Workout Update Week 2

Well...Monday was great and then there was a slight setback. I know i said I would power through even if I was sick. Well that didn't happen. Tuesday through Friday stomach virus won! Boo! Although I did lose 3 pounds because of it, not the ideal way to lose weight but hey I will take it. Saturday through this Monday I was back on track. Stay tuned...

Workout Update

I survived week 1 and worked out all 7 days. yay for me! Yesterday was hard to motivate and I ended up cutting the workout short. I figured out today it was because i was bored. There are 3 levels to this video and my thought was that i would do level 1 for the first week and then move on. Well I did that but i think if I would have went to level 2 yesterday I may have done the whole half hour. But you can't go back in time so anyway...I'm on level 2 now and feeling good and determined to stick to my goal of all 30 days. Wish me luck!

Car Keys & Ipod

Blake has a couple of new obsessions - Car Keys & my Ipod.

Everytime he sees my car keys he reaches out for them, if i let him hold them he has a death grip when i try to pry them away and today after i picked him up from school he kept saying "car keys" over and over and over again. It was pretty cute.

He also loves my ipod. He loves listening to the music and dancing and has a special fondness for pushign the buttons over and over again. I took a funny picture of him on Friday with my ipod and the telephone. He was very busy talking and listening all at the same time.



I have some video of Blake saying some of the words he knows. Hopefully i can get it posted soon.

Mexico & Motivation

So we are going to Mexico at the beginning of February...a month from Thursday to be exact. With the holidays just ending and the fact that I feel like I ate enough for 3 grown men over the past month and a half there is no way i want to put on a bathing suit. I'm not sure who is going to be reading this but I felt that if I documented somewhere a plan to get in shape that I might actually hold myself to it. ha! We will see. So here is my plan to hopefully motivate myself to lose a few pounds and feel semi good when squeezing myself into a bikini.

I will be doing at a minimum Jillian Michaels 30 day shred - everyday!


I don't care how sore I am or if I'm sick I'm doing it. If i can't handle 20 minutes of workout a day that is sad. I hope to also make it to the gym a few days a week since I pay for it - although I'm semi embarrassed with the fact that i haven't been in over a month. Hopefully they don't categorize me as one of those "new year resolution" faker worker outers. Although I probably am one of those at this point.

I figured this was a good place to start since I have about 30 days until we board our flight. I'm not looking for miraculous results, but i seriously need a starting point here. So I will report each week how much I worked out. If you happen to be reading this blog a comment or two to help encourage would be greatly appreciated. Although I secretly hope no one reads this blog just in case my results are embarrassing. :)

Wish me luck!

Christmastime!

We had a very eventful Christmas holiday this year. The festivities were kicked off on Christmas Eve at our house. Chris dad, stepmom, sister Carrie and Grandma Ruth came over and I cooked my first holiday meal. I have to say I was pretty happy with the results. We had a very nice evening and had a little gift exchange too. Blake was definitely the highlight of the evening. Auntie Carrie bought him these small cars that you roll backwards and the shoot forward super fast. Blake was and still is in love. He yelled CARS! CARS! CARS! to everyone and picked up a car and walked over to everyone showing it to them and telling them that it was a car. It was seriously the cutest thing ever.

Christmas morning we woke up and came out to the living room to reveal Blakes santa gift (tricycle) to him. It was anticlimatic to say the least. He was still half alseep and didn't care one bit. After he woke up a little he got into it a little more and started opening up his gifts. Not very much excitement but what can you expect for one and a half. Next year i'm guessing will be even better. I made breakfast and had everyone over again as well as Chris' stepsister and her family. After breakfast we jumped in the car and drove 4 hours up north to have dinner with my family. I'm really glad we made the trip. It was the first year in a long time that the WHOLE family was together. My grandparents and all of my aunts, uncles, cousins and cousins kids were there to celebrate. It was definitely a great time.

And well...it doesn't end there. My brothers birthday was on the 26th and since he was turning 30 we had a big celebration. We headed up to Mt. Shasta on Saturday morning for some skiing. It was so much fun and a perfect day. After skiing we went out to dinner and then bowling. I was seriously exhausted after all of that - but a great time. Happy Birthday Brandon!

Well that sums up our holidays. click on the link below and you can see all the pictures!

Happy Holidays!

Christmastime 2009