It’s our favorite day of the week!!! We work out with Sandra today!!!yay.  She is the living best.  Our workouts are different every time.  Keeping things fresh and exciting is important to both Sara and I!  So thanks Sandra…..done and done!!! Here is our car ride  to Sandra!!!

   

 

Getting pumped for this workout.  We have to constantly remind ourselves to conserve energy and stop horsing around. #momrefrence.

So here we go….. We warmed up with doing jumping jacks withe the weighted ball.  And  twisting withe ball!!

Soooo on to the warm up….jumping jacks with a weighted ball and twisty turns?!?

Then we did four different thingsfor 12 reps consistently for 20 mins.

first we started laying on the ball and did crunches combined with  chest

Then moved to squated tricep rows.

 

I dont don’t know what this is called!  We lift then curl the weights up and extend back.

 

 

And then hen heavy weights over the head.

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Break!!!!!!! Time for our cores!!!! Sorry no pics ….. Crunches, side heel taps, and then high sit ups.

after that a new sequence .

start out laying down and bring up weights and legs at the same time!

Then lunges with weights and arms out like a W, like a bird!!!  Sara and I both kinda sucked at this one !!! Haha

Then dead lifts and triceps

Amd then with weights bring arms up, palms down, arms slightly bent, no higher then shoulders!

It was an awesome workout as usual, with our amazing cheerleader and trainer Sandra at Inavative fitness!! After our workout we did our usual Starbucks run!!  #feelinggrateful

 

Cant wait for our weigh in next week!!!!!! Love you guys!!!

 

 

Hey guyyyyys,  after my night out with Sara and getting completly drunk, there’s nothing better then topping off a hangover with a babies 1st birthday party.  But who are we kidding, I loved it!   Gotta love a baby, am I right ladies?!?!  Our friends, Kara and Kevin, making the sweetest kids ever!!!!  So here is the sweetest birthday girl, Ryann!!!

And London was so excited. This girl of mine loves a birthday party.

She loved running around the yard with all the kids, chasing bubbles, going down the slide and coloring with chalk!

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time for cake!!!!!

    Adorable!!!

presents!!!!!!  Who’s in that bag????? London!!!!!!

And all my work buddies were there!!!!

We had a Greta time as always!  Thanks for having us Kara!  Love you and your babies!  Now it’s time to cook and forget about amazing birthday cupcakes.  Hey Sara!!!!!!!lets start cooking!!!!!  On the menu for this evening……..Lemon garlic roasted pork tenderloin with carrots , asparagus and fingerling potatoes!   So easy, one dish just about fits all!!

And jackassing around as you know us to do!

      

Taking our first bites of pork…….. Amazing!

   

Here is the tenderloin recipe.   I just placed the carrots and potatoes around the pork on the same baking pan.

   

 

And we made the most amazing dessert.  Paleo apple crisp!!

        

Huggggggssss

Omg I am such a messy worker!! There was shit everywhere!!!!

   

So we had to clean up before we ate the most amazing apple crisp ever!!!!!

Tadaaaaaaaaa!!!!

Heres the recipe!!! Enjoy 🙂 xoxo. Seriously goooooooodddd!!

 

   

 

 

Sooooo helllloo,  it is officially  weigh in count down!!!!!!!!  Ahhhhhh. I’m excited!  Anyway…………a much needed night out presented itselfs last minute so I took it!!   I met up with Sara and Kelly after work for dinner at Winston’s !

I was so excited to see these girls!!!!!!

Arent we cute!!!!!!

   

Eating outside on summer nights is my favorite thing!

And I heard about  Sara’s and Kelly’s day full of coffee and shopping my fav!!!!!!! I ordered the yummiest salad!  Steak and ginger salad!!!!! Omg sooooo gooood.

after that amazing dinner I was ready to have a drink at our regular place Saints and Scholars!!!

So I had a drink!!

And I was just having the best time ever!!!!   So we also had to stop by North ridge Pub!  We have spent so many nights in the past at this place!!!  It was so fun catching up with our old bartender buddy Keyvin!! And the shots started! Eeeekkkkk Xoxo

 

 

I love Kelly! She is falarious!  And a huge supporter, so grateful for you Kelly!  Muuuahhhh and she was my drinking buddy that night, and  Sara was the DD!!!!!!!  The perfect night!!!!  After this we went downtown!!!! Flash house?!?!?! Yup. And we met up with funny Lauren and sweet Kristen!! Love these girls!!! I was realllllly feeling these drinkkkks!  Ahhhhhhh

     

So then the best thing happened……….that I don’t remember……..I….met……Zan!!!!!!!!

   

And then we did this

Zannnn…..I can’t wait to meet you!!! Haha, I wasn’t blackout but I was definitely brown out! I don’t remember talking to you at alllllllll!     Awkward!!!!!!!   So excited to see you soon! This night out was so needed.  And don’t want to drink like that for a long time. I got my fix…,.thanks ladies!!!!

 

 

 

Hiiiiii you guyyyyys!  So it was a really rough end to the week last week.  Jenny mentioned that I had an incident during our workout Thursday.  I don’t actually have asthma. I grew up with chronic bronchitis which resulted in frequent trips to the doctors as well as the hospital, lots of time under an oxygen tent and my own at home “machine” that helped me breath!  So anytime I got sick it came with raging bronchitis and forced rest!!!  The breathing machine that I would use was full of albuterol which if you’ve ever experience that..it jacks you the fuck up!  And as a kid all you want to do is be on the go anyways so it is especially torturous to be sick but full of synthetic energy!!! Needless to say I never really played sports growing up except for my short lived stint in gymnastics…

but my lungs couldn’t handle it. Maybe this was the beginning of my sedintary lifestyle!?!  Here are some pictures of us on vacation…I was such a happy active kid …

I was a little too active and got myself sick and this was the result!

