you know it was a good boot camp workout when you can barely drive home from the gym. this is me a few minutes after the workout. it takes a good 30 minutes for the redness to go away. it takes about the same for the frown to turn upside down.
actually...i'm smiling on the inside. i've been to the gym every day this week except this past weekend.
i'm on a roll! and that feels pretty good.
i don't often get a shot of the four of us these days. we're all busy, kids are growing up and into their thing, i work all the time, john works all the time, we've been sick, etc. it's so easy to push this off until you realize we haven't updated our family photo in a good 4 years. my portrait clients always comment that i must have these fabulous family photos. sadly, nope. and i need to work on that. and then tara posted on her blog about her new personal project of photographing her family 12 times throughout the year (once a month is totally doable) and making a little album out of it.
so...i jumped on that bandwagon, yes i did.
even though i didn't get a january photo of us, i'm ok with faking it. today was close enough. plus, it's my birthday so that's a fun little memory. we had to wait until iain got home from soccer practice and we were all starving and ready to go out to dinner, but we managed to get it done.
oh, and about the shirts...i had a shoot today with a client who works for the price is right. he found out we're fans of the show (mostly the vintage one...but don't tell him i said that) and he brought over some goods for me and the family. i love little gifts like this! so i thought it would be funny to slip these on for our first photo.
some things about us:
iain plays on the jv soccer team and got called up to play on the varsity team during their play-offs. this is a huge honor and he is super excited, even if he sits on the bench. we're super proud of this kid. plus, his grades are all a's and b's, which keep him on the team (our rules)
john finished up his first ever tattoo and it's healing nicely. one of these days i'll get a shot of it and show you. i know my aunts are super excited to see them! :) he waited 43 years to do this and the decision didn't come lightly. he's really happy about it and that makes me happy.
tatum is busy being 8. it's quite the roller coaster ride these days with her in the house. she's all about her outfits and hair and shoes and the perfect accessories. and sneaking snacks out of the pantry without us knowing. except i find wrappers and crumbs and leftover apple skins in my bed.
i just hit the 60 lbs lost mark this week. i'm enjoying the gym immensely and trying to focus on eating whole foods and staying within my points. every day is a struggle for sure, but it's been totally worth it. i feel so much better these days and that is a huge thing for me. it makes everything in my life run a little smoother.
so that's that. here we are. the four of us. (and i have no idea what the deal is with the smile on tatum's face. you just never know with that one.).
this has been the week for crazy weather. it's been raining (flooding) most of the week - which is a wonderful change for us. we've been spending a lot of time on the bleachers at the high school watching iain's soccer games lately. unfortunately, all iain's games got canceled this week because we (as a state) can't really function unless the sun is shining around here.
and because i jinxed myself by telling john i'm staying out of the rain and not going to the game wearing a garbage bag to stay dry, i'm the one who came down with a cold. nice. and then two days later tatum caught it. and now john is catching it.
good times in the heffy house.
okay, enough about the weather. just to update the weight loss effort. i'm loving this new program at the gym. did you hear that? i said LOVING this new program at the GYM.
oh yes, i did.
i've been to the gym a total of 13 days this month so far, which is a pretty darn good average for me. i'm now working out 5 days a week. i use my elliptical on saturday and then sunday is my down day. i missed one day this week because of my cold, but i picked myself off the couch this morning and forced myself to get to the gym anyway. and i'm really glad i did. and proud of myself. that's a big deal for me. big deal.
and the bonus is that i've lost 5 lbs in the last two weeks. yes!
this was an episode about a big great dane who jumps and nips at his owner. henry watched the show just like this (with the occasional head tilt) for a good 15 minutes. he'd walk up to the screen and try to figure out how to get in there. it was pretty funny.
sorry i've been mia. hope you all had a wonderful christmas! we did. i'm staying caught up over on facebook if anyone wants to join in over there.
i've been in the process of turning my blog in to blurb books. i'm contemplating shutting the blog down since i don't post here very often any more. i'll post another time about the blurb books once i get my first one back. i'm really excited to see how it turned out. we'll see how it goes and if i decide to keep this going. i'd love to focus more on the weight loss side of it, but every time i commit myself to that i sabotage my progress. (what is up with that?). we'll see...
Henry said he wants to wish you all a Happy Halloween. He's sporting Tatum's Super Girl costume from a few years ago. We are big on recycling around here.
Speaking of Halloween, Hungry Girl sent out a list of all the candy you could possibly eat over the next few days, complete with the calorie count and point values. I browsed for a minute looking for the little mini 3 musketeers bars I consumed last night after dinner. Phew...they are 1 point. Then I tried to remember how many I actually finished off while watching Survivor after dinner. It was somewhere around 6 or 7...but my memory is fuzzy...I was really into the show apparently. So today it's elliptical and cardio blast day for me. That's how I'm choosing to deal with this. And I probably won't go back to HG's list for reference. I think it's best to just do what you want (in moderation, right girls?) and then just make up for it with exercise. I'm pretty sure that's how Super Girl would handle this, too.
Have fun trick or treating out there this weekend!
happy october!
as most of you already know, october is breast cancer awareness month. there's a flurry of pink all over the internet and on tv. i had to run to sam's club this morning and the entire front of their store is lined with pink products and products with special breast cancer packaging. i thought that was pretty cool. they even had a bin with a bunch of pink roses for $6 - super deal.
we are all signed up and ready to walk the susan g. komen race for the cure next weekend in honor of my mom. so of course we have to shop for some fun pink accessories for our group. i know she'd like that. this race will always remind me of henry. we brought him home a year ago on this day.
speaking of henry...he was my helper this afternoon while i tried to get a decent photo of my pretty pink roses. here's my naughty little counter surfer...
ladies...have you felt them lately?
These are basically just like triscuits, but the fiber content makes them a little more point friendly.
For 7 crackers you get:
120 calories
3.5 grams of fat
4 grams of fiber
That's 2 points. I add in a stick of string cheese for a 4 point snack. Very filling, especially between lunch and dinner. In fact, I usually grab this on my way out the door to pick Tatum up from school - so it's like an after school snack all for me.
until then, here's our little soccer star on our way home from her first practice. this is her first year playing on an all girl team. i think i yelled "keep your hands to your side" and "pass the ball, tate" about 10 times. this is definitely going to take some getting used to her part. should be fun!
i had lasik surgery on friday. day 4 and things are going well. it feels like i need to unsharp mask* everything i see at this point, but it's getting better. i keep reaching up to adjust the glasses on my face and they aren't there. i feel like i'm missing a step in the morning when i'm getting ready - putting on my glasses before i walk out of the bathroom. that's going to take some getting used to.
i also feel a little naked without glasses on my face. it's a weird thing to not have them there to hide behind. i can see puffiness around my eyes and a few wrinkles that i ignored when my glasses were in the way. my hairdresser even mentioned maybe cutting bangs now that i don't have to deal with glasses. and wearing makeup might be fun again.
for now i tucked all of my frames and cases away in my nightstand. it's like a little piece of my shell has been cracked. this is definitely going to take some getting used to.
*it's a photography/photoshop term. it makes things sharp and a little more in focus. sometimes it's a photographer's best friend. :)
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