Proud Sister...

Today Turner and I are making the trip back home to celebrate and attend my sister's pinning program from nursing school. I am a very proud sister today!!!

Hannah, my sister, has been working so hard during her time in nursing school and has been waiting for this day forever! I am so happy that she has finally reached this day! We've both had countdowns in our phone for this day as I am excited to finally feel like I have my sister back!

My sister has followed in my Mom's footsteps. My mom is currently a Registered Nurse (RN) at Mayo Clinic and that is Hannah's goal. Hannah currently works as a Patient Care Assistant for Mayo Clinic and looks forward to continuing her career at Mayo Clinic as a Registered Nurse.

It's nice having my mom in the medical field to ask many many many questions and I'm glad my sister will be for years to come so I have someone else to turn too also!!!

Hannah....this day is finally here. The day you've been waiting for! I am so very proud of you. I am proud of your dedication to not only your schooling, but to your work and patients. You are going to be an amazing RN. I hope I never have to find out by being a patient just how amazing you really are though ;) Love you very much...let's CELEBRATE!!!

Big Turner kisses for his Auntie!!

First Mother's Day

I love being a Mother and I love that there is a dedicated to honoring this. In prior years, I was a fur-mama, mama hopeful, mama to be and this year, I am a 'mum' (Turner loves loves loves to say Mum)!!

I woke up and did my normal routine since I pump before Turner wakes up...not sleeping in for me yet. Turner has been getting up earlier and earlier it seems because of it being light outside...darker curtains may be needed. I was great with the sweetest card ever...

Tate got up and ran to Kwik Trip to get my favorite cinnamon rolls and hot cocoa (total cheat day for food)!!! We had plans to go shopping for 'big boy' car seats for Turner as we have been putting it off for a very long time and he just seems to be a bit too big for his current car seat (and seems to be hating it also).

Headed over to Buy Buy Baby since it was close to where we would have lunch and Trader Joe's for some grocery shopping.

We had lots of fun shopping for these. I learned many things and it seemed that Turner was more comfortable sitting in these type vs being shoved into his infant one.

After shopping, we went to Chili's for lunch and to discuss car seat options. We had bottomless chips and salsa, fajitas and some good margaritas!!! It was delicious. Turner had fun flirting with the 5 year old girls @ the table next to us (oh gosh...it's started already). 

After lunch, we hit up Trader Joe's to get the rest of our meal planning weekly groceries. Turner and Tate stayed in the car since Turner fell asleep. We got home and T woke up and we decided to go for a family walk since the weather was gorgeous.

We ended the day with Tate making me dinner and Turner gifted me with the Fitbit Flex. I am SO EXCITED to use this!!! Anybody else have it...any tips?!?! Let's be Fitbit friends...at least that's what I hear people are :)

I had a perfect Mother's Day! This boy brings so much joy in my life...I am beyond blessed and lucky to be him Mum!!!

Twins Fan

Even though Turner is a Packer fan (don't even get me started)...he, along with his parents, decided he will be a MN Twins fan!!! :) I love that he will get to experience Target Field and cheer on the Twins...his home state team!!!

We took Turner to his first Twins game this weekend. Tate called me on Friday and asked if we wanted to go to the game for free. One of his clients has season tickets and couldn't make it. Not even knowing where the seats were, we said yes. Tate emailed me later in the day with our section and row...WHOA! We had dugout box seats for the game!!! We have never been that close for a game before. We were beyond excited! After the excitement wore off...I became scared that we would be hit by a line drive since we were so close. I was rest assured by many people that as long as your paying attention, all is good.

Not only did we have amazing seats...the weather was perfect, the Twins won and Turner got a game ball!!!

The couple behind us has a lil' 2 year old boy that just loved baseball. He got a game ball during the 3rd inning. When the 6th inning ended, the ump came over and signaled us down to give Turner a ball.

Turner did great during the game. Whenever he would fuss...we would give him something else to distract him with. All he really wanted to do was crawl all over the place. I did bring him up to get his first game certificate at one point and let him walk along a gate. He loved that.

We are so thankful for this experience with Turner. We can't wait to take him again. 

After the game, we headed home and decided to go for a walk since the weather was gorgeous. Turner loved going to the park again to swing.

Mya also enjoyed being spoiled on her walk. We also made homemade pizza for dinner. I made a whole wheat crust from scratch. We added spinach, zucchini, red peppers and onions. It was delicious.

Love my weekends with my lil family!!!!

May Fitness Challenge

When I saw that Kristin & Erin were going to host a  Fitness Challenge link up for May, I was super excited! I LOVE LOVE LOVE setting goals. Goals motivate me. I'm just finishing up breastfeeding this month so I didn't want to be too extreme with my goals, but I also know that those extra 500 calories I have been burning a day for the last (almost) year will be ending soon...I need to start making changes since I feel like I won't be so restricted on what I can do.

Running has been a challenge as I've never really had boobs before and with these milk jugs...well it's hard. I had to find the perfect sports bra to wear in order to control them. I also haven't done much cardio since losing weight was not on my priority list. I was really into strength training and trying to gain weight. That is still my area of focus but I will start to incorporate cardio more as I love going for runs with the jogging stroller and Mya. I also love to go to a spin class (really helps the booty)!!!

My 4 goals for the month of May...

NO SWEETS/TREATS 

Lately I have been eating them NON STOP @ work. We have a huge bin full of mini candy bars and I am there eating a lil' piece once an hour. WTF!! I'm dropping this cold turkey. No more sweets until Turner's first birthday party on May 31st!!!

12 GYM VISITS
I'm usually pretty good about this one as I love the motivation of getting the $20 from my insurance company (I am soooo frugal) for doing so...but this last month was brutal as I had to go everyday from April 21 to the 30th in order to get it. I did it...but it was hard. I'm setting my goal to get there at least 2-3 times a week so that I am not scrambling at the end of the month.

DO SOMETHING ACTIVE EVERYDAY
Whether it be a walk with my family, @ home HIIT workout or just a few ab and arm sets while playing with Turner, I want to do something active everyday. I usually am good about this, but I think I do miss doing something EVERYDAY...so setting this goal will definitely remind me to get something in!

LEGS 3 DAYS A WEEK
We all have our 'area' that we are unhappy with and would love to focus on. My #1 area is my ASS. I would like a nice, plump booty. Starting this month, 3 days a week will be focus on leg workouts. I'll be focusing on my glutes, hamstrings and quads. I'm excited to hopefully see some improvement in this area during May...a nice booty for the summer is in the works :)

I really encourage everyone to make fitness goals. I think I might do this as a monthly thing. Making goals keeps you motivated and accountable. Linking up with other bloggers this month will also help with the motivation. You need to ALWAYS remember that you will NEVER REGRET going to the gym and getting in that last workout

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