Location

I guess I should add a few updates about the wedding planning. We made most of the major decisions early on and now are just relaxing before starting planning the endless list of little details. I don't want to get overwhelmed so I have put it on hold for a while, since we still have a lot of time. We are going to keep the wedding very small and simple, though, so hopefully I won't get too stressed. Anyway, we chose the Filter Building on White Rock Lake for our venue. We are going to have the ceremony outside on the waterfront and the reception inside. Please keep your fingers crossed that the weather is nice because you just never know in April in Texas. Here are a few pics of the place. It was a rainy day when we went to look at it, so the pictures aren't the best, but you can kind of get an idea. :)

I also added one picture that my photographer sent me from a wedding they shot at the Filter Building. You can kind of get an idea of what it will look like with some decorations.

Victory!

This post is a little late, but better late than never.... Last Friday, I went to the 5:30 pm class at the gym. The WOD was max reps of pull-ups, handstand push-ups, and muscle-ups, and a 500 meter row time trial. I got 7 kipping pull-ups before having to drop off the bar, which is the same number I got at the beginning of the year, so that's kind of sad. I need to practice more. I can't really push myself off of the bar at the top of the pull-up so I haven't really gotten the whole swinging momentum to be able to do more than 2 or 3 in a row without starting my kip over. Oh well. Hopefully I'll catch on eventually.

Then I got 21 handstand push-ups with two ab-mats, which I felt good about, but then I tried them with only one ab-mat and I could only get two at a time. Definitely need to work on those as well.

I did the 500m row in 2:14 which isn't great, but it's an improvement for me. I'm terrible at rowing. I like to blame it on my relatively short legs and abnormally long torso. I was just not built to be a good rower. ;)

Finally, since I can't do muscle-ups, I decided to see how many double-unders I could do unbroken. Koy told me the most he had done was 31, so I was really striving to beat that number by at least one. The most I had done before was about 18, but I ended up getting 34 that night!! I was so excited to actually beat him at something! :) I think I could probably do more if I wasn't already tired from all the other stuff. I think we'll have to have a double-under showdown sometime when we are both fully rested.

Father's Day Weekend

This past Saturday Koy and I went to my parent's house in Arlington to spend time with my dad for Father's day. My sister Lauren and my nephew Phoenix came over as well and we all hung out. It was so fun just watching Phoenix and trying to keep up with him. He is a little over 10 months old and is a crawling machine! He is also pulling himself up on anything he can grab a hold of. It's so cute but a little scary when he pulls up on stuff like lamps and paper bags that obviously can't hold him up. He loves to play with the wind chimes in my parents' backyard too. It's pretty funny. I got to feed him some rice cereal and bananas and mangos, which was fun! I need to see him more often. He's so stinking cute!

Then Sunday, we went to Koy's Dad's house in Ennis. We hung out with his dad, step-mom, sister, brother-in-law, his niece Sydney and his nephews Dylan and Tyler. We went swimming and played volleyball in the pool with the kids. It was fun, but kind of wore me out. :) Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures over there. We went to his mom's house afterwards and I got to see a few family photo albums with pictures of Koy when he was about one year old. He was so adorable!!!

Work Out of the Day

As most of you know, Koy co-owns a Crossfit gym in Deep Ellum cleverly named Crossfit Deep Ellum. :) I try to go work out there 3-5 times per week, but lately it's been more like 2 or 3. I usually go to one of the night classes, but every once in a while I'll make it to the 5:30 a.m. class. It's so nice to get it out of the way before work and have the rest of the day for whatever. It also wakes me up and puts me in a better mood for work. I also tend to make better food choices when I work out in the morning. I stray away from my paleo diet less on those days.

So, I actually made it to the 5:30 class this morning and the WOD was a heavy set of two backsquats; then 20 reps at 65% of your heavy two and 20 burpees as quickly as possible. I only got up to 105# for the two. I could only get one rep at 115# and then at 110#. I should have been able to do more. Oh well. So, then I used 70# for the second part of the workout and completed the squats and burpees in 3:07. Even though the weight was much lighter, my legs felt like jello. I was not impressed with my performance today, but I'm still glad I went and am ready for whatever this day has in store for me!

