I'm back blogging

Wow it's been almost 2 months since I last blogged.  That's BAD.  I just tried to get better at facebook and I guess I put the Blog on the backburner.

During the last 2 months- Izabella turned 8, we had Spring Break (went to the zoo & Indy Children's Museum), had Easter, church had a great Easter egg hunt, Rozalee had her first Easter party at school (Kenny helped with that), the girls had a Spa sleep over at gymnastics, softball started, gymnastics went from 1 day a week to 3x a week and Alizabeth is finally getting teeth and wants to feed herself only big people food and Izabella started mini 4-H.

I have continued to workout as much as I can w/ having the girls, farm, jobs, sporting events etc.  I know there are a ton of you moms out there that can relate to this.  All you need is to make 30 minutes for yourself.  If I don't do my cardio in the am before everyone wakes up-it doesn't get done-period the end.  I am happy with doing 2x a week intense cardio and weights 3x a week.  I am just trying to eat as clean as possible to maintain my muscle mass.  It's tough when you are on the go from 5am-10pm everyday except on the weekends-which  are still long days. You HAVE to take time for yourself or you will just blame that on someone else.  It's a stress reliever-it's a quiet time w/out interuptions if you do it in the am.  Yes, I hate getting up to do it but I do it anyways.

We are almost done having baby calves for the year.  There is nothing better than seeing them run in the fields.  This weekend is the National Clydesdale Sale.  I am setting up my store at the sale.  Izabella is going to help me run that!!!  It should be a fun weekend-even better if we come home with something.

I did attend the Angus Auxiliary Women Connected Conference.  It was great to be with so many women from all over, with all different sizes of farm BUT with all the same interests.  We had 1 speaker that had 5 kids and she said every once in awhile you have to miss something.  Your child will survive if you can't make it to every practice etc.  It's called life and things come up especially on a farm. Don't beat yourself up about it.  It's great to have friends that live close and can help ya out.  Here blog is Kansas Rancher and it's a great one.  Let me know if you can't find it-she proves that not all beef is bad and not all beef has steroids etc in it.  It's sad that there are so many uneducated people out there about this.  I also learned that the Humane Society-which I donate -only gives .5-1% of their donations to the dog pounds.  This is horrible-they spend it on employees, benefits, marketing, advertising and even worse things.  I hope our local Humane Society doesn't do this.

Well I'm running out of time so I better sign off for now-don't even have time to proof this-so I hope it's OK.

Next  Friday we will be at the PTO meeting with our Clydesdale taking pictures-stop by if you can.  It's a great fundraiser for the school.

February

Well my girls are growing SO fast. Alizabeth is into everything-she army crawling and puling herself up on everything. It's too funny cause Rozalee says she wants to eat everything-just like she used to do to Izabella.

The Bear Necessity Store is going great-I love it. Izabella went with my to our local farm store and helped me all day. I was so proud of her. She is my big helper at home especially with Alizabeth.

Rozalee is just a mini-me. She does everything I do. Poor Kenny, he is just out numbered! He loves it!!!

CONGRATULATIONS to Amy. My 12 week online challenge winner. She has 4 kids and still found time to workout and eat healthy. Make sure you check out her pictures on my website.

Make sure you check out my facebook page and "like" my store. If you want to receive my monthly newsletter from The Bear Necessity Store-email me. I will have monthly specials, sales and updates on where I will be set-up. Our next stop is the National Clydesdale Sale in Howe, Indiana.

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Have a great Spring, I hope you received snow where you live because we didn't. I have a Clydesdale ready to pull a sleigh and NO SNOW this winter. Hope that means we will have a HOT SUMMER. I'm ready to open the pool already.

Let me know if you are looking for a trainer-either online or if you are in my area.

Have a great weekend.

Heather

Just a few Christmas pics I thought I would share.

I hope everyone is still on track with their weight loss goals. I thought I would include a favorite leg workout for me and one I give my clients. My Challenge girls just received it!!! and many of my other clients have also done this one-including myself.

Legs -
4x20 Standing Dips (put 1 leg on a chair or bench and squat down LOW SS
4x15 Walking Lunges TS
4x20 Ins and Outs on toes about the width of a large tile on your floor

4x15 Diagonal Lunges SS
4x15 Alternating Dumbbell Step ups

4x20 Pop Squats SS
4x10 Side to Side Skip Squats TS
4x20 Straight Leg Deadlift

4x15 Jump Lunges SS
4x20 Walking Pump Lunges TS
4x15 Deadlifts again

Well I hope you are all staying motivated-if not email me and I will kick you in the butt. It's not a magic pill but just hard ass work. If it was easy our country wouldn't be obese.

Make sure you check out my facebook page for daily tips and my online Bear Necessity Store all on FACEBOOK and now Google Plus

Merry Christmas

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I did this 3x the other day and it kept getting deleted.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
I can't believe it's been over a month since I have blogged. I am getting better at facebook though.
I am in the middle of my 12 week challenge. My girls are doing great. They are realizing that everyone has issues and everyone deals with them differently. No one lives a perfect life-just make do with what you have and what you have time for.
I hope you all had a great time at all your parties etc that you have already have. We celebrated my Grandma's 87th birthday-I hope I live that long! We went to our annual horse parade and even had breakfast with Santa. The girls had a blast. We even took Grandma to have breakfast and to watch the parade.
Rozalee remembered her parts in the church program but didn't sing a bit in her school program. Izabella did great in both of hers. Alizabeth played baby Jesus in the church program and just laughed and cooded the entire time she was in the manger.
Kenny is back to work finally and his leg is healing slowly. He got back in the skid steer for the first time and it blew a hydraulic line. It's a sign for him to stay off that thing:)
Kenny and I headed to a farm auction on Thanksgiving and bought a few cows to add to the herd. The sale was all over a family feud. The father passed and the kids were fighting over who got what. I bet he rolled over in his grave when he saw them auction off all of his years of hard work. Why is it when someone passes all hell breaks loose? I hope this doesn't happen in your family. It was sad to watch them auction everything off.
Be thankful for what you have and don't worry about what you don't-this is my motto. I just wasn't raised that way.
I hope you all have a great holiday.

Merry Christmas

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The Bear Necessity Store is now OPEN

Hello November and HELLO SHOPPING

Well I just started my 3rd 12 week Challenge for the year. This is the biggest one yet:) I'm so excited to see some transformations in 12 weeks.

I also have a client hitting the stage today that looks unbelievable. She had a guy/trainer try to "mess w/ her" and she's going to show him what she's made of today. Funny how trainers try to do this (not all trainers) but quite a few, just so you will train w/ them. Everyone seems to know something better than someone else. I love it when they don't even look like a trainer or a competitor. If you've never competed then don't try to pretend you know what it's like to compete.

Well I also opened the Bear Necessity Store with a web-site coming and new "stuff" coming in weekly. I just have it up on facebook so spread the word. I will ship anywhere and will also combine shipping charges. I LOVE BLING and that's what I have Bling and Crosses. Without the "Big Man" upstairs I wouldn't be able to do what I love to do. I carry purses, belts, jewerly, hats, shirts and more. Check it out-http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/The-Bear-Necessity-Store/169447466478685

Hit Like if you like it. I'm thinking about doing house parties soon. Let me know if you would be interested. I posted a sample item above.

Hope you don't eat tooo much Halloween Candy and have a great weekend. The girls had a great Halloween plus we went on a hayride (chilly evening) and we had front row on the ice tickets to Disney On Ice. Goofy came out and talked to the girls-too much fun. I lucked out on those tickets.