Officially a Runner

I ran a 5K last weekend! For a girl who has asthma and always thought that she couldn't run this is a big deal. I have always enjoyed sports but have never been very good at them and I used to get winded after a very short period of exercise.

I decided to start running last year after watching Barrett and his family complete several half-marathons. I also desperately wanted to lose weight and get in shape.

So here I am, after slowly building up my milage I made a break-through and ran 3 miles just 1 week before the 5k.

Starting Line - Publix Run Wild 5k

Here I am getting ready to start

Finishing the race, very tired after all those hills

Its now less than 1 week after the race and today I ran 4 miles, yippee for getting more milage. The end goal (for now) is to run a half-marathon next february.

Happy Spring

I can't believe that i have been absent from the blogging world for over 2 months. During that time I've been a little bit busy and I just haven't had the motivation to blog. So here's a glimpse at what we've been up to. Pictures will come soon, I have them on my phone and just haven't bothered to move them onto the computer yet.

January 28th - We closed on our house and spent the weekend moving. It has taken a long time to get settled and we still have things we want to do but that will all come in time. We love our house!! This spring we will be putting up a fence, re-doing the master bathroom, building a new laundry room, and hopefully painting. We also have a hot tub that we need to get someone to come and look at. We don't know if it works and we have no idea how to take care of it. We ordered new furniture and it was delivered this past weekend so we now really love our living room!

Barrett and I have both been pretty busy with work/school. I enjoy my job but I sure am glad to get home and rest in the evenings.

I've also been running. My goal is to run the Disney Princess Half-Marathon next Feb so I've started training now. This past weekend I ran a 5K and actually did pretty well. I'm going to keep running and I think I will find a 10K to run this summer sometime. We got a treadmill on black friday last year so we set our basement up as a workout and TV room. We have the Wii down there so we can run, do Wii fit, or just play games :)

We have lots of plans coming up - trips to visit friends, Meghan's wedding, and we both have conferences to attend this summer. Hopefully I won't be absent for this long again.