Its coming

My race is offficially ONE WEEK away!!! Ahh, I'm scared and excited all at the same time!  I feel like I'm ready, and REALLY trusting my schedule that I am ready.  I'm so excited for this accomplishment and ready for this to be done.  To actually run when I want and how much I want to.  I think it will be more fun from now on, becuase I know I can push myself harder than I have before!  Awesome feeling!  Pray for me though, I'm sick.  I haven't been sick in A LONG time and now, of course, one week before running a half marathon, I'm sick.  Popping the vitamins drinking the water and trying to get as much sleep as I can with a 16 month old and a 4 year old running around.  Sometimes I swear they are conspiring to NEVER let me sleep well. 


I digress....back to the race.  If your curious what race it is, it is this one!!!! Heard it was awesome!  My family is coming to watch me run and I'll be there with a TON of people!.  Ok, now I think I am babbling!  I'll keep you posted!!

12 miles

Another week of training has passed.  And while the week itself was bad, after two days rest on Saturday I was able to run 12.35 miles!!!!!!!  Believe it or not I felt better on this run than any run before.  I am pretty sure I could have kept going!  That is until Cindi, who I was running with, ran back to me after finishing and made me sprint to the end!  It was great to be pushed!!!  This past week I found myself not wanting to do the race at all, but after Saturday, I am excited!  It will be a huge accomplishment!  I have lost a few pounds, (25 total so far) and a toenail, and I am in MUCH better shape!  Feels good!  Here's to running friend!!!

Training

So I don't know if I've mentioned it before but I am training for a half marathon.  Have been for the last 12 weeks or so.  I need to lose all this baby weight (and then some) and I do for the most part enjoy running.  But let me tell you, this has been hard!  Very rewarding in a lot of ways, but it takes a lot of time.  I am running 4 times a week anywhere from 3 miles to today's longest distance so far of 10 miles.  Yeah that right.....10 miles.  Two weeks ago I ran 9 miles and then when I tried to run for the next Monday I looked and felt like a 90 year old woman and had to take the rest of the week off.  At least til Friday.  My legs started to feel better but its just been SLOW going since then.  I had 3 very unsuccessful runs this past week my 6 was cut short by daylight and my 5 was cut short by my brain.  I hit a WALL!  I couldn't get past it.  But I was determined to get 10 in today.  So I put my mind to it.  I had to stop and walk 3 times, but I gave myself a goal to start again and only ended up walking less than .25 of a mile. The route was actually almost 10.5 so I probably ran at least the 10 miles.  No matter how many times I say it, it still sounds cool.  I ran 10 miles! 

Bring on the race!

Happy Birthday Wy! (a few days late)

MY BOY IS 4 YEARS OLD!!! 

How did this happen?!  No really, how did time go by this fast!  I cannot believe he is four!  We haven't had a birthday party yet because his daddy has been away all week Loving His Neighbor :)  But this weekend is the big family party, great grandparents and all!!  But for his actual birthday we had a pizza lunch and baked 72 cupcakes to take to the church where his dad is for all the youth group kids to celebrate with us!  Then, I let him stay up til his actual birth time!  9:33pm and then I told him about the day he was born!  Holy emotional!  I carried him to bed and got all teary remembering that "4 years ago" (for all my siblings) I was holding my new little boy in my arms for the first time! 

I am so in love with this little boy!  Sure, he makes me want to pull my hair out at times, but mostly he is sweet and kind.  He LOVES music, trains, tractors, airplanes, Cars, and lately....much to my chagrin, playing "guns" oh boy, I was not ready for that!  He also LOVES his little sister!  Does a little cheer whenever she wakes up for the day or from her nap!  He is becoming protective too which is very sweet!  This little boy has brought us SO MUCH joy!!  I count it a privileged to be his mommy!  Love you sweet boy!

SO busy!

Chris has recently taken a new full time job.  He is now the interim youth pastor at Ogletown Baptist Church.  It is an exciting experience for us but has also made us very busy.  Which I am using as my excuse for not blogging.  My brother keeps yelling at me that I don't blog enough.....but we live close now so why is he yelling.  Anyway, back to our busy schedule.  This summer we have already had VBS, and a week of Jr. High camp at BBC which was awesome.  As well as every week we are having "Wet and wild Wednesday's" (if you live in the area and are of high school age, feel free to join us!)  All fun, but super busy.  Hey, have I said we've been busy...  We are home only for the weekend to attend a birthday party and a wedding and turn right back around to go back up to TLC at BBC again.  Then back home for a week with friends from out of town (which will be super awesome) and then "Love your Neighbor Cooperative" LYNC  at church.  We will be helping our "neighbors" around the area all week.  Then a week off then pretty much back to school stuff.  Man o Man, I'm exhausted just writing this.  All the while I have been training for the Rock and Roll half marathon in Philly in September.  A huge time commitment, but I am super excited.  Hoping to lose 20lbs by the time the race gets here (a little over 10 weeks away)  WOW!

Oh well, that's a little bit of us.  Maybe it will be sooner when I blog again.  I'm sure I'll get some encouragement from my brother to get with it ;)