softball weekend

We had a pretty busy go go weekend.

Friday night we took the kids skating with my brother's family.

Jordan went from using the walker, to holding my hand to skating all

by himself by the end of the night! He was loving it.

 

Saturday we headed to Ferndale for a day of softball in the sun.

After they were done for the day we headed back to Joel's to bbq.

Josh wanted to do the home run derby so we headed back for a bit for that.

After home run derby we went back to Joel's to hang out for the the night.

Tried to get a father/son picture but got photo bombed twice.

Sunday we returned to the fields for day 2.

They ended playing a hard team.

They ended up only losing by five.

They were the only team they didn't ten run in the tournament.

Afterwards we hung around the house for the afternoon.

getting fit! getting healthy!

I finally updated the tab on the top of the page if you want to check it out.

I completed the Advocare 24 day challenge.

I didn't get the weight loss I was hoping for.

I lost 5 pounds the first week and I had high hopes.

After that I just pretty much maintained.

At least it was a jump start for me.

Since then I have lost almost 5 more pounds so

a ten pound weight loss is right around the corner.

Weight loss is always such a slow process for me

and I am trying to not get discouraged and keep with it.

The last week I started using my fitness pal again to track

my daily calories. I have also been doing couch to 5k 

four to five days a week with my sister in law Christine.

We are totally rocking it!

We have been doing workouts like warm up, run five minutes, walk three

minutes, run five minutes, walk three minutes, run five minutes and cool down.

Another one we have done is warm up, run eight minutes, walk five minutes,

run eight minutes and cool down.

We have shaved our mile time down to 9:02 minute miles!

We were supposed to run twenty minutes straight today but after already

putting in four days this week and I have a huge worn spot on my heal

that I can't seem to keep band aids on while running we opted to repeat

the five minute run interval. We are trying to add in abs three days a week.

That is where I am currently at with my getting fit! getting healthy goals!

Still chugging along trying to stay on track.

Volcanos

Jordan has taken an interest in volcano's after a trip 

to Mt. St. Helen's in June. I got a bunch of books from the

library, a couple volcano kits from the learning store and

visited pinterest for some fun ideas.

Wednesday we did play dough volcano's.

Take a trip Tuesday

This Tuesday we headed to Larrabee for some exploring fun.

The kids had a brochure with a beach scavenger hunt on it.

They set off together to find as many of the items as they could.

Josiah came back with a dead crab and Jordan a dead fish 

so we quickly checked them out and had them return the

critters back to the water.

This super cute picture of the kids Christine took!

end of the season

Jordan had his last summer baseball game this Monday.

They played against the other Lynden need which my 

nephew Eli is on.  We brought Cohen along to hang out

and my parents came to cheer on the boys too!

 

 

afterwards we all went to Edaleen for icecream!

These are all iphone pics.