And the race is on!...........GO DAY'S

GO DAYS!

Are we ready! I ran Sunday and walked on Monday and that's been it. Hopefully I'll do okay tomorrow. I'd love to do around 36. I ate pasta at lunch and crackers for supper.

spent the night, 6 - 10, in the emergency room with John. That was a mistake, should have went to Urgent Care. His "sternum" was hurting again. they did an ekg and xray so decided it was an inflamed sternum again and gave him some steroids.

anyway, I imagine we will post our results tomorrow, otherwise you can check

http://www.louisvilletriplecrown.com/results.asp

I believe we are having lunch in louisville this week. at mr gattis.

My exciting week!

I got a flat tire this morning....
and were leaving for New Orleans in 7 days!

I got my wisdom teeth pulled last week. Thats about it. :)
Hope everyone is doing okay!

Reporting In

It looks like everyone has slowed down on writing. Deb, don't do too much and get yourself worn out. I'm better now, it seems like I had about of day of mild sore throat, day of head cold with a nonstop running nose, day of severe coughing and aching from all the coughing and now has settled in my chest with just a tiny bit of sore throat and sometime coughing. So I have basically been in bed since I got back to Florida. Paul is golfing at noon today, so I think I will go sit out in the sun today since I haven"t been in it for a couple of weeks.

Flea market tomorrow, only 2 more before we leave. Seems like time has went so fast. Hope the weather warms up there at home. Have fun planning for the engagement party.

How is everyone?

Being sick really messes up training. I went two weeks doing nothing (but coughing...and still doing that some). I made myself walk/jog for 90 minutes tonight. Walking mostly, so I only got in 5.38 miles. At least it is a start. I actually walked on Monday for 3 miles also. I still have two more weeks before the 10k. I think I can get my time doing better. Adrenalin should give me the rest of the mile. I just need to step it up a notch for the mini.

Not much else going on. Haley finished cheerleading so I'm waiting for soccer to start. They will both be playing so I'm excited. Although their first game is the same as the 10k :( then we'll miss the Easter weekend game. Have they decided on a time for the engagement party?

Eryn got us a room at the Hyatt downtown for Thunder weekend. So if anyone is there and needs a break from the festivities, we'll have a place without having to go all the way home.

The House

Charly and Ryan, Loved the house. I'm so glad we were able to stop by today. Ryan, please tell your Mom thanks for cleaning Reese's shoe and sorry about her stepping on the paint can lid. When I saw it in the floor I just knew she would step on it. It could have been the only thing in the floor in the whole house and she would have found it. Again, sorry.

Charly, you may have to fight Reese for Ryan. She has become quite attached. I can picture her at the wedding saying I Do when the minister ask do you take this man. She will probably think she is suppose to hold his hand as well. Lets just hope she finds another crush by then.

Looking forward to the party. If you decide to cook rather than cater let me know and I will be glad to fix some things for it.

Update

Hey all...I did take pictures of the house the other day, now I just have to post them. We are going to start painting this weekend I think! After going to dinner the other night with some of the family, me and Ryan have decided to have our engagement party on the Saturday before Easter, the 22nd I think. I know this is soon, but it works out the best for us, and hopefully some of the family will be here!! I am going to send out invitations this weekend, but if you all who are coming from out of town could let me know when you are coming, I can decide to have it in the afternoon or later that night!
Congratulations to the Nolan's. We are all growing up!
Also, Ryan, mom, and me went to put the deposit down on the reception hall at Kyes and you all aren't going to believe this, March 7th of next year was already booked! I guess it just means that we are supposed to get married on Friday, March 6th...We put the deposit down so everyone save the date, it would mean a lot for us if everyone could come!! Love you all!

Top This!

As long as we're on a roll, I might as well let everyone know Alan won the lottery a month ago - just hadn't said anything yet, getting our finances figured out and everything before all our family starts hounding us to "share the wealth". You know we would love to, but our "people" suggest we just keep it all for ourselves. (I'm just glad he's willing to share it with me!) Enough for now. As we get our priorities in order, will keep you posted! Roar! Roar! (The sound of my Jag!)

Just when you thought he would settle down...

My first post too - like Laura I haven't had a lot to update about until now either. I've just been slowly adapting to work and my new place here in St. Louis (no running, no houses, no engagements) and I figured that just wasn't exciting enough, so I decided "Let's go to Italy!" Actually, whats going on is that we still have suppliers for the 787 that are struggling and need help (similar to the one in Winnipeg), and I figured I'm still in a decent position where I can pick up and fill a one-year assignment that's open there, so that's whats going to happen. The length of the assignment is a little intimidating, and I think the only Italian words I know are foods (at least I won't starve), but I'm excited about the opportunity and I should get a few return trips throughout the year to break it up a little.

It'll be in a city called Foggia which is about a 2 hour drive from Naples and a little over 3 from Rome. I'm sure I'll be pretty busy when I'm there, but I should get some good opportunities to travel around a bit and see the country, and the idea of working on a new product in a foreign country should keep things interesting at work. I don't have word yet on when exactly I'll be leaving, but it should be relatively soon, these suppliers need as much help as they can get as soon as they can get it. So it looks like St. Louis will just have to wait another year.

My first post

I've been reading this for a while, but I haven't posted yet. I just never seemed to have anything worth posting. But I finally do!

On Saturday Alex surprised me by showing up at my apartment! I had no idea that he wasn't still in Georgia- although I was a little upset that he hadn't been answering his phone all day. And not only did he surprise me with a visit, but he proposed, too! (And the ring is gorgeous, by the way.)

This doesn't really change plans- I still have three more years of school, and the Army still owns him for quite a while, so it will be a pretty long engagement. We know that we'll get married as soon as the circumstances work out for us, and we wanted to make it official- even if that means being engaged for a couple years.

Anyway, I have a test in about an hour, so I really have to go study!

Race 1 down - 4 more to go

I did the FrostBite 5k with Mike and a couple people from yesterday. Except for parts of the 3 hills I ran it all. I did it in 39:20 according to the person calling out time, but there weren't any chips so it was a little less, not much, not that many people were there. I'm happy with myself though.

Cheryl and Jeff, how was dinner?

Heather, the Valentine's card was very cute. I have it hanging at work and it has gotten comments.

Well, trying to get the kitchen cleaned before the Daytona starts.

Terri, you have to do 10k (6.2 miles) with us. I think that is one the Birmingham folks are coming up to in addition to the mini.

Has anyone figured out why some of the names and posting are orange and sometimes they are blue?