SICK AGAIN

I am trying not be discouraged that I have a cold again. We seem to be recirculating our cold virus. Jeff and Ella have colds too. I think I always get sick from the youngest child because they need help with everything. Saturday night Ella woke up every half an hour crying and needing a new tissue. She seems to like to only dab her nose one time and then she needs a brand new tissue. Needless to say we were exhausted come Sunday morning. I ended up staying home with all of the kids.

I ran at the track on Saturday for the first time since last summer. It felt good to be there again. I can't run a mile yet without stopping ( I know sad), but I speed walk until I feel rested enough to jog again. I have heard this is actually a good technique for weight loss. I told my Mom that I may be training for a marathon and she thought that was hilarious she literally laughed. So I have to decide if I want to put in the effort or not to make it happen. They do it on the Biggest Loser every year so I think if I really want to I can. Then my throat started hurting by Saturday night and I thought great the first time I go running I get sick. I am dosing up on all of these "natural remedies" like Airborne, EmergenC, and zinc lozenges. Hopefully one or all will help speed up the healing process because they are all expensive. Hoping my family and I will feel better soon.

Getting In Shape

Since we have been back from our 10 year anniversary in Hawaii I have been totally slacking off on working out and eating whatever I want. This week I have started working out again. I am looking for a used treadmill and I love to work out to my Jillian Michaels videos. I really like her 30 day shred. It is sad though it used to feel really good to work out and now it is a lot of work! My friend Kim is trying to help me stay accountable and we are talking about training for a marathon together. I think it would be an amazing accomplishment to run in a marathon. I will keep you posted on my progress. We are wanting to start with some smaller local runs as we start training.

TURNING SEVEN

I can not believe that our oldest daughter just turned seven. Time has been flying by. We celebrated this special occasion with a penguin themed ice skating party. We were able to celebrate with all of Erin's cousins and two good friends. The kids had almost two hours on the ice and most had never been ice skating before. I was surprised with how well all of the kids were skating by the end. Emily was really cute shuffling her feet back and forth. I was pleasantly surprised that she wanted to skate all by herself and not have me hold her hand for very long. (She usually wants me to do everything for her) We were able to get some video. I will see if I can figure out how to add video later.

NEW TO BLOGGING

I have been wanting to start blogging for awhile now, but I have been putting it off. I want to have a place to share what is going on in our daily lives. We will have to wait and see how faithful I will be to update, and if I will enjoy this or not.

I love this family photo that Danielle Anthony took of our family in December. I was so excited to have a private photo shoot for our girls and she asked Jeff and me to get in a photo.
Unfortunately the girls were not as excited about having their pictures taken as I was. We were still able to get some great photos out of the shoot and I am looking forward to another session in the Spring.

I am a very blessed mother of three girls. I am thankful every day for the family that God has given to me. We are in a busy and difficult season of raising young children, but again so very blessed.