 year we do this family wellness challenge. I'm amazed at how engaged the families are and how excited they are and then really you know how they just go above and beyond the goals that they set for themselves. It's been an amazing year as usual. We've had amazing families, we had fun activities, we have cooking classes, nature walks and family fun days and urban boot camp and so it's been really good. I think that families not only have learned some information and strategies for them to continue on in their lifestyles but they've also made some great friends. Actually a friend of mine was a part of this and told me about it and they were going to do some wellness activities, some fitness things and just really do some family oriented activities and so we were really excited and really excited and thankful that Ms. Wanda let us fill the role of a family that had to drop out. We heard about this and we heard that we could be a part of this whole program including the gym for free through Let's Move and it was it was just kind of a blessing just for it to come up in the way that it did. I really enjoyed the urban boot camp. It's something that I was never really interested in until I actually started doing it and also when we started learning about healthier food options it was something that I really enjoyed learning about different things I can do to still get something that tastes good but it's a lot healthier. Now that I know he'll enjoy the urban boot camp class I get to drag him there that more often so that's gonna be some fun and now that we've had some cooking classes and some introduction to some different options now I can make them cook dinner. Today we are having family fun day with our family wellness challenge families. We're doing some obstacle courses just to show them how they can have simple fun within the family with just simple things to do just to get them out here and get active. Well we originally got involved with the challenge last year and so I honestly wanted something competitive to do with the family but for this year I just we enjoyed it last year so much that I wanted us to continue so for this year it's more so for us to do something good together and just to build memories. They have bought veggie tots from the grocery store versus cater tots and had that side if they have to use salt they you know use another kind of seasoning that Chef Judy taught them so that it helps with the flavoring but it's not increasing the sodium intake so there's been a lot of takeaways I've gotten a lot of things I've heard from the families and I have no doubt that the changes that the families have learned and incorporated so far during this 12 weeks that they'll continue. On my hectic work schedule my husband's hectic work schedule we were kind of getting off balance with our health and so we needed something as a family that we can do to incorporate some healthy lifestyles, practice and some strategies and also to be role models. We are one unit so if one of us is doing something it's most than likely important for us all to be doing it so there's some continuity in our household I can't be even crazy and saying well hey you eat your veggies if I don't eat my veggies so we are a family unit Wiley party of five so if one of us is gonna do something we're all gonna do it. In my opinion it's been a really big help because of the diet that we used to be a long time ago was not working in general how we walked how we eat and how we slept especially. Let's move to family looking for a lifestyle change to meet some other families and also great staff support here at the youth center and also Miss Wanda and the staff and I mean it's been a lot of fun and I mean it has definitely changed our lifestyle. Let's move Columbia it's just one thing that we do when we focus on families but we've got moved with the mayor that our mayor does where he does walking clubs around the city we continue to have activities in our parks and so you know our city is committed to healthy lifestyles not just losing weight but things that you're incorporating into your day-to-day activities that continue to keep you healthy and your family healthy.