Best Week In A Long Time and Day 6

Here is a post that I made on my Sparkpeople blog :) I originally posted it yesterday.:

On Tuesday I found out I received the Employee of the Quarter award for my division at work. I am pretty impressed with that because there are over 1,200 people in my division! Then yesterday I officially found out that I received a new position at work! I'm really excited about it. I'm staying in my same division, but I have different job responsibilities. Then last night I had a great time with friends at my house playing bunco. And because I did all of my cleaning yesterday, I don't have to spend my Saturday doing it!

Today I took my dog for a 3 mile walk. It was pretty hot outside (about 90 degrees) so I did work up a good sweat on my forehead. When I came home I did the Biggest Loser Wii game and did an upper body work out for 16 minutes. That is about all I could handle because upper body is so weak. I hope to strengthen that through out my 30 day streak.

Also, I may have found a new favorite snack! Take some mozzarella cheese (about 1 oz), cut it into chunks and place it on top of a slice of cucumber instead of a cracker. The 2 flavors together tasted great! I'll need to try that snack again later today or tomorrow to make sure it really does taste good and not that it just tasted good because I was hungry

I'm pretty excited about reaching day 6 on my workout streak. I haven't worked out this many days in a row for a LONG time!

Garden and Baby Birds

Back in March or April we planted a garden at the stake plots and we are finally starting to harvest our veggies! We've had tons of summer squash and zucchini so far. I made a stuffed zucchini and baked ziti with zucchini chunks in it. We've also had steamed summer squash. I'm so excited for our tomatoes to turn red! I'm going to learn how to make my own salsa.

Stuffed Zucchini

About a month or so ago a momma bird built a nest on one of our outdoor surround sound speakers. We decided to let her do her thing. We watched her get chubby, lose her chub, start watching her babies hatch, bring them their food and then finally we were able to see their little heads poking out of the nest. It was really cool to watch. The past couple of days the 2 birds started getting bigger and started to flap their wings. We knew any day they would be leaving the nest. This morning we came down stairs and there was only one bird left. Unfortunately he was stuck to the nest! He was hanging upside down, flapping his wings, and trying to get away. Joseph took the ladder to help him back into the nest. The baby bird had some of the nest wrapped around his little feet. Joseph took the baby out of the nest, untangled his feet and placed him back in there. A few hours later we went back to look and the baby bird was gone. It was a neat experience to see them grow up. We even saw one of the babies come back today and land on the hammock outside. We knew it was the baby because his feathers were still fluffy and his beak was still yellow. Here are some pictures from the rescue:

Please don't look at my dirty window :)

And here is a funny picture of Sammy for good measure. Have a great week!