Another week with the Ennis'

A little breakdown of our week (and this post will be short on pictures..I just didn't take many this week, so sorry in advance. :) :

Monday: We went to Starkville to David's grandparents house to eat supper with them and his mom who was in town. David's mom is a Lt. Col. in the Air Force Reserves and does her drill time at the AFB in Colombus once a month. She stays with her folks in Starkville since it's so close, and it worked out for us to drive over there this trip. Nana and Grandad have a cute little dog that wreaked absolute havoc on my already messed-up-as-of-late allergies and by the time we left, my eyes were nearly swollen shut. I don't know what's been going on with them lately, but sometimes (and usually when I'm around animals), my eyes itch so bad I could literally scratch them right out of my head.

Tuesday: We fed the missioaries from church. We grilled out hamburgers and had fresh corn on the cob that I bought from old man selling them on the side of the road (15 ears for $6!!), roasted potatoes, and chocolate oreo pie for dessert. And that should tell you how my six-week body makeover is going. Makeover-shmakeover. At least I'm still going to the gym like I should. I have, however, started doing the elliptical and running again, and beginning to run again is way harder than I had ever imagined, probably because there is just a lot more jiggling and bouncing than there used to be. If nothing else, it's good motivation to just keep on running. Now, if I could just run for a decent stretch without my shins hurting, that would be great. Any suggestions?

Wednesday: We went to play in the sprinkler at my friend Jessica's house. We had a lot of fun. Another friend, Annalie came, and she brought these cutsie homemade popsicles that were red white and blue. Jessica took a bunch of pictures and said she'd share...right, Jessica? :)

Thursday: The kids and I headed to Prattville to do my mom's Pampered Chef show on Thursday night, and we left David in Tuscaloosa to do school, school, and more school. He is in the middle of doing research for a paper, writing outlines, doing mock trials, and a bunch of other boring-sounding school stuff that I am so glad I don't have to do anymore. He's my hero for putting himself through this to provide a comfortable living for our family, and so I don't have to work a full-time job and can stay home with our kids. Mwah, Davey. (I just blew you a kiss).

Friday: Since we were in Prattville anyway, I decided to stay for the day since David is covered up to his neck in school stuff. We tend to distract him when we're around. Mom had to work, but I went over to Wetumpka and went to the Y and worked out with my friend Laura who lives there in Wetumpka. She ran over two-freaking miles on the treadmill, and told me just before she got on it that she would usually only run for 1 minute intervals at a time! Go Laura! She wants to run a 5K in December, and I'd say she's well on her way! After the gym we went back to her place and got ready for the day, then took our kids (she has a five year old boy, Connor, and a 17 month old boy, Matthew) to a play at that the Jacksonville Children's Theater was in town putting on. It was called Little Red Reading Hood, and I actually enjoyed myself as well. It was Ethan's first play, and he and Sara Katherine (surprisngly so) were so good. After the play we headed back to mom's, ate dinner with her and headed back to Daddy in Tuscaloosa, who was so happy to see us.

Saturday: I had a Pampered Chef meeting up in Hoover at my cousin's house, who happens to be the director. My friend, Angie, who also sells Pampered Chef, and I rode up there together. I am seriously so excited about Pampered Chef. I feel like I'm doing exactly what I should be doing. David is so supportive, and I am very grateful for that. After I got home from the meeting, I watched my friend, Kelli's, kids while she and her husband Cole went to lunch and movie for Cole's birthday. I made a new recipe of Saucy Porkchops for dinner and we rented a movie. I like nights like that.

Sunday: Sat through church where it was so cold you could have hung meat. Came home, ate lunch, chatted with my visiting teachers from church for awhile, and took a three hour nap with Sara Katherine. Yum. David and Ethan napped in the chair. I woke up at 6pm, the exact time our friends JJ and Joane and their baby John David were coming over to play games with us. Of course, dinner wasn't made. I made a Mexican salad (our meatless dinner for the week...I try to do one a week, much to David's shagrin!), and a chocolate chip cake for dessert, which thankfully weren't too complicated to prepare, then we got on with the game playing. We played a new game called Ticket to Ride, and then, my favorite, Settlers of Catan. There are those of you from my Boston days particularly, who know just how awesomely fun and addicting this game is. If you'd like to buy it, my friends Peter and Kira sell it on their game website store at www.varietyaccess.com . After JJ and Joane left, I cleaned the kitchen, we read some scriptures, David and the kids went to bed, and now I'm ready to crash! My three-hour nap really messed me up, but now that it's 1:30am, I'm pretty tired again!

