Frozen Lake Michigan

Today, mom, dad and Ryan and I went to Holland (Ryan's new city he lives in). We visited the lake. It was so cool! We walked on water like Jesus! Ha! It was the perfect day to go! Here is a panoramic of Lake Michigan in the winter.



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Spartacus Sweat and Sand workout

I found a workout on Youtube this weekend called Spartacus Sweat and Sand workout. It looks really fun! I did it this morning, and tough work! Each exercise is 60 seconds (do as many as you can) with a 15 second break in between. Do the entire circuit and rest 2 minutes, then repeat twice (so you do it 3x). I am starting this for 4 week. Doing 3x a week - MWF. The whole workout took me about 40 minutes, and I burned 471 cals.

1. Goblet Squats
2. Mountain Climbers
3. Single Arm Dumbbell Swings
4. T-Pushups with dumbbells
5. Split jumps (like Mary Catherines)
6. Dumbbell Rows
7. Side lunges w/ dumbbells (touch floor)
8. Push-up Position Rows
9. Dumbbell Lunge and Rotations (alt)
10. Dumbbell Push-presses

Our Movie Theater Screen

Keith installed this last year in his finished basement. With Dusten's help, he built a frame and used movie screen material from the Hampton 5 (now closed) in Bay City. Our screen measures 102 inches wide. A digital projector shoots HD video on to the screen.

We also hook karaoke up to it and is big hit!

There are also 2 TVs in the back that the Wii was hooked up to and then a TV to watch while you play the Wii. :)

My 2011 Goals

Here are my small goals this year:

1. Learn to change a tire.
2. Do an Olympic Distance Triathlon. Swim 1500 meter bike 30miles, run 6.2 miles
3. Read/Listen to at least 8 books this year. The book club will help.
4. Pay off car.
5. Lose 15 pounds.
6. Look good naked.
7. Written monthly budgets.
8. Mail Birthday cards to family and friends (very hard for me).
9. Get a wall calendar to remind me of birthdays.
10. Organize the garage/basement and get a shed to put the stuff that is in the garage.
11. Cook one new recipe a month, like below - a Turkey was new for me in 2010.

Earth to Kelly

I am here! Its been busy! A quick update since my last post:

1. I finished my half marathon (13.1 miles) in 2 hours 22 minutes 11 seconds!
2. Keith broke his right leg (fibula) on October 14. He had to have surgery and is still on crutches, but slowly walking with some weight on it.
3. I ran over a deer with my dodge intrepid and the insurance co. totaled the vehicle. I bought a 2008 Saturn Vue with AWD. I love it! I have had it for exactly a week!
4. We bought an XBOX 360 with Kinnect! Its so much fun!
5. My brother has moved to this neck of the woods, well Holland, so that's been fun hanging out with him more often.
6. Oh, since Keith broke his leg, we didn't travel for Thanksgiving, so I cooked a Turkey for the first time, it came out and was good!

Those are the major things, i hope to blog more, but I always say that!

Sports and Technology! My two favorites have collided with me!

Well, I guess the Nike iPod Fit has been around for a few years, but I have never had one. So I have a had some Best Buy gift cards in my wallet and decided to go and browse Best Buy. I found that the Nike iPod Fit was only $29.99. This is something I have always wanted, and always thought it was over $100. So I immediately bought this and took it home to try.



The Nike iPod Fit is a little sensor that goes in/on your shoe and syncs up with your iPod Touch or Nano. I have used it with my Touch only because, well, there is an App for that. :) The App tells me distance, current pace. I can listen to my music and then just touch a button on my iPod, and the woman will cut in while my music fades down and say in robot like voice, "Current distance, two point 1 two miles, current pace, nine forty eight, current time, twenty minutes and twenty seconds." I can also watch it on the screen as I run. I just love the fact that I can see how fast I am going, something I never know (unless on a treadmill) until my run is over with and have to calculate average pace.

The only downside was when I bought it, I forgot I didn't have Nike shoes. So I had to buy a little shoe pouch for $6 (found at Dicks) to tie on top of my shoe into the laces.

I have used it for 3 runs now and do like it alot. When I sync my iPod, it asks me if I would like to upload my runs to my Nike account, so I can track my history. Pretty cool!!!

Lilith Fair - Chicago

Some pictures of Lilith Fair - Chicago - July 17, 2010 at Tinley Park.

The lineup was:
Courtyard Hounds - (Dixie Chicks minus Natalie Maines - awesome duo!! Get their cd)
Heart - they still sound and look (from 1000 feet away) amazing
Mary J. Blige - stole the show, I am now a new fan, she can belt it out!!!
Sarah McLachlan - outstanding as always, just bummed she only sang for an hour.