Shutterbug Slant: Workouts and Birthdays

Well I haven't been able to keep up with posting as often the past couple weeks because we've just been super busy. We finally have some decent, warmer weather so we've been able to go to the park a few times and play in the yard. The kids are really enjoying it, and I'm enjoying the fact that they are getting so much energy out. It's also been a good motivator for me to stick with my workouts and eating well since i know it won't be long before it's time to break out the shorts :/

I started out trying to fit workouts in during the kids' naptime. But Mavrick has recently started transitioning from two naps a day to one. So now the kids are no longer napping at the same time during the day, therefore I haven't been able to workout in the afternoons. My only options are wake up super early and workout before the kids wake up, or work out at 9:00 at night. Although I'm not a morning person, I opted for the morning workouts. I figured that as long as I can convice myself to get my butt out of the bed, I'd enjoy working out more knowing that I can take a shower immediately afterwards, and I eat better throughout the day because I don't want to sabotage all my hard work! So I've started waking up at 5:15 and heading down to the basement for 30 minutes on the eliptical and 15 minutes of abs.

Today during Mavricks' naptime I decided to try out the 30 minute shred video as well. It was pretty good. I figured it would kick my butt since I'm so out of shape, but it was tolerable. I was definitely sweating and had to modify my push ups, but otherwise it was great. I think I'll incorporate this 3-4 times a week :)

On another note, Saturday was Dennis' birthday. Mom came over and watched the kids for us so we could go out. We inteded to be back before dinner, but ended up not getting home til 9pm. Oops... We had fun though and the kids always enjoy their time with Grandma :) We really didn't do much, just enjoyed being able to go and do whatever we felt like doing without the kiddos. We ended up in Overland Park and went shopping most of the day for new clothes for Dennis. I had planned to take him to Red Lobster for dinner, but the only one nearby ended up being in the ghetto so we drove back to Independence and ate at Buffalo Wild Wings instead. (I swear our navigation system is always directing us to the worst parts of town. They need a 'Avoid Ghetto' button!)

Then on Sunday we had Hollie's birthday party here at home. We invited all of our family members with little kids, but almost every single one of them cancelled at the last minute because they were sick. I'm glad they didn't bring the germs around, but Hollie was pretty bummed that there were no kids here. It ended up only being my grandparent's and my mom. Then later on Jessie and her kids came by. Luckily it was a gorgeous day out and Hollie got a new bike so she had a blast riding out on the driveway and playing with Austin and Bailey when they got here. I was afraid her birthday party was going to be a big dissapointment to her since she was so excited for weeks about it, but even though there were only a couple kids she really had fun!