I have another Pampered Chef show this coming week at my friend Emily's house up in Huntsville (yay!) and then the kids and I will head down to my Granny's house toward the end of the week to visit my cousin and his wife and their new baby that will be there visiting from Florida. I already have mega baby fever, so I know this trip will probably not help that, but I am so excited to see my cousins and meet their little one that they prayed so much for. We leave a week from today to start vacation with the Ennis family. The summer is flying by! Below are some pictures from Jared and Sarae's wedding over Memorial Day weekend. I don't know why they're so small, but probably has something to do with the fact I lifted them off our cousin's Sarah's facebook acct. Oh well. Enjoy anyway!
The happy couple
Jay and Mary's little boy, Bradley. I LOVE this picture of him.
Addisyn and Sara Katherine dancing at the reception. This is my favorite dress of SK's and I got it for $4.99 at the Children's Place Outlet when we were at the beach in May! LOVE it! Wish you could see it better!

Happy Daddy's Day.

For Father's Day this year, I had Ethan help me wrap David's presents. I got him a pretty blue button-up shirt, a black-striped polo shirt, and an Alabama hoodie, all for $15 (thanks to TJ Maxx clearance!!). We also got him some of his favorite candy (Werther's Originals and Rice Krispie Treats), and a book called "Why I love my daddy." And the kids scribbled on a card for him. We made homemade Seasame Chicken with rice and Sugar Snap peas (because David calls Sara Katherine his "Sugar Snap") for dinner, and as a bonus, we all got to take a three hour nap because we were all worn slam out from another busy weekend.

I have to say that I feel so incredibly blessed to have David be the father of our children. I love to watch David interact with Ethan and Sara Katherine. He teaches me so much about the art of just playing with them, taking time out of things that need to be done to take advantage of teaching opportunities and enjoying sweet, simple moments. A few weeks ago, I was cleaning the bathroom and the kids were outside in the backyard with David. I stopped and looked out the window and watched as he was playing baseball with them, stopping and taking time to explain everything as they played. He would run the bases and act silly and it was so precious that I just stood there in the bathroom and cried. I am impressed with the way David so patiently explains everything to Ethan and Sara Katherine. It can be about something as simple as why we don't need to leave the door open (because it makes the air conditioning come on when it doesn't need to and because Sister could get out and go to the road) to things as complex as why the sun is hot. Every time I hear him explaining things like this, I make a mental note to myself to try to do this more often with the kids. David's brother Andrew tells David that he talks to Ethan like he's ten years old. Yes, he does, and I believe Ethan will be smarter for it.

I'm also appreciative of the very hands-on roll David takes in raising our kids. I very rarely ever bathe our children. If he's home, he changes diapers, gets juice cups, and gives me a break without me even having to ask. David would rather spend time with his kids than do anything else (even schoolwork!), and I think that is one of the things I love most about him. This is exactly the kind of father I had imagined and hoped for for my children. They absolutely adore and idolize him, and I'm glad. I have no doubt that when they are older, going on missions, getting married, and moving on with their own lives, they're going to look back on their childhood and growing up years and recall them with fondness, because they had a dad that doted on them, spent time with them, talked plainly with them, and loved their mother. We are so blessed, and we love you so much.

My little girl has pigtails.

Another busy week!

Life for the Ennis family refuses to slow down! But, I like being busy, most of the time, and I would probably complain if it were any other way. I am amazed at how fast this year is going. We're halfway through June! Someone at church yesterday asked how much longer we had in Tuscaloosa, and as I thought about it and realized it was less than a year, it shocked me! Slow down, life!

Sara Katherine's 15 month check up went well. She's healthy and perfectly proportioned height/weight wise. She only weighs 23 pounds, skinny little thing. I looked up how much Ethan weighed at his 15 month check up and he was already 28 pounds! Sara Katherine is still in size 3 diapers! The doctor did tell me something that surprised me, though. He said based on her height/weight history, she is only projected to be about 5'5", which is surprising. David is 6' and I'm in the 5'7", 5'8" range, depending on how much i'm slouching, so 5'5" was a surprise. I hope for her sake she can pull another few inches out. If she winds up with my body type, she's going to need a little extra height to spread the weight out when it comes!

