Summer Adventures Part 3: Star Valley, Wyo.

The fam at ____ Lake. (I forgot the name, which
is really pathetic since I've been going there since I was born)
It's in Afton though, so I got that much. Nice to know
I haven't completely lost it.

Awww! You know how much I'm fond
of the "engagement shot".

I've got a little poser on my hands.

Well, two really.

All right, make that four.

Intermittent Springs- a yearly ritual.

I wonder where they get all their posing from?

I'm pretty sure it's from their Dad. Not his
most extravagant pose, but there it is.

This is my artistic "lovely butterfly in nature" picture. I
call it, "Lovely Butterfly on a Splat of Horse Poo...In Nature".

Summer Adventures Part 2: Two birthdays

Skye's birthday at Grandma & Grandpa Holliday's house.

Ethan's actual birthday at home. We usually do the "official"
cake at the Holliday house on Sunday, but we weren't able to do that
one until two weeks after the fact. So we opted for the cupcake
route on the actual day. I tried to make it up to him with
a MEGA cupcake.

For his birthday cake this year, Ethan wanted my grandma's
chocolate marshmellow brownies. I now have an official
teenager now. Oi vey!

Summer Adventures Part 1: Skye's Birthday Party

Skye got her first official birthday party this year. I tried
to "do it up guud". As a result, I put on quite a buffet
spread, which in hindsight wasn't necessary for a bunch of
6-7 year olds. They would've been happy with just cupcakes.
Oh well, c'est la vie.

Cupcakes: color coordinated to party decorations- Check.

It was a "splash party" theme, but we had to get them as
messy as possible first. This was the "summer snowman" game.
Sean, Ethan, and I decorated them with several cans of shaving cream.

Gavin, Eden, Kya and Skye in the pool.

Extra slippery slip 'n slide.

Singing Happy Birthday.

Eden striking a pose.

Happy Birthday Skye!

Week 0.5 down

So week 0.5 is done and I'm still not sure that I am ready to start running for real yet.  I've been pretty good about walking though and on Friday Richy and I kept up a good pace the whole while.  I'll probably do a week 0.75 this next week and I'm going to mow the lawn on Monday(which I may count as my walk).  Also when I weighed myself this morning I got 3 different weights so who knows what it really is but I'll put the low so I feel good about myself. :)

Weight: 376.4 punds
Feeling: Good

Week 0 day 3

So I made it through day 3 and again just walked it but this time there was a bit of an incline at the beginning and end of the walk.  I felt much better during the walk, it may be because I had water with me and stayed better hydrated or maybe because I was wearing different shoes.  My shins didn't hurt nearly as much but they were quite heavy.  They were some clod-hoppers and going down the hill they hurt my toes a little bit.  All in it was a good day.  I'm thinking next week will be another walking week maybe week 0.5 we will have to see how it looks on Monday.

Weight: 385
Feeling: Not too bad but really hot.  (Need AC)

c25k Week 1 er week 0

Some of you may know that I have decided that the time has come to shed some pounds.  Earlier this year I hit the 400 pound mark(maybe) it was close at least.  I know that it is going to take a lot of work and will be really hard.  That is one of the reasons I decided to post this on the blog so that I have some accountability.  I have already made some changes to my diet and I have been getting more activity, but not really a big enough change. So I have decided to try to get myself ready to run the Wasatch Back Ragnar next year.  As part of that I am going to do the c25k(Couch to 5k) program and I kind of started it this week.  I say kind of started because I ran for 45 seconds of the first 60 second section and about 20 from the second section and just walked the rest of the time.  That was on Monday, today er actually yesterday now, I did day two but only walked it.  Although I did speed up to a quick walk during the run sections.

Anyway, I am going to try to keep you all informed about my progress here on the blog.

Weight: yesterday 382.2
Feeling: Really, really sore and tired.

Skye's Ballet Recital 2012

"Gnomeo's Garden" Skye's tap number

 

Perfect attendance award

Flowers for the ballerina

 Not pictured is Skye's "Cinderella" dress, which was her
ballet number. For some reason I wasn't able to get that one
(dang it), but I have a hardcopy of it, so not a total loss.
The recital was a success! Skye danced beautifully and
was quite the graceful ballerina.
Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa Holliday and
Grandma Bagley for sitting through a VERY long program.