Want to change up your cardio routine?

As a mom, I'm constantly looking for new activities to wear my kids out.. they have so much energy all the time, its hard to keep up! Yesterday we had a little "Sunday fun-day" --we woke up in the morning and decided we didn't want to sit at home all day. We surprised the kids and took them to the trampoline park next to our house (literally a 5-minute walk away). They had been there once before and LOVED it and had been begging us to go back ever since. If you want to get a great workout in AND wear your kids out at the same time, take them to a trampoline park. Here's a tip: you pay by the hour--and you'll always get a full hour--however, if you show up at, say, 12:15, they'll give you an hour and 15 minutes of jump time. When you show up, they give you a wristband with a specific color on it. Each of the different colors represents different hours. We got green wristbands, which represented 1:00 even though we got there at 11:45 (they announce "time is up!" every 30 minutes, and since we got there at a quarter to 12, we got an extra 15 minutes of jump time). Just a little way of "working the system" ;)

There is so much to do at these places. At this specific location, they have a HUGE adult area to jump in, and a smaller (yet still big) kids area to jump in (so that the kids aren't getting plowed down by the adults). Both the adult and kid areas have huge foam pits with trampolines in front of them for jumping into, and they are SO much fun! At this location, they also have a huge bounce house with a slide on it for the kids to play on. By the time your hour is up, you're exhausted (and the kids are ready for a nap!). Quick tip: if you do end up going to one of these places, wear workout clothes. You WILL be sweating within 10 minutes of jumping--its a terrific cardio workout and your body will feel great the next day ;)

This is the adult-area for bouncing.. its HUGE. There is also a huge adult foam-pit to jump into.. so much fun!

Maverick in the kids foam pit!

The kids area trampolines are huge too!

lol

Jump, Madison! :)

I love her big REAL smiles!

This place has a huge bounce house (with a slide) as well

Goin down the slide! 

After we finished at the trampoline park, we took them out to frozen yogurt (which ended up being their lunch (oops, but they loved it). After frozen yogurt, we headed home and swam for about an hour. Then it was finally nap time. Both kids ended up napping about 2 hours and 45 minutes--which, if you have kids, you know is heaven.