sort of new post....

Hooooo kay. Well lets just recap. No funny business....straight to the bullet points.
- I am a p90x grad! No big deal or anything....but I lost 9 ¾ inches over my whole body. So crazy weird. I knew the changes weren’t going to be crazy drastic, but 9 inches is pretty intense. I do see the results so I am pretty pumped for that. now it is just maintaining and continuing in my journey.
- Speaking of continuing, I am almost through Insanity. Let me tell you, the name is fooor reallsy. Like literally I think to myself that I am crazy for doing these things. Just plain crazy. But it is fun. I like doing these kinda workouts. Just to push myself. I highly suggest it to anyone!
- Went to lake powell and it was a delight. We hiked this trail called cathedral canyon. It was like a ropes course. First we had to shimmy up a crack, later we found out we could rock climb up the side which was precarious, then we had to climb a rope up like a 20 foot wall. With just a rope. Straight up wall. The next task was rock climbing up another wall. But this one was a waterfallish. It was like 8 feet high. There were little toe stubs to climb up. Brandon got up successfully and then helped everyone else up. the 8 foot waterfall acted like a slide so when you fell it was just a slide. Pretty cool. Then we had to walk in SCORCHING hot sand. All of us did not have shoes on. So we sprinted soo fast through the sand. It was worth it though. The end was this huge bowl shaped rock that was hundreds of feet tall. During a storm a waterfall cascades down. I wish I could have seen that. but I loved that hike.
- So lp was great as usual. I did a power slide. Ballin!
- Then I got to go home. Home is always nice.
- Surprise! I then got to go to new York! It was so fun. I hung out with my mom the whole time and it was a good bonding experience. We were there for 4 nights and we saw 5 plays. Literally my best thing ever. We saw Mary Poppins, Evita, Voca People and my favorites Newsies and Once.
- Lotoja
- Back in school! Volleyball! I am coaching and playing so imma be crazy!
- I don’t feel like typing....sooo lates man. Lates.

my garden has a tree in it that another puppy wants to pee on...

Sunday I had the opportunity to listen to one of my friends, Quinten, analogies. Man this one was a dooozy. I was a garden. I had a tree in my garden. But there was a puppy that wanted to pee on my tree that was in my garden. That’s the gist of it. You try to figure it out.

So the p90x has been solid since the beginning of the semester. I love the program, but I am excited to finish it and have a break. I am even more excited to start it again in the fall…..

Speaking of the fall, I have decided to stay up at school even though I am off track. I was weighing the pros and cons and I really think that staying up here will be best. I haven’t written out my pros and cons so I guess this is a good time as ever

Cons:
Wont be home
Will live in Rexburg
School for like 5 semesters in a row
Some friends are leaving
Might not get into the apt I want
My dogs wont be here
My family wont be here
I wont have a job
And probably more…but that’s all I can think of right now

Pros:
Class I take now will take a load off my last two semesters.
I wont have to have a stupid job
Better social scene
Competitive volleyball
My friends are here
My ward is awesome
A certain boy will be here in the fall….
An plenty more

So that’s the list. It seems that the cons are larger, but the gravity of the pros outweighs the cons. At least I think. It is weird to make these decisions. Its weird that I am 21, oh bee tee dubs I had a bday recently. Thanks for telling me happy birthday….but I think I realize that I need to trust the Lord. Work with him. I am making this decision with good faith that it is the right one. If it turns out to be wrong, then the Lord will let me know. I am going in this direction for now though. Hopefully I can get into the same apt as sarah or else that would suck. Slash I hope I can get in the ridge in general. I am on the waiting list, which sucks. I wish I knew earlier that I was going to stay up here, but oh well.

I was looking at other housing and there is nowhere else I would want to live… so I really really hope I can live at the ridge.

Lets see… tomorrow I will float down a river for like 4 hours. Great day to be in ‘Merica. Land of the fre’.
I went on a date the other night. That’s where the whole garden and tree thing comes to play. Figure it out yet? Anywho. My roommate tells me she think he really likes me. I am unsure yet of how I feel. I don’t know him very well and there are only 2 and a half weeks left in the semester. So not looking for a last chance hook up.

Anyway. 2 and a half weeks til I am home, 3 and a half weeks til I am at lake powell. So pumped its insane.

Xoxo

GG

week three

so we are in week three of P90X and boy its feels good. i think our favorite part of the whole program is hearing Tony, the main instructor guy, and all of his sayings. some of our faves are "bring it", "do your best and forget the rest", "german potato soup", "pam the blam", "hip, hop 'n raise" and so many more. but the all time favorite is when he introduces ab ripper X. he says "Ab ripper X, i hate it" then he pauses, tilts his head, and puts out his hand, "but i love it".

so i love this program. i love the fact that i can feel myself building muscle. its incredible. its only week three but i feel so powerful. sure i am dead tired by the end of the day, i hate it, but i love it. hahah my favorite line. but in all seriousness i think this program is teaching me a lot. both sarah and i love it because we dont have to worry about what we are going to have to do that day for workout. we just pop in the right CD and BAM we have our workout.

um other cool happenings. i am coaching a mens volleyball team for our competitive league at school. super exciting. yesterday was our first practice. at first it was a little shaky because i am not used to being in charge during a practice. after a rough first half hour, i sort of fell into the coaching position. then drills came more naturally. time will tell if i am a good coach. i hope i can learn through this experience. also, i hope i can win. haahh i hate losing sooo... that would be neat to win. thats about it. life is busy, but busy good. between school, p90x, hw, coaching, i am soo glad to be sleeping by the end of the night. seriously. last night i slept for a straight nine hours. ok.... now that doesnt sound that much for some of y'all. but for me thats awesome. i usually dont sleep throughout the whole night. i wake up often. so a whole 9 hours is great. that just proves to me that p90x is working. im pushing my body. i love it! haha well its easy to see i am in a great mood. life is good today. got my toes in the water, my toes in the sand, and a cold beer in my hand. life is good today. bee tee dubs, thats a song. zac brown band. look it up. umm.

thats about it. nothing more, nothing less.

xoxo

kimmah

P90X

well the debut of P90X pictures in about to come forth. now these pictures are not for the faint of heart. they are also the before pictures in our story. 

