Do I really need a blog?

Well, here I am for my yearly blog post. What has happened since the last time I posted. Well, we welcomed Elijah Michael into our family on July 8th. Madison started 2nd grade and just turned 8. Riley is 4 and a half. We're going to be homeschooling next year. God has been growing us in our faith a ton. I'm trying to get back into exercising. Mike started running. Elijah has 4 teeth and is doing the army crawl. Madison learned how to ride her bike with no training wheels. Riley says hilarious things all of the time. Such as (at our friends house enjoying a fire in their fire pit) "Mommy I think I want my marshmallow marshed this time." LIfe is good and so is God. Until next year......

I haven't blogged in well, forever!

Hello faithful readers! Ha ha :)

Here's what's happening in my world. I am 19 weeks 6 days prego with baby #3! Tomorrow will mark the halfway point! We go in on Monday (which also happens to be Mike's bday) for our big ultrasound. Hopefully, the baby will cooperate and we'll find out wether we're having a boy or a girl.
As far as exercising goes I have not run in over a year but I am determined with this pregnancy to not gain any more than I have too! So, I have been doing a couple of prenatal exercise videos 3 times a week. So far they are going good and a good friend of mine even commented on how my legs and arms look skinner! :) I hope to keep up with the workouts until I deliver. Once the weather gets nicer I am going to mix in walking as well. The big obstacle I have at this point is food. I love food. Especially the stuff that is bad for you. Trying to concur that and only eat healthy stuff is super hard! I have my days but it is hard to break a lifetime habit of eating junk.
Anywhooo.... probably the next time I post on here will be after the baby is born - in July! :)


This is me at 17 weeks 4 days prego

It's been....well, forever.

Yeah well, I haven't had much to blog about along the lines of running. I think the last time I blogged was prolly the last time I ran. Sad, I know. I want to get back out there and run again. I need motivation. Maybe I'll sign up for a 5k again. Anywhoo...since the last time I posted Madison started kingergarten and Riley turned 2.

Well, thats all for now. C ya!

Lesson Learned

Yesterday morning I learned a lesson. Don't go running until you've had breakfast. We woke up late and I didnt want to eat and then wait to go run so we just went out the door sans breakfast or even a beverage. About halfway into our course I felt dizzy and nauseous. I had to walk to the rest of the way home. So now I know that I need to eat in the morning before I try to run. Low blood sugar = a strange floating feeling and nauseousness....not good for trying to run.

Rain, Rain, Go Away, Come again some other day....

like when I'm not scheduled to run!!! So since my last blog I've run 5.25 miles. 2 on saturday, 2.25 on Monday (at 9:30am and boy was it HOT), and a measley 1 mile today. It's pretty much been raning since Tuesday afternoon so we've been stuck inside. Tonight there was enough break in the rain for me to get out for a short run. I only did one mile but I ran it faster than I would normally run (I hear you're supposed to do this to increase your speed - which I need). It felt good, the temp was nice because of the rain and it gave me some time to myself which I needed bad. Hopefully the rain will stay away this weekend and we can get out long run (3.14 miles) in. Our next 5k is one week from saturday. I love my husband. He's the greatest. The End.

P.S. Don't you like Riley's Scott Spezio ketchup patch? Go Cards! :)

Knee Pain = Short Run & BIke Ride

Well Mike's knee has still been acting up. We went to go out for a run on Monday and we barely made it off our street and it hurt so bad that he had to go back home. I pressed on, but cut my run short (only 2 miiles instead of 3). I am really beginning to not like running by myself. It is really more motivating when you have some one there suffering with you. So as to not irratate his knee anymore, we went for a 4 mile bike ride on wednesday instead of running. It was really nice to do something different for a change. The funny thing is, the bike ride hurt MY knees...lol. It only hurt when we were going up hills though. Anywhoo...that night we took a trip over to Fleet Feet and got Mike some new shoes. Hopefully that will solve the knee problem and I won't be losing my running partner. We're going to give it a try for a run together tomorrow morning. I hope it goes well. Our next 5k is 2 weeks from tomorrow. I'm looking forward to it. :)

A Sunny, Windy Run

Well we got another run under our belt today. We decided to venture out to Creve Couer Park for a run. They have a 2.8 mile course and a 3.7 mile one. We opted for the 2.8 miler. It was a nice course but today has been the hottest day we've had so far and it was also windy. Going at 12 noon was probably not the smartest idea on our part due to the heat. Oh well, we did it anyway. At least we got a good sweat out of it. :) This week we need to up our running minutes to running 7, walking 3. Only 3 weeks left until our next 5k. We're going to run again tomorrow since we didn't run yesterday. Hopefully it will go well. Maybe we can get our neighbor to watch the girls so we don't have to push the torture device. :)
After we went to Creve Couer park we headed to Walplehorest park for a picnic lunch, a little kite flying and some playground playing. Then on to Culver's for some much needed ice cream. :) Over all it was a nice day to be together with the family. I am so blessed to have such a great husband and beautiful girls. The Lord is good! :)