I was made for sunny days.

I'm so sorry. I always rededicate myself to being better and writing consistently but lo and behold, I still wait about a month between entries! Haha! I sincerely apologize.

There are days when I'm super inspired and know exactly what I'm planning on telling ya'll about and on those same days of inspiration, I have a million and a half things to do so I never even get to look at my computer.

Things going on in my life right now, I'm getting back into working out really hard. Like, Really REALLY hard. I'm going to be starting a workout/diet by my IDOL Jillian Michaels called "Making the Cut"

This  book is AMAZING. What I love most about it is that It makes me feel brilliant! Hahaha She says everything I tell those I train about nutrition and health and different workouts! Just a confirmation that all my training and studying are all pushing my people in the right direction!

This book like I said was written by Jillian and the goal in this book is for people that are already fit (With no more than 20 lbs to lose) to finish their goals at an accelerated rate getting you to your "peak", or the best looking you'll EVER be! I love how honest she is. She says, "This program is not for the faint of heart!" What she means is if you're not very dedicated, or if you rely on that cheat meal every week, this program is NOT for you. She teaches a lot of cool things that I didn't even know about how the body works and she includes a test to figure out what kind of diet YOUR body. She includes a diet for every day as well as workouts for all 30 day's you're on this diet. There are no cheat days/meals in this diet at all! But she does promise hard core results if you follow her EXACTLY. Haha I'm SO excited!

If you're really fit already just want to get CUT, get this book and start with me NEXT MONDAY! I tried one of the workouts this morning and man, was it so intense!

Lets get cut together in time for spring and swim suit shopping! WOO!

Other recent happenings, I raced a snowmobile! Hahaha Scott's work had a really late Christmas party last weekend (cause they were waiting on the snow mostly), and the main event was a crazy "Retro Snowmobile Race". Everyone was given a snowmobile from the 70's-80's to fix up and race and us wives got to compete too! It was a BLAST! I'm not gonna lie though, our joints are paying for it. Zero suspension or cushion on those old things. My knees are SO beat!

Just a taste of what those crazy machines will do to you. Talk about pain! Haha! Needless to say, I'm going to the chiropractor  in a couple hours to get adjusted again. My workout today was so crazy hard cause my joints are all seriously just stuck and so stiff! Not even my foam roller helped!  :(

More pics though?

Happy New Year!: Facing Fear

Hey everyone!
It's been so long since I've written I figured you'd be missing me. Also, I remembered I had a resolution to be a better blogger so today it begins.

I've finalized and began a few of my resolutions and here they are.

• Learn to swim.
• Run Ragnar
• Finish my quilt
• Learn to cook real meals!
• Read Scriptures.

Today I started learning to swim in order to start training for the IRONMAN competition I've aspired to try. I decided after doing research on exactly WHAT an Ironman is, to move that resolution to next year and use THIS entire year to train for it.

The Ironman consists of the following events:

2.4 mile Swim

112 mile Bike

and 

Run of 26.219 miles.

This will be mostly what my blog is about this year I think- PREPARING FOR IRONMAN. 

Needless to say, I have a LOT of work to do seeing as I really have no technical training in any event. My first step I made a few weeks ago was to contact my sister in law, who's been teaching swim for several years now, to teach me how to swim.
I have long since had a HUGE fear of the water. Why? No idea.
People say that we develop fear from things in our past- so I always try to think back and figure out what it was that made me think water was scary.
To this minute I still have no idea. But I figured, I'm now 22 and it's time to face my fear.

For those of you who don't know, this fear of water is kind of a big deal. It terrifies me to even be at 7 Peaks cause if a kid splashes water on my face, ask anyone- I'm put out the rest of the time. I get so crazy freaked out when water touches my face. Like I previously mentioned- NO IDEA WHY.

So, today I met my sister in law at the American Fork Fitness Center, and we started our lesson! She could tell how panicked I was as I walked into the pool area and she was so cool to keep my calm! She's BEYOND professional.

So we started with the basics. She taught me to breathe. Haha!
She showed me how to put my face under water without plugging my nose and for the first time EVER it made perfect sense.
We then moved on to kicking with the floaty board thing, then to a stroke I forgot the name of.
We finished out lesson and I was SO EXHAUSTED but the feeling of accomplishment pushed the exhausted feeling away and I was in heaven.

I called Scott, my sister, my mom and brother and told them all of my success! I posted it on FACEBOOK even! I've been too embarrassed to even TRY for so long, and I've finally done it!
I've committed to practicing every Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday every week this year and to compete in mini triathlons hopefully by September or October. We'll see if I can coordinate the Running and Biking as fast as I figured out the swimming!

I'm not gonna lie though, I still look ridiculous when I'm trying to take a breath in the water as I'm moving, but hopefully that will look better with practice.

Anyways everyone- I hope you can take the challenge with me. Not of doing an Ironman per say, but to pick a fear you have and get help to face it. I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I can finally go to the pool in confidence and not just sit on the side and watch everyone else have fun.

I love you all!
Tonight I begin my BYU class so I've got to get everything ready! Wish me luck!