GO SEAHAWKS!

Ethan and I are all ready for the big game. Lucky for Jeff, he gets to be there in person but we'll be having a couple friends over and screaming from our couch at home eating our Skittles. Ethan's already claimed dibs on the Super Bowl ring cupcake. Let's do this hawks!

 

 

 

holidays 2012...

The holidays have come and gone and we luckily had a wonderful time enjoying the time off. Both Jeff and I had the week off of work and Ethan had the week off of school. I had a lot of plans in my head going into the break but unfortunately came down ill on Christmas eve and Christmas day so those plans fell out the window. However, we still ended up having a great time just enjoying the time off together and did do a few fun things as well including attending two Seahawks games (they won both, yeah!) and going and hanging with Ethan's cousin's at Elevated Sports in Bothell. 

Jeff also got a new ping pong table for Christmas and we are in the process of training Ethan to be a national ping pong competitor. Well, not really but he does have a mean serve. 

Even though the holidays did not go as initially planned it was such a great holiday and everyone is more relaxed going into 2013. 

 

 

Iron Girl 5K Seattle

My friend Courtney had told me about the Iron Girl 5K/10K race in Seattle so I thought that I would give it a try. I signed up for the 5K a couple of months before the race and then sort of forgot about it so I had done no training what-so-ever before race day. The race takes you around Green Lake so the views were nice and it made the time go by pretty quickly since you had things to look at. I totally surprised myself by running the race, especially since I am not a runner and that I had done zero training as stated above. I don't think I have ever ran more than a mile or so so running three was pretty good if I do say so myself. :) I finished the race in 39:14 which is pretty good considering. Also, you can't really tell in the pictures but this race had a ton of participants. I believe that there were 3,000 total women running.

Here are some photo's that Courtney's husband Jeff took at the finish line.

(That's me in the white shirt.)

(Heather, Courtney, and I at the finish line.)

Jeff took Ethan to his first Seahawks game and he had a great time until the game and fireworks started. Then it was a little to much for Ethan to take so they unfortunately had to leave during the first quarter, much to Jeff's dismay. Maybe some noise reduction headphones will be in Ethan's future for the next game so it is not so traumatizing but Jeff did manage to get a cute picture of Ethan before the game started in his Seahawks jersey eating fries, with his new friend Blitz that daddy got him.

Official Soccer Mom...

We signed up Ethan today to start soccer in the Fall at Arena Sports in Redmond. So beginning September our Saturday's will be spent driving Ethan to soccer practice so he can shoot balls into a net. I bought him a soccer net for his birthday and he really enjoys kicking the ball into it so I figured that it was about time to get him started in the world of sports. Thankfully it is indoor soccer during the rainy months. Plus, it's early enough that it will not interfere with the Seahawks games since Ethan is now a season ticket holder with his daddy.