February 15th, 2013- Well another week has flown by. Just spent the 15th Valentine's Day with my best friend, Wendy-my wife. Also, on Valentine's Day we heard from our son Shawn, 21, college student at the University of St. Thomas. He is an Air Force ROTC Cadet and a Mechanical Engineering student. Success just keeps on coming to our boys. Shawn just was informed that he has earned a flight slot in the Air Force. I can hear Kenny Loggins in my head now, "Highway to the danger zone...!" Tom Cruise better look out, because here come our high achieving son, Shawn. I joked with him yesterday about what his call-sign might be. Anyway, we are super happy for him and equally proud of the type of man he is becoming.

We are headed out of town for another one of Zach's wrestling tournaments this weekend. Zach has been very busy working hard at becoming a great wrestler. He joined Innerdrive Wrestling this week and now is wrestling 4 nights a week in practice and tournaments on the weekend. This schedule will continue until State Championships in April. Another thing that happened this week for Zach was youth lacrosse registration. Zach is following in his big brother's footsteps in the Rochester Area Lacrosse. We picked him some new pads, gloves, elbow guards, and a helmet. He is using Shawn's lacrosse stick. Zach is doing great and is just like his big brothers in so many ways. We are super proud of him.

I had a tough week with my workouts, or lack there of. I have been going to the gym across the street from my job, but this week I just was very busy and did not get there until Thursday. So I went 4 days with a workout and I paid the price. I was 221 lbs on Friday last week. I weighed on Wednesday night and found a gain to 226.5. :( Not good! I did get a workout in yesterday though, mostly after the humiliating episode on my scale Wednesday. Then this morning I rode my bike before work. I also started a new Chia Seed/Greek Yoghurt/Fruit smoothie diet plan yesterday. The smoothies are really good and seem to control my hunger. I weighed this morning and I am now back to 222.7. So, heading back in the right direction. My goal is to get down to 195lbs by June 9th for Trinona triathlon in Winona, MN. So, roughly 28 lbs or so to go, which will be no small task. Consistency of workouts in a busy professional's life with a kid in sports is TOUGH!



So, anyway, everyone have a great weekend. I hope by next blog post I will be down in the 210's range. :)