This is Kyleigh at the Time and Space store in Monroeville Mall.. She actually was scared of them but was just pretending here!

We stayed two days in Pennsylvania then after getting home decided to head up to “up north” in Michigan. My parents have a cottage that my husband has never been to and I have only been to once, 3 years ago. We went there and swam and went to a few stores.

This is Kyleigh on the Island, we stopped to look around.

Kyleigh was rowing the boat with her net. She also caught a butterfly!

She let it go a few seconds later.

I don’t think that I posted that we just got a new dog, Cocoa Calypso, but she also went swimming!

So…. I haven’t been to the gym but it was a lot of exercise with all that we have done this week! Hope all of you are doing well!

I have still been going to the gym every other day, except today. It was my gym day but I didn’t make it there. I went shopping with my mom for the food for the party. It took about 2 hours! We ended up using $35 worth of coupons, which was really great! After that we put up the tents for the party.

I took these pictures of our prep last year and thought I would share a little of what I did today!

Somehow we manage to forget every year how the tents go together. The pictures were definitely a help! I wish I had been able to make it to the gym but I think that I was active enough today to make up at least a little bit for having missed a day…

Anybody else work out?

If you’ve ever played Wii Fit, you know what I mean! You create yourself a beautiful Mii and then you weigh yourself and your Mii balloons up twice her size! Well I’m tired of the ballooning. I want her to stay the same!

So join the two of us through our struggles, triumphs and sometimes failures. Check in with us as we try our hardest to Wii to a new Mii!

I have been keeping up with going to the gym.. Although I have missed a day. I haven’t been feeling good the last few days and skipped. I don’t plan to let it go on, but it’s hard to exercise when you can’t breathe!

How has everyone else been doing??

I missed the gym on Friday. My husband wasn’t feeling so well so I decided to stay home until he was feeling a little better. Then my daughter and I had to go to my niece’s dance recital. To make up for it I went both Saturday and Sunday.

On Saturday I did 30 minutes on the elliptical and about 30 minutes of lower body weight training. Sunday I did 20 minutes of upper body weight training and 45 minutes on the treadmill. Tuesday I did 40 minutes on the treadmill and 25 minutes of lower body weight training. So far I have been doing really good on going every other day! I’ve only had the one mishap where I had to go the next day but I haven’t missed any workouts! It’s been almost a month already.

I’m excited by the fact that I only have two more modules for the first part of my Medical Transcription course left! I’m getting so close!

I am going to the gym today for lower body and cardio, but haven’t made it yet. How is everyone else doing with workouts??

On Monday I did 50 minutes on the treadmill. It said I had burned 265 calories. I did about 15-20 minutes or so on the lower body machines. My upper body has been really sore for days!

Today (Wednesday) I did my upper body weight training for 25 minutes then did the elliptical for 20 minutes. It said I had burned 144 calories. For some reason I have a lot of trouble going for a long time on those darn things.

After the gym we went on about a 30 minute walk to park. It was a really nice day out today!

I weighed in today and am down 7 lbs since joining the gym 17 days ago! I’m really excited by that.

So between the elliptical and the treadmill I burned 236 calories. Plus whatever I burned doing weight training, I think that is pretty good!

How did you do?

Today I did 40 minutes on the treadmill, it said I had burned 211 calories. I did about 35 minutes going 3 MPH then the last 5 minutes where I normally do the “cool down” I just went a little slower. The cool down makes the speed go down pretty fast and it goes really slow so I thought I would just slow it down a little.

I have been having some trouble with one of my knees for a while now, and doing all this exercise has actually been helping it! Everytime I do the treadmill it seems to feel a little better. I haven’t been having any pain in my feet at all. The Shape Ups are really great shoes.

I did 30 minutes on the lower body weight machines.

I have also been doing really well with food, and not drinking pop very often at all.