Just checking in.....

Not a lot to report this week so I thought I would just say hello! There is a slight chance of an offer on Ryan's house....and then at the same time, his car got broken into AGAIN!!!!! and his laptop and camara..yada yada....gone......we live in such a crazy and dishonest world...I tell you!!!

My first triathlon group met last night. It is a really nice group of supportive women. I am excited but.....I think I have a lot of work to do. 8 weeks and counting......

I got this forward the other day....made me chuckle so I thought I would paste it.....hope you are all having a good week so far.....

A husband and wife are shopping in their local store and the husband picks up a case of Budweiser and puts it in their shopping cart.
'What do you think you're doing?' asks the wife.
'They're on sale, only $10 for 24 cans,' he replies.
'Put it back, we can't afford that,' demands the wife and so he does and they carry on shopping.
A few aisles further on along the woman picks up a $20 jar of face cream and puts it in the shopping cart.
'What do you think you're doing?' asks the husband.
'Its my face cream. It makes me look beautiful,' replies the wife.
Her husband retorts: 'So does 24 cans of Budweiser and its half the price.'

Trip to Washington DC!! And Dave and Liz got married!!! Woo hoo

Just got back from Virginia for Dave and Liz's wedding! It was beautiful!! It was actually in Fairfax, VA and the ceremony in Gainsville. I have not been to Virginia or DC so it was like a quick mini vacation too. On Friday, Ryan and I took the bus to the train and took the train to DC. It was a very neat experience. It was really sad being in DC on the day Tim Russert passed away. Ryan's friend from College works at the Capital for the Minnesota Senator so he gave us a behind the scenes tour. I took some pictures as you will see below. Later that night we went to Georgetown. It's super cute with nice shops and restaurants and bars. Another friend of Ryan's met us there too. On Saturday was the wedding festivities and the rain tried to hold off until after the ceremony. Liz looked beautiful and Dave, handsome....I don't have a picture of them together but I am hoping in the next couple days, I will have some forwarded to me.

Me (with monkey lips), Liz, Jill, Nicole and Cyndi

Cyndi and Brian

Me and Stacey (Dave's Cousin who I used to work with)

Me and the groom!!

Dave's Sister Amanda, Jill, Nic and Cyndi

The Reflecting pools, kinda hard to see with my camara

Some tall guy and short girl

Capital

again

Inside the capital

Ryan's friends Pat and Leroy

Happy 30th Kelly!! (June 4th)

My internet was done for almost a week.....but, now it fixed, thank goodness!! Back to blogging. So, can we get a "Happy 30 to Kelly!!" This past weekend was Kelly's bday party at the new Harry Carry's. It was a lot of fun and great to see most of you there. Below are some pics too. The next morning, early morning, may I add, Ryan and I ran our first race for the Lincoln Park Zoo. It was really fun and I finished just 40 seconds behind Ryan. He has been helping me to run faster and I actually ran the fastest I have ever run for a 6 mile race. After that, we headed to Marina's to meet Baby Hendrix!!! What a babe!!!!! He is sooo cute and cuddly and little and perfect. Congrats again to Marina and Corey.

That's our Kelly!!

Me and Becky

Cort, Becky and Baby Knuckles (you can't see him waving..)

Allie and I

The group with the birthday girl

After the race, do you think I am getting taller? yeah right...

Hendrix.....the new kid on the block

Memorial Weekend

Happy late Memorial Day to you all! Ryan and I headed up to Minneapolis on Thursday (also the day a beautiful new baby boy was brought into the world....yeah Hendrix!!) after work for a college friend's wedding. We went to Iowa first, then MN to break up the driving. We went out downtown in the twin cities on Friday to meet up with his friends and then headed to St. Cloud where he went to College for the wedding. It was a nice ceremony and then we headed to the hotel for the reception. Later in the night, there was a flood in the lobby....strange so we headed to the bars. Sunday, we headed back to Iowa and nearly got killed in a tornado. Not sure if you heard but a couple towns in Iowa got completely distroyed on Sunday. Ryan and I sure did not check the weather and drove right through the area minutes after the tornado came through. I was really scared. Monday, we went for a long run together and Ryan introduced the game of golf to me. I have putting down!!! And I learned some golf terms too. Anyway, have a good start to your week and I hope to see some of you at Kelly's bday party saturday! Ryan and I signed up for the Zoo run, 6 miles the next day. Hope we can make it!!! Cheers!

Picture from the wedding

Triathlon....

One more thing....triathlon training officially starts today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No turning back now.... :)

Amy and Kristin turn 30!!!

Another fun but busy weekend!! And Happy Graduation to Ryan's sister who graduated from LaCrosse with her degree in Education this weekend.

Before heading out for the girls bday bash....I saw this thing in the Self magazine a couple months back about some workout on the park thing. It looked neat and you get freebies, etc... well Jenny came with me and it was quite interesting. It was from 11 to 3 in the park behind the Nature Museum. They had all kinds of short little sessions about 20 minutes each of kick boxing, salsa dancing, mini boot camp, yoga...so we did that and then walked around to get the free giveaways. It was nice and warm and I did not even notice but I got burnt. I was totally exhausted after and today, I am so sore, it hurts to breathe. The picture shows what it kinda looked like.

And now on the bday bash. Amy and Kristin had their bday at Sopo. Love, love their Sangria!! It was really fun and I have not stayed out past 2 in a realllllllllly long time. Not to mention that I had to work today....so today seemed really really long but it was worth it. Marina and her fam came too so that was nice. Still no baby!!! I thought maybe we could dance that baby out. Happy Bday girl's!!! It was a great time. Kelly, your next!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Someone asked me if I was wearing a cow shirt. "Mooooo", I said.

Hottest Mama ever!!!!

Cubbies Again!!

On Tuesday, a bunch of us all made trips out to the Cubs game after work. It was a little wet but our 5 dollar nose bleed seats made us all dry, for the most part. It was great to see everyone since it has been a while. Becky had a bit too many beers as you can see below. Oh well. Baby Knuckles will know how to put them down....ha ha. JK :)