Lovely Evening

Raccoon!

Tonight was exactly perfect. We had a wonderful dinner in the dappled sunlight on the patio of the Cottonwood Grill.

Afterward we took a relaxed Greenbelt walk where we watched an energetic raccoon for several minutes and marveled at the wild irises.

Wild irises!

Catching Up

Bowling in style.

Decorations for Cory's 30th.

Mike drew my whole family on ballons for my birthday.

Birthday bouquet.

Please take a moment to admire my Mom's jacket.

New car.

Rhet & Gillian @ food truck rally.

Crazy line at food truck rally.

Deep fried cheese in a pulled pork sandwich. YIKES. But very delicious.

Mike's creations look delicious in the bowls Ellie & Roger made us.

McKinnon family festivities March.

Cutest most comfortable ever.

Mike + pizza = genius

Bryce, Lauren, Cameron, Sam.

Kate & Chris at food truck rally

Downtown 

Mike and Brandon

Ellie

East package from mom. 

Easter egg hunt

Easter egg decorating

Zuzu

DC trip

Pinata cookies

Mike running up Lucky Peak

Aquarium with Ellie and Becca

Mother's day weekend

Skyping with Dev. I have to add that I just can't be more grateful for these types of technologies and Dev's awesome mission president. It was really wonderful talking to Dev.

Planning Procrastination

I am a total planning procrastinator. I don't plan to procrastinate. I use planning as an excuse to procrastinate. I can spend all morning on the internet exploring healthy recipes for my meal plan, as a way to avoid actually shopping and cooking. Similarly, I have spent hours researching shoes or heart rate monitors or exercise moves or running routes or the perfect book to listen to instead of just going out and exercising. It is very insidious.

Recently I have been trying to make myself act before I plan. Like do my exercise for the day before I am allowed to "research" exercise techniques. I still find myself falling into this bad pattern but now that I have noticed it, I can snap out of it more often.

“Before I can start, I’ve got to plan.”

Sure, planning is important. But right now, it’s just procrastination.
You know how it goes: “Before I start, I need to get workout clothes that fit. And shoes. And join a gym. And load some new songs on my iPod. Then I’ll get a meal plan and go shopping, and I’ll be ready to start!”
Maybe you do need all that stuff. But first, just start.
It’s easy: go outside and start walking or get on your bike. Go in one direction for just five minutes — fast when you want, slow when you want. Enjoy yourself — play — then turn around and come home. Do it again the next day, and the day after that, feeling free to gradually do more as your body allows you to.
Build some momentum by doing something small every day. Then, and only then, should you think about planning.

http://zenhabits.net/unhealthy-excuses/ 

A Little Inspiration

In the Cloud

Word Cloud of my blog.

Happy 2012!!!