Today’s 43 was a quick cardio based one.  I did a jump jack squat with a toe touch.

Start with feet together and both hands straight up.  Jump to a squat and touch left toe with right hand while keeping left hand up – jump feet together – switch sides  = 1 rep.

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I guess I didn’t touch my toes in the video – downside of making the demo at the end of my workout!!!  I did the 43 first thing but the boys are enjoying sleeping in since it’s spring break so the demo was after a couple  sweaty hours of work!!!

I realized recently that I had been slacking off with weight training so I’m working on that!  Today I did another Jari Love DVD – Get Ripped to the Core.  This is one that is just strength training – I think there are about 8-9 different tracks and all are high reps!!  I really like the fact that Jari incorporates multiple muscle groups into each track!!

After lifting I hopped on the treadmill for a quick run.  1.5% incline for the first 4 miles (24:19) then gradually higher incline for the next 2.5 miles (much slower pace for these).

Is it spring???  Yesterday morning about 11:00 it started snowing here!  Where did that come from?  The forecast was for a 30% chance of rain during the afternoon – Oops!!  Thankfully it was about 34 so nothing was sticking.  As the afternoon went on, the temperature dropped a little so by 3:00 it looked like this outside:

(If I knew how to use my camera better, maybe I could have gotten a picture of the actual snowflakes – they were enormous!!!)  At least it was warm enough that nothing was sticking on the streets!

By 6:30 the area looked like this:

Crazy!!!  I like this look much better!  Now, if it would just warm up!!!

I’m not sure if y’all all know this but yesterday the Hobbit was released on DVD.  

This was a big deal in our house!  Jordan loves Lord of the Rings and actually did his History Day project on J.R. Tolkien.

So, to celebrate this event we planned an entire Hobbit themed meal/feast around the viewing!!

(Yes, those are jelly beans – the Starburst ones that only come out during this time of year!!)  The best part about this – the boys helped with all of the work!!!

We had lots of fun making everything and then enjoyed the feast.

Jordan helped pick out all of the recipes based on different aspects of the movie.

• Dragon Breath Chili (hot as dragon’s fire) – as an appetizer (I put this in the crock pot) this was pretty spicy but had great flavor!
• Lembas (Elvish) Bread – this was actually really  good – no sugar in it because it uses honey
• Mixed Vegetables Meduseld (this has something to do with the King of Rohan)
• Balin’s Spiced Beef (also in a crock pot) – nice flavor – apple cider, cinnamon, cloves
• Victorian Cherry Turnover – no picture of these – this was the hardest part of the meal to make – rolling out the dough was a struggle but the boys were all happy with the final product!

 

The picture doesn’t do it justice!!  It was quite a Hobbit feast (because apparently that is a huge part of the movie)!

After the feast (and clean-up), Chris and the boys watched the movie.  I did not – I haven’t seen any of the Lord of the Rings movies – so not my thing!!!  (I got caught up on Dancing with the Stars instead.)

Anyone else turn the release of a new movie into an event??

Happy Wednesday!

Kim