2020 Week 41/52 photo

I pulled out this giant tractor to take a picture of it to get rid of it. Liam was loving it. I took a lot of pictures of him on it.

Photo Taken October 6, 2020.

#mbf round 2

I didn't post this in September like I thought. (Now I've done rounds 3 and 4 so I will just post as is.)

Now that it's my second time through, I kind of know what I'm getting myself into. I'll do 1 summary post for all 3 weeks. I made a playlist of all the videos of both rounds. I believe I'm missing 1 and it's doubtful I'll go back and find the right one to uplaod. 

Day 1: I worked out late at night and I was sore. I didn't want to workout. I worked out because I was starting Day 1 with some people. I did it anyway. I worked out at 9 PM. 

Day 2: My ankle still bothers me. The mountain climbers didn't suck as bad as last time I did Day 2. The third move in the AMRAP I kept getting all confused. I almost started over thinking that my AMRAP would be too low. I forgot to mark down the rounds. But I had the video to go back to. My left shoulder is killing me. I can't lift my arm up. I worked out late at night again. (8/11/20)

Day 8 

I did this workout in 92 minutes because of so many interruptions. I was interrupted a bunch before starting but wow it took forever. 

Day 9 

I had a lot of interruptions. Liam woke up just before AMRAPs. I warmed up a little and then did it later. I almost redid it because I felt like I had to pee the entire time. I figured that slowed me down. I had so much trouble writing down / keeping track how many rounds I did. Luckily I had a video to confirm. 

Day 10 

I did this workout in the afternoon the same day I did day 8. I didn't go to day 9 since I had just done a workout with AMRAPs on Monday so I didn't want to do it 2 days in a row. 

I was behind so then I did 8 and 10 on the same day and got caught up. I switched around the order. 

Day 12 

|I did this in 3 segments. Kid interruptions are on fun. I debated starting over each time but I'm glad I didn't since I still had interruptions. 

Day 13. I was short on time so I did this earlier in the week since it's a shorter workout. Loaded push-up burpees were rough. I had to modify. My hip made it so I had to step not jump on lunges. My shoulders made me modify the front sit through. 

Day 15, I noticed I could lift heavier. If I didn't look at my sheet from last time, I might have ended up picking up the same weight. 

Day 18 I went out of order so this was the 20th workout out of 21. My core felt the core segments. My right hip bothers me so i couldn't 1 foot hop on that foot. So I half modified. I'm surprised I got my strength back in my left ankle since I sprained it twice. I really love this AMRAP. If Liam didn't wake up, I was going to do it again. I got 12.37. (I went from 10.25, to 12.12 to 12.37) He was actually awake and crying before the AMRAP but I finished the 4 minutes before going up. (8/29/20)

Day 19  I decided to do a second workout so I did day 18 and 19 on the same day.  Balance is hard. I'm shocked my left leg can balance better than my right. But also not shocked since my right hip is messed up. Since I went out of order I finished round 2 on the day 19 workout.

2021 Exercise Goals Progress (February)

 Here's my goals so far.

For 2021, here are my exercise goals and how I'm doing:

1. Run 100 miles (with a reach goal of 200 miles)
• January = 24.49 mi  (8.33-16.66/ mo goal)
• February = 21.51 {46}
2. Run 52 times (With a reach goal of 100 times)
• January = 19 runs (4.3 - 8.33 x a month goal) 
• February - 15 {34}
3. Complete 3 Beachbody programs
• Muscle Burns Fat (January)
• Muscle Burns Fat (February)
4. Exercise in some form 156 times (that's 3x/week) (Reach goal of 312)
• January = 50  (13 - 26 x month goal)  
• February = 45 {95}
5. Win 20 step bets
• January = 2  (1-2 x month goal)  
• February = 3 {5}

Beth told me her running goal was 21 miles so then I said my goal had to be 21 miles. I ended up with a 3 mile run on the last day so I definitely beat it.

I make monthly push-up, plank, and sit-up goals even though they aren't part of my yearly one. I keep squeaking by completing push-ups on the last day. I've gotten ahead in sit-ups since I lowered the goal to not make myself try to do 30 a day since I only do them every few days. All the planks with MBF make me not want to do sit-ups too.

2021 Exercise Goals

I made exercise goals and even made a graphic. But I can't find the post so I'm posting it now!

For 2021, here are my exercise goals:

1. Run 100 miles (with a reach goal of 200 miles)
• That's 2 miles a week rounded down. It totally seems doable but I go entire weeks trying to run every single day and not getting a run in at all.
2. Run 52 times (With a reach goal of 100 times)
• That's 1 run a week with a reach goal of slightly less than 2 runs a week. I count couple mile runs or even the .2 mile run to pick up Ella. 
3. Complete 3 Beachbody programs
• I don't have a plan now but I wanted to complete 2 in 2019 and I did not. In 2017 and 2018 I was much more consistent when I had workout plans. I said I'd complete 2 in 2020 so I increased it 1. I completed 4 in 2020 but 3 of those were short 3 week ones.
4. Exercise in some form 156 times (that's 3x/week) (Reach goal of 312)
• This is the same goal as last year and the year before. I beat it most of the months in 2020 but had some times when I didn't. 
5. Win 20 step bets
• I can do up to 3 at a time and they are mostly all for 6 weeks. 

