I really do suck at this blogger thing.
I keep on thinking about stuff I can write, but I never actually get on my computer.  Here I am a few months later, and still thinking about what I'm going to blog about. Ive had health problems this past month, and haven't been able to do much due to surgery. I was on bed rest for about two weeks, and then Nixon got sick. Life was pretty boring, and it included lots of Netflix.  So I'm going to write about my top 10 favorite Netflix shows.

1. Gossip Girl

2.F.R.I.E.N.D.S

3. Friday Night Lights

4. Grey's Anatomy

5. Vampire Diaries

6. Bloodline I have a thing for Kyle Chandler

7. Breaking Bad

8. Stranger Things
9. 90210
10. Revenge but I heard they are taking it off

I know most of these are super girly, but they are good. I'm always looking for suggestions, so comment your favorite shows. Remember when Netflix was a movie exchange? 

Love, love.

Since today is Valentines day, I'm going to talk about how Alex and I met.
 It was the summer of 2009, I was freshman at Timpview. I was living with family friends at the time, and I think I was 14? 15? Oh my gosh, I think I was 14. Anyways, Alex and I are three years apart, he was a senior. He was in my ward, and we meet at youth conference. We started texting back and forth. I wish I could go back and screenshot our conversations, but I had a flip phone. I told him I was going to Lake Powell with the Tanner's (thank you Tanners) that next week, turns out he was going too! It was both our first time to Lake Powell, and boy what a trip! We really hit it off, and I was head over heels for him. I never wanted that trip to end. After that trip, I wanted to hang out with him everyday. I called him "My Senior", and I was crazy about him!
  After Lake Powell, He took me on a few dates. Alex now claims we were "dating", but back then we were never serious. Lots of fun make outs after cheer practices, and skipping seminary. I knew I was gonna marry Alex from the start. I've always loved Alex Moon.  Few months go by, and we started to fade. We started dating other people, because I didn't think we would get serious.

-SKIP TO 2013-

 I finally graduated high school, and Alex returned home from his mission. I actually wrote Alex on his mission, but he didn't write me back. I felt like a loser. To this day, he still makes fun of that letter. I wrote "SEE YOU IN WHITE!" in being a joke, but I think it scared him off... I'm hilarious! On our sealing day, he looked at me and said "well I guess you were right, I'll see you in white." 

I'm gonna push pause on this love story, because its long and I love writing about this!

I hope you spoil your love one with Valentines, because I've been overly spoiled. 

I'm still head over heals for my Al, and I can't wait to spend every Valentines Day with him!

I feel like the luckiest girl in the world. 

Now I'm gonna go stuff my face in chocolate!

m o t i v a t i o n

I just want to say, I'm really happy with myself lately.

I've lost 7 almost 8 pounds since the 3rd of January.

I've worked out everyday this week, and I keep eating healthy.

today.

i cheated.

i got a coke.

BUT I'm really motivated to get to my goal, which is about 10 pounds more.

Breaking that wall from getting a coke from Mcdonald's, and stuffing my face with fast food almost every day,

it was hard.

really hard.

ESPICALLY BEING A MOM!

You're so tired all the time, that you don't want to cook dinner.

you don't even want to shower most days.

I got sick of the way I was living.

I was getting really depressed

I would cry to my husband about how over weight I was.

I hated my body. 

We all have our likes and dislikes about our bodies.

But I was getting to a point where I didn't want to even look at myself in the mirror.

I was disappointed in myself.

We were spending way to much money on food.

It was getting so bad. 

I had to break that wall, 

so i did.

I didn't do it slow, I pretty much said okay today, you're gonna change.

Pinterest has helped.

Ive been add to healthy Facebook groups.

My husband and I are together on this.

I think thats what has helped me the most.

He's my number one supporter, and so happy were both living a healthier life.

Did you know that most people break their new year resolutions by Easter? EASTER!

I'll admit, I've had a few cheat days.

It's better to have a few cheat days, than to give up completely.

BUT I haven't broken my new years resolution. 

Gotta get ready for that summer bod.

Meditation

Lately, my mom brain has been moving 120 MPH.
I can't relax, and I think about what I have to do next. It's making me go crazy.
Being a mom, and a wife, if makes you put others way before you. Being a mom is so
selfless, and its the greatest gift.

Before I had Nixon, and I could go to the gym whenever I wanted, I would go to yoga class and Dirty Dancing(so fun)!
I love yoga, I love the way it makes me feel whole. I get relaxed, and feel healthy in my own skin.
It's a good work out. Some people hate it, and I don't understand how you could.
Being a mom, its so hard to work out! Or just leave the house!
For me, when I work out, I have to have a clean house. Why? It's the mom brain.
So its a lot more work for me to work out. PLUS I have to do it before Nixon takes his morning nap, so I can shower when he sleeps.
Anyways, I'm getting off topic.... holy.

I've been doing yoga at home, and I've been having a hard time to relax. I feel like I have 5 voices in my head all the time. Thinking about 10 different things.
So lately, I've been trying to meditate. 10 minutes a day, just in my living room. With no sound, the only thing I can hear is my refrigerator. It's been so nice. I can feel my mom brain slow down for 10 minutes.

oh boy, I hear Nixon waking up. THATS ALL FOR TODAY FOLKS!

Christmas! Christmas!

I had begged Alex to put up our christmas tree since the beginning of November, but we couldn't decide on getting a real tree or a fake. We got a fake one from Target,  and it was on sale for about a $120? Super cheap, pre-lit, and its perfect!

