Love Is Relentless

A little while ago I was blessed and lucky enough to stumble upon a IG post from a lovely shop, Tink&Key. They were in search of some mommy bloggers to help them spread the news of their amazing faith based t-shirt line for our tiny humans. I was asked to pick a shirt that had meaning to me and write a blog post about it. The decision was hard because all their shirts carry an amazing meaning to me but we decided to go with their love is relentless tee.

I chose this shirt because my faith has always been important to me. My parents weren't very religious growing up but they did know that they wanted me to know about religion so they put me in a private lutheran school. I grew up in this school, going there from the time I was three until I graduated the eighth grade and then continued on in a Christian high school for two years after that. Growing up in the church has really shaped me into the person I am today and I am so thankful for that. Anyways back onto what I was saying I chose this shirt because I really struggled with my faith after becoming pregnant at 18. It was really hard for me to understand that God was staying with me through every step. I knew he loved me and I knew he forgave me but it was something I really struggled with. It wasn't until after having Noah for awhile that I truly understood God's love is relentless. He's always coming back, he's always there, and there's not a thing I could do to change that. I am his and he is mine. Noah opened my eyes to that. We aren't in the perfect situation and we got here on different terms than what I envisioned but as I see Noah grow and learn every day I know that God has a plan for me, that he loves me, and that I was truly blessed with this bundle of life and love he's given me.

Some pictures of Noah in his absolutely adorable shirt! Tink&Key really does have an amazing line of t-shirts. I love that they offer faith based tees and I can express my faith through Noah and bring him up in it as well in a totally fashionable way becauser we all know I love dressing Noah up! Pure perfection!

19 and mommy and student and business owner

Its late here, it's about 1am and I cannot sleep so I figured I'd blog while I've got the time, since you know it's a little hard to find enough time in the day to do something for myself but I'm making it right now.

I'm not exactly sure why but it's been on my mind a lot lately everything that's been going on in my life and my upcoming 20th birthday. Maybe it's because I've been so crazy busy or just because it's life and sometimes it gets hard but either way sometimes it weighs me down.

I got pregnant 3 months after my 18th birthday, and soon after finding out I was pregnant I did something I'm not so proud of, and that was dropping out of school. I like to blame that decision on my mom because she gave me the not so helpful advice to drop out but in reality it was all me. I was embarrassed by my situation. It was definitely not ever in my plans to be a young mom, in fact I used to ask myself how girls ever put themselves in that position in the first place. But then it was me and i was ashamed and in the process of filling out applications to go to school in Tennessee. Finding out I was pregnant crushed me. But in the end it all turned into something positive. I took my GED and passed with flying colors and am now currently a college student at UHD and pursuing my career in social work and have a beautiful baby boy, my biggest blessing of all.

Now fast forward 10 months and we are in my life right now. I absolutely adore being a mom. It has changed me so much and without a doubt for the better. I used to live so selfishly but being a mom changes that, I don't have a choice but to live selflessly, and for that I couldn't be more grateful. But that doesn't mean it doesn't all get to me sometimes. We are currently living on our own. Just Noah, Joel, and I. While I absolutely love this situation it gets hard sometimes, and I know that's life but it's taken some adjusting. Even just for the little things like cleaning up the whole apartment, something I didn't think would be such a big deal, until it became trying to clean up the apartment with a fussy baby and a ridiculous amount of homework and work emails to get back to. Sometimes I'm a mess and just thankful I made it out of the bedroom that day.

I don't know what it's like to be a mom at 25 or 30, so I can't tell you if my situation is harder or easier, or different, because I truly don't know. What I can say is that my situation is hard and I'm one of the lucky ones. Me and the father of my child are still together, we are both college students still chasing the dreams we always had, and running a business together, and live on our own. Those are real blessings and we are so fortunate to have them, I never let myself forget that. But that doesn't mean it doesn't get hard sometimes. That doesn't mean we don't struggle. It doesn't mean that I never want to break down and have myself a good cry, because sometimes I do.

Sometimes it's really hard, sometimes it gets to me. Sometimes I feel like my world is closing in. Being 19, a mommy, a student, and a business owner gets tricky, but I wouldn't change a thing about it. I wouldn't go back and change anything. Sometimes I'm a wreck but I can tell you some day it will all be worth it.

To many more posts of milestones and life changing moment,
                                                             xoxo Sebi

I got dirty with Frank and Loved it!

