It's mah Baby Momma's burfday...

The light of my life, my world, my everything......she's lucky to have me.    HA.  I'm truly blessed to have her in my life and that she puts up with my shit.

She's been doing some pintrest projects and had a bunch of little wooden letters laying around.  I made this for her to wake up to this morning.

As it's her birthday, we are going to dinner tonight and I will probably over eat and then not want to workout.  So....I got up and did a 2 mile jog (had 4 on the schedule) and then swam 1600m (had 1800 on the schedule).  My time for the 1600m was 27:25.  I was flying today (not on purpose).  I was going through the water with ease, breathing was on point, smooth strokes.....it all came together.  It'll probably fall apart on Friday for my next swim....but today was what I needed.

My buddy and co-mentor JFord is giving away a hydration pack on his blog.  Click the big words to enter.  Tell em Brad sent you.  He'll know what you mean.

HYDRATION PACK GIVE AWAY

 

 

Also....last night, the 7 year old wanted to do her own "home improvment project".  I got 2 scrap 2x4's, cut them and made a "frame".  What we are going to do is mount it to the house, outside, and put little flowers on it.  It's like a plant frame.  She wanted it pink, so daddy went to Home Depot and got pink spray paint for it.  By the time I got home from there and finished it all up, it was 9p.  I was supposed to do 3:00 on the bike, but settled for 2:30.  Watched the movie Sinister.....HOLY CRAP!....and then watched another episode of FireFly...then called it a night since I was getting up earlier to 'Do Work' this morning.

 

 

Wood Filler

Sanding


 

 Painting

 

 

 



It's Mah (daughters) Burfday

Today is J-Bird's 7th birthday.  There have been lots of things that have happened in the last 7 years.  Some good, some bad.....but I can't believe where we've come in this life.  7 years ago, my wife and I welcomed in a bundle of joy.  She's been a great kid.  She's smart, she's funny, she's a she-devil, she's hard headed, she's cute, she's uncoordinated, she's healthy and she's all girl!!!  I can't believe that we have a 7 year old.

On the day she was born (at approx. 7:30pm) she didn't want to come out.  She flat refused.  There were some complications including, at one point, where she had positioned herself on the umbilical cord and wasn't breathing.  Then....when she came out (which she was 9lbs....do the math) she was stuck in the canal....to the point that a nurse was almost on top of Annie shoving down on her stomach....and when she came out she wasn't breathing.  I was not able to cut the cord, but as I was a new dad and had never witnessed child birth, I had no idea something was horribly wrong.  The Dr. and the nurses were so calm.  We found out later all that was going on....and why it was dire.  Jili also had had something called Shoulder Dystocia (Find out more) which can be fatal and have long lasting effects.  That's how scary it was to find out what all had happened and how truly lucky we are.

Last night Annie and I rigged her door with a balloon avalanche and this morning I got her donuts and put a candle in one of them.  We sang happy birthday and catered to her wants this morning.  At lunch, we're going to surprise her for lunch too.

Pintrest Idea.....balloon avalanche

Last night was a short 1:00 trainer ride, followed by 3x10 resistance exercises and 200 crunches.

Tonight (after dinner....Jili's choice of course) is a run followed by my crunches....need 300+ a day to get the goal.



Total crunches:  2200