Today’s 44 was another fun one with my resistance band. I stood on the band and crossed the handles to make the resistance greater. Then I stepped out with my right foot, out with my left and back in with each.
In the video you can see that I switched lead legs while doing this move – I’m not sure my hips could handle 44 each side. (now I sort-of feel like I should go do another set!!)
I pulled out one of my favorite workouts today – Les Mills Combat – Ultimate Cardio Fighter. 60 minutes of sweating while kicking, punching and jumping = awesome!!!
Looking Back at 2013:
I have seen similar posts to this and decided that it would be a fun to end 2013 with a recap of the year.
January:
I finished up a long-term sub job at an elementary school library – super fun!
Packing away Christmas was a bit of a disaster –
Another shopping trip and a little assembly later, the problem was all solved!!!
February:
I decided to do a little personal challenge during the month of February. In addition to my daily 43 and my regular workouts, I did 1 minute wall-sits to correspond to the day of the month – so by the 28th, I did 28, 1-minute wall-sits!
March:
We had a special Hobbit themed meal to go along with the DVD viewing of the movie. This was mostly Jordan’s thing but I enjoyed planning the meal with his help and then fixing the meal with the help of both boys!
April:
The biggie from this month was more of a huge mistake and learning experience on my part. I had vein surgery on April 24th and feel like I’m still paying the price for that decision!!
May:
Chris and I celebrated our 17th anniversary!
June:
The boys and I went to Texas and enjoyed what would end up being our last summer visit with my Poppa!
July:
We took a great family trip to Florida!!! The driving (22 hours each way) wasn’t really my favorite part but lots of great memories were made!!
August:
The boys started another school year – Jordan went to high school and Hunter to middle school. 
Jordan kept busy with marching band!
I made a quick trip to TX to pay tribute to my wonderful Poppa.
And, our lives completely changed when we became business owners!!!
September:
More high school football games and plenty of middle school cross country meets.
I celebrated another birthday with another birthday run – and started doing daily 44s.
October:
HaHa – I couldn’t think of anything from October and then I remembered – the epic fail!!! I attempted my first ultra – not pretty!
November:
Hunter started his wrestling career.
Sam, Stacy, Isabel and Hays came up from Texas to spend Thanksgiving with us!!
December:
We hosted our first (probably annual) Christmas Day open house at the Governor’s Row House.
We have enjoyed a much needed family reset time while we celebrated Christmas and prepare to start a new year!
Tonight we will have our yearly New Year’s Eve party (we started doing this after Jordan was born so that we could have a family oriented way to celebrate the start of the new year) and tomorrow we will wake up ready for a great new year!!!
Do you have big plans to celebrate the start of 2014?
Happy Tuesday – the final day of 2013!!
Kim
