Whew. Vacation was fun. I did not work out as much as I would have liked, but I stayed pretty true to my new eating habits. Lost some weight, and had a great time on the road trip visiting and spending time with Kristie's extended family in Idaho Falls, ID and her immediately family in Colfax, WA. The highlight for me was definitely Oliver’s 3 year old Birthday party. It was a blast. Some pics and a couple of short Video's of the birthday bash is coming soon.
Today I did 30 minutes of cardio on the Elliptical. My speed is improving, averaging around 5.5 mph now. I also went upstairs to the weight room and had a fairly decent upper body workout. I’m feeling good today.
I am SSSOOoooooo missing my family...
My wife and kids are still up in Washington, hanging out with the grandparents and enjoying the much cooler weather up there. I plan to fly back up there the first week of August and drive them back to Arizona.
In the meantime, my house is very quiet and very lonely. I really miss my wife and 2 boys. I do get to Skype (Video) with them often enough, but it is not the same. A few times my little boy has said "Please come to Papa's house", "Daddy, I miss you" or "Daddy, I wanna go home". It breaks a father’s heart. I never would have guessed that 3 weeks away from them would be so friggen hard. I know that G-Ma and G-Pa are having a great time hanging out with their grandkids, and my wife is enjoying the cooler weather. She is enjoying it so much, that she (daily) keeps talking to me about moving back to Washington, or even Idaho Falls where her Aunt lives. We will see.
I have been working on some home improvement projects. I hung a Pot Rack in the kitchen, replaced some drywall in the dining room, been working on the downstairs toilet amongst a few other little projects. I tried tightening and pruning all my trees and bushes in the backyard. Holy cow is it friggen HOT OUTSIDE! 110+ degrees, is NOT a recommended environment to work on the yard. Period. I also hope to completely re-do one of my garages. It is finally time to move out all of the clutter of my single car into the 2 1/2 car garage (temporarily), and get serious about setting up all my tools into a functional wood shop. Bad timing I guess, as it is so friggen hot, but it needs to be done. Oh yes, it will be done.
It is good to be back, good to be back at the gym, it is good to be moving forward on my goals again…
-Aaron
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