Fitness

I found this site through a friends facebook and I think it's awesome! Fitness is something I want to have apart of my everyday life but I often lack the motivation and drive to follow through. Just when my workout routine started to dissipate, along came www.bodyrock.tv I just started today and lemme tell you, I was sweating!
It's a fitness program that is made specifically for people to do at home, there are some great tips and new workouts everyday. It is also free!! Lets hope I follow through with this routine!

To keep me going I decided to make a rewards chart for myself so I log how many times I work out a week and if I fulfill my goals I can go buy myself a "treat" at the end of the month. Yes I feel like a child with a star chart but I need a little motivation to keep me going!



I'm also hoping to make this into some type of competition with Jake. Believe it or not he too could use some exercise :P (and no he's not getting fat!) Jake and I enjoy a little "healthy competition" (no pun intended) we often play trivia and strategy games, even when we were dating we kept a scoreboard of who won the most games. Of course I lost most the time! But it still made it fun.

Well those are just some thoughts... hopefully now that I've put them out there I'll try and keep to my word.

On the Search

Jake and I really enjoy the outdoors and with gas prices so high (its $4/gal out here!) we don't want to have to travel far to enjoy nature. We've found some nice spots that are within a 15min drive from our home.
The first place we found was in Fullerton, it's called "Laguna lake" with plenty of ducks and fish around. As you can tell, Jake really enjoyed being by the water. Us Minnesotan's gotta find our lakes ya? YOU BETCHA

I found a stump that was lovely!

Another and possibly my favorite so far has been Whittier hills

From the top of the hike we can overlook the city of LA and there is a beautiful mosque and burial site

Despite the steep incline and hard work it takes to get to the top, we're still smiling.

We might complain how we're stuffed in a dirty city, but I must admit there are some really beautiful things in Los Angeles.

Recapping 2010

2010 Has been a big year for Jake and I, and I thought I'd start there for my first post. We got engaged in March

Married in July

We moved to LA just a week later, and about a month later we started our Graduate programs.

We've had a lot of fun so far and have made some good friendships. Joseph and Misha- Jake's brother and fiance came to visit us for thanksgiving and I made my first thanksgiving dinner! The turkey was dry... I'll have to work on that. My sister Angie came to visit as well, we can't wait for more! Just so we have an excuse to go to Laguna or Disneyland of course! So many other things have happened and slowly we have made our apartment into a home :)