When the cats away, the mice will play!

Early Thursday morning Treven took off with his brother to go to their family reunion. I opted to stay home as 10 hours of driving, 2 days of camping, and 10 hours of driving sounded like no fun to me. But I had a great couple of days of playing on my own.
Friday morning Charlie and I went for a run. Then I met my friend Jodi for lunch and deep fried oreo's (yum)! Followed by a window shopping trip at the mall. Friday night was off to the Rio for Joe's farewell party. He used to work with Treven but is now off to bigger and better things, and someone had to represent the Porters! Although, I did miss Treven a lot because it is tough to be the only sober person at a party. It felt like the college days rolling into my apartment complex at 2:30 a.m.
Of course unlike the college days I can no longer sleep until noon or later, I was wide awake by 9, my former college self would be disgusted! But no time to rest since it was off to the mall for more shopping with Joe and Paco. After a new sweater, new shoes, new shirt for Treven, a new clutch bad, and some great outfits for Joe at his new job it was off to J. Alexanders for lunch with Becky and then to a movie, followed by more shopping!
At that point I was exhausted and headed home to lay on the couch to do nothing. Followed by a call from Treven who said they were heading home at 10 o'clock at night and would be here bright and early. So much for relaxing I hadn't cleaned the house since Thursday and it was trashed!
As much fun as it was I was happy to be woken up this morning by a very sleepy Treven, even if I did have an upset stomach and I wanted to roll over and die. All in all minus feeling sick this morning I had a fun weekend!

Pictures

In March our good friend Kristy took pictures of Treven and I, here are just a couple of the many great ones!

Girls just want to have fun!

We randomly found this great place to take the pics!

Treven and I

Thanks Kristy for taking great pics!

The Race

This morning was my danskin triathlon and I was up plenty early, like 4:10 a.m.! With nerves to spare I headed up to the Aurora resevior to meet my friend who talked me into this crazy thing. We set up our transition area got our wetsuits on and headed down to the water. We were in the last wave to go so we stood and watched for 35 minutes and then it was our turn. All I could say to my friend as we heard the countdown was, "I hate you right now" she started to laugh hysterically!

The swim was horrible I couldn't get into a rhythm the water was cold and my goggles fogged up. During the swim I had serious doubts about finishing, I was spent and I still had two more legs to go!

Jodi and I got done with our swim about the same time and started on our bike ride. Surprisingly, that was my favorite leg and it wasn't easy. Normally the distance is 12 miles but since this course has SO many hills (you were either going up or down) and some were gnarly our course was only 10 miles. I remember turning around the corner and looking up the monster hill and my jaw dropped. It was my favorite because you could get some serious speed on the way down! When I got off my bike I didn't realize but I had the worst leg cramp and I almost fell down when trying to dismount. Jodi said she threw up twice on the bike course.

Then the run, I was ahead of Jodi in the bike but with some slow jogging she caught up and we had a great run together of 3.1 miles to the end where they announce your name over the P.A. system. I'm happy that I did not have to get off and walk my bike. And I'm proud that we ran 95% of the run leg. Other than the swim I had a great time and Jodi and I have decided to do the Moab half marathon in October!!!

Right after the swim Treven waited by the beach to take a picture, I was so tired!Jodi and I during the run, it was too hard for Treven to get anywhere on the bike path so no bike pics.We are so close to the finish at this point!Me and my finishers medal!!!!Jodi and I, hot, tired, but so happy that we did the race!!!

Training

I am officially a week in a half away from the danskin triathlon and I am SO nervous!!! Anytime I think about it my stomach gets tied up in knots, I really struggle with doing new things like this. I am afraid of looking like an idiot. Yesterday I was trying to come up with ways that I could get out of doing the race, a sprained ankle??? Nope, I work for chiropractors they would want to work on it. A flat tire on the way to the race? No, my friend will be with me. So it looks like I will be going through with it, I hope I don't become a drowned rat in the middle of the lake. But I have seen dramatic improvements in my fitness level. When I started I could hardly swim a lap in the pool, that's bad considering it's like a 25 yard length and a half a mile is 36 laps. Now I can swim the entire 36 laps with little rest, I'm glad they have canoes on the lake if you need a break. My running is a lot better, before I could only run about 20 minutes max, now I am running around 45 minutes and really only the last 5 is a struggle. Last Saturday part of my training was to do 30 min swim, 30 min bike, 30 min run. It was very exhilarating when I finished the hour in a half, maybe I won't need to be carried off in an ambulance. One thing I know is, part of me wishes the race was this week so I can just get it over with!

Vaca

We got back from visiting both sides of the family. We were able to go to my little sisters high school graduation, fish with Treven's nephew, have a water fight, go to the drive in movies, visit Thanksgiving point, and we saw a LOT of family! We were happy to visit and happy to come home!


Chelsea and my grandma after her 2 1/2 hour graduation

One of my fishes I caught, Trev got 1, T.J. 0, and ME? 4!!!!

Treven and T.J. getting one of my fishes off the line, I'm a "girlie fisher" I don't touch worms or fish

Lilly hanging out at the swing

Treven getting Owen and Dax wet with the hose

Poor Owen having so much fun but so cold... His lips started to turn blue


Trying to say cheese while his teeth were chattering

Marathon

Many many months ago Treven and my dad decided to run the Ft. Collins marathon, well today they did it. I am very proud of both of them my dad has done several but this was Treven's first! He ran it in 4 hours and 15 minutes. He was very happy when he was done!

Treven and I at the finish lineTreven, Joe, and Becky, he was really glad they came up!
My dad running on the course, it's the "hook 'em horns" for U of T

There is so much support for the runners, these guys just ride their bikes up and down the course giving encouragement and laughs

Even though Treven was done before my dad he ran down the last 100 yards with him

Car

Well we found out on Friday that there is serious damage under my car and the insurance company is going to total it. Which to me is not good news because my car is 6 years old and they are only offering $6500, you don't get much for that but I guess we'll see.