My Poor Hiney

Helllllo lovely bloggers! Glad you stopped by the Adventures of Jon and Steph!

How are you all on this WONDERFUL Friday??

I don't know about ya'll, but I'm sooooo STOKED it's the weekend. I've been looking forward to it since Monday ;)

So, get this, Jon and I started a SPIN CLASS yesterday and it KICKED our hineys!

Hence the title of my post for today...... Not only did it completely wear me out, but my butt literally hurts from the bike seat!! Hello Schwinn, can you PLEASE make your spin-bike seats more comfortable??? Because, I can barely walk today hah! But really at the end of the day, it was a fantastic workout, I mean the sweat was profusely dripping, (EW!)

I really liked it a lot, minus the sore hiney.... but I look forward to going next week. It's every Tuesday and Thursday, so I think we can manage that. Plus we've gotta work off that humongo burger we ate last week!

This burger here:

It's time to get in shape and I think we are on the right path!! Salads with grilled chicken for lunch everyday and soups for dinner.... let's hope those pesky pounds just shed right off.

In other good news.... only 26 more days until we're home. I am sure that you all can't tell that I'm a little excited about our visit to OKLAHOMA! Jon and I had to get back into working out, because we are going to gain 10 pounds from eating our weight in American food. IT'S GONNA BE GREAT!

Anyway, I am off to get some things done around the house! Have a fantastic weekend, enjoy it!

See y'all on Monday.

oh and P.S. I am completely jealous of those of you who got to see New Moon at the midnight showing last night!! Sadly, New Moon doesn't even come out in Germany until JANUARY!!!!

Another Weekend Update

Well hello lovely friends! How was your weekend??

Ours was busy busy, but fantastic. We had a great weekend filled with lots of food, wine, and good friends.

And sadly, I didn't take even one photograph. If you've been reading for a while now, you know I (Steph) am a HUGE picture takin' fool, and somehow, capturing our weekend with photo's completely slipped my mind. Oh well, I can still give ya'll a little update:

Friday we went to the wine festival with Sarah and Deaner and had a great time. There are over 120 wine vendors at the fest, loads and loads of different German foods, and desserts. YUM! Jon and I had mini pancake thingies with powdered sugar on them and S&D had sugar and cinnamon crepes. Holy goodness, they were fantastic. After a few too many drinks we all headed back to the house and crashed. We may or may not have stopped at an alley or two on the way home to take a little bathroom break. But you can't blame a girl, when the line to the restroom is outrageous and you'd rather pee for free! I mean come on ;)

Saturday after struggling to get out of bed, we finally made it to the farmers market. I bought loads of fresh fruit and some very interesting cheeses. I also bought the prettiest bouquet of flowers.

Then we ran a couple other errands and made it home in time to crash out for an hour before I had to prepare for a birthday party we were hosting for some of our friends in Jon's office.

We had some great appetizers: cheeses and crackers, olives, brushetta, fruit, vegetables, cheese fondue and we also made chicken bites, steak bites and pasta salad. The food was a hit and we had several people bring extra goodies for us to enjoy. I SO wish I would have taken a picture of all of the food, it was enough to feed an army.

Sunday we were both pooped and I don't think we even left the couch the entire day. We watched several movies and enjoyed relaxing and spending some QT together. We've been really busy the last several weekends and I think that was exactly what we needed. Pure bliss!!

Today, I started back to walking/jogging with my friend Tara. I went to my doctor a couple of weeks ago because my shin splints were getting out of the control. He told me that the problem was my feet and that it definitely explains why I have been having so much pain, so they took a mold of my feet and custom made insoles. YAY! I tried them out today and so far so good, but I'm definitely taking it slow. Hopefully tomorrow morning I won't be buckled over in pain from shin splints. I have a good feeling that these insoles will solve the problem, and I can finally get into running again!

And lastly but definitely not least, my sweet blog friend Stevy at The Rest is Still Unwritten gave me the awesome Fabulous Blog award! Thanks so much girl! I'm so glad you think my blog is fabulous!!

