Major update! delayed

So, I was supposed to post this a little bit ago, but forgot about it.

It’s been a while since I did a blog update of our life, other than a race update. There is actually a lot to update since having little Emi.

Scott was able to go on the high adventure with the young men this year. They went up to Michigan and did a canoe/fishing trip for a week. The all had a lot of fun and had some pretty neat experiences that I’ll let him fill in. He also went to Las Vegas for a Tucon conference (the company that makes Spotfire- a data visualization tool that Scott has made popular at Nielsen). Just recently he also went to Canada to do some trainings to those folks on spotfire.

This summer besides my 3 races I ended up doing, I had a pretty relaxing time. I stayed at home with Emmers and worked on various projects around the house. I finally got my crafts organized so now I can’t find anything;). I also found an extremely cheap place to buy discounted bulk produce. I got 152 organic mango (9/$1)!!!! We canned some, dried some, and blended and froze some. I also bought 80lbs of tomatoes, 20lbs of onions, and 10lbs of bell peppers and made some diced tomatoes, salsa, and tomato paste (yes homemade does ALWAYS taste better). I unfortunately missed the peach/pear season so I didn’t get any of those canned. We also made a ton of pickles too! It was a fun adventure, but took a TON of time. Hopefully we will enjoy the “fruits” of our labors.

Emi has been such a happy pleasant little girl to be the parents of. She is tiny (5^th percentile for weight) but still growing. She is 8 months now and still wears 3 month clothing. She has been super strong since she was born. She had good head control just a couple days old and could stand holding our hands at just under two months. She started crawling at 6 months and decided that that wasn’t good enough so this week she decided to start taking a couple of steps along furniture… we’re doomed. It’s so funny to see her little figure standing and moving as well as she does, it just doesn’t look right. We were able to visit Scott’s family this last week so she finally met all her cousins, aunts and uncles on his side. It was tons of fun to introduce her and have her have 23 other playmates.

So, the update on Scott and my life is extensive but can be summarized by two new jobs and a car! I started my job at The Christ Hospital in September. I was in a residency program for 8 weeks and now I am orienting on my floor (CVICU-cadiovascular intesive care unit). I LOVE IT. I love the people I get to work with and for. The pts are very high acuity which makes everyday different and challenging.

Scott was contacted through Linked in by a company in Cincinnati called Sogeti. They are an IT consulting firm. They contacted him because of his experience in Spotfire and visualization tools. After talking back a forth a little he stopped hearing from them for two months. We just moved on and didn’t think anything more about them. His current company, Nielsen, finally made the position for him that he has been telling them they need to make for years. Right at the same time Nielsen was formulating this new offer, Sogeti came back with an offer for the same type of work with them. It was offer heaven, Scott counted up 10 different offers he had that month with out looking. After much thought, prayer, and fasting we finally decided to go with Sogeti. Because of the new jobs, we need a second car. Scott used to take the bus to work, or I would occasionally or run home. We had to get pretty inventive sometimes when it came to transportation to and from childcare and both workplaces with one car. I’m proud that we were able to make it happen as long as we did (6.5 years, and 7 months with a babe!). We would have been able to continue to make it work but Scott’s job isn’t on the bus route it’s so far north.

So the Saturday after thanksgiving we went car shopping! We went out thinking we were going to buy a used car with a few miles on it. After a VERY long day we ended up with a new Hyundai Elantra. The sales guy was pretty desperate to make a sale so we actually got the car for cheaper than we were going to buy the used one for and it had the same amenities but the used one had 39,000 miles and was a model older.  We felt very blessed but also very annoyed at how long everything took! I spotted a Uswirl yogurt place during the day so we went and got some as a celebration on the way home. Uswirl is my favorite froyo place out west and I guess they are expanding out here now! It’s too bad that its 40 minutes from our place though! For those in the Austin, TX area Froyoyo is still my number one favorite frozen yogurt place out there!

I think that concludes the MAJOR changes in our lives! I’ll have to do another update after Christmas and the new year when I become a REAL nurse aka not an orientee anymore (SCARY SCARY!) and Scott will have a little bit of the new job under his belt! 

I love Giraffe!

Watching momma on the bike!

This was one of Scott's birthday presents this year!

I love daddy!

Lounging!

The many cucumbers we made into pickles!

On our way to Maine! My first plane trip!

Blueberry picking in Maine.

Asleep blueberry picking in Maine.

Went to cheer my sister on for the Louisville Ironman! She did AMAZING and PRed

Speed put put, something Scott invented, best way to play put put EVER!

