Mother's Day

This year was so sweet because I have Ryker in school now where they do fun little projects for the mother's. This last week he came home with this questionnaire he answered about me. I died laughing at how cute it is. I don't know if you can read it, but i'll type it out to make it clear.

 

My moms name is; Ashley

She is: 29 years old and weighs: 900 lbs.

My favorite meal she makes is: Broccoli and Chicken

My least favorite meal she makes is: Shrimp

My favorite thing to do with my mom is: Go on a Cruise

My mom is good at: Exercising

My mom is proud of me because: I clean my room

I love my mom because: she makes me dinner and takes me on rides.

 

Haha I was so tickled by this. Especiallt since and weight 900lbs and am good at exersing. Haha. 

 And painted this for me.

 ...along with this drawing. I felt loved. Such a dear sweet boy.

 Today Jesse had to work, so I got to be single mom today for Mother's Day. And that's ok. It's how it's going to be for the next 20 plus years. There are bound to have some Mother's Days that he won't be around for.

Look at their faces. Don't you just want to squish them? I just love these boys. Even when I don't know what to do with them and wishing I had a manual that told me what to do for them. I just love them to pieces.

This evening I had my family over and I cooked Sunday dinner. I didn't think it was right to have my Mom cook Sunday Dinner on Mother's day. So I took care of it. Which, you know I enjoy cooking. So it was nice.

2014 Splash N Sprint

Yesterday Jesse and I participated in the Triathlon at the South Davis Rec Center. I was so excited about this one because it was Jesse's first triathlon. The past several weeks we have been attending the Masters Swim class at the Rec Center to help us improve our swimming skills. Man, there is way more to swimming that you'd think there was. Sheesh. I'm humbled every time I get in that pool.

 

(Also a big thank you goes out to my brother Tyson and his fiancé for watching our boys so Jesse and I could attend these classes. Thanks guys. Love you).

 

Anyway, my point that I'm trying to get at is how nice it has been to have Jesse and I could go to these classes together (when he isn't working). And afterwards we can talk about what we have improved on and what we need to work on. I love that we can do these things together now that school isn't taking up every spare minute of his time.

 

Friday it down poured several times and we were hoping it would clear out by yesterday morning. But with some grey skies and chilly temperatures it wasn't looking to great. But the show must go on.

 

We all lined up at the edge of the pool. Rolynn and Jesse stayed back at the 12:00 minute group, but I kept telling them they should come up with the 7:00 minute group with me. But they wouldn't. So I started before they did.

 

My swim felt stronger than any of the other swims I had done. I think the class is helping. I usually would get out of the pool totally gassed. But this time I felt so great during the whole thing and came out not feeling gassed at all. It was my fastest swim yet.

 

The weather held out for me ok, by the last mile of the run it started to rain pretty good. But by this point I didn't mind so much. I crossed the finish line and I saw that Jesse was coming in from the bike. He told me that it was hailing so hard during the ride he thought he would be bleeding. Poor thing. And he still had to go run. But he kept with it and finished strong. I was so proud of him. He finished with a time of 1:15:39. That's faster than my first triathlon. How awesome is that? I am so proud of him. And I am looking forward to watching him improve with every race. 

 Timalee was so dear to offer her services to watch our boys while Jesse and I raced. I owe her big time. She was able to get some pictures of us while we were transitioning and finishing. So photo credit to her on this picture. I thought this was a cool one of me putting my finishers medal on. I finished with a time of 1:11:07 and placing 3rd in my age division.

 Post race we were all trying to warm back up from being wet from not swimming, but from the rain and wind. Happy to be there though. And happy to be a part of a great team. I love that Jesse is on it with me now. It's going to be fun doing this together.

 Ryan and I showing off our water bottles we won for placing in our age division.

I found a quote that seemed so applicable for this race day. Yes of course we always want ideal weather conditions when we are racing, but that isn't always the case. We suck it up and do it. And we do it well. "If the word quit is part of your vocabulary, then the word finish is likely not." - B.G. Jett

Despite yucky weather none of us quit. We all finished strong.

9 years...

Wednesday May 7th was our 9th Anniversary. To celebrate Jesse and I went out on a simple date. Our big trip back in February was suppose to be for our anniversary, and both of us just bought new bikes, so we just wanted to keep things small.

 

Our plan was to go to dinner and a movie, but we were kinda early for dinner. We were both starving though. So to make things interesting and fun, we went to dessert first. Haha. Our favorite place to go lately is called YogurtLand. It's by far the yummiest self-serve frozen yogurt place we have had. We are hooked. I have to admit I try not to go more than once a week, but I struggle with that. It's just so scrumptious and kinda guilt free. 

 Once it was time for dinner we went to our go-to favorite restaurant. Mikado. Mmm Mmm Mmmmm. It's always so so good.

 Of course we had to take a picture while we were at dinner. We took several pictures before we took this one. And by this time we were feeling goofy so we have our excited faces on. Haha. This is what 9 years of marriage looks like.

After dinner we went to a movie. It had been so long since we had gone to see a movie that wasn't a kid movie, that we had so many options it was almost hard to pick. But we finally chose to see the new Captain America movie. As we were thinking about it, we are pretty sure we haven't seen a movie in 2014 that was for us, we have gone for the boys. Before kids we were up on all the latest movies, now we are up on all the latest kids movies. A time and a season for everything. And we are in the season of kids.

Even though it was a simple night, it was still very nice to have a night alone with Jesse. I feel very blessed to have him in my life. I would marry him over and over again. Every year with him seems to get sweeter and sweeter. I am so thrilled that we have let our relationship continue to grow stronger and stronger each year. I had a couple of clients mention to me that not very many couples that 9 years now a days. So that made me feel good. We have come a long way together.  9 years ago I only had a small glimpse of how perfect Jesse was for me. I look forward to the years ahead.