Learning with Lucas

Lucas is in such a fun stage right now! 

I love it. He is just soaking up so much from talking to walking.

Thanks right I said 

WALKING

 
  About time. That little stink bug!
Right along with walking..

Learning Shoes

He loves to help put his on, and also take them off. Can be a bit frustrating sometimes.
 But most of all he loves to walk around the house with shoes on his hands.
Its super cute.
I love it.

If you come to our house, beware, he might come take yours.. and we will have to trace his steps to find them.
He has been known to do that.

Lucas is also learning how to feed himself. He is at the stubborn stage where he has to do it all by himself.

   

Learning to Talk 

"I want that" sounds more like " I wann dat"
He says it for EVERYTHING. Points and "I wann dat"
I have been trying for a long time to teach him please. I have been doing signs with him.
More
Please
Thank You
Nope, all he does is look at me and say,
"I wann dat" sometimes accompanied by a yell or scream if I hold off and try to get him to ask.

He loves to blab all the time.
I love that. He is just a talker. He also loves to say Grandpa. Its adorable.
My Dad LOVES it. It was one of his first words.
In fact I think Lucas has worked his way up to favorite grandchild because of it.

Learning Basics
He is also learning nose, ears, head... but my favorite is
Kisses.
I love his kisses.

 (that's his sweet face he makes right before)

Kennedy also loves his kisses :)

I love to watch him learn and observe. He catches on to so many things.
It surprises me almost daily.


I am also learning right along with Lucas in a few ways..

Learning  PLUMS

My Dad came home the other day with a HUGE bag filled with plums.
 Tons.
I was so excited. I love things that get me cooking something different.
So I have had a lot of fun finding plum recipes.
 
 Plum Jam

 Pork with Plum Sauce.

Turned out to be a hit!
Also plum and peach cobbler. Yum...
 We have had the plums for 3 days, and I think we only have like 8 left.

I am a little but bummed  :)

 Learning Running 

Here are the lessons I learned about running a half marathon.

Lesson #1-

TRAIN

Just because you have ran a half marathon untrained before doesn't mean you can do it again.

We signed up planning on training.. didn't happen. Last time we ran was our 5k on the 4th, and before that... who knows.

Lesson #2 -

Not only Train.. But Train in the SHOES you are going to run in!

Our stuff is still in storage, and when we ran the 5k the shoes I used were a bit too small, and I was worried my toes would be killing me if I ran in those. 

So at 5 am I went and found my other pair of shoes in a box, and decided to use those.

Yeah, I took my shoes off at mile 10 and ran the last 3 barefoot.

Felt good

Lesson #3-

The night before you need to EAT good and SLEEP well.

(you would think that would be a no brainer...)

We had a busy night before our half, we helped Adam propose to Tiffany.

YAY!!! We couldn't be MORE thrilled!

Anyway, we didn't have a good dinner, we only had some snacks on the drive to and from Orem. 

By the time we realized that we hadn't eaten a good meal, 

I thought it was too late to eat (midnight) Andrew made himself a bowl of cereal.

(I didn't want to have lots of potty breaks like last time. I was worried about the reverse effect.)
Yes I just said potty.

So I thought I could do it with out...

Needless to say, around mile 11 I thought I was going to black out and pass out.

I ran into a sweet girl from our old ward in Orem, that I visit taught. It was a blessing, I ran with her for miles 7-9 and that was awesome! 

My goal was to run it with out walking.. I had done it twice before.

Yeah.. No.

I walked a few times. In fact I used every water break from mile 4 on as my walking time 

Only because I felt sick after drinking and running on an stomach.

I was just so weak! We both were, Andrew was getting the chills towards the end.

Lesson # 4-

DO A BIG RACE.

We did the Bountiful Handcart Days race, and it was good. 

We liked the first half better than the second half. Maybe I just didn't love the course..

What I liked about the previous races that we have done in the past, is that they are big.

Lots of people running, the roads are blocked off, big finish, big start (they start on time)  they start early so its not so hot.

They don't run out of water at the end.. which happened for us.

(that wasn't cool.. literally.. :)

just little things that I like in a race, they didn't have. 

I am a picky racer I guess.

Lesson #5-
Race with someone you love.

It makes it so much better.

He was the highlight of it all..

It was still good. I am glad we did it.

I want to do another one and prove to myself that I can do it right.

Anyone want to join us!?

Summer Bucket List

JUNE IS HERE!

Andrew and I have made a summer bucket list. 

Its full of things that we want to do, mostly things that just remind of us of  SUMMER! 
The crazy thing is we keep thinking of more.. but we will stick to these for now :)

One of mine, is to journal my summer through pictures, at least one picture every day, to document what we did. I am pretty excited. Not sure what I will do with all these pictures, but I have all summer to decide.
Anyway.. Happy Summer to YOU!

13.1

13.1 Miles Ran 12 hundred calories consumed 11 Minute miles 10 toes nails almost came off 9 rhymes with time... 8 sore muscles 7 Bathroom stops (literally..) 6.55 Half Way 5 Hours of sleep 4 Knees that ached all day 3 AM in the morning 2 Hours running

1 Good Time!This is my coworker Jessica we ran into at the top of the race, way fun to see her!

We did it!!
And I can HONESTLY say it was FUN!!

'Running and Fun' usually don't exist together in my vocab, but it was, we took it slow (cause we didn't train super good :)
and just talked, laughed and just enjoyed being together!I love ANDREW!! My jog is his speed walk... I felt bad... but I was secretly happy he was by my side the whole time. :)

Ice Breaker Triathlon!

So, This last weekend we did the American Fork Triathlon... Andrew's brother Jake was doing it and sounded fun, so it was kind of a last minute decision but it ended up being way fun! I really enjoyed it!

It was a sprint triathlon, so we swam a 300 meter pool swim, a 12 mile bike and a 5k run.

Poor Andrew said before we started that he wanted to do it with me.. and he did stay with me the whole time... I don't think he will ever say that again :)
He realized what a slow biker I was... But we had a lot of fun!! We are totally planning on doing another one again!This is us sporing our T-shirts we got later on that night...
Bah.. we look... yuck..
Andrews Dad took more pictures.. of us in action, so more to come! Maybe....:)

Goals...

So I guess you could call these late new years resolutions or something,

we have set a lot of goals for the next couple of months, but these are the 2 big ones.
(I figure if I tell you, You will have to hold me to them so I can't bale, and maybe you will join us! :)

The first, and one I am not looking forward too..Andrew and I are all signed up and started training for the Utah Valley Marathon.. but no worries we are only doing the half marathon. :)
Its June 12, so hopefully I will stay sane why training...
(Pain I DON'T Enjoy..)
Then for the second goal, to go to all them temples in Utah before my birthday!!It should be pretty fun! I am getting all excited planning trips down and around to all the temples.
So wish us luck!
You should all come and join us! The more the better!!
I will keep you posted.