Triathlon

I did a TRIATHLON!  For those who do not know what that is it was a quarter mile swim, a 14 mile bike ride and a 3.11 mile run  I cannot believe I am even typing those words.  I can honestly say that is was probably one of the top ten best moments of my entire life crossing that finish line.  I had trained for it with a couple of my friends from my ward and I went through stages of feeling ready for it and then panic when I would not feel ready.  The day of the triathlon arrived and I knew there was no backing out.  So I just prepared myself the best I could, set up my transition station and got ready to go.  The race was delayed a little while because of fog so we had extra time to stand on the beach and think about it.  I was super nervous!  Once they started our race I realized that I had trained for this and I knew what I was doing.  The swim was the easiest are for me and I did it fairly quickly.  Once out of the water you run over to your transition station get your socks and shoes on, put on your helmet and head out for the 14 mile ride.  My ride went great and I feel like I had a pretty good time on that. Our ride was 14 mile out and back on Monroe/Snohomish road.  We basically rode out a little past Craven farms and came back.  After the ride you come back in, take of your helmet, rack your bike and head out on your run.  I knew my run was not going to be great since I am not a great runner.  I struggled!  A lot!  But I managed to do it in about 45 minutes.  My time at the end of everything was 2 hours one minute.  It kills me because if I had just run a little bit more I would have been under two hours!  I still feel fantastic about it!  I crossed the finish line with a women from my ward and they announced us coming in together.  I broke down in tears.  I don't know if it the adrenalin or the feeling of accomplishment but it was emotional!  Terence was there with the kids cheering me on a long with two of my best friends (one of whom did the race with me but smoked me in the run).  I will absolutely do it again!  I cannot wait!

He's a Hard Working Man!

I am so thankful for Terence's job!  It has been such a major blessing for our family.  He loves everything about it, his boss, his coworkers, his customers, it really has been such an amazing fit for him and we are so very thankful for it.  These past couple of weeks Terence has had the opportunity to travel to a conference and meet with a couple of his clients on the other side of the country.  He has taken a trip a week for the last three weeks so he has been gone a lot more then he has been home.

I think he has learned a lot from these trips and they have been a great growth experience for him.  I was able to hold down the fort while he was gone and even though we did OK without him I sure do miss him when he's gone!  I'm very grateful for Terence and how hard he works for our family.  I feel very blessed that he works so hard so I can stay home with our boys and be here to watch them grow.  It's a huge blessing and I hope he knows how much I appreciate him. 

Feeling Accomplished

I feel like I have gotten a lot done in the last couple of days.  Yesterday I went and returned a bike that I bought (it wasn't the right size for me), returned a raft that we had bought (it had a hole or bad seem), filled up the car, consigned some baby clothes, got Connor's school shopping done.  I bought roasted, peeled and froze 8lbs of green chilies, washed folded and put away all of our families laundry, got Tyson to fall asleep in his bed for the first time!  All of this while Terence was away in Philadelphia.  Today I cleaned the house top to bottom including floors, dusting, windows, bathrooms, and vacuuming.  Finished the last little bit of laundry, mowed the lawn, successfully got Tyson to take a nap in his crib, twice!  Cooked meals for the boys, played with the kids, welcomed Terence home from his trip.  Got him taken care of and off to bed because the poor guy is sick!  He spent the first two hours of his flight home throwing up in the airplane bathroom.  To top everything else off we are dog sitting for my Aunt while she travels to Utah for my cousins wedding.  Phew!  I'm tired!

Feeling so blessed!

I know it's been a while since I have blogged.  I keep letting the fact that I don't have enough pictures to post or that I don't have any interesting stories to write about get in the way.  What I should be doing is writing about the little things that happen every day.  How much Tyson is changing and growing, how funny my boys are, how sweet and hard working my husband is.  I feel so incredibly blessed!  I have been given more then anyone really deserves, especially me.  Today we had a wonderful day as a family and as I was watching my boys wrestle on the floor and held my sleeping baby I realized that this is what it's all about.  This is why we are put here on this earth!  I am so very blessed.