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This past weekend, Canon and I traveled to Minnesota to celebrate the life of my Grandpa, Ed Sovik. He passed away last week after a long battle with Parkinson's. His obituary describes just a few of the amazing accomplishments he achieved throughout his life.   Sovik, Edward Anders age 95, of Northfield, May 4, 2014. Born of Lutheran missionaries in Henan Province, China, he left at 17 to enroll in St. Olaf College along with a twin brother and an older sister, graduating in 1939. He went on to study painting at the Art Students League in New York, and later theology at Luther Seminary in St. Paul. After the attack on Pearl Harbor he enlisted in the Marine Corps, serving as a night fighter pilot in the Pacific; he was awarded a Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross. In 1949, he earned his architecture degree from Yale University and began an architectural practice in Northfield and a teaching career in the St. Olaf art department. While churches were a focus of his prac...

Easter 2013 Easter 2014 I'm mainly looking at my face here, but seeing the difference of about a year is making me feel pretty good! I actually think we're all feeling a lot better about more than our appearances this year. We love our life here and it clearly shows. Hope y'all had as great an Easter as we did! More pictures (of Canon) to come.

Look at me, actually posting on a Friday! This week wasn't terrible, but I unfortunately didn't see any change on the scale, so I'm going to focus on what many others refer to as Non-Scale Victories. I ran my 5k! Saturday afternoon was such a pleasant day that as I set out for my run I decided to just do it. I am so glad that I did! Running a 5k has been a goal of mine for quite some time and I am especially proud that I did it all by myself.  Another great Kazaxe workout. Literally dripping sweat.  I registered for a race! A group of women in my mommy meet-up group decided to sign-up, so I jumped on with them. The last, and only, actual race I've done was the Crescent City Classic 10k in New Orleans in April 2010. It was definitely time.  The weather was once again ridiculous this week. We got snow all day Monday and it stayed in the 30's until Thursday. My only workouts this week were the run on Saturday and Kazaxe on Monday night. I wil...

*written last night I wanted to write to remember this feeling. I feel awesome, motivated and exhausted! I ate well today and I worked out. Kazaxe is the best workout!! I'm so proud for going tonight, after putting Canon to sleep, by myself!  It was exactly the motivation I needed to decide what to spend my birthday gift cards on. I follow LivyLovesToRun on IG and she swears by this heart rate monitor. Sold! Can't wait to see how much I'm actually burning during each workout!  I love this feeling and I hope to have many more!! 

We spent this past weekend down in Charlottesville. We stayed with my sister and our dad took the train into town from Minnesota. It was a great weekend playing with the cousins, enjoying some nice weather and watching UVA basketball (on TV) and baseball! Here are the pictures! The boys: Cole (3 years), Canon (18 months), Baby Wes (3.5 months).

Week 2 was terrible. I started out with a Snow Day, which meant we were at home all day and all I craved were carbs and sugar. Thus, my week started not awesome. I did relatively well when I was at work Tuesday and Wednesday, but then back home Thursday - Sunday was up and down. The good news is, I've learned some things. I know that it is much easier to control my eating when I am at work. I pack my lunch, usually leftovers, and bring the correct portion sizes. The food I pack is the only food that is an option. I've also learned that when I get home on work days though, my initial instinct is to walk in and put something in my mouth - usually not planned or portioned out. Another trigger is about 8:00pm at night when I want something sweet. Becoming aware of these habits and craving will help me curb them. Emotionally, after having such an off week 2, I wanted to just avoid this space. That is my default - to avoid situations that make me uncomfortable or that I don't w...

We have done it y'all. Canon is no-longer a paci-kid. It took a lot of hard-work and determination on our part, but we, as parents, have succeeded. Haha, just kidding. Canon did sleep without his pacifier last week, which has led to him not having it all, but it wasn't something we tried for or planned. Way to go, kid. This is how it went down. Last Thursday night we were getting Canon ready for bed and we just couldn't find that last one we had. We're always losing them, but this time we seriously had no more. I frantically looked outside, in the car, under the crib, dresser...couldn't find one. We were joking about it possibly being the night we went cold-turkey, but I wasn't sure I was ready for that. So while he was screaming in his crib, I even more frantically went next door and asked to borrow one from our super sweet neighbors whose 6-month old uses the same ones. I came back in and thought "well, I'll just go rock him a little bit withou...