Busy people... just plain busy....

I have so much to blog but so little time. Pictures from Resurrection Sunday (Easter)-

He is Risen! Jesus!

I have pictures of several other things also but have been working 10 hour shifts for a while now, and it's hard enough to get my workouts in let alone blog. And I have a real motivation to keep up my running cause my cousin, Laura, and I are running in the Rock N Roll Half Marathon again this June in Seattle!

I've been doing well on my lengths of runs- I run 9-10 miles every time I run, but with the overtime I've been running an average of 2-3 times a week with no cardio, my goal is to run 4 days a week with 2 days of cardio... see what I'm saying? Last night at work I was really wishing I could just walk out of the shipyard for good... leave all the BS, politics, long hours, the craziness of the workload and how people- management- manages their/my time. Just so tired of it all...

Anyway, so I'm also focusing on my health with the foods I eat- always a struggle. But I'm still loving my vitamix. I've been having a fruit and vegetable smoothie everyday, along with my homemade soup that I've frozen into several servings and take to work for dinner.... now if I could just stop with the candy bars, donuts, french fries, eating after 1 am when I get off work.... ahhhh it's so hard! It's an ongoing challenge...

Anyway I've found a vegetable smoothie that I really like. Here it is... I put a whole Roma tomato, several baby carrots, a small pepper, a ton of kale (my new favorite vegetable) and here's the secret: an orange and a chunk of cucumber! I rarely eat tomatoes and I never eat cucumbers and now I've had alot over the last week. It's awesome! The reason I say the orange and the cucumber are the secret is cause otherwise it just tastes toooo much like a vegetable and the orange totally sweetens it up and the cucumber gives it a real cool refreshing taste- I've never eaten cucumbers before this cause I didn't like them, this machine pulverizes it and just leaves a cool refreshing taste! I love it!

All ready to blend- I add about half a cup of water at the bottom then a ton of ice at the top- my cousin Kimmy said I was being kinda skimpy on my greens so I have really been loading up the kale in my vegetable smoothies and the spinach in my fruit smoothies- spinach is one of the 5 magic vegetables that don't change the taste of the fruit smoothie- so the kids and Jeromy get lots of spinach in their fruit drinks!

This makes 2 large servings. I drink one at home just before work, and the other later while at work. Still haven't convinced the rest of the family on the vegetable smoothies but I am sold. They say they like to chew their vegetables, but for someone like me who hates cooked vegetables this is a miracle!

Yum! My poor tired eyes... but I did run 9 miles today and got all my fruits and vegetables in for the day! Just need prayers to stay away from the vending machine lol!