First BYU football game with the t-shirt she got from Brian and Val McCauley

Family photo, Thanks Morgan Runyan!

Just cute!

Helping momma cook some eggplant!

Made pumpkin jars with paint and black vinyl.

So cold in the basement hanging with mom while on the trainer!

Halloween costume, robbers with her bag of money.

Cute picture Scott took in Emi's room.

First touch of snow.

I found the candy!

Thanksgiving round 1 with the McCauley's

Staying up watching football!

I found the POTATOES!

Decorating the Christmas tree!

Small update

This blog has been by the wayside since I started my other blog about training and being pregnant and after birth! Here's a few things that we've done...

We found a living social for a little indoor mini golf place. We played twice, once we didn't keep score, the second time we timed each hole and whoever got it fastest won. Scott barely won that one!

 Oh ya during the first round we said random ways you had to put. Behind the back, while standing on one foot, with eyes closed etc. I actually got a whole in one with the eyes closed!

 The little one having fun on our date with us!

This was just too cute not to post

 Had our two month doctor check up! Still under 10 pounds. I can't imagine giving birth to a baby this big though! Thank you Emilyn for being small!

 Bath time is her FAVORITE time of day.

 I'm a ghost!

 We celebrated our 6 year anniversary a little late and went up to Dayton. On our way we stopped at the outlets to get Scott some new brown shoes. We got the brown shoes in the first 10 minutes and then saw a tool shop and ended up also getting a table saw and sander! We also went to the Airforce museum which was free and SUPER awesome. There was also a gluten-free bakery/restaurant that we went to. It was decent but not worth the price.

 This is a cargo plane that one of our friends in the Air Force flies.

 My sister came in town and we did a half ironman together in Muncie, IN. If you want to read about it go to my other blog HERE.

There's our small update! Loving having our little family!

Working out while pregnant

Most people would consider me crazy for continuing to workout as much as I do while pregnant. I think I would go insane if I decreased my workouts more than I did. Now you're wondering, "how much does this crazy gal workout?" Well, you're in luck! Here's my round about week of working out...
Monday- 1 hour ride in the morning, 10 mile run (dreadmill) in the afternoon
Tuesday- 2 hour ride
Wednesday- 1.5 hour ride and a 3-4 mile run
Thursday- 1.5 hour ride (slow because my previous school days are LONG)
Friday- 1.5 hour ride 3-4 mile run
Saturday- 3.5 hour ride, 2 mile run
I have had to slow down a bit. 30-weeks pregnant I did my last 10-miler at 7:30 pace, but I think I'm going to slow it down a little more this week. My HR and RPE are creeping up. I still am able to have my HR around 150 or lower. Really they say that HR doesn't even matter any more it's all about perceived exertion and I'm can to talk the whole time.

Other than having to slow down a bit during workouts, eating EVERYTHING in site that I can lay my hands on (seriously I eat every 30 minutes at least), legs swelling, nausea, not being able to move around as well, just feeling blah most of the time, exhausted beyond belief, etc. I feel great. So, when people ask me how I'm feeling, I just say great, because I feel PREGNANT how else do you think I feel? I don't understand women who enjoy being pregnant! I do hear it's all worth it in the end...

A little more of a pregnant woman's rant... Why do people think it's all the sudden ok to ask you your weight and how much you've gained? Why do people feel the need to comment consistently on how you look or "size" you up and tell you their "professional" opinion. Also, I don't want to hear you're birthing story unless it was wonderful and peaceful and full of butterflies and rainbows. How is telling me your horror story going to help me feel any better even if you do say... but it's worth it in the end. I know I might do some or all of this stuff when I'm not pregnant but I'm definitely going to try not to. Maybe I'm different and weird and just don't like those things...

Maybe this is just the pregnancy/ tiredness talking... time for this pregnant women to try to get in some sort of position to fall asleep, then wake up 3 times... but they're worth it... let's sure hope!

Quick update

So, it seems as though when I take the time to write we have some big news update. This time we are announcing that we are having a baby in April! Well, I'm due April 24th to be exact. So I'm almost 29 weeks along now. Seems pretty crazy in less than 3 months we'll be parents! We will both be a mom and dad for mother's and father's day this year!

We are getting another ultrasound on Monday but here's two fuzzy pictures from our 20 week ultrasound. 

 The other big new in our lives is that we moved! Of course this was the first thing that was set up in our new house when we got there. "New" for us, it's a 84-year-old house that we are renting. I'm still training a lot since I'm doing the Muncie half ironman 12 weeks after my due date. We'll see how things go though.

