CrossFit OnRamp

As of last night, I completed the CrossFit OnRamp 4 week class. It consisted of 12 sessions and a lot of learning and fun. Going into the class I was super intimidated and dreaded going. After the first two sessions, I was hooked. I found myself wishing that it was everyday and looking forward to the nest session.

I knew I felt stronger since starting the class, but yesterday proved that I was stronger and faster. On the first day of class we did a workout called Baseline for time and then yesterday we ended with the same workout.

Baseline

400 Meter Run
40 Squats
30 Sit ups
20 Push ups
10 Jumping pull ups

February 7th- 10:32
March 4th- 6:36

I was so excited to see so much improvement in my time!!!

Jesse of course was there to take pictures during breaks in his workout and keep referring today as my "graduation" day. Silly boy.

Here are some of the pictures he took along each step of the workout.

Sometimes Moms Have Long Days

I am feeling so overwhelmed with life right now. Hunter is going on his 5th day of being sick, which means that I have had very little sleep. Jesse was on the east coast on Sunday and Monday. It's the 1st of the month, which means that work is crazy in the accounting world. It just seems like sometimes there are times when a mom can't get a break.

Here's what yesterday looked like (and so far today has not been much better):


3am - Hunter woke up screaming because he was so congested that he could hardly breathe. He didn't go back to sleep.

4:45am - My alarm goes off, time to get ready for work. Hunter wasn't happy with that and proceeded to throw a tantrum until I was done getting ready.

6am - Get Hunter and Henry all packed up in the car and leave for work.

6:45am - Drop Hunter off with Grandpa

7am-12pm Work

12-12:45pm Lunch

12:45-4:15pm Work

4:30pm Doctor appointment for Hunter. The doctor says that he has a bad head cold, the beginning of an ear infection, and 3 of his eye teeth are coming in. He said to expect for him to have a rough week and give him Tylenol for the fever and pain.

5:30pm Feed Hunter dinner and get changed for the gym

6-7pm Crossfit

7-8pm Clean the kitchen, play with Hunter, get him ready for bed, and then put Hunter down.

9pm - Hunter wakes up screaming and doesn't fall back asleep until midnight.

12:30am Jesse gets home from his trip

4:45am Time to start it all over again

I'm sure all mom's feel like it at sometime or another, but it just seems like life is going too fast for me. It seems like several days can go by without having a minute to relax or not go a million miles a minute. It's days like these that make me wonder if I am doing the right thing by working full time. Am I letting life take me in too many directions that I'm not getting enough quality time in with my son?

And then I realize that only a couple days a week are like this. Jesse is not always gone, Hunter is not always sick, I get more sleep than this 99% of the time, and I have 3 day weekends every week that I get to spend with my family. I just need to take a deep breath and not sweat the small stuff.

McFatty Monday

So, it’s another Monday, lovely. (Can you sense sarcasm?) I’m linking up again with The Heir to Blair for your Monday McFatty Monday post. Today she asked when it “clicked” that we needed and wanted to lose weight.

I was surprised that I knew exactly when it was when it “clicked” with me. It was the November after having Hunter, when I had taken Hunter to New Zealand to visit Jesse for two weeks while he was working over there for a month. I know that I was only 6 weeks postpartum, but I felt like a fatty. All of a sudden I went from feeling alright 6 weeks postpartum in fall clothes to feeling awful about myself at 6 weeks postpartum in summer clothes. At the end of each day, I would look at the pictures we had taken and hated the way I looked. There was a specific picture that Jesse took of me from behind pushing Hunter in his stroller and my ass looked huge, frumpy, and plain unbearable. As one of my best guy friends would say, my ass to thigh ratio is not good!

That’s when I knew it was time. I got back from New Zealand a week and a half before Jesse and started the Paleo diet. I dropped 10lbs in 10 days. I kept looking at that picture; it was my motivation to do something different. Once I lost those 10lbs, it came off slower, but I was determined to be the girl who had a baby and lost all her baby and then some! And guess what? I have!

As I was writing this, I got the guts to share the horribly motivating picture with you all. I called my husband, who is in Charleston, and asked him to see if he could possibly find the described picture on his laptop. He asked “Maybe you could find it from you NZ album on Facebook?” I just laughed, there was no way I would’ve put that picture up on Facebook! But he found the picture and e-mailed it over to me… so here we have a November 2009 (200ish lbs) vs. a February 2011 (161lbs) Stephanie!

Ice Fishing

Last Saturday we went ice fishing with a couple of Jesse's friends in Minnesota. We weren't able to stay very long, but we had a pretty good time... would have been a much better time if we had actually caught a fish! Jesse told me later that night that after we left they caught 17! We missed out!

Grandma Nellie's Service

Here are a couple pictures from Grandma Nellie's funeral service.


This is a painting that Jesse's mom did of a picture she took of Grandma Nellie on the day that her things were being moved from the house she had lived in for 80 years to a nursing home.





Here are three of the cousins (Norah,Gavin, and Hunter) playing after the service.


Jesse and I at his grandparent's house after the service.

Thankful Thursday

I am thankful for so much, but today I just have to express that I am extremely grateful that Hunter is such a great sleeper. He sleeps about 11 hours straight at night and usually still takes 2 naps during the day. It makes me a happy momma!

Fun Day in Minnesota!

As I wrote earlier, Jesse's great grandmother, Nellie passed away last week. We flew out to Minnesota on Wednesday night and spent 5 days with Jesse's family. We had a great time spending some quality time with them.

We took the red eye out and bless Jesse's heart for taking over with Hunter since I had been up since before 5am for work, had crossfit, cleaned and then packed that day. He took Hunter up and down the escalator, let him run around, and let him sleep on him during the plane ride.



We got in at 6am and headed right over to the hotel that his parent's had gotten a room at in Minneapolis. His mom, sister, nephew, Hunter and I headed over to Target and then to the Mall of America. I love that mall. :) And I also think that Jesse was grateful to have undisturbed sleep all morning and afternoon!

When we got back we joined Jesse and headed to the water park! The boys had such a great time!











Jesse, Hunter and I later ended the day by going out to eat at Buffalo Wild Wings and staying in the hotel in the cities for one more night! Such a great day!