Joe's Boot Camp

My Sister in Law, Kelli and I were talking one day. We were both feeling fat, old and ugly. She mentioned that a "Boot Camp" was starting at the YMCA where she is a member. It is a four week, twice a week, an hour at a time kick start or restart to great cardiovascular health. We discussed it, tried to find a reason we shouldn't take the class, put on our runnin' shoes and away we went! Boot Camp Joe kicked our butts! *grin* We ran, sat up, pushed up, scissor kicked, flutter kicked, bear, crab and every other critter crawl you can think of. We have crawled under make believe barbed wire fences and performed pushups with our legs over our partners back who is stratigically placed on all fours! We wanted a work out, we are getting one! All classes are outside, rain or shine. Boot Camp Joe says he doesn't even care if it is raining out! We have lived through 3 hours of Boot Camp by Joe, only 5 classes to go!

4 Friends + 2 Husbands + 9 Kids x 3 Nights = Tons of Fun, Laughter and Exhaustion!

I am a member of Mommies Minute. I joined in October of 2007. I have made some lifelong friendships through Mommies Minute and am eternally greatful to my friend Angel for telling me about it.

This past weekend, four of us got together with our kids at Gayla's parent's cabin in Erwin, TN. Gayla is from South Carolina, Kelli and I from Chattanooga and Liz drove with her four kids from New Jersey along with Joe and Kelli's husband and Joe's brother, Ron. Liz and Gayla own Mommies Minute. We celebrated Liz's 50th birthday while there. Erwin is a beautiful, quaint little town nestled in the Appalacian Mountains of Northeast Tennessee. The cabin was amazing and my family will definitely be using it again. It is located on 19 acres with a pond and a "barn" the kids practically stayed in the entire time. There was a pingpong table and other things for them to do!

All the girls and kids drove in on Thursday. Joe and Ron drove up on Friday after work. On Friday, we got up, fed and dressed kids. Liz and Kelli took everybody to Gayla's mom's pool. Gayla and I went to the grocery to get food for everybody. We took food back to the cabin and then went to the pool. We grilled steaks and hamburgers there. The boys got to the cabin about 10pm.

Saturday, Joe and Ron got up and took a couple of kids fishing. The moms stayed at the cabin, got everybody else ready and packed a picnic lunch. We headed off to a park located just outside of Erwin. It was beautiful. The kids loved playing in the creek catching crawdads. They got to swim in an honest to goodness cement pond there. It wasn't quite as nice as the Clampets, but our city kids had a blast! We went back to the cabin. Joe grilled corn and chicken for us, started a fire in the pit and the kids fixed S'mores.

Sunday brought more fishing for Joe, Ron, Kain and Caden and packing for the rest of us. We got everybody packed and the cabin cleaned up and headed home.

I love my friends and miss them already!:(

By the way, I don't know what has happened to Blogspot or how you are supposed to move pictures around, so sorry the post seems so disjointed and wierd. I can't move pictures anymore!

Miscelllanous Photos

I have had nothing terrific to blog about lately! Almost a month ago, I gave up smoking! *yippee yay* I met up with a friend, Andrea, to whom I have known longer than almost anybody not related to me! We played softball together and were very good friends until I moved away to Florida as a teenager. We went to visit LaGrange this weekend, oh how I love it there! Not really LaGrange as a city, but we love all of our friends there! Tony, if you happen to read this, I love you, you dirty old man! *giggle* So here are a few pictures of our unblogged about month!

Coy

Caden

Joe's Grandma

Coy

Caden, telling my mom's concrete layers how to do it!;)

Tyler and Caden at the zoo!

Grandpa Bill, he was on his tractor when we took him a cake!

My precious husband and his Walmart Gang sign!

Caden found this snake at the pool in LaGrange!