Shelby's Birthday Party

Friday night we went out for Shelby's birthday party! She had the upstairs of Amber for the party and it was great! We had a great time! It was good to hang out with Shelby! Our lives are always so busy, it is hard to find an excuse to hangout. And this was a great excuse! 

2009 BIG CLIMB!

Eddie and I did the Big Climb again this year! This is the climb up 69 flights of the Columbia Tower stairs for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. This year again we are on the team Climbing for Caleb. Caleb at just 2 years old, was the honor patient for the whole event. Here is the web site for more information!

And here it is on the news!

The event was great, I was hoping for about 16 minutes, but I got 14.11 minutes! I am really excited. I kicked butt on my last years time (about 22 minutes). The funniest part is I feel I could have been faster, I was so afraid I needed to pace myself. I guess my fitness has gotten a lot better than last year! Just think of how fast I'll be next year!

It was great, Lindsay and Eric Dixon raced with us, along with a lot of Eddie's firefighter buddies. We had a great time! I can't wait for next year!

New Workout Blog!

I wanted to announce to everyone that I have officially created a new blog!

This one will be a lot more personal. It will be about my adventures in losing weight and getting fit. As many of you may know, I have made a real life change and have been working toward fitness for about a year and a half now. Since losing 45 pounds and about 4 jean sizes, I have made a real lifestyle change. I wanted to have a place to put all my information out there. Not just to let people know about what I have been doing, but hopefully to motivate someone, anyone. Maybe have you try a workout you haven't yet or maybe to come join me sometime! This will also be an outlet to continue to hold myself accountable. As I meet my goals, I want a place to show all the hard work and also motivate myself to continue to post each day.

The posts will include my daily work outs and a lot of information I have aquired over my fitness fantatic lifestyle. I am an obsessive health nut and a self proclaimed "wannabe personal trainer". I love the possiblity of giving hope to anyone out there that has ever thought that they would always be "heavy" or "chubby". I used to be the picture of this mentality, until I "woke up".

With that said, I hope you really enjoy this new blog. Please let me know your comments or suggestions.

How I got Fit!

Sounders FC Game!

Last night was the first Sounders FC game! This is the new pro soccer team in Seattle!

Eddie, his step-mom Barb, his sister Aine, and I all went to the game at Quest Field. I have never really been to a Pro Soccer game, so I had no idea what to expect! It was so cool! I am official addicted!

The best part is that we are really good! We played a supposibly good team, and serious dominated! We won the game 3-0!

I am really excited to continue going to the games! Soccer is a really fun to watch!

Caricature

My business unit had a luncheon and they had a caricature artist there. For free I got mine done. He asked you what your hobbies are and of course I said that I work out A LOT, but mostly run. But, I had a co-worker yell out that I'm getting married.

So, with that said, this is what I got.... I think it is hilarious! 

Fire Fighter Stair Climb

Last weekend Eddie and I volunteered at the Firefighter Stair Climb. They need to be on air the entire time and be in their bunker gear as they climb all 69 flights of the Columbia Tower. All for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Shoreline Fire Department started the climb, so Eddie was really involved in making the day a success. We met a lot of firefighters from around the United States and even New Zealand. Friday was a BBQ in Capital Hill to meet everyone involved and party. It was so fun!

Sunday was the race. I just showed up with Eddie in hopes to help out in some way. Eddie was busy the whole time coordinating the event (he even got a walkie talkie). I actually ended up in a really cool place! I was on floor 40. My role was to stand in the stairwell and ask each Fire Fighter if the needed a new bottle of air. If they did, I screamed out the department they are in and that department name would travel down a row of people (kind of like telephone) into a huge conference room. At that time the department being called would get themselves ready to change out their department's pack. A lot of the Fire Fighters are being timed and really want to do well, so it was important to make sure their department was ready for them when they came out of the stairwell. 

I did that for the entire day. It was a hard long day, but so fun!

 I was even on the news! 

Eddie and I are doing the citizen climb next weekend. I am super excited for that! I hope we do well!