Motivation tactic

So I'm trying something new to stay commited and motivated to cross train on my days off from running. When I trained for my first 5K last year it helped me blogging about it here. It was kind of having virtual running buddies to be accountable to. This helped me get over the hump of making running into a habit, now I think I am passed that point and can say that waking up early on certain days out of the week to go running has turned into a routine. However, this is not the case when it comes to crosstraining. I've had a hard time stablishing a routine to do any type of exercise that is not running. Why? I don't know. Why would running in the dark and cold weather be more appealing to me than working out in the warmth and convinience of my own living room? I don't know. Well to make a long story short. I going to start blogging about it, this time on my own blog, and hopefully it will help me now like it did then.

Today is Monday, a crosstraining day and I did nothing. It would be nice to write off grocery shoping, cleaning and vaccuming, making dinner and a total of about 1 hr and 45 mins worth of driving as crosstraining. That's not to mention the melt down Jocie had today because she did not want to go down for a nap. I wonder how many calories I burned just there. Well all of those went down the drain when I ate that piece of brownie Aaron made for after FHE. Good news are I get to burn some of those tomorrow morning!

Anyway, Beth and I are getting closer to kicking off our Marathon trainning in just a few weeks! I'm excited!

What do you do to stay motivated on reaching your health/fitness goals?

Mama’s Holiday Wish List Meme

Mama’s Holiday Wish List Meme

TodaysMama and Provo Craft are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you.

1. What 5 items are on your holiday wish list this year?
-running gear
-treadmill
-a maid to clean my house
-new carpet
-new furniture
2. What is your favorite handmade gift you have received?
-pottery from my little brother
3. What handmade gift have you always wanted to tackle?
-anything that involves a sewing machine, because that would mean I'd have to learn how to use one and I always wanted to learn how to use one
4. What was the best Christmas gift you received as a child?
-a rainbow bright doll, I loved it!
5. What items are on your kid’s wish list this year?
-a barbie
-a bike
-and everything she sees in Nickelodeon's commercials
6. What is your favorite holiday food?
-tamales!
7. What will you be hand-crafting for the holidays?
-mmm...probably nothing
8. What is your favorite holiday movie?
-anything we can go see on Christmas day
9. Favorite holiday song?
- Oh Holy night
10. Favorite holiday pastime?
-sledding and just being with the family

To enter to win all these cool prizes below simply answer the questions in this meme, make sure to post links back to TodaysMama.com and Provo Craft (use this link: http://bit.ly/4ikY3c ) and tag your friends!

Update

I decided it's time for an update of our little family.

Let's start with Jocie.

Jocie is now 2! It's wonderful seeing her grow and having her little personality come out even more with each day that passes by. She is such a tender-sweet little girl. Saying thank you for every little thing and I love you for no reason goes to show what a beautiful-sweet little thing she is. We are enjoying some one on one time with each other now that big sister is off to preschool. I'm not sure where Jocie stands on this matter. Sometimes it seems like she needs her big sister in order to thrive, be confident and outgoing, which I'm not sure I like. I've also seen her more relaxed and better behaved when we go to the store for example, that I like. She continues to be my little helper, she is Tanks official feeder. During our visit to Mexico this summer she learned the value of a coin; you take your money to the store and exchange it for candy. Since then she is in the look out for money. I have taken advantage of her new discovery and have started to pay them for doing little things to help me. She is all about money right now. She loves it and walks around collecting every coin she finds to later put it in her little peanut butter container that I turned into a piggy bank. She is doing great adding new words to her growing vocabulary, but I'm afraid she is not right there with most of the kids her age, just like Naomi was. I have decided that learning two languages at the same has got to be the reason. I'm a little bit less worried this time, because I know she will pick up when I least expect it. Soon she will be rumbling away with all sort of words both in English and Spanish. Jocie loves fashion and everything girlie, among her favorite things are; lipstick and makeup, high hill shoes, tu-tus (can't forget the tu-tu) every accessory imaginable (purses, hats, sunglasses, bracelets, necklaces, you get the idea). She also has many dolls and stuffed animals which are all her babies, even an imaginary one that she carries around in her cupped hands. Her favorite game to play "Mami" and I'm her baby. She is happy if we call her "Mami" all day long, sometimes if we forget she will remind us "I'm not baby, I'm mami!" We love our sweet spirited little girl.

Naomi.

Naomi is now 4 years old! And started Preschool this year. She was so ready, that the first day of school when we pulled up to the curb she quickly unbuckled her seat belt and pushed the door open and said "OK mom I love you, bye!" funny thing. Of course I informed her that I would be walking her to the classroom. She came in eager to say hi to everyone and introducing herself, telling them that her name was Naomi and she was three years old (she was then). A kid started crying, for his mommy, and I was so moved, but not impressed, to see that Naomi grabbed a kleenex walked over to the little boy , put her hand on his shoulder and said "It's ok, here!" Apparently that little boy made a big impression on her since the first day of school, she comes home talking about him almost every day. I walked out of the classroom on my first born's first day of school thinking "That wasn't bad at all" and with the feeling that she would be OK, and I would too.
She learned to write her name within the first couple of weeks of school after noticing a few kids that would sign their own names in the sign in and out sheets. She showed interest in it and she quickly learned how to write her name almost by herself. She knew how to spell it and read it and I had tried to get her to write it before but she was simply not interested, until then.
One day she came home informing me that she could no longer eat peanut butter, because a kid at school was allergic to it and so was she. There's another kid who is allergic to chocolate but she won't say anything about that. Smart girl! Up until this day, she won't eat peanut butter. She'll get over it.

Aaron

Aaron is working hard to provide for his three girls. He took this semester off from school due to the overload of work at his workplace. Which turned out to be a good idea. I don't know how he would have been able to pull this semester and numerous all nighters at work at the same time. He also has been working in the room we recently added to expand our home. He has done a lot of it with the help of my dad. I think it should be ready by the end of this week. We'll moved the girls into their new roomie bedroom and he will have his own office at home, all along with a TV and XBOX! Lucky!

Me

I'm still running. Slowed down for a little bit and slowly coming back to it. I found a running buddy! Whom I am so thankful for and who is willing to be crazy with me and wake up at 6 am to go running in the cold and dark. We are both excited to start our first Marathon training with in the next few weeks! Yes, running a Marathon excites me! Go figure! I watched the New York Marathon women's winner cross the finish line on TV and I started crying, haha!
I'm also taking piano lessons from a Sweet Service Missionary at church. I think I am doing good. I have recently learned that a good idea for food poisoning anyone or cleansing your colon is making them a pie out of fallen apples. Yeah! What was I thinking!? Some were fresh from the tree, but so many had fallen that only a few were within reach, so I thought "What the heck! I'm going to cook them at 400 F. A little dirt never hurt anyone" I was wrong. Anyway, I learned a good lesson that took poisoning my family and my neighbor. Ha!

Life is good. Sometimes a little bumpy, but still good.