Bucket List:

1. Write a book
2. Own an actual house with a yard (NOT a condo!)
3. Get to 20% body fat
4. Bike Tour
5. Be totally debt free!
6. Tour Hawaii in a VW Vanagon
7. Visit France, Italy, and Spain
8. Have a real summer vacation-no working summer school!
9. Visit ALL of America’s National Parks (I’ve hit 9 of the 58)
10. Work a summer in Yellowstone.
11. See a moose!
12. See Yellowstone in the winter.
13. Visit all 50 States (I’m up to 15-ha!)
14. Ride in a hot air balloon.
15. Ride the Idaho City Tour with Shaun-50 Mile Mountain Bike Ride
16. Take a helicopter ride.
17. Learn to juggle.
18. Go on an epic vacation with friends, sans kids.

I know some people that are in Belize right now with no kids. It sounds like a blast. Shaun and I have never gotten away without Lu. She’s close to 4, it’s time!

I’m home from vacation and all my visitors have left so I can get back on schedule with writing every day!

Bucket List:

1. Write a book
2. Own an actual house with a yard (NOT a condo!)
3. Get to 20% body fat
4. Bike Tour
5. Be totally debt free!
6. Tour Hawaii in a VW Vanagon
7. Visit France, Italy, and Spain
8. Have a real summer vacation-no working summer school!
9. Visit ALL of America’s National Parks (I’ve hit 9 of the 58)
10. Work a summer in Yellowstone.
11. See a moose!
12. See Yellowstone in the winter.
13. Visit all 50 States (I’m up to 15-ha!)
14. Ride in a hot air balloon.
15. Ride the Idaho City Tour with Shaun-50 Mile Mountain Bike Ride
16. Take a helicopter ride.
17. Learn to juggle.

#15 was on my bucket list last year after Shaun did it and guess what?  I did it this weekend!  I rode ~50 miles on dirt roads and single track on my mountain bike.  It was super fun and I DID IT!!!! My brother, sister-in-law, 17 year old nephew, Shaun, and I all did it together and I want to do it again

Summer School starts tomorrow!!!

I’m back but now family is visiting. We had an EPIC trip that I’ll talk more about later. Not surprisingly, my additions are pretty much all related to our trip.

Bucket List:

1. Write a book
2. Own an actual house with a yard (NOT a condo!)
3. Get to 20% body fat
4. Bike Tour
5. Be totally debt free!
6. Tour Hawaii in a VW Vanagon
7. Visit France, Italy, and Spain
8. Have a real summer vacation-no working summer school!
9. Visit ALL of America’s National Parks (I’ve hit 9 of the 58)
10. Work a summer in Yellowstone.
11. See a moose!
12. See Yellowstone in the winter.
13. Visit all 50 States (I’m up to 15-ha!)
14. Ride in a hot air balloon.

Shaun declared something on his ANTI-Bucket List (meaning he NEVER EVER wants to do it)-touring Yellowstone on a motorcycle. He says it would be all around miserable. Since I have NO desire to ride a motorcycle EVER, I’ll have to agree with him 😉

Bucket List:

1. Write a book
2. Own an actual house with a yard (NOT a condo!)
3. Get to 20% body fat
4. Bike Tour
5. Be totally debt free!
6. Tour Hawaii in a VW Vanagon
7. Visit France, Italy, and Spain
8. Have a real summer vacation-no working summer school!

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I’m done! One (jam packed) week until summer school starts.

Bucket List:

1. Write a book
2. Own an actual house with a yard (NOT a condo!)
3. Get to 20% body fat
4. Bike Tour
5. Be totally debt free!
6. Tour Hawaii in a VW Vanagon
7. Visit France, Italy, and Spain

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Today was the first of two circus days at school. All the teachers have to dress up as clowns and the kiddos can dress up however they like. My clown interpretation was quite Santa Cruz inspired :). Lucy was a very sweet butterfly ballerina <3. Tomorrow is the LAST day of school!!!

Last night I literally fell asleep while trying to think of my #5 on my list. When I woke up, I quickly wrote it down and posted it but couldn’t believe how tired I was.

Anyway-here’s to today!

When Lucy was just over a year old, Shaun and I took her to Hawaii with us.  It was a MAGICAL vacation.  It was simply divine!!! I cannont wait to go back but I don’t think it will be anytime soon.  It’s expensive and now it costs money to fly Lucy there. My old neighbors recently went though and they toured Kauai in a VW Vanagon.  How amazing is that? You camp all over the island and your car rental and lodging is wrapped up into one expense.  AMAZING! I want to do it.  BAD.