I kept these almost the same as last year! I increased my beachbody programs from 2 to 3. I also added completing step bets. I took out about running challenge groups. 

3/3/21 instastories

These kids are always waking up too early. I don't take the pic right away and it's still too early.  I packed 4 containers of snacks all at once to make the rest of the week easier. Liam just climbed right up on the island. He was super excited about the jade plant clippings. I attempted to drink my shake at the same time. Ella had to take a photo for the yearbook. We took many before she decided one was good enough.  I tried so hard to drink my energize fast.  I didn't make it in one go but still drank it fast for me since most days it takes about an hour.   Then I did day 20 of #mbf. I did some additional exercises for my hip since it started bothering me. I went upstairs to put in laundry and make the bed and Liam came up covered in cheese with a bowl of cheese curls. Liam thought the entire container of cheese curls was his.  I had a favorite for lunch: Trader Joe's macaroni and cheese and steamed broccoli. Ella liked the broccoli. 

I took a picture of Ella sitting on my lap and thought we looked more like than we have in the past. (It may look like we are happy but school was a real struggle and I was rubbing her back to get her to work.)

We went to school to do a packet pick-up. Then we went a tiny bit out of the way to pick up some pinecones so we can paint. Liam held the bag on the way home since it wouldn't fit under the stroller. 

Liam pulled out the kid snow shovel and shoveled the driveway for 20 minutes or more. 

Dave played video games and it had some setting so Miles got to play too. Liam enjoyed watching while he was still eating. 

Then I spent forever finishing my photobook for a super sale. I just ended up having to pay shipping since I didn't order enough for free shipping! (They had extended the sale for 3 days. I ordered one at almost midnight the night of the end of the first sale and then I finished a 2nd photobook at the end of the extension.  I keep getting really far in photobooks then never finishing them. )

Photobooks (2020)

 I finished some photobooks recently

I did my pregnancy with Ella photobook. This wasn't as easy as I thought. I didn't have any of my original files so I had to pull form google photos. Sometimes the quality wasn't that good. I had to search for photos for the dates. I had collages but not things broken up by trimester and didn't have a collage of all the weeks. Just making a few collages sometimes took hours. I did have everything in blog posts but then I had way more blog posts about pregnancy than I could fit so I had to condense a lot. 

I did 6 years worth of mom group photos. I just had triple the amount I wanted to include. This one was super super super time consuming since I had to manually pull up pictures. Google photos stopped tagging people in 2015 so I couldn't use that to help me find events. This photobook I did a 12x12 version and 10x10. |Shutterfly will adjust the size easily but I had to then go and fix a ton of fonts. 

The first week of February I finished my pregnancy with Liam photobook.

All 3 photobooks were at the Shutterfly page max of 111 pages. Shutterfly doesn't let you embed the books in blogs anymore which is why I just linked to them and put in a screen shot. 

(I had already completed my pregnancy with Miles book a couple years ago.) 

2020 Week 40/52 photo

Liam is just a little model on the floor being cute while I take pictures. 

Photo taken September 28, 2020.

School Pickup (10.1.20)

Ella and Liam went with me to pick up Miles then all 3 kids walked down the walk together. 

Photo taken October 1, 2020. 

This was back when if you had a sibling with you, you were allowed to get out of the car. Now they will have a teacher bring the student down to you. This was also back before all kids wore masks. 

Park (9/25/20)

Liam is so big now. He hasn't been to a park since he could only use a swing so he wasn't sure what to do. This is the first time we've been to a park in months. #thanksCOVID

Photo taken September 25, 2020.

Screen shot of video. Miles holding Liam's hand.

2020 Week 37/52 photo

The fires caused the sky to be orange. This was not a filter. There are many links that talk about it. My camera didn't do it justice. The links have many more examples. I had to use my DSLR, because my iPhone was color correcting.

Photos taken September 9, 2020.

2020 Week 39/52 photo

Liam was having fun playing outside in the dirt. He had a lemon like a ball. I took pictures of him. 

Photo taken September 25, 2020.

2/15/21 instastories

Liam slept in. (He didn't through the night but slept in.) I walk in and see he has a dart gun. I don't even know how he got that in his crib.  Liam is begging Miles to share his egg.  Liam gets a laundry basket to use as a step stool to "make popcorn" but the stove wasn't on. Now that Liam has his own egg he's sharing with Miles since Miles shared with him.  Liam doesn't like my off the shoulder shirt. Liam got Dave's jalapeño pretzels. He got one out then tried to give it to me. I could barely handle how spicy it smelled. I of course didn't eat it.  Liam played in the rain and got soaked twice.  I had such a good workout.  It did take 2 hours to even start it with all the kid delays.  Mountain Climbers didn't suck as bad. I got 92 mountain climbers in 40 seconds. Last time I did 75.  This fire pit is not a toy but Liam thinks it is. 

