For All You Amazing Women Out There!!

This dance video was organized and created by Kim MacGregor, as a tribute to her best friend Erika Heller who died of colon cancer last year at age 31. Every telephone conversation they ever had Erika ended by telling Kim "You're an amazing woman"!

So Kim wanted to do something special to honor her friend and this is the result. It was filmed at the Toronto Eaton Centre. Kim's goal is to reach 1,000,000 viewers. I'm doing my part by passing this on to all of the amazing women in my life.

Pass it on!
Nicole xx

Eva's 1st Birthday & Other Stuff!

Well, Eva's 1st birthday party all went to plan and I must say I am pretty happy with how it turned out on the day :)  So I didn't get a photo of me putting up party decorations at 5.30am in the morning at the park (actually I read the Sunday paper for 1/2 hr and then put up decorations!), but I do have a few pics of the day:

Eva's cake table (made by me - aside from the marshmallows and musk sticks!):

Decorations:

The Birthday Girl:

Cutting the cake!:

These are only a few of the wonderful photos Shelley took for us - she was there snapping away the whole day which was just fantastic! Thanks Shelley!!

Other Stuff:

After a couple of slack weeks in terms of training, I am happy to say that this week I am back on track - mainly thanks to my training partner Shelley who has finally returned from her family overseas adventure :)  It's so good to have her home!!  We have been either working out at her house or my house as we both have mini gyms set up under our houses! Very convenient! This week I have also been teaching Shelley the Kettlebell Swing and she is going great guns.  To ease into it, at the end of our weights session, we have been doing some short interval training with my trusty gymboss and increasing the number of sets we do each day.  So far so good and so much more fun than being on a treadmill!

PN Update:

PN is still going really well and this week saw me clean out my pantry (which REALLY needed doing anyway). I did my groceries yesterday and the one thing I didn't buy (which I love, yes in addition to diet coke and peanut butter) was Jarrah Chocolate! I feel a bit lost without it today as I usually mix it in with my cottage cheese but I am better off without it!! I have some yummy protein powders that I can use instead :)

This week I really need to pull my head in so to speak and cut some crap out of my diet! Before, during and after Eva's birthday I really just ate too much sugar! So the goal this week is to get back on track with my food and continue with my training!!

Anyway, as I don't get on here very often, I could go on and on of course, but I won't.  Have a great weekend!

Nicole xx