Running

I have been working with a personal trainer from church and we have been swapping babysitting for personal training.  I am determined to be healthy and be a happy healthy mom for myself and for my family.  Let me tell you this, it is a lot easier to put on weight than it is to get it off!  I have been at this since Cole was two months old and I am about 18 lbs. away from my goal.  I recently took up running and I have been entering into these races to help motivate me to keep running.  I actually hated running at first but now I look forward to it and it is such an accomplishment when I hit a new goal that I set for myself.  Joe and I recently did a mud run called the Lizard Creek Run and it was a blast, we ran about 3 miles up and down a rugged terrain, swung into mud pits, crawled through and under mud, climbed up the side of a mountain using a rope and nothing else, and slid down an enormous water slide to get clean but only to end up completely muddy at the end.  We had a blast and are looking where to sign up for our next adventure!  We stopped to get some lunch on the way home and we sure did get some crazy looks with our muddy selves!  I encourage anyone who wants to get healthy to get out there and run your little heart out and it will be rewarding and

tough all at the same time!!!

This is a shot of Joe "walking on water" right before he splashed into the mud!

Climbing under the barbed wire while wading through the freezing cold mud/water. 

Cole is Nine Months Old!!!

Oh my gosh I cannot believe that I haven't blogged about my little munchkin in 5 months and I also cannot believe that he is now nine months old!! He has grown sooooo much in these last five months!  He is now weighing in at 21 lbs. 10 oz. (80th percentile) and he is 28 1/2 inches tall (55th percentile).  His newest trick is crawling and he is everywhere and into everything.  I always hear moms say that they don't like when their baby gets mobile but I love it because he can crawl off and explore and not throw a fit everytime I leave the room.  He adores his big brother Brock and Brock is pretty fond of him too.

 He is eating anything and everything he can get his chubby little hands on and I love the finger food stage because it makes going out to eat a little bit easier to entertain the baby!  He is a very smiley baby and has two bottom teeth and two top teeth.  He is a beast when he is teething and he will let you know very loudly that he isn't happy about his teeth coming in!  We went to the pediatrician for his well child check-up the other day and the doc was asking me if he is babbling mama and dada and I told her no but that he has found that screaming is a much more effective way to get out attention!  He is making sure that we don't forget he is here!  Cole is definitely my loudest child by far!! I cannot believe that this little chubster is already 9 months old!! Let's just hope that I am better about bloggging and that he won't be a one year old before I take another picture of him :)

Brock is five years old!!!

I cannot believe that Brock is five years old already!!  I am just so proud to be his mom, he is a fun and funny kid to have around.  He is a great big brother and alot of help around the house!  For his fifth birthday he wanted to rent a bounce house. The weather has been beautiful lately so I figured that would make for a super easy birthday party for me, so I booked the bounce house.  Well, two days before the party the weather predicted that it would be cold and rainy on the day of the party so we had to cancel the bounce house, scramble for some fun games for the kids to play(thank you pinterest) and go and buy the stuff for the games.  We ended up playing a fun balloon dare game and bobbing for apples.  Brock loved it and it seemed like his friends did too!

 This year he opted for a green lantern birthday cake and he insisted on having cake pops for him and his friends.  Well, after researching how to make cake pops I decided that I was in no way organized enough to spend days(yes days!) making cake pops so we talked Joe's mom into buying cake pops for the kiddos and I bought a cake from Kroger. I'm not sure if I just haven't had cake in so long or if the cake was just that good, but I sure enjoyed my slice!  I am pretty sure that Brock picked this cake out just because it's green and not because it's green lantern.  All in all we had a great day and again I can't believe my little boy is a five year old!!  Happy Birthday big man!