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My Heart Challenge Wrap up! #myheartchallenge

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Aug 012016

Hi folks! Well it has been a month now since we were last updating about the My Heart Challenge, and it has been a busy month. We have been running all over. It has been good for the kids and their screen time to be away from the screens. I sit here now writing this after the challenge has finished, and I have some interesting thoughts about it. Those will be later. First, lets talk about what we have been doing this past month!

First up, was the Twilight Walk 5k. We went to Murray park with everyone from the Heart Challenge and covered 5 kilometers! Leatha and I sped walked, while Tristan and Cameron decided to run. Cameron did great and finished first in the family, while Tristan ended up Second! We thought that Tristan would have to be carried at the end, but he ran the whole way. They had a drawing afterwards where the kids won some fun prizes and I won the $50 gift card to Harmons, which I promptly used to buy the rest of the groceries for our camping trip.

My Heart Challenge June 8th to June 29th #myheartchallenge

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Jun 302016

Hello everyone! As you can see, it has been a busy month and we have not gotten a blog up for a while. But, fear not! We will have a great recap!

Like I said, this has been a crazy month. Let’s go back to June 9th. After finding out that we were not going to move, we decided to remake our entire house. We moved everything, cleaned all of the carpets, and rearranged all of the furniture to make everything seem new. That has been a ton of work, and we still are not quite finished with everything. Sometimes I think it would be easier to move. But, through all of it, we have been moving and active as well as lifting all of the stuff in the house. We have slacked on the formal “exercise” time, but we are still moving! Our increased activity is really showing up, not only in our waistlines, but in our endurance as well.

On Saturday the 11th, we started out at the Riverton Hospital health fair. It is fun to go around those events and learn some more healthy things, but we were really there to get new bike helmets for everyone. We are going to get our bikes out and fixed up after we get home from vacation, and we all needed new helmets. We learned a bunch more about being healthy. And then we raided the fruit box. It was great that they had fruit available for snacking.

2016 Riverton Health Fair Photo ED0611104921

My Heart Challenge May 25th to May 31 #myheartchallenge

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Jun 012016

Hello again! Well this week I turned in Week #7 of the My Heart Challenge reports. It sure doesn’t seem like we have been doing this for 7 weeks. It is almost becoming “normal” for us to go out and play around and not watch TV. I am glad the TV doesn’t have feelings, because they would be hurt I am sure.

This past week we were very busy getting the kids out of school and to all of the end of year stuff that they have to do.

Leatha graduated from 9th grade, so there was an assembly and a dance for her before she got to go to Lagoon.

Cameron got kind of gypped, he just got out of school.

Amelia got an award at her school for being a good student, so we had an assembly for that as well as a picnic lunch there in the school that parents got to attend.We had a dinner with all of the Grandparents to celebrate Leatha’s Promotion, and that doesn’t even take into account any exercise! We didn’t get our 10000 steps every day until Saturday, but we did go to the park, and, while watching the kids, we used the playground equipment to do pullups, and some modified pushups and other strength exercises. Then we took it easy on Sunday, waiting out the rain. It is amazing how much we DON’T do when we can’t go outside.

Kidney Kamp 2012

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Oct 022012

And in a related story…..This month we went to Kidney Kamp again! This is our fourth time going and the kids still love to go. The activities are basically the same but that is predictable and they know what to expect. This year they are older and they got to go off and play by themselves for a couple of hours in the afternoon. They are very excited to be getting bigger and having more responsibility.

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