Tag: inspiration
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Breaking the Weight Loss Plateau – Change it Up
I am at 38 pounds lost which means, I broke the plateau! What did it take? A change up in my exercise routine, just like everyone told me! I started with swimming and water aerobics. Felt so good to get in the pool and swim in the water. Another thing that I have started is working out in a new area of my Gym. They call it the Red Zone and it is full of super fun equipment to get your workout on. Resistance bands, medicine balls, cross cable machines, rowing, tug of war ropes, and so much more. Here is a video taken in the Red Zone: -
My Weight Loss Journey – Plateauing
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I have lost 33 pounds in the last 5 1/2 months. It feels great but I still have a ways to go. The problem: the last 6 weeks I am only losing .5 pounds a week! I guess this is what they call plateauing. I knew it would be coming sometime, everyone warns you. I am taking it in stride. My jeans are so baggy so I know that the weight is not always the best indicator.
People have mostly said that when you hit a plateau, kick up your workouts and change them up too. So that is what I am going to be doing.
Time to change things up!
I kicked up my workout and this week I plan on trying new things to shock my body back into gear. I have been doing the elliptical for 45 minutes, 3x a week and 25-35 minutes, 3x a week. I also do circuit training.
I am also interesting in taking one of the classes available at my gym, in an earlier post I stated that it was my desire to not start classes until I was in better shape. Well… I think now is the time!
Will let you know how that goes!
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A True Inspiration, a Man After God’s Heart
Video – Bailey Knaub inspires Tim Tebow. This aired right before the start of the Denver/New England playoff game Jan 14, 2012. Showcasing Tim Tebow meeting with ill kids and adults before and after games. Bailey Knaub from Loveland Colorado has had 73 surgeries and is the focus of this report. Bailey is a lovely young woman, I’m so glad she had the chance to get to know Tim. Bailey…wishing you the best!
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First Time Family Pictures
We finally did it! Thanks to Facebook, I recently saw some gorgeous photos of families I know. I just had to get ours done too. We have never had professional pictures done, now I couldn’t resist. I wanted some nice pics of the whole family. So we did it!I contacted the photographer who took the pictures of the other families, her name is Lisa with LiLo Photography. She set us up to meet at a local Museum that has a working farm, great place to snap pics.
Can I just tell you that I LOVE the pictures? I was so nervous because honestly I didn’t know if my boys would cooperate. My 2 little ones did not cooperate after about 15 minutes, lol. I was unsure if they gave her any good shots.
Well folks that is what Professionals are for! Of course she captured perfect pics of them. So thankful!!
If you are in the Denver area, I highly recommend her. She has an amazing portfolio that you can view online at Facebook (please “Like” her, you will love the pics she posts) or on her website.
She made us feel comfortable right away. She introduced herself to the boys and made them feel special, thank you for that Lisa!
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Our Classroom for a Perfect Autumn Day
A couple of Fridays ago we took class outdoors, what a breath of fresh air! It was amazing, fantastic, refreshing and down right FUN!
We love going to Hudson Gardens, several acres of God’s beautiful creation! We searched for leaves, watched ducks and geese, chased butterflies and bugs, tumbled in the grass and climbed a rock cave, we even did some bird watching.
Since we are now into to the Fall, we were thrilled to see the …
Hay Maze!
and…
Pumpkin Patch!
We also checked out a Leaf Explorer Pack from the Office, we learned all about leaves and trees. There were a ton of fun activities and surprises in the pack.
We also took along this, (thanks Scribbit!):
Thank you God for the Best classroom we could ever ask for!
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Back to School Pictures
School Pictures! Looking around the web I found some great ideas! My middle child is not in this round, he was not in the mood so I didn’t push it. I will get him though! He will be next, may take some bribery.
got this idea from Pinterest. I showed him the picture and asked if there was anything else he would want people to know about him and he added “MarioVideo Game Master Player” – *too funny*
these signs are from iheartnaptime.net, thank u!
This was a fun project and I look forward to taking some more with my Kinder. Thanks to contributors of Pinterest for the inspiration.
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A Prayer for Teachers
Are you on Pinterest? WOW! I have been super inspired since finding it. While cruising through checking out all the great stuff I came across a Class Rules sign on Pinterest. I love the sign, I printed it for our Homeschool Room.
I decided to visit the blog that it originated on and I found this wonderful prayer for any teacher. I hope to pray this prayer many every morning. I took the text and redesigned it to be “rainbow-ey”, if you like the prayer, click here to download it.
PS- the font I used for Lord and Amen came from another Pinterest post, ultimately from the eighteen25 blog, thanks ladies!
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Stopping to Smell the Roses, Literally!
I love flowers, I love gardening. Before I had kids, most of my time was spent gardening. I researched, planned, plotted and planted. Fast forward 8 years and I have no time to garden, I figure I will be able to do it again once my kids are a little older.
Until then, I get my flower fix at my local public garden, called Hudson Gardens. 30 acres of God’s beauty in nature. It’s almost heaven!
I wandered through the Rose Garden and snapped some shots of my favorites.
Other Flowers:
Hope you enjoyed!
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Fun with Shaving Cream
Recently I discovered another amazing blog! This one is called Meet the Dubiens. I have seen so many things on this blog that I want to do with my kids. Very inspiring!Our first inspiration we did today. She mixed food coloring with shaving cream and used it as paint for her kids bath time.
We did not make it for bathtime, just craft time. I let them play at their little table and gave them some utensils.
I do wish I would have had primary colors, Oliver was mixing colors and discovering new colors, would have been more effective with primary colors.
I am still trying to use up the neon colors I used for Oliver’s Rainbow Cake.
The boys had fun for about 1 hour, record time for my 3 and 5 year olds.
Next time: More tools and Primary Colors.
FUN: YES!
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2011 “Not” Back to School Blog Hop!
Last year while I was gearing up for my first year of Homeschool, I came across a Blog Hop. At the time I had no clue what a Blog Hop was… glad I found out. A blog hop is a place where bloggers with common interests can participate in a theme and submit their blog to one place. I poured through so many blogs, I was so inspired.
Home of the Matter Online is sponsoring another one for August.
This week’s topic is Curriculum. I am going to share 2 lists with you. My “dream” list and my “real” list! I have 2 simply because of budgetary reasons.
My Dream List:
Writing: Institute for Excellence in Writing
Science: Apologia Zoology 1 (Flying Creatures of the 5th Day)
Character Training: Positive Action Bible
Math: Math U See
History: History of Mystery
Here is what we will be using for my Kindergartner:
Sonlight Core 1
We used this for Preston this past year. Oliver is already doing math and reading so I am going to try Core 1 with him this year . He will probably end up doing the Apologia Science with us.
For My 2nd Grader and possibly my Kinder – Adventures in my Fathers World. I have this curriculum and it is for multiple kids. I am going to work through and may discover that I do not need the Sonlight Core. I will keep you posted!
Preston will also be using Horizons, we used it last year and liked it.
For all 3 boys I am going to use Positive Action for Character Training.
Thanks for stopping by! I cannot wait to see all the blogger Mommies and what they are using!
Next Week: SCHOOLROOMS!!! (did I tell you an IKEA just opened up in my city?!?!)
This looks perfect:
Love IKEA Inspiration!