I love kettle bells! (Just ask the MOOsers!)

Hello to all of my groupies! Let's catch up on the past few days...

This past weekend at my husband's grandparent's house went fine. All of the usual goodies were there, but I packed a cooler and it was all good. I planned out Saturday and Sunday's meals on fit day before I left, so I just packed everything I needed. Right down to the Smart Balance spread for Sunday morning's toast. While the birthday cake was being eaten, I was proudly showing videos of our workouts from Ben's blog. I wasn't there for the worst part though, Saturday night playing cards and eating junk. I was out having a good time doing my thing at a party. So that ended up working out pretty good.

This week started out with Monday off since Ben was sick. Man, everyone is coming down with the bug that is flying around. As I type, my brother is even home sick right now. Even though we didn't have to go in I ran up and down my stairs 15 times to at least get my heart rate up. Tuesday was a cardio day and a little later in the morning Liberty and I went to Kindermusik. It was a lot of fun, but of course it's always fun! I was full of energy and it felt great. Wednesday we finally had Tonia join us for a workout! That was great. Due to her schedule, she is unable to be with us everyday. Ben did a great job making us work. We had 4 different stations, alternating between 2 exercises at each station with a one minute break after 6 minutes! One of them that we had to do were step ups. This is the one that I injured my knee on. My knee has been making a lot of progress, not doing too much modifications this week, but Ben did modify it for me by taking the step ups down a few inches. (Thanks Ben!) My favorite one of the day though had to be the kettle bell swings. My twisted sisters know which one I'm talking about! Today, well today was just fine and dandy. We were all chatting & joking around during warm ups. Ben was quick to shut us up since we could barely breathe (or at least I couldn't!) once we started the cardio he had planned for us! There wasn't much talking in between stations today, only heavy breathing and water drinking! We had 4 stations again, this time being the bike, fire hose slams, suicide sprints and burpees. Ben assigned us each a minimum number of reps he expected us to do within the 30 seconds. I managed to exceed the fire hose slams several times and the suicide sprints once. Let me tell you- that sprinting crap, that is not fun at all!

Today I had my kitchen makeover. Ben hauled his cookies waaaaayyyy over here and went through my cabinets, refrigerator and freezer. My to do list when he was done is this: get out tupperware and spices and put them away, (they're still packed from moving 6 months ago, eek!), rearrange my plate cupboard so that I have easy access to the smaller plates, plus maybe add some since Alex takes his breakfast to work with him on one everyday and they seem to disappear. In the cabinets, I need to rearrange my food so that it is in different places, like items grouped together and place the supportive foods where they are easy to spot and be grabbed first. He pushed Liberty's goldfish to the back of the high shelf so I guess no more fish for Lib until I take out the step stool! The babe will be getting some fruit for snack time instead. Which is great! In the fridge, it's a lot of the same. Grouping together proteins, fruits and veggies. Plus, he would like to see me doing something that Lisa has been doing right from the beginning. Lisa gets her food home from the grocery store and washes, cuts and portions her food so that it is all ready to go. She actually goes a step further and labels her tupperware! Everyone who knows me knows that I am way too unorganized to take it that far. So, it's all pretty basic stuff. Things that are easy to help anyone make easier choices in the kitchen. Keep the good stuff close at hand and shove your goldfish crackers to the back!

Tomorrow is FRIDAY!!! Our last workout for the week. Three weeks down, only 11 more to go!