My 1st Half Marathon

Today I ran a half marathon. It was cold and wet and not actually that fun, but I'm really glad I did it and I'll probably do another one next year.


Doing this was #3 on this list. I joined a "marathon club" in January to start training for one and today I actually ran the race! And I had the same weather I ran in back in January:



Lovely, isn't it? This past week leading up to the race, it was rainy and cold, but I still hoped for no rain or snow today. I wasn't worried about cold, cold is actually nice, but I knew wet wouldn't be any fun.

After the first mile, my shoes were soaked. And I had a huge cramp. I think I ate a little too much - it's hard to balance eating enough so I'm not starving during my run, with not eating too much so that I don't get sick or get cramps. I guess I got the balance wrong! I'm so obviously a beginner at the half marathon thing.

Other than that it was just cold and wet - a really friendly person drove their car by me without slowing down and I got totally sprayed with slush. Such nice people in this world - didn't they know I was running 13 miles?? Haha oh well I was wet anyway I guess.

The last few miles were just not fun at all, but I finally crossed the finish line! Clark was waiting to capture pictures of me looking like a drowned rat. :)



My time wasn't as bad as I was thinking - I felt like I was going sooo slow but it was a good time for me - I'm not a fast runner but I'm getting a little faster!

I'm planning on doing one again next year but I'm not so sure about this one - this weather just wasn't my favorite. We'll see!

We're getting a roof!

The roof trusses are on!

More framing

The latest house pictures. This is kinda my house journal.


My amazing husband:

The rest of our awesome crew:

Figuring out how to lift the wall:

And up it goes....

And up...

And up!

The Brodester is pretty good at finding all of the dropped nails - he and his brother are good little workers! :)

He's pretty good at this house stuff. :)

I think he's excited to be here.

The front of the garage - that beam looked crazy heavy!

And it's up! We now have a super tall garage!

The rooms

These latest pictures are mostly for my mom, who has been away helping out my sister who just had a baby, and the sister who just had a baby, cuz they haven't seen any of this.

The kitchen and dining room, which because we changed our stairs, shrunk by 9 inches compared to the original plan. That's why you don't change your plan - you never know what else will change!

This is a bathroom, and behind it is a bedroom. This is to the right as you walk in the front door, and if you were looking at it from this angle, the kitchen is to the left.

The master bath (it's pretty hard to tell what anything is when it looks like this!). To the left is the shower and toilet and the closet. The master stuff is all to the left when you walk in the front door. I'm standing in the bedroom for this picture.

The roof trusses are here - they frame the garage tomorrow and should have the roof put together this week:

House Update

The walls are going up! I haven't posted any pics for a couple of weeks, so here are a bunch!

This is after the storm - it's pretty slimy down there.

Doug, our amazing contractor. :)

Jared, our amazing help!

Loving the tall basement!

The Brodester checking it all out

Just thought this was cute (father and son moment)

Another father and sons moment

And the front:

And the front a few days later:

An we have walls!! The two windows in the corner are above the kitchen sink.

The very end on the left is our closet and on the right it's the bathroom. In the middle is the master bedroom.

The dining room and the kitchen

The view from the living room

The back. The window on the very left is the kitchen window, the next three are dining room, and the next three are the living room. Then it's the master bedroom with two windows and master bathroom window above the tub.

And the front so far:

More house pics & an update

The latest house pictures! These won't be interesting to anyone but me, but this is a journal of sorts so that's why they're here. :)

The forms for the basement walls!

And...we have walls!

Yesterday we went out for dinner for my dad's birthday. Clark got home later so he didn't make it. Happy Birthday dad! :)

Gavin was so funny - he was loving his mint as you can see in the pic - he just kept rubbing it on his tongue. Haha I love this kid!

Clark is home so I had to give up the truck. My car is fixed now though so at least I have a vehicle. I started using the neighbor's driveway to get back to our parking because our driveway takes four-wheel drive or a truck. So sick. I thought I moved to town and that meant paved streets, but our driveway is worse than the gravel roads I grew up driving on. Probably because there's no gravel in it! I guess mud bogging is kind of fun. :)

In case you don't live here, this is why my driveway is a mudhole:

And my man brushing off the truck this morning:

Clark's cousin is getting married this weekend, so we've got our fingers crossed that the sun comes out!