Ahhh... Back to School!!

Happy September!

I don’t know about you but once the kids are back in school, I’m really ready for fall! Hope everyone had a terrific summer and you’re ready for Fall too because it’s coming....

And with the start of the new month come some great NEW promos from Beachbody!

PiYo Challenge Pack -

 Want to carve an intensely defined physique—without weights, without jumps, and without straining your joints? Then you'll love PiYo, created by superstar trainer Chalene Johnson. It's low impact, yet high intensity. No weights. No jumps. Just hardcore results. Also included 30 days of Shakeology! $140.00 (reg price $160.00)

3 Day Refresh Challenge Pack- 

In just 3 short days, you can get your health, energy, and vitality back on track—all without starving. You'll conquer your cravings. Get a flatter belly. Feel lighter and more energized. And your clothes will fit better. The Complete Kit comes with 3 packets of Shakeology®—your choice of 6 flavors (we recommend Chocolate Vegan or Tropical Strawberry Vegan because plant-based proteins are often easier for the body to digest), 6 packets of Vanilla Fresh (high-protein shake), 3 packets of Fiber Sweep (digestive health drink), and 1 Program Guide. Also included 30 days of Shakeology! $140.00 (reg price $160.00)

Looking to get the BEST of both worlds? 

Beachbody is also offering the PiYo Kickstart Challenge Pack- This includes your PiYo program, 3 Day Refresh AND Shakeology all for $180.00 (regularly priced at $205.00)

And as you may know, when you purchase a Challenge Pack with me as your coach you get EXCLUSIVE access to my private Facebook Challenge group! This is where you will get all the amazing support, motivation and inspiration you need to stay on track with your new program. You also get great recipes, help with meal planning and menu planning, grocery shopping lists and tips.

LOCAL CHALLENGERS and FRIENDS! Some great news about a few Beachbody LIVE classes being offered in our area.

On October 3^rd at 8:30 a.m. I will be hosting a FREE sampler class at Nampa Fit Studio. We’ll do 15 minute samples of 3 amazing Beachbody Live workouts!

Insanity, P90X LIVE and CiZE. If you’ve been wanting to check out these live formats this is a great opportunity to do it. And the sampler class is completely FREE!

If you want more details email or message me for more details. I hope to see you there!

  

And finally as the days get shorter and cooler, I’d like to share a great crockpot/slow cooker recipe that I’m sure your whole family will love.

Pineapple Pork Tenderloin

Ingredients

•1 lb of pork tenderloin

•1 bag of frozen pineapple chunks

•1 red bell pepper, cut into chunks

Place the pork tenderloin in the bottom of the crockpot then add the pineapple and the peppers on top of it.  Set it to low and let it cook until the pork is no longer pink and it should start to actually pull apart a little bit.

That’s it – it’s easy!  You can easily add other veggies to this if you want.  The pineapple and the juice from the pork tenderloin is all I needed.  21 Day Fix Conversion: This is a red container and part of a purple and a green.  That’s it!  I served it with brown rice and sautéed red and green peppers.

If you have any questions or are interested in ANY of the awesome programs Beachbody has to offer, let me know. You can go over to my like page Inspire Fitness and message me, email me at melindabutkus@gmail.com or hit me up on Facebook, Melinda Davidson Butkus.

Our Do Nothing, Do Everything Summer

Time is beginning to fly.

When my oldest was born it almost seemed as if time was standing still. She was never a good sleeper and is just now at 5 years old consistently sleeping peacefully through the night.  Those long nights of getting sleep in 2-3 hour blocks seem to last a lifetime. It felt like she was an infant forever. Then baby #2 came along. A great sleeper! His first few years seemed to fly by.

Now my oldest is registered for kindergarten and my youngest will be attending preschool 2 days a week. How in the world did we get here? I remember the days of longing for things to do with the 2 of them. Going to the playground, my youngest in the Baby Bjorn while my oldest traversed the playground with her friends. Summers ran into fall, winter and spring. The only thing changing was the weather. There was no real crunch for time. Vacations were scheduled when we felt like the crowds would be low, weather at home miserable and when my husband could get away from work.

All of that is about to change. We will soon be shuttling one child to kindergarten, scurrying across town to drop off the other. Slaves to the school schedule. Homework, all of the homework. Vacations will be dictated by when the best time it is for the kids to get away. Add on top of that any extra curricular activities the children might want to do. Gymnastics, soccer, music, golf, the list goes on. Our days will be busy. Very busy.

As I was thinking about our plans for the upcoming summer I suddenly became a little sad over the fact that Kindergarten would start around the second week of August.  Both kids want to take swim lessons (those are two week blocks everyday).What in the world are we going to do the rest of the summer? Nothing. And I think that's the way I want it.

Before I know it both of the kids will be in elementary school. Summers will soon be filled with summer camp, going to friends houses to play, sports camps. Those days will quickly turn into the years my kids spend their summers babysitting, mowing lawns or having a paper route to earn a little money, riding their bikes through the neighborhood with their "gang" of friends. Those days will  morph into "real" summer jobs, first cars, going out in the evenings with friends. Before I know it they will ONLY be home in the summer. Off to college, working full time all day and then meeting up with friends for parties, concerts and fun at night. Their only existence in our house will be to sleep and if not for the extra dirty dishes you probably wouldn't even know they were here.

So THIS is the summer that we will blissfully do absolutely nothing. We will spend our days playing in our pool and hanging out in our backyard. Eating ice cream for dinner and staying up way too late to play outside. Climbing up the slide on the backyard play set. Lying on our backs in the cool summer grass to watch the clouds, letting sticky Popsicle's drip down their legs all over the patio, leaving red and purple puddles for ants to find that we can watch "work".  We will spend our days blowing bubbles and watching them float over the fence to the neighbors yard seeing which one makes it the farthest. Setting up the sprinkler over the slide to make our homemade water park. Picking dandelions and letting them wilt in a plastic cup on the kitchen counter.

I plan to cherish every moment of the squeals of delight as they jump through the sprinklers, the smell of sunscreen on their skin and when my youngest tries to run away from me when I go to spray it on him. We will wake up most days with no plan. No time schedule. No where to go, no place to be. I want my kids to become bored. To try and find something to do with a box of scrap paper, crayons, glue and leftover scraps of material. To use their imaginations to create something wonderful.

I want to remember this day, this time, this summer. Because as every parent knows tomorrow they will be a little bit older...