the bump

As I'm typing this I'm 25.5 weeks and feeling monstrous. I look at my week 10 pics and crave for that tight feelings. Is that weird?

This pregnancy started out the hardest. Not sure if it is because I am older or because it's all the girl hormones but... holy moldy, those 1ST 3 months I was soooo freaking tired and soooo grumpy. My thyroid was all messed up like it normally is when PREGO and I couldn't get enough sleep or toast in my body to feel better. Once 12 weeks rolled around everything got better.... gaining 5lbs a month was a new experience this time around. We shall see how the next couple months go.

Documenting my belly bump through my fitness instagram at Fly.

Our top names:

Mila
Cecilia
Parker
Harper
Marshawna per Zeb.

I honestly don't have a name that I absolutely love. It's hard!!!

Due July 25th

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Sometimes we dress up and get out!

Fly fitness party.

Fake drinking and all.

 



work

 I love my job, I love working with so many awesome people. I love working out, I can't wait to get back to it like this....20lbs later.... my arms don't quite look like that anymore. Soon enough.

FLY FITNESS

Worky Work

Oh man! I'm finally feeling like I'm getting my groove at Fly. This last week I started teaching Cycling. And WOW! Lots to learn. Definitely my hardest class to teach! I leave as sweaty as I do when I do hot yoga. Crazy hard workout, but love it.
Biggest struggles: finding cute workout clothes, lulu isn't doing it for me these days and the MUSIC! Making a playlist that works is probably my most time consuming thing right now...BOTTOMS UP. I do love that song.

Workin

Out!
A lot. Like 5 days a week.

And eating flax. And quinoa (I was calling it KEN-NO-A) I'm sure I'm not even spelling it right.

Our lives are a little different. Ok a lot. For most of you, that really know me, eating healthy wasn't my top priority. Don't get me wrong, we still have brownie bites and cookies and Cheetos in the house...
But my world is now consumed of health and helping build strong bodies and this changes things for me. It makes me want to be a better me, so I can help others become a better them. I can't help others if I'm not helping myself.
I've been so inspired, by my friends who have come to support me and by those people I don't even know that tell me they are sore and that they loved my class. Because that is what it's all about. Having people want to come to class. Want to come because they are getting their butts kicked into becoming a better them.   There are so many quotes and saying about fitness/motivation/being strong but this one really stuck out to me:

We might hate the way our bodies look or feel. Believe me, I have been there and even today caught myself frustrated  My body is changing big time from working out so much and lifting weights. I'm getting bigger. My jeans are tighter. My jacket in my arms are tighter. Today I was so annoyed but then I realized, wait! This is a good thing, I'm not getting bigger because I'm eating horrible or not working out, its because I'm loving my body right now by being healthy. By getting stronger. We workout because we LOVE our bodies so much we want them to be healthy. We only have one body. One. No callbacks. That's it. No playbacks, no returns. One body for our entire life. So why aren't we loving them? Why aren't we treating them like they are the only thing we have in this world...our bodies are however, what enables us to live this life.  So instead of working out because we hate our bodies, let's workout because we love our bodies.

#expectmoreofthese



(photo off of facebook)

#abetterme

Working on this daily.

#thesearethedays

Happy 2013!

As I sit here and try to think of what to say about this upcoming year and all the goals I would like to achieve...I'm overwhelmed. There is so much!

I'm sitting in bed. It's 8pm. B-ball hour {that glorious hour that Coaster Boy and Lulu go to practice and Briggs is asleep and I don't do anything but blog} It's my favorite hour. Well, one of my favorite hours. These last couple of days, I've felt overly full. I keep saying in my head, this is MY LIFE, I'M NOT DREAMING. Sounds so dumb and super lame. However, I've longed for these days for a very, very long time.

When Ari was little, I didn't work until she was 2. However, I was so lonely. Living alone, traveling all over the place. No friends, no instagram. My world was lonely! Although I treasure those years when it was just Ari and I, I'm not gonna lie they were hard!  We moved back to Seattle and I started to work, for the 1st time since I graduated.  I always felt a little void. I wasn't doing what I was supposed to be doing. I wasn't using me, for what God really had in store for me. I could feel it. I was settling for the easy. I needed easy. Every church service about finding your purpose really pulled at my heart strings. Or messages on calling, or taking steps of faith....for weeks after I would always question what I was doing, but did nothing about it. I continued to work, having too so I could pay bills and hating what I did. Although many years I worked with so many amazing people I think that covered over much of my unhappiness. The job with my amazing co-workers ended and I moved onto another role doing the same old thing {Executive Assistant} with different companies. Always knowing, this isn't what I'm supposed to be doing. Heart strings being pulled. Slowly but strongly.

Years went by.
And over these years a lady, Traci... always reached out to me. I met her in a growth group from church. She asked me to be an ambassador for Fly Fitness (post here) and she emailed me when I was prego with Briggs that she didn't think I should go back to work and that I should teach at Fly. In my dreams I thought. I don't work out. I eat like crap. When people asked me if I worked out, it was kind of a joke. In my dreams people!

But that's my point exactly. In my dreams. I am dreaming. I am now officially teaching at Fly Fitness and I am a freaking fitness person. I'm living a daily life to better my health and my body. I am with Ari before and after school. I am here to wipe all of Briggs' poopy diapers! Dreamy right?

I took the leap. I finally listened to this lady who kept pursuing me. I was really freaking scared (still am) and I did it. I quit my job that I hated so much. That sucked the life out of me.  I couldn't do it without Zeb. Honestly his support and encouragement is really what I needed. Yes, things are really different. Yes, we will be more careful with our pennies (what else is new?), and yes, I might just go crazy in a couple of months. But for now. I'm proud of myself. I don't think I've been proud of myself since...well my college graduation, but I was knocked up and hiding it so I know I wasn't that proud.

I'm so grateful that I'm here. That I am living this dream. Not a dream in a huge house or driving a brand new car, wearing clothes that are fancy. A simple dream, that I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing. That I'm helping others. To have healthier hearts. Stronger bodies. Clear minds. Is that a quote from Friday Night Lights?

I'm doing what I'm called to be doing. Finally. Finally. It's going to be a journey. And I have tons to learn. But I'm proud of where I am at. And what's to come.

Here's to 2013. For taking those leaps of faith. For becoming a better you. For doing something you never thought you could. Even if it's pea sized. It doesn't matter.  Seriously. If I can do it, you sure as heck can.

xo

Thank you Steve Jobs for your endless {amazing} quotes about money. following your heart and living your best life. If you need some inspiration, just google steve jobs quotes.

So you think your fly?

As you all know, I'm big into working out!! (NOT)

Today I met with Traci, owner of Fly Fitness for some coffee and I'm super excited to announce that I am now an ambassador of Fly Fitness! What does that mean???...Nothing really, I just promote her workout classes and boot camps and I get free sessions! And we all know, I need some motivation to work out. So here we go!

Her classes are at the Woodmark Hotel (1 minutes walk from my office) at 12pm (t/th) and 6pm (m/w)! So perfecto...my goal is to take three co-workers with me every time I go! Or some of you?!?! She also has stroller classes, yoga, walking, hiking...you name it.

Check her out. She is just getting started so bare with some of her schedule changes, etc.

Super excited.

xoox

ps. aren't you excited I didn't blog about the wedding/honeymoon!