I don't know

 I haven't blogged in forever. 

Pretty sure it doesn't bother anyone, I just needed a little break. 

Plus my kids had last week off of school, we get Rodeo vacation here in southern Arizona.

We go and watch the Tucson Rodeo Parade every year, we have done this since I was a little kid.

I think it is the largest or one of the largest non-motorized parades in the country.

The kids I love seeing all of the beautiful horses and carriages.

The marching bands are also a favorite. 

 

My husband took a million kids my older two kids and both of my nephews camping the last part of the week. 

I am sure that they had a great time but the prep work involved for me is exhausting. 

I had to drive to phoenix and back (2 hours each way) to pick up one of my nephews.

Then after the camping trip I made the trip again to drop him off.

But he had a great time and my kids got to spend some time with their cousins so it was worth it.

I just felt like the break from having to get up and get everyone ready for school wasn't actually a break.

I plan on doing absolutely nothing over spring break, no driving.

 

Oh, also, it SNOWED here last week.

That is just crazy to me, I watched it and played in it and I still feel like it didn't actually happen.

I have lived here my entire life and can count the times it has snowed on one hand. 

And it wasn't a little bit of snow, it was a good amount that stuck and was still on the ground when we woke up the next morning.

Pretty exciting.

 

On my fitness front I am doing a 30 day Jillian Michaels challenge with a bunch of other bloggers and IG'ers.

So far so good, we are on day 3.

I was really sore yesterday but not so bad today. 

I haven't been running as much as I should, I don't like cold weather.

Plus my new Asics that I thought that I liked, I don't like. 

My toes go numb while running, it is a really weird feeling and I get occasional shin pain when running in them. 

I like them for JM though, and zumba just not running.

So I am keeping them for other workouts.

I went to Fleet Feet and got fitted today for a different pair of running shoes.

I had gone to a different store for this but runners I know here in town told me that I should go to Fleet Feet, that they trusted them more then the other place. 

So I went there and they measured so much more things then the other store had and I felt like they actually new what they were talking about.

So I ended up buying Brooks Ghost 5. 

I think a few of you use these and said you like them in that shoe link up from a while ago.

Hopefully I will love them too. 

 

All right, I think I bored you enough for today. 

Thanks for reading!

Color Me Rad plus my weigh in

Lets get the weigh in out of the way. 
This morning I weighed in at 170.2 lbs.
So close to the 160's!!

I ran my 2nd race out of my 13 in 2013 races on Sunday, my first was a virtual 5k that I forgot to blog about, sorry.
On Sunday I ran in the Color Me Rad 5k race with my SIL, Melinda, and my friend Diana.

It was a lot of fun!

The weather was perfect for running, it was the perfect amount of cold where you are cold at first but once you start running you feel perfect. 

Not hot or cold.

Ok, I am new to this running thing so I need someone who is experienced to tell me. 

Is it normal for a 5k to actually be 4 miles long?!!

I just wasn't mentally prepared to run four miles, I have done it before but I was going at a little bit of a faster pace so that I could finish the 3.1 miles strong. 

Which I did, I don't know the time cause I didn't think to look I was so focused on the fact that the finish line wasn't even in sight. 

I almost made the whole thing running, I stopped for about 20 feet around mile 3.5.

My running app said that we went 3.98 miles. 

Crazy!

So, is that normal? A 5k being 4 miles?

 

 

I may have jumped before I was supposed, what can I say, I was afraid I would miss it.
I am the nerd in the middle.

 

Other then the distance (we still had a 12:35 min/mile pace not bad for me) the race went really well.

I was a little nervous that the color powder would bug me but it wasn't horrible, the liquid version that they sprayed on us was a little cold though. 
It was a lot of fun, I would recommend giving it a try if you have one in your area.
Be prepared though, a lot of people walk this race so our course was very tight.

Happy Wednesday!

 

 

 



The weekend

I had an awesome birthday weekend, two weekends ago, I know, bad blogger.
Anyway
 

I had a great time celebrating with my friends.
We went to dinner at Mongolian BBQ, it was as delicious as I remember.
We had a lot of fun just chatting. 
We went and got some self serve frozen yogurt after dinner, which didn't disappoint.

 

Two of my best friends and I wanted to do one of those photos where you are in the same pose over time.
 So we picked one from high school and decided to do that pose once every ten years.
 We thought that way we would remember when we are all 40 to take another one.
 Here are the two so far.

