Alright so a false start or two is expected, right? My intention of blogging important (and unimportant) events has fallen behind the realities of life. My motivation waned and available time diminished through the holidays thanks to trips, illnesses, etc. You know what I'm talking about here; I don't need to go into it, do I?
We drove to Chicago to celebrate Christmas with the Johnsons, Webers, and Staches. On the way back to Houston, we stopped over in Indianapolis (I know, I know, not exactly on the way) to visit with the Morgans. We were so ready to get home we drove straight through, arriving home at 3 a.m. Our beds never felt so good. We had a blast up North, and got a full week of bitter cold (3-below when we arrived in Chicago) and snow (it didn't let up for our first 36 hours in the Windy City). But Katie much prefers the mild Houston winter, and told me as much more than a couple of times while we were up North and after our homecoming.
The week after Christmas was spent organizing the house. When I say organizing the house, I don't mean picking up toys and straightening up the kitchen. Katie took it upon herself to organize the house ... almost literally from top to bottom, front to back. To date, we've sold over $450 worth of unused stuff. Amongst this grand organization effort were the kids' rooms. Previously Jackson slept in his crib in the front bedroom which also housed most of the toys. Alyssa slept in the second bedroom with no toys and two dressers. Following the reorg, they both sleep in toddler beds in the second bedroom, and all toys have been relocated (and organized) in the front bedroom, aka the toy/play room. Jackson's going to bed about 7pm and is usually fast asleep by the time Alyssa goes to bed around 730pm. It's been working out very well (after Grandma Denk suggested the half hour difference in bed times), and the toys have remained in the toy room for the most part.
New Year's Resolutions? Not so much resolutions, but goals around here. I'll let Katie fill you in on her 2009 goals, but mine are as follows. 1) Stay below 190 lbs. 2) Get below 180 lbs ... I really wanna see 179.9! That's all I ask. 3) Limit french fries to once a week. 4) Exercise 15 times a month. I'm not going to make it in January. Here we are on the 21st, and I've completed a whole 3. All within the last 5 days. *sheepish grin* Additionally we have goals to spend some one-on-one time with each of the kids once a month and go on a date once a month. Lofty goals, but hopeful. I think of myself as above the New Year resolution mentality, but in reality, I'm just as bad as anyone else apparently.
Oh. As part of the reorg, we got rid of the recumbent bike upstairs and bought a treadmill to replace it. For some reason, this didn't motivate me to run ... in the least bit. I've run all of two miles on the stupid thing. Katie on the other hand is on it all the time. She walks for an hour during the day and in addition is doing "couch-to-5K" training. I'll get to that in a minute. Anyway, she's uses that treadmill more in a week than I have since I lugged the dang thing up the stairs. Thanks, Nathan! Following my run this evening though, I think I'm about ready to get back on the horse, as it were. It was a great 3 mile run around the neighborhood at 55 degrees. I could run forever with weather like that.
Back to Katie's couch-to-5K training. Not sure where this started, but Katie and I (and Alyssa and Jackson) are going to run (or ride) in the Sprint For Life on May 9th. Having never run that far and being a researcher at heart, Katie set out to find a training regimen to get her ready for it. In the same vein, the Houston Marathon was this past Sunday, and along with a couple of coworkers, I've decided that I'm going to run the half-marathon next year. Never having run in a race, I thought that a couple of shorter races would be good for me. I'd like to build up to a marathon eventually, but let's just start with the 5K first, okay?
Plenty more has happened, and I've got a ton of things to blog about, but I think this post is larger than intended. For those of you still reading, thanks for sticking with me.
We drove to Chicago to celebrate Christmas with the Johnsons, Webers, and Staches. On the way back to Houston, we stopped over in Indianapolis (I know, I know, not exactly on the way) to visit with the Morgans. We were so ready to get home we drove straight through, arriving home at 3 a.m. Our beds never felt so good. We had a blast up North, and got a full week of bitter cold (3-below when we arrived in Chicago) and snow (it didn't let up for our first 36 hours in the Windy City). But Katie much prefers the mild Houston winter, and told me as much more than a couple of times while we were up North and after our homecoming.
The week after Christmas was spent organizing the house. When I say organizing the house, I don't mean picking up toys and straightening up the kitchen. Katie took it upon herself to organize the house ... almost literally from top to bottom, front to back. To date, we've sold over $450 worth of unused stuff. Amongst this grand organization effort were the kids' rooms. Previously Jackson slept in his crib in the front bedroom which also housed most of the toys. Alyssa slept in the second bedroom with no toys and two dressers. Following the reorg, they both sleep in toddler beds in the second bedroom, and all toys have been relocated (and organized) in the front bedroom, aka the toy/play room. Jackson's going to bed about 7pm and is usually fast asleep by the time Alyssa goes to bed around 730pm. It's been working out very well (after Grandma Denk suggested the half hour difference in bed times), and the toys have remained in the toy room for the most part.
New Year's Resolutions? Not so much resolutions, but goals around here. I'll let Katie fill you in on her 2009 goals, but mine are as follows. 1) Stay below 190 lbs. 2) Get below 180 lbs ... I really wanna see 179.9! That's all I ask. 3) Limit french fries to once a week. 4) Exercise 15 times a month. I'm not going to make it in January. Here we are on the 21st, and I've completed a whole 3. All within the last 5 days. *sheepish grin* Additionally we have goals to spend some one-on-one time with each of the kids once a month and go on a date once a month. Lofty goals, but hopeful. I think of myself as above the New Year resolution mentality, but in reality, I'm just as bad as anyone else apparently.
Oh. As part of the reorg, we got rid of the recumbent bike upstairs and bought a treadmill to replace it. For some reason, this didn't motivate me to run ... in the least bit. I've run all of two miles on the stupid thing. Katie on the other hand is on it all the time. She walks for an hour during the day and in addition is doing "couch-to-5K" training. I'll get to that in a minute. Anyway, she's uses that treadmill more in a week than I have since I lugged the dang thing up the stairs. Thanks, Nathan! Following my run this evening though, I think I'm about ready to get back on the horse, as it were. It was a great 3 mile run around the neighborhood at 55 degrees. I could run forever with weather like that.
Back to Katie's couch-to-5K training. Not sure where this started, but Katie and I (and Alyssa and Jackson) are going to run (or ride) in the Sprint For Life on May 9th. Having never run that far and being a researcher at heart, Katie set out to find a training regimen to get her ready for it. In the same vein, the Houston Marathon was this past Sunday, and along with a couple of coworkers, I've decided that I'm going to run the half-marathon next year. Never having run in a race, I thought that a couple of shorter races would be good for me. I'd like to build up to a marathon eventually, but let's just start with the 5K first, okay?
Plenty more has happened, and I've got a ton of things to blog about, but I think this post is larger than intended. For those of you still reading, thanks for sticking with me.
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