Newest Raborns on the Block!: Football Time and Lucy/Life Update

Boy, am I ready for Football season! I am ready for some sort of normalcy back into our lives. UT's first game is against South Carolina on September 26th, and Soddy Daisy started their season on time already playing two games.

We got our Soddy Daisy Football pic like 6 days after we took it! I was absolutely shocked! Usually it takes 10-11 months!

I always knew she would be a football dog! :):) My beautiful girl!

I have been doing well. After July went by, I started to mentally feel normal again and I didn't think about the miscarriage every hour of the day. I made a trip to Knoxville to spend some time with my mom in her new house and had so much fun! I got to see my cousin who is pregnant with her first baby!

This month, my cousin Hannah is due with her first baby, a girl, and this was when she was 34 weeks along! She then Katy are having the first Becker great grandkids. My cousin Nick had the first and only Dyar great grandkid over 3 years ago.

Also, this month, my cousin Nathan also is getting married. The last adult cousin to wed.

I have been overjoyed because Lucy's last booster shot (at 16 weeks) was complete and the two week wait period is over for us to go into public without worry of parvo and distemper dangers. Walks are so good for my soul. Especially taking her to my favorite Greenway walk!!!

Lucy is now fully vaccinated and in the clear to go to public places so we took her to her first dog park experience (unfortunately no dogs were there to play) and her first public walk at the Greenway! She LOVED the walk and pranced around looking at all of the new sights and people! No Fall leaves yet though!

I have a feeling we will be taking many more walks here!

Huge empty dog park!!

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I have started Weight Watchers also. I need a lifestyle change and just something to wake me back up and get me into the swing of losing weight again. During my 14 week pregnancy, I lost 8+ pounds (which should have been an initial sign that something wasn't right) but those came back plus, with all of the pregnancy hormones leaving my body and now re-adjusting, and getting back on the pill for at least 3 months as my doctor advised (to make sure I don't get pregnant until 3 full cycles are complete) and then we will go from there. But I am on the blue plan and am loving it so far. 2.6 pounds down! I need to lose about 45 pounds as my doctor recommended within the next 8-11 months before we start trying again to help my chances of taking out all of the "what if's" of preventing a miscarriage.

Tic Tok egg sandwich! It really works and is so delicious!! Only 2 points too!

Grocery haul ww staples!!!

0-1 point foods (on blue plan)!!

Zero point foods!!! I love the lifestyle change and the option to have whatever you want as long as you stay within your points. No deprivation.

0pt dinner! Fat free refried beans, with fat free cheese, scrambled eggs, and olives! Very good!

1 point breakfast! Sugar free jelly, 1 pt 40 calorie toast, and a boiled egg!

1 point dinner! 1 point tortilla, fat free refied beans, fat free cheese, ground turkey, and a dollop of fat free plain greek yogurt and cherries for a side!

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Also, Lucy and I have had so much fun spending quality time one-on-one since Cody is back at football. We get from 5:30pm to 8:30pm just the two of us and I also get to play with her before work too!

Can't go outside without my blanket or mom's shoe!

Summer fun! Lucy and I LOVE playing in the sprinkler and pool together!!!!

My beautiful girl!

Don't workout mom! Play with me!

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Cody and I took a date night together on a Friday night at 6:00pm and only had to wait 45 minutes at Cheesecake Factory! Victory!! We also went to Petsmart afterwards to get Lucy some treats and new toys! We are such parents 😅. #dogmom #dogdad