Dark and Early....

One of my cardinal rules is to never wake up earlier than necessary, the sixes are pushing it and the fives are totally off limits, (unless catching a plane for a vacation) Well, I have been having this strong desire to be "that person" that wakes up early, gets a great work out at the gym and sleeps like a baby after a hard long day. Well I decided that I am finally going to be that person, and it requires me getting up in the "fives" to be to the gym by 6:00 AM. What is this world coming to ???I know....I don't know what happened either, but I have been craving a good solid guilt free workout session and this is the only time to fit it in. And the video at home thing totally doesn't work for me. So i meet my faithful sister each morning for a butt busting(and hopefully gut busting) sweat session. I am loving it...even though I am a zombie by lunch time. Gotta lose that belly....whatever it takes.....even breaking my cardinal rule of sleep.

Tucked in....

I spend a considerable amount of time and effort when I am out in public checking my reflection and adjusting my clothes to make sure that my muffin top isn't hanging over my pants. So just as I get out of the car today and get all adjusted, I put the kids in a cart and look up and there are not 1 but 2 girls walking in front of me with theirs "not tucked in". It made me think. Is it unnecessary for me to always be worrying about this? Am I the only that thinks it is gross? Not only does it look gross to me, it feels gross. I must be vain, because I just don't think I could comfortably walk around knowing everything isn't tucked in. I wish I had the waste of Kristin, or Brynn, or Tiffany...but I don't. Until I expose my vanity even further with a tummy tuck surgery, I'll continue doing my best to make sure I am all tucked in.

"The not so fast" fastet 5k

Today we walked down to the park at 1:00 with the intention of staying for a few minutes. It was so nice outside and we ended up getting "lost" there for almost 2 hours. I love nice weather.
Saturday I ran a 5k in 26.58 minutes. And it was hard. I had to take a nap to sleep off the exhaustion. Sadly, I think that is my best time ever it is a 8.42 minute/mile. That sounds so slow to me. There are people that run 4 minute miles...I have never even ran a 6 minute mile. I need to work on my speed. I have had grand intentions on doing so for a few months now, and I keep putting it off...I think mostly because I know it will hurt....But I have never been scared of a little pain, I just need to get 'er done. I did go to curves with my mom last week and did butt kicks and high knees the whole time. That is supposed to help right? What I really want is a running coach. I wish I had taken track in high school, I thought you had to be a good runner to be in track. What I wish I had known back then, is that somebody's gotta lose and it may as well be me since I would be getting free work outs in exchange for my pride.
PS I didn't learn that lesson till college when I didn't have rent money for SUU and I signed up to be an RA in the scary dorms in exchange for free rent and my pride. It was so worth it.

St. George..2009

Sorry about the movie madness...we don't have a video camera and I am having fun with my little casio exilim video feature. Plus I really regret not taking more video of my kids...how else am I supposed to remember the good times?