Let's Go!

We went out and bought an elliptical (a very simple and basic one) yesterday for an early Mother's day gift.  I have wanted one forever!  Just ask my sister Susanna. We used to go work out together while we were at BYU Idaho. I loved having my sister as my roommate.  As we worked out we joked that one day we would live next door to each other and work out together on our matching elliptical machines.  I would help her kids be on time to things and she would do my kids hair (if I had any girls). Unfortunately, she lives in Idaho and I am in Colorado but one day it could happen and now if it does I have my Elliptical ready. Love you Sister! 
As I menitoned in my last post the weather is getting nicer here but the problem is that the wind won't stop blowing.  I went on my jog the other day and was facing like 30 mph gusts of wind.  Yuck!  I hate the wind with a passion.  So now if I can't (or don't want to) go outside or if I was too busy in the day I can still workout.  Elliptical machines are my favorite way to exercise.  This one is kind of  a miniature one so it fits nicely  in our room.  I would have liked it in the kitchen but I really like Jared's play space and now we won't have to worry about him messing with it and potentially getting hurt.  I used it last night and loved it.  I thought I would just do 10 minutes because it was already like 9:20 by the time we got is set up but I decided to keep going because it felt so good and I knew I had to enter in my information into myfitnesspal and I ate a lot of macaroni and cheese with my dinner.  Man, that really ruined my totals for yesterday.  I am super excited to use my elliptical.  Its nice to know that I have something ready for next winter too! I do like to plan ahead...

*Susanna do you notice a slight tilt to my head in that picture? I did it for you. ♥

My Fitness Pal

So now that the weather is almost consistently nice out I have begun walking again.  And this year I have even started jogging.  I haven't jogged, and I use that term loosely in years!  So now I jog Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday and take walks Monday, Wednesday and Friday.  It's been great.  Although it will be awhile before I can jog the whole length of my "route" I am already getting better (i.e not gasping for breath half way up the hill) from the last 2 weeks. I also just set up a profile on myfitnesspal.com and am excited to start using it. It has you enter your exercise for the day and you enter in what food you ate that day.  Today I was 300 calories over my limit which was set at 1320 calories a day based on my weight loss goal.  Although I didn't know that was my limit when today started.  I will certainly miss those Costco French toast muffins! Each one alone is 710 calories which is more than 1/2 of my allotted calories for the day. Too bad we have like 12 in the freezer.  I think I will let myself eat 1/2 of one. I would like to lose 10 pounds before we become pregnant again. It's also too bad that there are now 2 frozen yogurt shops within 5 miles of us...  good thing they are self serve so I can get just a little. Wish me luck!  And if you want we can become friends on my fitness pal too and cheer each other on!

P.S. Here is a cute picture of the little boy to thank you for reading this post. Mark had to hold him because it is becoming increasingly difficult to get a picture of him standing still.

Hide and Seek

Lately a few items have been missing around our house.  Fortunately I have figured out Jared's favorite hiding spots.  He particularly loves my travel alarm lock, as do I.  I have had it forever and a few weeks ago Jared took it and hid it.  Wanna know where...

Yep.  Under his crib mattress.

I hate not knowing what time it is when I am sleeping so we went out and bought a small alarm clock and he decided to hide it also.

Another favorite spot, the drawer under the oven.

Today I found the same alarm clock in the dryer?

We normally do a really good job keeping our bedroom door shut so all alarm clocks are safe but some days he slips in.  I am just glad we haven't found any items in the toilet, knock on wood.

An Easter Egg Hunt in a Library?

Today we went to one of the libraries here in town to hunt for Easter Eggs.  It was SO fun!  The librarians hid 1,000 eggs all over the library and then let kids (0-12 years old) come search for them and decorate the egg cartons and eggs.  I am sure I have mentioned before how much I LOVE libraries but now I love them even more.  It was so fun to watch Jared search for eggs and to just see Easter eggs hidden all over the Library. Each participant got to find 6 eggs.  Jared did really well finding the eggs and was really sad when it was time to leave.  We have some eggs at home that we have just started playing with so when he found his 6 eggs Jared was excited to sit down and open them.

Found one!

Hunting For Eggs

He was slightly distracted...

Let the Easter festivities begin!

Anyone need a toddler model?

I think he could pull it off.

He can run, crawl, walk backwards and forwards, jump, clap and do hand movements to:

5 Little Monkeys Swinging in a Tree

The Itsy Bitsy Spider

Popcorn Popping on the Apricot tree

He can also point to his hair, eyes, nose, toes, fingers and belly.
And does a mean elephant imitation.

We think he's pretty amazing!