Crazy weather..

This weather is awesome.  I know we probably need the snow and all but I can't help but enjoy myself a little.  Today we spent a good hour and a half at the park.  Kids were wearing short sleeves.  It's crazy.  It definitely does not feel like January but it is really pleasant.

Last night was spent with one child throwing up and two in our bed with Jose and I all night.  Not a good night.  Needless to say, the gym was out of the question for me this morning.  I did end doing 100 pushups and 100 dips in my living room this morning.  I'm hoping to get to the gym tonight as soon as Jose is home.  Please babe???  Maybe some weights?  Intervals?  Spin?

Breakfast today was so goooooood.  A little plain greek yogurt, topped with a little raw oats, unsweetened coconut, and half of a baked apple with cinnamon.  Yum!!!

Gettin our workout on.  He always "helps" me by climbing all over me while doing push-ups.  Thanks dude.  This picture is absolutley sick.  Why does my nose look so big?

We took our lunch to the park.  I snuck in some animal crackers and nutella before we left.  I popped some air popped popcorn and added a little olive oil and sea salt to it.

That's what I snacked on at the park.  Along with an orange.

After my animal cracker/popcorn binge I had a light snack.  Two hard boiled eggs, one ginormous carrot, and a few apple slices.

L chose the dinner menu for tonight.  She wanted fettucini alfredo, sweet potatoes, and asparagus.  I sprayed the asparagus with pam and sprinkled on a little sea salt and then roasted it.  She loved it.  We all loved it.  I made the fettucini with brown rice noodles.  My kids don't even notice a difference.

I had some talapia with sweet potato and asparagus.  Now I want dessert.  But I am making myself not eat it.  :(

Spin at five thirty tomorrow.  Better get my butt there.  PS.....I know I need a new camera.  One day.

I like carbs

Got up but early today for the first time in awhile.  It sucked.  Bad.  But I did it.  :)  Today's workout:

Standing straight arm lat pulldown-15

Pulley bicep curl-15

Lat pull down-15

One minute sprint

Repeat three times

High pulley bicep curl-15

Repeat three times

Barbell curl-15

Plank with back row-15 each side

Hammer curl with single leg lunge-10 each side

Sprint one minute

Repeat three times

Then I had the crazy idea to switch it up a little and do GPP in the middle.  I. was. dying!!!

For time

15-16-17-18-19-20 reps per round of:

back squats 95/135
box jumps
lunge switches (R+L= 1)

Then I did:

Reverse flys on incline bench-15

Incline bicep curl-15.......finished off with some abs and called it a day.

Breakfast was a veggie omelet made by the hubs while I was in the shower.  Thanks baby.  It was delicious and healthy.

I took care of that sweet tooth of mine by eleven o clock while out and about.  Dark chocolate and dried fruit.

Lunch was really light because my friend brought me over some devilish almond joy brownie thing which I ate most of while preparing lunch.  :)  Salad with egg whites, a tablespoon of dressing, and some tea.

Afternoon snack was whole wheat toast with peanut butter and jam.  I REALLY wanted a bagel but opted for something a little bit healthier.

Dinner is at my in laws.  DD made us homemade bread and soup.  Can't wait.

It's a brand new year!

I'm back!!!  Finally.  We had a fabulous holiday season.  My husband has been home for most of the last two weeks and we have had so much fun just being together and hanging out.  We had a bunch of parties.  Too many.

These pictures are from our Jamberry Nails Christmas party we did for our employees.

Can you tell were sisters?

The "boss" in his Christmas attire.

Me and my twin brother.  People think were a couple all the time.  We do look good together.

We did a raffle and played a white elephant game.  I think it was a little inappropriate for the sixteen year old employee we have but it was fun.  We came home with a "queef-o-nator" and a nighty.  Awesome.  That queef-o-nator made it to my family's white elephant and some fighting went down over it.  My bro ended up with it.  Lucky.

We have made so much yummy food/treats.  And eaten way too much.  But that's what the holidays are for right?  I saw these roasted chickpeas online and made some up.  They were good warm but not so good cold.

Christmas eve we made all sorts of yummy pizzas and I forgot to take pictures!!!!  I got one.  This was the roasted pepper and goat cheese pizza.  We also made a chicken peanut satay pizza, pear and Gorgonzola, salami and cheese, etc.  It was good and will be a tradition from now on.

S'mores cookies were also on the list of yummy things to make.  I think I ate five.  FIVE.  Goodness.

These were so good.  Cranberry bliss bars like the ones they have at Starbucks.  I devoured these as well.

The things I contributed to our New Years Eve party.  Jose couldn't keep his hands out of the dip.

We left cookies for Santa and danced silly till bedtime.  We left out carrots and oats for the reindeer.  And............

Santa came!!!  I look sleepy eh?  Santa brought the girls what they wanted and brought P a new car seat and shopping cart.

But his all time favorite present was his own little box of goldfish he got in his stocking.  He loves "tish".  He was one happy camper.  :)

He planted himself on my booty during one of our parties and sat like that for a good couple of minutes.  It nice and soft.  Who can blame him?

He is just like his daddy and is obsessed with computers.

Now that the holidays are over we can finally get back into our normal groove.  Unfortunately that means waking up early which hasn't happened in about two weeks.  Ugh.

