Our Persisting Memories

After a small meal of fun park junk food we decided the best course of action was scary rides. There are no pictures but know that both girls rode their first full fledged roller coaster with 2 loops.  

Meal 1: 2 Eggs, Protein Shake Meal 2: 6 Inch subway sub Snack: Protein Pudding Meal 3: Taco Salad, Protein Pudding

Snack: Power Bar, 1/2 cup Apple juice Gym: Chest Incline Bench Press Barbell 135 x 8 155 x 8 155 x 8 Iso-Lateral Flat Bench 90 x 12 140 x 12 140 x 8 (no rest) 90 x 12 Iso-Lateral Incline 140 x 8 140 x 6 140 x 8 (no rest) 50 x 14 Machine Flys 90 x 16 120 x 12 120 x 12 Meal 2: Taco Salad Meal 3: 2 slices of ham, hunk of cheese, 1/2 cup of protein pudding, 4 chips with Guac.

Meal 1: brown rice and black beans (half small bowl) Meal 2: 2 whole eggs, 3 egg whites, 1/2 cup cottage cheese Meal 3: 3/4 bowl taco salad (Brown rice, beans, lean drained ground beef, hot sauce, mexican cheese)

Meal 1: 2 Hard boiled, 2 Egg Whites, 2 small mochi balls Gym: Back Front Pulldowns: 12 x 105 12 x 135 11 x 160 (no rest) 8 x 90 Seated Iso Row 8 x 180 10 x 180 10 x 180 8 x 230 Seated Cable Rows 12 x 60 16 x 90 12 x 135 (no rest) 10 x 75 10 minutes elliptical 30 minutes stationary bike Meal 2: Grilled Chicken Breast, 6 Mickey Mouse chicken nuggets. Snack: 2 Small pieces of sushi, 1/2 cup Cottage Cheese Meal 3: Salmon Patty, 1 dozen Chicken/cilantro wontons, small pack of panda candies (110 cals), 3/4 cup skim milk.

Pre gym snack: Granola bar Gym: Legs Iso Squat (The squat area that's not hack squats or leg presses. Both the squat rack and power cage were being used) 12 x 90lbs 10 x 180 (had some twinges and it's been 3 weeks since I've done legs so I stopped here, usually I'd do another set at 270 to failure) Seated calf raises: 16 x 45lbs 16 x 80lbs 14 x 90lbs Weighted dumbbell lunges 8 x 35 lbs 10 x 35 lbs 8 x 35 lbs At this point I cut legs short. It's been too long since I trained legs and I wanted to be able to walk tomorrow. Cardio: 10 minutes elliptical 25 minutes stationary bike Meal 1: Protein shake water base 1 1/2 scoops, 2 Whole hard boiled eggs (medium eggs), 4 egg whites with paprika, tapatio, and a fresh jalapeno. Meal 2: Roasted seaweed, 1/4 cup blueberries, 1/2 cup brown rice and quinoa, Mahi Mahi steak Snack: handful of spicy rice crackers, 3 pinches of dried squid. Meal 3: Piece of Pizza, 2 small pieces of Mochi. I should have had...

So one of the funny things about uploading everything sight unseen from your wife's phone camera... is sometimes you upload things that probably shouldn't be there. Honey, if you find it I'll take it down. For now I'll leave it as an easter egg.

Catey, Heather, and Sophia rode the zip line at Castles and Coasters. It was a horrendously long wait but they said it was pretty fun. I hung out with Daphne and Phoebe and played with the camera.

This time I'll just include a small gallery of the best shots of the family playing Putt-Putt. Don't ask me what I said to my wife to cause her to make that face but if I could remember, I would do it constantly. [gallery orderby="rand"]

Our first major activity in Arizona after visiting with family and letting the babies get acquainted with each other was Castles and Coaster. We did quite a few things there and I'd like to break up the activities into separate posts. Otherwise this post would be far too long and I'd have to skip to many firsts for many of the members of our little family. The first thing we did was ride the bumper boats. We had Aunt Catey with us to help with managing children and to act as encouragement and the reasonable voice of youth on which rides we should ride.

Our main activity in march was a trip to Arizona to visit my my sister Bekah and her lovely family. Their first son was going to be blessed and they were kind enough to invite us to the blessing. The drive was long and made more interesting by the flurries of snow that fell as we were travelling through New Mexico. I still have some additional photos of Aiden to process that have to wait until after Finals but to give you a preview, here's Aiden with what might seem like a atypical expression on his face... I would like to assure you that it is not atypical. He is really that serious at all times.

Pre gym snack: Granola bar Gym: Shoulders: Seated presses: 10 reps 25lbs 10 reps 45 lbs 11 reps 55 lbs (no rest) 12 reps 30 lbs Vertical barbell rows: 10 reps 60 lbs 9 reps 80 lbs 9 reps 80 lbs (no rest) 12 reps 40 lbs Interspersed Shoulder Flies and Front Raises: 12 reps 20 lbs shoulder flies 12 reps 20 lbs Front raises Alternating shoulder flies and front raises to failure 16 reps 20 lbs Shrugs on iso machine 12 reps 180 lbs 12 reps 180 lbs 10 reps 180 lbs 10 minutes elliptical (going to be working up to this. My flat feet mean I have to be careful with my form and I can't do this for a long period of time without arch/foot pain) 15 minutes Stationary bike (ran out of time and had to be home, was going to do 25 minutes) Meal 1: Protein shake, water, 1 1/2 scoops. 2 whole Hard boiled eggs, 1 egg white. Meal 2: Ground Salmon patty, Chicken breast with raspberry salsa. Snack: TBSP of soynuts Meal 3: Pork chop (small), fresh green beans, 1/4 ...

On particular days of the week, Heather stays at Grandma's house to make sure Grandma is doing okay. Grandma likes to collect playthings so it's a pleasurable experience for the girls. It might be too pleasurable.

One of the best surprises we experience as a family is how crazy Phoebe's bed head is in the mornings.

Sophia celebrated her first Valentine's day as a school student. I attended the class party and it was as hectic as you might remember. Heather made sure to add an extra touch to her hair and nails.

January was a slow month for the Atchley gallery, but a few pictures came out perfect.

One of the great things about handling all the photos that get put on our website is I can repost pictures of my wife's self shots. Which reminds me, I need to take more pictures of my gorgeous wife.

Stats: 218 lbs Meal 1: Protein Shake (water) 1 1/2 scoops, 3 Eggs Fried. Meal 2 : 6-inch Ham Subway sub. Meal 3: 1/2 cup popcorn, Baked Chicken breast with Raspberry Habanero salsa.

I'm about 40 pounds overweight and sick of it. Time to lose weight. I'm not sure this is the be place to put my progress but I'll be creating a category to track my progress on meals and time at the gym as well as full workouts in order to hold myself accountable. Prior to this I was comfortable trying to just gain muscle and I've done a fair job of that but not holding to a strict diet is inhibiting my progress. It's time to go back to ground zero.   http://atchleyfam.com/category/bjs-notes/bj-fitness/

One of the funnier things that happens when you take hundreds of pictures of your children (our blog might be behind but our photo gallery is not more than a few weeks behind) is they begin to react to both the camera and their parents. Sophia famously began closing a single eye when the camera operator also closed an eye to take the photo. Daphne is following in her sister's footsteps. Bonus points to the person that can locate a photo of Sophia doing the same thing. Unfortunately our gallery now consists of over 11,000 photos and will continue to grow. It's great for archiving our lives but supremely difficult to locate particular photos.