HUGE ANNOUNCEMENT

 So i have some pretty huge news to share with you all!

I am PREGNANT :D 

We have had one hell of a journey to get to where we are right now and if you are all interested in that journey i will do another post specific to that another time. 

Currently i am 13 weeks and 5 days pregnant and not even announced it on facebook yet BUT i didn't want to lose anymore readers with me being absent for so long now. We have just had a very difficult journey to get to where we are right now. We are so happy and very excited for our little arrival and i will do another full update as i say on the topic another time so you can read all about it then.

My other huge announcement is that i am now a Vegan :). And once again i will do a big post on that explaining why and also how its affected my health so far on my journey.

A lot has happened this year so far and its been a completley new and exciting journey for me and my family as my sister is also pregnant so this year not only will i be a mum myself but also an auntie and our little ones will not have much of a gap between them so i am incredibly excited and goodness knows what this blog will turn into but it's going to be one hell of a journey and it's going to be a thrill to share it with you all.

I was having a quick look at my audience and where everyone is from and i love how many different countries and cities have found my blog, so i want to thank you all for taking the time to come by and take a look.

I still do not have my own laptop :( i will look into getting one soon but i am poor so we shall see. My boyfriend just had to buy a new one because his one broke and he is pretty much always on it so i thought i would grab it quick just to let you all know i am still here and i can't wait to come back with more posts and hopefully gain some new viewers too.

Thankyou all so much and if you would like to follow me on my new and very exciting journey then please subscribe and stay tuned for my upcoming posts.

speak to you all soon, take care and have a fabulous weekend from beki and bump <3 xxxxxxxxxxx

I'm back and it's nearly halloween!!!!!!

I do still exist,
 I have just been so busy with things and just not had the time at all to come on here and update you, sorry.

How are you all? gosh i have so much to tell you all but just not yet! 

I am loving that it's Autumn, finally! been waiting all year. This is my favourite time of the year and im feeling so festive. Mischief night tomorrow, dreading it! people from america, do you have mischief night and if yes, what happens in america? in fact anywhere else in the world apart from the uk?

I will tell you what happens here in liverpool; bad things, haha. Usually ill be on the bus on mischief night coming home from work and smack, the bus gets egged by a gang of young lads. Somehow they think its fun? even funny!!? It really is not! OR you could be walking home or wherever and smack, you get egged. It hasn't happened to me YET, but seeing as i've said this, it will most likely happen to me now haha. OOPS!

 Are you all excited for halloween?!


I will be honest, halloween isn't that much of a big deal for me, growing up we would never go out trick or treating but that was ok because we would do things in the house like duck apple and apple on the strings (not sure what that game is called). But then in 2002 my little brother was born and when he was old enough we started going out and it was a new thing for me and my sisters. I personally do not like anything scary, it doesn't impress me at all, so for me halloween is my brothers birthday. However this year, me and darren decided to carve our own pumpkins because we have never done our own before. It was so much fun and they look fab!
My little brother came over last night and he carved his very own pumpkin too, it looks fab! 

I will put pictures up soon of halloween and jamie's birthday, including our pumpkins :)

Thank you to everyone who is still looking at my blog and sorry i have been away for so long. 

hope you have all had a fab evening and speak to you soon xxx

 

Christmas preperation :D

I have not been on here because i have been super busy preparing for CHRISTMAS!!! Yes you read that right.

 Christmas is the most magical, Happy, festive time of the year and it's mine and darren's Favourite time. I started making little things in february haha, people think i am crazy, I just believe its called being organised. Any how, i am not going to post pictures just yet as i want to save that for Nov- Dec to give you some winter inspiration. 

I am making all kinds of things but what i am concentrating on more at the moment is scarves for Autumn/ Winter. I will be showing them on my facebook page soon to sell and i will put some up on my blog also. They are really lovely!! 

You never know i might do a give away if i have enough interest. If that is something you would like then please comment below :). 

I wish i had my own laptop but can not afford one at the moment and with Darren starting a business i can not get access to it a lot of the time so i have to get in when i can. I miss updating you all but i have tried doing it on the blogger app and i can not change the font or anything so i Can't personalise it for me. 

Anyway i am off to finish my scarf so i can start another before my shift tomorrow. 

Thankyou for reading and speak to you all soon :D xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

slimming world update #8

Hello, its been a month tomorrow since i last updated you all on my slimming world journey. Well i had my important appointment and guess what.. it went well! 

