Our Journey

So Mike and I have decided to start our get healthy journey!!!! We have decided that the only way that it is going to work is if we actually have a goal that we are going to meet.  So we decided to run our first 5k ever. Well maybe I should clarify this... it was my idea and Mike was so nice to follow and say he would run with me! Truth be told Mike says he is not a runner and I found this saying and he agree this was him...

Guess we will change him by the end of our journey!!!

I guess I just needed something that would help get me motivated so paying the money for the 5k will help me to not lose focus and waist the money we put into the run.  I'm glad Mike is running with me.  We signed up for the color me RAD 5k in May.  My thinking is this is supposed to be a fun run and I fill it would be less pressure for our first run.  We are excited that it is now finally warming up and we can get moving more outside. Our kids don't know it yet but they are also going on this journey with us.  And I know they will be excited too.  

I also thought this would be a great way to journal our progression, so I will be posting more on our journey mainly to keep track and see what we have done. It is all about keeping track and journaling.

SO HERE WE GOOOOOO.......  

We are Back!!! Hopefully!!

Well we are trying to keep up the blog again... This is a never ending cycle for us, we do really well then we stop and so on.  We are trying to keep up with everything, and we want to keep everyone up to date with our life.  And we feel this is probably one of the best ways.  So we are trying again!!!

We are not going to even try to catch up so we are just going to start with here and now....

Mike and I...  Or biggest news is we bought our first home!!!

We are so HAPPY it is ours.  The kids love it too.  They do every once and awhile ask why we are not living with grandma and grandpa. 

Mike is loving his job and enjoys all the hard work that he is putting into it.  It has been a struggle getting things organized and running better, but he is always up for a challenge.

I am still with the city in the Therapeutic Recreation Program. I get to teach an aqua rehab class on Wednesday, and it is a new year and will be starting to think of summer camp coming up.

Here is a little about our little adventure makers... Our beautiful kiddos are great at making fun adventures for us.  They love keeping us on our toes.
Brody... 

Loves kindergarten and is so creative.  He loves to write stories and loves to figure out how much he can really read now.  He is still as tall as can be and towers over much of his class.

He played soccer this last year and loved it, he keeps asking when he can play again. I'm glad he wanted to play and he was pretty good at it.  We did joke that he took the widest turns when he had to turnaround to get the ball.  We worked a lot on that.  He is very loving and is always willing to help with his siblings. 

Camilla...

She is our little DIVA!!! She loves to boss and laugh. What a great combination.  So she is bossing everyone and laugh at the same time so it does not always sound like she is telling her big brother what to do! But he  goes and does it.  She loves anything pink and purple and girly.  When Brody is at school she is my little shadow and wants to do anything that mom is doing.  She gets to bake and cook with me and do laundry with me.  But like I said she is a Diva and well she gets "tired" very easily.  So then she just sits and watches. She is great at observing.  She is getting so big! 

Funny little story about Camilla one of our adventure makers.  She decided to swallow a couple of pennies.  One Friday afternoon I heard Camilla yelling and crying went to her and she said she "swallowed a coiny".  Coiny is what she called pennies. So we informed her doctor and I knew she was going to have us just watch for it, they said to call on Monday to let them know if we had found it.  Well Monday came around and there was no sign of the penny.  So the doctor said to go in and have a chest x-ray. In the x-ray they did not think it was a penny because it was more oblong then round then, and it was still in the stomach and it needed to be moving by now.  So they sent us to the emergency room to have the doctor take it out.  He went in and pulled out 2 pennies.  He was pretty sure that because the pennies were stuck together that is why did not pass. He said it was good he went in, because the pennies had started to corowd and were giving her ulcers.  We still have the pennies in the little cup they gave them back to us as a reminder for her to not put things in her mouth.  We still randomly ask her if pennies go in her mouth, she always answers correctly.  

Deklin... 

He is so big! He is one now. He is all boy and really gives us a run for our money.  He is up and down and into everything.  I turn around and everything in one cupboard is out and I get that cleaned up and another cupboard is emptied.  He is so cute and funny, he loves to laugh and scream.
A story about this little adventure maker. We know that we have, in a way, made him the screamer that he is.  In November he started having seizures and we began to baby him again.  The poor boy has had more testing than I have in my entire life.  He had any test that would rule out any reason that would possibly be causing the seizures.  There was nothing causing them, so we just have a little one that has seizures. His neurologist said that he will most likely grow out of them by the time he is 2.  We are hopeful that he will!!! The medicine that he is on is controlling his seizures. He is slowly starting to get back to his good ole' self and we are loving it. We now have such fun with him and trying to give him nebulizer treatments.  He is one and we have to have him sit still for about 20 minutes.  He hates it.  Because he had RSV when he was just a wee one this time around when he got a cold his lungs did not like it and he is having asthma like symptoms.  He really is giving us a run for our money.  But he just gives you that smile and you cant help but just love him and cuddle with him....

We are working on making time to post more and keep our blog up and running.