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Making a list...

We hope you are all enjoying your rainy weekend so far.

We are getting ready for vacation to Mexico as we looked at the calender when it flipped to April and ITS ONLY A FEW WEEKS AWAY.  15 work days and only 2 full weekends after this one.

We are making lists of :

1 - what to take
2 - what to buy
3 - what needs to be done before we leave
4 - what needs to be done/cleaned up at work before we leave

We will be sure to check them twice....or a gazillion times.

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A New Blog to Read

https://karencwilliams.wordpress.com/

If anyone is interested the above link takes you to a blog that is our friends who went through/is going through some things with her family and this is therapy for her.  She told Twin 1 she could share the link with people who like to read blogs so where better to share it then on our blog.

Enjoy!

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We did it!!  We booked our trip last night!  We are going to the Sandos Caracol Eco Resort in Mexico. We are staying in the Select Club Adults Only room.  Should be an adventure.  The resort seems like it has a lot of activities so we don't have to leave the resort for any excursions.  We didn't get the flight with Transat that we had hoped as the price jumped to over $1700 so we booked with Sunwing.  Flights suck (times) but we got to pick our seats and we'll hope for the best.  We've flown with them before and everything went smoothly so we're not expecting any disasters but the Transat plane was just so much better.  25 days!!! Now we gotta take this working out/eating healthy seriously...I mean we should be able to stay on track for 25 days right?!  

WHOOT!! WHOOT!!

We hope everyone had a great Easter weekend.  We went down to the parents place on Thursday night and Twin 2 and her hubby came back Saturday night but Twin 1 and the rest of the family stayed down and returned on Monday.  It was a nice break.

Anyway just a short post with more to follow in the coming days.

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Wha'd up?

Not too much going on again this week.  Our life is consumed with picking a Mexico resort.  We got together last night to pick...and by pick we mean narrowing it down to 2 resorts instead of 5.  We did  decide that we want to fly with Air Transat. 

The two choices in order are:

1-      Sandos Caracol Eco Resort – this one has everything we want and close to Playa Del Carmen.  With Transat it’s a little pricier then Sunwing/Signature.

2-      Grand Palladium Kantenah – cheaper with Transat but it isn't close to Playa and does not offer an “adults only” section or beach club.

We need to be close to Playa Del Carmen because that is where we get our tanning lotion! The only place we can find what we use and for cheap!

In other weekly activities:

Gil is growing up and may need a new bed VERY SOON J

On Saturday Twin 1 tried to find a new trail to take the dogs for a walk and went searching for one in Tantallon.  After driving over logging roads they came to something that “might have been” part of it.  There will be more google searching on this before we venture back out there.  Here are a few pictures of it:

We’ve had some “different” weather this week

This was Saturday morning:

This was Monday afternoon at Long Lake:

This was Tuesday evening at Long Lake:

AND………………………WHO WANTS ONE?

Here are Twin 1 puppies waiting for Daddy to get out of the bathroom to play like they do every morning.

 This weekend is Easter.  Doesn't this look like a fun lunch?

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MEXICO IN 34 DAYS!!!! 

This was taken a few weeks ago.  It's our vision board. 

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Happy St. Paddy's Day

Wha'd up?

39 days till Mexico!!! We have not booked yet but we keep looking at a few of the same resorts that are in budget and also looking at others HOPING they will drop.  We know we want to leave on or around April 24th for 7 days.  That being the case, we could actually wait to the last minute as it's all booked off but we kinda like to plan ahead and know where we are going.  Here is one that is possible but look at all the trees!

Saturday we had our HAIR CUT DAY! and our hairdresser makes excellent Mochas for us.  We have pre-booked all our hair appointments for 2016.

Saturday night we had a game of Monopoly at Twin 1's house.  There was a little arguing as usual and a fun game turned into not so fun. 

Twin 2 found a new way to cook eggs as we were getting tired of hard boiled all the time. These are baked with some cheese added on top.  Crack an egg into a muffin tin and bake for 20 min

Twin 1 scored on the Fish she bought.  Package says 4 fillets....there were 5!!!!

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Amoxicillin Trihydrate

Twin 1 is still sick.  She made an appointment with her Dr. but can't get in until March 29/16.  Wiw talked her into going sooner as last year she had a bout of pneumonia so she made an appointment at the Family Focus walk in Clinic for 6pm last night.  They were only 20 min behind schedule which was nothing as her own Dr is usually 2 hours behind schedule.

Its been confirmed that she has a Bronchial Infection which may have turned if she left it too long.  So thank you Wiw.   Last year she had some chalky liquid meds as she couldn't swallow the horse pills they gave her at first so this year she requested the liquid which she chases with White Grape Juice which is delicious!

She was prescribed Amoxicillin Trihydrate which is used for Bronchitis, Pneumonia etc.

She was all prepared to buy the Grape Juice but when she went to give the prescription to the pharmacist they asked her if she wanted Chewables instead.  Chewables?! They make chewables? Yes of course for kids that can't swallow the big pills.  She couldn't pick her flavor as they only have them in a fruity flavor so no Juice was required. 

After waiting 1/2 hour for the prescription to be filled she went and picked it up.  "Are these for you?"  Yes for me and not for kids.   She went home and had some supper and took her first does of the pills.  They are actually really tasty.  She has to take them every 8 hours for 10 days.  so 8pm, 4am, 12pm, 8pm etc.

