Tuesday, March 24, 2009

The Biggest Loser

So our insurance company has these health and wellness challenges every couple of months (with a cash incentive, wahoo!). I found out about this cool thing half-way through the last challenge. The last challenge was to stay away from desserts and sweets. Riley failed to tell me about because he didn't want to be deprived from such wonderful things. So this time I made sure that I was aware of what was going on so we could actually participate. For March and April it's all about exercising, you know getting that heart rate up and building/toning some muscles. I was telling my sister-in-law McKenzie about it and she said that she found this great website that would be great for what we needed.


She was totally right and this link is great if you want to be sore. Well, I usually exercise once in the morning and once at night when Riley is home and the kids are in bed. About a week ago I was already really sore from doing the "But-of-course" workout in the mornings, and that night we decided to to the "Top-to-bottom" workout. Talk about kicking my trash. Well, we finished that workout and still had some time that we needed to fill up so we decided to do an 'easy' one, the "Upside down abdominal" workout. Everything was going great...until we had to do high knees. We both did three steps and Riley stumbled and almost ran into the wall and I crumbled and fell on my face. As I was laying there I declared, "I think that's enough for tonight". I think it would have been really funny to see, but unfortunately my face was in the carpet. Truly the biggest loser. It was a pretty weird feeling to have my legs give out on my like that, but for anyone who wants to have that experience, I highly recommend going to this site.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Just call me cheater pants

So there's no turning back now. As I was doing my singing time with the senior primary this Sunday, one of the primary leaders was looking after Sammi for me. She went in to check on the nursery and set Sammi down. And the rest is history. Sammi wanted to play, so she stayed. The same primary leader went to check on her again while I was doing my singing time with the junior primary and she was still doing great. When I went into sing with the nursery she came bolting toward me and sat with me the whole time. I took her back to primary with me because, well, I just did. But then this great nursery leader came two seconds later and snatched her back for snack time. So I guess Sammi is now a nursery-goer! She's only 16 months, but they were going to have her come in at the beginning of April, so I guess she's not terribly early. But I kind of feel cheated out of my week or two of stressing and anticipating her first day in nursery... What am I thinking? She's going and it wasn't traumatic - let's hope it stays that way!

Sammi on her unanticipated first day of nursery. (Try as we might, we could NOT get a picture of her standing, she would just run and run)

And not to be left out, Jaxon is quite the shnazy dresser, don't you think?