Life Continues

Our wonderful friends Chad and Sarah visited us this weekend! We had a very enjoyable time doing random things together. The great thing about these friends of ours is that there are no great expectations for our time together. We can truly enjoy hanging out in the house, playing a board game, watching stupid movies while making fun of them, drinking bacardi raz (which I can now drink again =) ) exploring Target, and most importantly, eating ice cream sundaes for dinner at Michelle's in downtown Colorado Springs. It was a fabulous weekend filled with not-so-fabulous activities, it's just that great to hang out with them. (If any of you decide to come visit us here I promise I'll dote on your visit too)

My mom was here last weekend and that was a very good thing. She grocery shopped and cooked many good dishes for us to eat and freeze to eat later. I'm so glad she was able to come. She hung out with me while I was pretty much bound to the couch and we had lots of good conversations. Mom's are great.

It snowed last week, and I missed my prime picture moments. If it snows again, I promise I'll show you all the pretty snow and the pretty mountains. I like seeing mountains every day, I must say.

Jason is busy at work reviewing tons of applications from college kids who want to spend the summer overseas. I only worked half days last week, but this week I'm gonna try to do the full time thing. My body has been a little slower to recover than I had thought it would be, but this weekend I am much stronger than last weekend, and that encourages me. My pants are fitting fairly well again, and that excites me greatly, as vain as that is. So, we're getting into the swing of life again and it's going pretty well. My hormones have been playing some dirty tricks here and there, but ultimately I feel like I'm doing well all around. It's strange re-planning my life from June on now, but I'm trying to focus on the positive and the doors that are now open that had closed due to coming motherhood. I've been given another chance to pursue anything I want, and I'm thinking long and hard about just what that is. One thing I know I want is to run the Denver marathon in October. It's a new goal and something I really want to accomplish while I can. Jason and I are going to start the training as soon as my doctor okays me to run again, which should be mid-February. Now I'm walking and I'm going to start lifting a little this week. I'm excited! Jason doubts I'll really stick with it, and I must say, that motivates me more than anything to follow through! I'll keep you posted on the progress.

One more thing, we got a couch and a coffee table this weekend! I am so excited about them and somehow feel more like an adult having a couch instead of just a futon. Yay