I hope everyone had a fantastic weekend, that this week is starting off right, and the day is flying by. Unless you dont want it to fly by, but I seriously doubt anyone wants a loooooooong Monday.
Anyway, Baby Momma and I had our first whole weekend together, ever. So what did we do? Spent it with everyone with hardley any time for ourselves! Dont get me wrong we both loved it, but its funny looking back now on how little time we spent together.
Friday:
After I got home from work we went over to her parent's house and started to flip the third dresser Baby Momma found at garage sales. (For those of you who dont know, Shayna found 3 dressers at garage sales, ecah for $15 or less and we are working on fixing up the last one. #1 went in Emmalyn's room and #2 is in ours as will #3)Saturday:
We are both so used to waking up early, her for work/me for training, that neither of us could sleep in past 8 o'clock! After an amazing breakfast of pancakes, eggs, and BACON!!!!! (hint: I love bacon) we started getting some stuff done around the house. During that times we decided to make a roast in the crock pot for dinner. As we started the prep for it, we realized we were making way too much food for two people, so we invited her family over. Then I remembered that I really wanted to see the new Disney movie Brave. We ended up taking her two youngest sisters (Joley and Kylie) with us. Everyone agreed it was a great movie (Baby Momma and I both started tearing up at the end). After the movie Jo, Ky, and I played Call of Duty together which was pretty darn fun! Once her parents got there we all ate dinner, which was amazing! They also brought over dresser # 2 and we are finishing the knobs on that one before we put pictures up here of it.Sunday:
So after a busy day without much one-on-one time, you'd think we'd have make it a point to get alone time on Sunday right? Wrong! I went out for a long bike ride with a buddy from Strava (the website I upload my GPS data to) pretty early in the morning. More on the ride later. After that Shayna and I worked a little on lining the dresser drawers (a.k.a. she worked on it while I tried to not pass out on the floor). At that point I was starving, so we decided to get some Subway. We ended up having a great lunch with Jen and Camo (my sister and bro-in-law, which I feel I need better nicknames for each of them...) then went over to the Cox's amazing wonderful cool pool! The temp outside was over 100 degrees F, so the water was amazing! We splashed and lounged and floated for a while before we had to leave to make it over to her family's house for dinner over there. Dinner was amazing, and I ended up taking a quick 20 minute power nap in the recliner. That was a bad move, because tasha had a marker...and I sleep like a rock. Naurally when I woke up I had a "L" written on my forehead. Apparently I didnt even flinch! In an attempt to get the baby out, Baby Momma decided to drive the four-wheeler around the neighborhood and find the biggest bumps around. Sadly it did not start the labor process, but we did get to see a foot long black snake!Baby update!
So, as of right now baby is still staying put. However, on Sunday Shayna started feeling what we think are the Braxton-Hicks (I hope I spelled that right...) because they are very infrequent and there are large gaps in between them. She was still having a few as of this morning, but still really far apart. Hopefully they start to get closer so little Emmalyn would get here already! I am super excitied to meet her, but I have to admit that I am still super scared. Baby Momma is ready to meet her daughter too, but I think she is just ready to be not preggo, and who can blame her?So, the bike ride...
Nick and I decided to meet up around 8 am at Rose Hill High School. It was already 80 degrees our and the wind was about 18-20 miles per out of the south. We took off North and went to a road that I had never ridden yet but lots of guys talk about it. And I kid you not it is called "Thunder Road", which makes me think of the movie Grease. Anyone else got "Grease Lighting" stuck in thier heads?Any way, it was a beautiful road, and it wasn't straight! For those of you who dont know, 99% of Kansas roads are either a straight line running North-South or East-West. Once we hit Augusta, we had to turn back South and head into the wind. Normally that wouldnt be terrible because:
A) there were two of us so we could take turns drafting and
B) I have what are called "Aero Bars" that make me more aerodynamic which makes it easier to pedal through the wind.
One minor problem with all that: we were going uphill! ouch. Then by the time we get to the top to start going downhill, we were so tired that we didnt ever go faster than 16 mph because of the headwind! Rough...
11 Miles and 224 feet of climbing later...we hit Douglass. We were both so cooked from fighting the hills and the wind we had to take a quick break before going back to Rose Hill. The ride back wasn't too much easier, we had to fight the crosswind which had shifted into more of a cross-headwind, and we were going up hill again. So now 9 miles and 239 feet of climbing later, we finish. I decided to try and sprint the last hundred yards or so, but the nice tail wind turned it into a long 3/10 of a mile sprint where I topped out at 32 mph going slightly uphill. I sure paid for it after though because I could barely stand up straight in the parking lot!
Total recap for the ride:
80+ degrees F
18-20 MPH winds S to SSW gusting to about 25
36.6 miles
2 hours 13 minutes and 9 seconds
climbing a total of 686 feet
with an average speed of 16.5 MPH, max at 32 MPH.
Have a fantastic week everyone!
Cheers,
Tom
