SIX Sisters

 We just completed the 8 week SIX Sisters Health Challenge again! I think this is the 3rd time I've done it? This time Kristi, Jake, Emma and Mike did it with me and Kyle. I just love that it's not a diet. It's pretty much encouraging eating fruits and vegetables daily and exercising, which is much healthier than dieting (meaning restricting food, food groups or calories), in my opinion.

I hadn't run for a year, but by the end of November I was able to run 5K again without stopping and then went from being able to run it in 37 minutes to 31 minutes! I also lost 8% of my body weight and ended up winning the $50 from that part of the health challenge. I've also been working on push ups and have worked up to 3 sets of 15.

Kyle is a beast too. He's been working hard to be able to run 1.5 miles in just 11:30 minutes! He would come home from a 12 hour shift and still work out almost every day. For weeks he also cut out all sugar. No idea how he does it cause I always need my one sugar day. Or 2. Kyle won the other $50 for having the highest total weekly points earned during the health challenge.

I love how Kasen and Tai have been interested in being healthy too. They want to work out with us and ask us about which foods are healthy for their bodies and then are excited to eat them.

Tai has been my smoothie buddy. Kasen and Kyle don't really like them, but Tai is all about them! One day she drank so much smoothie that she threw it all up in the car though...

Other than that, we tie dyed the shirts that Kasen and Tai got for Christmas. Tai wanted stripes and Kasen wanted the spiral design. We didn't quite get the spiral we were hoping for, but it still worked out.

I play Tai's matching games with her a couple times a week and am always super impressed with how in the world she remembers where so many matches are! 72 tiles and she remembers matches better than any of the rest of us.

And Kasen has officially earned his beanie baby at school for knowing all 100 of his sight words!! He is AWESOME. He got some books for Christmas and has been reading them to us with almost zero help. Blows my mind that he can read books to me.

He has another homework page each month to see how many of the letters and words he can say in 1 minute and he always gets all of them, but I love how excited he gets when he finally does all of them in less than 1 minute. "I'm a super star! It's jazzing me out! I'm on fire! I'm rocking it!"

He's also quite the trend setter cause a couple weeks after he fell and got staples in his head, Presley had to get 3 staples in the back of her head and then the next week Kallie split her head open too.

Hopefully that is the end of that.