10 on Tuesday

1. Healthy You Challenge Check In- I lost 1.4 last week! That was a great feeling. I am now at 62 pounds gone!!! This is my lowest so far.

2. Summer Slimmin' Challenge Check In- Water- I have been doing better on my water intake. I try to carry one with me so that I can be constantly taking sips. 5 a day- I have been better with this too. I try to have a fruit and veggie at each meal and for a snack. Moving- I have been exercising almost every day. That hasn't changed. I've keep that going strong so far.

3. Too many things will be packing in our day tomorrow. It's Skyler's last day at preschool before the summer. It's also the day we bring snacks for school so we have to remember all of that. It's also a wacky water day so we have to remember all of the water stuff. ahh Then after we get Courtney we will have a fun time making cupcakes with friends (for someone--totally not a temptation in the least). I will probably try to squeeze a workout in there somewhere too. :)

4. I keep thinking that I need to write a blog about a few things. I'm going to write it here before I forget them again. One about the song "That's What Faith Can Do". Another about the various foods I can't eat. And I have been wanting to put a little tracker on the side to put what my personal bests for running are so that I can have a place to remember them.

5. If you haven't had a chance to visit, I would encourage you to go to dailymile.com It's a great place to put all of your workouts and keep track of what your activity is like. You can distinct what type of workout and how many miles. You can add notes on each to describe how it went so you can see your progress with getting fitter. It's also an online community. So, you could use the forum (I don't). I do talk to my friends who are on it though to encourage them in their workouts. You can send comments and encouragement or join challenges. It's a lot of fun. I really like that I can put all types of workouts on it instead of only running. My Nike+ site just adds whatever you walk or run when you have the shoes and sport band on. So, it doesn't count anything else. I use that for running, but can also put the running, elliptical, walking, fitness, workout DVDs, anything really on dailymile. Add me as a friend. :)

6. I think I may have figured out part of the problem with my hip. I'm hoping this works. Stretching alone didn't help. I noticed the other night when I started to lay down on our bed that my hip was hitting something hard. It was the bottom of the bed!! We have the type of bed that has water tubes inside a mattress. So, it's firmer than a waterbed, but softer/more giving than a mattress. I'm hoping that one of the tubes just has less water now since my body weight has made my hip hit the bottom of the mattress. I was trying to figure out why it was only one side. If I lay on my left side (side that is NOT hurting) then I usually want my arms to go straight out (away from hubby). So my body is probably on a different tube. When I am on my right side (side that is hurting) I move as far to the edge of the bed so I can give hubby more room and have my arms out more. Thus, I'm on a different tube way over there. We are going to add more water in hopes that this is at least part of the problem. I did elliptical yesterday and walking and elliptical today and my hip only hurt a little bit. Nothing compared to the last time when I ran.

7. Why is there always laundry to do??? It never goes away.

8. I need some new music for my ipod for working out. Any suggestions of upbeat songs that get you moving? I still haven't spent my itunes gift card.

9. I keep thinking I want to re-do our bedroom when we have the money. Lots of home projects in my mind.

10. I'm so thankful to a friend who gave me her yoga mat. She got it from her Wii Fit package but didn't want it. I was just saying that I need to buy one. I need it because when I do stuff on the ground (especially push ups and abs during the 30 Day Shred DVD) I need something to keep me from slipping. My feet would always slip backward because we have hardwood. Even if I had just vacuumed.

Fever Update, Twilight, Alone, Preschool

I wanted to write and let you know of the fever updates. Courtney's fever remained at 103 the next day and got up to 104.5 again. But then headed down. So, thankfully she is done with it. She was negative for strep, but they sent it to be cultured anyway. She thought it was a virus, but her tonsils were covered in white patches. Eww! So, she was put on antibiotics just incase it was something more making her fever go up so high. But, I'm sure some of you guessed it, Skyler got it too. Thankfully her fever only got to the 103s and is on it's way down too. What an exhausting week. Especially since I got sick right after Court and before Sky. Not fun.

Since I wasn't feeling so well anyway, I was pretty much on the couch at night after the kids were in bed, which was a great excuse to get some reading in. I started the 2nd book in the Twilight Series, "New Moon". I started it on Tuesday night and finished it Wednesday night. I never knew I had it in me to read a book in that quick of a time. This one wasn't as great as the first. Mainly because of a serious plot departure...however I knew things would get better so I kept reading. It was always a good read, but it was a little depressing. Very good ending though. So, this morning I was feeling much better as was most of us. So, I decided to do some cleaning since we seriously needed it after 3 sickies.

Tonight we are just 3. We took Scott to the airport tonight to meet his friend, Eric there. They are flying to Boston tonight on the red eye. Not exactly the best flight plan in my mind, but whatever. I guess that's what they get for waiting so long. :) So, I'm just feeling like this is a business trip. A little bit longer but still. We really don't even have much planned besides hanging out. It will be nice though to just be able to do whatever. I have to remind myself that this was my idea. Since I had a girls vacation, I figured Scott should have a guys trip. Scott and Eric are meeting their friend Micah over in Boston. Baseball, macho men hangout, seriously bad jokes...etc I'm sure many stories will be told. I can't wait to hear all about it.

Tomorrow Courtney has "Meet Your Teacher Day" at preschool (Whittier Christian Preschool). Her new teacher is Ms. Hare. Thankfully she already pretty much knows her from school last year and it's just right next door from her class last year with Mrs. Zulueta. Her cousin Joshua will be in her class again, so she is very excited about that. We are excited too. And glad that at least one of her buds will be in her class this year. We find out who is in her class tomorrow too. Hopefully her friend Charis will be in the same room. Those 2 were so close.

Wow, that was a lot all wrapped into one blog.