i was a hamster

Friday night it rained. Saturday morning still raining.



what I look like at the gym



at the 10 mile half of the 20 miler

I went to bed on Friday night preparing myself that I may have to do my 20 mile run...on a treadmill. Sure enough, it was still raining on Saturday morning, and I knew that I was going to have to go to the gym, and spend four hours of running on the treadmill. My sister and her fiance were visiting so, it was a perfect time to leave the Dinosaur & Birdie at home, instead of my gym's nursery (note: there is a 2 hour limit). Also the Bomber wanted to do his swim and run at the gym as well. With the kids at home, the Bomber doing his workout, I jumped up on the treadmill, pressed start, and began my training run. I ran for five miles, jumped off, walked to refill my two water bottles, and then back to my treadmill for the next 5 miles. After the 10 mile half way mark, I was feeling pretty good. Got the runner's high at miles 13-17, and before I knew it I was up to mile 19, add one more mile run, and I was there at 20 miles! I have to admit, I am pretty proud of myself. Running 20 miles is quite a challenge, but on the treadmill, adds that extra mental block to break down. Next week's long run is up to 22 miles, and maybe one more 22 miler, before I began to taper down the "long run" to 12-13 miles that leads up to Marathon Day!









blogging round two...or round three

There is a children's song that holds the lyrics "second verse, same as the first" which I feel applies to my second (maybe third) attempt at blogging. A LOT has happened since the last time I wrote a blog post. My husband deployed, our boy turned one, husband returned home (five months later), pleasantly surprised by number 2 pregnancy, traveled to Hawaii, baby girl born, ran some more half marathons, boy turned 2, lots of family vacations, husband deployed & returned home, boy turned 3 and girl turned one! See, what I mean, it's a busy busy life for us, so my blog posts will hopefully keep you updated on the happenings of my life, and some "look backs of my most memorable moments" of the past two years. As for now, here's the weekly "life in pics" photo dump. Enjoy!

family fun time...

friday nights = family movie nights :)

just another lazy sunday afternoon

daddy & his baby girl

with piston deploying in the next few days, we've tried to slow down time and spend as much "family time" as we can. somehow, piston's work seems to creep it's way in, but we're all pretty adaptable whenever that occurs. 
both miles & courtney have loved having daddy home, even when he has to go into work on his "week off"
true military kids in the making.

hot air balloon glow

today we drove an hour to longview, tx to watch the hot air balloon glow. there was a kids land park, that had at eight inflatable bouncers, one was a blue train that miles named "thomas"and played on for the entire time at at the airfield.  after the "all glows" set up by the balloon pilots, the night came to an end, where miles was ready to "go home & night night." it was a fun little roadtrip for us all.

miles and his favorite bouncy train

the "thomas" inflatable

beautiful hot air balloon