Miles worked on riding a bike. The bike wouldn't pedal right so he couldn't ride it so he got discouraged. We tried another but the seat was just a tad too high and so he gave up. He was discouraged but I said it was not his fault. Then we went for a run/bike ride with his old small balance bike. 

The starving kids wanted food so I made a snack tray. They liked it. 

I cleaned. I spent sooo long cleaning up everything but didn't take any time lapse videos. 

2/16/21 instastories

Dave rode bikes with Miles to school. Liam wanted to go.  I took photos and video at school for over an hour. Miles had a fake smile. He thought it was a good one. I told him I should have said "poop" to get him to smile for real. It works every time. Then we went out to lunch for our first time at outdoor dining. Liam bonked his head and got a welt. Liam would not take off his jacket and napped in it.  Liam is crazy dancing ...no stomping on the table.  

Miles wanted to practice his smile when I said poop. I did my workout really late.  I did a lot of procrastinating. I upped my weights on some of them. 

Hike (2.7.21)

Miles always asks to hike up a mountain so I took him on a hike. I took Liam too with a stroller. The 3 of us walked over 5 miles. It was a bit of a struggle walking up and walking down. I was so exhausted and tired. There were many water breaks and many snack breaks. Miles walked over 3.5 miles of it. I was so impressed. Near the end on the level, Liam walked about half a mile so then Miles got to ride in the stroller. I tried to have Miles sit in the front part of the stroller but Liam kept kicking him off. So then Miles sat and held Liam who sat on his lap. 

This was a fun adventure. I don't know how well it'd have gone with 5 of us. Ella would have gotten tired by the end. 

2020 Week 36/52 photo

It's bed time and Liam is not going to sleep.  He's extra cute since he's rarely without clothes. 

Photo Taken September 6, 2020.

Running Streak (Jan 2021)

I decided to try for a 7 day running streak. I thought for sure I would never make it so I didn't tell anyone. A few days into it, I realized I ran on December 30 and 31 so I had 2 days there.  I went 10 days. I could have kept going but my shins were killing me and I needed to rest.  10 short runs. It felt so great.  I never did 7 days in a row before let alone 10. 

I went for a run mid day on day 7 to make sure I got the 7 day run streak in.

I ran 3 more days at night. I can't believe I Ran after 11 PM so much!  I didn't make another collage so you have the individual pictures. I like Garmin because it puts the date in the graphic. 

1/29/21 instastories

Liam was up and eating breakfast pretty early. He likes to make his own pop tart so now that's his favorite breakfast. Poly was on me and Liam climbed up. He was loving her so much. Poly puts up with a lot. She did get sick of it and left but she lasted longer than I'd guess.  The weather was great so I went for a run and talked to my mom on the phone. I finished my loop but was still talking so added on a little more.  Then I talked on the phone more while I pushed Liam on the swing. Liam enjoyed a pear. Liam is silly with the kitchen sink.  I met my mileage goal for the month. Ella wanted me to take her picture. something about a youtube intro.  We all biked to pickup Miles from school. Miles loved it. The trailer is a little crowded with both of them in there. I ordered new pants and they are 3" longer than the inseam I ordered. Liam and Miles like to hug. I have 3 Step Bets going and randomly like to calculate how much I'd make so far with them. 

1/31/21 instastories

 Liam was up early and then so was Miles. I was tired. I tried to lie down on the floor. The both joined me. Liam is trying to make coffee. He actually hit the button to start grinding coffee.  The kids love the swing. After all the rain the swing set flew in the air too much so we decided to anchor it. Dave went to the grocery store and the kids helped me do it.  I did my workout after.  After my workout, I walk out to Liam under the sink spraying windex. Liam loves to vacuum. He tries to go for stuff way too huge to pick up though. Liam sees what he wants and climbs on the counter for it.  I was cleaning and got annoyed that I was the only one cleaning so I decided to go for a run. My shins hurt but I still decided to run a 5k since I hadn't in a month. My guess was 5k in 40 min then I kept thinking I wouldn't make it so I tried to hurry and hurry. (I got it at 38 min). The sky was pretty out the window.  Liam was super silly. My January calendar for what workouts I did. 

Exercise Goals

 

I made January goals. Some of which contribute to my success in my 2021 goals. I met every goal! Push-ups were tough. I had 125 to do in the last 4 days.  Push-ups are rough since my shoulder bothers me so much. It should be getting better but it's not so good. 

I make a dashboard of how I do each month compared to my goals. The goals get adjusted based on injures and number of days in the month.