We miss Stephanie and Bart

At this moment we are sitting in a movie theater waiting to see a movie. Stephanie and Bart aren't with us and we miss them. Sad day.

Color Run 2013

We had the Color Run on the 26th. It had rained for a few days before... and it was raining the day of.

It was a little cold; about 55 degrees. We still had a great time!

This was the weather map on the day of the Color Run

We were dressing warm for the run!

These were all before the race. We were getting rained on.






The picture of Stephanie, Bart, and I was almost at the end of the run.

This was the blue station. It was a little flooded

 I had that lovely blue all over me thanks to Stephanie. Then she biffed it right after that. So we're even.

 Another race finished, time for Crackers!!

 I'm not sure what I was doing here but Bart thought this picture was pretty funny.

For some reason we thought it would be fun to all jump up and down and get pictures of it. There are more than this one, but whether it was a good idea or not the picture is funny.

Oh Goodness

I decided I should try and update this thinking I'm not too far behind, but when I look and see Lights on Bikes as the last part I feel really far behind.

I don't recall anything super fun happening for New Years or anything. My birthday was on the 3rd. It was anti-climatic compared to last year. Last year was so fun.

We did have a good time one night at Stephanies.

I must have been going through a major cake phase or something because I decided to attack this large cupcake with no hands. Let me tell you it is hard to breathe, chew, and laugh at the same time with cake up your nose. There is video but only a handful of people will ever see it.

A small miracle also occurred at this time.

I have been trying to win Taylor over for about 4 years. On this day she came and sat down on my lap. Luckily I had my phone so I could get a picture!

We also made a big decision about this time.

It may be a little hard to read but this is the itinerary for our cruise!! The four of us (and anyone else who wants to) are going on a cruise in May! We're pretty excited about it. We even have our "if our boat gets stranded" plans in place.

So let's see, my birthday was the first weekend of January and I know Stephanie and I went shopping at the new outlet in Glendale. The next weekend I feel like something happened but I can't remember what so it must not have been too cool. The following weekend was the holiday weekend and I remember I was sick in there.

We went to Barrett Jackson one weekend. Luckily it was a gorgeous weekend. I was walking around in a tank top! We had a good time and love Aunt Viv and Uncle Bob for the tickets.

We had about a week of really cold weather. I think it was after Barrett Jackson. I got this screen shot one morning.

Yep, we weren't that cold but it felt like it!! I feel quite positive that this occurred during the cold spell.

And in random stuff:
Did you know there is a Mexican Peanuts character? He's part Swedish and part Mexican (random) and his name is Jose Peterson.

There is actually a Kit Kat cake (it should be Kake). After what I'm sure was a strange string of events we found this and it turned into a challenge for me to make one (more on that later).

And last, Nick and I decided to start a 100 mile challenge. Run 100 miles between Jan 1 and May 8. Yes, I have a countdown at work.

So that takes us to about the 20th of January. I'll continue that in my next posts!!

Fad??

So this is out of order but I want to write it down before I forget. John and I have been going to the gym in the morning before work for probably about a year. With the cruise coming up we've upped it to twice a day (about 3 times a week). We also have a pre-workout drink, post workout protein shake, and then a smoothie. I do the smoothie somewhat as a meal replacement and also to increase my protein intake. Generally the smoothie has a little almond milk, ice, banana, protein powder, and then a combination of fresh and/or frozen fruit.

Well, about a month ago I got involved in a debate about juicing. I was so not into it. This discussion continued for quite some time until we could agree that I was using smoothies for an entirely different reason than this person was juicing. Agreeing that both had a good purpose I started to think about juicing.

Somewhere along the way I bought in. We went and bough a juicer and a bunch of fruits and veggies and went at it.

  

I can say this. We have gone from maybe and that's a strong MAYBE 1-2 servings of veggies a day to:

Day 1 - one lemon, one apple, two carrots, two red peppers, two handfuls of lettuce, one cucumber. I felt the dominant tast was cucumber and lemon.

Day 2 - one orange, one apple, one carrot, one cucumber, one lime, two stocks of kale, one bunch of lettuce. I thought it smelled like cucumber and tasted like orange

Day 3 - One apple, one grapefruit, lettuce, kale, one cucumber, one lemon, two carrots. I thought this one tasted more bitter and it had a lot of kale so grassy.

Day 4 - two beets, two stalks of celery, one apple, one orange, one lime, one lemon, handful of kale. I thought this one tasted like lemon and beet. 

 

So....that's a very big increase in fruit and veggie consumption for us. Jury is still out and what or any changes, but I'm liking it so far. 

Why isn't my blog updated?

I'll tell you why...I've been updating John's ipod. Blame him.