New addition to our family...

Well...here she is...

Ro ordered a treadmill for our big Christmas present this year. I think that he was finally tired of hearing me complain about how large my butt is, or how flabby my arms and belly are, or maybe BLAH BLAH BLAH. Also, my gym membership just keeps getting charged without me taking advantage of it. We are so blessed to have Laela go to sleep early, so I can not use her as an excuse. I could have gone to the gym in the evening, but I never felt like it. I am tired when I get home from school! Then, Ro and I decided that we could get a treadmill for the house. So over the Christmas break we swapped office furniture because his fits better with the treadmill. We really wanted to put the treadmill in Ro's office, but that is next to Laela's room and it may wake her up. Well...now here is my office:

Notice the SUPER CUTE canvas print of Laela that we just ordered. It looks so great on the green walls! Now for the crazy treadmill story. We get it in. Some crazy company delivers it, literally just dropping it in the house. As Ro has practically assembled the entire treadmill, he realizes there is a small "hole" on the metal bottom side bar. He goes back to check the box...and yes there is a fairly large gash in the box. It looks like a fork-lift jabbed the box and then the treadmill. AH! Ro immediately calls Amazon and tells them about it. They reimbursed us 10% if we will keep it. Are you kidding...my Indian husband will keep anything with a hole in it if you reimburse him 10% of the orginal cost! So...whatever...we deal with the hole. Then one night we are trying to get Allie to get on the treadmill and get her exercise (it is something we saw on the Dog Whisper, but obvisously we are not Dog Whisperers!) Allie refused to get on, but in the process I find a crack on the main motor plastic covering. Finally, I notice the heart rate monitor does not work. There is no way that my heart rate is 79 when I can barely breathe! Ro called the company back and told them to come get there piece of crap. Yesterday, a new company delivered the second treadmill. We made sure to have the delivery company help Ro get out the treadmill so he could take a quick peek. Ro didn't see anything....nothing that is until 2 hours later when he has the entire thing put together. There is a dent/small hole in the SAME SPOT as the other treadmill. AHHHH! I decided...unless the treadmill gets mad and throws me off then we are not switching again. So...I have missed one day so far. During the week I have been getting up at 5:00 (okay...really 5:1oish) and walking/running for 30 minutes or so. On the weekends I did the treadmill during the day. Within the last two weeks, I have already worked my way from running for 5 minutes to now running for 15 minutes. Eventually I want to work my way up to running for at least 30-40 minutes. Hmmm....can I do it?