TGFweekends

Wasn't it just the best weekend ever? The weather was great and we had great company. My sister-in-law, Nicole came down this weekend. We always have a great time, for me it's like an adult sized play date.

We went to the Mall of Turtle Creek in Jonesboro, ate at Chili's where we saw Tara from Dear Momma, and then of course, we had to travel to Helena to eat crab legs. Always a must when Nicole visits.

Sunday, the real fun kicked in. No kids, they all went to the grandparents house. Sunday was Boot Camp Day. We both exercised with the Wii for over an hour each. Nicole is the Wii Master. She didn't complain, much, just a bunch of "Oh, Snap that hurts." and kept right on truckin'. Me, on the other hand, provided much entertainment for all to see. Nicole was all matchy with her workout clothes, me, I had on my white Donate for life Tee shirt with my CHRISTMAS pj bottoms. I'm talking, I was so stylish, I could have been on the model runway!

I learned a new Yoga Pose, called the Shoulder Stand. The correct way to do the Shoulder Stand...

The Wii Fit Trainer did it perfectly, the guy in the above picture did it perfectly, and Nicole did it perfectly, Kaye failed. If the Wii could measure this pose I would have been lower than a Couch Potato.
Nicole giving me the you better not put a shot of my rear end on your blog look.

The deal is to slowly raise both legs, at the same time with your hands firmly on the floor, slowly push your legs all the way to the floor behind your head...

finally bring your hands to your lower back and stretch your toes to the sky feeling nothing but good energies exploding from your toes.
Nicole did this. I will not post that picture because I like her and want her to come back to visit.

First of all, I'm 35, unfit, unbalanced, and fat. I could not raise my legs AT THE SAME TIME slowly over my head. I had to rock back with my hands already behind be to get a "runnning" start. It took me 5 tries to just get my legs up. On the 6th try I got them over my head and my hands under my back. I must say, that I believe that the person who brain stormed and came up with this pose has absolutely NO CLEAVAGE. I thought "If I don't choke from having my neck all contorted, I'm going to smother to death, death by cleavage." Wouldn't that be fun to explain. "She was just doing the shoulder stand and suffocated from her own cleavage." Right there is my 15 minutes of fame. You know the Memphis News would be all over that one.
There is a video of me doing this and there is a picture of me doing this pose, but you will NEVER NEVER NEVER see it. Never. I am proof that God does have a sense of humor, a darn good one at that!
Pretty sure if I couldn't do the shoulder stand...none of this...

or this will ever happen at the Butler Diaries. My goodness...who are these people? My toes would break.


The last part of the boot camp was Tennis. We are not professionals. We played at Village Creek State Park, where there are four courts, we played every single court, in one game, cause we're BAD like that. We fished all three tennis balls out of the creek, more than once. We also decided that we could win a match against the Williams sisters. Our strategy would be to Daze and Confuse, they would never know which way the ball was coming. Cause we're bad like that. Real bad.

Prayer update, I have noticed a tremendous change in both the girls attitudes since changing our method of Prayer. Nicole even mentioned how different they were this weekend.