Catching up!

You know, I come on here daily to catch up on everyone else, but for some reason have ignored my own blog!

We had a great Christmas. We made it into OR just a few hours before thay shut down the airport, and then besically got stuck at my in laws house for 4 days. It never stopped snowing! That was the most they have had there since like '68. There were not enough snow plaws to clear any residential areas so unless you had a 4x4 or all wheel traction, you weren't going anywhere! My Sis in law kept losing power at their house, but they had a generater for back up. It snowed on Christmas day too! So we did get a white Christmas :)

Then about a week or two ago, they had a bad wind storm, and this tree came tumbling down!!! Luckily it did not land on anyone's house or vehicle! It even missed the mailbox....

In other news, DG has turned 8 and we are having her party in 2 days! Speed turned 6 over Christmas! They both of course made out like bandits on all their new stuff...

I am also now 33 weeks along! Only 7 weeks left!!! How did that happen??? Fatboy moves around alot and has started stretching alot. I think this is due to the fact that he doesn't have enough room to actually kick anymore. He makes my tummy dance around he moves soo much! Maybe he will actually push hard enough one day I can get a pic of the outline of his foot or something, how cool would that be?

I am still working out 4 days a week at this point and even over the Christmas break was able to PR my Crossfit total score! I scored a 465!! Though now I am down to almost strict body weight WOD's and even some of those are hard to do Rx. I have to sub for many things now. I am OK with that because I am determined that I am going to recover quickly and be stronger than I was last time!

This is me at 32 weeks!

Now all I have to do is get the baby's room set up! I am getting so excited about all of this! I can't wait to meet this sweet little boy!!! Hopefully I won't have to call GQ home early from his month long TDY for anything though - he is scheduled to be back before I am due!

Tran-Siberian Orchestra

Last night was so awesome!!! A friend and I went to go see the Tran-Siberian Orchestra. It was one of the best concerts I have ever been too. Did you know that a violinist can lay down on the floor like a guitar player and play? She was awesome!! Her name is Anna Phoebe. Phenomenal was what I thought the whole time I watched her play!

Of course the whole group was absolutely fantabulous to watch! I really hope that I can go again next year, maybe to a bigger venue. I heard the special effects are much bigger at a larger venue, so we will see. I have the best hubby ever!!!!! Now I am ready to go Christmas shopping :)

On a side note, I think Fat Boy really like it too as during one song he was kicking the crap out of my side. It was kind of neat :)

I got a really cute card from my kids this morning for my birthday, too. So all in all a great way to start the day and the weekend!!!

Birthday and Baby Bump

I am just so excited!! GQ bought me and a friend tickets to go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra on Thursday! I have always wanted to go to one of their concerts. I miss my music of fine arts quite a bit(I was an instrumental music ed major in my early college days). He isn't going with me though. I would love it if he did, but to be honest, he would be bored out of his skull! He knows me so well though! I didn't even tell him that I wanted to go. So now me and a friend of mine get to get dressed up and go see this wonderful group! He is just the best! It is a great birthday present! (which is actually Friday, for those of you who want to know :))

On a side note, I will add a baby bump pic here, though I don't think it's that good of a shot :)

Marine Corps 10K

Wow, that was fun! It was really awesome to see how many people were there... 26k runners for the marathon and five thousand for the 10k! Then there are like 100,000 spectators!!! You wanna talk about being wiped out! I am so glad I was able to hook up with LAW and walk it with her! We did it in about 2 hours. I am also so happy that GQ was willing to drive me to DC and watch the kids while I did this! It was just so awesome to have them there as support, even though I could only walk. We had to get up at 3:30 AM and leave at 4:30. All this after he had just got home the night before from a TDY and had been getting up really early all week long. It was just so great! Oh and my son thinks I am a winner since I got a finishers medal! How cool am I??

That little lady that LAW referred to was pretty dang cool....she also told us that she was sick - sounded like she had a head cold or something and she still ran it! GQ also told me she started 10 minutes after the race started because she got there late!!!! And she crossed th finish line in from of me and LAW!

Sadly my day did not end there, as both kids had halloween or birthday parties to attend and I finally got to sit down at about 7 pm! Fat Boy (which is what I will call the baby from here on out) decided to kick the crap out of me later that day. It didn't actually hurt, but up to this point, it has been little bumps and such. I guess I got him all pumped up by walking that morning.

So today in Crossfit we did "Elizabeth" That is 21-15-9 of Power Cleans and ring dips.
Rx weight for women is 95 - I did 65, and I still use a rubber band to assist with ring dips! Ad since I did this workout several hours ago, now I can't remember my time - dang mommy brain! I think it was 13 minutes or so!

Field trip day tomorrow with DG's class, and it is going to be cold drizzly and windy!!!! Now I have to talk a little girl, who still insists on wearing her tank top dresses over jeans to dress warmly. This should be fun!! Maybe something interesting will happen!!

Missing in Action................or rather Just being Lame!

Well I can see that it has been quite awhile since I last posted.... time sure does seem to go by really fast here lately!!! GQ has returned from his deployment, but I just took him to the airport for a TDY trip. He was only home for like 10 days. Thankfully this is only a 1 week trip!

