Category: Holidays

  • CrossFit Creates A Family

    Yesterday was a busy day – we had a redo of Scotty’s birthday and after I coached the CrossFit Teens classes, I headed out to do a happy hour and dinner with friends to celebrate. It was fun but I totally ate like crap and had a martini. Not a huge deal in the grand…

  • Seven Days Down and Out

    Seven days. That’s how long it has taken me to even feel close to myself again after getting hit with the flu last week. I don’t really remember the past week in any great detail and every time I thought I was OK and started to resume ‘life’, I was swiftly reminded that well, no…

  • Happy New Year

    The late Erma Bombeck made these New Year’s resolutions: 1. I’m going to clean this dump just as soon as the kids grow up. 2. I will go to no doctor whose office plants have died.  3. I’m going to follow my husband’s suggestion to put a little excitement into my life by living within…

  • Good Food. Good Company. Good Times.

    Merry Christmas one and all! Scotty unfortunately came down with the nasty bug that is going around. Poor guy was too sick to even open gifts with the kiddos this morning. I know how much it bothered him but he was down and out. We did have a White Christmas though – which was really…

  • Happy Holidays

    This weekend has been full of fun, friendship and holiday indulgence and boy do I feel the effects of it all.  And as hard as it is to admit, I threw up after today’s workout because of all the ‘fun’ I had over the weekend. But I do have to say that I have the…

  • Christmas

    You all know now how much I love my friend Christmas Abbott who is now the first female to be a part of the Nascar Pitt Crew. CrossFit just created this feature video introducing her to the community again. It’s worth your time to watch it and get to know this amazing athlete and inspiration……

  • Video Magic: All I Want For Christmas

    Love this! Jimmy Fallon, Mariah Carey and The Roots create magic using classroom instruments —

  • Day Before The Turkey

    Happy Turkey Day Eve!! A day to relax, get ready for the feast and begin to think about all the things you have to be thankful for this year!! warmup racing drills DROM Skill Ring L-Sits WOD Backwards Tabata l-sits on parralettes WOD 12min AMRAP 9 Deadlifts 12 Push Ups 15 Box Jumps rounds:5+

  • Being Thankful this Thanksgiving

    Being Grateful A bunch of my friends have been doing a daily “I am thankful for” post on facebook.  I love seeing them all post what is great in their lives — its a great reminder for me and everyone else how lucky we are and there is always someone out there that doesn’t have…

  • Time Flies: It’s Thanksgiving Already

    Hard to believe Thanksgiving is next week –November is almost done. Crazy how fast time flies. I am sore, sore, sore –split jerks, tabata situps and then today, one of those fancy girls: Cindy. I did CrossFit Benchmark: Cindy using butterfly pull ups and ended up doing almost a round more than last time! PROGRESS!…