I'm Back

I'm back to running and it feels great!! I am so excited to be back doing what I love. I ran Cross Country and Track through out High School and College. I have had 3 surgeries on my calves because I have a condition called compartment syndrome.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/chronic-exertional-compartment-syndrome/DS00789

Anyway, after having that many surgeries I decided after my last season in college to call it quits for a while. I started training again this September and so far things are going great!! I ran my first race in November called the Turkey Trot, it was a 5K (3.1 miles) I ran it in 22:32 and was very pleased with my time, since it was my first race in 4 years!!


My next race was 1 week later, I ran in the Jingle Bell run, which was another 5k (3.1 miles), I was very surprised when I ran that race in 21:29!! It was an awesome feeling knowing that I was close to my times in college and with a little work I could possibly be better!

So I have been running a lot lately and training with some guys at the YMCA...one of the guys I like to run with when I can did a Marathon a few weeks after my race, so I went out to see him run and I joined the race at mile 20 and helped him run the last 6.2 miles...it was a lot of fun!!
This past weekend I went on a long run of 9 miles, which is the most I have run in a LONG time and then today I did another 5 miles with Coach H. (the guy on the left) He is a coach at a near by high school, we work together at the YMCA and run together when we can. It is so much easier to have a running partner than to do it all on your own. So all this running is getting me somewhere...I am training for the Cowtown 1/2 marathon (13.1 miles), my official race is not until the end of Feb. but I am going to run the Benbrook half at the end of Jan. just to prepare myself.

I am also hoping that it will feel so good to have done that, so I will continue on and run a full marathon (26.2 miles) in April (Oklahoma City Marathon)....we shall see how the first 2 half marathons go first though :)

Happy 15 Months Princess

I can't believe my little princess turned 15 months on Christmas day! She is getting so big, so fast, and she is SO SMART!!

We took her to the doctor the other day, because the poor little girl has another sinus infection. This is number 4 for her and she is only 15 months old!! But I guess I should be happy that she has not had an ear infection. I feel so bad for her when she is sick :( But the news you were waiting for during my long story....she is now 21 lbs.!!! See I told you she was a big girl :)

Elizabeth now has 11 teeth and is talking a little. She of course says mama and dada, but now she also says: hot, doggy, that, movie (which really sounds like "ovie") and she will sometimes say up, if she wants you to hold her.

She loves watching a movie from the Baby Einstein collection called "Baby's First Moves" it is a GREAT movie. She has learned so much from watching that. She can now: kick, twist, spin, touch her nose, stomp, and shake...I also think there is more, but I can't think of them right now. But she loves to watch that movie and move, it is the cutest thing to watch!! :)

Christmas 2008

We had a great Christmas yesterday. Elizabeth woke at 7am and we opened up the presents that Santa brought. She was into getting stuff out of her stocking but she was not to interested in much else. She does love her new toys, but she also loved the boxes they came in. Maybe next year she will enjoy it more.

Here are some pictures and a video of our day:

Ok I Admit...

I am horrible!! I have been so busy, I have not had time to keep up with this blog. Elizabeth is walking...actually running everywhere and it is so hard to keep things up. Especially with the holidays coming, but I will do better, I promise. Here are a few new pics of Elizabeth to tie you over for a few days...then after Christmas, it is back to blogging!! :)