What better place to start a blog than with who I am?? I am 30 years old, my husband, who is in the Navy, and I have been married for 9 years, and we have 4 beautiful little girls; their ages range from 6 years old to 1 year old.

Before those precious angels came along my husband and I were in the gym at least 2 hours a day every day lifting weights and working out. I like to think that I was in pretty good shape. I know I was. But then came that positive pregnancy test. I did continue to work out but then I had a threatened miscarriage and was told I needed to stop. After that it was hard to get back in the habit. Then baby came and, of course, it’s hard to start back then being a new parent and not having any family around. Then deployment came and my husband left so, yeah, working out took a back burner. Then came baby #2. Then #3. Then I started working out at home on my own again. And THEN, yep you got it, baby #4! haha

Now, throughout all of this I maintained my healthy diet. That is one habit that has never really wavered. During my pregnancies I still only gained 25-30 pounds and it was all belly…and that was with the Whataburger, Red Robin, and Golden Corral cravings. LOL

Let’s fast forward a bit, I finally was more determined than ever to get back in shape so I began working out at home again. I was able to keep it up this time and I dropped weight and inches and toned up some. But I was just itching to lift again. December of 2014 my husband decided he was sick of where he was, too, and he started lifting again. I did a lot of researching gyms and trying to find one that had childcare. I mean, our youngest was a year old, had been weaned of breastfeeding, it was time. So I did it, I found us a gym!! Of all places, the YMCA! It was just perfect for our family and the girls LOVE it! Not to mention, the staff is amazing! Since then we have been working out at least 5 days a week and it has been amazing!!

This is where our journey begins…