The Weekend Recap!

I hope you had a great weekend! It was a 5 day weekend in my world!

Friday, I took off to help my sister and mom prepare the TWINS' nursery! How cute is this?!

My mom and a good family friend prepared and put together the quilts. Seriously...I want one.

The elephant humidifier's name is Elliot. Hello El.e.ot! :)

 

I took a cat nap while my sister and mom put together the cork board frames in the top photo. :)

And I was extremely happy with the turnout of the elephants and the Born Together Friends Forever triptych!

On Friday night, my sister treated us to a movie--Pitch Perfect 2! So great! I give it two thumbs up, especially how hard it made my mom and sister laugh!

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Onto Memorial Day...every other Memorial Day (before last year), I spent the day cleaning or working at the pool, being lazy, or who knows, really! Not really acknowledging what the day was really for.

Then I started CrossFit.

You don't have to participate in CrossFit to make the choice to recognize what the day is for, but it's what flipped the switch for me.

Last year I participated in "Donny" (21-15-9-9-15-21 deadlifts and burpees...definitely harder than it looks!) This year was Memorial Day "Murph." Besides Cindy and Karen, Murph always gives me a gut wrenching feeling.
This time was different. I was very excited! I set 1 expectation for myself and 1 only...to keep going!

What is Murph?

Run 1 Mile
300 Air Squats
200 Push Ups (eeek!)
100 Pull ups
Run 1 Mile

I had this thought in my head the entire time, my grandpa's brother died serving our country and my grandpa and numerous friends of mine have dedicated their time to serving our country so I was going to work extra hard for them. Because they never gave or give up.

I got out to run the last mile and was OK until the last 500 meters. My brain, legs, and feet were screaming to stop. And sure enough I wanted to so bad. But that thought kept popping back into my head...My grandpa's brother, my grandpa, and my friends surely didn't stop so why would I? This run was killing me, but...it could ALWAYS BE WORSE. Attach the encouragement that filled the gym and this workout was done and I was so happy to have done that much in respect to those who have made the ultimate sacrifice.

Read the story about Murph HERE.