Congrats on Your First Trip Around the Sun!

Trevor had no idea - but it was going to be a party day for him! First stop - a play date at Stay and Play! We LOVE this place! After letting the kids burn off their energy we went to a Pizza place reccomended to us by Stay and Play. It was right on the train tracks and it had a HUGE trainscape and running trains on the second floor. VERY cool! Trevor was given some very thoughtful gifts but the BEST part we all enjoyed the most as a collective whole would have to be his first experience with eating cake! At first he was not so sure - but after he sucked some icing off of one of the dumptrucks from his cake - he was covered in the sugary icing.

Joining an elite 'Mile High Club'

I went to San Diego to give my testimony for another program Lisa Druxman - our founding mother of Stroller Strides, Fit for Baby and Lean Mommy. In January she is launching a DVD program called Momma Wants Her Body Back. I have lost over 135 pounds since the birth of our daughter and most of it was from the Stroller Strides Program, but over the last 6 weeks I used her DVD program and lost 15 more pounds! I was nervous as Rick was still and deployment, which meant Grandma came to our resue and watched M and T for me while I flew out to San Diego for the commmercial. Thank goodness! I am still breast feeding Trevor. I worked very hard to pump lots of extra milk for him and then took my pump with me for the trip. And there I was... sitting on the toilet seat lid on an airplane on my flight to San Diego. Not a lot of women can say they have pumped on an airplane! Pumping is a lot of work though... it not like I can just whip out a pump at a dinner table or in the middle fo the airport... I found myself on lots of bathroom toilet seat lids. At the hotel I discovered I did not have a freezer in my room. After each sessions I would bag up that liquid gold and walk to the lobby and one of their employees would take it and go put it in a freezer for me. A quick side story - they day I checked out of the resort they were unable to find my milk and I had to fly back home without it! They ended up finding it - of course I was sure the cooks would not have used it - and they shipped it to me fedex overnight packed in dry ice. Although I was initially beside myself that the milk had been lost I was surprised at their swift actions to locate and ship the milk to me back in CT.

While there I we stayed at La Costa Resort and Spa. I almost did not know how to act when I would go to bed at night in a huge King Size bed alone! Let alone going more than a few hours without worrying about my childrens nutritional needs and diaper changing demands.

I met several other woman whose lives had been changed because of one of the programs Lisa has created for mothers. I was so inspired by all of them.

I will never look at TV in the same light as I have now seen how a production actually works. It is amazing how much work is put into a 2 second shot! I do not see quitting my day job. One of the producers called to ask me a question as I was changing Trevor's diaper... he asked if I felt glamourous - like a super star? HAHAHAHA! Umm, No! I feel like the same me - but I hope my story of weigtloss will help insprie other mothers across the country to make their own strides in fitness - if not for themselves then for their children!

Lisa Druxman by the way is the MOST amazing person EVER to meet!  She is so sweet and sincere!  I Love her!