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Friday….bring the thunder

Fun Friday, Folks. You know what that means…..well since Jen is a leetle busy post-birth and all and spending her days trekking it to and fro to the NICU for baby Joseph, she’s handed this weeks QTs off to Grace.

Day 7 of clean Eating, people. Day 7. Proud to say I’m toeing the line. The whole planning thing really panned out this week. And I’m feeling good!!!
Week 1 of my gym’s 6 week Challenge and……..I worked out one day this week. Totally need to re-group on the exercise deal is I plan on winning. The whole life-getting-in-the-way ain’t gonna bring home the 2K, you know?!?
I’ve been doing lots of praying this week. For gals in labor, babies in the NICU, parents in the ICU, those suffering from cancer, their loved ones, the struggles go on and on and sometimes it’s a little overwhelming all this suffering in the world and then I was reminded of this by Ann Voskamp….because I am a “fixer” and like to make things right and suffering frustrates me because I’m helpless and yet:
Back on the upswing….we bought our beach pass and have used it. Twice. Two weekends in a row. Don’t hate. Man I love the beach. Love.
Riding her cruiser!!
I’m running out of things to say.
Really I’m running out of time, because I need to get ready for work!
In reply to Grace’s query of kitchen furniture and the like….we have a super hutch/dresser/furniture, thanks to some super awesome friends! Sadly time is limiting me from finding the picture!!!

go check out the rest of the crew and jump on in so Jen has plenty of reading material in the NICU and keep those prayers coming, people!

Wings, waves and fabulous fall weather!

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My sis and the boys came to town for the air show at the beach. (BIL had to work–BOO HISS!). It was phenomenal fall weather and and AWE-inspiring air show!!

Crowds lined the beach for a perfect view!

The Snow birds were a HUGE hit (and our first act…a hard one to follow!)

This little trick of “crossing paths” took my sister’s breath away. Every time. Serious.

The Geico planes

The Thunderbirds. Man those jets are loud. And they give you goosebumps!!

This was a T-bird “putting on the brakes”…all the way past the pier…CRAZAY!!!

A great day to fly a kite, too!

Try Tri…

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If you’ve ever had the desire to participate in a triathlon or perhaps even COMPETE in a triathlon, you might be missing a few screws. Just sayin’ . I’m not slandering you or anything, because my Hubby falls in that category. It’s an observation. My observation. Just in case you ARE a triathlon person you don’t need to get your athletic panties in a wad…

Today marked Hubby’s return to triathlon competing. yay him. It’s all good though. I’m proud of him. I can’t run anymore, but even when I did…..NO. DESIRE. Mostly because I’m pretty certain I’d panic in the swim and drown. Not my strong suit. Plus, I’d be all concerned about what is swimming under and around me…visions of Jaws are seared in my brain. Oh and biking…eh. I hate that my rear is so sore….and yes, I know it goes away (I did actually teach spin classes for several years), but I only like to bike easy on the beach, like this on Saturday:

See, my girl likes a little break while biking…nice and easy, little breeze, water break….that’s a good ride!

However, today we got the kids up bright and early…5:30 a.m. on a Sunday. Good times…..fortunately, they have one more week of sleeping in to recover! The bonus was the beautiful sunrise at the start of the race.

And then the race began. Men first (in yellow caps)….followed by the ladies (in green caps). The race was:

800 yd. ocean swim/15 mile road bike/4 mile beach run

We haven’t got the final results yet but Hubby did very well, placing roughly 7th in his age group and 40-something out of about 150ish people. Awesome effort. Rewarded by Dunkin Donuts at home! Can I get a WOOP WOOP?!?!!! Enjoy and hopefully you’ll get a nap today like I plan on doing!

Lining up

And they’re off…..(shooting blind here, had NO idea where Hubby was in the pack)

All I can say is…I was in that water yesterday and it was COLD! No thank you.

Lifeguards. Making sure no one is drowning from a kick to the head.

Go, baby, GO!

Bikes corralled and ready to go….

From fish to firma…on wheels…

the home stretch….all 4 miles of it….phew!

Under 1:40….not bad for an “old” guy…. 😉

The race tent for the record keepers….extremely well run race…no pun intended!

Passing time between clapping, getting sandy, rinsing off and getting on each other’s nerves. However, they were there to cheer on Dad and afterward said, “Eh, it wasn’t so bad. I just didn’t want to get up so early.” pssst…sneak peek into back to school/reality kiddos! (they did actually come over to the finish line to clap/cheer on and high 5 Dad…they come through in the clutch!)

Happy Sunday, ya’ll!

When do YOU have time to blog???

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Be not of those who think perfection consists in undertaking many things, but of those who place it in doing well what little they do. For it is much better to do little and to do it well, than to undertake much and do it ill.” St. Francis de Sales

My blog posts are becoming fewer and further between. WTH? When do you people have time to write? Do you pound it all out at one sitting or draft and edit and edit? I’m a sit down, get it done, publish kind of girl. I like to wrap it up. No loose ends.

My writing time is in the morning and since I started morning boot camp last week that killed 3 days during the week of “writing” time. We also implemented a new scheduling system at work that has opened up a whole box of cluster for our company as there are MANY people trying to learn (all at different paces) AND utilize the system all at the same time. We’re waiting to see if a head will roll (or two), but in the meantime our company has offered OVERTIME (unheard. of.) to get the backlog of scheduling caught up. Yours truly is all kinds of up on that train. We have back-to-school in 4 weeks (already?!?!?) and the OT will definitely ease the burden of supplies and new shoes, shorts, shirts, etc., which means even less time for blogging!!! I guess until the blogging pays for itself that’s the way it will be and since I’m not really in it to market anything, nor really found (or am looking for) a niche to fill, I don’t foresee that any time soon! So, in the meantime, (or at least the next 3 weeks I have boot camp in the mornings) my blogging will be sporadic. Unless you all give me some good ideas.

This weekend when I wasn’t blogging I was here:

Walking with one of my oldest and dearest friends for ONE WHOLE HOUR on the beach early Saturday morning! Great sweaty girl time!

Then, later in the day when I wasn’t blogging we were here:

Ending the day with friends on the beach

So, really. How and when DO you blog? Does the beach (or other fun) get in your way? I really want to know….

By the way, it is Natural Family Planning Awareness week. For those of you thinking it’s the ol’ Rhythm method here are a few sites to check out and learn a little somethin’ somethin’ about your body (or your wife’s), save a little dough and avoid added carcinogens in your body (because don’t we get enough from everything else we face on a daily basis?). So, I may (or may not) have a few re-blogs here this week on interesting NFP stuff. Excited, aren’t ya? 😉

iusenfp.com

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