Push-up Heaven and a Big Ouch!

This weekend has been crazy to say the least. I had Friday off from work because the women's imaging department in the clinic where I work had construction crews working on a few projects. One of them was to make our doors wider for the larger wheel-chairs that many of our patients must have. I was happy to get a day off and used it to my advantage. I got a ton of things done including a five mile outside run and much needed core & ab work. .
I was going through some of our summer vacation pictures and wanted to add a few to my post. These are a few of my favorites:) This was one of the times where my kids actually just sat quietly. All three of them were completely mesmirized by nature and the lulling sound of the waves lapping onto the dock:) For me this is priceless!!

These next pictures are of me and my husband. If you were to ask him about these pictures he would tell you that I was being a total pain in the ass:) I was making my daughter take a few pictures of us and he was getting annoyed because I wanted to check every one. I was making sure that we were both smiling and not looking like total Homers! Clearly, after the tenth one I gave up...no such thing as perfection:)

My daughter Kay had a basketball tournament this weekend and they played in the championship game. Kay is a point guard and is the fastest girl on the team. She busts her butt every time she plays. She is very strong and is not a afraid of anything....I mean not afraid of guarding girls that are about forty pounds heavier and six inches taller than her!

I love this picture of her! Notice that she is yelling something and I am pretty sure they could hear her a couple courts down:)

Kay's knees are a mess from all of the times she has hit the floor going after the ball, going up for a layup and ect. We always make fun of her saying that she better not choose a career where she needs to wear dresses:)

Kay was the high scorer for her last game and made six out of six free throws in addition to her other baskets:) I am very proud of her and love watching her play ball!

Okay, so Saturday I did more of my push-ups and core work. My push-ups were looking a little scary. I started off and was able to do eight that were okay looking. Kay was watching me and started laughing at me:) She told me that my form sucked and that I didn't know how to do a push up. I said, "Alright smarty pants lets see you do it!" She then got down and proceeded to do fifty of them!! My mouth was hanging open because I figured she could do at least twenty but didn't expect her to bust out fifty. She then looked at me and said, "Mom, I can do one hundred...do you want to see?" Wow!!! I asked her to look at my form and tell me what I was doing wrong.

She noticed that my arms were to close together...I moved them a little farther apart.

So here is the good news....I did thirty in a row!! Let me repeat...I did thirty flipping push-ups in a row and without stopping!!

I was so thrilled that I danced a happy dance! The emotion that I felt was profound joy!!

So, I decided to take a little break and see if I could do it again. Guess what? I did!! I did twenty-five without pain but the last five left my arms shaking. I was still able to do the last five! Woo hoo! Thank you Kayla:) Who would of thought that my fourteen year old daughter could teach me the correct form and help me to achieve such improvement instantly!!

I think I am going to like doing push-ups from now on and if there is anyone who is having issues seperate your arms a little. Actually, in this picture my arms could of been seperated even a little farther apart. Saturday I also got outside and ran a five miler. This morning I went out again and was planning on a ten miler. My run did not go as planned. Usually what I will do is look at my garmin and when I hit five miles I will turn around and come back home. Well, at five miles I started making my way back home. When I hit mile eight I sort of tripped on some frozen slush and pulled something. Ouch! Ouch! I think I might of said a few swear words too. It was my hip...my bad right hip that I have been having issues with. I attempted to jog slowly but after a few feet it was obvious that running was not an option. I walked the two remaining miles home. I iced it for about an hour and am hoping for the best. I will continue to ice it today and try to stretch real good. Hopefully everything will be fine and I will still be able to run my scheduled half marathon for next Sunday.

This is our cat Lilly, she is so sweet and we love her dearly:) Adam tagged me and I am suppose to come up with a bucket list. I will save that for my next post. I hope that everyone had a great weekend:) I can't wait to read the race reports from this weekend's half marathons. Oh, and one more thing....Friday evening I went to Blockbuster Video to rent something to watch. I remember Lam had mentioned the TV show Glee in one of his posts. I saw that they had the entire first season. We watched the whole first season and I am addicted! If there is anyone who has not watched Glee, I urge you to rent it. It will not disappoint you:) It is such an awesome show with so many valuable lessons! I cried like a baby and also laughed my ass off. I am in love with the story line and characters. My favorite part of the show is the musical productions and singing!! It is filled with eightie's music and one of the productions featured one of my old boyfriends, Jon Bon Jovi's songs!! My husband even liked it and he is not easily impressed! Go rent it:)