A couple of weeks ago I decided it was time to give my hair a little pick me up. I had coloured my hair just after Christmas with a reddy colour however I really wasn’t in love it with it at all, plus pregnancy hormones are rife meaning the greys hairs that have slowly poked through over the last year or so have been going mad! So time for a spruce up!

You may remember if you read my goals for 2018 post back in January that one of the things I wanted to focus on this year was a better skincare routine.

First of all.. I just want to start by saying that this post is not sponsored by Musclefood.. I am writing it because I have a whole heap of love for this company (and ya know.. being Valentines Day and all lets share the love)

I have always been a massive fan of buying meat in bulk. We used to do a monthly visit to a local butcher in our area who does massive discount packs at a good price however when the quality started to dip, I lost interest and we went back to buying with the weekly shop at the supermarket. Now you know me, I am a savvy little sole who loves to get the best offer I can. Adam and I eat a lot of meat, particularly things like chicken, steak, beef (minced, diced etc) and buying from the supermarket was knocking our food bill up by quite a bit!

I discovered Musclefood via Instagram. I follow quite a lot of people on there who do Slimming world and being a slimming worlder myself, I was intrigued. However I will be honest I wasn't sure how I felt about having a chilled parcel delivered to my house (it sounds daft now).
At the tail end of last year after seeing a really good deal online for Black Friday, I decided to bite the bullet and order one of the hampers.


The Black Friday Parcel I ordered was fantastic! It contained all of the above products and I paid the extra pound to get some more added onto it as an additional bonus.
What I loved about it, was that I could choose my delivery day and date which meant I could schedule for the delivery to come on a week day when I knew Adam would be at home meaning he would be there to sort the parcel out when it arrived.
Delivery was amazing. I got constant emails leading up to my parcel being delivered and then a text on the morning from Dpd, the delivery company that muscle food use for their deliveries, to give me an hour time slot when it would be arriving.

When it arrived, the meat was all packaged into perfect wrappers labelling what was in each one, except the chicken, which comes in a large container, perfect for us as we just separated into freezer bags (I personally love the ikea ones) into portions of 2 and then Adam chucked everything into the freezer meaning all we needed to do was pull something out each morning. Excuse the lack of lovely delivery parcel here.. both times that the parcel has come, Adam has done it and whipped it away into the freezer before he took a picture! Men eh!

There are SO many amazing options available on the website too. So far I have been drawn in by fantastic monthly offers they have had on (last months order was a £45 hamper which you could then double and get the same again for an extra £5! - no brainer really)
Their options also include build your own hampers where you can choose from different meats depending on your taste or you don't have to have a hamper at all and can just order different meats! There is SO much choice from traditional meats like chicken, beef and lamb, to sea food and even more exotic meats like Ostrich, Kangaroo and Venison.
They also do other fantastic products such as egg whites, protein deserts as well as stocking one of my favourite cheeses, the Eat Lean Protein Cheese which you can have 70g of on slimming world (hello cheesy goodness).

There has not been a product we have tried yet that we haven't enjoyed. Some of my favourite things we have had in the hampers we have ordered have been the Sweet chilli chicken burgers, the beef satay stir fry and the Dragon Steaks!
Musclefood is defiantly going to be a regular order in our house from now on! I will defiantly not be going back to buying supermarket meat! If you haven't checked them out, seriously head yourself over to their website and order yourself something! You honesty will not regret it!!

So on Thursday last week, I turned 29 and I thought I would share with you what I was lucky enough to receive for my birthday. I really struggled this year when asked what I wanted this year.. luckily my lovely family know me very well :)

From Adam I had this gorgeous Cath Kidston backpack from their Micky Mouse collection. I have loved this range since it was launched and eyed up quite a few of the different things on offer however never picked anything up. I'd seen the backpack a couple of times and have been toying with the idea swapping a handbag to a backpack before baby is born... 1 because it spreads the weight of stuff carrying and 2 because once she is born it will let mean I aren't jugging with a handbag and a changing bag. Plus when she becomes a toddler we can just add a change clothes without taking up lots of space. I love that this has 2 handy pockets at the side (handy for holding an umbrella and a water bottle) and a zip at the front where I have popped all things beauty such as lipsticks. There is also a handy pocket at the back too which is good for holding small things. On the inside there is a handy slot which holds a laptop as well as the main compartment.
From my mum and dad, I got lots of little crafty bits because what craft nut doesn't love some hobby craft goodies :) I also had some very practical presents from them. Me and mum had a girly day in town on Wednesday last week to do a bit of pre birthday shopping and we picked up some bits perfect for my hospital bag including some new PJs, a Nighty and a thinner dressing gown.
The night dress is from peacocks and is available here for £8. The idea was that I could wear this during labour. I love that it says I make my own magic on it as with the unicorns I thought this was really cute! What I also didn't realise is that Peacocks have started doing some plus sizes. I picked this up in a size 26-28 which is way too big for me (I am normally an 18-20) however I wanted something with lots of room in it, plus it gives me room for baby growing over the next 10 weeks.

Another thing we picked up was some new PJs from Marks and Spencer. I love their nightwear and these little beauties were £12.50 - available here. Again I will be packing these in my hospital bag just in case we need to stay overnight or so I have something comfy to change into after baby is born.

I had lots of other lovely presents including some lush goodies from my brother in law and his fiancé, some money from my Nanna and a voucher for afternoon tea at my favourite place in town to use as a pre baby treat for me and Adam on one of our days off together before little miss arrives which will be lovely :)

I had a lovely birthday - Adam and I went out for a meal in the evening with my mum and dad which we really nice.
My 29th year is set to be an exciting one and I have been thinking about everything I want to achieve over the next 12 months before I turn 30... I may do a whole separate blog post on this one :)

I had plans when I found out that I was expecting to restart blogging straight away and document this amazing journey! However that didn’t happen and before we know it here we are at 30 weeks (tomorrow)... if it makes you feel any better the lovely notebook I brought to write in weekly updates is also sitting on my bedside table having not been touched for weeks.

Little late to the ol' band wagon - but heck, its still only the first week in February! January seems to have flown by in the blink of an eye? Weren't we just dancing round to the chimes of Big Ben like 5 minutes ago??

January has been a funny month, your still in the come down from Christmas, the sales are EVERYWHERE and your longing for the spring to hurry it’s ass up and make an apperence (seriously I am SO done with winter now)