I can't believe my baby is 9 already!

Unfortunately, I was extremely ill on her birthday which was the 28th. I'm just starting to feel better and able to post some of these. The poor thing took care of me on her birthday. She really didn't have to but that is just her nature to be the mother hen. I ended up sleeping all day and was able to get up and take her to cheerleading practice. Thank god for my girlfriend Sandy who watches "S" during the summer . . . she made her a megaphone cake and brought it to practice. I also had Grandpa pick up an ice cream cake for the family as well. Luckily we had celebrated her birthday weeks beforehand with her friends at Enchanted Forest.

I grabbed a few shots of her eating cake at cheer practice!

This is one of her gifts she got from Aunt Carrie! She loves science so she thought this would be a great gift especially because the Lunar Eclipse occurred on her birthday. . .what a perfect idea!
Here she is setting it up and getting it ready to check out the moon come nightfall.

Did 38 really do this to me?

Well it's now been 2 days after my birthday and I believe my melt down is over! As the date was approaching, I felt fine. I got up on the 22nd and just seemed like a normal day. Then BAM! The day just seemed to turn into one of those feel sorry for me days. I don't feel old, I'm told I don't look it either but man I was not a happy camper on my birthday. All my friends and family called me all day long to wish me a happy birthday. Even my favorite cousin (well I have 2) called me who I haven't seen or spoke to in a year probably. . . he put a smile on my face though :) Hopefully this isn't a sign of what is to come when I hit 40 because I might just need to be committed by then LOL!

I finally did it after 5 years

of running on and off. The farthest I ever ran was 4 miles. My goal for the last 2 years has been to run 5 miles in one run and to run 3 races. I have yet to accomplish this. Saturday I finally ran 5 miles. I decided if I never went over the hill toward the 5 miler marker I'll never do it. I was pretty sore when I got home but man I felt good about it! Now all I need to do is run 2 more races and will finally complete a GOAL!

Got the results

in an email today. I got 3rd out of 8 in my age group. I'm pretty happy with that. I figured there were probably only 3 LOL! I guess I don't give myself enough credit.

Ilion Days 5K Race

I ran this race for the first time in 2004 and I got third place in my age group. I ran it in 28:43, best time I had and that was my first year running. Today I ran this race again for the first time since 2004 and got third place in my age group and ran it in 28:53. I was pretty happy with my time because I haven't ran in 2 months until just this past week and I thought I beat my time in 2004. I looked back through the paper from that year and realized I didn't. Oh well, I guess I'm still happy with my time for not running in 2 months. Maybe I'll run a few more races before the summers over and possibly finally reach one of my running goals - to run 3 races in a season!

Now I went and did it!

Because I ran on Saturday, Sara took me up on running the race this coming Saturday. We had to send our entry fee in today and fax our application. She's changed her work schedule so now I'm pretty much screwed!

I ran tonight and decided to start out faster than usual and try to stay running strong the whole 3 miles. I felt like I was doing really well. The whole time I kept my breathing under control. I did this by breathing deeply right from the beginning and it kept me pretty steady. I thought I did great until I looked at my watch. . .31 flat! I was so pissed! I ran this 5K I'm doing on Saturday 3 years ago and got a third place trophy for my age group, plus I ran it in 28 something. I guess it just goes to show you age really does affect you LOL! Well at least I have 3 more miles logged in.

I went and did it. . . finally!

I went out and ran 3 miles yesterday. I haven't ran since May! I told Sara that if I ran this weekend, then I would probably run a race with her this weekend in Ilion. She's like "oh I will be texting you this weekend, don't think I won't"! So of course like she said she texted me on Saturday at like 11:30-12:00, not to forget to run. I texted that I already did! I ran pretty fast because I wanted to get a good time and now I'm sore as hell! I definitely need to run a couple times this week to keep stretched and to be a little prepared for this coming weekend.

Forgot to mention that the Boilermaker came and went. I had a wedding night before and figured I wouldn't be in any shape to get there by 7:00 a.m., guess what. . . I didn't! I never even made it there to shoot photos of Sara and my bosses like I wanted too. I am such a pile.