This weekend Jeremy and I were probably the busiest we've been on a weekend for a long time! Saturday wasn't quite so hectic, but we did spend a lot of our day either in the grocery store or in the mall. We considered catching a movie, but knew that Sunday would be absolutely insane so we just hung out at home Saturday night.
Sunday began super early for us - 4:45am!! I can't say that I've ever seen what a Sunday looks like at 4:45am, and now that I've seen it I'm ok with not ever seeing it again! Anyway, we had to get up so ridiculously early because....drumroll please....we were running a 5km race! Jeremy and I had signed up for the George Washington Parkway Classic waaaay back, and after a few months of running regularly (actually, it was mostly irregularly) it was finally time to race! We've had absolutely beautiful weather here lately - sunny, deliciously warm and sometimes even hot - and then, wouldn't you know it, Sunday was cold and overcast. The race started down by the water, so for a good hour or so Jeremy and I got to enjoy the wind and the cold that large bodies of water usually bring. Standing there in my shorts and long sleeve tech shirt I felt severely underdressed, and wished that I had the sense to dress like a giant banana like one of our fellow runners! Finally, everyone moved to the starting line and we were off! We took the run really slow, as I had not been running very well recently and I wanted to make sure I ran the whole thing. Thank goodness we did start out slow, because it meant that we could blow past all the people who had started out too fast! It felt so good to be running and actually PASSING people! I'm probably the least athletic person I know and here I was, running 5km on a cold, nasty Sunday morning for FUN! And it really was fun - I'm so glad we did it and I'm so excited to push myself even harder in May when we run our 10km race. We ended up coming 588th & 589th out of 867 people. I wasn't too happy with our time - a pitiful 34:55 - but I felt really good at the end, almost like I could do it all over again. Next time we'll beat the pants off that time! They had professional photographers there taking pics of people as they crossed the finish line, so keep your eyes peeled and I'll post those pics once we get them.
After our race we quickly grabbed some food (they had yummy bagels and granola bars and fruit) and dashed back home to relax for an hour or two before we had to head back out again. Jeremy had scored free tickets to a baseball game - the Washington Nationals were playing the Chicago Cubs! Being that he's from Chicago, Jeremy's team is the Cubs so of course we couldn't pass up free tickets! The weather was still pretty miserable, but luckily the tickets we had allowed us access to the "Club" level, so we escaped inside and sat by the bar instead of freezing our butts off outside. Here are a couple of pics...nothing too exciting.
At the entrance to the new, fancy Nationals stadium
Hanging out inside at the bar
Our view
Jeremy's teams' logo spray-painted onto some guys head!
On our way out
Then, after the ballgame, we headed back home to feed the dogs and then it was back out to meet my girlfriend Melyssa and a couple of other people for dinner at PF Changs. After catching up and enjoying a delicious meal, we finally made it home for good at about 9:30pm. Whew! We were both so exhausted, we decided to live life on the edge and sleep in till 5:45am Monday morning (instead of the 4:45 that we usually wake up at), and then it was back to work as usual.
Other than our super-busy weekend we haven't been to busy lately. Now that we're homeowners we've been trying to cut back our spending a little, which means we don't go out quite as much as we used to. Over the last month we've still managed to fit in Marisa's birthday party, a few dinners out and a round of mini-golf, and we've enjoyed many a margarita on our balcony now that we've got a grill and outdoor setting.
This weekend we're planning on having a nice dinner to celebrate our 1-year anniversary. Can you believe it's been one whole year already??! It seems like only yesterday we were up at Maleny praying that it wouldn't rain! I guess it's true that time flies when you're having fun - this year has certainly been wonderful and exciting, and I'm so happy!! Life is definitely good for me right now - I have the most handsome and kind and loving husband in the world, a beautiful house and two annoying dogs! What more could a girl ask for?!
