camera lost.

I lost my camera. I lost my camera!!!! Not a good thing when you have a growing baby to document. I will be ordering a new one, so picture posts will be limited until I receive it in the mail. We are going to get a cool waterproof one and they only have them online so it may take a few days....

But to hold you over...this is a cute one of me and Jonah at the race...

Jonah looks like ME, not Brody

famous surfers. crazy paddlers. beautiful baby.

The title pretty much sums up the last week for me. I have been hard to contact, so I am sorry if I have ignored your calls - you can see why below.

We had the honor of putting together Kalama Kamp Florida, which featured famous Hawaiian Waterman Dave Kalama. You can read about him and check out his blog here - http://www.davidkalama.com/. If you know anything about surfing - you'd know Dave and it's pretty exciting that we got to spend the week with him and he is/was associated with our business.



Dave is a very humble guy - you'd never know how famous he is in the eyes of the surfing world.



We had 9 campers who came from all over - Cape Cod, Boston, New Hampshire, Panama and San Diego.



We lucked out with weather - it was hot, but no rain!



Dave's grandfather is responsible for bringing Outrigger Canoes to the mainland.



Not only were we putting on the Kalama Kamp which was a 4 day adventure experience where campers spend their days training with Dave and learning his routine, lifestyle habits and training regimen, but we were planning and hosting the Gulf Coast Stand Up Paddle Board Championship. This race was the largest paddle board race on the East Coast - a HUGE deal for our business. We had paddlers from all over the country travel to our shop for the race. It was really awesome, a lot of hard work, but so worth it!


We had over 100 paddlers come out, a really big turnout for such a new sport.


Slater Trout, a 15 year old from Maui, took home 1st place. This kid is going to be really big in the surf/paddle industry.







Brody had a Hawaiian group come bless the race and do all the pre and post race ceremonies - I think the Floridians got a kick out it! Here he is with his lei annoucing the race festivities.

My mom was here for the week to play nanny and she earned her Grammy duties as she watched Jonah from about 7am - 10pm EVERY DAY!!! We had his 3 month pictures taken today and we were both surprised at how well they turned out. As most of you have noticed, Jonah isn't the best picture taker (bug eyes and all).







So, it has been a very exciting and exhausting week for Stand Up Fitness (and Grandma)and I am ready for about a week long slumber.

events are done.

Events are done!!!! :) :) They all went AWESOME - exceeded our expectations.

I will post more later....for now I am D-O-N-E.

well until I have to process all the receipts, tally my budgets, pay out our vendors, ahhhhh, guess I am ALMOST DONE :)

crazy week.

It's been crazy here. We are trying to get ready for two really HUGE events for our business. We have Hawaiian Waterman, Dave Kalama, coming on Monday for an Adventure Camp we are doing and then Saturday we are having our Gulf Coast Stand Up Paddle Board Championship (www.gcsupc.com). Needless to say - we are tired, stressed and nervous! Wish us luck! Once this is over, we'll be able to breathe again. Pray for good weather, a big turn-out and no oil!!

On a happy note, here are some Jonah pics :) He's getting so big, I can't believe he is already 10 weeks old. Grammy comes tomorrow - YAY!

I am a mom.

I am HIS mom and I couldn't be happier! To my precious little man, thank you for blessing me this year. I am filled with such joy knowing I am your mom. Love you!



Happy Mother's Day

happy birthday brody

Today is Brody's 34th birthday! He spent it working (shocker) and Jonah and I spent it cleaning (shocker) and baking :)



chocolate peanut butter cake with cream cheese frosting, a real diet buster for those of us trying to lose our baby weight

It's been pretty stressful here trying to keep our business a float, planning two really major events, having a new baby, dealing with finances, yada yada, trust me I could go on....so I was thinking today of a day when Brody and I spent the whole day together, no cell phones ringing, no dogs barking, no babies crying....oddly enough I thought of his birthday 2 years ago. We went hiking in Waimea Canyon in Kauai. We used to go hiking all the time. It was a good day. I miss those days...

too young?

I know Jonah is a month or two off from being able to enjoy some of his older toys, but we were bored today and I couldn't help trying them out. He actually did pretty good, he holds his head up really well and he LOVED them both....lots of smiles (didn't really catch any of them on camera of course.