Keep an eye on your Credit!!! AnnualCreditReport.com

 

Did you know that you can get your credit report for FREE three times a year!  The trick to doing this is to go to AnnualCreditReport.com and do one of the three credit reporting agencies every four months!  Then when the year is over you can start all over again!  A FREE way to keep on top of your credit score, that way you can watch for fraud on your accounts.  Good luck and keep an eye on your credit at all times!

P.S. Don't forget to check on your kids credit as well!!!

Run Less Run Faster

This is the book that I used to become a runner!  Back in 2011, I never knew I would be a runner.  Four years later I don't know what I would do without my stress reliever of running.  Below is the 12-week plan that I used!  P.S. I love running now!!!

12 week running program

·         Week 1:

o   walk 10, (run 1 walk 2) X4, walk 10 <3 days>

·         Week 2:

o   walk 10, (run 2 walk 2) X3, walk 10 <3 days>

·         Week 3:

o   Warm Up 10 minutes, (Run 2 min, Walk 1 min) X 4, Cool Down 10 minutes  [32 minutes total]  <3 days>

·         Week 4:

o   Warm Up 10 minutes, (Run 3 min, Walk 1 min) X4, Cool Down 10 minutes [36 minutes total] <2 days>

o   Warm Up 10 minutes, (Run 3 min, Walk 1 min) X5, Cool Down 10 minutes [40 minutes total] <3rd day>

·         Week 5:

o   Warm Up 10 minutes, (Run 4 min, Walk 2 min) X4, Cool Down 10 minutes [44 minutes total] <2 days>

o   Warm Up 10 minutes, (Run 4 min, Walk 1 min) X5, Cool Down 10 minutes [45 minutes total] <3rd day>

·         Week 6:   

o   Warm Up 10 minutes, (Run 4 min, Walk 1 min) X6, Cool Down 10 minutes [50 minutes total] <2 days>

o   Warm Up 10 minutes, (Run 5 min, Walk 1 min) X5, Cool Down 10 minutes [50 minutes total] <3rd day>

·         Week 7:      

o   Warm Up 10 minutes, (Run 5 min, Walk 1 min) X6, Cool Down 10 minutes [56 minutes total] <2 days>

o   Warm Up 10 minutes, (Run 6 min, Walk 1 min) X5, Cool Down 10 minutes [55 minutes total] <3rd day> 

·         Week 8:    

o   Warm Up 10 minutes, Run 1 mile, Walk 5 minutes, (Run 6 min, Walk 1 min) X3, Cool Down 10 minutes [50 minutes] <2 days>

o   Warm Up 10 minutes, Run 1 mile, Walk 5 minutes, Run 1 mile, Cool Down 10 minutes [45 minutes] <3rd day>

·         Week 9:    

o   Warm Up 10 minutes, Run 1.5 miles, Cool Down 10 minutes [35 minutes] <1 day>

o   Warm Up 10 minutes, Run 1.5 miles, Walk 5 minutes, Run 1/2 mile, Cool Down 10 minutes [40 minutes] <1 day>

o   Warm Up 10 minutes, Run 2 miles, Cool Down 5 minutes [35 minutes] <1 day>

·         Week 10:  

o   Warm Up 10 minutes, Run 2 miles, Cool Down 5 minutes [35 minutes] <2 days>

o   Warm Up 10 minutes, Run 2.5 miles, Cool Down 5 minutes [40 minutes] <1 day>

·         Week 11:  

o   Warm Up 10 minutes, Run 2 miles, Cool Down 10 minutes [40 minutes] <2 days>

o   Warm Up 10 minutes, Run 3 miles, Cool Down 5 minutes [45 minutes] <1 day>

·         Week 12:  

o   Warm Up 10 minutes, Run 2 miles, Cool Down 10 minutes [40 minutes] <2 day>

·         Race Day

Coconut Oil uses in our daily lives!!!!

In January we started using coconut oil in our daily lives!!!  We now have a jar in the kitchen, one in each bathroom and one in the van!!!  When choosing your coconut oil look for key words such as USDA Organic, Virgin, Unrefined, and if possible Non-GMO.  What do we use it for?  Lots of things, but there are so many more uses for it!  Here are some of the uses our family uses it for:

• For applying Young Living essential oils.
• As a lotion, works great after shaving and on elbows and knees!
• It works great on feet by itself!
• Cooking
• As a popcorn oil, one of my kids favorite snacks!
• Add to smoothies.
• Mixed with Chia seed for an energy boost!
• Use to season skillets.
• Ingredient for making lip balm.
• Also as a natural lip balm by itself!
• Ingredient for making deodorant.
• Ingredient for making lotion bars.
• Ingredient for making natural cough drops
• Ingredient for making sunscreen.
• Oil pulling (rinsing your mouth with coconut oil and brushing right after)
• As a natural sunscreen (SPF 4)
• Treatment for eczema.
• Coconut Oil inside the nose to help with allergy symptoms.
• Eye make up remover.
• There is much, much more, but this is some of the things we are using it for in our home!

Garmin vivofit my start to a new year!!!

I upgraded to a Vivofit 3 in December 2017 and love it just as much as my first one!

This device has helped me over the past month to stay more active!  It is a Garmin vivofit tracker, it learns your activity level and assigns a personalized daily goal, it also displays steps, calories, distance, and monitors sleep. If you are sitting to long it turns red and reminds me that I need to get active. Since I started wearing it a month ago I have completed all my steps for the day everyday.  My step goal on my vivofit tracker has changed from just under 8,000 steps per day to over 12,000 steps per day over the past month. If you have any questions about it please let me know!

Update:  Now that I have been using it for over five months I have increased my step count to over 15,000 steps per day, it is a great motivation for me!!!

Introduction about myself!!!

I wanted to give you a little rundown about myself.  I am a military wife to an amazing husband!  I am stay at home mom to three amazing kiddos!  I have been a steady runner for the past four years! I love being outside with my family if we are playing a sport, going for a walk, biking, hiking, playing in the snow or what ever it may be.  We all just love being outside!!!  I have never really cared about what I eat, but I didn't eat terrible either.  If anything was low fat or sugar-free I wasn't going to have any part of it.  I have decided that this would be the year for me to do some research and find things that are better for both myself and my family.  I am taking it one step at a time and I want to share our journey with all of you!

Here we are in 2020!!!