I believe that...: I've Lost my Funk!

I believe that...with a lot of hard work, sweat and humidity, I may have lost my funk - and yep, that's a good thing! After a week of laying around IN a funk, I decided I needed to get my butt in gear and get OUT of it.

(First things first, look to the right....I did my homework and figured out how to add an email subscribe box. Now you never have to miss our crazy happenings!)

I brought out the big guns. A four o'clock run at 95 degrees made me want to stick my head in the freezer, but Annie helped get me out the door by offering to run with me. It was aweSOME!

We spent the weekend relaxing, more running, a LOT more running, I even got a long run in on the trail with Kevin while he worked on his drill. He started Band Camp on Monday.

Love this guy!

Annie had a few friends over for pizza, water balloons and tie-dye, she really has the best friends in the world, I love every girl that comes over here! They are polite, friendly, and there are sooooo many of them. I guess all those years of me growling "don't just play with just that one friend on the playground" paid off.

Of course the little guys smelled water balloons from a mile away and set their stash up front. I dare say they won as they ended up manning the hoses from the safety of the deck.

Kristian spent his entire week doing his in-car drivers ed. He's officially finished and we pick up his certificate today, a few days before his actual drivers test. WOW, he's going to be DRIVING FOR REAL! WOW!

Mom and dad stopped by on their way to West Virginia to bring us their "old" generator. another big WOW! I can't tell if Kevin's more excited about the generator or the new solar panel attached to the house that will help power it. Unfortunately I took zero pictures of their visit.

Annie is in Cheer Camp this week, here's a pic the coach sent. I wish I could have looked like her in 8th grade!

Lastly, my favorite new thing! I've managed to add 56 miles so far in this humidity leaving only 45 for the rest of July. I've had to resort to running twice a day to get the miles in but the good news, it's impossible to gain weight running in this heat, nausea is never far behind! But I found some help for motivation. It's a free app called Running Club and you join groups of runners from all over the US on their run. I was invited immediately to run the Siesta Beach Run in Florida last night at 7pm. Three miles with several other runners. Only the invitee actually "showed up" to run, so we ran. AND, I BEAT HIM!! In my head, I was racing Ryan Hall, reality was that he most likely was a dad my age, but my competitive nature took over and even though it was my second run of the day, I pulled it off.