Trying to get fit 6 months postpartum

So, here I am....41 years old and 6 months postpartum.  Baby E is such a joy and I am so happy to have him in our lives.  My older kids adore him and my husband is enjoying new daddyhood in his 40's.  I've decided there is something magical about having a baby at 40.

We have a total of 6 children.  My hubby had his first 2 daughters prior to us meeting and they are 18 & 15 yrs old.  We got married when they were only 4 and 1 yrs old.  And then we had our first together 9 1/2 months later.  No waiting for us.  So our oldest together is 13, we have another 9 yr old daughter and then we have an almost 7 yr old son.  And our baby was born in October of 2012, on the same day as his 2nd oldest sister.

So here I am.  It's spring time (well sort of...we're having a cold snap here)...and I am ready to finish losing the baby weight and get into shape.  I have all sorts of mystery aches and pains since having the baby.  I am not sure if this is just baby related or older age related. :)  I made an attempt at the beginning of the year to get on the fitness wagon.  I joined myfitnesspal.com and started logging my food and exercise.  It actually was a great start for the brief time I did it.  But, I didn't maintain my motivation and between a new job for my hubby and relocation to another state, I let a lot of other things get ahead of my fitness goals.  My husband and I trained for an ran a half marathon together in August of 2011.  Two days after the 1/2 marathon, I broke my toe.  I was still gung ho on exercising and kept up exercising at the gym for a couple of  months.  However, it was interfering with my toe recovery and I had to back off.  I gained about 6 lbs and then got pregnant in January 2012. I really enjoyed my pregnancy and still did a lot of walking and even some jogging while pregnant.  My husband ran the same 1/2 marathon again last August and my older girls did the corresponding 5k along with my mother-in-law who was out visiting.  My mother-in-law is a total inspiration, since she has been a runner for years and has been doing half marathons and triathalons.  She even did a half last year, before coming out to visit us at 68 yrs old.  So, this is the long way of me saying that I would like to train to do another half marathon.  And I'll be doing the Kansas City Temple Run 5k on May 4th.  My 13 yr old will do it as well and my 9yr old and 7 yr old will be doing the kids run.  My hubby already had signed up for the Kansas City Corporate Challenge 5k which will be the same day.  I ordered a BOB Revolution SE jogging stroller yesterday from Amazon.  Since caring for the baby has been one of the major obstacles to getting exercise in for me, this is super exciting and my hubby deserves a thousand kisses for agreeing to let me get it.

Oh, and my new found fitness blogging inspiration is due to my long time *Turkey Mom friend, Amy, who posted on Facebook about her becoming a Mamavation mom.  She's an amazing mom of 5 whose oldest it the same age as my 9 yr old.

*A Turkey Mom is a group of moms who originally got together as a sub-group from a Babycenter birth board for moms having their babies in November 2003.  Our babies were all due the week of Thanksgiving and we had "Turkey Babies" and became "Turkey Moms."  We have a fairly small group of moms who are still connected after all these years.  We migrated to our own forum and eventually ended up on Facebook.  I love my Turkey Moms.