Mid-Week Date Night!

Tonight Mark and I are having a mid-week date night! Even though it's technically not even the middle of the week yet, we never pass up an opportunity for an extra date night!

So, today is my sister-in-law Allison's birthday and her husband wants to take her out to dinner. They live walking distance from us so we are their on-call baby-sitters! Now, you might think that baby-sitting our little nephew doesn't count as date night but oh, it does! So Al puts Jake to sleep before they leave and that's the only time we ever see him the whole night. Then they let us order dinner and we watch a movie on their big-screen TV in their gorgeous house and feel like parents for a night :) parents on a date that is! Haha okay so I guess we can't have it both ways...when it's our own kids upstairs sleeping in our house maybe it won't be that exciting but for some reason it is so fun to go over to their house and pretend we live there!

Today was a long day. Mark said it was supposed to be the hottest day of the year. And I was very very busy on this hot day! This morning I went to an open call for Disneyland to be in one of their shows this season! There were so many people there and it was kind of nerve wracking but overall a really good experience. I felt really proud of myself and know I did my best so now it's just about what types of roles they have available. It would be kind of a crazy commute for rehearsals in Anaheim but I would do it in a heart beat!  Being in a show at Disneyland would be a dream come true!

After the audition I picked up my little girl Lilly from school.

 (Okay she's not mine but I like to pretend). Lilly and her sister Sophia just got a new puppy, Smorgie. So now part of my job includes potty training the puppy! Fun. So far no accidents.

This is my first time blogging from my phone so I don't know how to caption the photos but Lilly is in the fruit jammies and Sophia is on her tiptoes! Both are obsessed with the dog.

Date night is in less than 2 hours!! A much needed end to this long hot day.

Getting in Shape!

So what's been happening with us Rawlings lately?

Well Mark and I are sore, sore, and SORE.  We decided to start this crazy workout regimen for September and it's killing us but we kinda love it :)

This is our routine:

We started this on Monday and only made it through once before we were gasping for air!  Then we went hiking down the cliffs of Palos Verdes for about an hour and once we got to the ocean we jogged/walked for a half hour.  Then we started this 30 Day Abs Challenge.

That was Monday.

Tuesday we were SORE!!!  But we continued and got through two rounds of that crazy cross fit workout above and continued our abs challenge.

Wednesday we did the cross fit workout, jogged for 30 minutes and did our abs challenge and yesterday we finally got through 3 reps of the above workout (with a 30 second break in between each rep) and then did our abs challenge.

Today we are going running, starting a new cross fit workout (I have about 50 pinned and we're going through them all!) and continuing our abs challenge, slightly modified from the June one so we can rest on Sundays in September.

My body is finally getting used to all of this and now it feels great!  By the time Mark gets home from work my body is so ready to get moving.

I'm also doing yoga 3 days a week (the days we don't run) and Cardio Barre the other 3 days.

Why the sudden work out craze?

Well, one of us is really wanting to have a baby soon (aka me) and I know that once you get pregnant you aren't supposed to start a new workout routine but can continue working out as you normally would so THIS is becoming my normal so that when I get pregnant I can continue to stay fit. :)

So here's to looking like this soon: