Our first 5K

On April 14th Jeff and I ran our first ever 5K race!!! We ran this as part of my training for the marathon. To read more about that check out http://iamrunningthechicagomarathon.blogspot.com/

It was a fun time, and it was made more fun just because there were so many people there that we knew and they were cheering us on!

For this being our first race, I think we both pretty much rocked it! Jeff especially! He is a natural runner!! He had a goal of wanting to run it in under a 9 min mile and he crushed that by running about 8:20 min/mile! Chip time of 25:49 He came in 15th out of 56 in our age group and he finished 99 overall with 783 runners!! Top 100 baby!!

During most of my training I was running an average of a 12 min/mile. I was still doing a run/walk combo until my last training run. The Wednesday before the race I tried to run my first 5K with no walking and I did it and my pace was about 11:50. as for the race I ran somewhere between an average of 10:16 - 10:30 min/mile! Woo Hoo!! I guess it does help to run with others! I can't believe I ran that much faster! As for my results I was 29th out of 72 for my age group (in the top half!!!) and was 399 out of the 783 (almost top half) Very Happy!!! My chip time was 32:38.

Our next race is June 16th and that will be a 10K!!

Easter 2012

We had a very nice Easter this year. On Friday, we did the annual Marshmallow Drop - however, I think we have decided that we will be forgoing that from now on. It is a shame, but unfortunately people do not "get it" and when you run out to get a marshmallow and there are none left - how much fun can that be!!!

Thankfully, this year instead of inviting people over for Easter Dinner we decided to hold an Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday and I think we will now be doing this as a yearly thing. We had some friends over and the kids had a blast doing the hunt together. Growing up we always did Easter dinner with a lot of family, but I always remembered the Easter Egg Hunt with all the cousins! It is such a blessing, that even though we don't have any family here in MI - that we have our "Friemily" Friends who are like Family!!! It was a great day!!

Mom Mom and Pop Pop's Visit

At the end of March we had a visit from Mom Mom and Pop Pop!! We had a wonderful time and thankfully - NOBODY got sick! Woo Hoo!!

Jeff and I were able to get out for some runs together and even had a date day of getting massages and going out to a nice dinner.

Mom Mom and Pop Pop took the girls to Chuck E Cheeses for some fun and to dinner at Red Robin and then brought ice cream back. Cole missed out because he refused to nap and by time he did, he was still sleeping when it was time to go.

Also, we went to Oakland Mall and checked out a Butterfly exhibit since the girls were studying Butterflies in school.