Steve & Amy

Just for fun, here’s some baby pics.

The title of this post says everything. We have been working hard on training for our half marathon and today we ran 9 miles! It was tough, but we were very proud of ourselves. Needless to say, we are a very sore. I’m wishing I lived in a house without stairs right now! Four more weeks until we run 13 miles….

Another of my favorite memories is Graduation Day!! I was so excited to graduate from college. It was nice to have all those tests, papers, and homework assignments behind me. I was excited to be able to actually do one of the things I wanted to with my life–teaching kids. I had a lot of fun on my graduation day, because I graduated at the same time as some of my best friends! We had a great time celebrating together.

I also have great memories of Steve’s graduation from college! He has been graduated for a little over a year now. Both he and I were really excited when he finished! It has given him a little extra time, so we’ve had more time to spend together.

This last week, Steve and I went on a fabulous cruise to the Bahamas!! We had such a great time! I love vacations!! Here’s a few of the fun things we did!

First time on the cruise ship!

Parasailing!

Formal night on the cruise!

Key West

Taking off to go Parasailing

Steve’s favorite waterslide, the Leap of Faith

Eating ice cream by the pool! Steve’s ice cream turned out better than mine!

This is a clip from our wedding video. This is what we said attracted us to each other!

We finally registered for our half marathon! Now we are officially committed to the race! So on August 29–we will be running 13.1 miles!!

We are doing pretty well with our training. It is fun to see the improvements as we can run farther and farther, although we’ve had some pretty sore days! I have loved training with Steve. It’s nice to have someone to encourage you along the way.

8 More Weeks left of training…..

Aquatic Center
Here’s the continuation of our weekend! We decided to go to the Aquatic Center with some of my family. We were excited to find out that it was a free day! So we went down the waterslides a few times and played in the pool. We were getting ready to start the waterslides again when we found out (from some kids who obviously knew everything about the pool), that they closed the waterslides for a half an hour to do some sort of pool checks. They told us that if we waited, we could be first in line when the waterslides opened up again. I love it when the little kids can tell you exactly what you need to do!! We had a busy day planned, so we decided to leave. I’m sure 6 more people were thrilled we were leaving. Since it was free day, the Aquatic Center was filled to capacity. There was a huge line outside the center waiting for people to leave.

Running
Then Steve and I set out to do our Saturday run in preparation for our half marathon. Saturdays are supposed to be the day for the longest runs. Since we didn’t have any other time, we had to run it at about 4:30 in the afternoon. It was about 88 degrees outside!! This week we were supposed to run 5 miles. We didn’t have quite enough time to get all five miles in, but we made it to 4.6 miles….not too bad!! By the time we were finished, we were sweating like crazy, but we were proud of ourselves! We have really come a long ways with our running!

REAL Soccer
After a quick shower, we headed off to the Real soccer game. My sister and her husband work with Real, so they were able to get us free tickets. When we got to the gate, I looked down to see where our tickets were at and we found they were front row tickets!!! We were really excited. As we made our way down to our seats, we realized that we were in quite a die-hard fan section. So we had a great time cheering and following the leads of the fans. I’m not a soccer expert, so I didn’t always know what was going on. We had a lot of good laughs listening to the people in our section. Here’s a few of my favorite conversations:

Crowd (chanting): Go home Canada! Go home Canada! (The opposing team was from Canada)
Boy sitting by his dad: Dad, why do we hate Canada?
Dad: Well, we don’t really hate Canada, we’re just (pauses) joking.

The crowd created this cheer about the goalie from the other team. They basically chanted about how no one liked him and how terrible he was. After the first cheer, someone yelled out…your mom doesn’t even like you. Then next time this same boy from above yells, “and your grandma doesn’t like you either!!” I don’t really condone chanting things like this, and teaching kids to do it…but I have to admit, that boy’s comment really made me laugh.

Then it came for the half-time event! My sister and her boyfriend were able to participate in the KFC halftime challenge. They had to race to put on these costumes, do some Micheal Jackson dance moves, and then kick the soccer ball into the goal. Even though, my sister’s boyfriend went easy on her, he still ended up winning. It was so fun to watch them! They did an awesome job!

I love Saturdays!!