We played at the big water fountain at Shelby Park with Jessica and Nixon on Tuesday, and I got my hair cut on Wednesday. I'm growing it out because as precious as I thought it was short, I just never had time (and never wanted to take the time) to do it the way it needed to be done (stupid curly hair), so I'm growing it out. I don't want it super long, but David is excited to get some length back on it.

Thursday night I did my step-sister, Gena's, Pampered Chef show at her house in Wetumpka. Ethan and Sara Katherine got to stay with Poppa and Granny Marsh (my dad and step-mom) while I did Gena's show. They don't get to see them a whole lot, and hardly ever at their house, so I was glad they had an opportunity to spend time with them. Dad went out and bought them both happy meals and toys. My dad is a U.S. Marshal, so he bought Ethan a gun with a sherriff badge and he was strutting around all proud wearing his badge, "just like my Poppa's". Dad had bought them both these sippy cup things with crazy straws on them and when I picked them up at 9pm, Ethan as slurping on Diet Dr. Pepper out of his cup. "Um, Dad. It's 9pm and my kid is drinking Dr. Pepper." Dad - "Well it doesn't have any sugar in it!" Ethan did not go to bed that night until 2am. Oh well. Grandparents are supposed to spoil their grandkids, right? Gena ended up having a really good show, and I am realizing more and more how much I am going to love doing this. I feel totally at home standing in front of people cooking and talking about food and good products. I do my mom's show this Thursday and she has 13 people that have RSVP'd. I am so excited!

Our weekend was CRAZY busy. It was my ten-year high school reunion. The activity for Friday night was a Montgomery Biscuits game (minor league baseball), but I just wasn't up for it because I knew we would just be chasing Ethan and Sara Katherine up and down stairs all night. So, we decided to take Ethan to his first-ever movie at the movie theater instead (well, we went before he was a year old, but that doesn't count). We went to go see the new Indiana Jones movie (in which I was TOTALLY disappointed), and my brother Jason came too. Ethan was really good. He sat in either mine or David's lap the whole time and munched on his popcorn and never remembered to whipser, but it was fun.
Saturday at lunch there was a picnic at a park downtown for the reunion festivities. It was so flipping hot, and there weren't just tons of people there, but it was fun. One of the guys I graduated with owns one of moonwalk bouncy things for kids company, so the kids got really hot jumping on those, but there were snowcones. The picnic was a good way to break the ice and try to remember people's names you haven't seen in ten years. Saturday afternoon, we headed to Wetumpka to visit my friend Laura and see her new house, then we went out to my step-sister's daughter's first birthday party, which was way cute.
Gracie, chowing down.

My very skinny mom.

On our way back, we stopped at the Enslen home to visit Bryant and Jessica who are in town visiting from Arizona. Jessica sells these really cool candle-like things. The company is called Scentsy, and if it weren't against my contract with Pampered Chef, I would probably sell these at my Pampered Chef show, they are so cool. It's kind of like those party-lite candles, but bettter. You buy a burner that doesn't have a flame, just a bulb that melts wax cubes, but the wax never gets hot enough to burn you and the smell is REALLY fragrant and one of the burners can smell up my whole house. Check out the website at scentsy.com . They are the next big thing as far as candles are concerned. After we left the Enslens, we headed back to Prattville to get ready for the reunion. It was at the Robert Trent Jones Clubhouse in Prattville, and it was seriously SO fun. Everyone had such a good time. Another guy we graduated with is now a professional DJ, so he did the music and the food was SO good. Roast beef, shrimp, lots of cheese, chicken fingers. It was YUMMY! And, out of the 335 people I graduated with, I am convinced that AT LEAST half of us were there. It was so good to catch up with people and see what people have done with their lives.
The Heidi Simpson arm trick...do you think it works??





Sunday morning we got up early to go to church in Tuscaloosa. We were all really exhausted and ended up taking a three hour nap together Sunday afternoon after lunch. So, that's my crazy week. I know it's probably kind of boring to most, but this doubles as my journal right now, so just skip over the parts you think aren't interesting!

Oh, and Ethan got a haircut. We're going to try a spike this time. He was SO good getting his hair cut. He's NEVER that good for me or David, so it's worth the $12 to pay someone else to do it!

And, as a sidenote, at dinner one night, David thought it'd be a swell idea to see how many grapes he could fit in his mouth at once. For all inquiring minds, THIS is how many.




