End of week 2.....this week was mentally, yet in a physical way, eye opening. AND announcing the plan of our community event!

It is my every intention to be very honest in these blog posts! I in no way want to appear as if this competition is a breeze and that my life is anything but easy. I think a lot of people make their blogs look this way and the same goes for many Facebook users. However, at the same time, who wants to read a bunch of pessimistic and depressing thoughts either? I hope to give you a good mix! I'm going to let our readers in on our highs and our lows, our many mistakes and you'll read about our failures and our success! How I write my post is how the week actually happened, well, in a nutshell and when my memory serves me well.  I believe in being honest in all our dealings, even in something as silly as a blog. Honesty is in fact the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Is there a book of wisdom? Well, lets pretend there is, and the first chapter is titled... honesty. :)

Now since we are discussing honesty, lets start there first and get the boring news out of the way.This weeks vegetable intervention was supposed to include carrots, spinach and peaches. This was the plan! Somehow I missed the peaches on my shopping list!  Justification: Peaches aren't in season right now anyways and they don't get their fair attention when they are eaten out of a can, so we will go back to peaches in the summer! And, who has time or who has time to remember to get back to the store for peaches? Not me! There you go, our first mistake and it's only week 2. Ugh, yes, this is going to get harder! Anyways, I consider the carrots a half way success.... We ate them on our salads, cooked on the stove and cold dipped with ranch. Tommye now LOVES cooked carrots! The first night she only tasted it, but shoot, the second night she dove right past the taste test and ate all six cooked carrots on her plate! The other forms were a no-go. Brylee HATED the cooked carrots, it was quite entertaining. I really think more than anything our dislikes of food can be so psychological. In Brylee's case, by the look of her face, I don't think she liked the squish of the carrot in her mouth. We'll see, because she gets to do it again in a few weeks! On the other hand, I put a plate of fresh cold carrots in front of her and her friends playing the Wii and when I turned back to see if she like them, she had already engulfed at least three or four and then continued to finish them. Yes!! She ate carrots and honey-do as snacks for the whole rest of the week. Goodbye fruity pebbles! The spinach we are carrying into this next week because I honestly kept forgetting about them as I have never liked it much either. This week I WILL be better!!

As far as the eye opening experience, this was because of our WAY fun family activity! We decided to play soccer because Tommye-Lynn starts back at soccer club again this week. It wasn't anything out of the ordinary and it isn't something we have never done before, but we have never ever intentionally taken time out of our day to go get exercise done together as a family. What a shame!!! Really, we had so much fun. We started out with a walk to the field, maybe a half mile, then we did few little warm-up running drills and then we played as much soccer we could for the next hour. Then we jogged home! 

Poor Heston wanted to be included so badly so we took him out of the stroller and let him mess around a little. He loved it. Future athlete at his best! 

                            

             And who does Big 'D' think he is?? You know I schooled him right?!! 

Darrin started cross-fit this week and absolutely loved it, just as we thought he would. He woke up at 4:30 a.m. to be to the gym by 5 and put as much into as he could. He loves the "hard core" feel of the venue, loved his coach/trainer and loved getting back into the game! What I loved.....his sore muscles!! Nananananana, welcome to the club of "It hurts so good!" I love that phrase cause it's so true. You know you worked hard when it hurts so good! Darrin did cardio on the off days and did great on his high protein/low carb plan.  His body bugg arrived this week as well and loved all the info it gave him. He did 9.5 miles in his 12 hour overight shift in the ER. That's crazy! This next week he will need to incorporate some two-a-days to get this thing won! I realize this isn't about winning, but hey, if your gonna work this hard, you may as well win something! He is happy to report that he is down another 6 pounds! The second week tends to be one of the toughest, so we are happy with this number. Keep it up Big 'D'!!

Finally...................................................Remember how I discussed optional requirement of holding an event in the community that will contribute to its overall health?? Darrin and I have been thinking about this for a while now trying to think of something impressive. We've thought about a basketball family night, a walking group, a skiing trip etc...But then I thought wait, I work for "Family Health Services"! A community center that focuses on all aspects of family health! We have around 200 employees located in several different offices in the Magic Valley area. (I think this is the correct number of employees) I've been around many of these employees as I work part-time as a hygienist for FHS and I also fill-in on occasion in many of the offices when others call in sick etc.... I've noticed that these individuals/employees are in need of as much family health as anyone else. And then I thought, what if we did something within Family Health Services to help these 200 residents of the Magic Valley area??

 I went to Robyn, the secretary of the CEO this last Tuesday with the idea and my intentions. Robyn told me she would introduce the idea to the board of "C's" and would let me know as soon as she could. By Friday she got back to me and told me that the board loved my idea of an interoffice event. I will be planning and coordinating this event as we go!

Before I end let me to tell you what has been the hardest. SLEEEEEEP!!!! I can't seem to get myself and my little Brylee to bed before 11:30!! Last week we did GREAT, but not so much this week.  We just love the night and hate the morning. We will continue to work on it!

Thank you everyone for your love and support! I realize we are only starting on week 3, but I think I already see a light at the end of this tunnel! We are changing!!!!! This change will set us free! 

See you next week!!