Day 2

July 21 (Day 2)

I hit the gym today in addition to doing the Wii Fit. I logged 33 minutes on the Wii Fit and 55 at the gym working on cardio and strength.

• Yoga- Was able to unlock a new pose
• Cardio - Was able to unlock DELUXE Hula Hoop! It was harder because you had to do from right to left and then left to right. I can do right to left well but not left to right. I also did the step one there and it was fun. You have to get the hang of it but I liked it.
• Strength Training - I only did the plank and the lunge. The plank was hard and I was feeling it a couple of hours later in my back. I am not sure I did it right. The lunge was easy cause I can do that stuff well.

Still have to work on my balance. I am "unbalanced"...in case YOU needed to know that. It said that I had lost 3 pounds and almost 2 points on my BMI so that was good. My Wii Age was up from 41 to 42. I am not sure what the Wii age is really for but oh well.

Drank lots of water and worked out a lot so I am feeling pretty good tonight. I like it!

Wii Fit Experiment - Day 1

We got a Wii today...and a Wii Fit! I am excited about this Wii fit. We just happened to get it because honestly, they are hard to find (if you don't know that). I called and the guy at Game Stop said that they had 1. I told him my name and that we were going to drive 30 minutes to come get it and to not sell it.

We get there and get our stuff. While Darrell was purchasing the items, I played a little Guitar Hero which will be our second purchase I imagine. It was pretty cool.

After we get home, Darrell hooks this thing up and it's good to go. I pull out the Wii balance board which is this item here.

Wiki states that the Balance board is:

shaped like a household body scale, with a plain white top and light grey bottom. It uses four AA batteries as a power source, which can power the board for about 60 hours.[3] The board is wireless and contains multiple pressure sensors that are used to measure the user's center of balance—the location of the intersection between an imaginary line drawn vertically through the center of mass and the surface of the Balance Board—and body mass index.

You first start by calculating your basic stats...height, birthday, age and then it figures out your weight and BMI and gives you a "Wii Fitness Age" based on your current age, weight and athletic ability. My age was...........40! What is up with that? I am pretty fit even though I am overweight.

I finally was able to get started and the first thing I did was Yoga. This included Deep Breathing, Half -Moon, Warrior and Tree (which is the hardest for me since I dont' balance well). As you play more, you get to unlock more poses and things. I hula hooped, ran a short jog and did some balance stuff. I think I played for about 30 minutes before I had to go to church.

So, I decided I would put my progress on our family blog since we have SOOO many readers (that is scarcism at it's finest). We are going on a family vaction in 48 days so I want to make sure that I have lost around 10-15 pounds before the vacation to Walt Disney World.

What does this entail you ask?Here are my goals.

Goal: My goal is to see how much weight I can lose before our trip to WDW in 48 days.

Process: I will attempt to use Wii Fit every day for a minimum of 30 minutes at least 5 days a week. The maximum time I will spend on it in one day is 60 minutes. During this time I will try to do several different exercises. (The reason that I say at least 5 days is because I will have to fight Darrell and Aimee for Wii time.)

Eating Habits: I will be starting my weight watchers again tomorrow. I find that I am much more successful with actually losing weight if I eat well along with exercising.

Additional Exercise: I will still go to the gym like I normally do. OK, stop with the wisecracks I know I have not been lately but heck, why not start again?

Recording: I will try to update this with the games that I do but probally not the "specific" time because that is too much for me to keep up with.

Day 1 (July 20)

• Yoga - Man this was hard. I have horrible posture and I found that a lot of the poses were hard to do but I dont' think I did that badly. I already feel sore 2 hours from now.
• Balance - I was HORRIBLE on this one. I could hardly to it at all. I have NO balance and did not need a wii to tell me that. I will continue to work on it though.

• Cardio - I liked this one. It had a hula hoop game which is shown below. Basically you hula hooped and the more hoops you caught, the better your score was. My first score was 129 and the second time was 173! It was fun but I am sure I looked stupid. There was also a soccer game that I did but it was pretty hard. OH, you can also run on the Wii Fit and I did a short 5 minute run.

I looked over the Strength Training but did not have time to do it. I will look at it tomorrow I suppose. I guess I will try to get up before work and do some of this stuff since I am sure that Darrell will want to play football all the time on it.

Family time....

I think this is one of my most favorite pictures of the weekend...Isn't that just the most precious thing ever????


Aimee is like "sit here Lexie bug". She looks like a little dolly.

And I just LOVE this picture...Everyone always kisses on the baby.

We had a great time with my sister this weekend. We took lots of pics and videos. It never ceases to amaze me what a great time I have with my sister. We laughed so much that I gave myself a headache.

NKOTB

Now, when I was a teenager, I LOVED, LOVED, LOVED NKOTB who were then known as New Kids On The Block. They are no longer kids but man, they are still pretty hot. This is the article that was on MSNBC.

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/24583744/

Now, is it crazy to say that I um, want to go to one of their concerts? Would it be crazy to say that there are about 4 others that want to go with me to said concert? PITIFUL...but I so want to go. For now I will just hang out listening to their new song that I bought on itunes and be a nerd.

Random #1

Just because I am bored:

• I got my hair cut off this weekend
• It's shorter than normal
• I love it
• My child wants to go swimming tonight
• Her daddy told her she could
• Mommy also has to go
• I don't like swimming
• I do like my new swim suit though
• I started my diet again today
• So, don't give me sugar cause I can't eat it
• I am ready to go to bed
• It's still early
• I have too cook tonight

What a helper!

Aimee is such a good helper. She helped us in the flowerbed a couple of weeks ago. I am just now getting this updated.

Summer is goign well. She is doing so well here at the house with her sitter. She LOVES Shelby, her sitter.

Anyway, that is all for now.

Summer has begun....

I have been so lame in updating this. Does it help to say that we are just so busy???

School is out!!! Our baby is now in first grade. Does that make her still a baby or a big girl now? She will always be my baby. She was picking on her Daddy the other day and I just started laughing cause she said "it's ok Daddy, I was just aggrivating you". We got the biggest chuckle out of it.

We are waiting to get some test results on her back from a school that we took her to. Aimee has always been a very high maint child. We had struggled for a while on if we wanted to get a psychological on her to see what we are dealing with. We finally did and let's just say....she is smart. Her IQ is around 127-151 depending on the test. Her teacher recommended that she needs to be in the GT program so we are persuing that. Actually her testing for that starts next week. So, we are really working on how we need to parent her. We don't want to quench her spirit but we do want to make sure that she is behaving the way that God desires her to.

We have a teenage girl that is going to keep her over the summer. We had put her in a local day care but they put her in a 4 year old class for some reason. Anyway, we decided that was not going to work for us or her. This is a much better fit for our family.

As far as D, he is normally at the ball park! He is umping and enjoying it so much. He was unable to do this in Tyler as it is considered a "part time job" and he was unable to have one there per the pastor of the church. He is really good at it. Matter of fact, we do a youth/adult softball game 1 time a month during the summer and he called a strike on me....ME! His wife, the love of his life. Can't ever say he is not fair.

For me, work keeps me busy. I do enjoy my job and getting to play with the children and feel like I have made a difference in their lives. It's time consuming but I love it.

We are telling a group of students good bye this fall. I have never been as sad to see a group graduate as I am with this group. I love these students and this group has just loved all over us and showed us what student ministry is. I am going to miss my girls.....