On the crossfit front! I am still working out consistently and depending on the workout, have not dropped any weight. I had to lower weights for deadlift so far.... We did Crossfit Total a couple of weeks ago and I actually did more weight than the last time! I figured being pregnant would keep me from doing that, but I scored a 455 - 50 points higher than the first time I did it. THat is only like 17 points away from the advanced level! I definitely had personal records on all 3 exercises.. GQ did the Mid-Atlantic Hopper Challenge, this pic is also of his awesome tiger pelt tattoo!

This is him doing double unders. He did very well in the competition, but double unders are his worst exercise and caused him to lose alot of time, so he didn't place but he looked really good doing it all!!! This also took place 2 days after he came home!

On the baby front, we had our sonogram and it is a BOY! I actually have another sonogram coming up because he wouldn't turn and they couldn't measure his spine properly.. They also said that it was a couple of weeks too early for it to be finished forming, so I have to go back.... Darn, I get to see him again, hehehe! It was really exciting! GQ made it back in time to go too so he was there for the ultrasound....

Marine Corps 10K!!!! LAW, I am still doing this and I will email you!!! I have been very bad about emailing or calling people back here lately, as you all ready know!! Sorry! I also am really bad at doing fundraising, but I will be making an effort this week to bring something to the table for this!

The kids are doing awesome in school and Speed has been great (has scored several touchdowns) in flag football!

Knocked Up Fran

Today at CrossfitBWI, we did Fran....and I totally knocked 4 minutes off my time!!!! Not that my time is all that great or anything, considering one of the guys here does it in 2:20. But I managed it it 10:59!!! My last time was over 15 minutes! I am also the first girl to do it at our facility Rx. That made me so happy!! And I did it knocked up LOL. The actual workout was Heavy Fran, but I can't do weighted pull ups, so I did regular Fran. Heavy Fran is 95# (Women)Thrusters, 25# weighted pull ups for 15-12-9.

Fran

21-15-9

65# Thruster (95# for men)
Pull ups

http://media.crossfit.com/cf-video/fran-greg_annie.wmv

This is a link to Annie - one of the first crossfitters (I think) doing Fran. She freaking rocks!! Her time is 2:47. OUCH!

It made me feel better after yesterday's disaster of a WOD for me! We did Christine.

3 rounds:

500m row
12 deadlifts (your body weight so I started out at 145 my bw is 140 and dropped to 125 in the last round)
21 box jumps

I don't even remember my time, but I was really pissed that I had to drop the weight My max is like 190 (I think) and I have used 155 as a working weight before, I just couldn't do it yesterday. My friend told me I should do the weighted pull ups because it would be practice for doing them with a big belly, hehehe! Anyway, i just had a good workout day today and wanted to share!!

8 Years Ago Today

8 Years ago today, I stood in the north Texas heat and married my husband. It was one of the greatest days ever for me. This is how we started :)

I moved to Austin in the summer of 99. Even though I knew quite a few people there, I put a profile up on AOL. Oh, yes I did. Mostly it was just to meet people and make new friends. If more came of it, then great, if not, oh well. I was having a great time going out clubbing like 5 nights a week. Other nights were spent hanging out with friends.

I had met a few guys through the AOL personals and gone out on a few dates. At some point, I ran into one of the guys that I went to high school went. He was stationed at Fort Hood. He was only the second guy in the army I had ever dated. We dated for like 2 months and then out os nowhere, I was too much for him. He very much valued his alone time, I infringed on that. Mind you he was never hateful and we just split up and went on about our lives. I had cancelled the AOL profile while dating him, and put it back up after we broke up.

Sometime in February, I received this email from a guy who was in the army. He was very polite, but he didn't send a picture so I deleted his email. His screen name was something like 69TRITR69. I didn't think much else about it for awhile. Then one day in March, I was chatting online and this new chat box comes up and guess who's screen name but does appear? We started chatting and I talked him into sending me a picture of him. He had all ready seen mine as I had one on my profile. He was HHHAAAAWWWT! Apparantly he had added my screen name to his messenger. He never chatted online and only had me and his roommate as buddies on list. He never turned it on, but he had rebooted his computer and when it came up, there I was and he had no idea who I was, LOL. Oh and his screen name which my mind went to the gutter when I looked at it really meant 1969 Triumph Tiger 69. That is what his motorcycle at the time was.

We chatted online for about 2 weeks, and he asked for my number, I told him no, but I would get his and call him. So we talked on the phone every night for another week before he asked me out. We went out and it was all I could do to keep control of myself. Not to mention, I knew he had tiger stripes tattooed on his back, from the base of his neck to his tailbone. I have had a fascination for tigers since I was like 8. I made him let me see it on our first date and wow! Never thought I was a tattoo girl, but it was just awesome. He asked me on a second date and this was to a motorcycle rally in a nearby town over Easter weekend. Our first date was a Wednesday, and the second one started Friday.

After that weekend, we were officially a couple. About 6 weeks after we met, he proposed. 3 months after that we were married. 8 years ago today.

Lord, I love that man!!!