For those of you who read about Boots’ Big Adventure, you will remember that I explained how she dislocated her elbow. Well, as you can see from that picture, Ms. Boots is back to her normal, hyper, inquisitive self! Sure, she has been for a couple of weeks now, but I just thought this picture was hilarious, and was a great example of how silly she can be. Yes, that is a clothes dryer, and yes, she jumped inside, and was exploring the warm, fresh scents. On a completely unrelated note, I can’t seem to figure out why I perpetually have cat or dog hair on EVERY. SINGLE. THING I own. Hmmm, I wonder why…

Many of you probably have not seen the new page I added to the site, called Lose the Dough. Since it is a page, it was not published to the RSS feed, and you have to visit the site to actually read it. Anyway, I accepted Tina’s challenge from Carrots N’ Cake, and am going to “Lose the Dough for the Big 3-0″. Basically, it is just a fun way to motivate myself to get in a little better shape by my 30th Birthday, but hey, whatever works, right?

Well, We are about two weeks in now, and things are going well. So far, I have lost about 2-3 lbs. and the running schedule is still going well. We had a big challenge Saturday though… We ran 10 miles! I know, I have run that far before, but I feel like it was later in the training schedule. There is still almost 2 months to go before the half marathon, and we already are up to that point!

So, just to give you an idea of how wonderful it feels to run 10 miles, I will tell you how much else it motivated us to do for the rest of the day. We have started remodeling a bathroom, and even went to the store Saturday morning to buy tile, grout, and paint. So, I would love to tell you that we came back from the gym and finished up the bathroom, and everything looks beautiful and spotless, but…. ummm, yeah, so we kind of came home, laid on the couch and watched a movie. Repeat, and repeat. Yes, we sat on our butts and watched 3 movies! We were so tired, that was the only thing that really sounded good. I guess the bathroom can wait until next weekend.

Oh, and we have our first race of the year coming up next Saturday as well. It’s just a 5K, so we are going to take MacGregor with us! Mac has been working on his time, and said he is going to try to finish in under 30 minutes, but he sorta had to mention that his time will be contingent on whether or not he is able to pull Abby along at that pace to keep her going. Then, he just started bragging and said that if we weren’t slowing him down he thinks he could actually come in first (at least in his division). Uggh, what a bragger! But, he is soooo excited, so we let it slide.