• this is a true story of the journey of two big butt roommates who want to see the their potential as not-as-big-butt roommates. they want to see how their bodies can become the most incredible machines possible. they want to try to have a more intuitive feel of their bodies. through sweat and hard work they will succeed, using each other as support. these pictures were a harsh reality of what does not work. results are given easily, but GOOD results need hard work. they know that if they expect certain results, the required work must be done. there is not easy way. no quick way. 

We have decided. We are committed. We will succeed. 

 my beginning

 a harsh truth

 my determination

 sarah's beginning

 her commitment

her determination.

now i am hesitant to put these pictures on this blog for many reasons. most of them obvious and common. but i need to show the starting point. the journey is not going to pretty. even the end result might not be profound, but the lessons being learned along the way are most important. we are learning life skills that will help our future families live healthy life styles. in a world where fast food dominates, the home can still control what is allowed inside.

so, my thousands of followers, watch or even join us. it doesnt have to be p90x, or any other crazy ridiculous program, but it does have to be a change. if what you are looking at is not satisfying, you can change it! sure, it is going to suck sometimes. sure, you are going to cave and have a piece of red velvet cake, then you are going to forgive yourself. sure, you will want to punch someone when the scale doesnt say what the work you put in says. its frustrating, but all of that should make you work harder and strive to be better. i have watched people's bodies around me become incredible machines. our bodies WANT to be healthy. this is our body, our choice. its a choice only we can make for ourselves. so lets make good choices. lets say no to the cookie and yes to taking the stairs. no to watching tv for 5 hours and yes for playing in a park. no to our generation of fast food and yes to a generation changing the norms. lets make healthy be the norm. obesity is a climbing common sight. how about healthy being the climbing common sight?

i'm in. are you?

Bring it.

xoxo
Kimberly

p.s. im done talking.

me thoughts

welp, the end of the semester is in sight. alls i gotta do is finish my 12 page paper and another 8 pager paper and create two portfolios and im done....what?? ugh i know. but im soooo close. things to look foreward too are (da da da daaaahh bulltion formation)

• spring semester P90x is going to shape my life. sarah and i are going to get so swole. hahah really though. im super pumped. i have see what counting calories does, now if i can ad p90x. life is good. im so pumped for that and so is sarah. we shall be doing a before and after and during pictures...prob be posted on here. sooo check back soon my wonderous followers.
• going home and having a variety of food choices. mmmm. to name a few the habit, genki sushi, in n out, itaila deli. cant wait
• i guess seeing my family fits in here. haha really though it does. i miss them.
• speaking of family, the babies. i think i am most excited for them. i always am.
• also, my dogs. i had a great dream last night of seeing my puppy corkey sue. she is in heaven being Jesus' friend. but in my dream we played and had sucha fun time. she let me kiss her now which she never let me do. im glad i get to see her in my dreams.
• banana phone
• possibly disneyland/six flags and for sure a dodger game. i usually dont like dodger games, but i do now. weird eh?
• beach...idk why this one was so delayed....
• running/ hiking on my trails
• i am pretty sure easter is around the time i am home. so that is neat.

so here is my struggle. dont get too excited its not that big of a deal. it invovles the hunger games. let me start out by saying i will end up seeing the movie, just letting y'all know of my precautions. welp i read the book. at first read i wondered if i liked the book. it was written well, buthte concept kind of irked me. anywho. i have a picture of what it all looks like in my head. i dont want the integrity of that to be ruined. if that makes sense. so i am heisitant to see the movie. that being said i am also curious.

life is good. i havent really been thinking about a whole lot lately. just trying to get through the last couple of weeks of school.

um ryder, my roommates dog is huge. like he is a real dog now.

xoxo

kk spesh

pick me ups

umm so a dear friend, john apgar/ i dont really know is last name. he has a great laugh. gahl. if i could do his laugh my life would be instantly better. um. anywho. i met him my freshman year and i havent seen him that much since then, now im in my junior year. but he works at albertsons, thats where i get my food. soo naturally i have bumped into him many a times. this last time i saw him he walked me out to my car and said, "kim, i just have to say you look great". i know right? i stopped and looked at him with a wide mouth and just smiled. of course i said thank you. but it just made me instantly feel great. i wasnt necessarily having a bad day, but the compliment couldnt have come at a better time.

just for all those wandering questions, john is a friend. has been and always will be. he and his girlfriend have been dating since last September. i joke with him that a great graduation gift to himself would be to propose to her. i mean they are going pretty slow in MST (Mormon Standard Time).

welp, life is good today.

xoxo.

round up

this last month was hard. no joke straight up difficult. all of it was mentally. i always play head games with myself with ALWAYS makes me go insane. but i think its all good. i had some great spiritual experiences which have helped me overcome some internal struggles. nothing super awesome that i can recall has happened. i guess a couple. sarah and i have started counting calories. its so tetious and annoying, but also good because i have to make what i eat count. so, its a great help for me to start eating right. also, my roommate and her bf got a puppy!!!!!! his name is ryder and he is the cutest lil guy ever. gahl. i love him. a great snuggle buddy and he has puppy breaths. stinky but irrisitable. ill write more when i can think. i am just procrastinating my hw. soo. yikes.

xoxo