Geocaching

I finally got a chance to take the kids geocaching!! I haven't been in months and not consistently in about 5 YEARS!!! So it was GREAT to get back out there and find some caches. We have searched for about eight in the last few days but have only found four. I hate loggind DNF!!! My 7 year old son has really gotten into finding treasures too. He mostly likes the regular sized caches with "treasures". So we decided to create an account just for him!!! He is super excited!!!!

Friday!!

Well I did not get my run in this morning BOOO!!!! But I will try to get it in this weekend. I had to take my baby boy to the Dr. this morning. He has yet another ear infection-although this time it's mild-and he basically has the "head crud". Yep, thats what the Dr. said-"head crud". So we have antibiotics and eye drops, hopefully he will be feeling better by first of next week.

Tomorrow morning is also our neighborhood garage sell. I have been busy all week preparing for that, and it appears I may be up ALL night finishing up since I haven't done much the last 2 days. I still have tons of clothes to hang and sort and I haven't even unpacked the boxes of junk and toys that are in the garage. I guess I could do that early Saturday morning since it's stuff I really don't think will sell. I have never done a garage sell on my own. I remember having one in junior high and then several years ago we had one at my in laws-but I was pregnant at the time so everyoen else did most of the work. I have clothes priced at $1 each...I am starting to wonder if thats a bit high. A friend said she does her's for 25 cents and another girl does hers for 50 cents. So we will see. I don't have much other than the kids clothes and I am going to let my kids bake cookies tonight and try to sell those!!! Maybe I will even make some coffee to sell, HA!!

Lately I have gotten back into geocaching. We started off strong back in 2006 and then kinda dropped off after we had our second child in 2007. We have found a few here and there since then but now that the kids are all walking I think it would be some great family time to get out and cache with the kids. I have found several the last 2 weeks before going to work. There are three that are driving me nuts though. I have been to them twice and cannot find them!! That really bugs me!!! So hopefully Sunday morning I can get my run in, get the kids up and dressed and we can head out early and try to find a few before people start getting out and about. If you've never done geocaching you should check it out. It's a big treasure hunt and it's fun, challenging and can be educational as some are hidden in areas with history.

Week 1 Day 1 of C25K (couch to 5k)

I have heard about this program before but recently found a blogger that was doing the program with great success. I haven't been running consistently since I played college soccer-over 11 years ago! I recently started running-I was walking the neighborhood and would run the dead ends-wasn't much running at all but it was a start. Anyways, I started the C25K program today and I did GREAT! No I am not the fastest runner, but I ran all the running intervals. I was so proud of myself. I mean 60 seconds of running doesn't seem that much, but for someone that hasn't exercised much in the last 11 years....I think I did wonderful.

Tomorrow will be one week since I have been on Atkins, although I did have a Newk's Q on Saturday!!! I also had TWO Diet Dr. Peppers Saturday, and have had 2 other diet drinks. However, considering I was drinking 1-3 diet sodas a DAY, 4 in 7 days isn't too bad!! So I am very interested to see what the scale says tomorrow!!!! I have weighed everyday!! YES I AM CRAZY!

So we will have to wait until tomorrow to see the results...........


Today I had the day off work!! YAY ME!! I really needed the down time to get some stuff done around the house and to just get away from work. I haven't had a vacation since maternity leave a year ago.

So today, as you have already read, I...
1. Started the C25K program,
2. Called the roofers, they came out and fixed 2 leaks
3. Went through baby girls clothes and began getting them ready for a garage sale 4. Organized the boys toys-AGAIN
5. Cleaned-a little-didn't get nearly as much done as I would have liked
6. Started a project for baby girl's room
7. Ran to Hobby Lobby and Babies R Us for a few needed items-used gift cards! YAY!
8. Laundry-still working on that too
9. Geocaching!! got two today, one was missing-I think

So all in all a very productive day. Tomorrow I am volunteering at my son's school until about 10am, then its more garage sale prep, more creating!!! (hopefully not much more cleaining)

GEOCACHING!

I am back at it. We did a few runs back in January, but haven't done been caching consistently in three years!! We are WAY behind, saw one cacher had found over 4k!!! WOW! I have only found 209. sad sad.

Anyway, I went on a quick run this afternoon while hubby had the kids at the in laws. (I stayed home to clean out the garage and afterwards went for a cache run!) So I realized after I got out and about that my SWAK has not been updated since January, so I figured some of the caches I was hunting may have been archived. Sure enough when I got home and checked one of them had been archived, and one I just came up empty. I am hoping since the cooler weather is getting here we can go on cache runs as a family. One of the challenges is getting kids in and out of carseats, so I will have to search for several within walking distance-which is tough.

Anyway, it was a great day for caching. I am off the next three days and hope to get a bit of caching in each day.