if my husband were a pinboard

pinterest is the bomb. we all know that. and it's pretty often that i'll come across a pin that is my husband to a T. so much so, sometimes, that i just can't help but giggle. "that is sooo devin". so i've combined all them here on devin pinboard.

fitness friday!

what i've been doing / /

working out. this week started off really slackish-like. the weekend pretty much did me in. i didn't do much working out and i ate a lot of crap. i already knew that would happen, so i'm not upset about it. i didn't do any workout monday or tuesday (tsk tsk, katie!) but i went into this knowing 3-5 days a week would be plenty, and i still had 4 days left to get in some exercise. plus on tuesday, i tweaked my knee (i have an old, old injury from the beginning of my climbing days circa 2005). by wednesday, i was actually missing the gym. i was lacking that adrenaline rush i get from a good workout. i wasn't sleeping as well, and i wasn't sore (so i knew something was wrong!) i went to the gym wednesday after work, totally killed it, and felt super afterward. on thursday, i met up with danica again and we sort of wimped out because i was sore from wednesday and she was sore from a killer kickboxing class, but we worked out nonetheless. i'll go to the gym today and tomorrow and probably keep it simple. maybe tomorrow i'll go hard again, depending on how i feel. i'm impressed with myself that i've actually turned gym-going into a natural habit! i've taken to getting home from work, playing with coop for a few minutes, feeding him dinner, and getting back out the door and to the gym before i give myself time to make excuses. so far it's worked out pretty well!

what i've learned / /

cravings. whooooaaa. this was really weird. i love love LOVE candy, junk food, fast food, crap food, pure sugary treats (cotton candy and peeps happen to be in my top 10 favorite treats of all time, and both are made purely of sugar. peeps are even sugar... rolled in sugar, so...) all of the above. i'm a huge sucker for all that stuff. give me a greasy burger with a large (like, XL) order of fries and take me to a candy store and you'll have my heart. probably. that being said, i was pretty excited to cheat easter weekend and eat lots of candy and bad food. i tried to keep to healthy meals and snacks, but i ate plenty of candy and desserts (which I hadn't done all of March). none of the treats really hit the spot, i ended up feeling nauseous after just a few pieces of candy, and i was craving VEGETABLES. WHAT. what is happening to me?! i was sort of mourning my lost love for candy, but i guess it's really for the better right? granted, i can still eat candy like nobody's business, as long as i do so in moderation, but i have been feeling sick after every unhealthy meal and every treat. so that's pretty awesome. i was even all bummed on monday when i didn't have any vegetables or fruits to take to work with me, and went straight to the store after work on tuesday so i could stock up on produce and greek yogurt. (again, who am i????) as weird as this change has been, i think it's also pretty awesome. it's not as hard as i thought it would be to make healthier choices, and i really do feel better and happier and more energetic when i eat those meals as opposed to eating a fast food lunch and wanting to take a nap right after...

epsom salt baths. these babies are lifesavers for sore muscles. epsom salt is basically good for just about anything related to your health, but it's so relaxing and relieving to get into a warm bath with a few cups of epsom salt when my muscles are sore and cursing my name. i feel like i get almost instant relief when i get into the bath, but it certainly doesn't cure the pain from the soreness, just tames it a little bit. but still. aaaamazing. plus it makes my skin baby soft.

what i want to try / /

i'm not really up for anything new right now, but i can tell that my muscles are starting to adapt to the workouts i've been doing, so i've gotta switch things up. i think it's called muscle confusion, right?

*sorry. these posts are getting sort of lame. it's been good for me to track my own progress and hopefully it's maybe benefiting some of you a little bit maybe but it's whatever. i'll try to be more creative next week.

easter weekend

f r i d a y / /

amanda and jason had come down on wednesday with the kids and with work and school, we weren't able to see them yet, so as soon as we got home from work on friday, we went straight to see them (right after we stopped for an ice cream cone. because it had been one of those weeks...). we played with the babies all night and had delicious salmon for dinner. those kids are hilarious. they crack me up! they thought devin and i were ridiculous for not knowing what minecraft was, and Addi insisted on dancing to gangnam style for most of the night. we had plans to watch lincoln, but it got too late and we headed home.

s a t u r d a y / /

devin had to work saturday morning so i headed to the gym, then came home and did some cleaning. i also made more macarons for easter dinner: vanilla with nutella filling and chocolate with marshmallow filling (those were a hit!), then i wrapped addison's birthday present and put together some little easter baskets for my nieces and nephews (can i just say how happy i am that i have plural nephews now?! i love it. the best kids ever!). when devin got home, i gave him his easter basket (conductive fingertip gloves you can use with touch phones and TONS of candy) and he came home with a present for me, too! he had found a little boutique and went inside because he thought i would love the dress in the window. he came home with two really cute shirts he had picked out for me. i love them! he knows me so well :) they were the wrong size, so we ran back to the store to exchange them but they didn't have the sizes i needed so we got a different shirt and a skirt instead. he's the sweetest. when we got home (oh by the way, devin got stung by a WASP this afternoon! a little scary, but he's okay) we got ready really fast and met up with kayla and kyle in draper so we could all go up to OGDEN. kelli and sean just bought a house in ogden so we decided to have a big johnson sibling sleepover while our parents were in wendover. it was so much fun. we got up there, got a tour of their cute house (they have already done so much work on it and it looks incredible!) and then went out to dinner at a little diner with the best french fries ever! after that, we went to the store and got tons of snacks and junk food and set up all our mattresses and pads and pillows in the living with two TVs and the boys played video games while the girls watched chick flicks. we took cooper with us and he and zero played ALL NIGHT. they wrestled and played literally the entire time we were there. cooper got NO SLEEP and it was so obvious the next day. he was so tired it was hilarious! i'd never seen him like that. hopefully he learned his lesson :)

 

s u n d a y / /

we woke up pretty early and sat around and played games for a few hours and then went out to breakfast. turns out easter is a pretty popular holiday for going out to breakfast! it was hard to find an open restaurant and once we did, the wait was long, but the food was delicious and it was worth it. (we had to eat out because kelli and sean don't have a functioning kitchen yet). we all got a kick out of how fast kyle ate his food. he had literally cleared his plate of 2 pieces of french toast, 2 eggs and 2 pieces of sausage before everyone at the table had their food. and then he finished everyone else's food! he's bottomless, i swear! we all headed home after that and devin and i pretty much went straight down to his parents for some easter celebrating. we gave addi her birthday present (her birthday was saturday) which was a Tangled dress-up dress and she loved it! she had gotten the Brave dress-up dress from her grandma earlier that day, so she was in toddler heaven! we ate dinner and then did a big easter egg hunt with the kids and i took the fancy camera for some more practice. (learning how to use that big fancy nikon is sure frustrating!). we were so exhausted after the busy weekend that we pretty much went straight home after that and caught up on some tv shows and went to bed.

m o n d a y / /

monday counts as part of the weekend because we both worked short days becaaaaauuuusssee Kyle and Jami got MARRIED!!!! we've been good friends with kyle and jami for years and were so excited when they got engaged! they had hired their good friend to fly out from new york to take their wedding photos, and last week, all of his camera equipment was stolen out of his apartment! (worst news EVER when his JOB was photography!) they asked devin to step in at the last second, and i trailed faithfully behind like the good assistant i am. i was so excited to finally go to a wedding that we weren't working, but i guess we'll still have to wait for that! the ceremony was beautiful and it was a lot of fun to see and catch up with good friends.