Crawl Out Stronger

This weekend was truly a ROUGH one on the ol' muscles!  On Friday, I did the equivalent of 4 workouts. I taught an hour of cycling, then taught 30 minutes of CoreFIT. Followed that with my catch up lift from Thursday and finished with the normal Friday Farmer's Walk and sprints. On Saturday, I just did the regular Saturday Hard Body lift from T-Nation that I have been doing for 3 weeks. Following that, we had a celebration for the One year anniversary of Parkwest Fitness (the gym I teach at!) and we taught an hour of CoreFIT outside in the beautiful sun. Oof! I was seriously worn out, but each bit of soreness was totally worth it!

I saw a shirt online that pretty much sums up my gym work the past 2 days..."Walk In Strong, Crawl Out Stronger." Yep, that is what happened! I feel super strong, juat super tired.  This was yesterday after workout #4 and I could barely stand up straight for this pic!

It has been a truly wonderful weekend! It has been filled with soccer games, time spent with my wonderful family, and time with friends! Friday night we got to watch J play a great soccer game and then we all watched M play on Saturday morning (he scored a goal!). Now, it got a little complicated Saturday afternoon though! Both girls had games at 4:30 pm in totally different locations. Captain E coaches both of the girls' teams; he is the head coach for J's team and the assistant for L's team. To top everything off, I had the Anniversary party at 4:30 as well! So, we played divide and conquer and thanks to helpful friends, we made it all work! J's team lost, but E said that she played really hard! I am truly bummed though that I had to miss L's game. They won 1-0 and she scored the winning goal!!! She had not scored a goal in about 3 years, so I felt really guilty I missed it.  She was very kind and understanding though.  That is just the kind of girl she is.  She knew that neither of us could be there and totally let us off of the hook. She came and celebrated at the Parkwest Party and really enjoyed being around everyone as all these adults congratulated her on a job well done!

After the party, we had some wonderful friends, Kandi, Brian, and their 6 kiddos, come over for a bonfire. We hung out and ate yummy food, and had a great time until midnight!!  It was such a blast! We all got to bed really late and were pretty tired this morning, but I got up and went to church.  Afterwards, we went and watched M play his second game of the weekend and it just happened to be against 2 of the Wessel family's girls.  So, we hung out with them again.  THEN, my sweet friend Kandi watched all of our kids so E and I could go and watch the new Avengers movie (yay Superheroes!!). E and I had such a wonderful unplanned date.  It was truly fantastic to just spend time with my wonderful husband!  The girls kept calling it a Wessel/Crowell weekend and they were totally right! What a fantastic weekend!!! Special big thanks to my sweet friend Kandi and her amazing family for letting us be a part of it!

M and his friends that are girls!

So, the Avengers Movie!  Woo! I am not going to post any spoilers here, I promise!  I will say though, if you like these type of movies, GO SEE IT!  I really enjoyed it! Of course I am a geek and probably would have enjoyed it if it had sucked, but it SO did not!  I totally admit, I laughed, I cried, and may have shouted, "Holy Crap" at least a couple of times! Not sure it was better than Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but it was fantastic!

Looking forward to a busy, but wonderful week.  We are getting close to the end of school and we have a lot going on before then.  But, what do Superheroes do when things get tough? They get up, put on their capes and fly off looking for a challenge.  So, that is what the Iron Stiletto will do.  I will do what needs done. I hope your week is fantastic and SUPER!!

Blessings!