Daniel, April, Austin, and Owen Kowallis
Owen's Birth
Our newborn baby boy
Friday, June 10, 2011
Austins walking
So for the last ew months Austin has been walking around holding our fingers, as most babies do. I have been encouraging him to let go, but he just hasn't felt the need too. The past month I have only been holding one hand, which of course he walks in circles, but he has been doing really well. Still not wanting to let go of the hand though. This past week he finally did it. Befroe we might have been able to get him to take one step and really a lunge, but now he is taking 4 of 5 steps! So we finally have a walkin man! I haven't been worried about his time frame, he just seems to want to but never had the confidence to let go of anything. Now he enjoys going back and forth between mommy and daddy. It's has become his way of getting out his extra energy before bed. I am so proud of him. Now we just need him to stand up then walk instead of waiting for everyone to stand him up and let him go. It'e exciting becasue we go to the park every week for play group and with the weather being hot, so is the ground, so crawling isn't working for him so well. It isn't fun when you really want to explore but your burning your hands. So this will open up all new possibilities. Way to go Austin! Mommy and Daddy are so proud!
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Triathlon
I did my first sprint triathlon on May 21st 2011. It wasn't a full sprint becasue the swim was only 150yds instead of 750yds, but I did it none the less. My goal is that one year after each of my children are born I will do some culminating physical event. This year it was this triathlon. Which I think I might do every year as a bonus just because it was a lot of fun. I want to tri a full sprint traithlon, a half marathon as my events in the future. If at the very least I will do a 5k, depending on what is going on around the year timing.
This TRI was put on by the Riverside Stake and the cost was free. I was planning on doing one in Rancho Cucamonga in June, but we were told about this one and the price was right especially for our circumstances right now, so I couldn't pass it up. It gave me only 8 weeks to train in those events, but my total time was 4 minutes faster that I was aiming for, so I feel good pretty good about it.
Of course I had my wonderful husband and my cute baby boy to cheer me on. Although Austin slept for about 40 minutes of it, and played with the caution tape outlining the course, I am sure he was doing his part so I wouldn't get lost, more than cheering for me. I loved having there support, especially since there were other things they could have been doing (like sleeping in a few minutes more). We got some pictures but more video. I will try to put them up once I figure it out. (sorry I'm not technically savvy)
I was so grateful that I was actually fit enough to participate. Granted I wasn't in the shape I was hoping to be in. I ended up having a swollen knee for 4 days prior the event. Luckily it felt great on that day. I think the swim in the cold water helped clear it up too. I started slow on the run jsut to warm up a little more, but ended up keeping my regular pace and going faster than training on the bike. I was prepared to take it easy if needed but my knee felt great! I felt great! I was so relieved because I had been working so hard and really wanted to do this. I only hope that the website guy will actually post our times. I want to see how I panned out and where I need to work towards timewise. He still has 2009 times on the the 2010 and 2011 websites.
This TRI was put on by the Riverside Stake and the cost was free. I was planning on doing one in Rancho Cucamonga in June, but we were told about this one and the price was right especially for our circumstances right now, so I couldn't pass it up. It gave me only 8 weeks to train in those events, but my total time was 4 minutes faster that I was aiming for, so I feel good pretty good about it.
Of course I had my wonderful husband and my cute baby boy to cheer me on. Although Austin slept for about 40 minutes of it, and played with the caution tape outlining the course, I am sure he was doing his part so I wouldn't get lost, more than cheering for me. I loved having there support, especially since there were other things they could have been doing (like sleeping in a few minutes more). We got some pictures but more video. I will try to put them up once I figure it out. (sorry I'm not technically savvy)
I was so grateful that I was actually fit enough to participate. Granted I wasn't in the shape I was hoping to be in. I ended up having a swollen knee for 4 days prior the event. Luckily it felt great on that day. I think the swim in the cold water helped clear it up too. I started slow on the run jsut to warm up a little more, but ended up keeping my regular pace and going faster than training on the bike. I was prepared to take it easy if needed but my knee felt great! I felt great! I was so relieved because I had been working so hard and really wanted to do this. I only hope that the website guy will actually post our times. I want to see how I panned out and where I need to work towards timewise. He still has 2009 times on the the 2010 and 2011 websites.
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