Bucket List:

1. Write a book
2. Own an actual house with a yard (NOT a condo!)
3. Get to 20% body fat
4. Bike Tour
5. Be totally debt free!
6. Tour Hawaii in a VW Vanagon

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I almost forgot! Tonight’s post will be short since I’m so tired.

Bucket List:

1. Write a book
2. Own an actual house with a yard (NOT a condo!)
3. Get to 20% body fat
4. Bike Tour
5. Be totally debt free!

We are a bike riding family.  Shaun bikes to work almost every day-even when it’s 15 flipping degrees out!  I’ve been riding my bike to work twice a week lately and we ride as a family every weekend.  Heck, we have 9 bikes between the 3 of us and Shaun wants another one.

The idea of touring a country or an area on bike is incredibly intriguing to me.  Whether it be Italy, France, the United States (or just part of the United States), Thailand, where ever, I’d like to do a bike tour.  I think that it would be awesome to do as a family but at the very least, I’d like to do it with Shaun before we die.  I think it would be an amazing way to see certain locals and I hope that I’ll be able to make this dream a reality someday.

Bucket List:

1. Write a book
2. Own an actual house with a yard (NOT a condo!)
3. Get to 20% body fat
4. Bike Tour

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I pushed it really hard in bootcamp today and I can feel it tonight! At the end of every bootcamp we all gather in a circle and “break it down”.  The trainer calls out someone for doing a kick ass job and that person gets to lead the group by saying “Own it on 3. 1-2-3!” and then everyone says “OWN IT!”  It’s very sports team like not cult like (which is the way it sounds).  Anyway, I have NEVER gotten called out to “break it down” which is something that I was quite bitter about.  TODAY that all changed! I got to break it down-YAY!

Oh and check out what Lu insisted on wearing to school today:

She didn’t take it off once.

Day 3 of the Bucket List and I have all sorts of ideas floating around in my head.

The one I chose is one that may sound vain or may sound like more of a goal but it is definitely on my bucket list and one that I am currently working on.  During our move, I let my goal get a little buried but I think by putting it out there it will motivate me again.

Before I started training for the Ironman in 2007 my body fat was 22%, according to the Bod Pod.  I’m sure that I gained body fat while training for the Ironman to help me sustain the 140 miles I did in 13 hours.  After the Ironman we pretty quickly started trying to get pregnant and my body fat just went up from there. The after Lucy body fat is basically chronicled in this blog .  According to the scale at the gym (the kind where you stand on the metal sensors and hold onto sensors-which I know is not very accurate) my body fat is sitting at 27% right now.  My goal is to get down to 20%. Twenty percent is where you see muscle definition without flexing. That’s where I’d like to be and that’s where I’d like to maintain.

So even though it’s sort of vain, that’s #3.

Bucket List:

1. Write a book
2. Own an actual house with a yard (NOT a condo!)
3. Get to 20% body fat

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Today started with a great 10 mile mountain bike ride with Shaun.  He said that today was, by far, my best mountain biking day. Exciting stuff!

Here’s some pictures near the top of where we rode to:

This afternoon Megan, Luke, Porter, and Tessa (we’re baby sitting) came over for dinner.  We hung out in the backyard in the shade.  It was a hot one today but in the shade it was just right.  All the kids played so well together-it couldn’t have been a more perfect night. Lu and Tessa got in our gargantuan bath tub which Tessa insisted on calling a “pool”.  She did her kicker and strokers and even decided to pee-HA!

One more week of school!

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I took an iPhone video tour of our house.  I don’t feel comfortable just putting it out there for the whole interweb to see, but if you’d like to see them (there are 3 for the 3 levels), email me and I’ll send you the links.

Bucket List:

1. Write a book
2. Own an actual house with a yard (NOT a condo!)

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Today felt like summer! It was so nice and we packed a bunch of fun stuff in.  Lucy and I went to the Farmer’s Market where I loaded up on a few weeks worth of meat.  I LOVE being able to get local, grass fed, and humanly raised meat.

I consigned some clothes and shoes that I know I’ll never wear.  I’m shocked at how cheaply things get priced.  I know I should do my shopping in consignment stores but I’m afraid that I’ll come out of there looking worse than I already do.  I’m desperately trying to develop a style but I just don’t know how. If anyone has some tips, I’m all ears!

This afternoon we went to a 2 year old’s birthday party.  There was a jump house and Lu LOVED it.  She didn’t want to come home.  I guess we know what her next birthday will look like!