Until next week...

Nice weekend...

We had a good weekend. Friday afternoon we went up to Decatur to visit with one of my best friends from college, Sara and her family. Our kids are practically the exact same age. Her first son and Ethan are 15 days apart, and her second son and Sara Katherine are 8 days apart. Eerie, I know. Anyway, Sara made us lots of yummy food, we got to sneak away by ourselves for a little while to get half-price Route 44 Diet Dr. Peppers from Sonic and hit up this awesome bargain store where you leave with bagfuls of stuff that is a really good deal, but that you didn't really know you needed until you saw it. Actually, stuff you probably didn't need at all. I got three cookbooks for about $15. And I mean nice ones. We both got a Better Homes and Gardens cookbook for $6.50, and I got two other nice ones for $5 each. (For those of you who may not know, I have a cookbook obsession. I seriously sit and read them like novels). I am a sucker for some cookbooks. Saturday afternoon Sara hosted my very first Pampered Chef show.Sara, the happy hostess.
I made a Three Cheese Garden Pizza and Tuxedo Brownie Cups. Yum-o!David and Blasen (Sara's husband) took the kids to the park during the show where the kids exhausted themselves shooting each other with water guns. My first show went well. I can tell I'm really going to enjoy doing this. Cooking and talking about what I'm doing at the same time is going to take some practice so I don't slice my finger off or something, but I can tell it's going to be a lot of fun. I love cooking and things that make cooking easier. This is the beginning of a beautiful relationship. :) We got home last night about 10pm, and we just slid Ethan right into bed. He never knew we had even taken him out of the car. Sara Katherine got just enough of a nap and was up until her daddy made her lay down and go to sleep. We had a great Sunday too. I could tell it was going to be a good day when we actually made it to church in time to get a program (no matter how hard we try, we usually walk in at some point during the opening hymn). Cousin Janna came and spent the afternoon with us and stayed for supper, and our friend Austen and his fiance Lindsay came to eat supper with us as well, and as a bonus, Ethan pooped in the potty! Acutally, we're not sure exactly when he did it, we just found it. But I was thrilled to find it! But now this means I have to get really serious about potty training and with all the going we're doing this summer, that will be hard. I'm still tempted to put it off until August when we're back here for good and settled down a bit. We'll see. Also, we made it an entire day with no TV today. Actually, we did watch a church video, but no other TV of any kind, and I'm proud as punch about that. David and I both have felt lately that we're gravitating to the TV too much when there are other things we could or should be doing. I say if we can't give it up at least one day a week, then we're waaaayyy to attached to it. And, it's good for Ethan to know that Sunday is a special different day from the other days of the week. I guess three hours of church may clue him into that, but we'll try this too. So, hopefully we'll be able to keep that up. While Janna was here I worked on organizing the huge pile of recipes that have accumulated over the last few months that I clip out of magazines and such and am working to get into my recipe books. I love having projects like that to do. So, that was our weekend. It's the start of another busy week for us. David has school and needs to get cracking on the research paper he has to have written before he goes to field training next month (and that is in addition to the two classes he's taking right now), and Ethan's little social calendar is already filling up with play dates. Sara Katherine has her 15 month checkup tomorrow, I have a Pampered Chef show at my step-sister's house in Wetumpka this Thursday, then we're staying through the weekend in Prattville for my TEN-YEAR high school reunion. It's a weekend extravaganza, and aside from the fact I'm a good chunk heavier than I was in high school, I'm really looking forward to it. Oh, and tomorrow, I start my six-week body makeover, for real. My fridge is stocked with tons of fresh veggies and chicken breast and I think I'm going to make David hide the salt. And I would seriously appreciate your prayers. And I'm not kidding. Have a great week! Sara Katherine and Zade playing in the tub before we left.
Ethan told me he was going to "cool off". This is where I found him. And seriously, Sara Katherine's hair is just out of control, and she's not fond of keeping it out of her face, so....
This was hilarious. After dinner tonight, we're sitting in the living room chit-chatting. Sara Katherine disappears into the kitchen and we hear dishes clanging...we go into the kitchen, and she has climbed up on the table and has what is left of the pork roast I made for dinner, still a good sized chunk, in her hands, knawing away. We all got a great laugh out of it. I didn't realize she was such a good climber!

