GOT THE INVITE!!!!!!!

I'm so gonna be at Ellie's first birthday party! I love the invitation, it is sooo cute. The felt stickers are soo cool, and fun to touch! I'm sooo excited and cannot wait to come.

Derek is sad that he cannot make it, and hopes that he'll be able to catch some time with you guys in October when we're out for Kristi's wedding.

Just 28 more days and I'll be in StL! :-D

"I'm so excited! and I just can't hide it! I'm about to lose control and I think I like it... oh yeah!"

176 Pounds!

I am 1 pound away from my goal weight of 175! That means that I have lost 24 pounds in a little over a months time. All my clothes are starting to get a little baggy on me though...

August 29th Is Ellie's First Birthday, YAY! we plan to have a little winnie the pooh and Eeyore themed fiesta and it should be a lot of fun!

Happy 11 months!

I can't believe Ellie is 11 months old already!!!
Only a few more weeks til I'm in the Lou!
I'm really excited too!!! Just 30 more days! YIPPEE!!!!!!!

5 more weeks!

How was your weekend? D and I had a decent time. I can't believe Ellie is 11 months, and so soon will be a year old. It has really flown by so quickly! Of course keeping a training calendar will do that for those w/o babies to watch time rapidly pass. I can't wait to see you all!

Harry Potter 6th movie

YOU LIKED IT! COOL!

I want to see it too! I'm super excited!

(ETA: I DID SEE IT, WEDS NIGHT. IT ROCKED!)

Weekend

Friday night dad and I went to the Cardinals game! It was a lot of fun spending some time with dad. Plus, we kicked the diamondback's butts.

A weird thing happened this weekend... I took a diet vacation, Nachos and beer Friday night, Red Robin and Wendys on Saturday, and White Castle on Sunday. I weighed myself this morning and I lost a pound??? I ended up in Bizarro world.

Sarah and I saw Harry Potter on Saturday night while Sarah's mom watched Ellie. Man, that movie was soo good. I really really liked it! I can't wait for the next two movies now.

6 weeks!

In only 6 short weeks I'll be out for Ellie's birthday bash! I'm super excited!!!!

Harry Potter

I can't wait to see the new harry potter movie this weekend! Sarah's mom is going to watch Ellie for a day so that we can see the movie, and of course, so she can watch Ellie.

October 5k

http://www.209events.com/file/231.doc (this is a 9 week program, to help you achieve a specific time if you wanted.. only after you have a really solid base down.)

I'd use a very slow build-up for your next race to keep you from getting injured. You're cardio (heart and lungs) will be able to last, even though the connective tissues in the body aren't strong enough. That is why overuse injuries are so common... too much too soon. So the beginning will feel very easy, like you can do more... but don't.

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090410/running_090412/20090412

Basically what you should do, and I can't really find a good example of this is walk run training. This will help your connective tissue get used to the pounding you'll be asking of them.

EXAMPLE:
Week Run Walk # of cycles
1 1 minute 4 minutes 5
2 2 minutes 3 minutes 5
3 3 minutes 2 minutes 5
4 4 minutes 1 minute 5
5 5 minutes 1 minute 5

Of course, you can take this slower if needed. The most important part about starting out, is that you should take every other day off (or cross train). It was one of the hardest parts for me, is that rest is very important. You should never increase either total weekly miles, or any one run more than 10%. Happy Tuesday! I hope you are enjoying your new bike!

5k results!

I found the 5k results!
http://results.active.com/pages/searchform.jsp?pubID=3&rsID=81091

I ran the race in 39:13 not great, but at least it was under 40 minutes. basically a 12.5 minute mile pace. On the bright side, this leaves plenty of room for improvement!

Mom and dad finished in 41:26... even injured they had great finishing times!

5k run

Here we all are shortly after the race with our Medals! Mom and dad are wearing the t-shirts we got, I wore mine later in the day... I didn't want to wear a cotton t-shirt for a run.

I still haven't found where I can see what our finishing times were... I would really like to know how fast I ran the race so I can set a measure for improvement for my next one in October.

Around 1pm after the race Mom, Dad, and Grandma came over to our house for an AWESOME BBQ. Grandma hadn't seen our house yet so we got to give her the tour. I grilled up a peppered pork loin on my grill, dad grilled up some Brats, Sarah made her famous potato salad, and mom made some corn, cole slaw, and baked beans. Card and Cubbies was on the TV... It was a really great day!