There are 2 rules once you receive this:

1. You must list 5 current obsessions.

2. You must pass this on to 5 people.

1. I am obsessed with True Blood on HBO. The second season is fantastic and I can't get enough of it!

2. I am also obsessed with the Sookie Stackhouse series that True Blood is based on. The books are great if anyone is looking for a fun serious to get in to.

3. Fondue: I am totally obsessed with fondue right now. I LOVE cheese fondue and chocolate fondue! We're going to purchase another fondue pot so we can start cooking with the fondue oil, similar to the Melting Pot, (one of our favorite restaurants back home!!)

4. My new iPhone! Love it, can't put it down. My husband may or may not be getting a little jealous of the time I spend with my iPhone and not with him ;)

5. Crystal Light Raspberry Lemonade, YUMMMM! Obsessed with it.

I am passing this award onto these 5 lovely bloggers:

Grand Pooba
Learning to be a Wife
Brown Girl Blogs
Satisfy My Soul
Tales of the Trees

I hope you all have a fabulous Monday!

I Got Owned!!

Today at the gym I hopped on a treadmill next to an older man, he was probably in his late 60's early 70's. I hopped on next to this man thinking, "well it won't be much of a competition if I'm running next to this older man, I will totally beat him with my jogging speed, distance and time." (Totally terrible of me I know, I'm HORRIBLE for thinking this) But, I always like some good competition and I've always been super competitive in every sport.

Anyway.... back to this older man, boy, was I wrong about him. This goes back to the saying "Never judge a book by its cover." It was terrible of me to do so.... I feel bad now, because I got completely OWNED. This man blew me away! I couldn't even keep up with him and I feel like a complete dork. How sad! It didn't even seem like he broke a sweat. When I got off, my entire face was beat red, and my shirt was soaked. Ew...

But after thinking about it for a while, I was really proud of this old man. I mean he's kicking a 25 year old girl's A**!!! He's taking care of himself and exercising. I wanted to give him a pat on the back or a high five or something. I hope to see this man again, because I think he will be the perfect competition to get me back in shape. Ha ha.....

Have a great day ;)

Another Weekend Update

Friday was my first day back to the gym, after I don't know how many months. I met a friend in the morning and we planned to attend a class, but after arriving, we found that the class had been canceled for that day. So off to the treadmills we went. After working out I headed back home and didn't really move from the couch for the rest of the day. I can't stand being this out of shape. Thursday night Jon and I lifted weights at home and my arms are still sore from that (and it's now Sunday).
COME ON! Seriously. I can't wait to get back into the swing of things.
Friday night my amazing husband surprised me with girl scout cookies!



First day back to the gym and I get girl scouts cookies brought home to me......... It wasn't his fault, he's so awesome and thoughtful for bringing me home something sweet.. but I can't help myself when it comes to those darn cookies!!!

Saturday we woke up super early and loaded our bikes into the SUV. We drove to the nearby park and did a little biking. The park leads to a wonderful trail through a wooded area, and there is a stream running along the trail. Here are some pictures of our biking adventure

You might be a redneck if you put a plastic bag over your bike seat so as not to get your booty wet.

Jonny D

Me

The lovely duck pond

The trail











And a rhino????


After biking, we made our way to Listman's, an art supply store, and bought some acrylic paint. We wanted to get started on our painting of the antique map we've drawn out.
Here's what we have so far. Still have a lot of work.............



We are still working on the colors and have some shading, etc that needs to be done. Like I said we still have a lot to do. Right now I think it looks like a map you'd find in an elementary school classroom. (That an elementary school kid painted.) Well we can't all be painters now can we.

We had flounder for dinner with rice and asparagus. I made the rice and asparagus (olive oil and season all, bake for 10/15 min) and Jon cooked the fish, because he's the pro cook in the fam. The fish was unbelievable. He made a marinade of soy sauce, honey and wasabi and baked the fish for...... well however long until it was ready.

It was like melt in your mouth awesome. You should try it sometime. Very healthy. Then I ate about 7 thin mints. Way to go Steph!

Today we headed over to the base to buy a pedometer so I would know how many miles I was jogging when I was outside. Then we headed out for a three mile jog/walk. I haven't made it up to three miles jogging yet. I'm slowly working my way up. We're taking it easy for the rest of the day. Gonna work on our awesome painting ;)
Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.

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