Life is keeping us 'hopping'

Saturday afternoon workout session! What better way to workout...? Involve your kids!! Not to mention a Super Strong dad makes working out more fun.

Kids still love the sand/dirt box after 6 years of play...it never gets old.

 Our Oooo La La Fancy Nancy fort we built together...it even has a chair, umbrella, friends and bows just like the book Explorer Extraordinaire(one week later and it is still standing *thumbs up to girl power fort building*)
Monday night relaxing:
Ahhh out of order pics!!!
Tuesday night I drove Andon to Denver *after work-5:45* for an Avs Hockey game. We won tickets thru the Fort Collins Rec center where Andon played hockey.
Wednesday- Devin had his first soccer practice
Thursday Kendall had Girl Scouts and I had a hair appt. -got canceled so I went to a consignment sale waited in line and decided there was nothing in my stack I couldn't live without so I left and got some items at Wal-mart.
Friday leads me to this picture...my princess at Disney on Ice 100 years!

Enjoying a $12 snow cone and collector cup...plus a bag of $12 cotton candy with a crown...but a night out with my girl at the show was worth it(priceless).

Belle...her favorite! 
{below} Cleaning blood from the ice while O' Riley(an aggressive player) got high sticked right in the nose-nothing a Kotex couldn't fix and he was back on the ice. O'Riley just happens to be Andon's favortie player *gasp.

The Tuesday night hockey game...Rocked! We were a few minutes late because I missed my exit and had to turn around somewhere in downtown Denver. While I was driving around and trying to fit into small parking spaces, I ended up parking in the back, we missed the first 2 goals-scored by both teams (geez we were only 34 minutes late). Notice our AWESOME seats-row 5!!  The game remained tied for the rest of the periods (3) going into overtime-the Avs scored a goal with 1 minute left in overtime
It was so worth going on a school/work night, Andon said it was his best night ever, his first professional hockey game!  I hope someday he will be out there playing with the pros(his career dream/goal). 

Saturday the boys raced their derby cars for scouts-(post pics of the cars later) then right after the derby, Kendall and I headed to Jordan's nursery for a girl scout field trip.

 This nursery is 1 of the 2 nurserys in Colorado that grows fresh cut flowers for flower shops-the rest of the flowers are imported from California or other countries. Everyday they send flowers out and plant new ones.

The kids got to plant their own pot with seeds. I placed Kendall's and mine in a "green house" made from a recycled spinach container!!

Sunday I had a Tastefully Simple party & got to hang out with some FUN girlfriends!!
This week will be a little bit less crazy until the....Weekend!!

work out update

So I met my personal goal of 20 workouts in 30 days-well it was 31 days. Friday's are my rest day, but I skipped my Thursday workout (would have been my 20th workout) BUT I did a run on Friday with my hubby-that was my 20th workout on day 31! Counts for me :)

My weight is down 3 pounds and has stayed there for 5 weeks- 8-10 more to go.

Going for round 3- 20 workouts in 30 days again-that will put me at the 12 week point.

Kendall's 1st girl scout booth

Cookie sales are over, Kendall met her personal goal and is doing on an overnight spa, Disney on Ice and making a car for the pinewood derby. The boys are almost finished with their cars. Hockey is over for Andon til the summer(want to put him in a summer camp), Devin starts soccer soon, and I NEED to sign K-up for dance/gymnastic class. That just about covers March so far. 

past few weeks...

Andon preformed magic for my Bear Den

The disappearing mouse trick.

Below is Kendall home 'sick' while I was downstairs teaching preschool, she was dressing up with clothes from my closet.

Blue & Gold Banquet

 Kendall's hair salon...I mentioned a while back. She even got her hair cut by her brother!

Grandma Connie came out this weekend and painted a hootie owl and tree in her room!

 I borrowed my neighbor/friends projector and did the boys' rooms -fyi even with a projector, Dark room and extra boy eyes, I still had a hard time seeing the Eagle to paint it.

The Bronco-my first painting I did-took a while to get it set up, then the image was too big for the projector screen so we had 4 people trying to match up Bronco hair and lines to finish. It was a fun weekend with my mom!  Shopped on Sunday and drove half way to KS with her, my hubby, Cindy and the kids. Meet my MIL half way-bought her car and parted our seperate ways after lunch. Kids went to KS with my mom, Cindy and Shirley, Deon & I went back to FC, got the car plated and registered and did some grocery shopping and dinner. Tonight we swam and went to the mall.

Happy Valentine's Day!

To mom & dad
 From Kendall!
Love it!!

Cupid's stach for the kids



A Magic Birthday

January 2

Happy 8th Birthday to my wonderful middle child!

I love you more and more EVERYDAY!

 You amaze me with your magic, kindness and passion for life and... hockey!

I hope ALL your Dreams come true Birthday Boy.

 Pizza and silliness before the magic starts. The birthday party boys!

 Loran the magician! We met Loran at Nordy's every Sunday Andon wanted to eat there because Nordy's had Loran the magician. I liked to eat there because Kids Eat FREE on Sunday's.

Look at that happy face, all smiles!

 Andon helped with each trick and picked a volunteer to help with each trick.
This one was the broken wand trick-every time Loran handed the wand to Andon, it broke on him.

 You can't have magic without a rabbit coming out of the hat!

 When we were deciding what to do for his party, I told him is Loran was coming to preform for his birthday, that would be his present from dad and I since is cost more then we spent on the other two's birthday. His reply "I don't care that is the BEST present EVER"! 

Happy Birthday my little magician!

BTW-He got a good statch for cash for his birthday and spent it on magic! We went online and ordered some MORE magic stuff! He also bought a new mouse cage. We are saving about 40 dollars..shhh don't tell him.

Kendall made this no coming in sign for her room before she left for Cailyn's to sleep over the night of Andon's party.

Fitness

Well I tried once again to upload pictures but it is sooo slow, I quite.
I will blog real quick about my latest fitness goals: I started crossfit workouts January 8th and today marks my 4 weeks progress. Pinterest had several posts stating that it takes 4 weeks for you to notice, 8 weeks for family and friends and 12 weeks for everyone else. At 4 weeks I notice a difference, I feel better which leads to eating better. We (Deon and I) eat Paleo for breakfast(eggs) and I make Paleo based dinners mostly from Everyday Paleo the cookbook. I quite soda and have no interest in it-but I do love iced tea.  I still give the kids carbs and a little more sugar then I would like, but baby steps..right? Not to mention I have a garage full of girl scout cookies that are so convenient to get a box for a snack-but I have done pretty good! I let the kids choose their own box and when it is gone-its gone. No more unless mom surprises them.

I am excited to start my next 4 weeks with cross fit (it helps that my hubby is my trainer, he writes up my workouts-I guess it is a fair trade since I write up all the meal plans ;-)  My goal is to do 20 workouts this month=5 a week(last month was only 15 workouts)

rewind to about a month ago...

First off, before I blog about our ski trip, the kids school is promoting a positive behavior reward system. Teachers are stocked with paw print stickers and when they see a student following the character traits the school enforces, the student gets a sticker and fills out a paper form in their classroom which goes in the hallways for everyone to recognize...Well not to brag, but I will because Wednesday Andon came home with a sticker, Thursday both Devin and Andon came home with one and Friday Kendall got one too {huge smiles}.

After our shopping, ice skating and dinner with my family, we opened gifts: The bigger kids each got an Ipod touch Kendall got a doll house. Plus they got gifts from both aunts.

 I am not sure what aunt Cindy has here? We got couples gifts for the sisters and each got my parents something-Connie got Paula Dean spices(she loves her..lol) and a shark vac/mop. I went in with my mom and sisters and got dad a Bose cd speaker system.

 And a fireman nutcracker to add to his fireman collection

 We ended the evening by celebrating my dads 60th birthday party(a little late).

From my family I got a shark steam mop, boots, meat from a grass fed cow, and earrings/lotions.  On Monday I got 2 packages: one was the book Please Don't Label My Child (excellent book) and a surprise mixer from my mother-in-law(which I think I have a pretty awesome m-i-l).

Sunday we went sking at Snowy Range

Blogger is being a pain and not uploading the rest of the pics...so I will return later after I get some cleaning done