Ladies' Weekend

Tis the time again for the annual Moab Half Marathon.  We're 3 years in since the inaugural trip and we're still going strong with double the ladies. 

We took off Friday morning leaving our kids in the hands of our husbands and headed off for a relaxing and fun-filled girls' weekend. 

 Moab decided last year to begin starting later in the morning.  We all thought it was a great idea.  We were able to take our time getting ready in the morning and we were all out the door by 7:30.  The weather was perfect...a little breezier than we would have liked but definitely a lot warmer than when I ran it 2 years ago.

Since I've been nursing some injuries from training from my half in February and a dumb injury from doing one too many calf raises, I decided it was in my best interest to drop down from the half to the 5 miler and I definitely do not regret that decision. 

Final stats were:

Final time: 51:31:15.

Pace: 10:18

Overall: 246 out of 717

Age Rank: 13 out of 54

Gender Rank: 122 out of 474

Not too shabby considering I hadn't run since my half.  I also compared my time from when I ran the 5 miler way back in 2003 when I was 20.  My time then was 50:48 with a 10:10 pace.  Once again, not too shabby considering I'm turning the big 3-0 this year.  Good to know that I could keep up with my 20 year old self.  :)

 All the ladies did fantastic.  We had 7 5-milers and 5 halfers and 1 photographer.

The rest of the weekend was spent eating way too much food and sweets, laughing so much that tears streamed down our faces, staying up way too late, and having pillow fights in our panties.  It was fabulous.  Thank you ladies for a great getaway...until next year!

Earlier in the week Troy and I took Brooke to see Beauty and the Beast.  We didn't tell her until the night before.  We didn't know that she was that excited to go until I had to get up to take some allergy medicine at 2:15 in the morning and saw her light on.  She was getting ready to read a book in bed.  I told her that she needed to go to sleep so that she wouldn't be tired for the show then turned off her light.  Around 4:30 am I awoke to some squealing and sent Troy in to regulate.  She was bright eyed and bushy tailed playing with her stuffed animals ready for the day.  Once again we told her to go back to sleep...and she did...until I had to wake her up at 8:30 for playgroup.  What a silly girl!!

 She loved the show.  Especially when Belle came out in her "yellow" dress.  By the end of the show she was exhausted and didn't even make it out of the parking garage before she was fast asleep.

 We've also been taking in all the March Madness.  I'm happy to say that for a very brief moment I was tied for 1st place.  We won't make mention what place I'm in now...

10 months!!!

 10 months already?!  I can't believe that we're creeping up to a year already but let's not think about that.

Connor is such a happy, mellow, easy going kid.  Even when he's teething.  In the past month he's been working on 4 new teeth in addition to the 4 that he already has.  He's also all boy.  My goodness!  He definitely keeps Troy and I on our toes.  If he sees an open door to the bathroom or laundry room or gatefree stairs he will crawl as fast as he can to get to those places.  He even has a monkey crawl where he "walks" on his hands and feet to get places faster.  One day I'll catch it on video.

He has begun noticing the kitties.  Lexie isn't much of a fan and I don't think Squishy is either but she doesn't run away.  At one point, in the pic above, Connor even tried to take some bites out of Squishy.

 Connor also loves loving on his future wife, Miss London.  By the look of it, I don't think she minds.

 We went to the zoo last week and Connor got to ride on the carousel mostly by himself.  He LOVED it.  He had a goofy grin on his face practically the whole time.

 I just love seeing his little chubby hands.

Connor has been crawling all over the place and loves to push things across the floor.  The other day I caught him pushing one of our kitchen chairs across the room.  Those things weigh 25 lbs!  He also just started standing for a few seconds on his own.  Yikes!  I don't think I'm ready for a walking boy.

Other things that have been going on...

We're having quite the spring teaser.  March is usually the snowiest month of the year for us but we've only gotten trace amounts so far.  Instead, we've been able to enjoy days in the 60s.

 We hit up City Park with Robyn and her kids.

 Brooke loves playing with Taylor and well, Connor just loves Miss London.

We also went to the zoo that day and got our obligatory pic in front of the penguin.

Just for comparison.  She was 2 1/2 in the green shirt and just barely 2 in the one right above.  Good to see she's growing.  :)

Brooke also gave her first talk in Primary yesterday.  She did a fabulous job despite the yelling/talking really loud into the microphone.  Here's a little taste.