Today we went to the Healthy Living Expo in Knoxville. It was so much fun and the entire event is free. Free admission, free parking, free samples, free food, free drinks, free health screenings, free activities, and free demonstrations! They also had alot of drawings. We won a 3 day 2 night stay at a resort, a week to Curves, a month pass to the Rush fitness center for two (includes childcare), and a introductory class for Noah at a martial arts place. (I think that's it!) We saw a Karate demonstration, walked through a giant colon (gross - Noah loved it), got a 5 minutes massage for me (heaven), face painting, and moon jump. They also had a rock wall but none of us had the spunk to do it! They were giving out tea, smoothies, ice cream, pizza, burritoes, soup, fruit and more! I am just amazed that they did all this for free. We had so much fun. I ate the best pizza I've ever had (http://www.papamurphys.com/). You buy it and take it home to cook. The toppings tasted real - not that I've been eating fake ones but you know what I mean! Noah's favorite was the jumping thing and getting his face painted. He told the lady to paint an orange dog on his face not brown! For some reason orange is his favorite color and has been so for awhile now! He and I also got in an Ambulance and pretended to work on someone. That was fun! The lady said it was a new one and it cost about $200,000. That's like driving a house down the road! My favorite was the eating & the massage!! Little Ethan liked the karate demonstration! I am not kidding. Everytime they would yell - he would. He even tried to do his arms out like them. Jason enjoyed all the unsual fitness equipment they had setup for you to try out! He's also ready to sign the family up for Karate!We ran out of time before I got to see the cooking demonstration and the nutrional label class. I really would like to learn how to cook healthy and what to cook! It gets hard trying to come up with meals that are inexpensive, quick, healthy, and everyone will enjoy. We did learn about something interesting for cooking purposes, check it out at http://www.creatingdinner.com/.
I'm so glad you guys had this much fun and all for FREE!! That's the best part, huh? Especially for those of us on tight budgets! :) Congratulations on your resort and all your other stuff. Noah's "orange" dog face is too cute for words!! I'm glad little Ethan had fun too and I'm glad to hear Jason is excited about karate too - he always has been. Connor is talking about wanting to take karate lessons too but Joey says he has to wait until he's older. I think we're gonna sign him up for t-ball this spring and then next fall he can be on our "upwards" basketball team at church (it's all for the kiddies). What a fun time to be a kid, huh? :)
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