Valentine's Day approaching ...

Yes, I know I am a complete nerd, but I had to share! Here are some samples of the kids valentines for school this year. I really wanted to come up with non-candy options. I got both ideas and printables from Pinterest! I stacked coupons for the little cars and cleaned out the crayon bin of all of the tiny pieces to make the heart shaped crayons! Woo hoo!

CXWORX Certified!

I was so excited to receive an email on Monday notifying me that I had passed my CXWORX assessment. I filmed my video and sent it in on December 16th so I was starting to get a bit worried. I am now certified in 3 different formats ... BodyPump, BodyCombat and CXWORX and I'm done! I absolutely love these 3 programs and my schedule is feeling quite full. I'm now teaching 4 days a week at 24 Hour Fitness. I teach Tuesday and Thursday mornings at 10am (while the kids are at school), Fridays at 4:30pm and Saturdays at 11am. I can't believe that all that has happened in just the last year and a half!

Uncle Jamie Visits!

My brother came out to visit us for the first time in just over 2 years! It was so nice to have him here and the kids had a blast with him! We took him to the Children's Museum, OMSI and Pump it Up! Alia enjoyed waking him up in the morning and having him make her breakfast!

 My brother also celebrated his 40th birthday in January. We took him out to one of our favorite place, Toro Bravo! Here is a picture I'm sure he'll be thrilled I posted ... enjoying the paella! 

Jason's 40th!

I just realized that I never posted pictures from Jason's "real" 40th birthday! Oops! His actual birthday fell on a Wednesday so we just hung at home and had a little party with the kids. 

We didn't have a 4 or 0 candle so we decided we'll just keep reusing the 39 :-)

That weekend we talked a babysitter (and paid her well) into staying overnight with the kids and we stayed downtown. We had a full 21 hours away!