Holiday Health Challenge

Guess who's back... Lindsey! And guess who want to try and still be healthier and lose weight...Lindsey! Last winter when I was working at 1800Contacts they had this program during the holiday's called the "Holiday Health Challenge" and I still had the paper so I thought heck why not?! I thought about it a week too late but there is still 6 weeks left in the program. What my plan is I will post the Challenges for the week on the blog and whoever reads this dang thing is more than happy to join in the fun! The next week I will post how I did with the new weeks challenges. Each week also has a theme. This weeks theme is Paint Your Plate.

Eat a total of 5 fruits and vegetables a day, for 5 days this week.

Try a new fruit or vegetable.

Swap juice for a piece of fruit.

Get 20-30grams of fiber in a day this week.

Eat a salad for lunch or dinner this week. Watch what type of dressing you use.

Choose a fruit or vegetable for a snack 2 times this week.

Do 30 min of physical activity for 3 days this week.

Good Luck! 

Parry Family in Town

A few weeks ago the whole Parry family was in town. Mom, Dad, Jason, Karlie, Josslyn, Trevor, Amy, Ava, Savannah, Ben, Lindsey, Morgan...what a flipping blast! It was so fun! We went apple picking at Karlie's uncles house, we went to wheeler farm saw the animals, went on a hay ride, picked out pumpkins in a pumpkin patch, carved/painted pumpkins, had family pictures taken with a tripod, had a fire in the backyard and roasted mallows. Oh goodness! 

Me and Joss picking apples

Ben helping Joss and Ava feed the duckies

Grandpa, Joss, Linds, Ava, and Ben looking at the sheep

Everyones pumpkins minus the neices

Sweet Baby Savannah

Roasted Mallows around the fire pit

Family Picture

Another Family Picture (This ones my favorite)

Provo Halloween Half Marathon

On Oct. 31st we ran the Provo Halloween half Marathon. We had decided that since packet pickup was in Provo the night before we had booked a hotel in Provo so that we didn't have to drive home and then all the way back early early Saturday morning. After we picked up the packets we grabbed some dinner and then checked into the hotel and realized we had forgotten a very important bag at home. So we drove all the way home and back again and during this drive we decided that we would be willing to just wake up early the next year and drive to Provo for the race and save the money on the hotel and have all of our running stuff available at home with us. Anyways, the next morning we had to be to the University Mall by 6am to load buses which took us up Provo canyon. It was a bit unorganized they had quite a few buses and then some of the bus drivers didn't know where to drop us off at and we couldn't see out the windows which was probably a good thing because I have no idea how close we were to the edge of the road/cliff. Finally, they figured out where to drop us off at and there was a huge tent where we waited for about 2 1/2 hours while they just had music playing and a costume contest. It kinda stunk because you're all hyped up and then you wait 2 1/2 hours they hyped upness kinda wears off. It was crazy to see all of the funny costumes though. 

The race finally started at about 930am. It was absolutely gorgeous running down Provo Canyon. Running downhill has it's pro's and con's. For not training for this race basically at all the first 6-7miles went by super quick for me. Ben is a tad bit faster than me so we didn't run it together. He finished in about 3 hours and I did it in about 3 hours 10 min. Not too shabby.