Author: MRJ

Today Melissa took the kids on an adventure down-town to pick up our passports for our up coming vacation. She took today’s picture at the passport office. The three of them seemed to have a good time on their outing.

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Today I thought I’d go a little different. And talk about some hardware, Melissa and the kids got me for father’s day. The Motorola Media Dock.

It’s a simple device that your phone sits in to charge, what’s great about it is what happens on your phone when you slide it in. It goes from phone to desktop clock. With the time and date prominently display along with the local weather. With a press of the screen you can set alarms, watch a slide, listen to music or access the phones regular home screens.  I also find it easier to slide into the dock then connect the Micro USB cable.

Over all I really like the look of the phone in the dock, and I’ve been tempted to pick-up another one or two so I don’t have to keep moving this one from my home to my office.

I have more hard where news next week, that puts today’s post in an interesting light, so stay tuned.

Today we strapped Violets car seat into Nana and Papa’s van in preparation for our family camping trip next week. We did it a week early because we wanted to get it in securely and on a more up-right position then it has been in the van. We really want our little girl to be comfortable during the 5 hour drive.

I wrote this post on Friday during my trip to and from work. I had hopped to edit and post it on Friday, but with the unexpected date night I never found the time. Yesterday was filled with the trip to the baseball game and an evening at the park, so this morning I found my self looking at my blog wondering what happened to my fitness Friday. So I read it over and finished it up and decided to post it today. I’ve also decided to leave the text as it is, so think of this as if it was posted on friday. I hope to have next weeks fitness Friday actually posted on Friday next week.

As I sit down to write todays post I am unsure of what I want to write. I had planned on discussing the dilemma I am facing about my runs. Should I focus on longer runs, or do more 5ks to try to get my time running 5k down to under 25 minutes. Unfortunately, this week has been terrible for my running. Since last Friday I have only run once. That’s not acceptable. At first it was logistics, not wanting to run after Melissa got home, and not taking the time to ask someone to come site with the kids so I could run. But last night was just laziness. I just didn’t push myself. And so I have done what I never wanted to do, not run in 4 days.

On top of my not running I’ve only been semi successful with my for logging. I have managed to track 60% of what I ate, but I never seemed to track the late night freeze or bag of candy I picked up at the Banana Store. I have cut out some of my snacking and seemed to established a rhythm of tracking my Breakfast and Lunch and the failing to track my dinner and any evening snacks.

My failure to run and to get a handle on my snacking was reflected on the scale this morning, my weight is up over 3 pounds putting above my first weeks weight. I am hoping that seeing the numbers on my blog will help me focus on getting back on track. But I don’t think that’s enough, I need something more. With the prospect of a week camping with the family starting next Sunday looming I know I should establish the habits now so I can carry them through our time away.

It could have been a great week, I have taken the kids to the pool 3 times since Friday, and even went on a ride with the kids in tow. If I had added to that even 2 more runs It would have been a different result this morning. So now I am left scratching my head looking the motivation to get out every night even if that’s  at 12am when Melissa gets home from work. Going forward I have a plan, but instead of writing it out here I’ll put it into action and discuss it in next weeks Fitness Friday post.

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When we signed Jacob up for T-Ball one of the dates we were looking forward to was the trip to the Blue Jays game. As the date approached it became clear that with Melissa working, I either needed to find a baby sitter or take Violet with me. I decided to be brave and order her a ticket.  I have to say that she did really well. He had some minor incidents, but over all it was a great day out for the three of us.

Tonight Melissa and I did something we haven’t done in years. Tonight we saw a movie opening night. This was posible because our little ones are having a sleep over at Nana and Papa’s house.

Today Melissa took the kids out to the local splash pad to beat the heat. While there Violet spread-out her towel to ‘Sun Bathe’. As you can see in the picture, I don’t think she has it figured out yet. Plus Melissa always covers the kids with SPF-60 sunblock when they head out to the splash pad, so I don’t think she;ll be getting much of a tan.

Today was T-Ball day, but instead of loading the kids in the car and heading off to the game. I pulled out the Trailer, hooked it up to the old bike that I got from Danny and headed out. It took a little longer then I thought, but both the kids loved the ride, so it was well worth it.

After dinner I the kids and I headed out to the local park. I on the way home as we were crossing the street with the sun behind us, casting long shadows. It seemed like a moment with capturing, so out came

Today Jacob had his 5 year check-up. Everything is good, so it was a quick appointment. It also made for a great picture of the day.