Yes, okay. Because I really need ONE more thing to do, I have decided to start selling Pampered Chef. My cousin Carrie who lives in Hoover has been doing it for 11 years and is a director and makes boo-koodles of money and gets to go on all these awesome trips for free, plus her kitchen is STOCKED with all this cool Pampered Chef equipment that I absolutely drool over. I love Pampered Chef so much that when I got married, I actually had a Pampered Chef shower that Carrie threw for me. I got lots of good stuff then, but they're always coming out with newer, better stuff, and I've always been pleased with my products. Carrie has been trying to get me to sell the stuff for years, and when I finally decided to do it is a few months ago when she was here in Tuscaloosa doing a show at my house and I was spouting off all the details about why I like so and so particular product so much and the benefits of so and so other product. I was like, shoot, I can sell this stuff by myself! So, I'm going to give it a go. So now, I ask, who wants to have a show for me??? (And for you too because you get oodles of free stuff). Even if you're far, far away, you can do a catalog show and still get free stuff. So, who is going to make my day first?? PS..Because I have posted like, a gazillion things tonight, it's already knocked one of my new posts from today (the rest of the beach pictures) down to the older posts section, if you care. :)

Decoration

For those of you who may not be familiar with this tradition, let me explain what "Decoration" is. (I have lived in Alabama almost my entire life, and even I didn't know what it was until I married into the Ennis family). In small Southern towns throughout the deep south, there is a tradition to gather families sometime around Memorial Day (Decoration dates differ from town-to-town), to put new flowers on family's graves and to have a sort of family reunion and talk about their loved ones who have passed on. It's a sweet tradition, and one that David's family has been doing for years and years and years. David's grandparents on his dad's side both died when David was very young, so he never really knew them. It's a good opportunity for his family to gather and tell stories about "Maw Maw" and "Paw Paw" and he feels like he has sort of come to know them through these stories. It's always hotter than the hinges of hadies, but it's a day we always enjoy. There is tons of good food, and yesterday was no exception. Good thing I hadn't already started my six-week body makeover! I made a chicken/broccoli/rotini casserole and a homemade peach-pie, but there was also lasanga, a ham and potato casserole and a couple chicken casseroles as well as a chocolate cobbler (that had THREE cups of sugar in it and every bit as good and yet as bad for you as it sounds), banana pudding, what was left of the four-layer pistacchio dessert, and these awesome chocolate/marshmellow/peanut/rice krispie treat cookies Nicole makes. Man, those were good. And now, it is time to start eating like a responsible adult with 30 or so pounds to lose. :)

Birthday Party #2

So, those of you who have been visiting my blog for awhile will remember back in February for my birthday, Cheyenne made me an AWESOME birthday lunch. Wanting to repay the favor, I invited her and her husband, Aubrey, and little Olivia over to celebrate her and Dave's birthdays together since they were both on Friday. I also invited David's best friend, Cole and his family. David had been hometeaching that day with his friend Austen Hansen, and because Austen always tells me nice things about my cooking when he eats with us, I invited him too. I would like to have made it a bigger party, but David decided he wanted to eat steak. Yes, steak. (Good thing he is going to be an attorney!). Being from Nebraska, Cheyenne is a steak and potatoes girl through-and-through, so it was really the perfect meal. But steaks are expensive, so I didn't feel like I could invite the whole world. :( Anyway, I waited and watched for good steaks to go on sale, then I marinated them and Dave the grill-master grilled them up while Cheyenne and Kelli helped me make cubed, boiled new potatoes with butter (per birthday-king David's request), fresh corn on the cob, and homemade onion rings. (Another recipe I will have to share...one of my favorites! And Kelli and Cheyenne are a great tag-team making those onion rings!) Again, David not being a cake person requested a pistachio-pudding four-layer dessert that we thought was really good. We filled up the kiddy pool in the back for the kids to splash around in while David was grilling, but all we really accomplished was making a muddy mess out of our back yard, Ethan and Sara Katherine getting about 3000 mosquito bites apiece (okay, maybe 3000 is stretching it a bit...), and getting Cole and Kelli's son, Grant, who didn't want to get in the pool really, really muddy. I'm trying to let go and let my kids make some messes for me to clean up so they can have some memories. :) It was a nice night. So, happy birthday to two of my favorite people who happen to share the same birthday!

Happy Birthday David!

