A little behind...

I've fallen behind with commenting on your blogs, but I think I'm mostly caught up now, so we're good - though I'm sorry if I missed you!  This week hasn't been particularly exciting, so I haven't had too much to blog about.  

Workout-wise, let's see what's been happening:
Monday: 2 mile run, Week 2 Day 1 of Push-up Challenge, plus ab ripperx
Tuesday: Push ups - W2D2, for a total of 58
Today: 2.61 mile run


Today's run was alot of fun, and really encouraging because my legs were feeling much stronger on the hills than they have the last couple of times!  We're also going to try and get a run in tomorrow morning.

Have to admit...I'm pretty glad I'm not only doing this anymore:

Hope you all are having a fabulous week!

 

Happy Day that celebrates Mothers!

Happy Mother's day to all of you out there!  I'm especially excited for Erin because it's the first year that she's celebrating as a mother!  Is there anyone else out there that is a first time Mother's Day mom?

 Here's me and Mom freezing to death in San Francisco

 Mom and Jake, lookin' cute!

I spent yesterday afternoon cooking stuff ahead for breakfast this morning.  Good thing, because I didn't have too much to do this morning, which is a huge plus, because I hate being rushed while getting ready for church.

On the menu was:
Quiche 
Blueberry crepes topped with cream, strawberries and powdered sugar
Hashbrowns
Fruit salad
Fresh squeezed orange juice

We have an orange tree in our backyard (along with two mango trees - they're out of season, though), and it's my favorite thing!  I love making fresh juice.

 Jacob went out and picked some flowers for a centerpiece.  Our neighbor might have been a liiitle puzzled as to why a guy was out there with a huge handful of flowers...

  

I thought that crepes were going to be difficult to make, but they're actually super easy and fast!

  

Carey (there's another family that works here with us, and Carey's the dad of my adopted niece and nephews that I told you about) preached in Swahili today, and did an amazing job!  He's almost completely fluent.

After coming back to the house and relaxing for a while, Dad, Jacob, Luke and I went on a bike\run.  I ran for the first 1.5 miles, but then Dad wanted to run a bit, so I took over the bike, and rode it back.  Jacob and I took the dogs out for a short walk too.  

Can I just again show you how cute Panya is?

 *dies*

I finally did day 3 of my push-up challenge today; these are my sets:

8x1; 10x1; 7x2, 20x1

I can already tell a big difference in my strength.  How convenient that it's three days a week, and only takes a few minutes, too!

Happy Mother's Day! 

What are your plans?

 

[Swedish] Fishing

I was planning on doing a post yesterday, but my arms ended up being too sore from starting the 100 Push-up Challenge to type.  Hmm, okay - that's not true, but I was planning on doing a post yesterday, and my arms were sore.  

What happened today:
Push-ups: 6x1, 8x1, 6x2, 10x1.  Maybe this is why my arms ached a little while I was hefting a big bowl of cabbage salad into the fridge. 
Squats: 25x1, 20x3, 15x1
Ab RipperX: It gets me every time!

What I like about today is that doing this didn't take much time at all, but still gave a really good workout.  Even though I hate squats, I decided to add some in, and doing them in a few sets was alot better than doing 100 in one go.  It definitely broke the monotony.

We also walked all around our village for about 3 hours inviting people to a Saturday Bible study we're having at a school near our house.

We've gotten quite a few packages from people lately, and it's been wonderful!  One congregation sent us a package with yummy things like jello, pudding, and chocolate chips in it.  Since we had such an abundance of chocolate chips, of course we had to make cookies!  

The evidence:

 And still warm...

 I ate 4 of these puppies

  

My sister sent a box that had some of my brother's schoolbooks in it, and also in that box, she included...

We're actually saving these to take along on runs when we need to eat something.  Yeeah...she sent these before the whole "getting sick" thing that squished our mileage.  When we work back up enough to need them, they'll be here, though!

It's only 8:45p.m., and I feel like a zombie.  I have no idea why I'm so tired, but all I know is that I'll be heading to bed very soon. Yawn.

Hope you all are having a great week so far!

So good

After getting home from worship, and eating\cleaning up lunch, watching a couple episodes of Reba on Youtube, and taking a catnap, we went for another run!  Can I even say how happy I am that we're starting back to it?  

We went two miles again today, and it was already easier than yesterday! I know that's usually the case, but it was very encouraging to see that hopefully our running ability will come back fairly quickly.  It just felt so good.

This week I decided to start the 100 Push Up Challenge!  Granted, they will be girl push ups for probably quite a while, but hey!  It's about time these noodle arms got some more work!

Speaking of giveaways (we weren't, but now we are), The Almost Runner is having one, check it out!

Mother's Day is next week! Do you have anything planned? Do you live close to your Mom?

I hope y'alls weekend has been fantastic!

What are your plans for this week?