Ellie has some molars coming in, so she has been very sleepy lately. She went to bed Saturday "night" at 4:30pm, slept all night without waking until 8:15am Sunday morning. She even took a nap at 10:30am Sunday and slept for 3 hours. like her dad, she loves her sleep. She has also been in such a great mood lately... she has just been SO MUCH FUN. Oh yeah, Saturday we had a playdate for Ellie with a couple from Sarah's work Matt, Maggie, and little Claire (2 weeks older than Ellie). Those 2 were so cute playing together. We plan on doing it again in a couple weeks, next time we are going over to their house though, since they have a pool!

I can't really tell in these pictures that I've lost 20 pounds. I'm now 180 pounds! 5 more pounds and I won't be overweight any more (according to the army).

The Friday before your 5k!

GOOD LUCK! HAVE FUN! TAKE PICS AND SEND THEM TO ME... you in your bib, and after the race, and other pics of skinny you! HUGS!

Awesomest Child Award

You win the best kid award for being there for mom. I win the most awful kid award for moving so far away....

my night of fyn w/ my supportive son!

todd, you are such a supportive son. thank you for coming to the ER last night. i am sure you didn't want to spend toyr night that way, but it meant so much to me. i was so comforted by your prescence! I AM HAVING A PRETTY GOOD DAY. MY LAP TOP IS MORE DIFFICULT TO TYPE ON THAN A KEYBOARD, SO I WILL ASK DAD to drive me into work tomorrow.
thank you again for your love and support. Sarah, call me or text me and let me knoqw todd does.

Good luck in the race this weekend. Whether you walk or run it, I hope that you enjoy yourself, and stay pain free! The course has some little lollers (rolling hills) but nothing you aren't prepared for. The hills in your neighborhood have a steeper grade, and can aggravate many knee troubles. So I'm hoping the smaller inclines will help to stave off any knee pain. (I'm not sure what your diagnosis is, but runner's knee, pain is worsened running DOWNHILL, ITBAND issues are also associated with pain running down hill, esp at foot impact.)

TOO CUTE!

That was the cutest thing ever! She is soo adorable. Funny that she's banging on your laptop! What a cute baby girl. Derek and I watched this like 5 times! SOO CUTE! MORE MORE MORE!!!

Ellie in my hat

all you have to do is put my colts hat on Ellie's head and she goes into a giggle fit.

6 days till race day

4th of July was a slow weekend for us.

Thursday night Sara, Sarah, and me went to see the proposal and ate at McCormick and Schmicks. it was pretty good, Sarah got Fish and Chips which was awesome... I'm getting that next time when I'm off my diet. Mom and Dad watched Ellie overnight for us which was a nice treat, for them as well as us :)

Mom and Dad dropped Ellie off on Friday morning and we all went to Bread Co for lunch. Nice healthy fast food. For dinner we met up with Sara and Curtis and went to the local Mexican restaurant for my diet holiday, and I ate burritos!

Saturday Jeanne and Gary stopped by for a short while and we went over to mom and dads for dinner. We didn't go out for fireworks because it was past Ellie's bed time and Davey HATES fireworks, they really freak him out.

Sunday was spent playing with Ellie all day on the floor and I made some Chilli mac for dinner.

Monday morning I weighed myself and I have lost a total of 17 pounds so far! I may even hit 180 by the race on Sunday! I'm looking forward to the race this weekend hopefully my knees don't get re-injured from the running.

7/6/09

Did you enjoy your weekend, and get to see the proposal? I hope you did! Just 6 more days until the 5k. I think you get a t-shirt AND a medal! Should be awesome. I am really excited, Todd, and hope you do as well as you are able. Just remember, a race is only a measure of how well you could do ON THAT DAY. Weather, injuries, etc - are factors that play into your final performance! Best wishes!

Patriotic Weekend

So glad you got the package! I hope they fit or will fit eventually. Anywho, Todd rest up and get better... and I hope you both have an excellent weekend!!!

Crawling!

That is soo exciting! I hope I can see her WALKING when I come into visit in 2 months!! It is crazy that she is 10 months already! Time sure flies!!!

knee

My knee is a little better today. it still hurts, but not as bad as yesterday. I've been icing it 3 times a day, and taking Nabumetone (an NSAID) twice a day.

I'm down to 186 pounds! I've lost 14 pounds in two weeks. Lets see if I can keep it up.


Ellie is 10 months old as of Monday! She is finally actually crawling, on her knees, instead of just army commando crawling, on her stomach. She is also standing and kinda walking around couches and tables. So hopefully, she will be walking by the end of the month.