SUCK IT!

Dan's family is visiting and his sister Nen is in the middle of training for a full marathon and she needed to run 12 miles today while she is here. She asked if I would want to run with her and I laughed at the fact. I have not ran really at all since the completion of my half and even earlier in the week went for a two mile run and was so tired. I agreed to run six with her knowing that even that would be a challenge. Last night I told Dan that if I was feeling good I wanted to just do the whole thing. He told me about a hundred times that it would not be possible because I was not in shape and I should not get disappointed with how it went. Well, I showed him!! After the first six I was surprisingly still feeling great so I decided to just keep going. I am proud to say that I ran 12 miles in 2 hours with NO TRAINING at all!! I have a fat blister on my toe and I probably wont be able to walk tomorrow but I am still proud none the less and happy to prove Dan WRONG!

I know all of you have seen these pictures already from my previous post but I had to show you how great they look after my aunt Annette got a hold of them. She is an awesome photographer and edited some of them for me. She also makes these cute letter boards with pictures. She made some for Jade and they turned out great. They will look so cute in her room. Here is a link to her blog so you can see how Jade's turned out.


CLICK HERE!

Thanks Annette!!

13 months

I never posted about Jade at 1 year! I was waiting to get her 1 year pictures done but ended up getting too busy. I was able to go home for the 4th of July so my sister Nichole took these pics for us. We only had about 15 min to take them so I was pretty impressed with how they turned out. She was 13 months at the time.

Because I can't remember all her stats at 1 I will tell you a little about her now.

~She loves Mickey and Elmo
~ Can walk but still prefers to crawl
~ loves to swim and kick, kick, kick!
~has an obsession with food! She loves eating!(a little too much)
~still two naps a day
~talks so well! Some of her favorite words to say: Elmo, all done, ball, bear, bird, sheep noise, and MO (more). When we are in the car as soon as a song ends she says more over and over again until and new song starts.
~loves to copy anything we do or say
~gets so excited when daddy gets home.
~loves to see her friends

Jade we love you!!

Jade has learned some new words! Agent and Bohdi are her friend Ella's dogs. She loves them! I had to post it in three separate videos because one was too big and wouldn't load. She also made up her own sign for her friend Camden's name!

Is it me??

Is it me or does Jade have the coveted Justin Bieber hair style??
If only she was a 14 year old boy!

PINEWOOD DERBY

This last weekend our ward had a pinewood derby for everyone!! We were not planning on making a car until and hour before the event. We had just been to Macy's candy themed birthday party which was the inspiration for our car, or should I say limo.
The activity was a blast! We were nervous that our car wouldn't even make it down the track, but we actually one our first heat! In the second heat we were up against a car with a rocket strapped to the back so we didn't even stand a chance.

What a fun night!

Jade was looking pretty cute!

Our car did get a head start! :)

We DID it!

Juliann and I right after!

Em at mile 9

Mile 12
(Juliann is still smiling)

YES, WE ROCK!

It's official Juliann, Em and I completed a half marathon,
and we did AWESOME!

We all worked hard to train for this day. Even despite Em's knee injury, Juliann's migraines, and my concussion the week before we were able to waste the goals that I had set. (Juliann just wanted to finish the race, but I wanted to break 2 hours)

We all three went down to Laguna Hills the night before to stay in a hotel so that we could make sure to get a good night of sleep and so that we would not have to wake up as early on race day.


We were so excited to be free of kids and to be in a hotel. We even jumped on the beds! We had a delicious dinner of Cafe Rio to carb up and even took a dip in the hot tub before going to bed early.

We were not able to get the great night of sleep as planned. Juliann didn't fall asleep until 2:30 am and I was wide awake at 4:30am. I guess we were just too anxious and nervous to sleep.

We got to the starting line and the race began. There were 5,000 runners so it was hard to get going because there were so many people. It reminded me of back in the day when I use to swim races in a lake and the starts were brutal. People would be swimming on top of each other and people would pull you back with each stroke. I remember looking at my watch at mile one and our time said 10:45!! We couldn't run our normal pace with all the people! To break 2 hours we needed to be holding an average pace of 9 min miles. How were we now going to make that up??? After a couple of miles were were finally able to weed through the masses of people and find our pace. By mile 4 we had already made up for the first mile. We were doing great.

At around mile 6 after a hill we were met by Dan, Jade, Lisa, and Josh!! They offered us drinks and candy(pop rocks and lemon heads). None of us felt like eating any candy. But, just seeing little Jade gave me even more energy. I was feeling great and didn't even start to feel tired until mile 9 and even then I felt I could go a lot more.


At around mile 9 we saw Dan and the gang again. This time they had spray bottles and cooled us down. It felt great.

Juliann had the chicken dance song stuck in her head for all 13 miles!! I'm sure people hated running near us because even at mile 13 we were just chatting away. We talked about all the gifts Jade got for her birthday and talked about Juliann's cruise that she is about to go on.

At mile 12 Dan had another surprise for us!!! He mooned us and on his bum was written GO!HAHA it was pretty funny.
(Sorry that you had to see that Juliann)

Around that time I knew that not only would we break 2 hours but we would be well under. It felt good to know that we would not need to sprint into the finish line to make my goal. The last stretch was up a hill and we raced in and finished together with a finishing time of 1:55:59!! WE ROCK! I got 12th out of my age group of 67 and Juliann got 21st of 92 in her age group!!

I felt pretty great afterwards and didn't really get sore. Now I'm thinking about doing another, or maybe next one should be a FULL MARATHON?