I woke up a little early today (6:30) and the kids were already going.  So after a little while of talking and while "The Hubby" was out running, I started my Yoga on the Wii Fit for the day with some step aerobics and running.  After the kids ate breakfast I decided that I wanted to go to the gym and in the way of saving gas and not walking there (since it's pretty hot out) I rode my bike there.  It was actually fun riding it there.  So I took it into the gym, stretched again for about five minutes and ran on the elliptical machine for about 25 minutes.  I didn't want to over do it since I'm just starting out and I also had to ride the bike back home.

I get home and "N" still hasn't finished cleaning his room so I have a quick chat with "O" and take my shower and so now here I am working on my sites.  BTW, if any of you visit Kids Eat For and notice that there isn't a deal that you know about, shoot me an email and we'll get that added.  It's kind of difficult for me to call all the restaurants across the US, remember that if you're going on vacation this summer, wouldn't it be nice to know where all the cheap places are to eat with kids?  Spread the love and help me help all parents with restaurants that have deals on kids food.  I don't care if they eat free, half off, free dessert, anything and everything is helpful.  I already had help from a nice woman in CO, and she's helping spread the love.

The other night I had a dream that the wild fires were heading for our house and I wasn't able to save my pictures for the kids, so with everything going on it's my goal to start working on scanning pictures as well as everything else so that way if we do have a wild fire near our house, which happened a few years ago, the actual pictures may be destroyed but at least I'll have them saved to the computer and that's way easier to grab than 15 boxes of pictures.

I also wanted to let you know that I am starting to train to run in 5/K races.  "The Hubby" did his this past weekend he ran his first 5/K race and ran it in 32 minutes, not bad considering he's been training at sea level and Flagstaff is around 7,005 feet above sea level.  He set out and accomplished his goal and that was finishing the race.  Now I'm beginning to run as well, it's going to take me sometime to get to a good pace.  I also don't run outside yet because it's hot and I don't want to feel my bag splashing around and stuff.  So I'm starting to train now so I can really be starting the street running after my surgery.

To me it's better than nothing.  Yeah I looked a little funny riding my bike to the gym, walking it inside, running on the elliptical machine then riding the bike home.  I don't care, it's too hot for me to be messing around outside.  But I feel a lot better and later tonight I'm going to do some more yoga on the Wii.  But the reason for this part of the blog is because if we can get someone to come out for New Year's, my goal is to be able to run in the Midnight Madness race.  The reason why we need someone to help is because it's in Tempe and with it being New Years, not really safe to be driving since the sign in for the race is at 10:30pm.  We would end up spending the night down there and coming back the next day.

We are going back up to Flag on Thursday for the holiday but have found out that they have stopped having fireworks forever, wildfire hazard.  But there are a ton of other things to do with the kids like an art fair, laser show (I think in place of the fireworks), movie in the park.  The art fair to sounds like the Festival of the Arts in Grand Rapids, MI and I always loved going to that.  Fun, food, art and kids stuff.  Plus it's a lot cooler up there than it is down here and since we'll be in Chicago next year, the kids can see fireworks then.