Bulls Pics

Just some pics from basketball the weekend before last....

The Duel Half-Marathon

I completed my 3rd half-marathon (The Duel) yesterday morning here in town which was really nice....It was very weird to just drive on over Saturday evening and pick up my packet in 2 seconds....Then sleep in my own bed...Roll out of bed around 7 with plenty of time to eat and get ready and leave the house by 7:45 for the 8:30 start time....

But let me back up by saying that I DID NOT want to run this thing....After White Rock, I've kept up my long runs on the weekend...I got in an 8 miler, then 9, then 10, then 9 again so I went ahead and signed up for this a few weeks ago...Eventhough I hadn't been as consistent on my weekday runs (I'm trying to squeeze in this new bootcamp class and some zumba), I thought I would just go for it....My problem started last week when it was 70 degrees one day, cold the next, warm the day after...So my allergies turned my nose into a complete faucet by Thursday evening...Friday I didn't feel great...Saturday I knew I had a cold--my head was hurting, sore throat, congestion...All that fun stuff....We promised the kids we would go to the hockey game Saturday night but I was in bed by 9:30 thankfully....

The alarm going off at 7 am Sunday was not fun...I really, really, really had to make myself get up...All I wanted to do was sleep, but I hated wasting $65 dollars...So I decided I would just force myself to go...And if I had to walk it, fine...If I was super slow, fine...I just needed to finish....I was emotional the whole way over there which is not like me...Nervous--usually, but emotional--no...I guess b/c I felt so stinking bad and I had zero confidence...Going up and down the stairs at work on Friday was exhausting...How am I going to run 13.1 miles for 2+ hours!!!

So I get there and my friend Kim was running the 5K...She gave me her cell number in case I needed to call her if I died on the trail somewhere and needed someone to come and find me:)...So I felt a little better about having a back-up plan....

We started right at 8:30...the 1/2 marathon runners also ran with the 5K runners...We headed over towards Lucy Park....When we circled back around 3 miles later to the starting line and I saw all the 5K people heading right towards the finish line, I really thought about just turning and calling it quits....I still had 10 miles to go--how am I going to do this!?!....But I didn't, I kept going....

I had made the mistake of wearing a really tight long sleeve shirt under my short sleeve shirt...I was getting pretty warm fast...So at the 1st rest stop (mile 4.5), I opted to take a good 3-4 minutes and basically undo everything (headphones, headband, arm band, top shirt) to take off that long sleeve shirt and then I had to put everything back on...But again, not running for time or I wouldn't have done that....

Then the real fun began...Getting out of the woodsy area part of the trail and more out in the open....Since the wind was OUT OF CONTROL on Sunday it was a blast running head on into for many miles...Yes, it wasn't as horrible as the wind got later in the day, but it wasn't fun....There were times I just ducked my head and ran especially on the hills....I've never ran on that section of the trail and had no idea where the trail even was on that part of town....But finally we hit the turn around over at Patterson Auto Center and had about 4 miles left...That was nice b/c the hard wind was now at our back....So if I would have been healthy and felt awesome, I could have really used the wind to speed up...But honestly I had nothing in me....I just coasted as best as I could....

I hit that last rest stop and took about a minute break to get my long-sleeve shirt that I had left lying on the ground...Grabbed some water and ate some gummi bears....I only had 1.7 miles to go...Noooo problem...That's nothing....But it was honestly the longest 1.7 miles of my life...I've never checked my runkeeper so much b/c I just knew that it had to be longer than that...I was just tired...And done....I had nothing left but mangaged to make that last mile one of my fastest of the day....

In the end I finished with a 2:18:21....(White Rock was 2:11:38)...So a lot slower BUT I was pretty proud of myself since I did stop for a good 4 minutes all together ....I really proved to myself that my body can do things if I just believed in myself a little more...That no confidence thing really gets to me a lot:)

But it's exciting knowing I completed my 3rd 1/2 marathon...I plan on doing another one here in town on March 3rd and I would LOVE to go back to Rock N Roll Dallas at the end of March since that's where it all began!!

Oh and when I got home, Kohen had been throwing up the entire time I was gone...Fun times....So he and I stayed home today...I am sick and I felt he definitely could use a day to recoup as well....

Stomach Bug

I went to my run this morning and came home to find out that this guy had thrown up about 5 times in the 3 hours I was gone...I guess I wasn't surprised since a few of his classmates had this virus last week....The good thing was that he didn't get sick after 10:45 am and was able to keep food/drink down the rest of the day....By this evening, he was pretty much back to his normal self....I, on the other hand, have a not so fun cold....So we are going to stay home tomorrow and rest together...I think we could both use it:)

Wildcat Hockey

We took the kids to the Wildcat Hockey game this evening....I don't know why we don't do it more often...They love it and we always have a good time....But I always forget how cold it is in there and I end up freezing!....I need to wear more layers:)

Kresee and her new baby:)

We finally took the kids to see Baby Cayden....Kresee has been dying to go and hold her...I don't think she quite believed me that she was here...She would ask constantly if "Baby Cayden was out of Kimberlie's belly?"....But like Kresee does, she was soooo quiet and wouldn't hardly say a word....I had to have her sit in my lap b/c I think she was a tad nervous to hold her...But I know on the inside she was very excited.....She would not smile for a picture though!!

After we ate dinner, she wanted to hold her again....Still couldn't get her to smile for me??...She held Cayden for a long time...So long that I thought Kresee might actually go to sleep....But she didn't get upset when I told her that it was time for her to leave and go to bed....I promised her that we would come back and she could hold her again....

Cayden was perfectly content....Kresee was just soaking it up.....

The next morning I went into get her up...The first thing she said was "Where is baby Cayden?" "Can we go see her?"....I assured her we would another time....So when I picked her up from school later that afternoon she asked "Can we go see baby Cayden now?".....That evening she grabbed one of her baby dolls that she named Cayden and carried her around and fed her the rest of the night;)

MLK Day

We got lucky today to have 2 groups of friends come over and play....Jamie brought over Reid and Reece in the morning to play...We tried going outside but it was crazy windy and wasn't very pleasant....We played inside and let the kids eat lunch....

Kresee and I took a much needed nap....Then Ashley brought Jude and Ezra over later that afternoon....I was determined to play outside since it was a gorgeous day!!!....

Ashley got stuck pushing the girls;)

Ezra

Kresee

Kohen

Jude

We are having such crazy pretty weather for January....And the kids love having friends over:)

Cayden Paige

My cousin, Kimberlie, and her husband finally had their 1st baby on Monday the 9th...Cayden Paige was born at 1:25pm weighing 8 lbs 2 oz....I couldn't wait to get up to the hospital that evening so I could take some pics and hold her:)

Papa and his newest great-granddaughter...He does not hold babies...This was a big deal...I don't recall him wanting to hold my two---he would just peer over Nana's shoulder and look:)
Sweet face.....

Proud new grandma...I know she has been waiting a good while on this:)

Very proud Daddy....

Sweet girl with her mommy

Family of 3

Nana with her great-granddaughter

And I needed to hold her a little bit before we left:)...

Kresee and Kohen can't wait to go and meet her...They were both coughing this week (from allergy drainage) and I didn't want them to be around the baby...Hopefully this week!

And I can't believe this is my 1st post for 2012...I better get on it!....But with getting back to work and everything else, we've been super busy (as always)