Working out

On Friday I was feeling chubbier than usual (must have been all the homemade rolls I ate) so I decided we needed to get out and get some exercise. So I strapped on Nate's rollerblades, Brad hopped on his bike, Luke jumped on his scooter and we tossed Noah in the stroller, and off we went. Well, not even a whole minute into it I realized that it would be time to pick up Kelly and her cousin Marcus pretty soon (not sure why I hadn't thought of it before, but you know how getting ready to go for these kinds of outings can sometimes take WAY longer than you thought it would). So I got really ambitious and decided that we should just ride to the school to pick them up! (I say ambitious only because I didn't really think it out) So anyway. We rode to the school. The ride there was... interesting. I still regret letting Luke take his scooter (I really thought he would just give up on it as he usually does), but no, he was set on riding it most of the way- and would have ridden it more if I hadn't forced him to sit in the stroller- I was afraid we would be late--of course we way early. It was actually a pretty nice little ride though. Bradley really surprised me with his bike riding abilities- he can go pretty fast considering he has training wheels. I was impressed. And tired. He kept wanting to race :) Yeah, so we got to the school, I had to take off the rollerblades so I didn't kill anyone on the school grounds- I'm not very good with the brakes- and I usually rely mostly on the stroller's brake- kinda crazy when the kids are walking in front of me and such. So we sat and watched Marcus' class do their little Bear Party, and then the bell rang. Kelly was somewhat disappointed with the idea of walking home- and kept telling me reasons why she didn't like to walk. But at least she was civilized about it. Marcus zoomed ahead of us on his bike once we had crossed the street and gotten the rollerblades and everyone's helmets on. Bradley followed. Kelly and Luke took turns changing their minds about who would ride in the stroller and who would push the scooter. We stopped and started about 91 hundred times (that's Brad's favorite number :)) before finally reaching Marcus' street. He was pretty sick of having to stop and wait for us, and told me he knew the way from there, so we watched him ride home and then turned around to head back home ourselves. It was a very interesting ride home. More of the stop and go with Kelly and Luke, but it finally ended when I strapped Luke into the stroller. He cried a little, but not surprisingly fell asleep- he had to have been exhausted! So Kelly sat in the back of the stroller- in the little basket, and Brad and I raced home. It got pretty cold, but Brad was a trooper and stuck it out with me with almost no complaint!! I love it when that happens. So anyway- I felt really worked out when we got home and was all excited to keep this up and do some more rollerblading with the kids on their bikes, but then I took the rollerblades off and I had these HUGE, bloody blisters on my feet (I need wide width rollerblades apparently), and they have been killing me all weekend. And killing all my hopes and dreams of using the rollerblades as my work out. :( So anyway. I really want to workout though! There are no gyms out here in Eagle Mountain and it's starting to get cold! So I keep wanting to buy a new workout video of some sort, but I hate buying them without knowing if it's going to be a good one. I have been doing a lot of Pilates, but I need something aerobic. Something that gets me sweating. Something I have to take a nice warm shower after ya know!
Does anyone know of a good workout video??? or have one I could take for a test drive??
I'm getting pretty desperate. Nate got to lose all this weight while he was working out like crazy in OK, and I'm really itching to get rid of this baby (and then some) fat. IDEAS??????

Things to remember for our next rollerblade/bike ride:
- no scooter
- no scooter
- more water (so that when Luke dumps out one of our bottles it's not a complete devastation)
- no food (total distraction for Luke)
- no scooter
- Don't take the bike trail the WHOLE way, because the little hill going up to the road was next to impossible to get over and then keep from dangerously rolling out into the busy street. Take the neighborhood streets on that part.
- no scooter
- Give Noah more kisses (felt like I went 2 hours without even looking at him- oh wait, I did!)
- make sure we put Kelly's teddy bear from Bear Day in her back pack (how do I get the dirt off the non-washable care bear???)
- wider rollerblades- ouch!
- no scooter!