This morning she was thinking it does not look like there are 60 pills in that bottle so she had to pour them out and double check.  There were 60.  She felt like a drug addict counting out her supply.

After her pills she ate a chocolate bar that she bought from a fundraiser at work and then that evening proceeded to cough so much she threw it up.  $2 down the drain and no bars left and she wanted to take the whole bottle if it meant no more coughing but refrained.

At this point she is still contagious so NO KISSING! 

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Linkin up for Tip Tuesday

http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/fitness/in-depth/fitness/art-20047624

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Just a quick little update.

Saturday night Sister Wi and Bro-in-law had a few people over to celebrate Bro-in-law's birthday.  You can tell we are getting old as the party conversation consisted of anxiety, politics, unions and vasectomies.  It was a good time. For realzies.

On Sunday both of our husband's got sick with the flu/cold.  

Us on the other hand felt fine.  We were scheduled for a 7k run and Twin 1 needed to take the dogs out.  We decided to take them to Ashburn so the dogs could run and play while we were running.  It was a little difficult as the course was hilly and we ended up running about 7.5k (with walking breaks of course up the hills) but it was so different and nice running on the grass.  Just like running on clouds.

THEN Twin 1 got sick.   

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Wha'd Up?

So as mentioned before Valentine's Day was on Sunday.  We don't tend to celebrate much.  It's too mushy a day for us.  Twin 1 made supper for her hubby, mother-in-law and friend.  Twin 2 and her hubby ordered a pizza from Boston Pizza.  A heart shaped one.  That's as mushy as it gets.

Awwwww

We've been doing excellent so far with our workouts.  We are into week three of February and haven't missed one yet.  We have done all our runs on the treadmill (except Twin 1 did one outside last weekend).  Yesterday morning Twin 2 had a day off so we had planned to meet at Twin 1's at 5 am to get our run done outside but we were starting to get some messy weather so we ended up doing the treadmill once again.  It feels so good to get the workout done in the morning. 

This is what Twin 1 stares at while on the treadmill.  She is training herself mentally for another run as well as physically LOL.  See those speakers? They were bought at the $$$ store a while back to listen to some music while on the treadmill but the treadmill is way too loud.  Her "Travel Cash" is her motivation in case we ever get south this year.  She has often tried to use the Ipod with her ear buds but the cord of the ear buds get in the way and she ends up throwing them on the floor so it's come down to staring at the wall.

So Gilly has a new way of sitting.  We think he's human.

Here he is having a beer.  Him and Dad were hanging out one night.

And here he is just chilling waiting for Mom to get out of the bathroom.

And Twin 2 would like to announce that she has finally found a doctor.  She has her first appointment on \March 9 and a dentist appointment on March 7.  Should be a FUN week!

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Hope everyone had a fantastic Valentine's Day yesterday.

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Wha'd Up?

Well it's been a few weeks since a wha'd up post.  Still not a whole lot to entertain you with but here are a few tidbits.

1.  Superbowl 50 was this past Sunday.  I'm sure you know by now that the Denver Broncos won.  We don't think anyone really expected it but we are so glad they did.  Maybe now Peyton will retire?!  Once again we scrapped our military diet on Sunday night to enjoy some grub and it was worth it.  P.S. the halftime show sucked!

2.  We had a blizzard on Monday night.  Twin 1's work was not cancelled/delayed yesterday so she went to work.  Twin 2's work was delayed until 10 but she decided to take a vacation day.  We've had a pretty good winter so far.  All storms (the majority) have happened on the weekends so work hasn't really been affected.  And unlike last year after every snow fall we've had some pretty mild temps and good weather that has allowed the roads to clear and the snow to melt in preparation for the next storm.  Let's hope that's the case as winter continues.

3.  While we have no trip booked south yet we have put in our vacation.  The plan is to leave the weekend of April 24th and return the weekend of May 1st.  We've been looking at a few resorts in Mexico but we may give the DR a try (resorts are slightly cheaper there).  We'll wait a little while longer.  Hoping the Zika virus will bring down the prices lol. 

4.  So now that we have a date that we are heading south we are into the working out/healthy eating serious phase.  As of today if we leave April 24th we have 74 days.  Eeeeekk that's not a long time once you think about it.  We are amping up the Jillian Michael's 90 Body Revolution and also back into running 3 days a week (Tuesday/Thursday/Sunday).  We picked the Hal Higdon's 10k program and are 'training' for a 10k.  We use the term 'training' lightly as we aren't actually racing a 10k but we are pretending we are to make sure we get our runs in.  It all comes down to mind games.

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One thing we have learned that helps us with eating healthier is to plan our meals for the week ahead of time.  Usually every Sunday an hour or so is spent prepping meals for the work week.  This makes it so much easier in the evenings when you get home from work and are busy and then too tired to think about what to take for breakfast/lunch the next day as it's already done for you.  All you have to do is wake up the next morning, grab your container(s) and hit the road.  This also helps, we find, with cutting back on eating out as well.  It's a lot easier to say no to co-workers when they invite you out to lunch knowing you already have your lunch made for that day and an added bonus is it saves on money. 

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