Uncle Jacques

My uncle Jacques died on Friday in a tragic accident.  He was such a nice man who liked to travel, be adventurous, and farm.  He loved his family and was a really hard worker. Recently, my Grandma decided she wanted to buy a new house in town.  Jacques worked really hard to get my Grandma the dream home she always wanted (it is so beautiful :) ).  I can’t believe anything like this would happen to him.  Please keep our family in your thoughts this week as we attend his funeral and say goodbye.  We will miss him greatly.

Uncle Jacques on the Farm

 

 

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Training Status and Parker’s workout

313 more days to go!

- On Tuesday evening,  I rode my trainer for about 30 minutes while the boys played.  After I finished Parker came up to me and told me he had written his workout down and wanted to go outside to do it.  Parker’s workout (which he wrote on an index card) included:

10 laps bike, 10 laps scooter, 10 laps running, 10 laps walking

So cool!!!  We went out side and he did his workout – 4 times!   10 laps of bike and scooter around the cul-de-sac and then 10 laps of running/walking around the driveway.  I was really impressed and felt good that maybe all my training will influence my sons in a positive way :)

- Training for this week – I completed 6.28 hours of training.  I am starting to feel strong and really good.  Would like to incorporate more strength training, esp boot camp like training (push-ups, pull-ups, interval running, dips, etc).  I was at my peak performance when I was doing a hard core boot camp 3 days/week.  I need to come up with a plan….

Monday – REST Day

Tuesday – 4.5 mile run in the morning and 30 minutes bike on indoor trainer in the afternoon.  I worked pretty hard on the bike because it was so short.  Need to get some anaerobic training in.

Wednesday – 2350 yd swim in the morning

Thursday – 4.5 mile run in the morning

Friday – 2350 yd swim

Sat – 60 min on indoor training watching Scrubs (love that show:).  My husband downloaded Gladiator for me, so next session I get to watch this movie!!

Sun – 7 mile run around 9 AM.  FELT GREAT!  Followed the run with 20 mins of strength training.

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Ironman Arizona here I come!!!

On November 20th, my husband signed me up for Ironman Arizona (www.ironmanarizona.com)!  This race sold out in 10 minutes, so I feel really lucky to get in.  I plan on blogging about my training here.

The race is to take place on November18th, 2012 in Tempe Arizona.

I am really excited, but I have a lot of training to do.

Of course, 2 weeks after David signed me up for this race, I fell and hurt my tailbone.  I wasn’t able to work out for a week, but I did start to bike and swim again this week.  I am still not able to run yet, but I am hopeful by next year I will be running again :) .

Please check back to get a status on my training asI begin to document my journey to complete Ironman Arizona as a full time working mom.

 

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Jon the Artist

Before bath last night, Jon decided to draw some pictures and hang them with tape on his wall – just like his brother Parker had done.  He walked out of his room with this drawing and said “this  is mommy”.  I was amazed at what I saw!  Such a good artist at 2.5 (yesterday, Jan 19th, he turned 2.5 years old!).

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Future Pete Sampras?

Parker is so happy when he gets to play tennis – just look at the happiness in his face – pure joy even though I think it was over 90 degrees that day.

Kids find pure joy in the littlest things, live in the moment, don’t hold grudges…..I know us adults have responsibilities, but shouldn’t we be able to do the same – we should try and learn from our kids that it’s about the moment, the moment that you have this very second. Life is way too short to be missing out on those special moments because we’re too worried about the past…and the future.

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The Daycare drop off

The other day I dropped Parker off at school.  The drop off didn’t go very well…..he cried when I was about to leave and held onto me.  The teacher had to come over and get him so I could leave.  Those kind of drop offs are ohhh so hard, even though I know the minute I leave he is perfectly fine.  But all us moms know how hard it can be……..

When I picked Parker up from school, I asked him:

“why did you cry when I left this morning”

Parker said -

“mom, it sucks when you leave”

I think that pretty much summed it up.   I didn’t even say anything about the “bad word” because sometimes in life using “bad words” may be the only way to describe something.

Love you buddy.

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Jumpy Jumps

My son has finally overcome his fear of Jumpy Jumps!   He just decided on Sunday that he was not scared anymore and went on every single jumpy jump, including the big slide :)   He didn’t even acknowledge me anymore after his fear was gone….he used to have to have me by his side the entire time (and didn’t want me to go on anything either).   Bring on the Pump it Up parties!!!  We are very proud of you Parker.

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