Stretch marks are not my friend, in fact I hate them. They are currently just another reason for me to hate my body. Which is exactly why I am so excited to tell y'all about Frank, my new favorite guy to get dirty with.

Ok ok ok it's not as dirty as it sounds....well it's actually dirtier but in the best way possible that still allows me to be faithful to Joel. lol. Frank is a body scrub, but he's not just any body scrub. he's an all natural body scrub made to get rid of all possible skin problems you thought couldn't be removed. Frank can do it.

I had seen a couple of mom friends I have on Instagram using different things to remove their stretch marks but I wasn't necessarily intrigued by any until I saw Frank. I was so amazed at the difference Frank had been making on all these women within just a couple of scrubs. So I decided to go to Frank's website and check out what he was all about.

Frank is an all natural coffee scrub, he exfoliates your skin and is good for all different skin conditions, from acne to stretch marks, eczema, and even cellulite. And seriously once you see the results for yourself you'll love your body all over again. And come on at $15-$18 a bag why wouldn't you atleast give it a try? Can't hurt right.

Now onto my experience with Frank. I'm madly in love. He has helped my stretch marks so much they have almost completely faded and they are no longer deep in my skin at all. I have scrubbed 5 times since receiving Frank and here are my current results

1st Scrub

2nd Scrub

3rd Scrub

4th Scrub

5th Scrub

These pictures do NOT do justice at all!  I am so thankful I heard about this! and if any of you all decide to use Frank, I'd love to share your before and after pics here on my blog, just send a collage of your before and afters to my email, Sebi.springer11@gmail.com . I'll be back with an update once Frank is finished. 

To many more milestones and life changing moments,

                                                   xoxo Sebi

A friend of mine who's been dying to get rid of those marks did her first scrub and loved it. Not much change but any change in the first scrub, that's pretty amazing. 

Our Trip to San Antonio

Our trip to SA was completely spur of the moment. I was actually supposed to spend the day at the beach with Noah and a few friends, but those plans had to be moved. We had nothing to do all weekend and two weekends before had bought season passes to Six Flags since we have 2 here in Texas. So I decided to go wake up Joel and tell him let's go! And we did. Within 10 minutes I had a booked a hotel and we were packing our bags. We stayed at a very nice hotel called Valencia. It was right off the river walk and thats where we spent the first night exploring. 

          Headed to the River Walk 

           Dinner on the River Walk 

                    The Alamo 

And then the next morning we got up early and headed out to Six Flags Fiesta Texas! 

Having a 9 month old definitely made this trip (our first trip to a theme park with Noah) a much different experience but it was still lots of fun. One of us would spend time with Noah while the other rode a ride and then we'd all spend time together on the train and walking around. The two days we spent there were full of sun and so much fun! Noah was so good this trip I couldn't have asked for more. He took naps at the park without a problem in his stroller(normally a huge issue when we are out) he laughed and had fun in the water at the water park. I couldn't have asked for a better weekend, especially since it was completely unplanned. 

    And here are the rest of the pictures 

                  The Train Station 

      My favorite ride: the Gully Washer 

              Daddy baby wearing

              I ADORE this waterfall

                    He loves fruit 

     Waiting for daddy to get off the ride 

                      My babes 

                           USA 

   He was not in the mood for pictures lol

                           Stud 

                      Superman 

                     Iron Rattler

                          My men 

           He passed out at the park 

              The beautiful waterfall 

              And a selfie to end. 

To many more posts of milestones and life changing moments,

                      Xoxo Sebi

Picture Perfect

Since Noah has been born and even before than I have always loved taking pictures. Now of course I loved taking pictures of everything around me buuuut my absolute favorite picture? A selfie of course, that is before Noah was born.

Before Noah was born I'd take pictures of myself probably every day lol you could say I MIGHT have been a tad bit coneited. Funny thing is that while I loved my face so much there were other parts of me i didn't love, even back then.

14 years old

16 years old

17 years old

18 years old

Now by looking at the pictures above you can all clearly see that I was not fat, but if back then you had asked me what I thought I looked like....I'd say "huge." I didn't know it but now looking back on it I had a serious case of body dysmorphia and battled a eating disorder or two because of it. After stressful times or extremely hard moments in life I'd throw up or starve myself for a week, It wasn't pretty. But why? I clearly wasn't fat but that's just not how it looked in my eyes.

