Still on the face of the planet

Happy 6 years to us!

I am sorry it's been a while. I just couldn't get to writing in this blog since I am have been super occupied with being awesome at crossfit! Just kidding I am not awesome at it..I have a lot of work to do before I can declare myself that. LOL I actually did just have a nice long weekend with my hubby celebrating our anniversary with a nice dinner at Fogo de Chao (Brazilian steak house=meat overload) and watching Star Trek, but the main event of the weekend was going to the crossfit regional games! I am over the moon excited and pumped after watching all those amazing men and women lift, push, pull  through that competition. It was so inspiring to get better and just being in the community it was just like being back in the box where everyone is cheering on the last to finish. That's what I love about crossfit; yes you get to cheer on and congratulate the first person finishing, but that last one is the one you are yelling with all your might to pick up that bar and keep fighting until the timer stops. We also splurged a bit on buy all this crossfit clothing. It's once a year so hey it's alright.
   What else is going well it was memorial day Monday, so we did a WOD called Murph that is starts with a 1 mile run then 100 pull ups, 200 push ups, 300 squats and ends with 1 mile run. It commemorates service men and women that have served and lost their lives, but story about Lt. Murphy that loved to this work out and died getting a radio signal while insurgents fired at him.
Back tracking we went up to visit our friends who are living north of us about 3 hour drive and as well got to see friends that were in town from Arizona. It was a big reunion! So that was all great and fun. I sure miss my friends that I could just hang with after going to church. Church is not the same here especially when it's harder to get plugged in when we are only here for a short period of time for the hubby's training. We have to let our apartment complex know soon we have orders for the next place where we will be more long term stationed. It should go smoothly letting them since they have a military clause in the lease. I just don't look forward to moving into our home in the heat of August.
    So the paleo zone challenge is still going and there has been slip ups of us eating out with friends after regionals like pizza :( We are getting back on track and hoping to get some decent results. I don't need to win or anything just improvements in the waist line. I sometimes get so tired of cooking everything from scratch that I won't to throw the towel in, but must be patient and as well not fall off having grains again in my life. My stomach issues have been at bay so crossing my fingers that continues. I am still on quest for a job in nursing when we move to the next state here in two months. Crossing my fingers something good comes my way and I can remember things I learned in nursing school. I should just get my hands on a med/surg book as a review.
  Well I gotta run will update soon again! Toodles!

These girls are beasts such inspiration

Grand time with our vessel family

Pale Zone challenge and Life according to me

So like I said posts would probably be on the weekly side. So what has happened since I last wrote, well I have been busting myself at the gym doing WODs like 6 days in a row. That was a bit too much for my body that I need to learn to break it up. Mother's day was here and unfortunately my mother doesn't live here so couldn't celebrate with her. I sent flowers though and she enjoyed that. She told me that my dad has macular degeneration in one eye. That means the central vision in his eye is going bad. It's not reversible, but there are theories/pills/practices to slow the progression. So I am hoping this progression is very slow for him and he doesn't go blink in that eye any time soon. My mother doesn't really tell me things until a bit later and what is even more annoying is my own father won't tell me if something is wrong with him. He believes nothing can be wrong and I understand he doesn't want me to worry, but it upsets me they don't trust me to tell me these things. My mom is under the impression my dad will live forever and not to prepare for anything that could happen to him. My father is 79 years old and pretty good shape considering this eye problem and now a bit of a hip problem. Still life throws curve balls and you never want can happen. God could take him anytime he wants and she thinks all is dandy. I just hope financially she will be okay, but I know that will be a struggle and burden I will have to carry. I am not heartless nor do I feel unable to help it's just now the way most late 20 year olds have to deal with their parents. Anyways, I will move on to something else. Like how we visited Sea World and I got to feed dolphins! :) It was nice to get out and do it although I got sunburned. We even went on a ride and got soaked.
   At our gym we are doing a paleo zone challenge. This is different than the last challenge done back in AZ because this time we still include all the paleo way of eating, but we measure out how much food we eat. I am fine and dandy about eating paleo, but it's hard to grasp this idea of measuring every thing I eat. I just feel it's so tedious, but I am doing it the best I can. We also will be submitting food diaries weekly to one of the coaches. I guess that keeps us accountable too.
  Today was day 3 of this challenge and I guess I didn't eat enough for my snack this afternoon that during the workout and after I was shaking and started hyperventilating. Thankfully hubby was there to calm me and also one of the coaches gave me a bar to munch on as I recovered.

