Live Fit and Sore

Category: Holidays

  • Happy Mother’s Day

    Happy Mother’s Day to all the wonderful women out there — whether you are a mom to your own kids, someone else’s kids, 4 legged kids — Mom’s are special people who show us the true meaning of love. My kids let me sleep in, and then showered me with love and home made presents,…

  • Thrusters here we come —

    Happy 7th Birthday to my crazy, funny, quirky son Nate Dogg!  He has kept things in our lives super interesting and his personality has shown from day 1.   This week has been a series of very hard, challenging but great WODs at CrossFit Impavidus. There have been a bunch of skills thrust upon me…

  • Happy Birthday to my Beautiful Daughter!

    Today is my beautiful Hannah Bea’s 9th birthday. It is hard to believe that it has been 9 years since I took that trip to Reston Hospital that forever changed my life. I became a Mom. What a wonderful journey it is — This morning’s workout was fun — I can’t begin to tell you…

  • Attempting to Conquer the Cartwheel

    Happy St. Patty’s Day to all my Irish Friends! I gotta say – I have been feeling so great about life. I feel empowered and in charge & I don’t know what is so different in me that it’s causing me to feel this way, but I feel great energy around me. Good things are…

  • CrossFit Workout: Kelly

    Happy Washington’s Birthday aka President’s Day! It’s nice to have another day off in the middle of winter — an extra day to get something done. CrossFit has a bunch of workouts named after Ladies –And this morning at CrossFit Impavidus, I met ‘Kelly’. Warmupx2 75 Jump Ropes 10 Jumping lunges 10 MTN climbers 10…

  • Washington, DC: Newseum Day Trip

    Tomorrow is Washington’s Birthday aka President’s Day. In honor of the day, here is my favorite presidential quote and it’s by Abraham Lincoln… “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” I try to remember that often — because its way too easy to…

  • Valentine’s Day WOD: aka ‘Barbara’

    Happy Valentine’s Day — i prefer to think of this day as a day to appreciate all the wonderful people in my life, instead of looking at it as the one day to be all gushy and lovey dovey. Every day should be like that when you are in love — Today’s workout on paper…

  • Hit the Nail on the Head

    So I seriously had the best birthday yesterday. I woke up, worked out, headed to a baby shower lunch with some friends, came home, napped, and then headed out for a party thrown by some good friends. There is nothing like just living in the moment and enjoying your life.  I felt loved. So much…

  • Lordy, Lordy I am 40

    Yes its true. Today is my birthday — my fortieth birthday to be exact. When I was a kid 40 seemed so old — now that I am that age, doesn’t really add up. I don’t feel old and I have been told I don’t look old — so overall if this is what 40…

  • Eight Leadership Lessons from Martin Luther King, Jr.

    Eight Leadership Lessons from Martin Luther King, Jr. Today is Martin Luther King Day in the United States. On this day we celebrate the life and work of one of the greatest leaders the world has ever known. I want to take a few minutes and reflect on what is commonly referred to as his…