Day 2

Day 2 of my 30-day challenge is complete!  Whew!  My muscles are sore, but I'll live with that.  At least I know I still have muscle in there.  I treated myself to some workout clothes yesterday.  Yay me!  Not that those will help me workout but I figure since I spent the money on them, I'll use them.  Which means to use them I'll need to workout.  I also figured that "dressing the part" will help with motivation.  Even if don't break a sweat, I'll look like I did and that will make me feel good.

I did complete day 2 in under 30 minutes and I burned 149 calories doing cardio and strength exercises.  It was quite the workout too.  The one thing I don't like is kick ups.  It's where you alternate walking and kicking your butt with the heels of your feet, and running while kicking your butt with the heels of your feet.  It really does kick your butt.  I did go slow and the next time that exercise came around the trainer scolded me!  She said, "The pace for the workout is set, stay on track!" Yikes!

The challenge for today?  Keeping my calorie intake in check.  Why is that such a challenge you ask?  Because I'm going to a baseball game today! Hubby and I are going on a date!  The smells and the sounds at the ball park combine to just pull you in and suck the calorie counting out the window.  I guess if you go to a ball park and plan on eating, then there is no point in counting Calories.  Kinda takes the fun out eating, I guess.  Besides isn't the nachos grande (or whatever it's called) like 2000 calories in itself?  What about the dinger dog - at least 700 calories.  I don't care.  I'm going on a date with my handsome husband and I'm going to enjoy being with him all day!

30 day Challenge - day 1

So today was day 1 of the 30 day Challenge.  Last night I spent a few minutes adjusting my bedtime routine to adding in getting ready for my morning workout.  I made sure the game was out, the nun chuck, resistance band and leg strap were out, and balance board charged up.  I made sure to set the alarm for 5 am (yikes!).

I woke up at 4:25 am and very briefly considered turning off the alarm.  Then I thought, well, I don't have to get up at 5.  I could get up at 5:30 or wait until my hubby wakes up at 6.  Well, wouldn't you figure that this morning was the morning, K woke up right then.  My first thoughts were, "great.  Of all the mornings you need me, it has to be the one where I was going to get up at 5."  Thankfully those thoughts just stayed in my head and didn't come out of my mouth.  I got K settled in my bed and I went out to start my workout.  As I began my workout, I decided that maybe K waking up was way to keep me getting up like I had planned.  Actually I am very thankful that he woke up that early, because otherwise I just might have set the alarm for later.

So, back to my workout.  I burned 129.3 calories in about 20 minutes.  I worked up quite a sweat so I figure that was good too.  I kept hydrated and ate a yogurt before I started because I can't do much on an empty stomach.

After my workout and everything was put away I made my hubby lunch and put the dishes away while the coffee brewed.  It's been a good morning so far.

*just so you know, I'm no fitness expert.  I'm journaling about my experience with the 30 day challenge and am in no way offering any kind of fitness and diet advice to anyone else.  Anything that I may write, is just my journal so that I can look back on what I did to see what helped and didn't help in my journey to physical fitness.  

30 day Challenge

I have decided to recommit to using my Wii EA active sports workout game.  I guess it's not really a game, but whatever.  My point is that I'm not too happy with what my scale says today and I need get moving.  I was doing really well for a long time back in the winter time.  Then...I got sick and never picked it back up again.  Oh and I'm sure my husband's bacon wrapped deliciousness hasn't helped either.  But I'd rather pick up the workout habit and still eat the bacon instead of giving up bacon altogether.  Seriously.  Who does that?  

So tomorrow morning, bright and early, I will attempt day one of the 30 day challenge.  That means getting up early - like 5 am early.  I'm sure it will be worth it.  It will be.  Won't it?  Yes.  Yes it will.  And I plan to  blog about my adventure.  Not because I have readers - I don't.  But because I think it will help me keep myself accountable.  I have friend who has been my workout accountability partner and that's been great.  Hi Jess!  It's been nice to have support and encouragement from a friend when the going gets tough and you don't really want to exercise.  Also it's motivation for me when she would workout - I knew I could do it too.  Like I said before, I haven't been good about keeping up with exercise or our accountability so hopefully this will help.  Better go so I get rested for my early morning.  