I think we were 16

 

Here we are all 30

 

 

 I had a great birthday!

Not much happened last week, possibly why I didn't blog.
This past weekend was also fun.
Another one of my friends was turning 30 so we went to dinner at a fancy restaurant.
The company was great but I really felt like the food was so so, if I am going to pay $16 for a pasta dish I want it to be good. 
The ice cream was amazing though, maybe due to the fact that all of their ice cream was alcoholic. ;)

Then yesterday I ran the Color Me Rad race.
It was fun, I am going to do another post tomorrow about it since this is already pretty long. 
Thanks for hanging in there.


Lastly, Holly and Kristen are having an amazing giveaway because they are so popular and reached 1000 followers so head over there are enter!



Wowza, I'm 30

Thirty.

Today I turned thirty!

Exciting!!
I thought about doing a cool list of 30 things I want to do in my 30th year like Darci and Kyra did but I am lame and couldn't think of 30 things.  So oh well.
 

 

I am going to dinner tomorrow night with some friends to celebrate, Mongolian BBQ!!

Then on Sunday I am meeting my sister early to run to the gym, once there we are going to go to a Zumba class. 

We use to take Zumba classes together all the time before she upped and moved to Phoenix.

After Zumba my whole family is meeting us for breakfast, my gym has a restaurant that serves some killer breakfast.

We are not going to celebrate just my birthday but also my adorable baby bugger's birthday, he turned one last Tuesday.
Isn't he the cutest thing ever?!!!

 

And because we live in Arizona where the weather is pretty perfect I think that we are going to swim for a little while after breakfast. 

They heat the pools and the jacuzzi has been calling my name for a while now. 

Can't wait, should be a great weekend. 

 

 

Also, thanks for all the support with my weight loss, I really appreciate all of you!

You rock!

 

I am going to keep at it with the healthy eating, I think I might feed all the ice cream to the kids tomorrow so that it isn't tempting me anymore. 
 

Oh and on the 10th I am running in the Color Me Rad run. 

I am really excited!

Melinda, my SIL, and a couple of our friends are all running it together.

It should be a lot of fun.

 

Almost forgot, I am also going to run a virtual 5k tomorrow. 

 I signed up to do 13 in 2013 (races) so after the color run I will have two done and 11 to go. 

Yeah!

 
 

 

Hope you all have a great weekend

Wednesday weigh in

Hey new and old followers, it is fun having so many followers!!
Thanks for following everybody!
(do you think I said the word follower enough yet?)

So I know I am late with this post today but the day just got away from me, better late then never right?

I decided that since I already weigh in on Wednesdays I might as well jump in with everyone else and link up with Erin and Alex. 
 



 

I am not going to lie, I really wanted to see a bigger loss this week. 

I actually put in the effort, I mean a friend brought ice cream over on Sunday and left it in MY freezer and guess what?!  It is still there!!

Yep, you read that right, I did not devour that carton the second my friend left.

This is a ginormous step for me, ice cream is my weakness.

And I didn't eat it!!!

Well, even with all my healthy food choices this week I am only down one pound.

I know that I should be happy that I lost at all and normally I am but man.

I just feel discouraged, like if I am only going to lose a pound whether I eat whatever I want or make healthy choices then why wouldn't I eat all the ice cream I can find!

 

So this week I am weighing in at 172.8 lbs. 

Down exactly one pound from last week. 

I am going to keep at it though, that ice cream is just going to sit in my freezer, it won't win.


I just noticed this was my 100th post, cool!!

Monday

I know, really thought out title huh. I couldn't think of anything good.

Well, I hope everyone had a great weekend.  Ours turned out to be very low key and relaxing. 
We did have 3 soccer games scheduled for Saturday morning immediately followed by a pizza party for one of the teams.  Then I was supposed to leave the party early to head to a celebration of life, a memorial service for a friend of mines daughter. 
But instead of all that chaos it rained. 
 I love the rain, especially when it makes our lives slow down.  Instead of a morning filled with soccer and feelings of being rushed for me to get to the memorial service we were able to hang out in our pajamas. 
Here are the kids building a Lego town in their pjs while I enjoy my coffee. 

 

I was able to go for a run in between the downpours, it was beautiful weather. 