  I made awesome mexican style burgers thanks to paleomg.com book! In my pictures there is the book and also the book Gather which is pretty awesome. It was some great ways to entertain paleo style and also just super neat recipes like General Tsao chicken!
   I am running low on time before I turn into a pumpkin so just wanted to update this blog and hope the week well goes well. Good night!

Why Hello

   Dear Lord! It's been so long I was forgetting I had a blog or how to get into it. Haha Don't worry I'm back! So lots has happened! Still in Texas for my hubby's training and enjoying the friendships we have formed here quickly and the time I have with my love. It's nice to have the time to read and catch up on things that I couldn't when I was in nursing school. We aren't here long enough for me to get a job..although I have attempted to get a seasonal job at several retail places with no luck. Boo! Oh well more time to hang out and do lots of crossfit!
  So my parents came to visit about two weeks ago and that was actually fun! I thought my parents would be total bored or not enjoy it, but they loved the Riverwalk and all the tourists things. I think since my dad is getting older than he is already..he feels he should branch out to do more things and my mom realizing that I don't live 30 minutes away has to get out of her comfort zone to visit me even if that means getting on a plane. She enjoyed the hispanic festival that was going on and just being in another city besides back home. I worry about my parents well my dad is 79 and age is starting to catch with him. If you saw him you would think he is younger, but he has cataracts now and some hip problems so that slowing him down. My mom has had so many health problems for a 47 year old and can only hear with one ear with a hearing aid. I always encourage her to take a class in sign language and that I would too, but she doesn't really pay attention to my advice. That was a random rant about my parents lol. Anyways, now I am away again I just hope they are okay and knowing them they keep things from me and that is something I don't like.

Yup my WOD!

Wow I got guns haha

  Lets see what else is going on..well the crossfit gym we are part of totally rocks! The owners are so supportive of their clients and don't mind getting to know them. They are just very down to earth, but with experience on how to do WODs correctly. They are so awesome as well for creating a birthday WOD named "Karla" which was hell and everyone totally loved me for that! Yeah right! I really get along with this girl Tasha who works next door at the tanning place. She is just super outgoing and fun to be around. She invited Alex and I to go two steppin' at a country bar and boy was that different! We thought we had it down with our little old simple side to side two step. We were wrong! The dance floor was a circle around one of the bars and people were dancing fast like horses around the race track! So yeah we need some classes. The only thing that pissed me off was when we tried to dance at our pace some older guy pushes Alex to notion him to go on faster ahead. Jeez! The nerve of that guy. Anyways, I guess people were just too frustrated that we didn't have 100%. It's suppose to be fun not dancing with the stars.

   So this weekend hubs and I are doing the paleo-zone challenge with cf gym. I only have done challenge and it was whole 9 30 days challenge. This one I guess is same types of food, but measured out for maximal results. I am hoping for some great results. I do admit that I have had a hard time with snacking while I am here. With snacking it's been on potato chips and too much dark chocolate. I just eat crap when I am bored or watching a show. I need to just drink lots of water when I get that urge so I fill up on that. I am hoping this challenge will motivate me with the people around us. I have still been cooking paleo with some gluten free grains. Tonight made a paleo dessert called Chocolate mousse with bananas from paleomg.com She does amazing treat recipes and was dying to try this one. Let's say my hubby wasn't talking from the time he took his first bite until the end because he was busy engulfing his tasty mousse! He loved it! :) I'm glad it worked out. Sometimes when you see or do a recipe it never comes out like their pictures or the way the person describes, but this one was perfect.
  Well, I better head to bed soon. Well update soon again! Later~

P.S. I got a beta fish for my birthday from my hubby!!

Meet Ringo!