Oh by the way.  My hubby and I are going on our first date (alone!) of the year in a couple days!!  Can't believe we haven't been on date with just us at all this year!  EEk.  I guess that is what happens with 4 kids.  We have got to try harder at getting those date nights in.  We are good about having date nights after the kids go to bed where we watch a movie together or cook a nice dinner together.  But date nights are so important.  We are very excited!  

A day at the pool

Earlier this week I brought the kids on a mini day road trip to meet a friend of mine and her boys at a water park that is about half way between our houses.  It was about 1 1/2 drive one way for and about an hour for her.  We met in Wisconsin and the kids were so excited to go to another state (even though they have been to Wisconsin before).  The day was windy and not as humid so it turned out to be a beautiful day.  Here are some pictures that I finally uploaded from that day.

K zooming down the water slide!  

T climbing across floating tree stumps

M cooling off in the water.  He told me he was a fishy.

My friend J's son who is 2 1/2.  Such a ham!  He also loves wearing his sun glasses.  I was very impressed with that.  Not all kids keep their sunglasses on.  

I was hoping to get T and H with K but at the time I had my camera out and these two spotted, T was off playing somewhere else.  All three older ones got a long great!  

M and C even got along.  M was sharing his boats (which is huge for him) by the end of the afternoon.  

All 6 of the kids during a water break.  This is the second time we've all gotten together but the first photo of all 6 of them together.  I took about 20 pictures of them right in a row to try to get at least one good one of all of them looking.  It's a lot easier than waiting for them to all smile and look at the same time.  With a 3 year old and a 2 year old it's near impossible!  This one turned out pretty good though.  

Back at it

I haven't blogged in while.  Due mostly to time - 4 kids home right now because of summer vacation.  Also due to the fact that I have no idea what to write about or post about.  I guess since this is just my bloggy journal, I can most whatever I want no matter how uninteresting it may be to readers (if there are any, ha!)  :)

A father's day picture of my wonderful husband with our 4 kids.  

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I don't mean to brag. Actually yes I do.

It's been awhile since my last post.  Did you miss me?  That's what I thought.  I figured that I will use this post to brag, recap, brag on my kiddos.  It's my blog and they're my kids so I'll brag away.  :)

I will start with K.  Aside from my last post he has had a really good month.  First he was Student of the week.  He got to make a poster all about... you guessed it!  K!

The best part about his poster is at the bottom and you can't see it on here.  The frame said If I had one wish I'd wish for... and K's answer - 1000 dogs.  He loves dogs!  He prays for a dog nearly every night.  

Next up is H.  That same week, H entered her science fair project in to the science fair.  She ended up winning Honorable Mention.  She was so proud as well she should be.  That is quite the accomplishment and she knew she did her best.  

Here she is with her science teacher who was proud of all her students and the great job they did.

In case you're wondering she did a mock up of a geothermal power plant.  Good Job H! 

The next day, T earned VIP in his class.  I missed it because I was sick.  My hubby managed to take a few pictures.  

Congratulations T!  

Now fast forward a little bit.  K has been working very hard to earn a smiley face every day.  Last week was his best week!  He got 5 smileys in a row!  After 3, his teacher said he had earned VIP of his class.  He had no clue and was so excited!  When his name was called, he stood up and looked around as if it couldn't possibly be but another K.  A huge smile broke out on his face as he realized it was him who won!!

Awarded to K for Improving on listening and following directions and for working hard to use all his CARES rules in the classroom.  

Way to go K!!!

The next day H won Student of the month.  She has been working very hard getting her assignments in on time and when she can't she's doing a good job explaining to the teacher why she wasn't able to.  This is the first quarter with no missing assignments too.  

Awarded to H for rededication to academic success and her new-found self advocation

Congratulations H!

Last but not least, there is M.  He insists he's our small baby.  He loves his cars and he can recognize the letters X, E, M, O, W, K, H, and Y.  There might be a couple more but that is awesome!  Good job M!  

Notice his little fohawk goin on.  He got a haircut and then woke up from a nap the next day.  His hair has a had spike down the middle since then.  

To celebrate all these wonderful accomplishment we had a pizza party.  We ordered the kids' favorite pizza and chowed down while chatting about the past month.  Wonderful family memories.