I have mentioned a few times that me and Matt are off to Orlando and I cant believe it that I can finally say it is this week!!!! I am getting really excited now, especially now I am not at work until I come back which I think makes me even more excited!

We are flying out to Orlando (via Philadelphia for a connecting flight) on Thursday Morning but we are staying over in Manchester Radison Blu at the airport on Wednesday night which my lovely friend from work has treated us too!

I am going to be blogging and vlogging (internet connection provided - I am hoping it will let me upload) while I am away to keep you all updated on our adventures! We have tickets for all the parks - Disney, Universal etc and also we are planning lots of fun things such as the safari tour at Busch Gardens and feeding the dolphins at Sea World. We are also planning on doing one of the behind the scenes tours at Sea World which I am treating Matt to for his birthday which includes getting up close and personal with the penguins (don't worry he already knows).

As I say I will keep you updated on our adventures :)

Quite often on a Sunday we have some kind of soup at lunch time and recently I got my mum into using Pinterest (what have I done) and she has been pinning all kind of recipes (as well as lots of cute cat pictures - bless her). She stumbled upon a really yummy recipe today for Sweet Potato soup and since we seem to have become inundated with sweet potatoes (Do we really need 3 bags??), we decided to whip it up.

Ive finally got around to editing the video I made ages ago - pre hair cut short again, pre contacts when the sun was shining.


Head on over to my youtube channel - @unlovedbutton to check it out :)

As you may probably know I am quite an active membe of my church and attend every week. This week as I sat listening to the sermon something really hit home with me. One of the congragation who used to be a vicar was standing in this week as our vicar is off in Germany doing vicary stuff.

Anyway father Michael was talking about love, loving others, loving your neighbour. It was at this point what he said hit me. He said this is all well amd good but how can you do all of this if along the way you dont love youself. This may sound a bit selfish, lets face it, its not the usual thing you hear a vicar saying is it?? But what he said deep down reakky made me think. How can you love others or let others love you if you dont love yourself. Love is something we all long for from life. I cant wait to meet that special person to spend the rest of my life with but how can I ever expect someone to do this when I dont love myself because deep down I cant say that I do.

If you follow my instagram, twitter or even this blog you will know I am doing slimming world. Its not something I am new to but it is something I have found when I really try actually works. So why have I spent the last however many years of my life messing about. I have been unhappy with my weight for such a long time, I have always been the big one amongst my friends, the one when we went shopping that had to stand around while they shopped in the "normal" shops where they didnt do my size. Even as I have grown older, things havent changed really. I admit the last few months have seen a change and I have got my 2 stone lost, something I have battled to get on numerous occasions. However the last few weeks my head seems to have lost focus. However sunday I really felt something click, I need to do this, if I want to be loved by others, if I want to be able to share love with someone I need to show myself some love.

I have been making some goals for myself. I want to join the gym when I come back from florida and start to get fit and active, next year I want to do the colour run (if you havent seen it seriously google it - amazeballs), I want to make fitness one of the things I enjoy in life, try new things; yoga, pilates.... I habe been pinning some cool things on pinterest, head over to check it out in my health and fitness board, I am going to make health and fitness and slimming world a more active part of this blog and not only will I be able to document my journey but I can take you along with me!!