Eventful Weekend

For us and our closest friends the last 5 days have been pretty incredible. Meg had her baby, the Lee's closed on a house and bought 2 cars, and we bought a car and had a middle of the night trip to the ER (oh and no AC at the house)! I just can not get over how crazy this all is. It is kind of funny how just when I thought God was teaching me all about being in His control, He teaches me how far he can go with that. He has blessed our family so much and the more I learn to rely on Him the better this adventure gets!!
So for our part of the craziness: On Saturday we purchased a new car (actually JP did all the negotiations). We got a Honda Pilot to replace my Matrix (I almost said old Matrix, but at only 5 years old, if that, JP would have smacked me for calling it 'old'). I said my goodbye's to the Matrix on Sat and hope to pick up the new car tonight!! It is so nice, I am very exited.

The other thing was our trip to the ER. On Saturday night after Cale was in bed we heard the air conditioning start to make some noise up in the attic. We knew that there was a fan that had been having issues on the furnace and it sounded like it was finally dying. JP went up in the attic to check it out. Well, on the way back down he slipped on the attic stairs (at the top) and proceeded to slide down the attic stairs with his face. He hit his forehead first and then his chin, and never regained control before hitting the floor. I watched the whole thing happen. Needless to say I was freaking out. He was bleeding badly from his chin and once in the bathroom was spitting blood. He did not loose consciousness, thank God. I don't know how I would have dealt with that. He hopped up (in his OCDness because he was bleeding on the carpet) and got into the bathroom. We put a towel on his chin, he then tried to calm me down, I was a shaking mess. He told me he thought he was fine, I disagreed. I eventually called Chris (JP's brother) and asked him to come over to keep Cale so I could take JP to the ER. We headed to ER at Presby Dallas. After 3 hours in the ER (not a bad experience, we were seen right away), we headed home (after also stopping by the pharmacy for some good stuff and the McDonald's for some more good stuff). By 3 am we were back home, nothing broken, lots of bruises and 3 stitches in the chin.
Needless to say by Sunday morning we realized the AC was now dead and after a service call on Sunday realized we were going to have to pony up for a new furnace. Found out today that it would be Wednesday before that is ready, goody, 2 more nights in a house in Dallas TX without AC in July. Fun stuff, maybe we will sleep in the new car tonight!! :)

Spoiled Rotten Weekend

This was actually the weekend before father's day, but oh well. Cale went to Home Depot with his dad (and Quade and Quade's daddy) on Sat morning, my mom (Grandma) came to town, we took him to the Aquarium on Monday (skipping school) and then bought him a bike (actually two bikes, but the big wheel is a bit big yet).

Cale is so good, it is easy to spoil him. This is a child that can not be bribed with candy or ice cream, one that can count to 15 and can name all his colors. I am a very proud mommy, and love to teach Cale anything and everything right now, he is like a little sponge!

Ever since that weekend he asks often to go to 'mo depo' :)

Father's Day

This year Cale gave his daddy a grill, a really daddy gift. To bad Cale will not eat anything that we might cook on the grill :)
Cale still loves his dad very much and always tells everyone 'this is my daddy' whenever he meets anyone.
I think mommy is gaining some ground, but daddy is still a favorite.

Old Grill
New Grill

Blog, what is a blog?!

What a slacker I am! Well, not really, just busy, busy with life! Work has gotten pretty crazy. I usually have a few days a week where I do leave the office around 5:30-6pm and then get back on the computer after Cale goes to bed around 9 and work for a couple more hours. I am still trying to do bible study one night a week and get in one weeknight workout (riding on Wed).

