TT Day 2

Day 2: Bike 5 Miles

I think that biking is going to be my favorite event.  I haven't tried the swimming yet, that comes tomorrow, but this biking thing I can do.  There was a point around mile two that I kind of wanted to die, but by mile 4 I felt really good.  I'm glad this program that I'm doing isn't making me run everyday.  So today went a lot better than yesterday I think.  And all my muscles are properly sore.  I think I'm going to need to stretch a lot more, and find some good stretches for muscles I didn't even know existed.  I'm also thankful that this thing is easing me into it.  I tend to way overdo things on my own, and so it's nice to set a limit to it.  Of course, in a few weeks when I'm biking 15 miles and running for an hour I might feel different.  But for now, totally good.

As far as life goes?  I'm in one of those phases where I want to buy a house, SO bad.  Silly thing is we just signed a year lease for this place.  So we're stuck here for another year.  It's probably a good thing, but totally annoying.  It would probably be good to pay off the car first or something.  Or when Jamo gets that promotion at work.  Sigh.  Patience.  And stuff.

Also, I hate grocery shopping.

Triathlon Training (TT) Day 1

Day 1 - Run 15 minutes

So I waited another week to start.  Something about my son having surgery and recovering.  But he's doing good.  He also was teething the past few days, which added to the fun around this place.  But today, it was time.  And so I went to a local park here that has a loop that is 1 mile around.   I made it around precisely once.  And wanted to die.  And that was with walking the last half maybe?  I will add in my defense, that there are some huge hills in that park.  Also, I had already walked the loop once with Jill this morning.  Then I came home, died up three flights of stairs, and stretched.  And now I can't walk.

Consensus of the day: I'm SO out of shape.

And for those of you here to look at my cute baby, here you go...

In Which the Chubby Girl Decides to Do a Triathlon

So a silly thing happened while we were on vacation (maybe a post soon about that?).  I decided to do a triathlon.  Now I have never in my life considered such a thing.  And I really had no idea what it entailed.  Luckily for me, there are beginner or short ones called Sprint Triathlons.  And also lucky for me, they have training schedules for beginners on the internet.  And so tomorrow I embark on my journey that is my first triathlon.  I think I have one picked out.  And for some stupid reason, probably because it's Lake St. Louis, it costs like twice as much as the others.  But it isn't on the sabbath, like the one the weekend before, that has better mileages and is half the cost.  The things we do to stay true and faithful.  But it will give me another week to train?  That's a bonus.  Cause this girl is going to need all the training I can get.  I am completely, utterly and not even funnily (ha, that's a real word) out of shape.  So I've told myself to do this to help me get back on that right track.  Sometimes, after you have a baby, it's hard.  And I'd like to be in semi-decent shape before I have another one.  Or if nothing else, the same shape I was in before I had my dearest James.  My poor ligaments might never be the same.  But alas, this idea!  More of this silliness might be posted here.  Someone's got to keep me accountable?  I can do this?  I should really go to bed.

Kansas city

We went to Kansas City in April I believe to go see the Kansas City temple open  house.  And of course, to see Julie.  We hadn't been out that way since James was born.  And it was kind of a trial run for the bigger trip we just took to Utah and Idaho.  But we had good times.  And here are pictures from that weekend.

Driving (or maybe just waiting for Julie to get home)

Two beggers begging for food.  I think James won the cheerio battle here.

Adorable.  That's all.

Oh the ipod fun we have.  Between the camwow and that silly talking monkey, we could have entertained ourselves all weekend.  We did leave her house at some point.

We went to this park Sunday afternoon.  It was a beautiful day!

 

  

 

 

It was a real pretty temple

KC Temple

Orchiopexy

I know I wrote about it before, but today was the big day.  James had orchiopexy surgery, which is just fancy talk saying he had his testicles brought down to where they should be.  And guess what?  He's now a fully operational boy!  And the boy took it like a champ.

We got a call last night changing the time of his surgery from 12:20 pm to 7:30 am.  Let me tell you, it's been confirmed that I am NOT a morning person.  But it ended up being better so James didn't have to wait hours and hours without eating.  He was getting cranky by the time they actually came to get him and bring him back to surgery.  Luckily, there was a pretty nurse named Sheri that he went willingly with.  He's kind of a huge flirt, my little man.

He was gone for about 2 hours.  And then they let me go into the recovery room.  Poor boy was just crying and crying.  He drank some apple juice, though the nipple was too small on the bottle and he got mad and chucked it.  We went back to his room and he just laid on me all tired like.  Poor kid was so tired.  They discharged us fairly quickly, which was great.  I can sit just as easily at home, and more comfortably.

So a couple hour nap and more cuddles took up the afternoon.  Monsters, Inc. was watched.  And eating started up again.  Kid wouldn't eat the pineapple!  I never thought he was refuse pineapple.  All he wanted to eat was cottage cheese?  Silly baby.  I might have to go buy more tomorrow.  But playing commenced, after being asleep all day, until bedtime.  And now we wait to see what tomorrow has in store for us.  Thankfully, Jameson is working from home tomorrow.  Poor kid.

But here are some photos of him looking ridiculously cute in his hospital outfit.  They were huge!  And adorable!  And I wish I had more of them.