Who Will Be the Grant?

So I had all the kids a week or so ago while Chrissy went to visit her grandmother in Utah. We were driving in the van and I overheard this hilarious conversation.

Ivy: When we grow up and have kids, Mommy and Daddy will be the grandma and the grandpa.

Rex: Yeah, and Mommy will look like Grandma and Daddy will look like grandpa. (Pause) But who will be the Grant?

Ivy: (perplexed) Hmmmm.

Having no good answer they moved on to another topic of conversation.

back from the dead?

I love cruising the blogs. If I don't do it quite every day, I certainly do it several times a week. Even if there is nothing new- I just need to see my favorite people. So today I checked out this old blog and there was nothing new. Of course not! But I sure did have fun seeing the old pics- especially of baby Jackson. How he has grown!!! All of them have. Anyway, just letting you all know that your are loved and missed. Here is one from Grandma!

Onward, Christian Soldiers

The exercise was going great! Until the end of last week. I missed two days- and when that happens right next to Sunday it causes problems. I picked up again on Monday, though. Tonight I'm hoping Dave will lift weights with me. I love feeling the progress- when you realize it's much easier to go 1 1/2 miles than it used to be. :)

I'm really loving eating all the veggies. It feels so good! I went to Food Network.com and printed off all of Alton Brown's veggie recipes. And I really like the recipes from Bittman's new book. Scrumptious! Dave is enjoying them, too. I like that his recipes are kind of loose. You can cook the same recipe 20 times and it will be different each time because he just says something like, "Add 4 cups of veggies" and lists some good possibilites for this application. Then at the end of the recipe he gives tips for good variations. So this time I make it with beets and carrots and next time with red potatoes, celery and turnips. But it's still the same recipe!

the report

OK.

Last week was good but not perfect. We each got in three runs and one ab ripper x. Since we failed we will do this goal again and we have to nail it this week so that we can come up with a new goal for next week. I, Jonathan, also will have one desert a day, reasonable portion and will eat it before eight o'clock at night. Good luck on your goals Laurie.

Our Goal

So I told Jonathan what my exercise goals were for the week and he decided to join me. I like this idea of putting it out there. I feel much more accountable. Here are our goals:

1. Run four times this week

2. Do Ab Ripper X (a 1/2 hour dvd) twice

We don't have any nutrition goals. For the next two weeks, we are doing the "Eat from the Pantry" Challenge. Or in other words, rotating our food storage. We are only buying milk, produce and eggs. I menu planned for this week and it isn't going to be that much of a challenge. So we are going to do it for two weeks. Our pantry seems full of randomness and our food storage is a mess. I'm hoping that this will help get us on track for food storage. I'll have a better idea of what to keep on hand and we can use the money that we save to buy the food for it.