I can't tell you all what it was for just yet but i will when the time is right :) and when it is, i can not wait to tell you all what's going on :p.

So when i was last weighed it was 11 st 6Ibs and i had 2 days till my appointment, so my lovely new friend taught me a little trick.  I only did this as i was desperate and wouldn't recommend anyone trying it as it's not the safest. Basically the night before my appointment i took some water tablets and i lost 4Ib in water weight for my appointment which had me weighing in at, 11st 2Ib, which mean't for my appointment i was exactly 2 stone lighter. I was so chuffed, can't even tell you. Since tuesday i have eaten a load of crap which i am not happy for but i needed a blow out, i tried so hard and i needed a treat but i don't feel good for it at all, i'm all bloated and feel horrible. So i will be back to slimming world strictly in time. 

Due to the whole water tablet business i won't be weighing myself for a good few weeks, maybe 4 as i have been naughty and i will have gained a few pounds from this week alone. I will keep you all updated when i do weigh myself though.

If anyone is doing slimming world, please comment and let us all know how your getting on. I have basically lost 24 pounds on slimming world and would 100% urge you to keep going and if you have not then please start. I didn't pay to be a member as i can not afford to but i did google all about it and joined groups on facebook and found out about it all that way. 

Thank you for reading and supporting me on my journey so far, i still have a lot to lose but.. depending on how these next 3 months go could change that. We shall see. Stay tuned!! 
 

Happy Birthday Princess Pippa

So it was Pippa's birthday 18th July and I made her and jack a dog friendly birthday cake :).

More of a doggy chocolate rice crispy cake

They smelt so good!! I just bought a bag of dog chocolate from Asda and really cheap rice crispy cereal and made them the way you usually would ( melt the chocolate and add in the cereal and then place in a cup cake case or mould) but with these I added a small amount of honey. Very small amount just to help it cling together as there was not much chocolate. I made this the night before and popped it in the fridge to set.

 

 

Good morning birthday girl!!

clearly she wasn't as excited to see me first thing as I was her. She is 3 now :)

 

 

"ooooo can I have one?"

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jack decided to be brave and gobble them up off the plate :)

 

 

Jack liked them more than Pippa for sure!!

 

 

she didn't get any toys for her birthday because she doesn't really play with them. She has a teddy she sleeps with and chews but she doesn't play like other dogs do with balls an such, Jack doesn't either but I think that is because as a puppy he wasn't encouraged to. He was a rescue dog so I am not sure of his past but as long as I have had him he has only wanted to play 2 or 3 times an each time is only a few seconds bless him.

 

She shared her birthday with her brother Mateo. He lives with my mum and doesn't look much like Pippa. Here is some pictures of them as puppies..

 

Hope you all enjoyed these photos of Pippa, Jack and Mateo. My two dogs didn't eat all of the cake I gave some to mateo to enjoy on his birthday, and anyway my two don't eat junk food so it was a complete birthday treat <3 xx

see you soon xxxxx

Slimming world update #7

I am theee worst person for saying i will do an update on a certain day because i never do and then two weeks later i pop back up :( im rubbish. sorry.

So i weighed myself on Tuesday and i now weigh 11st 13Ibs. I am so very happy about this. I have 11 Ibs left to go till i reach my 2 stone weight loss goal.

Last time i saw the doctor i asked about taking the metformin and how it will affect my weight when i come off it and she said i will have to be careful i do not balloon :( well i was on a little downer after because you try so hard and then to fear it could all come back is rather daunting. So yeah, need a plan in place. When i have lost the two stone i will carry on with slimming world, I don't have any intentions of stopping. 

For anyone who has not read my previous Slimming World posts, i was 13 stone 2Ibs when i started which was 83.8 kg or there around and i was advised by the hospital to lose weight for something i will mention when the time is right and i am now 76.2kg. At my first hospital appointment my bmi was worked out at around 33 and according to my boots digital print off slip it is 29.4.

I have recently got my bike fixed so i have been cycling to work and back which is typically around 12-13 miles depending on my route and if i am going straight home or not. A friend at work suggested i use an app called 'Strava', it is free with in app purchases but it's great, it records my routes and tells me my miles and how many miles i have done in a week and i added my friend, so now we can talk about our rides and compare times. This week so far, i have done 39 miles. I don't tire of riding, i love love love it. It is my version of a car, i just hop on and away i go to my destination. 

what else is new... Oh i finally tried that other slimming world frozen meal i had in the freezer. It is called Hot - smoked salmon farfalle.