The fun part was buying all the stuff for it, and trying to decide what colors. It's like a wedding, you pick three to four colors & you're stuck with it. I grew up with a grandmas that either had; a all gold tree, no tree, and a tree that had so much on it you couldn't even see the tree.  I decided to keep it simple black&white. Its all mostly DIY ornaments, because I didn't want any sparkles, or weird santa's.  I have some round ornaments, but I'm regretting getting them. I did my own tree skirt, which I thought was going to be super hard.

I got two yards of the fabric I wanted, but only needed one.
Then I followed a pattern, I saw on Pinterest. I actually put the extra fabric around the tree. It looks super cute.

Next I did, our letters of our first name. The lady at Hobby Lobby thought I was doing a Peter Pan tree. Like what? I just painted them black and white, and it looks good!

I did these cute wooden ones with just a Sharpie. I later hot glued string on top so they would stay in my tree. >> Now this is why I don't like my round ornaments

I got my star from Target, and I did my yarn Pom-poms around the tree.  I loved how it turned out, and Nixon just can't stop staring. 

My phone is filled with pictures of food, because I forget to blog about what I eat. So heres a few recipes I've been eating with my Keto diet.

Rice Paper Veggie Wrap

• Rice paper
• cucumbers 
• red and greep peppers
• Lettuce
• Cilantro 
• peanut butter & soy sauce

Cleaning with Water

As a mother, you're ALWAYS worried about your child. You want the best, and healthiest life for your children. You want nothing to happen to them, that will cause any harm. Nixon is about to start crawling, and he is going to get into everything.

As a young mother, I hear crazy stories about children getting into cleaning chemicals. Or hear crazy adults sniffing bleach because they like the smell of it. Have you ever cleaned your bathroom, and felt a little high? You can actually feel the brain cells dying? I have. I'll admit I LOVE the smell of laundry detergent. I didn't realize how harmful cleaning chemicals are until I saw Norwex. Norwex is a company that reduces that amount of chemicals in your home. It's pretty much just cleaning with water. The thing I love about Norwex the most is that were helping our bodies, and our earth. Every time I clean, I feel like I'm making a difference. PLUS I'm cleaning 10 times faster! Now that I have Norwex, I WANT to clean.  I fell in love with Norwex so fast, I became a consultant.  I am now cleaning my house with just water, and its getting rid of bacteria, and viruses.

 I'm such a cluts when it comes to putting formula in Nixon's bottle. I get it everywhere, but now it's easy to clean with my EnviroCloth.

 If you wanna hear more about Norwex, I'd love to tell you more. I don't want to bore you on my blog, but I do have some good christmas packages. I suggest you host a party, if you wanna see if it works.  If you wanna checkout some product, here's the website:
www.paigemoon.norwex.biz

DIY Yarn Pom-poms

These are super easy, and cheap. I love them to hang up around the house, or to use as bows. Here are the simple easy steps to make these!

 All you need is:
-Yarn
- Scissors
-Two cardboard circles with holes

 Step 1
-cut 4 or more long pieces of yarn
-all the same length
-more pieces, more fluffiness

 Step 2
-put cardboard circles together
-start wrapping the yarn around cardboard

 Step 3
-cut a little piece of yarn

Step 4
-cut around the outer circle

 Step 5
-take that little piece of yarn, and wrap around inside
-Tie a tight knott

 Step 6
-carefully remove cardboard circles

DONE

Keto Weo Diet

Its really called Ketogenic, but keto is better.
I've really been trying to eat better, and lose some of this baby weight. I didn't gain much, but I would just like to be where I was before I got pregnant. Especially if were going to have more kids, which is not for a another year or two. I mostly just want to feel better in my body, and not eat out everyday (yuck).

Keto is a all healthy fat diet, and no carbs. It's mostly lots of veggies, and meat. Which I love, I can have butter.  You can have some fruits, mostly just berries. My husband is allergic to all fruits, so he can eat a lot of what I make for this diet. I think the hardest part of this diet for me, is snacking. I love to snack, and this diet, your really not suppose to. BUT when you do eat, and can eat as much as you want.


I made this really yummy smoothie this morning. I'm normally not a huge berry fan, but I loved it.

•  blueberries
• raspberries
• strawberries
• blackberries
• half a cup of milk
  

I talk about the NICU, and Nixon being born premature WAY too much. People are probably sick of it, but it changed my life. I want to talk about preemies, because November is prematurity awareness month.

I didn't know much about preemies, but I nannied a boy who was premature. I still didn't know how scary it is. Once I had Nixon I learned a lot in the Newborn Intensive Care Unit, luckily I had a very healthy preemie. Everything had developed very well, just his little lungs needed some help. He was on oxygen for only four days, which most preemies go home with oxygen. The scary thing about giving tiny babies oxygen is it messes with their eye sight. How? I don't know, I'm not a doctor. There are SO many things that could have been worst, but I'm so grateful Nixon is healthy and happy. We were in the NICU for 50 days, but it seemed like 50 years. Nixon was born at 31 weeks, and weighing 3 lb and 15 oz. He is now 8 months, and is suppose to be 6 months. He has a tiny little body, and huge personality. He's about to start crawling, about to break in his first tooth, and is just a normal boy. Being premature doesn't make you any different, it just shows how much of a fighter you are.

There is about 15 MILLION babies born premature, and about a 1 million will die each year. I didn't know this, but there is a foundation to help prevent premature births. It's called the March of Dimes, visit there website to learn more. If there are any moms that would like to share your story of your preemie, please comment on this post (I love reading about same experiences).  If you know of any moms that are going through a rough baby patch, I want to help because I know how scary it is.