So my sweet husband turned 26 on Friday (along with Cheyenne who did not turn 26! :) And, as added bonus, my friend Jenny Sue had her baby, Lucas Emerson, on Friday as well (and he already has cute, pinchable cheeks!). I let David decide what he wanted to eat for dinner on Friday night. He picked, of course, his favorite meal of Chinese porkchops and fried rice w/mixed vegetables. David is not a big cake-eater, so he opted for a key-lime pie instead, which I must say, was STELLAR. Gawl, it was good. I got the recipe for Chinese porkchops from Sara and Lacy's mom in college and it has been one of my favorites's ever since. I like it because it's easy, but tastes like it should have been hard to make. Leave me some comments and I may share the recipe. :) Good, good, good. After dinner, the kidd-o's gave their daddy his presents...a case of Yoo-Hoo, his favorite drink, and a framed picture of the Recife, Brazil temple that he took while he was on his mission there. He had showed me the picture and said at some point early in our marriage and said he wanted to frame it one day. So, I took it to Michaels with my 50% coupon in hand and framed the entire thing for $1.59. And it's cute. And it really doesn't look cheap. It's an odd-sized picture, so instead of blowing $15 on a custom mat, I went to the scrapbook paper section, found a piece of scrapbook paper I thought would look good as a background, then mounted the picture to it using acid-free scrapbook tape. He liked it, so I was pleased. I can't believe when David and I got married he was a wee-22 years old. You've come a long way, baby. :) I love you so much.

Lacy comes home!

Most of you know my little Lacy who got married last November and moved faaaarrr away to Utah (for those of you who don't - we were roommates and best friends in college and pretty much became sisters.) She came home last week for her sister Elizabeth's wedding, and we were able to meet in Birmingham for lunch at PF Changs (yes!) with Cheyenne and Olivia too. Though I spent most of my time chasing Sara Katherine around the restaurant, (Ethan was a star, though!), I enjoyed our brief time together. The good ol' days it is not, but I'll take whatever I can get. :) I miss you, Lace-face. :)

Congratulations, Caitlin!

Sara Katherine giving a shout-out and Caitlin

The youngest of the cousins on my dad's side graduated from high school last week down in Jack, AL, from Zion Chapel High School, home of the Rebels (I mean, they break alllll the political correctness rules! - it's a public school!) We are so proud of her. She will be attending Troy State University in the Fall, and she got a scholarship! I always love opportunities to see my Granny. It seems like we don't have enough of those. She will be 88 this October...what a woman!As you can tell, it is past Granny and Sara Katherine's bedtime!
Ethan and his great Granny Merle.

A change of pace...

So I'm getting kind of bored with spin classes and powerpump classes at the gym. I've been doing them for a year now, and I feel like it's time for a change for a little while so I don't burn out. My friend Therese has really inspired me to start running again, but I want to keep some weight training in there as well. So, the owner of the gym where I work out gave me this BUTT-KICKING circuit to do. Let me just say that I could not walk well the day after doing this..it was awesome! I've been weight training for a year, and this still made me so sore...it was great! Try it and let me know what YOU think! Also, the weight-loss blog is coming out of hibernation. I'm starting a six week body makeover plan tomorrow. We'll see how this goes...

The Perfect Circuit (Fitness Magazine, May 2008)

What you'll need: A pair of 5-8 pound dumbbells. (The last few reps, of each move should be really difficult, so increase weight as needed) (I did the first circuit with 8 lb dumbbells and then switched to 5 lb dumbbells).

Warm up (walk on treadmill, bike slowly, march in place) for five minutes. Then complete one set of the following:


-24 alternating lunges with biceps curls, holding a dumbbell in each hand.
-20 plie squats, feet turned out to sides, knees behind toes, holding a dumbbell in each hand. As you squat, raise arms straight out in front of chest. Lower arms as you lift back up.
-Two 45-second plank holds, hands below shoulders, abs engaged, back straight; lift one leg each time (this is FREAKING HARD).
-20 alternating reverse lunges, holding a dumbbell in each hand. As you lunge back, lift arms straight out to sides at shoulder height, palms down. Lower arms as you stand up.
-20 squats, holding a dumbbell in each hand. As you squat, press dumbbells straight overhead, palms facing forward. Lower arms as you lift back up.
-1-3 minutes of cardio (such as jogging in place, doing jumping jacks or jumping rope)

Rest for one minute, then do another set, switching the order of the exercises.

The rest of the beach pictures....