My awesome client Marian and I at her
This is a pic from my Mad Max/Tank Girl photo shoot last year.....I LOVE the way they came out!!
Just to remind you to help me stay like this by eating in the Zone!!! It's so hard with the holidays coming and man do I LOVE to cook and BAKE!! It's a thorn in my side and it sucks! Why can't I just eat whatever the hell I want!? Right now it would be a big dish of hot gooey home made fruit and cinnamon rolls - extra icing!! Zone?? Oh yea......zone......
I had a great day ysterday and got some PR's then turned around today and did the same!!
She's so tiny we did the pullups on the dip bars - it worked out perfectly! Here I am making sure she comes to full extension at the bottom of the pullups.....Great job today Chloe!!!
My youngest client. She moves like an angel and is super stoked on CrossFit. She's fun to teach and coach and always tries what I dish out to her. Today she learned how to row, push press and jumping pull ups. She pretty much rules! And she's only 5!!! Just think what she'll be like when she's 10 , or 15!!! Amazing athlete!
No they are NOT fake! I've been using this lash conditioner I heard about from my friend and my lashes have grown so long that it's amazing! Only one light coat of mascara and I don't even actually need it anymore! I love this stuff!!!!
We've been converted!!! We love the Warriors and watching basketball.....super fun!!!
The kids were SUPER STOKED to get to see the Warriors b ball game in Oak town last Friday night. We've never been to a game before and man was it fun! They played thre Heat - Shaq's team - we had amazing tickets so we were super close to the guys - they're ginormous! Everybody was in to the vibe of the game and the guys in front of us turned around and hi tened Sarah when the Warriors made the shot that brought them ahead.....we're planning on going back a lot!! We've been to the Sharks and the Warriors within a couple weeks. Next - football!!!!
Brendan and I went to see comedian Dane Cook at the HP Pavillion last Wednesday night and the show was so funny my stomach hurt !! We love his comedy. The only thing missing were the kids - the show is NOT PG.....if you get a chance check him out....funny as hell
So last weekend was the LAST weekend for the Santa Cruz drive-ins. The only drive ins around here - or even San Jozse for that matter. I saw a while back on the Discovery Channel a special on the drive in culture in the United States. Seems there are only something like 16 left in the ENTIRE USA!!! Now there are only 15 left!! Brendan and I have taken the kids many night to see a show bundled up in the back of his pickup.....tons of snacks.....hot coffee.....just loving it! So, I managed to talk a bunch of CrossFit NSC people to partake in the last weekend and see the Bee Movie with Fred Clause. Okay, so the movies weren't all that - but we made it awesome! I cooked a huge pot of Zoned Turkey Chili, cornbread with honey butter and baked up a large batch of chocolate chip cookies dipped in melted chocolate - and white chocolate macadamia nut cookies dipped in white chocolate with sprinkles......as you can see they were a big hit! Here's Hunter, Brendan, Ronnie and Zack all cuddling in the back of my XTerra eating cookies and milk. How cute are they!!??
So this is an older pic - but I love it so much it deserves a re post!! This is my man Brendan and I doing a crazy L pull up workout. I remember when these were hard for me........not any more. I can do plenty now!
Mean faces as we watched the fights break out....we had so much fun together this past weekend! I love taking the kids places and doing things. Tomorrow night we're taking flashlights down to the beach at low tide to play tag.....first one face down in the sand looses.....:)
Brendan and I took the kids to see the Sharks on Saturday night. This is a horrible pic of me!!! I was cold.....We had a great time though and we plan on going back often!Sarah and Brendan were so funny - when we were leaving and stuck in traffic they jumped out of the car and screamed jumped up and down then ran back into the car......see - that's how we roll!!!
Here's Brandon on the Shakespere stage in SC. We went with his class to see The Princess and the Pea and got a backstage tour as well. We had a blast hanging out all day and goofing off. Brendan and I went to see the play "The Tempst" this past summer and the stage in this pic was where it was held in the evening. The redwood trees make a circle and all the chairs were inside the circle....there was little white lights everywhere and we snacked on cheese, crackers and wine while we watched the play. It was very romantic and an awesome night. I've never done that before. I have been doing a lot of new things with Brendan that I have never done before - not even with the husband that i was married 13 years to. Weird .....but so wonderful!!
This picture saya it all....no words needed. What a fuckin sexy man I have !!!! I mean....really. Do men come any better than him ? I haven't seen any. Here's B gettin some WOD at the gym midday. I love training with him and being best friends with him. I can't believe I get to sleep every night beside such a sexy man and wake up to him every day.....I've got to be the luckiest woman alive. Jealous ???
Yup - that's REALLY my aunts name - Gay. She experienced her first ever CrossFit class a couple weeks ago for the first timers class at 9am Saturday....she did awesome!! We ran her through Cindy....5 pullups, 10 pushups, 15 squats and a 400 meter run as many rounds as you can in 20 minutes....I haven't heard from her since :)
The CrossFit Certification Seminar took place at our new spot - XFit North Santa Cruz the end of October. We had over 100 participants there and many other trainers from all over checking out our new home. This is a pic of my son Brandon working the store for the seminar. we didn't have much time to make the place look as awesome as we wanted, but the shirts and pants were made and ready for sale. We sold almost all our entire stock and now everybody all over the world will be sporting our new logo and NSC shirts!!
This Halloween was the first time since being a kid that Brendan carved a pumpkin. The kids and I took him to the pumpkin patch along highway 1 and we ran through corn field mazes and got huge pumpkins. Of course Brendan carved his with "XFIT NSC" - duh! We had a blast......
