This weekend was spent mostly on football and homework. On Saturday we had two really good coaching sessions with the U7's and U8's, but Sundays U8's match was a very bad 8-3 loss as our boys played really bad. Admittedly they are not really used to playing on the 3g so playing over Len Forge rather than on real grass certainly didn't help us.
For homework, Joshua was completely stacked up this weekend with math's homework, reading, spellings, his activity book and his creative homework. One of his creative homework's was to make an Easter Egg so out came the old Easter Egg moulds and on went a bar of Dairy Milk to melt down. We made a decorative box with a handle to put his egg in and then decorated it with chicks, bunnies and come coloured paper for the egg to sit on. I have to say I think we did quite a good job really.
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| Joshua proudly shows off his homemade Easter Egg homework for school. |
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| Nice looking Dairy Milk egg with white chocolate flicks decorated with Easter chicks and bunny's in a homemade basket. |
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| Why do I always get worried when I see Joshua carrying Holly around the house like this? |
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| Holly with her hair all tied up thanks to Auntie Lea. Looking very cute and girly. |
The other big news from the weekend is that I have entered myself into the Crossfit Open Games for the first time. Having been doing Crossfit for a year now I set a new years resolution to enter an event this year. The open starts with 5 weeks of gruelling workouts to find the fittest people in the world who then advance to the regionals and so on. This weekend Joshua accompanied me to Crossfit Rayleigh to run through the 16.1 workout which was a 20 min AMRAP (as many rounds as possible) of the following:
- 25 ft of walking overhead lunges with a 95lb Olympic bar (back knee touching the floor on each rep)
- 8 burpees jumping over the bar
- 25ft walking lunges going back
- 8 chest to bar chin-ups
It sounds like an easy WOD but was absolutely brutal. I set a target to try and complete 6 rounds and ended up being just 6 reps of the chest to bar short of hitting 7 rounds. So very pleased with that. Josh was a little star down the gym and was working the wall clock, updating the WOD board with our scores and so on. He even did a few exercises of his own whilst he was there. Anyway as of last night I was ranked 13th in the UK masters so far. Pretty pleased with that. Entries are still going in today so that position will probably change. Now to recover and get ready for next weeks 16.2 workout which gets published Thursday night, then you have until the following Monday to submit your score again!
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| Me powering away with some 95lb Olympic bar lunges whilst Joshua watches on. |
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