**This is not a complete post, but it kept getting me bogged down trying to recap our whole summer last year. Just know we had a fun one, but here's some of it!
Well this will be a long post since I've finally got around to documenting our summer. The first major event of the summer was my marathon. I did the Utah Valley Marathon on June 8. Training with three kids was definitely an interesting experience. There were many times I would be pushing all three in the jogging stroller. When I finally had days without the kids, the running seemed so easy compared to pushing all that extra weight. The marathon was insane. I was prepared for it to be since it was my first, but it's interesting how your emotional and physical feed off each other. As soon as my body started to tell my brain it was done the emotional side kicked in. The last few miles when I'd see a stop light I'd start crying and hope the light was the right color by the time I got there since I was pretty sure I wouldn't be able to stop and start again. Luckily there were police officers that took care of that regardless of the color of the light. Leading up to the marathon I'd been having problems with my knee so I wasn't focused on any specific time. I just wanted to finish so I completed my goal. That day was definitely painful, but I recovered really well. By the third day after it I was completely fine and back at exercising. The funny thing is the most painful part in the days after was actually my sunburn. I was so focused on my eating that I spaced sunblock. Big mistake! The sunburn hurt way worse than the soreness in my muscles. Needless to say, I won't be forgetting sunblock again. I'm just glad my training paid off with my muscle recovery. The last week of my training I was in for a surprise though. The Monday before I was doing a short 3 mile run without kids so it should have been easy. Instead after one mile I couldn't force my feet to move faster than a walk. I couldn't figure out why I was so exhausted. Sure while I had been training I was exhausted most of the time, always taking a nap when the kids did in the afternoon, but I figured that was just because of how many miles I was doing a week. The exhaustion had never set in during the runs before. I was always fine during the runs. For some reason this strange run prompted me to take a pregnancy test and sure enough I had been pregnant through most of my training. At the time of the marathon I was 9 weeks along. This definitely made more sense of my tiredness every day. Now I can say I've run a marathon while pregnant. Not many people can say that, right?
After the marathon Spence and I celebrated our 7 year anniversary. We've never spent a night away from kids, or a day for that matter. We've only rarely had them babysat, usually for the length of a movie. Our parents were gracious enough to take the kids for the day/night so we could have a day to ourselves. We headed up to the Olympic Park in Park City. It was such a blast to do things we had never tried before or rarely done. We did the bobsled, adventure courses (which were way scarier than I thought they'd be), ziplines, the Alpine slide, watched regular and aerial ski jumpers, and a drop tower you jump off. Later we went out to eat and saw World War Z which we both loved. Though we didn't get to sleep in at the hotel because we needed to get to my Grandma Jackson's funeral, it was still nice to just relax and not be up with kids all night long. I think the part Spence and I enjoyed the most was driving in the car by ourselves. It was so great to have conversations with each other and actually be able to listen. Daniel doesn't typically let us talk to each other. He usually yells for one of us to stop talking so he can talk. "Daddy stop talking! I want to talk to Mommy!" is heard often in our car.
Well this will be a long post since I've finally got around to documenting our summer. The first major event of the summer was my marathon. I did the Utah Valley Marathon on June 8. Training with three kids was definitely an interesting experience. There were many times I would be pushing all three in the jogging stroller. When I finally had days without the kids, the running seemed so easy compared to pushing all that extra weight. The marathon was insane. I was prepared for it to be since it was my first, but it's interesting how your emotional and physical feed off each other. As soon as my body started to tell my brain it was done the emotional side kicked in. The last few miles when I'd see a stop light I'd start crying and hope the light was the right color by the time I got there since I was pretty sure I wouldn't be able to stop and start again. Luckily there were police officers that took care of that regardless of the color of the light. Leading up to the marathon I'd been having problems with my knee so I wasn't focused on any specific time. I just wanted to finish so I completed my goal. That day was definitely painful, but I recovered really well. By the third day after it I was completely fine and back at exercising. The funny thing is the most painful part in the days after was actually my sunburn. I was so focused on my eating that I spaced sunblock. Big mistake! The sunburn hurt way worse than the soreness in my muscles. Needless to say, I won't be forgetting sunblock again. I'm just glad my training paid off with my muscle recovery. The last week of my training I was in for a surprise though. The Monday before I was doing a short 3 mile run without kids so it should have been easy. Instead after one mile I couldn't force my feet to move faster than a walk. I couldn't figure out why I was so exhausted. Sure while I had been training I was exhausted most of the time, always taking a nap when the kids did in the afternoon, but I figured that was just because of how many miles I was doing a week. The exhaustion had never set in during the runs before. I was always fine during the runs. For some reason this strange run prompted me to take a pregnancy test and sure enough I had been pregnant through most of my training. At the time of the marathon I was 9 weeks along. This definitely made more sense of my tiredness every day. Now I can say I've run a marathon while pregnant. Not many people can say that, right?
After the marathon Spence and I celebrated our 7 year anniversary. We've never spent a night away from kids, or a day for that matter. We've only rarely had them babysat, usually for the length of a movie. Our parents were gracious enough to take the kids for the day/night so we could have a day to ourselves. We headed up to the Olympic Park in Park City. It was such a blast to do things we had never tried before or rarely done. We did the bobsled, adventure courses (which were way scarier than I thought they'd be), ziplines, the Alpine slide, watched regular and aerial ski jumpers, and a drop tower you jump off. Later we went out to eat and saw World War Z which we both loved. Though we didn't get to sleep in at the hotel because we needed to get to my Grandma Jackson's funeral, it was still nice to just relax and not be up with kids all night long. I think the part Spence and I enjoyed the most was driving in the car by ourselves. It was so great to have conversations with each other and actually be able to listen. Daniel doesn't typically let us talk to each other. He usually yells for one of us to stop talking so he can talk. "Daddy stop talking! I want to talk to Mommy!" is heard often in our car.
This post is proof that you are some kind of wonderwoman! Seriously, I was not pregnant, had only 1 kid at the time I ran one and some days I feel like my legs are still having issues. :( You amaze me Debs! Eddie does the no talking things to us too. He will come up and pinch my lips shut...why??
ReplyDeleteHaha I wish! Wonder woman is awesome! My legs definitely still have issues, but usually it goes with pushing the kids in the stroller. Going uphill with all of them must have put some permanent strain on it or something. Hate getting older! That's funny that Eddie does that too!
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