And since I had time I actually did my hair and spent time picking out a nice outfit to wear to the ceremony. 

Of course, once I was all "done up" I went to get in the car and somehow managed to fall out flat on my back. 

I swear, it must have been hysterical to see. 

 Luckily I didn't really hurt anything, I have a small scrape on my ankle and a bruise on my elbow but nothing major. 

 I was wearing heals, a denim pencil skirt and a black shirt, I realize I probably should have taken a picture since I finally wore something other then yoga pants and a t-shirt but I wasn't feeling all that great in the outfit so decided not to document it.  

Anyway, back to the awesome fall, I drive a big SUV that has running boards along the side, I was talking on the phone to my sister and knew that I was climbing in the car very awkwardly due to wearing heals and a skirt, see the problems that occur from wearing only yoga pants all the time I am not use to functioning in a skirt. 

 Well, the running boards were wet from the rain and my heels don't have good grip anyway. 

 I stepped on the running board and as soon as I put all my weight on that foot to get in I slipped, my feet went up over my head and I landed flat on my back next to the car. 

 I couldn't do anything but laugh, Jordan came running over and said, "what happened?! Did you fall?" 

Gotta love five year olds, no I didn't fall, I just felt like laying on the wet ground in my nice clothes with my butt hanging out to the world. 

Luckily for me only two cars drove by as I was still laying there trying to figure out if I was indeed ok. 

Jon came over to see if I was ok, then asked if I needed help up cause um you are wearing a skirt.

I guess he didn't like me flashing the whole neighborhood. 

Jon and Jordan dusted me off and I left for the life celebration, which was a beautiful ceremony where I cried my eyes out, the young girl who went to be with Jesus was only 19 and was prepared to go so she had very clearly written out her desires for her ceremony. 

One of the things she wanted was for her dad to walk her down the isle since he now wouldn't have the privilege. 

 I was balling before he even entered the room. 

Precious.

 

 

Sunday was just as laid back, Melinda, my sister in law, and I went for a run on a trail close to my house. 

 It was so much fun!

We ran 3.25 miles and then did some stairs because we felt so good after. 

I don't know what it is but I feel like I have so much more in me when I run on a trail vs. a street. 

After the run I ate back my calories burned took the kids to McDonald's for breakfast, a new one opened right next to our house and they have $1 pancakes through the month of February. 

I let the kids play on the playground for a LONG time, they needed to get rid of some energy. 

We hung out at home playing in the rain for the rest of the day, oh we also walked to the park by our house and played on that playground. 

All around it was a very nice weekend.

How was your weekend? 

 

Have you stopped by Laura's blog and entered in her giveaway yet?

 

Ooh...I am so excited to find out who won Lora's ginormous giveaway!!!

 

 

This little guy also got to turn around in the car this weekend, he LOVES facing forward and I love being able to see him. 

 

Big giveaway day!

Hey hey, it's Lora's big giveaway day!! 
 

 

If you don't read Lora's blog Raising Steppe Sisters then do it now!

Man, she sure has put together one awesome giveaway. 

I am very excited and nervous to have all of you new followers. 

I love new friends, now I might actually have to be accountable to what I put out there, not that I wasn't before but more followers for some reason seems like more accountability. 

But that is good, so yeah! 

 

Anyway, if your new here, welcome!

I am Becca, actually some of my old followers might not even know my name, I really need to get one of those cool signatures for the bottom of my posts, I think I might do a blog overhaul this weekend. 

Sorry, back to it, I am Becca, I have four adorable yet crazy kids, one ruggedly handsome husband, and I am going to be turning the big 3 0 next Friday. 

 

I woke up this morning really wanting to do a vlog but every time that I started the baby decided to cry.  I don't know, maybe you will get one tomorrow or next week. 

 

I blog mostly about my weight loss progress but sometimes throw some other random things in there. 

 I have some home tour post I am working on for next week. 

 We bought our house two years ago and were planning on fixing things kind of slowly then one day we just gutted the entire thing down to just load bearing walls. 

So we ended up living with my mom for 9 months while it was put back together enough to be lived in. 

Now we are very, very slowly making everything just how we want it. 

It seems like it is taking forever but hopefully I will some day look back on it and be grateful for the experience but really I wont cause living in a construction zone with four children sucks butt. 

 

Anyway, so glad that you are all here. 

 

Have a great weekend!!