Jean's Butterfly Touches Blog

Florida bound

2010-02-16T15:09:00.000-08:00

It's less than 24 hours and I will be leaving for Sunny Florida. Catching up and talking my sister's ear off, and probably boring my brother-in-law to death. What can I say they are stuck with me for 2 full weeks. Let's see lots of walking off the pounds scheduled, shopping, knitting and of course more talking.....
Can't wait.

2010 Jean's stepping out of the box,

2010-01-18T14:53:00.000-08:00

It's time to try something new I may be over the hill but not hitting bottom yet. I stepped out of my comfort zone and joined a gym. Yep! I did it and my legs are feeling it. Going back for day 2. Wish me luck. I expect I'll be even be more sore. You can follow my progress on Sparkpeople.com. my Spark page is JVALVERDE1

What a way to start the day.

2009-10-19T11:00:00.000-07:00

Wow! who knew a trip to the restroom would end up with a minor flood. Here I am busy moving furniture around trying to give my computer a little corner of the house when all of a sudden I hear water. Moments later there's water in my room and hallway. It was just water, but still you have to remember I just spent the last two days cleaning. I have the worst luck. If I wash my car it rains, it I clean my house well it floods. Well I was going to say I was going to give up cleaning, but now that I know that housekeeping is a good way to burn calories, I'll just have to cleaning up the flood and record burned calories. I think I'm turning into a health nut.
I'm happy to report I finally found rain pants so now I can keep walking.

Alison lost another tooth

2009-10-16T07:14:00.000-07:00

Alison started Kindergarden this year and is already loosing her teeth. This is number three and the "tooth fairy" just rewarded her with 2 gold coins with a special note from the Fairy...

Soaking wet and stinky too!

2009-10-15T21:41:00.000-07:00

Don't stand next to me, I just finished a 6.4 mile walk and I'm dripping wet. I was thrilled to see my back door, I was so tired I could barely turn the key. I looked like someone who had just run in a race. My legs were like rubber. 2 months ago I could only walk about 30 minutes before throwing in the towel. I walked 2 full hours and burned over 800 calories.

John, Andrea, Quinn and Ashley on Florida vacation

2009-08-17T11:20:00.000-07:00

What great photos of John & his family on a vacation on the beach. Quinn showing off what he learned from his uncle Jeff this summer in Aptos. Great Family Photo taken by John.