8/25/12

Well, today was a pretty good day. The girls were up way too early – 6:00AM. I’m so sick of that. 6:00 wake-up call on the weekend is NOT going to happen…and it’s funny that they act like it’s torture when we get them up for school at 6:15, but on the weekend apparently that’s the ideal time to get up. Well, I sent them back to their room. I’ve decided they are no longer allowed to come out of their room until AT LEAST 7:00AM, maybe 7:30. So, from now on, they will be sent back to their room until it’s actually time to get up. I know if they had their own rooms it would be better – they wouldn’t wake each other up, and then think it’s time to stay up. That’s not going to happen for a long time though, so they just need to get used to it.

I took my measurements since I’ve finished the 30 Day Shred. This program was definitely my most effective inches-wise. To date, in just over 7 months, I’ve lost 32 pounds and 22.75 inches. 3.5” from my arm, 8.5” from my waist, 5.75” from my hips and 5” from my upper thigh. Pretty exciting!!! I think I’m going to continue to alternate the 30 Day Shred levels until my new workout series comes…hopefully in 2-3 weeks it sounds like. I was going to do Insanity next, but I think I need something completely different to shock my body – and the dancing/cardio workout should do that. *Hopefully*

Once we were all up, Christian was off and running right away. He took the truck in for the new tires today. The girls and I had some breakfast, and then Amelia actually went down for a REALLY early nap. She was crabby and obviously exhausted still. Olivia watched a movie and did some coloring while I cleaned up around the house a little bit. Then I jumped in the shower, got ready, got Olivia ready and made a pasta salad for today’s event. Christian arrived home and quickly got himself ready. Amelia was finally awake…got her ready, we all loaded into the car and were on our way.

Today was our family reunion with my mom’s family. Unfortunately, the weather was not cooperating…it ended up raining ALL DAY. The reunion was outside, but luckily we had a pretty big shelter to be under – and, it wasn’t as big of a turnout this year, so that helped too. We hung out for a few hours, catching up with some family and playing with the girls. They were pretty antsy stuck under the shelter all day…other than a short game of foosball inside with my mom and Christian. Hopefully next year we’ll be back to the great weather we usually have for it.

Olivia took a nap when we got home while we hung out with Amelia. Christian ran to pick up some dinner once she was awake and we spent the evening together. Christian and I had plans to watch a movie or two tonight, but we got sucked into a “Ridiculousness” marathon instead and laughed the night away. Overall, we’re in for a mighty low key weekend…I always crave a little down time, but after a while, it gets pretty boring!

Here are a couple pics I took today – family foosball and Amelia, our big catcher. It’s so gross, but she’s obsessed with bugs. Olivia calls her over to kill them when she finds one. LOL, gross.