Beach Blogging Part Deuce

Most people get I love yous and wedding proposals in the sand-- ---my sand message was

In case you can't read that it says-- "Pop Tarts and Water in Chair". What a sweet hubby --cause nothing says lovin' like pop tarts and water after a four mile walk to the other end of the beach (more stories to come on that)

Beach Blogging

What do you do at 2am while vacationing at the beach? Blog of course! We are testing out a new look for the ol blog. What do you think? Does this white hurt your eyes? Mindy says yes, I say no. We both agree that we need to take a look at it again in the morning (morning being a relative term here). In the meantime I will leave you with the words of the night- "pavement ends." These were the words I read on a road sign seconds- miliseconds before we hit dirt. Details coming soon....

Watch out Brutus

Look at these 2 up and coming Popeyes...

Always an adventure..

Never fails-- put Mindy and I in a new situation-- and it is always an adventure..last night at the gym was no different-- Mindy had a free pass and I wanted to try the gym so off we went..

Let's see where do we start?

oh okay Cardio--

Couldn't hang- Mindy set her machine @ 20 mins-- (can't even remember the name of the machine --that's how bad it was)--so of course I put my machine at 20 mins--I only lasted 15-- so like the true friend she is-- she stopped at 15 mins too--

That was after I struggled keeping my foot on the machine and had to slow down 3 or so times to adjust--

Then I went to lean over to grab the heart monitor and was so ungraceful that Mindy thought I was about to fall off and laughed so hard she spit her water out--

I did however burn 128 calories to her 121--but who was counting??

Speaking of Cardio -- when we were done with that horrible machine I said let's go do weights and then we will come back for a walk-- RIGHT--- sounded good at the moment--and I needed to show that I could hang on some cardio that I am good at-- I love to walk


So off to the Circuit--- (this would be the weights)

I don't think they would have been too bad-- but once Mindy taught me how to use the machine she would just stand there and laugh at the faces I made while doing the weights-- so there she stood just staring and giggling--

Leg Presses

Then on her favorite machines- -like the leg press she challenged me to do more -- she said "I did 30 and 15 on my calves"-- okay I was tired-- but couldn't resist the challenge--so I did 30 and 20 on the calves-- but who was counting? ---by the way my legs are loving me today--

Thigh Presses

Then there came the thigh presses-- the inner and outer thigh presses-- not sure if you know what these machines are like-- but from the beginning you start in an awkward position that you can't help but laugh about-- both of these machines ended with me practically falling off almost in cramps-- and scared I was going to get stuck in this not so "lady like" position.

Work those abs

We should have been done after those weights--but I wanted to do those inverse ab crunches -- where you are upright and sorta hang and pull your legs up to your tummy-- after debating on whether or not you should do abs when you have belly fat-- I convinced her to just try it-- we were tired but that didn't keep us from doing more and more just to prove we could do the same amount

Good News/Bad News

So good news we exercised-- bad news we were probably not the most professional or serious looking people in the place-- good thing for Joe and Brad that we didn't mention we were their wives-- because they are there almost every other night--and may be a little embarrased of the two women that giggled the whole time they were supposed to be exercising

Until Next time...

By the way-- we didn't go back to the cardio--that was a very quick passing thought-- but get ready Mindy because next time it is on!!!

Growing up

Today was the start of Payten's 2nd grade year-- Joe is beside himself--on our way to take her to school this morning - he said to her 3 times --"Shorty you are growing up to fast"-- and even asked her if she would still give him love at school-- she said --"YES Daddy" --whew--thank goodness--she didn't break his heart this year--just give it time

I thought I would put in a pic from the exact same time last year --a picture of her first day of first grade so you can see how much she has matured---

Last Year

This Year

Ode to the Hoggly Woggly

Thanks Georgia for the COOL shirts

Reminiscing

Tonight Mindy and I spent some time reminiscing over Payten's kindegarten agenda-- and who knew such a bond could form over:

134 Stamps/happy faces
38 Notes (Back and forth) some serious some not so serious--(3 included Mindy's home # just in case I needed to get more clarification on Payten's bad choices)
12 Sad Faces (who knew Payten had so many bad days in K5 :))
5 Silent Lunches
1 Happy Birthday greeting (missed by me)
and a request to do our 6 week conference at Walmart

It's a good thing I was able to get over all of those bad notes on Pay Pay enough to see a hint of "coolness" and invite Mindy to bunko--I don't think life has been the same ever since (he he he)