Wednesday Weigh-in and Aloha!!

Loss: -2.6
Total loss: -53
Feeling: Surprised.

We got back from Hawaii on Monday. I wasn't expecting to lose that much weight, but knew that we had walked a TON while there. I had also gained the week prior, so I knew some of that would come off. So, there ya go.

I have so much to tell you about our trip to Hawaii but I can't find the time to upload pictures and tell you all about it. I will. In time. Be patient, little ones.

I am a slacker!

Loss this week: -0.6
Total loss: -52.2
Feeling: Complacent...a bad place to be!

weigh-in wednesday

Loss: -0.4
Total loss: -53
Feeling: Hungry! I am eating fat free frozen yogurt with a chocolate cookie right now....

Oh, do I have a blog here?

Sorry, peeps. I forgot about my blog!
Recap time.
- I gained a pound a half at ww! I was pissed!
- It was jersey day at school on Friday and I dressed Charlotte as a white trash jersey girl. Right?

-Yesterday the kids were playing "backpack" (a fun game that consists of filling your backpack with a bunch of shit from the floor/shelves and then forgetting you put it in there a few hours later and throwing a massive temper tantrum because you want whatever it was) and we had to take another white trash picture of Charlotte, which led to each of the boys taking a picture of the other boy. Yay, Saturdays!

- Ran 6 miles today and it was good!

-We had our first "SNOW" day on Friday. Because of the massive rain and flooding, we had no school on Friday. Best day ever!!!

- That about sums it up.

Wednesday Weigh-In 2 days late!

Ack! Time has gotten away from me this week with work starting back up....but I did go to WW on Wednesday....
Loss: -2.6
Total Loss: -52.6
Feeling: Yay!

I actually RAN to ww on Wednesday. It is 5 miles from my work to ww, and I left my car at work and ran there. That could explain how I lost 2.6 pounds....I might have been a bit dehydrated. It was a hard run once I got of the trail because it was VERY hilly. I had to walk the last 1/2 mile, but that's OK. I will try it again when someone can pick my sorry butt up after the meeting.

This week I ran 4 miles Tuesday, 5 miles Wednesday, and 3 miles yesterday. My legs are sore! I have to do 3 tomorrow and 7 on Sunday - my longest run yet! We'll see what happens....

Wednesday Weigh-In: The streak ends

Loss: +1.6
Total loss: -50
Feeling: Not surprised....

Beach: 75% chaos.

Ah, the beach.....what a relaxing, beautiful, sunshiny way to rest before school starts.....ahhhh, smell the ocean air, feel the gentle breeze, listen to the screaming children. Screaming children?! Where's the sound of the waves crashing on the shore?! Where are the seagull calls and the gentle engine sounds of the advertising planes?!!!! NO WHERE BECAUSE I CAN'T HEAR MYSELF THINK OVER THE SCREAMING, WHINING, CHILDREN!!!!!!

OK, OK, it wasn't that screamy...but there were moments of total insanity at the beach. Here is a picture of Owen's usual location. We would be sitting on the beach, enjoying the moment for 4.6 seconds and he would say, "Can we go watch TV now?"

Beach baby Charlotte. Sand in every orifice and skin fold is a sign of a beach baby, right? Nevermind that she was afraid of the water. The beach we stayed at had these cute little swingsets spread out on the beach - great idea. Char would spend all day swinging if she could. Unfortunately for her, Todd and I would only push her for 30 minutes or so each day. (Mostly Todd).

The beach one night after dinner:

Muscle man Owen:

Building a sand castle. The condo we stayed in is two balconies above Owen's head!

The elusive bathing suit photo.....AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH....can you believe that I have lost 50 pounds! (We'll see how much I kept off while eating ice cream and cheese balls at the beach....)

Charlotte, during one of her timeouts for hitting Owen over the head with a shovel:

This is a pucture of Owen acting like "King Grog the Old" during Viking putt-putt. Cracked me up.

The adorable boys at putt-putt. :)

Charlotte, taking a break from putt-putt to sit in a dragon egg, and then demonstrating her putting form. Look out, LPGA!!

Riding a bullfrog. That's what she said.

Family photo-op. I set the camera on one of those swingsets, hit the timer, and BAM! Look how it turned out! I should be a pro.

Henry wasn't a big fan of the camera this weekend. Here he is, giving me the finger:

Alcohol and Running? Not so much.

Friday night we had a little mini-Overtones reunion. The Overtones is an a cappella group that Todd and I were in at JMU. We have some great friends from the group and while we don't get together as often as we'd like, when we do get together we have a blast. Friday night was a great get-together. Kerry (aka Sparkles) made some sangria (aka 2 bottles of red wine with some tequila-soaked fruit) and we ate BBQ food. We actually had dessert first because Craig brought a huge cake that wouldn't fit in the fridge. I wish I had a picture of that. It wasn't until dinner was over that I thought to  bring out the camera.



Sparkles.

 

David and Craig.



Me and Danny. This picture is here because my face looks SO THIN!!!

Anyway, what is the point of this blog post? Well, it's to share that drinking a lot is not conducive to running. I skipped my run on saturday because of a mild dehydration/headache/hangover and vowed to do my 5 miles on Sunday with extra power! Ummmm...nope. Even 2 days later, I still couldn't get moving enough to have a good run. I felt slow, tired, and seriously dehydrated.

The verdict? No more than 1 drink a night until marathon is over. Phew, that's a big challenge.

Wednesday Weigh In

Loss: -0.4
Total loss: 51.6
Feeling: Surprised.

Weird food week this week...ate a lot of random and not healthy stuff. But I did run 19 miles this week! I think this losing streak has got to stop soon.....

PS. My 1 year weight watchers anniversary is tomorrow!!!!

Pirate Day

We had a really fun playdate today. Our friends came over and we decided to have "Pirate Day"! We got some ideas from other blogs and kind of just went with the theme and had a great time!

We started our day doing pirate mazes (found here) and making pirate hooks, eye patches, and hats (found here and here)

Next, we painted treasure boxes that I found at AC Moore for $1! The kids had a great time painting. While they painted, I called them one by one into the kitchen (sort of) to make their fruit kabob for lunch. We skewered bananas, strawberries, cantelope, watermelon, and grapes to make kabobs. Then we put a little flag with each kid's name on it and popped them in the freezer.

While the fruit froze, we got into and our pirate ship and played. We made a sail and colored the outside.

Then we went outside and had a swordfight with pretzel rods. The rules were simple: If your pretzel rod was broken by another pirate, you had to walk the plank. Well, as you can see by our line, everyone's pretzel rod broke instantaneously. Next time we'll use something stronger! :)

 
 The kids played in the pirate ship while we got lunch ready:

The lunch menu was: fish sticks, french fries, pirate booty, goldfish, and the fruit kabobs we made earlier. For a special lunch dessert we had jello cups with pirate boats. (Found here)

After lunch, we put pirate Charby down for a nap and our friend Madison read us "How I Became a Pirate" by David Shannon and we watched "Hook"!

 Charlotte woke up and we were sitting around the house when DING DONG DING DONG! The doorbell rang! We ran to the door and found a glass container filled with golden chocolates and a treasure map!!!! The hunt was on for the pirate's treasure....

 We followed the map down the street, around some corners, up some hills....

 Till we got to the X! We found the treasure under the bridge!

It was full of jewels, bracelets, and more gold nugget chocolate - yummy!

Here are the pirates posing with their box of treasure. What a great end to a fun pirate day!!!

Arrrrrrrrr, matey!!

It's Pirate Day at my house today. Just wait until you see what we are doing! Yippee!!!