 We were able to go to Idaho for Christmas and Scott was the donkey that carried Mary. Really he's just wearing a brown snuggie.

 This is the first quilt I have ever made or probably will ever make! It's not my style but it was for my sister who is a self proclaimed geek.

 Scott got me this onesie for Christmas. It's the first piece of baby clothing that we've bought.

This was my DELICIOUS Christmas present from my sister in Austin. They have yummy gluten-free nutrition for biking. Also, an awesome heart rate monitor that I've been wanting forever!

We're babysitting for 5 kids so I better get back to them and make some dinner!

Major life update- shortened version

So, if I haven't talked to you on the phone in a while, then you don't know 2 things about me:

1. I've been diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis- hypothyroidism.
2. I'm going to school for a BSN and graduate in August 2013.

I could really leave my life update to that. It encompasses about everything that has been going on with me right now.

Obviously I have about a 10 mile long story that I could tell about my diagnosis which happened back in April 2012. I won't bore you with all the details, but anyone that has been diagnosed with this or any other auto immune disorder can attest to the frustration and unsurety that accompany about the year before a firm diagnosis. We are still trying to get a correct medication dose. I have also gone gluten-free now (as of 2 weeks ago). It was recommended to me by two doctors, so why not try it!

In terms of school, I figure that 3rd times a charm right? or three strikes you're out, which ever one works fine :). It is at UC and is an accelerated program (14 months for a BSN). It's been fun, horrible, amazing, and frustrating all in one.

Scott and I also recently went to my family's lake house in Maine. We also went to Sweden and Portugal. Both were amazingly fun except our camera broke!

We also just got iphone 5s this week because we both lost/ruined our phones. We made a big upgrade, but I am LOVING it. Especially Seri.

Muncie 70.3 2012= 37.2

To preface this for those of you who aren't triathlon nerds which my sister is slowly turning me into, here are the distances I'm talking about...
Half Ironman also called 70.3 because that is the total number miles you go that race(yes the full is double everything here)= 1.2mile swim, 56 mile bike, 13.1 run

Olympic distance= .93 mile (1.5k) swim, 25 mile (40k) bike, 6.2 mile (10k) run

This is me setting up transition at the crack of dawn.

T1 I think.

I'm going to say sorry now that this isn't a condensed race report. This was my race I was training for this whole year up to this point, hence it was pretty important to me. I won't feel bad if you skim it, heck you don't HAVE to read it at all.

I signed up for Muncie (IN where Ball state is) 70.3 back in September 2011. Back when I signed up I had been off of crutches a week or two and needed some encouragement that only can come from signing yourself up for a crazy race. I was finally jogging (I never say I jog, but it was SLOW) in January 2012. In february I was able to RUN 4 miles all together (big accomplishment). I was determined not to get injured through this training process, so I built up my base very slowly. I didn't have a training plan, just a build my base plan. I went with my sister to Saint George Ironman in May (where she rocked it and was a huge inspiration to me). We had a long car drive back and planed the next 10 weeks of training up to race day.

So, we'll skip ahead to race week. Obviously I religiously checked the weather in Muncie as soon as it was on the 10 day forecast. In the beginning it was lower 90's, humid, but doable. Thursday it looked bad! Upper 90's, humid all day, and starting out pretty nasty. The race team decided to move the start to 6:30am instead of 7:00am. Friday I was in clinical lab (nursing school stuff) when I got a voicemail from my sister. I listened to her say that she heard a rumor that Muncie got shortened! I was so sad/angry/ disappointed/stressed, but decided to find out on my own. I got my computer out and couldn't get the internet to work, I tried all 4 computers that I could find and couldn't get signed in properly. I probably looked like a mess, which seems to be a common theme in this story. So, when all else fails... call mom. I asked her to sign into facebook, and check muncie's page. 14 minutes ago muncie 70.3 posted that they had to shorten the race to a 1 mile swim, 30 mile bike, and 6.2 (10k) run. This is practically an olympic distance triathlon (see above distances)

So, I never finished this post and guess I will do my best to remember what else I was going to put.

Our hotel was nice enough and even though I had a ton of homework to do, I wasn't about to be able to concentrate on it the night before a race! We went to bed a lot later than I normally would before a race and had to be up at the crack of dawn to get to the location on time (before they started to shut roads down). I set up my transition area and then decided to ask someone to borrow their bike pump. Well, that was a disaster! The pump completely deflated my tire, then the girl said, oh ya sometimes that happens for some reason. I think she was trying to sabotage me (same age group). Well no one else around me had a pump so I walked up the row of bikes and asked a random guy. Luckily his pump worked and I was able to get more pressure into the tire. I wasn't about to risk it on my other tire and so just returned the pump counting my lucky stars.

