ZUMBA ZUMBA ZUMBA!!!!

It has been a busy busy week!! I am so glad it is finally Friday!! Well along with church, bible studies, blogging, tweeting, Facebook, family and work I have decided to add something else to my schedule. When I had lunch with my sister last week she said we need to do Zumba! I was excited. I had heard of Zumba but that is about it. I didn't even realize that we had a class very close. So that is what we did. Let's see it was me, my sisters, Helen and Emily, my daughter and her sister in law and her friend. We were all first timers. I just want y'all to know that I was making bets on how long I would last. I gave myself 10 minutes. lol

Here are a couple of shots before class:

 

Quite a big room and by the time we got started it was packed!!

My daughter and my younger sister, Helen.

Those are the pros there! lol

This was us after class. Notice the coin skirts they gave us to wear? I tell you what you really want to shake those hips so you can hear them jingle!!

At any rate, we had a BLAST!!! I LOVED IT!! I am definitely going back. I do admit though that I was working up quite a sweat when the instructor yelled "Ok warm-up's over!"

LOL I screamed "Warm Up!!" I knew then I wouldn't last the whole class. But I did!!!! I had to run to the bathroom and take about a 5 minute break but then I got right back out there! I think I did real good with keeping up too.

I just knew that I was going to be so sore! By the time the class was over my hips were killing me! But I was excited and couldn't wait for the next class! By the time I got in bed that night I slept like a baby - but dreading how I would feel in the morning. To my surprise when I woke up I felt great! My stomach muscles were sore but that was it. I couldn't get over that that was all that was sore.

Let me just tell you also that during the class we smiled and were laughing! To me it was really intense but you have to realize that I have stopped walking and doing any form of exercise since before Christmas. I have never had such a fun workout that felt like a work out!! Does that make sense? lol

Just in case you want to see what Zumba is - here you go!

If you are looking for a great work out you really need to try it! I know you are going to have a blast. Oh the best part was that before class began we seen a couple of girls my daughter went to school with. Afterwards I seen my neighbor come running towards me. It was fun to see that she was there. I had no idea she was taking Zumba class.

I am once again participating in Friday Follow this week. Hop on over and link up. This blog hop is hosted by One 2 Try, Hearts Make Families and Midday Escapades!

Have a blessed day!

Estetica Winterguard and Friday Follow

I am so glad that it is FRIDAY!! It seems like it has been a long week. Have a lot going on this weekend. I have packages to pick up in the morning. Then I have to pick up two very special packages because they are spending the day with their Grammy and their Paw. I am so excited to spend some time with my grandchildren. Just the best fun there is!

Then on Sunday I have a baby shower to go to. One of the girls that went to high school with my daughter. I try not to intrude with her and her friends but when they request that I come I just love it!! It really is weird at times. I spent forever running my daughter around with some of her friends or chaperoning at events, spending time with them at competitions out of state and really becoming close to a lot of them. Then they graduate and move on with their lives. I hear my daughter talking about seeing them or talking to them and I find myself asking her all kinds of questions because I realize I miss seeing and being around her and her friends. I see a lot of them on her Facebook page but I never friend them. I just feel like it's not my place to. But when they friend me of course I accept and I am so excited that I have to chat them up a bit. lol

I also miss their parents. I have become really good friends and close to a lot of them. Some have moved away, some I see around town. But it's just not the same as seeing them every practice or game or event. You really do miss that when they have grown. Of course I keep in touch with them on Facebook, Myspace and email but it's not the same. I ran into a good friend just the other night at our local gas station and we talked for a good 45 minutes. lol Fun seeing her and enjoyed catching up.

So I brought all of that up because my friend that I went to high school with invited us to see her daughter perform Monday night out our high school. Her daughter is doing Winterguard this year. Now my daughter was big into Winterguard it was with this team (& Colorguard) where I became close with a lot of the families. They are called Estetica and when my daughter did it they won 3 SCGC Championships in their division. A real big deal! I am not sure what they have done since my daughter graduated (2003) but I was excited to learn that they have so many girls now that they have both a Senior Winterguard and a Junior Winterguard - that is amazing! Here is a performance from last year, it is a competition performance. (not the one we seen Monday night.)

It is really awesome to see it in person. If you ever get the chance you need to! I forgot to mention that our city was so proud of our Winterguard that they designated May 23rd as Estetitica Winterguard day!! Now that is quite the honor!!

I am once again participating in Friday Follow this week. Hop on over and link up. This blog hop is hosted by One 2 Try, Hearts Make Families and Midday Escapades!


Have a blessed day!

Follower Appreciation

So I have been thinking a lot about doing a Follower Appreciation for a while now. I will be doing this on Wednesday's but I am a day late this week. I remember when I first decided to put my "Follow" gadget up on my blog. I was worried - maybe no one will follow me. But what got me so excited is that within a half hour I had my first follower. I was so excited!! By the end of that very first day I had 10 followers. Now my first follower was someone that I believe was her first time to my blog. The other followers were bloggers that I had found and been commenting to them and them commenting back for a while. So today I want to tell Janie that I so appreciate her for being my very first follower!!

 

Isn't that the happiest face ever!! Just her picture makes you want to get to know her better. Janie's blog is Sounding Forth. Though I do not get to comment as much as I like anymore I do still read her blog and I tell you she is one funny lady!! I promise you you will enjoy her adventures. I love how she refers to her husband - ThatManILove! Anyway she cracks me up so hop over and give her a holler!

Now if you think you may want to do this also let me know and next time I will put up a linky thingy and make a little button for us. For this week you can spread the word that I will be doing it on Wednesdays of each week.

I am also participating in a blog hop that a few friends were doing. Midday Escapades, One 2 Try and Hearts Makes Families are the hosts of this blog hop. It is called Friday Follow. Hop over and check it out and link up with us tomorrow.


Have a blessed day!

Friday Follow & Grandbabies!

So I decided to hop on board with a couple of friends, Georgie at Decisionally Challenged and Blue Violet at A Nut In A Nutshell, for the Friday Follow hosted by One 2 Try, Hearts Make Families and my fellow blogger I have been following (on Twitter) for quite a while Midday Escapades. So hop on over and join in on the follow fun!

Today I have a couple of surprises for you!!

My grandson loves to dance and sing and loves watching cartoons. On this particular day he was watching a cartoon and they were singing a song with a chorus of 'We are family' so that is what he is saying in front of the tv. Hope you like it!



Isn't he just the cutest thing!!

Okay so I can't show you one video of one grandson and leave the other out now can I?



This was his first time in the Johnny Jumper! I don't think he quite knew what to do!

Sorry the quality is poor they were taken with a phone. But I hope you enjoyed them!!


Have a blessed day!




PS - See what happens when you schedule a post the night before? You forget to sign in to MckLinky!!!