Things have changed drastically since then. Since getting pregnant and being ok with my body while pregnant the eating disorders were gone because suddenly it was acceptable to look the way I looked in my head. I am so beyond glad for that no one will ever truly understand. But eventually the big belly couldn't be excused by an "oh there's a big baby in there." and a smile because now the baby was out. Since having Noah I have struggled so much with my weight. It takes so much of me to not quit breastfeeding so that I can simply go to my old ways and take the weight off....every day...it's my struggle and it's hard. But this time I'm determined to do it the right way and I have Noah and breastfeeding to thank for that. It's not going to be easy but I'm determined to be happier in my skin and to actually feel picture perfect and not mind pictures and videos with my son.

I'm getting back into serious workout mode and healthy eating. I'm only drinking water and working out 5 days a week. I'm going to try with my all to make this work. 

I will be back in a month with an update and weigh in, whether positive or negative but thoughts and prayers that it's positive! (:

To many more posts of mile stones and life changing moments,

                                                             xoxo Sebi 

2 years down and just a lifetime left to go

In honor of my two year anniversary with my boyfriend yesterday,
Thursday the 19th, I'm am going to spend some time talking about how we met.

Although it's only been two years together it seriously feels like a lifetime. I know I'll continue to say that as the years go on but considering all we've done together it's felt like a long time.

That first summer together <3

So how did we meet....well we met in high school. We were in the same math class and one other class, I was new to the school. I'll always remember the first words Joel ever said to me. I remember we had already happened to have one class together that day and we kept looking back at each other but now it was seventh period, the last class of the day, as I was just about to sit down at my desk in walks Joel. This was the second time I had seen him that day and you could say that I was a little more than intrigued the first time I ran into him. Well anyways Joel walks up to me and utters the words that still ring in my head. He said, "What's up cutie?" hahahahaha ohkay now seriously I know that sounds so insignificant but really it meant a lot. Let me go on to explain why. At the time we were both in relationships both of which had been going on for awhile and both of which were having a rough time trying to continue to go on. So anyways Joel is NOT the type of person to just openly talk to girls like that he's a pretty shy person, so for him to come up to me out of nowhere and say that meant something. Anyways like I was saying we were both in relationships at the time so that was pretty much it. We admired each other from afar and that's how we met. To make the rest of the story short nothing much came of it for months because like I said we were both in relationships and like I also said those relationships were going down hill and by the end of that school year me and Joel were officially a couple.

To many more posts of milestones and life changing moments,
                                                      xoxo Sebi

Being Noah's Ark

To start my first post I figured it'd be a good idea to introduce myself and talk about why I wanted to start this blog and give you a little background on why I named this blog Being Noah's Ark.

I'll start by introducing me. I'm Sebastyona Springer, or better known as Sebi. I'm a 19 year old with an amazing boyfriend of 2 years and a beautiful 9 month old baby boy. We live right outside a huge city in Texas. I'm a seriouly proud Texan and just all around southern gal. I am currently a freshman in college working on my bachelors in Social Work. Meanwhile I run my family catering business. I love running the business because it is such a blessing to my little family and allows me to have a flexible schedule and spend lots of time with my tiny human. For now that pretty much sums up all you need to know, as time goes on you'll get to know me pretty well. I'm a pretty open book.

Why? My boyfriend actually just asked me this question. "Why do you want to start blogging?" and I honestly couldn't come up with an answer he'd think was a good enough reason to actually start a blog. I think I mainly want to do it for myself. I want to put my thoughts down, I want to be able to remember and cherish the moments that truly mean a lot to me as life goes on and with a blog I can do that. I can take the time to actually write down my thoughts. Which in this day in age is an art that is seriously loosing it's appeal amongst all the new technology but for me it's important. I can keep track of all the milestones my baby boy goes through. I can let y'all all in on my weight loss journey and so much more. I am super excited to start this blog and cannot wait to see what comes with it.

Being Noah's ark is not only my instagram name, it also has alot of meaning to me, for more than one reason. I am first and foremost a child of God, that is reason number one. Of course reason number two is because my amazing baby boys name is Noah. Reason number three is the true meaning behind what Noah's ark did for Noah in the bible story. The ark was shelter for Noah and his family. It was his safe haven in that mess of a flood and his sturdy place that kept him out of harms way. As a parent that is what I want to be for Noah. I want to be his ark. I want to be his safe place and his rock he can always count on. As a parent that is what really matters to me and what I strive for every day.


Here's to many more posts of milestones and life changing moments,
                                                                      xoxo Sebi