I didn't like it at all :(. It looked nice and smelled nice but i could not stand the taste. I am not a fussy eater, i don't know if i have mentioned that before, i will eat most things apart from meat. I only eat fish, and salmon is one of my favourite fishes to eat :( so i was very upset to find this too didn't taste nice.

I'm not saying other people won't like it but for me it was a no go :(. There is only one more left that is veg friendly now and thats the potato curry. I have no idea if i am going to spend what precious little money i have left on it, in fear it will go to the dogs :/ 
let me know if you have tried them. FYI you do not need to be on slimming world to give this a go, or any of them. It is just normal food but healthy and not filled with fatty oils and butters etc.. good for everyone, but not my taste buds sadly.

By now you should all know how bad i am at being good.. Food wise. Usually i'm an angel haha. well the other night a dominos kind of slipped and fell into my mouth with dominos cookies too, I just blinked and boom. oops??!!
And last night i had a hankering for sweets and chocolate (BLOOMING HORMONES), so i kind of ate a share bag of revels and this morning at 6 am i ate a bag of  minstrels (not the massive share bags but the smaller versions of them, not that it makes it any better :/) and some sweets. What is wrong with me? I have 39 days left until my appointment and i am still not taking this seriously. I have not even been back the gym in like 3 weeks. I moan about not being able to afford the gym and that but then i have a pass sitting in my purse and i do nothing, typical beki that is.
I am taking my biking seriously though, the thing is, when i go the gym i tend to use the bikes and walk on the treadmill because i don't like running on them, so i kind of feel like i'm already doing those things daily anyway? and i can't just go swimming at any time as it's only available certain times of the day because of schools and classes- see perfect at making excuses for myself :(. 

Just look at what i had for my lunch when i came home from work today..

Fries, some grated red leicester cheese and onion gravy. Now this would be ok if i measured out the cheese and used that as my healhy option A and made my own fries. Dissapointed in myself today.

Well i am currently waiting for my mum to come get me and then we are going to asda to do a food shop for a soup i am making this evening, it's a speed soup so if it tastes nice i will post pictures and the recipe for you all to try. It is mean't to be slimming and super filling :)..

I will keep you posted. Sorry it's such a long post. see you all soon xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Must read books!! #1

Hello everyone,

oh my days im excited to say that every book i read i will be putting on here to tell you how amazing it is, i won't be giving the story away in any way, i will however say whether it's happy or sad or whatever and who i think the book is more aimed for, and to tell you, or rather convince you to buy the book because it will make your life that little bit better, well they do mine :) and let me just add that i don't get any money at all for doing this, these are books i have read and i think they are that good i need to spread the word.

 There is nothing better than getting lost in a book right? . I find it so hard to read books even though i love reading, for the simple reason that i don't have enough time or i have too many crafts going on at once. I love reading my books when i'm on my daily commute to work, on the bus. I'm always gutted when i reach my stop. Anyway.. like i said the point is to give you my personal opinion on the book and then you can make a decision as to whether or not you want to read it or give it as a present.

So lets start with the first book :)

The secret supper club - by Dana Bate 

 You almost likely won't be able to read the blurb but i have uploaded a photo just in case.

 So i think this book is aimed at Women. If you love cooking, comedy and romance at it's best and worst then why not just give this book a read. 
My mum was reading this and told me about it so i lent her my favourite book and she lent me this. She told me it was hard to get into in her opionion but when you do it's really good. I didn't think it was too hard to get into and have loved the story. I am a chapter away from finishing but it has just got super interesting and i am totally gutted it's nearly over and that's when i decided this would be a good and interesting idea.

The book doesn't ever give too much of the story away so you never really know what will happen next but you are really wanting to keep reading. I found myself to be pulling shocked faces on the bus which isn't ideal because you feel like a total idiot when you look up to feel your face smirking or frowning or even laughing.. Yes i have done that- typical me, and people are looking at you and then quickly looking down to the book to see if they can spot what's on the front cover haha. - The shame!

But yeah i am loving this book and really do think if you are looking for something a little different to your typical love story than give this a go, if you comfort eat and don't have much luck in love then maybe you can relate :), one more thing to add, Hannah sugarman (The main character) is a very independant woman, so if you like books with strong female characters then i think you will enjoy this book. 

I cant wait to finish this and to go on to the next one :D 

Until then... keep smiling :P xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx