Milestones and Records

We had a few milestones this week, I have been training extra hard for a half marathon that I want to run in March, the Dr wants me to start using an inhaler for my asthma before I run, I barely passed the output test. The pharmacy didn't have the prescription ready so I ran without it. Instead of focusing on miles, now I'm trying to focus on time. How far I can get in an hour, hour and a half, 2 hours, etc.  So this wasn't the first time I have ran,walked, jogged for an hour, but I usually have a friend with me and we talk and catch up, so this was the first time I really focused and pushed myself. I ran, jogged the whole first lap around the park (which is 1.25 miles in 14 minutes then I kind of jog walked the other 3 laps. All in all I did 5 miles in 1 hr and 8 min for my first timed hour run. Here are my goofy pictures.  First of all I did this in the evening after work, note to self, much easier to run in the morning, not after eating Mexican food for lunch.

 Another milestone this week, my little man's first day of first grade and there were not any tears, he genuinely seemed excited, he was a little nervous that he wouldn't be able to find his classroom though but he did.

 The first run was Tuesday after work, my second run was Friday morning after I got jack sent off to school. I did my first lap in 12 minutes and 5 miles in an hour and 2 minutes, then I came home and jumped rope, did squats, crunches and pushups, and yes that is Jack's jump rope.

Scrap Happy

Even though I'm not a member of the gym anymore, I still stay in contact with the girls from the fitness group and we do 30 day challenges and run 5k's together and just overall support each other. We all wanted to put together a book for the trainer that got us all together and kept motivated in the first place, and it just so happens that it is her birthday too. We are going to surprise her at dinner with this book.  I only had access to the photos posted on the one website and some cute athletic quotes. I left some journaling tags for the person to write something to Emily.  So this is how I sent the book to the person that orchestrated the whole surprise and she added some more photos and had the book in her car at the gym so everybody can sign it.  I didn't show the first page or last page of the book. The first page I left more like a yearbook page where everyone can sign and write Emily a little something. Then the last page is where Abby was going to put each team members total weight loss, kind of like a Biggest Loser, before and after thing.  So here is my simple fitness 8x8 scrapbook

 I don't know why they are turned I couldn't figure out how to rotate. This page is to show you that even when you are in Belize, you can still workout.

 The page on the right is the me page I did, I even wrote a little on the journal card.

                                                             Another flipped one

                                                            I love this superhero page

I can't wait to see the finished book, tomorrow at Emily's birthday party dinner. I haven't scrapped in ages or made a card, I have just smashed, so as soon as I was done with this book, I organized my craft room and started laying things out that I want to scrap.

super busy but relaxed about it

We took the kids to a fun night at the drive-in, this is what Uncle Doug was doing when we picked up a few of the kids.

                                             Aiden trying to be scary as if that's possible

                                                               The kids playing before the movie

                                                       while the adults played Yahtzee

                      Jack wanted to watch the sun go down with Mmmy the next evening

 Then I came home from work, and Jason decided to surprise me with a home cooked meal.

I have working on smashbook pages and making a scrapbook for a friend too. Pics to come soon.

Busy weekend

I had the great opportunity to get to volunteer at Bingo night at the Buddy House, it was so much fun, and everybody won at least once.

                                                Cathy ends up with the best, Best Buddies from WKU

                         then we went to the concert in the park, Jack made a friend and played

          free bouncy houses at Chaney's Dairy Barn and lots of other fun stuff to play with.

                                                    a little ice cream before the outdoor movie

 Well the movie is starting and Jack rather play glow stick sword fight with his new friend

Summer Breeze

It has been an awesome summer. I have succeeded in getting Jack outside as much as possible and taking him to do lots of fun, mostly free things. I swear I had like a 2 week long birthday celebration. The older I get the more stuff we just happen to do around my birthday which is awesome.  I come back from a vacation and then host my first Bunco night which was successful.

 This is my fitness accountability photo, I think we ran almost 4 miles the day of or after Bunco

 I'm at it again, I workout daily.  I have to keep it fun cause I get bored easily with fitness.

                                                           At the Fallout Boy concert

                                                                      Training hard

 My family has this annual summer birthday bash/July 4th party and I got crafty this year and made Jack this rocket stuffed with goodies from a toilet paper roll

                                                                            Sparklers

                                 I had the pleasure of babysitting miss Caroling and Lily and their sis Reagan

                                                               Miss Lily

                                                  I think Maya missed me when I was gone

 Went on a girls night to dinner and a movie and yes I ate the whole thing, it was so yummy, had to run extra hard the next day, it was worth it.

                                                     Birthday flowers from my Dad

                                                    Great weather for a picnic in the park

                                                            Jack loves playing in this fountain

                                                Beautiful view from my shady reading spot

                                    The BG Gauntlet Mud Run and obstacle course race

                                                            Little man helping me stretch

 video of one of the obstacles, the shirtless man that ran through it, puts us to shame.

                                                                 mud crawl under barbed wire

                                             The after picture, we are all a little out of breathe

                                           and just 5 days after the mud race, we ran a 5k