Honu House

I recently stumbled across this blog. I really enjoy her site and tips. She makes cleaning/organizing sound so easy and fun. She has this “tutorial” on “ How to have a {fake} immaculate house ”…quite interesting.  Have fun!

WOW...I'm so SLOW and behind. We took a family vacation to Walt Disney World in November. There were 12 of us total. Seven adults and 5 children - 7, 5, 5, 3 & 3. We had our hands full, but we also had a great time. We have so many wonderful memories from this trip and can't wait to go again. If you click on the photo below you will be taken to our Picasa Web Album full of pictures from this trip! Enjoy!!!

I can't believe boot camp is finally done! It was a long 8 weeks, but looking at my pictures and the numbers, I'm really excited. I lost a total of 10 pounds off the scale, but with that I also gained 6 pounds of muscle! I've already started to notice that some of my clothes are getting big! YAY!!! I'm really excited to continue down this road and to get myself into even better shape. If you want to read more or see the progress head over to " My Get Fit Trip "

I love this pumpkin...maybe I'll have to try this this year.

So I had actually forgotten I'd started this list. It's time for me to revisit and provide a status update! Let's see how much I've accomplished or what I need to finish yet! Finish hanging up all the pictures, prints and shelves in the house - we've been here for 9 months now...I think it's time! Not quite done, but we have hung up more. We have a bit to go still... Finish getting all the "stuff" from our parents houses...again we've been in our house for 9 months! I don't think we've worked on this at all...YIKES, better get working :-) Work on getting into better physical condition Workout 3-4 days a week Just started a boot camp, so I can say I'm now doing this, at least for the next 8 weeks! Eat healthier - meaning less fast food! Definately working on this, even before my boot camp started we were doing better. It helps even more that the boot camp came with a meal plan so that's really keeping me on track. ...

I started a boot camp last night...go check out my " fit trip " blog for my daily recount of how I'm doing!!! Here's a brief recap of last night...but for more information go check out my other blog!!! The class went well. I was one of four newbies in the class and if I say so myself, I did pretty well. JT (our instructor) only had to come over to correct my form or call me out a couple of times - so I feel good about that. Today's class was done more of a circut style - stability balls with kettle bells (chest presses, arm curls, sholder press, etc.) and steps with medicine ball (quick jumps, pounding the medicine ball to the ground, etc.). Yes I was nervous, I was scared, but I'm glad I did it. Looking back - I think I even had a little fun...I was ready to lose my lunch towards the end...but I didn't. I will go back tomorrow with a little less hesitation. Plyometrics here I come!!!

We took a mini vacation in August and decided to head to Branson, MO. We hear a lot of people around here that vacation there and neither of us had been down. So what better time! Here are a few pictures from our vacation...  On the Duck Tour  Table Rock Dam & Table Rock Lake On top of the Table Rock Dam  Another photo of the Table Rock Dam - funny story, our Duck driver commented that normally the dam is dry. But this year they had to release 15,000 cfs, and they were worried about the amount of water being released & how much it was causing the ground to vibrate. 15,000 cfs - that's what Galvins Point Dam releases on a normal basis. This year Galvins Point released record amounts at 160,000 cfs - and caused severe flooding in Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri.  We visited the Titantic   Here's our room at the Big Cedar Lodge - located on part of the Table Rock Lake. I just have to say, this lake is HUGE!!! We loved t...