August Wrap-Up

Yes, we're still here... I know it's been some time since I've written again but there hasn't been anything too exciting that's happened lately and even if there was, I think I would be too tired and busy to write about it!  I'll give you a brief summary of what we've been up to the past couple weeks, wrapping up the month of August.

Two Fridays ago my mom and sister volunteered to keep both kids overnight!  We were thrilled to have another date night.  So what did we do?  We went to Costco!  I haven't been there in years so it actually was a nice treat for me even though we spent wayyy too much money bulking up our freezer and shelves.  Our biggest score was bagged sliced apples.  Hopefully that means no more half-eaten apples laying around our house!  After Costco John took me out to Dickey's Barbeque Pit in Eden Prairie for dinner and we enjoyed our dinner on their patio in the perfect end of summer weather!

When Rachel brought Megan and Owen home she said she was going with Kevin and Cat to take engagement pictures  the following dayand I volunteered to go along with!  After all, it would give me some experience with models that actually sat still.  For some reason I always take way too many pictures but over the next few days of sorting through the shots I ended up with about 100 starred.  I had a lot of fun both taking the photos and editing them!  (I hope Kevin is ok with me posting a couple here- please don't tell him, just in case)

 

I have also started going to a new chiropractor in Chaska.  I found out about them at the County Fair and wanted to give them a try since my usual one hasn't been cutting it.  It's an entirely different approach, using a scan of your nervous system to determine if you have subluxations in your vertebrae.  To adjust, he uses an integrator to do what is called torque release.  The whole process is actually going to be pretty lengthy with a lot of adjustments but I'm excited to see if I can finally feel better.  I'm also ready to invest more into my body now that I know I'm not going to be putting it through any more babies :)

Finally, John has been super busy lately with his working out.  He has already lost around 15 pounds so far and I give him kudos to sticking with his plan.  He continues to count every Calorie of food that goes into his body and has started a Couch to 5K workout plan with hopes to run a 5K soon!  His iPhone has apps for both the Calories and workout plan which makes it both easy and fun to keep up with.  The Couch to 5K alternates running and walking for about a 20 minute stretch every other day, so very doable.  John keeps asking me when I'm going to start it up!  We'll see if I can get something going sometime soon.