Monthly Archives: May 2008

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My new body

Just before Christmas I took up a new hobby. Inspired by a really great deal at a local health club, winter blues, and a chance encounter with a personal trainer, I began weightlifting. Many of you know that I am a marathon runner. Marathoning is fabulously fun but quite time consuming and injury laden. Frustrated by a sore hip and realizing that 2 little kids and 18 mile training runs don’t mix well, I thought that a little weightlifting might just do the trick. I feel fabulous! The baby weight was easier to lose with weightlifting than with marathoning. And I have abs!!!

Three times a week I visit Ultimate Fitness for my workouts.

Once a month I meet with Matt Owen, a personal trainer. He’s great! I couldn’t have done this without him.  My experience that meeting with a personal trainer is SOOO worth it. I’d have lasted about 1 month without his direction. He’s super encouraging and totally not scary at all. Plus, I get to feel like Oprah when I say things like, “My personal trainer told me that…”

Some of the benefits:

  • I’m back to my pre-pregnancy weight.
  • My hip doesn’t hurt anymore.
  • I feel REALLY GREAT!
  • I’ll say it again. I have abs!!!
  • I’ve met new friends.
  • I’m so much stronger. Which is great going into the wedding season. A full day of shooting is VERY strenuous.

So, what do you think of my new body? Is it too much? ;-)

Ha! That’s pretty…um…impressive.

I felt like I needed to put a picture of myself up on this post. But it’s a little difficult to take a picture of myself. And it’s a little embarrassing to put a picture of myself on the Internet in a post that is about my body. You’ll have to wait.

Some ideas are good ones. Others are not.

Yup, those are carrots in his nose.  He was fiddling with his vegetables, which he was supposed to be eating, when he started whining.  I looked and discovered the results of his labors.  He had shoved carrots up his nose.  I’m pretty certain that I got all of them out (yes, he had more than one carrot square in one nostril).  He seemed to have good air flow from both sides after the extraction.

Professional Trim

Winfield went in to Profiles by Design for a professional haircut this morning. He’s going to be in a wedding in a couple of weeks and we thought that his shaggy surfer cut needed a little attention. Don’t worry, those of you who like the shaggy surfer look, he didn’t get it buzzed, just…directed. Here are some before shots.

He sat so still! I was so very proud of him.

He was a little skeptical.

I love how he looks like a woman at a spa in this one :-)

Winfield Workout

To Charlotte and Back

Jared and I took Win and Harriet to North Carolina for a long weekend.  Jared’s brother Jamie builds beautiful homes in Charlotte and his company wanted professional images for their website and clients.  I spent the weekend with shooting homes with Jamie.   Jared, Win and Harriet played with Aunt Sarah and cousins Jordan and Stella.  We all had a great time!

Jamie and Sarah have a really cute home that they just moved into.  Win, who has a little bit of a problem falling asleep when anything remotely fun could be happening, is used to sleeping in a very dark room with no toys.  He’s just really distractible.  For the weekend he bunked with 3-year-old cousin Jordan.  Jordan sleeps with the lights dim, music on and toys around.  He couldn’t believe his fortune.  Not only did he have things to do in bed, but a cousin to talk to too.  He began dashing to bed for bedtime.

During the first night, at 4:30am, the whole house woke up to electric tones of “Hi, I’m Nemo.”  Jared and I looked at each other and said, “Crap! Win found a toy.”  Jared took care of it and got him settled down.  All was quiet for about 3 minutes until Win heard the sound of a siren.  He started saying “Weuo, weou, weou, Ambulance”  to which Jordan, the 3-year-old, began clarifying, “Win, it could be a fire truck, OR a police car.”  Win was then extracted from the room waking Harriet and Stella from their respective sleeps.  The whole house was up.  Jared was able to get Win back to sleep for a little bit but all 4 adults, Harriet and Stella were up fro the day.  The next night we turned out the lights after the toddlers were asleep.

This is Jordan.

Little sister Stella.

Win loved climbing on the cart that was parked in our gate.

Quote for the day:

We’ve been teaching Win about last names lately.  I asked Win, “Is your cousin Stella a Henderson?”  He responded, “No!  Stella’s pretty.”

Mexican Jumping Baby

Here’s a little window into Harriet’s life. She does this a lot.

Have a nice day!