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!

Bridal Expo! And a little Guitar Hero....

The wedding craziness is in full swing!

Eddie and I went to the wedding expo at the Washington State Convention Center Saturday in hopes to get some ideas on what we want to do, eat, listen to, etc. All I can say was it was pretty overwhelming. We got a lot of great information though. We most importantly need to find a venue, like yesterday.

Look forward to a ton of blogs about my frustration, anxiety, and excitement about wedding planning. I promise not to disappoint!

After the wedding show we met up with Lindsay and Eric for dinner at Rock Bottom. We had a great time of course then afterward they came over to our place to play Guitar Hero World Tour. Eddie's mom got us the complete band set for Christmas, and it is F-U-N! 

Eddie played guitar, Lindsay played bass, Eric was on the drums and I was singer. Below is a picture of us rockin' out!

Winter Wonderland!

As most of you Seattle-ites already know, there has been some crazy weather lately! This weekend was ridicules! It barely stopped snowing!

Eddie and I decided to make the most of it! 

Today Eddie and I walked downtown, had lunch and finished our Christmas shopping. On the walk there and home it was hard to believe how much snow there was! At least 10 inches and I don't think I've seen that much snow in the downtown core before.

After we got home we went out on our roof deck and had a snowball fight. Those tiny (sorry, couldn't make them bigger) pictures are the before photos. I hate to say it but Eddie kicked my ass. I am not afraid to say that I am not the best snowball fighter, come on. Did anyone really think I was? The only thing I know I am is a sore loser.

Everyone stay warm!

WE'RE ENGAGED!!!!!

Yes we're engaged and we are so excited!

Before:

After:

So here's the story....

Eddie a few weeks ago talked to me about going away for the weekend. I was a little hesitant because we've been wanting to save to buy a house, but of course I wanted a little getaway. So, we decided to go stay at his mom and step dad's place in Lake Chelan, which is always fun and relaxing.

I took Friday off and we headed over. Saturday it was 38 degrees out and Eddie really wanted to go mopeding. I am always up for an adventure, so I put on 4 layers of clothes and got ready.

We went down to his parent's property and got on the mopeds and started riding around. It was really fun at first, as it always is riding around on the mopeds, but once you got over 30 MPH you were FREEZING! My fingers were pretty much frozen to the handle bars.

I told Eddie that we had to stop and take a break or go back because I was pretty much an ice cube. So, Eddie and I went to one of our favorite parks called Willow Point. It is a small park that you walk down stairs to and it has a beautiful view of the lake, you can actually walk right into it from there. Each time we've been to Lake Chelan we've always stopped there and hung out.

Once we parked, Eddie told me that I should open the bottom compartment under the seat of the moped. So I opened it up and there was a present inside. I at first looked at him and actually I was kind of mad. We weren't supposed to get each other anything for Christmas. Eddie told me it was just something small and he just wanted to get me something while we were there. So we took the box and walked down the stairs to the park.

We sat on a bench right in front of the water, and I opened the box. There were a couple great ornaments and a fantastic scarf. As I was closing up the box, Eddie told me he had one more thing to give me. I wasn't paying much attention because I was boxing everything back up and he pulls out a little box!

All the sudden he gets on his knee and opens the box and I immediately start crying! He proposes and it was so great! It is weird when something so exciting happens to you. Eddie and I both seemed to have blacked out. After we finally started to come down from the happy moment, Eddie asked me if I said yes. I screamed, "Yes! Of Course!"

After we calmed down a bit we got back on our mopeds and went back to his parent's property. He had champagne in his moped compartment, so we drank champagne and called our families. It was such a fantastic experience. We both couldn't have been happier!

After the champagne was gone, we went back to his parent's place, got warm, and got cute. Then we went to the Tsillan winery which we always go to when were at Lake Chelan and went wine tasting. After that they served dinner so we stayed for that and had a great time.

We had a fantastic weekend. It was like a dream. Eddie made it perfect!

It also doesn't hurt that the ring is fantastic! If I went to pick it out myself I know I would not find a ring that would be more of a fit for me than that. He did great!