Just an update on us

Claire is now 8 months old and just the brightest piece of sunshine that ever lived! She is enjoying her adventures around our house and can stay entertained while we watch her from the couch. It is always so fun to come home to her happy smiling face and I love how she jumps for joy by kicking her legs. She is still working on making noise and I'm still trying her to get to say mama, but I can see her starting to understand things! I will tell her to not pull my hair and she gets mad at me for saying no to her so she is definitely understanding how to get her way.

We try to get out of the house at least once a day because she needs more adventure than our little apartment can give now. Luckily its getting warmer outside and we can go for walks easier than having to get up to the indoor track. Speaking of which, the past few weeks have been rough on the work out goals because of traveling, inconvenient weather or circumstance, and not planning ahead. I was doing really well when the semester was in full swing and being motivated but things can get crazy really fast! I realize how much I like having a predictable life and a schedule every week.

Still keeping up with my half marathon training even though I did miss my last two long runs that I do on Saturdays. I need to get back into my groove and get outside to enjoy the sunshine and run for the enjoyment of running because that is when I do the best. I love that I have improved and can run a good paced mile and longer races without too much trouble on the treadmill but outside I'm not as good keeping my pace the same.

This break from school for Chris is always weird because it is so short we didn't plan to do anything exciting and feels too long at the same time. Being idol and not having goals gives us free time that we don't always know what to do with and we have to come up with things to do together. We don't like a lot of the same kind of TV shows and it is hard to find one that we will both watch and enjoy, but now that we have VidAngel we have so many more options! I'm so excited they figured out a way to work with Netflix and other streaming services so there is more to watch.