Running

In December, I started running, which I hadn't done since I was 13 or 14. It was extremely hard at first. The first day I ran, I said I was just going to run nonstop for 5 minutes. I thought that was very little. I barely finished. It's amazing how you can think you're in shape, and then you try to run. Running is HARD! I decided I wanted to run in a 5K race. Obviously, it took months of self-training before I was ready for this. In April I ran in the first ever Derby Festival 5K. 

Jacob and the kids cheered me on. 

We ran by the Ohio River.

Everyone got a medal. I'm keeping mine in memory of the first official race I ran. 

Jacob and I both signed up for a Memorial Day race in Alabama with his family. He ran the 10K, 5K, and one mile "fun run." He's crazy. I just ran the 5K. We surprised his family because they didn't know I had been running. It was hard, but I beat my record by about two minutes. 

These pictures are from the race photographers. 

Jacob finishing his 10K.

Jacob and I finishing the 5K.

Since that race, I have run a lot less. Running is good exercise, but it is hard. I am mainly just working on a personal goal for a mile time. 

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One Year

 

I've been thinking a lot about you. I wish you could know how much we miss you.

Long Time No See

Well, here I go again, trying to blog. I guess I get distracted with other things. I do have the time, I just use my time for other things. Oh, well. 

There's a lot to catch up on. June was a hard month. It started with the stomach virus for both of the kids. Then Taliya continued throwing up every day for nine days. It was awful. I took her to two different doctors. The first one was rather stupid, but the second one seemed to know what was going on right away. He said it was a post virus problem in which the stomach gets lazy and stops sending the food down. He told me what to feed Taliya and gave us a medicine that was supposed to help. She started getting better, but it was slow and tiresome. She had to drink a lot of stuff and mainly eat mushy food. Really only in the last few days has she started eating more normal again. So, yeah, it was a hard month.Very exhausting. I had many meltdowns. Jacob was very helpful. I am always so grateful for his help.

I don't know where to begin.

The day before the kids got sick, I took them to the creek that was muddy and flooded. 

Flood

Oh, speaking of flooding, I think I forgot to post these pictures of the flooding from the Ohio. It was really crazy.

This is a road.

This is an exit from the interstate.

I don't even know if they are going to be able to reopen the Shell. It's almost totally under water.

These last pictures are arieals that I found on the internet.

This is where we had been, and it was taken after we went down there because the water is even higher than before. 

I think this is the Indiana side. 

This is the disc golf course that we play at sometimes. We went there after the water went down, and there were trees with mud on them above our heads. 

Cabin

I don't know why blogging has felt more tedious lately, but I don't want to stop. So, I end up posting things a while after they happen. For example, it's probably been a month or so since our cabin experience. We went to a park near Mammoth Caves and stayed in a cabin. It's what I wanted for my birthday. It was mainly a good trip, but the first night was horrible with the kids not sleeping. 

Our cabin was socute and cozy. Just what I was hoping for.

We went on a little hike through the woods and down to the Green River.

There were so many of these flowers along the way.

It was crazy to see the affects of the flooding from eearlier in the month. There were places probably 30 feet above the river that were completely under water. 

I had fun trying to get artistic  photos with the fire and my rootbeer bottle.

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Catching Up Pictures

 

Messy spaghetti boy.

Taking a nap in the grass.

These two pictures really show the crazy back and forth weather during spring: Micah without a shirt one day, and then the kids wearing coats another day..

I bought a whole coconut one day. My! Those things are hard and then a lot of work to deal with. I probably won't be doing that again.