Birthdays

Marc and I have birthdays two days apart on the calendar - April 3 & 5. Further to be complicated by the fact that this year those dates fell on Good Friday and Easter. Which I suppose if you aren't working for a church, or your wife isn't working for a church it is probably pretty fun dates to have your birthday on. These days/weeks are pretty chaotic. However, for us not so much. We did manage to squeeze in a little bit of celebrating in the midst of the madness - here's to next year when our birthdays aren't during holy week.

Friday after worship we did go out for Marc's birthday, we went to a great wood fire pizza place here in town and then over to Cold Stone for ice cream. Marc's mom and my mom were both in town already and were able to join us for the fun. Marc picked both places to celebrate. Cold Stone even gave him free ice cream, technically I think you are suppose to print off a coupon online or something to get free ice cream but this woman was just nice and gave it to him.

My birthday I was at church from about 5:40 am till about 1:00pm and I was EXHAUSTED afterwards. Marc and my dad had picked up a Dairy Queen peanut butter cup blizzard cake for my birthday. After we had Easter dinner we had blizzard cake for dessert. YUM.

Marc did squeeze away Sunday night to go and see Fast and the Furious 7 with a couple friends - he was anxiously awaiting the movie but with the chaos of the weekend he wasn't able to escape until Sunday night.

We had fun. We celebrated a little bit and rejoiced that we survived Holy Week. Here's to another trip around the sun.




What is your favorite kind of birthday cake?

Bike Trainer

I dream of doing a triathlon  Seriously. I don't know why. Something about the three disciplines at the same race makes me excited to try, a short one, nothing major. My downfall is the bike for sure (granted my bike is from 8th grade so that doesn't help and is not in the best of shape due to the car accident this past spring- that's a whole different story). I can run (not the world's best runner but I can run none the less) and I can swim (I love swimming as well) but my biking is not my strong suit. I don't know why I am not amazing at it but I am not. End story. However I want to be better.

Marc set up his bike trainer in my living room, basically it is his bike on this little gismo that allows you to ride stationary. It is great. So I tried it. My butt hurt about two seconds in. Seriously those seats are NOT made for comfort, yes I know I just need to get used to it. It will be fine, my butt will build up tolerance. I am determined to learn how to bike better. Seems like an elementary skill, but I am just not an amazing biker. So I have vowed to improve, so now I bike in my living room while watching tv or a movie. That makes everything better, watching something that you can sort of space out to. Or it is at least in my mind.

I did order a pair of cycling shoes online the other day and I am hoping this helps some as well. I wore Marc's shoes, which were way too big and my feet sloshed around in them, so new shoes should massively help. Hopefully they fit, or else they go back and I order bigger, either way I think shoes that fit should also improve my experience.

Here is to my butt gaining a tolerance for his bike and slowly but surely learning what I can and cannot do. Someday I will earn a triathlon medal. I will hang it on my wall proudly.


Do you like earning medals?
Do they motivate you?
Have you ever completed a triathlon?