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This is P90x

It has been a while since my last post and to be honest I completely forgot that I even had a blog for a split second. It seems like life has been extremely busy lately but here I am now.

When I say “Time to BRING IT” I am talking about the life changing decision my wife and I recently made to get in the best shape of our lives. I have always played sports and stayed active over the years, but I am not that same twenty-one year old that could eat anything without worry.

Eating like crap on a daily basis was really starting to really take a toll on my physical appearance and health overall. I think my wife and I both decided that it was time for a change and decided to try out Tony Hortons revolutionary home fitness program called P90X.

It has been around for a while, so I imagine that most of you have heard from friends or even seen the informercial. Just in case you havent, check it out here.

We have completely change our eating habits and now work out at least six times a week. Before starting this program I got to the heaviest I have ever weighed, 190 lbs. This was a real shock for me so I decided it was time for a change. Since that day I have lost roughly 18 lbs. We are only on day 19 of the program but already feel healthier and look better.

Just the other day Brittany came into the living room bragging about how loose her jeans were and how if things kept up she would need to go shopping. I guess shopping for new clothes isnt such a bad thing when the old ones are too big around the waist.

We both took multiple pictures on day 1 and it was almost embarrassing to be honest. P90x is a 90 day program and part of it requires you to take pictures at days 1, 30, 60, and 90. Brittany doesn’t want to post the day 1 pictures until we start to get some really amazing results. However, be on the look out for those pictures because I dont think it will much longer.

Another year has come and gone and its that time again to celebrate Christmas and spend time with family and friends. This year Brittany and I decided to do something that we have been meaning to do for the last couple of years and buy an ugly sweater. We got ours from uglysweaterstore.com. To be honest, I was surprised how fast they were able to get the sweater shipped out to us.

To top things off we decided that we would start one of those traditions involving taking a picture in hideous sweaters. I think this is the beginning of a ridiculously awesome tradition that Connor is going to hate in a couple years. Man its great being a parent! Anyways, here are some of our pictures.

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Here are some of the pictures from Connors first Christmas. He is only three weeks old, so he could have cared less about what was going on. Too bad Brittany and I had to dress him up in a Santa outfit to take pictures. Poor guy is really going to hate us for taking so many embarrassing pictures when he is older.

What are parents for though? If we weren’t embarrassing our children all of the time, what would we do? Haha!

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Our son Connor Garret Kimball was born on December 2, 2009 at John Radcliffe hospital in Oxford, England. We are extremely excited about having this little guy in our lives now! This is the first post of what will eventually become a photo journal of his magnificent life.

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We needed a second vehicle so I figured that my son would just love a version II Subaru STi. It is four doors so now the only thing left for me to do is find a STi car seat for the little guy. I can not have him riding in the back without the proper support of a STi racing bucket child seat.

So far we love it. When I say “we”, I mean my wife Brittany puts up with it for the most part because she knows that I am in love with Subaru’s.

Here are some recent pictures of the new ride. These were taken after I just washed and waxed it on probably the last nice day I will see before the winter hits here in England.

Here is the gallery with all of the pictures I took throughout the day. If anyone is as weird as I am and have looked for baby car seats for an STi, let me know what your results were.

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One thing I really miss about living in Japan is the curry. Not to mention, one of my favorite places to eat curry was CoCo’s Curry. I think I must have had curry at least once a week for three years. I had quite to the belly to prove it too!

Well, since moving here to England I have been looking for ways to get my hands on some CoCo’s curry. Luckily my sister still lives there and she got me some of the curry-in-a-box type deals that they sell at CoCo’s restaurants. I had her send me about twenty boxes of the beef curry and I think she might be sending more soon. I know they had them in Okinawa for sale somewhere in the front when you first walk in. If you are really curious about it, just ask someone that works there and hopefully they can hook you up.

The whole process only takes only a couple minutes, if you don’t count the time it takes to make some rice. I usually go with some short or medium grain sticky rice to make the moment taste like the “real deal”. The curry comes in a bag that you can either empty into a microwaveable safe container or you can just put the bag in some hot water on the stove. I usually microwave it and it takes roughly two minutes.

Let me just say this about the end result…it is awesome! It is not quite that same curry that I love and miss, but it is far better than I imagined it to be. I would say that it is better than the actual CoCo’s Curry I had when I was in Hawaii. I sometimes cook a chicken patty and add it to the mix so I can pretend I am having Chicken Katsu Curry, haha.

If anyone reading this knows of a place to order this online, please leave a comment and let me know. I would literally kill a man for some real CoCo’s Curry. Well, maybe not kill someone but you get the idea. So, if you know someone living in Japan and you need your fix too, just have them send you some curry in a box from CoCo’s.

I have been pretty busy lately but still found some time to take a couple pictures of Brittany and her beautiful belly. A couple more weeks and we will be introducing Connor Garret Kimball into the world.

Here are some of the pictures from my little photo shoot.

This is just a post for family and friends to check out our new house here in England.

We are still moving in and getting situated at the moment. It doesn’t really help that we had the bare minimum before we moved here. We are now in the process of buying new furniture for the house and for our soon to be baby boy.

Here are the pictures:

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