old I am, and I do realize we do not have children yet!

The reason we do not have children yet is because....... well I guess there are a lot of reasons

#1

ME

I have not been diagnosed with this but I think I might have Tocophobia. Has any one ever heard of it? It is the scardness (not sure if that is a word but I hate saying the word "fear") of being pregnant. I am not really scared of having babies so I am not sure if I would technically be considered in the tocophobia group. I just get really nervous about anything medically and that includes child birthing! :) I have always just thought adoption would be a better method. I know there are some people out there that get weirded out about a baby actually living in them and all that, but that is not where my scardness is. I would just be nervous about the whole actual birth and nastiness like blood.....ewwwwwwwwwwwww! I know I am a big ol chicken :) You don't have to tell me! I get nervous when I get a paper cut! Anyway this isn't something I can't get past, but it is something I think about.

#2

MY WEIGHT

My weight has always played a huge part in why we didn't have babies. I look back now and we should have just done it right when we got married! I think back to why we didn't then and there was lots of reasons. We had just gotten married for one. I wanted to weight until I had lost some more weight. I should have just went for it, because let's face there is lots of things I have accomplished since we married but loosing weight has never made the list :) Every time I go to the Dr., the lady station Dr. I get the same spill......you can't have a baby now you weigh way too much. The last time I was at the Dr. she told me I had to loose at least 40ish pounds before I should even try. Now it would probably around 50ish :) I have always been so scared to get pregnant because of my weight. Really one of the main reasons for me wanting this surgery is I do want children! I try to act like it doesn't bother me, but it does. Here in the deep south if you aren't married and at least popped out 2 kids by the time your 25 they consider you WEIRD!!!!!

Now that I have analysed this blog really there are only two big reasons MY WEIGHT and MYSELF.

sigh......

Sometimes I wonder if I sabotage my weight loss myself because I know if I am fat I can't have a baby? That was really even hard for me to type. I do wonder that sometimes though. I really do want babies so bad. I hope once I loose the weight for good I will be so excited I will just go for it! I am so excited about getting this surgery! I think it is going to be the best thing in the world for me! I think it is going to help me get over some stuff and help me grow as a person! By this time next year ever thing is going to be different! Hey, I might even be pregnant.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!!!!!

Ant......He has my heart!

So I have been missing from the blogs lately! Sorry ya'll, I have just been so busy with work and church...... the list goes on and on! I thought I would write a post today about my FAN-tastic husband. Ya'll he really is so awesome! I call him Ant! His real name is Anthony! I was hoping to write this post last Monday but didn't get around to it! So, this one is for you Anty!!!!!! First here is a pic of my super HOT husband.........

I know he really is hot. ;)

Here are some more pics...

He is so my BEST friend! I love him so much!

Sweet story...

This weekend I had to be at work at 7:30 am on Saturday because we were having a spring fling to raise money for the non profit organization I work for. I was so bummed about having to work all day since there was so much around the house that I needed to get done. Well, to make a long story short he drove to town about 9:30 am to bring me breakfast, then when I got home he had straightened up the house, gone grocery shopping for me, and bought me a dress to wear on Sunday to church and a dvd - It's Complicated (which by the way was so funny)!!!!!!! It was the sweetest thing! It really meant a lot to me!

So Ant, thank you! I love you so much and am so excited about us spending the rest of our long and happy lives together! We were made for each other! :)

Now, onto Mary CRAZY news.

I think I need a brow lift.

I have been OBSESSING over this ALL day long. I have taken, I really can't even tell you how many, tons of pictures of my eyes and eye brows today. It is driving me crazy.

The dilemma.

My eye brows used to not be this low.......

Is it because I am a fatty?

Is it because I am getting old? I mean I am almost crossing the lines of turning 28!!!

Am I CRAZY???????

Here is some PROOF!

Ok, this is a picture of me in my YOUNGER days. Oh, and of course I weighed a COUPLE lbs. less than I do now ,like maybe 70 ;) ....

NOTICE the BROWS.......

Now here pic #1 from today - smiling with my mouth closed and in normal eye position...

Here is pic #2 - smiling with teeth showing and in normal eye position...

Here is pic #3 - smiling with teeth showing and in "make your own eye brow lift / my sister tells me I look retarded when I do this" position...

So. my conclusions....

I need a brow lift! :)

What do ya'll think. Maybe when I FINALLY get banded and start to loose some weight it will make my brows look more lifted because my face will not have so much fat on it? Will go with that answer for now, at least that makes me feel a little better that there is hope for my brows! :)

Oh, and I really need my teeth whitened............

Thanks for reading ya'll!

Oh, and Ant I love you big!