 

I hated the attention that it brought about too, (I know that seems shocking that I would hate any kind of attention haha) people feeling bad for me or me feeling like a victim  myself or  feeling incapable of doing certain things has always made me feel uncomfortable and honestly angry.  This is the kid I wanted to be all the time…swimming, playing…riding bikes…running around…being at the park and just being flat out adorable winky face!

But more often than not, I was this kid.  You can’t really tell how sick I am in the picture but just looking at it I can remember falling asleep at the table at Daryl’s bc I just couldn’t breath. I’m not not posing for the picture…I’m just miserable.

So I eventually grew out of the chronic bronchitis but around 17 it turned itself into another condition where sometimes (usually only when my allergies are really bad or when it’s cold outside and I’m overly active) my lungs constrict and I can’t breath out, which causes coughing fits which means I can’t breath in.  This literally never happens and hasn’t happened in so long  that I don’t carry my inhalers with me…like ever!  I think bc I felt so restricted and angry as I mentioned above at feeling different and sickly as a child I really wanted to rebel against everything so around middle school I tried smoking and around high school I was a pretty regular smoker. #worstdecisionoflife #theabsoluteworstwaytorebelever

I’m not sure what I was thinking but I have never liked being told what to do…and I will usually do the opposite…even to my own detriment obvi!  Now that I have quit smoking and drinking i have really been able to clearly see how I kept myself sick for so long.  I honestly just had decided that I was a person who got sick a lot and that that was just my lot in life.  And at the time while I was partying my face off you couldn’t have made me understand what role I was playing in that hand of sickness.  Perspective is so amazing.  I haven’t been sick once since I quit smoking.  So Thursday morning came as a big surprise and I was woefully unprepared. I have learned sooooo many lessons lately.  But on Thursday I learned that during a health crisis pushing through the workout is not my smartest move…like ever!  It was literally the dumbest thing on the planet.  There is this strong part of me that wants to be 100% capable all the time…probably bc of childhood incapabalities!  Buuuuuuuuuuuut, if you can’t breath…you can’t workout…or live you dumbass.  Jenny knew it was bad and I don’t know why I pushed through but as soon as we got into the car I burst into tears.  Not being able to breathe is so panic inducing and I just couldn’t calm myself down enough to get the air in!  Jenny is so amazing and her mama bear instincts came out and she made me calm down and just focus on that.  I don’t know what I would do without her.  Sooooo, lesson learned.  It took me a couple of days worth of both inhaler treatments to feel back to normal but I’m back.  I also learned this week that I am completely capable of realizing that I have gotten off track and am able to get myself back on the right path.  I started the week off getting back to my smoothies!!!

Thursday night Zan and I went to a bluegrass festival downtown.  The music was awesome and the local brewed beers were flowing (just iced coffee for me thanks)!

 

#swoon

Then we walked all over and finally decided to have dinner at Sitti!  They had a surprising number of healthy options.  It turns out that I don’t have to order steak frites every time I leave the house!  I am COMPLETELY capable of being a grown up and making good decisions. #whoknew

He orders the most adorably named drinks…tonight was the Bee’s Knees bahahahahahaha!

We shared kabob’s for dinner…steak, chicken, kafta and shrimp with yummy veggies and fingerling potatoes!!!! It was so healthy and so good I forgot to take a pic until it was almost gone…#goodsign!

Then we walked around some more #activitypoints and enjoyed the beautiful weather that has so unseasonably shown up.  I have come to the realization that checking in with myself and reigning myself in is going to be a lifelong thing and its actually what is going to help me find success and my ultimate goal in the end.  #strugglebusnomore #breathingfine #capableofchange

So the breakdown in the workout was super unpleasant but really a really valuable reminder in the end of how far you can come and that frequent reality checks are worth it.  Sometimes you just have to reframe your plan. Xoxoxo

Woooooooooooof!  You guysssssss,  this workout today was intense!!!!  We were so happy when it was done, and could look back and appreciate it! And as always  we jackassed around as long as we could before we went completely silent.

       

It was so gorgeous outside so of course we started with a jog outside as a warm up for 2 mins.

 

After that we squated  and shuffled across the parking lot for 2 mins.

And then skipped around the parking lot for 2 mins.

After this we were both starting to feel our hearts race.  I looked at Sara and I could see her asthma was taking over today, especially being outside.   I  could tell she was going to push through it but it was going to be rough and I just wanted to hold her!!!!!!   So we were released to know we were moving inside.

we then did a rotation of three different things,  lunges with kicks on the TRX

 

Then we did full body push ups?!?  You push up from a laying down position.

 

And then hit the punching bag with a weighted bar.

 All of this was timed and done twice.

So on to the next group of things!!!!!!!!!!!!

sledge hammer slams on the tire timed.

 

And step biceps with 15 lbs

 

And then 25 sit ups on the medicine ball, which I fell off of!!!!

And  we worked out out triceps on the TRX

And then moved to the steps

And then suitcase lifts

    

Then it was on to the core, planking on the ball!!

 

Sit ups with toes reach

Flutter kicks

And scissor  kicks

And we were doooonnnneeee!!!

This was such an ass kicker!!!! Sandra is the best. We love you!!!!     And I love Sara !!! She really kicked ass that day.  I know how hard it was after her asthma kicked in.  But you didn’t bitch out! Love you and your personal commitment to our journeys!!!