My Journey

My facebook friend, Kristina, is training for the Iron Man Coeur d'Alene and posts pictures almost every morning and she calls them "my journey".  Sometimes they are of her very early morning runs (the skyline with the sunrise or of the funny things she does that early in the morning) and sometimes they are of her at physical therapy or eating fast food!  I like seeing those mostly because I am in awe that a mother of 3 littles is training for the Iron Man!  She is very inspiring.  Anyway, here is my journey from yesterday.  This is my running watch.  I was very proud of this time because not only was it pretty warm yesterday when I ran (not my favorite running weather but S2S is going to be hot so I need to get used to it) but I pushed Peter while running!  I am definitely getting faster and feeling good about challenging myself:)

All caught up!

Ok I am officially all caught up.  I apologize for the delay but hell this is my life:)  Even as I type Peter is crying in his crib but I figured I had to get this done!!!  There are a few posts so read on.  xoxo

Dance Picture

Hot off the press.  The official picture of Maggie in her costume...ADORABLE!!

Peter Update

So clearly I blew past the 9 month mark and now he is almost 11 months!  Well better late than never I guess:)  He has turned into quite the little naughty kid!  He is crawling EVERYWHERE and pulling himself up on pretty much everything.  He isn't interested in walking yet but I am not worried...I am a tad relieved.  He gets into everything and he is fast.  He likes to try and eat Otis' food and pull down the recycling can we have in the kitchen.  He squeals when you do something he doesn't like and his new word is tinty.  I am not quite sure if he is saying stinky or binky but I suspect it is binky.  He loves to eat and literally eats whatever you put in front of him.  He likes to feed himself and prefers regular food over baby food.  He loves bath time but tries to crawl and stand up in the tub and of course slips all over so I literally have to hold him in the tub and put about an inch of water in there.  In some ways he is growing up so fast but in other ways I look forward to learning more about his personality and teaching him to sleep past 5:30 am (ouch).  Love this guy so much!

He is a great running partner:)

My Birthday!

After we finished with Matthew's day it was my turn;)  I know I am 34 and still obsessed with celebrating my own special day!  Anyway, I had a great actual birthday.  We had Khalid and Susan over for dinner and stayed up chatting and having a great time.  My parents came into town for the weekend and it was so much fun.  Then on Sunday we did Bloomsday again.  I believe this is my 7th year!  It was great but it was damn hot!  One of the hottest Bloomsday's on record.  Nicole and I ran it in 1:43 but I didn't care.  I am still getting into the groove of running so I knew it was going to be a tad slower than normal.  I am getting more serious about my S2S training and found out that I will be runner #1.  That is 5 miles, then two 6+'s.  I am nervous but excited.  Also, I am officially at 16lbs lost in 6 weeks so that is exciting!  It is a lot easier to run when you are not carrying extra weight.  I only have roughly 25 to go so I am just about 1/2 way there!  I am hoping by S2S I am a bit closer.  We will see.  I am not putting expectations on myself just taking it one day at a time.  I still continue to feel amazing so that is all that matters! 

One of my favorite pictures of the weekend.  The kiddos and my parents!

 

Matthew's 7th Birthday

Seriously?  How did this happen?  Just yesterday he was placed in my arms and I was beaming from ear to ear!  The snuggly little baby who made me a mother has grown up to be an amazing young man!  He loves soccer and has recently made a U10 soccer team. (This kid literally wakes up and turns on the soccer channel!)  It has been so fun watching him grow into a young man that I can be proud of.  He is so sweet with his siblings (well he and Maggie have their moments:)) and with his friends.  He has a great group of boys that he hangs with from school and I love it! (They are literally named Matt, Matty and Connor.  They are thinking about doing a hoopfest team called 3 Matts and Connor!) It warms my heart that his best little friends are good guys and I love all their parents.  This year for his party we did another skating party at Pattison's.  He wanted to invite his whole class and it is so easy and fun to have it at Pattison's when you have large groups.  Chris and I were ok with the party part but all those gifts were just so much, so we came up with a plan to have his friends bring canned food for St. Vincent de Paul.  It was a HUGE success!  I think the other kids (and their parents) dug it and Matthew didn't even think twice when we brought it up to him.  I love that he has compassion for others and understands that there are people with less.  Of course Chris and I sweetened the deal by telling him that we would buy him something extra special for his birthday.  But all in all he was cool with the idea.  I wish I would have taken a picture of all the food we collected.  It was enough to fill up the back of our Ford!  Here are a few highlight pictures.

 He wanted a Pokémon Cake

 Nicole and I worry about these two a tad...this is them with their "best friends" necklace!

Do you know the way to San Jose?

The last weekend in April, Peter and I took a quick weekend trip down to San Jose to see Karen.  Of course I didn't take any pictures but I will report that we had a very wonderful trip.  It was so nice to hang with Karen and chat and catch up.  Peter was well behaved but he is totally at that age where flying with him alone is tricky because he doesn't want to sit still and he wants to chew on everything.  But it was still worth it to get away!  It makes me even more excited for my annual girls weekend in Palm Springs come September!