Caveman Crawl

This past Saturday Koy, Pam, Brian, and I did the Caveman Crawl out in Bridgeport. It took about an hour and a half to get out there, but it ended up being a lot of fun. It was a 5k run with lots of obstacles and even more mud! The very first obstacle was wading across a big pond where the water went up almost to my shoulders in some parts. Other obstacles consisted of crawling through muddy water under big logs, running up steep embankments, over big tires, up a rope ladder, and down a slip-n-slide into even more dirty water. Afterwards we ate lunch at a place called Double K BBQ in Boyd, Texas. It was quite interesting. The waitress didn't know what their best meats were or what balsamic dressing was. I think she was highly confused as to why anyone would order anything other than ranch. It was pretty funny! Then another hour and a half and we were back in Dallas. It was a long trip for a 5k, but it was a lot of fun and a good chance to get to know some of my fellow gym members better. We did it as part of the "Adventure Team" at Crossfit Deep Ellum.

More Engagement/Ski Trip Pics

Here are a few more pictures from our ski trip in Solitude/Park City, Utah in January of this year. The first two are at a restaurant called Chimayo on Main Street in Park City. Anna had made reservations for us before our trip to celebrate John's birthday which was a few days before the trip. Little did I know that it was also planned to celebrate me and Koy's engagement! The restaurant was wonderful! I had elk skewers for an appetizer, kobe beef, shrimp and whipped sweet potatos for my entre, and the nice waitress brought out chocolate fondu and fruit and cookies for dessert to celebrate our engagement. It was a great night!

The next picture is of me, Koy, Anna, and John in front of one of the shops on Main Street in Park City. We thought the Moose was cute.

The last picture is of me and Koy out in the snow in front of our cabin. The snow was so pretty!

Engaged!!

If you are reading this, you most likely already know the story of how Koy and I met and how he proposed. Since you might not, though, and I am going to use this blog to talk about wedding planning, among other things, I thought I'd go ahead and share the short version of our story.

We met at a Crossfit gym, CFDC, in August of 2008. Koy had just started coaching some of the classes and would always get on to me about going faster or doing more reps. I would just glare at him or have some smart ass comment to say back to him, but I knew it was all in good fun and looked forward to flirting with him in the next class. Then, he asked me out after a workout in October and we went out a few nights later. On our first date, we went to Capitol Pub for drinks and Sushi Axiom for dinner. That was a Thursday night, and we ended up hanging out that Saturday and Sunday as well. We went out to eat and to a bar on Saturday and then to the State Fair on Sunday. We had so much fun together and I think we both just knew it was right from the start. It was nice to not have to play the typical dating games. Anyway, we planned a trip to go skiing in Solitude, Utah near Park City in January of this year with our friends John and Anna. The first day of skiing, I took lessons in the morning by myself and then had lunch with everyone. Later, Koy and I were in the lodge taking a break and we had said that we would meet John and Anna to go on a green together and take pictures on the mountain. Well, I was so exhausted and in pain from the ski boots so I was just going to wait for them in the lodge. Koy was really adamant about us taking pictures on our first day, though, and then John and Anna met us and talked me into going up with them for pictures. So, I basically just fell down the mountain to a place where we were going to take pictures and John and Anna took our picture together and then I started to walk off to get the camera to take John and Anna's picture, but I noticed that Koy wasn't coming and was down on one knee, and then he proposed. I was so surprised that I just kept saying "Seriously? Seriously?"!! He asked if that was my answer, and I said "No, the answer is yes, but seriously?" Ha ha! It was very sweet and the ring was/is gorgeous!!! He did a great job picking it out without my help. We got a lot of pictures of the actual proposal and of us afterwards, which is really cool to have.

So, the wedding planning has now begun. We have set the date for next Spring, April 9, 2011 to be exact. We have picked the place- the Filter Building on Whiterock Lake, our photographers, caterer, and most importantly I have bought my dress!! I love it and can't wait for it to come in next month. Next on the agenda is bridesmaid dresses, groomsmen attire, and rings. It seems like we have plenty of time now, but I'm sure it will fly by!