More snow pics...

Yesterday after school I took Oscar to go sledding by our water tower. This is a picture of some of the hills that we were venturing out on to.Little did I know that there was a humongous snow drift and when stepped on sunk down to my hips. This is a pic of me getting out of the drift. I had to crawl out of the bank with Poppy in the back pack on my back. It was really pretty funny...Poppy was quite worried. I then made it to some more shallow snow.
It was really pretty fun and the kids didn't really get to sled because it was too deep but, that didn't stop them from tunneling and crawling around the drift.
Needless to say we were very cold when we got home.

Sqishy Run

Tonight after getting my haircut, I ran home...3.5 miles on some very slushy sidewalks. We had a bunch of snow the last few days and today...rain. It was a very nice run in the dark. It wasn't too cold and overall things feel good.

Four Months Post marathon...

The black toenail has finally grown a beautiful new nail underneath. I know this looks bad, but really...it was a relief to have it finally off.
I may just have to paint these little piggies and rejoice in the new nail!
The last black toenail took a year to get rid of...Maybe I'm getting quicker at healing these days.

Monday spin class

http://spinfitness.com/files/0108SPINProfile.pdf
This is the link for the January Spin profile. I used this on Monday and it was a nice ride and i really tried to encourage them to not drop below 60% or above 85% HR.
I like endurance rides...I did take come creative liberties on the ride but overall I tried to just have a nice ride.

I think I can, garbage man

Today while walking home from dropping Oscar off at school this poor garbage truck was having a tough time making it up the big fountain hill...it is a seriously steep hill (which we walk up and down both way to school). This picture was of his attempt #2 to make it up the hill. If you enlarge the picture and you will see that he has his reverse light on. He finally made it on his third attempt.

Pretty Wintery day!

This morning we woke to another great abundance of snow. Very pretty ! Ricky was very sweet and shoveled the drive way before work...no easy task! The morning then turned to this georgeous blue sunny sky! I wish we were skiing!!!Walking to school the boys couldn't;t help themselves from jumping in all of the snow banks...not to worry we left with plenty of time for play along the way.
This is where I drop Oscar off. Notice the line of kids that were lined up down below the hill to climb up the stairs to slide down the hill. This is what Oscar looks forward to when there is snow. Notice the nice gentleman who was at the top overseeing the process. When we walked up I could hear someone saying go...go...go I then realized he was staggering the kids so they wouldn't plow each other over.
Dosen't this look like a fun play ground? I'm glad they let the kids slide rather than make them just play int he snow.
Poppy fell asleep on my back...currently she is in her bed crying, trying to go back to sleep...ugh. Too bad she couldn't wait until we got home!

Week in Pictures...1st week of 2008

New Year's Eve Princess tea party. Chelsea and Poppy.
New Year's Day "Morning After" run 3.5 miles.

Daddy Getting the kids ready to run...notice the pink tights and super cape! He's our superdad.
Yesterday's primary "meet your teacher" breakfast. It was a great party with a good turnout. I think the kids really enjoyed getting to spend some fun time with their teachers. I am grateful to have my freezer back, and to have the planning off my brain!
Snow ant. The snow was way to fluffy for a snowman, so we made a giant snow ant instead.

This evening the McDonald's brought over their very fun/large Mastiff "Granite". He is so pretty and fun. Smiley, although the smaller, could still exert his dominance. It was fun to watch them bounding around the house...I think they need a gymnasium and they would have a great time. I was going to get a picture of granite up next to Poppy, just so you could get an idea of his actual size...but she wouldn't stand to close. He is as tall standing on all fours and she is.
He is one Beautiful dog...Shane tells me that he will probably gain another 50lbs or so. After all he is still a puppy!