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So we don’t have a whole lot for this week. Monday evening Brandon and I went to see Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince at 9:30. We didn’t get home until midnight or so…I didn’t realize we would be home so late until the day of. It was ok though. I really liked the movie and thought that all the teenage love stuff was hilarious. I do think that they could have done a better job with Dumbledore’s funeral. It is a MUCH bigger deal in the book. All in all I was very pleased with how it turned out and I was by some miracle able to sleep in the next day because Aiden slept in. Thank goodness!
Tuesday I got my birthday present from my dad. A blue chocolate 3! I have a memory card that will hold 8 gigs of music whichI have already started to fill and the coolest feature is that it has an fm transmitter built in so that I can listen to my “phone pod” music in my car. I have never owned an mp3 player sp this is obviously very exciting to me. Thanks again dad!!!!!
The other thing is that I did Disney Grooves Dance Dance ALL week (Mon-Fri). This is my newest attempt at excercise. Once I get the hang of it I will start mixing it up with Wii fit and Wii active but for now I am just proud that I excercised 5 days in a row. I took Saturday off and realized that I should have taken Sunday off instead so I didn’t excercise this weekend but my plan is to work out 30 mins. a day monday thru saturday. We will see how I do this week. For me dancing is fun and I have always been a firm believe that excercise should be fun and that you need to figure out what sounds fun to you and do that for excercise. I am just not a weight lifting, running/jogging, yoga, etc. kind of girl. Kudos to those of you who are though. Excercise should be what works for YOU! There are my few words of wisdom for the week. I am also continuing to not eat after 8:00 at night because our bodies don’t burn off as much food while we sleep and I am going to tone down on sweets by not eating any on Mon. and Thurs. and eating only 2-3 SERVING SIZE portions (or less) the rest of the week. It is all about moderation right? Lastly I want to make it very clear that all this insanity (yes that is what I call excercising and eating more healthy) is not to lose weight (although I imagine losing some will be a by product of excercising and eating better) but to be more healthy and to have more energy!!! So there you go.
Thursday night we went to the Bountiful Parade. You already know a little bit how that went from a previous post but let me paint a picture of the rest for you so that you can have a better idea. The temperature was 103 degrees (at 6:00 at night?!?!?!?!?), we were on the side of the road that FACED the sun (as in we were looking right into it), kids kept standing directly in front of us, and the bees were trying to take off with our food. We also had no bib for Aiden so he got increasingly messy as he ate fried chicken, mashed potatoes, corn bread, and potato wedges with ketchup. Here are some pictures of us making the best of it.
After we decided to leave the parade early we went over to the park for some cold refreshments and to listen to the band Endless Summer. It is a band that a couple of my dad’s friends are in. They play Beach Boy tunes. It was really fun to watch them. I will be sure to post the video of Aiden boogying to the music on our Family Adventure blog. We also gave Aiden a snow cone which further added to messiness.
Friday we did something super fun in the morning. We went to the rec center for their free swim. The outside play area was a LOT of fun. Aiden enjoyed the slides and splashing in the water. We went inside for a little bit so that Brandon and I could go on the BIG slide and so that we could all enjoy the lazy river for a bit. The inside was more crowded and incidentally more full of kids who weren’t aware of the little kids who they might be shooting in the back of the head with a semi forceful stream of water. The littler kids were all outside. See how fun it is.
Incidentally Brandon always has to stop at this climbing wall on the way out of the rec center and so today he “helped” Aiden to do a little climbing. Taking a turn for himself as well.
Saturday we got to attend the Oquirrh Mountain Temple open house. Aiden was surprisingly well behaved and only made shrieking outbursts once or twice. 😉 It is a really beautiful temple and I really like the way the outside looks. After the open house we went to eat at Sweet Tomatoes (I had wanted to eat there all week) and as you can see Aiden enjoyed his food and because we had no bib AGAIN (You’d think I would have remember from Thursday) he made another mess. (Incidentally how do you get red Jello out of clothes?) That was our week. Oh and Brandon has been filming with his friends a couple of times because he wants to submit a video to win Lasik surgery. It is due this week so hopefully all of his hard work will pay off. Some of the other videos are pretty dull and Brandon made sure to come up with something clever and humorous so hopefully that gives him the edge he needs. Have a great week everybody! Thanks for reading…
