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