Letting yourself get out of shape is like a credit card... It's lots of fun until you get the bill.

It was fun and I really took advantage of my post Ironman glory. I ate lots of Ben & Jerry ice cream and basically let the cold winter start while I was warm inside. No morning workouts, no evening workouts, no workouts period. Well, the bill came (it's actually been here for a while but I have ignored it as long as I could) and it's time to pay up. I have penciled out a racing season and it's starting up in the not too distant future. The first "race" will be a 10k on February 13th. I do not predict any PR race times for this one but I will strive to finish respectably. For several months all the races I have planned are running races as I feel putting in the running miles will help jump start my biking and swim training. It looks like the first triathlon will be in May and I know it will be competitive and fast so I need to get some consistency back in my training now. Currently my training plan is simply that, "consistency." I will do what I feel like doing but I can't be skipping days because it can get to be a bad habit and get me into that cycle of not feeling like I'm getting anywhere. After a good dose of that I can start to work in some quality workouts with more precise objectives. But for now it's Operation: Get My Ass Out The Door.

The Christmas Holiday is quickly coming to an end and the busy life of the Montoya Family will soon resume. We started off our two week break with a performance of the Nutcracker, starring our one and only, Emma! A ballet company from San Diego asked for children from the community to be a part of the show, and Emma was excited. She had two performances, one for the school kids in the morning, and one for everyone in the evening at Macy Center. Emma played a BonBon and had a lot fun dancing with Mother Ginger!

We then had a visit from Monique and Levi where it was nonstop food, fun, and dancing!

On Christmas Eve, we went to mass and had Green Chile Stew afterwards at Steven's mom's house. The girls and I played a new game called Headbands...Emma was really good at it all of a sudden. I couldn't figure why, until I realized that I was sitting in front of the refrigerator and she could see her picture in it! Ha! Emma and Grace also enjoyed spreading Reindeer Food outside and getting Santa's cookies ready for him as well before they headed off to sleep . A little Elf got to Santa's cookies before he did though! Unfortunatly with all the excited we had to go for a drive to look at lights at 11:00pm hoping the kids would fall asleep!

Christmas morning came too quick! Steven's grandma was the first awake; ringing the doorbell to find none of us were up yet! Steven started a fire and coffee as we waited for Emma and Grace to wake up. Soon after, the girls were excited to see that Santa had found their house and left lots to be opened! While Emma and Grace were looking through their stockings, Steven started breakfast and CC arrived as well. The girls spent quite the morning opening up gifts. At one point, Emma looked around and said, "Mom, I don't think he got me the dog. Moments later, she picked up a box just the right size and said, I have to open this one! I think this is it! As she began to rip it open, the box barked! She was so excited. At that point Christmas could have been over. Santa brought her the GoGo and me dog! Grace got lots of dolls and was most excited about a bag full of pretend bottles and pacifiers for her babies!

Emma learned how to make empenadas with her grandma and great grandma

This year, we spent our Christmas at home, and so did everyone else. Both of my sister's stayed home and so did Steven's brothers. My mom went to visit my Grandma in Wyoming, and even made the news! Love ya mom! We did however make it down to Las Cruces and stayed with my sister Kelly for two days. We went with Sydney, Thomas, Monique, and Levi to see Tangled in 3D! We even made it to dinner in El Paso at the State Line! I hope everyone had a nice Christmas!