"Try" athlon

It's official, I am training for a triathlon! It has been a life goal of mine for awhile and I figure it's either now or never! I have joined a triathlon club in The Woodlands called "I tri" so I'm going to give it a "TRY!" So far I have completed a week of training and I'm still excited. I joined the group a little late so I'm on week one while the team is on week 3. Hopefully I can catch up. I have started riding my bike and it makes me remember how much I love to ride! I grew up in Kingwood where there were over 80 miles of greenbelts. In the summers I would ride my bike all day every day. My friend Lindsay and I would meet almost every Sunday afternoon and ride the trails. It's been a little harder to ride in Montgomery since I live in a subdivision with no greenbelts. I'm going to have to get creative because I'm already getting bored with the scenery! Any ideas?

The swimming is going to be the hardest part of the triathlon. I attempted swim team in 5th grade and didn't excel! We are going to be swimming in a pond so this will be way different! I wonder if they'll let me wear floaties? I started swimming this week at the rec center and I've already gotten some lessons....sort of. I met a 75 year old man who was doing water aerobics while I swam laps. He would cheer me on, critique my technique, and attempted to model the correct way to breathe while doing the free style. He was a hoot!

The triathlon is May 2nd in The Woodlands. So 3 more months of training before I give this a "try!"

Harper the photographer

While we were in Colorado Harper stayed with Cam's parents. Cha Cha had lots of fun things planned for Harper to do while he was on "holiday" with her. So one day she took Harper into Houston to see her mother. Her mother does not like to get her picture taken. Well while they were eating lunch my technologically advanced child figures out how to turn on the camera and proceeds to take pictures of his great grandmother! ha ha! She would never have known what was going on except that the camera flashed everytime he took one! She was covering her face, but Charlotte told her there was no film in the camera....true.....because it was digital! Check out these pics!!

Breck 09

Break 09 might be more appropriate! It was so nice to get a break for a couple of days and travel to Breckenridge, Colorado with friends. A huge thanks to Cam's parents for watching Harper all week long. If you know me you know how much I love change, especially a change of pace! Here is the view from our condo. The slopes

I am officially "old" I'm not sure when it happened but after a week in Colorado I came to that conclusion. I have been skiing a handful of times, the latest time being 2 years ago when I was pregnant. I was super careful and very paranoid as I skied with Harper in my belly. I really don't count that as skiing.... So we arive in Colorado and I am immediately out of breath! I was gasping for air going up and down the stairs. Can we say out of shape?? It gets worse, after catching the city bus (ski's in tow), riding the gondola to the slopes (ski's in tow), walking in ski boots to the lift, putting on my ski's , and at last skiing down the mountain....I was exhausted. I did this for 3 days and I was aching! The temperature was 1 with the windchill being -9! Brrrr!
Each day after skiing I would get my out of shape self into the hot tub and soak! I think that is what saved me each day. I only fell twice so I can't imagine what it could have been like. After a hour in the hot tub it was time for the games! Here is a picture of the group playing Uno....who knew it could be so much fun! Our friends added a new spin to it and it was soooooo much fun! (I bought it today at Wal-mart:))

Not your grandmas' Uno game

Most nights we loaded up the cars and mini van to go eat in town. Yes, we rented a mini van (but we added lots of "flair" to it...dream catchers....etc!!) It was Ullr feast while we were in Breck, mmm, very intersting!
Ashley and Alli with nordic guy??

Alli and JM

Brother in laws

Each night we had this visitor on our porch.....a fox! He was very friendly and must be fed by all the guests because he was not scared of us. We fed him goldfish and nachos...and he liked it. One night the guys trid to get him into the house! Thank goodness they couldn't lure him in!

Foxy Cleopatra

KO's favorites from the week

"Ashley won't even drop a v-neck on us" - Scott's taunting of AshleyDupuis' provocative wardrobe choices.

"Jesus was all up on this" - Alli's Catch Phrase effort for her clue,The Red Sea or was it The Dead Sea, either way no pernts.

"Jesus is in my top five" - Alli's listing of her hottest dudes.

"Fluffernutter" - Allyson Heathcott's first stab at defining a personwho munches on their own fart bubbles in the tub.

"Not realistic, never happen in my lifetime" - Travis' response tothe horror movie 'Vacancy' as The Dupuis' walked up to their bedroomin the dark hand in deathgripped hand.

"Deadly as a fox" - Mike's cautionary advice to the group attemptingto lure the fox into the Snowed In crib.

"No-Quail" - Ashley Dupuis' rebranding of the generic NyQuil purchasedby Juan Marquez. "Yellow People" - Ashley Rhodes' racist effort to get her Catch Phraseteam to guess Japan.

I've got a fever...

and the only cure is more cowbell!! ha ha I wish that was the case. After a relaxing Christmas vacation in Kingwood I come home with a sick baby. Harper started Christmas Eve off with a cough. He had just gotten over a cough and had a hiatus for 4 or 5 days so I just started up the cough medicine again and didn't think much about it. He was so happy all weekend and gave no signs of not feeling well....except for a little cough every now and then.

Well today he woke up with his eyes matted shut and had a 102 degree fever. Poor baby. I immediately called the pediatrician and they squeezed me in at 2:30. In the mean time I tried to get his fever to break, but no success. He was getting hotter and hotter, and fussier! I decided to arrive early early in hopes of being seen a little sooner, ya right! I arrived at 2:00 and left at 4:45. Harper cried most of that time and would not take a paci. He was so miserable and I was so helpless. I didn't know what to do except cry, and that didn't help. It is so hard to watch your baby suffer and there is nothing you can do.
Look at those sick eyes!
I won't be winning Mother of The Year anytime soon because Harper has the flu, a double ear infection, and pink eye! Poor baby. We have been so low key over the holidays that it seems crazy for him to be so sick. I guess I should have taken him to Walmart and let him run around barefoot to make him immune......kidding!

So this week is on hold as we get this little guy well.