Running in Circles

We booked our tickets!

We are so excited to go to Costa Rica for a week this summer with my whole family. 

We weren't sure if we'd be able to go with the cost of moving and Brice's start date but we got an AWESOME deal on flights- and when I say awesome- like seriously amazing!

 Our flights are cheaper than flying from Utah to California. 

We're flying to Costa Rica for under 500 bucks!

Thanks to Brices' skymiles and TWO trips to India.

So 99 more days! 

My Ramblings...

The last few weeks have sort of dragged on and zoomed by all at the same time. I'll blame it mostly on winter and a rotten case of cabin fever. We've been staying busy enough with school and work for Brice, play-dates, library trips, and learning animals sounds for Hazel, and I stay busy keeping the show running smoothly and well running!

We enjoy hearing good news from friends and family members -- like new babies for Amber and Heidi :) --and are patiently  impatiently awaiting the arrival of my sisters little baby girl. 

The Olympics are on in the background most evenings- but I totally started crying, like crying hard, when Noelle Pikus Pace took the silver medal for the U.S. in the women's skeleton race. Her shout-out to the youth "to remember who you are and what you stand for" was perfect. Watching her jump up to her family in the crowds forced me to wipe mascara off my cheeks!

This last weekend we had cloudy skies but highs in the 50's so we went on walks to the duck pond and hiked the Y. (maybe our last trek up that rail, scratch that- I'm going to plan on us doing it during graduation week.) 

Hazel is getting so good at learning new words and animal sounds/ names are a favorite right now. She knows the sounds for a duck, dog, bear, lion, giraffe, fish, cow, and sheep. We're working on snake and cat this week. For some reason "meow" is really hard for a 16 month old to remember.
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It is official.

Brice accepted a job at Parevida Solutions in Dallas, Texas.

He starts the second week of June.

We're really excited about this being the last semester of our college days and really excited about the future move, new job, new city, new car?!?

We're excited for warm winters, farmers markets, museums, new activities, to be downtown, a new apartment, the Trinity River Forest, and making new friends and new memories.

A few snapshots from the last week...and why yes...they are all of this little girl!

Monday: 11 miles and insanity class

Tuesday: 11 miles in 1:30

Wednesday: 11 miles + 30 minutes ab workout

Thursday: 11 miles total ( 4 outside in the rain)

Friday: 8 miles (intervals)

Saturday: 8 easy miles + ab workout

I think the last few weeks of tough workouts and high running mileage finally caught up to me! My legs felt like cement blocks all week so I decide after Mondays insanity class that this week would be just running! My run outside Thursday evening was perfect- cold, drizzly, and not quite dusk out! Hopefully this next week can be a good one- and hopefully new running kicks will help!

Weekly Total: 60 miles

Miles in 2014: 258