For as long as she could remember Katie struggled with her weight but in 2009 she made the choice to “get healthy once and for all”.  Almost a year and a half later ,Katie had lost 125 pounds! What I appreciate most about Katie’s story is her honesty and down to earth attitude. She openly […]

A week and a half ago, I set a goal to land a jump by the end of the season. Saturday, I landed! It wasn’t a very high jump but I don’t care. For me, it takes a lot of courage to go off the small jumps because they look a lot steeper riding up […]

Sometimes you only have time for a 10 minute kettlebell workout. Other times you only want to workout for 10 minutes. My kettlebell workout in Ohio was one of those times. We filmed this workout in the middle of July when it was hot and humid and a 10 minute kettlebell workout was about all […]

Today when we told the boys we would be leaving the mountain in 6 weeks they sighed in disappointment. I’m surprised after last week’s exhausting “6 day snowboard challenge”. The boys and I decided to snowboard for 6 days in a row. Some of the days were only a few hours long but we managed […]

It’s not often that I sit down and feel I need to write but tonight is one of those nights. On the first of this month, I wrote that I was going to take on a different kind of challenge, forgiveness.  Forgiveness February is what I called it. I had a series of posts I thought I’d […]

Last week, Brent and I met an older couple while riding the lift. We came down the mountain and ended up on the same lift with the couple again. Our third run down the man said, “We’ll just ride up with you guys.” We learned they spent half the year in the Outer Banks where he […]

Last night was the 85th Annual Academy Awards which means it’s time for Girl Heroes 5th Annual Oscar for Best Celebrity Arms. (Here are the previous years Best Celebrity Arms winners  of 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012) Yes, it’s fluffy. Yes, it’s shallow. Yes, like all beauty, it’s subjective. But it’s fun and we all need a bubble bath […]

I’m afraid I’m going to have to bore you for a few more weeks with more snow pictures as we have decided to stay in Colorado until mid April. The original was plan to leave March 1 but Colorado is much too beautiful and snowboarding is much too fun to leave quite yet. Here are some highlights […]

This is the final workout in my beginner kettlebell workout series as Pennsylvania was the last of the 13 original colonies for us to visit. I’ve been dreading editing this kettlebell workout for months. It was our last day in Pennsylvania so I was feeling pressure to get the workout done and I had also woke up on the […]

After 5 years of shuffling papers and sitting at a desk answering phone calls, Suzi decided to follow her heart and make a career change. She left here job as an insurance agent to pursue her passion as a fitness instructor and hasn’t looked back! But perhaps what makes Suzi’s story especially inspiring and unique is her determination […]