Easy fitness to have fun in your own back yard!

YES in your own backyard...

• Run, jog, and walk in a family treasure hunt.
• Toss around as many different-shaped ballls/objects as you can find.
• Juggle with the entire family.
• Play "Hit and Go" croquet - hit the ball and run to it - across the whole yard.
• Count hula hoop rotations.
• Jump rope - practice rhythms, rhymes and tricks.
• Play a "hot potato" game of Frisbee.
• Play an action-packed game of badminton...serve from where the birdie drops.
• Jump on Pogo stick and count bounces.
• Build stilts and walk on them to create laughter and exercise.
• Ride on a skate board (with knee, wrist and elbow pads and helmets).
• Play hopscotch and organize a family tournament.
• Run and dodge in a "Tag and You're It" game.
• Play traditional and modified backyard sports: basketball, softball, volleyball, and tetherball.
• Practice on in-line skates (with knee and elbow pads and helmets) - go further and get faster each day.
• Take the family pet for a walk or jog.
• Wash the car...enjoy an active game with the hose.

World Series MLB only days away

If you are watching the playoffs you know there is already 3 games down and the teams are really giving it their all.

Texas Rangers VS Detroit Tigers

Right now the Rangers are only 1 game from going into the World Series. With a lead of 3-1 over the Tigers.

St. Louis Cardinals VS Milwaukee Brewers

Not as far along as the other games with only 3 games down the Cardinals are showing they are in it to win it with a leading 2-1 over the Brewers.

Eat em' up spider's

 

 

(This includes Almond bark. If you are allergic to peanuts check with your doctor to be sure you can eat almonds)

Ingredients

• Pretzel sticks
• White chocolate almond bark
• Chocolate almond bark
• Malted milk balls
• Red candy-coated chocolate candies
• Mini chocolate chips
• Wax Paper
• 2 large Ziploc bags
• Melting pot or some other way to melt the chocolate almond bark.

Instructions

1. Place 8 pretzel sticks on waxed paper in a star formation.
2. Melt the white chocolate almond bark according to the directions on the package.
3. Place the melted white chocolate almond bark into a Ziploc® plastic bag making sure to close the bag. Cut a small hole in one tip of the plastic bag.
4. Pipe the melted white chocolate almond bark onto the pretzel sticks starting on the outside of the pretzel sticks and spiraling inward. Finish with a large filled-in circle in the middle of the pretzels. (Caution: bag may be hot from the melted almond bark!)
5. Place the malted milk ball in large filled-in circle in the center.
6. Melt the chocolate almond bark according to the directions on the package.
7. Place the melted chocolate almond bark into a Ziploc® plastic bag making sure bag is securely closed. Cut a small hole in one tip of the plastic bag.
8. Pipe the melted chocolate almond bark onto the pretzel sticks to form the spider’s legs.
   (Caution: bag may be hot from the melted almond bark!)
9. Use the melted chocolate almond bark to adhere the red candy-coated chocolate candies to the pretzels, and then adhere the mini chocolate chips to the red candy-coated chocolate candies. Allow time for the chocolate to set.

Give aways are great...so are concerts

I know Tuesday is suppose to be Ask Gracie... But I don't really have enough followers to well have that yet. So I was clicking around and I thought you know all these great people that I follow their blogs have such awesome contest. Random things you can win. And I can't help but wonder what would it be like to be able to have one of those? I mean have 100's of followers on your blog. And just write things that people really want to read or hear about. I at first thought my blog is going to be one post per day. Each day has it's own theme and so fourth and yet here I am thinking... I want to blog about something but I already posted for the day. I could start a second blog but why? So I have decided that I am going to have a contest when I reach a special number of followers. I won't tell you the number so it will still be a surprise. 

But on other news... and something worth wasting your time for. I am going to post an event review. The event happen in May so no big new flashy stuff. (However if you want an awesome experience you should look at Jordan's Southern Living magazines invite to their taste of Charleston's festival)

My event is the 2011 Billboard Awards in Las Vegas, Nevada. Pictures below.

Meet Brooke for your Story Monday pleasures

“DAD I’m going to be late!” Brooke groaned as she slumped down into the living room chair. It was bad enough her father was the local bachelor of her small humble hicksville town of Sashelberry. She watched as her all to at ease father moseyed from upstairs into the kitchen to grab his lunch and car keys. Brooke sighed and shook her head in disbelief. She had just moved back in with her father after her mother’s remarriage to Andy. She didn’t like Andy and his creepy aura, so she left and came to live with dear old dad. However, dad was used to being a bachelor that only saw his child on every other weekend and occasional holidays. This get said child to school during the week was not a strong point for him. After another ten or fifteen minutes of her father’s pace they were in the car, out the drive, and… going the wrong way. Brooke looked behind her and then at her father in a very confused way. “The school is the other direction dad.” She told him in the same tone her mother normally gave him when she was at her wits end on dealing with his self-centered behaviors.  “Oh, right. School.” Her father just smiled at her and simply turned the car around and started down the road again. “So where is your school again?” he asked looking down the roads trying to find some large building with lots of kids running around the yard. Brooke could do nothing but let out a heavy sigh. “It is next to the Mountain Coffee shop on South Main Street.” She told him as she looked down at the car radio clock. In 6 more minutes her teacher would be starting his rant about how tardiness and absence from a class for any amount of time would hinder your education and stunt your knowledge growth. Brooke looked over at her dad who didn’t seem to care he was going to be dropping his child off at school late again for the third time this week. Oh and it was only Wednesday. Brooke gazed out the window and sighed. What had she gotten herself in to?

Give your cat its own city with KittyCity

One thing me and my fiance have been doing is piece by piece buying parts of the KittyCity. We currently only have 3 pieces (They can range from $15 up to $40). Our cats LOVE it. I really can't wait to see what we make in the long run. I am hoping to have a huge playground for them as all three of our cats are still kittens.

We have bought the slumber bed, the hideaway, and the sleepy corner. And our current playground looks like this...

And just for fun here is our 3 cats :)

jynx (f)

Sami (m)

Smokie (f)