Scott and I went down to the swim after going to the bathroom 5 more times. My wave lined up and they had us gradually wade into the water. I'm sure we were all standing in so many people's pee right there where everyone stood right before they started swimming. We went off and I tried to find someone's feet but just like my previous race in Muncie, you couldn't see anything infront of you. It was an uneventful swim for the most part. I swam ontop of several people before I realized I was on top of them. This race had a wave start which means that different age groups go at different times. I hate it but they usually put the slow people (older men and women) first and then faster ones after them. So, the whole time you are swimming through all these slow swimmers. It's dangerous and annoying. I came out alive, but not too happy with how I felt my swim went. I was running up the transition are looking for Scott to tell me what place I was (we had different colored caps for different waves). He told me I was the 8th blue cap to come out. Ouch! 8th, I knew my swim was bad, but THAT bad!

My transition really stunk too. I bought a squirt top water bottle that I could throw away to have on the bike. My other bottle on my bike had some of my nutrition in it. I walked my bike out of transition, mounted, started down the hill, and my one and only bottle of water fell off my bike. I couldn't go get it, there was too much traffic, and it wasn't worth my time. So, I just said to me self, I hope the first aid station is soon! They switched around the aid stations so I had no idea where the first on was.

Luckily it wasn't too much later till I got some water. I was cruising along and feeling so so good. I kept passing people that were in my age group and some people who I thought were, but I couldn't tell because they had scrubbed their age off the back of their leg (really cheap if you ask me, I guess they just don't think they can handle the competition, weak sauce!). I was so mentally in the race and feeling so good I completely forgot to take ANY nutrition or electrolyte pills till less than 10 minutes on the bike! Opps! I jammed as much nutrition into me as I could, but couldn't get much in right before the run.

My second transition was just as slow as my first. I had to run into the portapotty and didn't even bother to lock the door. I was off for the 10K run. I got out of transition right with another girl. She had scrubbed her calf pretty good so I thought it said 36 not 26. She started taking off! I thought, I can't let a triathlete beat me running! I'm a runner! Well, our first mile was too fast for either one of us, but as the race panned out it turned out that it was several minutes too fast for her and only 30 seconds too fast for me. It confuses me when people take off like that. I hit the turn around spot feeling good, but knowing I wasn't running as fast as I could/should. I hit the final turn with about 1.5 miles to go. I was just wanting the finish line, I could tell I was getting some heat exhaustion. I saw Scott with his cute signs for me (what a trooper to come all the way out to the race and not see the finish). I always want him a little ways out from the finish because that is when I actually need the cheering, not at the finish. Well, I  had a great finish, probably because I didn't run hard enough. I didn't take any nutrition in on the run either, so I think my total calorie intake during the race was somewhere around 100 if I was lucky, probably more like 50.

I immediately started walking down the finish line to find Scott. We found each other and got food and started the waiting game. We knew my place into the bike transition, but I didn't know if I passed anyone on the run. I went up to the results after a while and saw that it said I was first in my age group! I didn't trust it of course, the results looked a little weird so I didn't want to get excited before hand. It ended up that I did win my age group, which qualified me for the world championships (I turned them down because the race is on Sunday-very hard). I beat a pro triathlete! I felt pretty happy with the race overall.

Several weeks ago, back in August, I signed up for Muncie 2013! So excited to hopefully get to do the whole race next year. It will be lots harder to train because of school, but I'm still excited to be able to.

Picture Update

It been a while since I've done a real update of our lives. So, here's an update in picture form...

I found this potato and it was too cute not to carve a quick eye and mouth into. 

This was our valentines day dinner. Scott made a delicious chicken and rice with fruit and salad. It was very nice to come home from work with dinner on the table. (Since I came home from work at 6:45 or later)

Scott and I did a shamrock shuffle on Saint Patrick's day weekend. I won some money which is always nice and almost unheard of for a 5k race.

This was my first attempt at making corned beef and cabbage. I actually like it and never had it growing up since my mom hates it. Her birthday is on Saint Patrick's day so she always had it as a birthday meal.

The Childress moved away to California!!! So sad, we miss you guys a ton!

We went rock climbing at Red River Gorge with the Scouts in our ward.

One of my coworkers lives on a farm and exchanged goods with us! I made some soft pretzels (that I now sell) and she gave us a ham!!! YUM!