Our New Hizzle...

Needs some work, fo' shizzle! But we are super excited!

It's our first house (paid for with entirely our own money, oh yeah and a little help from Fannie Mae!)
It's our first remodel project (aka marriage test!)
It's Izzy's first yard!
Yay!!

Spacious garage for 2 cars and 5 bikes and a washer/dryer

1970's seafoam green. My personal fave color!

Original tile work in the bathroom. Yummy.

Nice big yard. Perfect for a 16 lb Boston Terror-er

Our "great room" and my handsome hairy husband taking measurements

"Hand over the chocolate and no one gets hurt" is apprently so important to the previous owners that they inlaid this into the backsplash.

Nature Trail Run

T gently reminded me this morning when the alarm went off that I planned to work out. Oh. Right.
But I am super glad he did, and even more glad I took the time for myself to do this. It started my day off right!

Here's my morning jaunt on the nature trail up to the college. Snuck this one in before the rain and snow. Yes... I said SNOW. FML!

Map My Run!

Here's a little jaunt that my friend K and I did last week. It didn't feel as far as it is, which is why I like this website so much!!!



I've been (thankfully) working out almost every day for the past week and a half. It feels so good to be back into a routine of working out. It seems so hard to start back up again once I've stopped, which is why I am glad I am finally back on the program. This morning I decided to take a run up the nature trail and then do P90x Ab Ripper! I am going to try and do Ab Ribber 2-3 times a week and see if I can notice any results. Ab workouts have never really shown me visible results in the past, but I think it's because I've never really watched what I ate. Since I eat pretty healthy anyway, I've always let myself eat pretty much whatever I want when I am training hard for something, which is probably why I've never lost weight while training for races. When I was training for my Xterra last spring, I didn't lose a pound, even after the 3 hour a day workouts! I'm a firm believer that getting ripped abs (if it's even humanly possible for me) takes more than just the workouts. It's very diet related as well. Which brings me to my goal: Lose 6 lbs by May 14th. Yes, that's two weeks away, I know. My reward: Other than losing 6lbs? Spending $250 on new clothes! Yay! I realize that $250 doesn't get you too far in the clothing world, but for me this is huge, becuase I haven't been spending any money on clothes since we are buying a house... in 3 days!

Anyway, here's what I am doing:
Limiting:
Sugar
Wheat
Dairy
No red meat
No beer or cockatils (red wine only)

Eating:
Lots of veggies
Lots of water
Good whole grains (spelt, kamut, barley, quinoa)

Trying to do something active every day.
Well.... we'll see how it goes, won't we?
New clothes here I come!!!