W1D2...

Today I brought my headphones and hopped (ok...stepped up gently) onto one the new treadmills at the Priceton Club. I stood there forever (aka 5 minutes) trying to figure out how to use it! I finally just hit Quick Start and off I went on my training course. THEN...I figured out how to watch the TV screen that is in the treadmill and watch the clock so I could rotate between walking and running. The 25 minutes went sooo quickly and wasn't too bad. I still made sure I was in my target heartrate while running but it didn't hurt my feet. Is there a triathlon that has a treadmill to run on at the end? It would be great! So now the treadmill is my best friend at the gym and I am going to write to Danskin and suggest they set up a couple thousand treadmills for us instead of the run around the lake this year :).

OUCH

Ok, so yesterday I did Day 1 of the Couch to 5K training....

Today.....It hurts to sit/walk/move in general. How in the world did I get soo out of shape. This really stinks....

I still hate running and I still love to eat but I will keep doing it because I would love to wear clothes that look good on me more!

Tomorrow is Day 2 of this week.....I can do it, I can do it.......

Day 1: C25K

First, I have to send a HUGE thank you to Bethany for making our blog look so pretty! I am thankful for her willingness to take her own time to do this.

As you remember, I completed my first triathlon last summer and even though I asked myself MANY times while doing it "WHY AM I DOING THIS?" I have decided to do it again this year. I think we (the posse) have decided to do the Danskin Tri in August vs the Trek Tri in July. They are the same course at the same location, just different dates and companies running them. They are both woman only tri's and are considered sprint tri's. If anyone is interested in doing this with us please let me know! Please know that anyone can complete a sprint triathlon. If swimming is keeping you back you can have a swim noodle to assist you and/or have a "swim sister" swim with you for support. The bike portion doesn't have huge hills to climb, it is mainly pretty flat and the run portion can be walked (trust me I know this as fact :) ). I haven't done ANY for of exercise since my last tri...NOT SMART. So, when I was on Bethany's site one day I noticed she is starting Operation Couch to 5K training and is doing a wonderful giveaway if you are interested!

Today is Day 1 for me. I made it to the gym during lunch time and completed todays workout. My goal is to do the C25K training on Mon, Wed & Fri and then do the bike and weights on Tues and Thurs. In a couple weeks I will add swimming after the running on Mon, Wed & Fri.

Here we go.......

Grace's 1st "Dance"

Tonight was the schools "sock hop"....don't know why they call it that because the kids don't all dress up in Poodle skirts and stuff...anyways. Jack didn't want to go and Grace did. Jared and Jack rented a movie and I took the girls.

As soon as we got there Kate & I were ditched for a bunch of giggly 1st grade girls and some boys that were chasing them (isn't this a DANCE...not a run).

I finally spotted Grace and she had organized a game of Duck, Duck, Goose...right in the middle of the gym...right in the middle of the dance (again...DANCE being used very loosly).

She finally heard a Miley song played and all the little girls jumped up and ran to the front of the gym where the speakers were and actually danced....until Grace saw me taking her picture. Then she was embarrassed....great...I have already embarrassed my 6 year old- she better get used to it!

Kate wanted to walk all over the gym and the kids were all running in a circle around the outside. Imagine the turtles on Finding Nemo. You have to just jump right into the circle of running kids to get to the middle of the gym (aka...the eye of the storm) where there is peace. Kate loved it. She found a little friend (Vanessa) and they hugged and danced and then tried to run away...stinkers!

Grace and her friend Avery. Kate and Vanessa.

We wrapped up the evening with a couple of cookies and headed home. Grace was a bit tired!

Kate was a bit wound up. She thought that yelling would be an appropriate end to the evening. She wasn't mad or upset, she was just yelling. Yelling at whatever she wanted to. When I finally layed her in her bed at 9:15 she didn't even wimper....she just hugged her teddy bear and fell fast asleep...dreaming of when she is big enough to run the outer circle!

**Make sure you check out the blog story below this one....you never knew Mac N Cheese would be so fun!**

Cheese Head

This is how Kate eats Mac N Cheese (yes, I know it is not nutritious....but, she loves the stuff and so do I!).

1.You start by putting the bowl up to your mouth and eating out of it like this:

2. You realize you have a noodle stuck to your head:

3. You think it is so funny that you put another one on and they start migrating down the face:

4. THEN.....you realize that they stick better in the hair and it is all down hill from here! Squirrels store food in their cheeks...Kate stores food in her hair.

Now you all know how to properly eat Mac N Cheese :). ENJOY!!

Stinkin' Dog!

I really meant to get to bed early tonight....but then I went on Facebook and the next thing I knew it was 11:15 pm. I headed upstairs and let the dog out so she wouldn't wake me at 4 a.m. again. I waited a couple minutes and called her back in. About a minute later I smelled something and it wasn't good...in fact it was horrible. It smelled like a perm gone bad...it brought back some bad memories of my childhood. I quickly smelled myself (it wasn't me this time). I was heating something up in the microwave and I thought the microwave was for sure going to explode. Nope it wasn't that. I looked over at the dog in the livingroom and called her over....she came over with her head down and the smell got worse. CRAP....she tried to play with a skunk and she had been in the house for about 3 minutes before I figured it out. I woke up Jared and he confirmed that she stunk REALLY bad. He took her out and doused her with Vinegar (I saw it online and I didn't have any tomato sauce) and then shampooed her with coconut shampoo. She still reeks! My house reeks! Tomorrow I am calling the local groomer and hoping I can drop her off (or she will be sitting outside in the rain while we are at work). Here's hoping we don't get any calls to see the house in the next week or two! Tonight she is locked in a room in the basement that has no carpet. Hopefully she doesn't tear a hole in the wall trying to get to us. Stinkin' dog!

Just to show that we still love her, here is a picture of her and her littlest buddy from this afternoon pre-skunk.

Our Little Pot Head

Kate has found the kitchen cupboards to be her new toy box. They MUST be emptied daily (hourly) and LOVES LOVES LOVES the pots and pans.

First, she has to take all of them out of the cupboard so she can climb in and sit in her new fort.

Next, she climbs out when she realizes that she doesn't fit in the cupboard.

Then, the pots are tried on as hats...they are a bit heavy and not to comfortable as a hat.

Finally, she crawls away leaving a pile of pots and pans for the cleaning fairy to tend to.

If you need your pots and pans OUT of the cuboard...call our little Pot Head!