About a year ago I spent a week attending classes at The Cooper Institute in Dallas, TX and became a certified personal trainer. My motivation was to gain knowledge for the health and betterment of myself and my family.

A year later, I find it difficult to find the motivation to stay on track with my own fitness. My weight has been an issue for a number of years now and I finally started to make some progress a couple of years ago thanks to a sweet friend of mine who ran a fitness boot camp. I have now undone a lot of the work I put in. :(

With a lot of support from the best friends a woman could ask for, I have decided to try to start my own boot camp class in my neighborhood. I made a flyer and some of those previously mentioned friends have offered to help distribute them. I am offering a free week trial with an 8 week session starting the week after that ends.

I am hoping that getting this started will motivate me to be better about my own fitness. I feel like it would be hard to be taken too seriously as a trainer when you are overweight. At least until they get a few of my workouts in. ;)

We'll See....

I've often thought that blogging would be an effective, easy way to keep interested parties caught up on our goings-on. The majority of our family - and many friends - live far, far away and I would like them to have the opportunity to at least see some glimpses into our lives and (eek!) perhaps some of my thoughts...And hey - it might be good to start writing some of this stuff down for myself! Right?!

So here is my first attempt and we'll see how it all turns out.

Yesterday, Sophia had her dance pictures made. Last year this event was a fiasco. My sensitive little one quickly picked up on frustration of the photographer and dissolved into a puddle of tears. Needless to say, I was not overwhelmed by the end result of the session. Totally different experience this year! She was happy, relaxed and beautiful! She looked like such a big girl in there - it occurred to me that she is starting to look like a dancer and not just a little girl posing. It all looks very natural to her. Sigh...

Anyhow, the good news is that I believe we will have great poses to choose from. The bad news is that I will have to cough up a lot of money to get everything that I am sure I will want!

Here's some we took at home just for fun...