What are your new years resolutions?  Jose and I have decided one of ours is to eat more locally grown food and buy meat from local farmers.  Maybe start our own farm?  We really would if we had a bigger yard.  One day.  If you think I'm crazy go watch this and you won't think I'm crazy anymore.  I have never heard my husband say the f word till this movie.  :)  Haha...made me laugh.

Workout today was deltoids and spin.  Just so ya know.  I'm hoping some normalish posts will be coming.

Dont expect anything...

Just an FYI that with the craziness around these parts, a real blog post won't be happening till next week.  Just know that I am eating a lot of bad (yummy) food but being a good girl and keeping up on my workouts.  :)  Haha...lets be honest, how could I not?  We are ready for Christmas to come and will be a lot less crazy after.  So until next week.....Merry Christmas!!!!

Wow, what a fabulous post that was.

Happy Birthday

Since I didn't post yesterday I didn't publicly tell my sis Happy Birthday.  But who am I kidding, she doesn't check this thing anyway.  I found a couple of new good finds to share but first the WOD:  I did this GPP workout today,

100 rope jumps
10 single leg sit-stands (R)
10 single leg sit-stands (L)
20 high band pull M/H
20 OH BB push press 45/65
20 V-ups

5 rounds for time

Then I worked shoulders but didn't write it down so...sorry charlie.  Cardio was a short treadmill workout:

10 minutes hill sprints (one minute on as fast as you can, one minute off.  Stay on a high incline the whole time)

Run a fast mile....an uncomfortable mile :)

10 minutes sprints (one minute on as fast as possible, one minute off)

My Ipod died on my last ten minutes in my first sprint.  Sheesh...that sucked.

Breakfast was a protein shake and a couple bites of Grape Nuts.  :)  In the shake is protein powder, spinach, fruit, plain greek yogurt, and water.

I'm happy to report that teachers gifts are done and off.  Hooray.

I have all (well most) of my company party gifts wrapped and ready to go.  How did I ever get into this? So weird.  Those employees of our are going to love those gifts I got.  :)  Not.  But Christy, they will love the ones you got so that's a plus eh?  Apparently I like stripes?

Thanks for the self portrait Ollie!

The girls went to lunch today for my sisters birthday.  I got an asparagus and arugula salad which was amazing!!!! And two little Korean steak tacos.  I have a problem....I almost always look up the nutrition facts at restaurants and decide what I want to get by looking at that.  Those tacos were surprising low in calories.  They were really small though which was fine by me!

I made my hubs a really healthy dinner.  :)  Haha....chicken, goat cheese, salami bake?  I don't know.  I made it up really quick.  I threw in some cooking wine and seasonings as well.  He liked it.

With my most favorite potatoes roasted.  They look gross or something else but they are awesome.

I opted for a salmon burger and veggies.

OK...now for my new favorite finds.  First off,  brown rice pasta.  This was excellent.  It tasted just like regular pasta.  And the Kirkland marinara has no sugar in it.  Win. Win. Win.

I had mine over a bed of spinach with some fresh mozzarella.

This is my most favorite thing!!!!  Maple flavored Agave.  Real maple syrup is great but it can get so pricey.  This is a great alternative.

And the ingredients are the best part.  I love things that have under five ingredients.  Sweet!!!

I had mine with a protein shake and a small waffle yesterday for breakfast.  I seem to eat plain greek yogurt with everything.  It came out a little to fast so I had a little much but I was really pleased with this.

Gotta get my arse up for spin tomorrow.  Hopefully I make it.  My favorite teacher is out of town and so we have a sub.  Ugh.....life is so hard.  That was a joke....I am very, very, blessed.

Catch up....the weekend in pictures

With the holidays in full swing my post may thin out a little.  By January I should be better at keeping up.  We have been out of control busy.  It's insane.  Our weekend was packed.  So here it is in pics.  But first....today's workout:

Biceps and Back

Incline bicep curls-15 heavy weight

Reverse fly in incline bench-15

Sumo squats-15

One minute sprint

*repeat three times

DB bicep curls-15

Bench row with ball-15 each arm (knees on bench. one hand balances on ball while the other is doing the row exercise.)

Lunges with DB-10 each leg

One minute sprint

*repeat three times

BB bicep curls-20

BB back row-15

*Repeat three times

Straight lat pull downs-15

Bicep curl on pulley-15

Woodchoppers-15

*Repeat three times

No cardio because I'm heading to spin in ten minutes!!

Breakfast was protein hot chocolate and oatmeal with a little Greek yogurt and cinnamon.

Can this be considered a snack?  Cuz it was mine.

Some meals from the last couple of days......don't be fooled.  Not pictured is the cake, chex mix, ice cream, and cookies that all made their way to my tummy.  No worries.

Want some healthy fro yo?  Plain greek yogurt, and frozen blueberries.

Add a little stevia and stir her up.......

Sooooooo yummy.  My kids love this too.

Remember my chia balls?  This guy loves them and will munch on a frozen one till they are gone.

I am not a weirdo although I look like it below.  What the?  We partied with some weird peeps Friday night.  

I left my camera on the table and when I downloaded pics today here's what I found....

Sorry guys..........now you are all on the world wide web.  I don't even know who some of those are.

Another x-mas party we had.....thanks to my hubs for hooking this beautiful place up.

I brought a veggie tray and,

Skewers of some sort.

We have huge trees in our backyard and we raked them all up saturday night.

After that busy weekend we did get some good card playin in.  Such a great stress reliever.  :)

Off to spin!!