Last Friday we went to a friends house but we had to stop and pick up stuff for a salad at the store on the way, and Dan wanted something to drink. Well I don't know if any of you watch Celebrity Apprentice but Dan and I started watching it, and we love it! Well the last challenge between Brett Michaels and Holly was to come up with a new Snapple Flavor to support their cause. Low and behold, Iowa actually has it on their shelf, well Brett's Trop*A*Rocka flavor anyway. We had to buy some, and we recommend you all do too it's very good!
....It's official, Dan and I have talked...sorta...and I am headed back to school, Grand View University here in Des Moines. I will be going back for education, I am looking at preschool/Kindergarten with a Special Ed. endorsement. I'm very excited! Now to look for a part time job that I can do while taking classes...not the fun part...but we know God will provide everything we need. We might have to budget a little more, but we both know in the end that it's going to be worth it! I meet with my advisor next Tuesday to look over fall classes, I'm still sort of in shock that 1. I got accepted and 2. That I am actually doing it!
Things at our house are going pretty well, we have enjoyed grilling a lot so far this summer...(Thank you to Dan's brothers and their families, they got us the grill for a wedding gift). Dan and I decided he does all the cooking in the summer and I do all the cooking in the winter. It seems to be a great arrangement so far :) I don't know about some of you out of state but lately Iowa has been pounded with rain. Lucky for us we don't have a basement, so no water there for us, however, we woke up to a waterfall in our bedroom on Sunday morning...I didn't take a picture but I now wish I would have. I was freaking out, out carpet got a little wet, but I think I heard it in time to get towels down. Turns out our gutter had stuff stuck in it, thanks to our neighbors tree. I still think she should have to pay for them to be cleaned out every year considering it's her branch that hangs over our house, or just let us cut if off. Such as life though, Dan got out in the rain (not happily as you can imagine) and cleaned them out. I do have photos of that though, check it below...
Now as for the running, a little background first. In college my junior year during soccer season I started having really bad pain in my Achilles. I had to sleep in casts at night (it was pretty sexy, if I do say so myself) Either way they thought it was because of the heels I would wear all day, as that tends to shorten your Achilles, and then I would workout for two hours at night for soccer, so I was going from having them bunched all day to making them stretch like crazy at night. Well, I'm starting to have it again. Pretty sure its Achilles Tendinitis, which is fine, I can take a break I still have plenty of time to train, I'm up to 7 miles now so that means, I only have...19 more to go. I have until January remember to get ready. 1 week off wont hurt me. This is brought on from what I read anyway, running to far/fast all of a sudden which if you think about it, only three weeks ago I wasn't running at all and now I'm up to 7 miles, so I may have pushed it a little too hard to start with. Also, running on hard surfaces aka the sidewalk..but the grass is way to uneven I would probably twist a knee or something so there isn't much I can change about that. Another thing could be having very tight muscles, which since I hate to stretch doesn't help, however I have gotten a lot better about it. I run my first mile and then I stretch, however I don't think I am getting all the leg muscles stretched like they should. So for this week, I ran last night and did a short 3 mile, but my foot fell asleep and my knees were killing, I think the best choice is for me to take this week off and then pick up again on Monday. I don't want to push over the limit now and and risk further injuring it, and not have the option of recovery, I would rather take a break heal and then get back at it and still have time to train. That's the running update, not what I want or like especially now that I am really starting to enjoy running and pushing myself...I will still do other training just not running this week :)
Buddie is doing well...or so we think...we can't tell if he is in pain or if he just really wants to hang out with us. The other night he insisted on sleeping under the bed instead of in the bed...whatever he wants I guess. He's not as excited about food as he used to be, he hasn't even been eating his ice cream...(like really who does that), but when Dan was eating his ice cream cone Buddie tried to get it. I think sometimes he is just trying to trick us and usually it works with me! He's getting pretty lazy, I don't know if it's because he finally is starting to calm down or if it's that he doesn't feel well, either way we do a lot of cuddling, which I wont complain about. Dan and I find ourselves checking his breathing in the middle of the night though, he usually snores so if we don't hear him snoring we wake up an check on him. Either way, sick or not he always finds a way to make us laugh every night :)That's all the news from our house!
Love the Buchholz 3
Love the Buchholz 3
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