Memorial day weekend was great. JP, Cale and I went down to Austin for the Cap Tex Triathlon, like we have done the past 3-4 years. This race was my come back race two years ago after having Cale. We usually go down on Friday to Georgetown, where my friend Katie's folks live (in Sun City). They live on the golf course and it is always a fun weekend of riding, golfing, and eating (oh yeah and a race in there somewhere). Mern and P took care of Cale on Saturday after I got in an hour and a half ride with Todd, Katie, and Kym that morning so that JP and I could go play some golf. I played the first 9 and then cut out to go down to race packet pick up with the girls. JP, Todd and P played the back 9. We ate some yummy pasta and lasagna that night (got to carb load, even if it is a sprint race!). Sunday we got up around 6 (the other girls got up earlier and went down for the Olympic distance race that started at 7) and got down for the sprint start around 9am. We say Suzanne and Katie go out on the bike then I headed over for the start. I was very calm, out to have fun, I knew it would be hot out on the run course so I just tried to do what I could. I had borrowed Brian's wetsuit (little tight but it worked) since mine is full sleeves and the water was around 73 degrees. Kissed little man and big man and off into the water I went. Swim went well, open water in town lake, just stayed constant. 14:32 for 750 meter swim, for only swimming twice in the last 5 months I will take it. Then out of the water and on to the bike, felt great, flying on the bike, arms a bit sore from the swim but 12 miles is not far for me. 37:13 for the bike (20K) average of 20 mph, not bad for all the turns and the two u-turns on the course. Now for the run, and here comes the sun, nice, I needed more heat. Started to jog, cramping ever so slightly. Just kept it at a slow jog, walking the one hill and through the water stops. Run 31:22 for 5K, 10min/mi pace, that will work.

I went into this race to do it for fun, I raced in the Athena (weight class, big girls) category, as usual. On Monday we looked up the results and I had actually won this category by 8 minutes, I was shocked. Katie also won the Athena category for the Olympic distance, all good.

Total time 1:29:09, no personal best, but a best for the day!

Monday I decided to ride for a couple of hours with Katie, that was actually fun. I rode 2 hours and then ate Mern's awesome breakfast, then out for golf. Katie, Todd, JP and I played 18 holes, downed some lunch and then headed back to Dallas. Despite all the activity Cale, JP and I had a great weekend. Cale was absolutely wonderful! We had a great time together!

Fun :)

We are having a lot of fun with life right now. Cale is at a fun age and things seem to be going very well. Although my hip is still having issues and I am most likely looking at another 2-4 weeks with no running, I am enjoying my time! Work is crazy, but I have been able to balance my time pretty well. I just got done with the reviews of most of the folks that work for me this week and I received a lot of good feedback on what I have done so far, this always helps! JP and Cale always make me smile, no matter what else is going on in life.
Cale now has a favorite word(s) that he uses to crack me up, when we ask him something and he just feels like being silly, he says "hotdog". It can go something like this:
Cale, who is your favorite teacher at school?
--Hotdoggg
Cale, what are we going to do tonight?
--Hotdogg
He also is very much a funny man. He will banter back and forth with you. If he is starting to whine about something I can say, "Cale are you going to cry?" and he says, "you cry", I say "no, you cry" and he will go back and forth "no, mommy, you cry" while laughing hysterically. This started after my mom stayed with him for 5 days. Mom, what else did you teach him??? Here is some of the fun we are having in pictures..

Easter (better late than never)

Easter 2006

Family Easter 2006
Easter 2008
Family Easter 2008
Lunch with Friends

Easter this year was fun. I opted out of going down to Kerrville like I usually do each year to ride. It was a good trade to watch Cale find eggs and try and learn about the real meaning of Easter. We got lots of pictures. We started with the egg hunt at school, my mom took him to this while we were out of town. Then on Saturday we participated in the neighborhood egg hunt. We had church on Sunday and ate lunch with some great friends (welcome Taylor to the crew!).

Update...

Well, I am not broken... I talked to the doctor yesterday and there is no fracture, just bone bruise. The doctor told me that I can quit using the crutches, yeah, that is good advise besides the pain that I still experience when I put all my weight on my left leg. Guess this means that skiing next weekend is not out of the question... it is all just a matter of pain tolerance now...
Thanks to all for the prayers and thoughts, looks like God doesn't want me to give up on triathlon just yet...