Our First Pictures!

We now have a camera! Yes, we purchased our very own! Of course our first pictures are of our beautiful children.....
Polar is always giving kisses, so I thought this was a great picture of him!

This is them sleeping together on the sofa, they have to sit next to me when I am on the computer...just in case something exciting happens.

OFFICER MALAVE (as he likes to be called!)

Pedro modeling his new uniform today! As of today Pedro is officially a Ft. Morgan police officer! We spent most of the day up in Ft. Morgan going through his final hiring paperwork. After that we went to pick up the rest of the things he needed for his uniform. There are a million things for their uniforms. Gun belts, things to hold up your belt, taser holster, gun holster, ankle holsters, flash light holsters,radio holster, baton holsters, pepper spray holster...bullet-proof vests, long-sleeve uniform (which you have to wear a tie with), short-sleeve, winter jacket, and finally a stocking cap. He also got one of those police hat's that nobody likes to wear. We also got a holder for his off duty badge.

For his hiring present I got him his flashlight that he wanted (and needed, they do not provide one). It was a very exciting day!

He also got his schedule for working. He starts on Sunday the 22nd of Feb and then has Monday and Tuesday off. He then works Weds and Thurs but has the WHOLE weekend off! The next week it rotates the days off to days on, and days on to days off. Each week it rotates until the middle of March. This is when he will change to a new training officer, but his schedule will always remain similar. They work 4 days a week of 12-hour shifts and then have every other weekend off. His first month is working the 6am to 6pm shift.

We are very excited for his new job!!

Here is another picture in his uniform, we couldn't have Polar in the picture because he was worried about his white hair!

Great News!

Pedro found out on Tuesday that he got his "conditional" hire, upon passing his physical next week. This is great news!! He has worked very hard and has been very patient trying to get a job doing something he truly wanted to do...so congratulations! We are going to go to dinner sometime, this weekend probably, to celebrate! He thinks he will start around Feb 8th.

Other than that, nothing too exciting on my part. Just working out and training people. This week has been very nice and I even got two bike rides outside, though it seemed that everytime I left the wind picked up. Today we took Stella and Polar to the park to play, the ball launcher thing is the best thing ever!

Anyway, just wanted to give you all an update!

Back to business...

I have been very busy the last few weeks with training, working, training my ladies and basketball. I figured it out and it appears between all of those things I was busy nearly 72hours a week!

However, as of Saturday (yesterday) I have quit my job! I had asked them when I was hired if they would work with my basketball schedule, which they said they would, then this next week I was scheduled to close every single day and work shifts from 9-7 or 10-7. Those schedules do not work well for training my ladies, my workouts and basketball practice. I asked them to change one or two days to open instead of close so I can do basketball practice and they never responded until the end of the week and then they said I needed to put in a request two week before, then they would DECIDE if they would let me have a day that I wanted. I decided that it was ridiculous that they wouldn't change my schedule for something they said they would...so Saturday was my last day.

I am now on week 5 of my training. Last week was a recovery week and today was so nice that I took advantage of the weather (64 degrees) and went for my long bike, of only 2hr 15 min, outside! Then I had a short brick run after. My run speed has been getting faster with my new adjustments in my training, I am hoping that it continues.

My personal fun news is that I got a new watch! It has gps built into it and you know your speed, distance, pace, heart rate while you are running. I know some watches do this when you wear a foot pod but this watch is awesome and because of the gps it is pretty exact. I will figure out how to uplink my runs and bikes with the data the watch downloads to the comp after a run.

Pedro is hoping to hear some good news on Tuesday...so let's keep our fingers crossed! I will update once we hear the news!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We began our New Year at our house with a few of our friends and Kory and Karen. We ate and played Taboo, where Kory and Karen won, to my surprise (and I am sure their's as well). Pedro and I have started off our year with a cold. Maybe it is the drastic changes in the weather, or all of the sick people we keep encountering, whatever it is we hope it goes away quickly!

Every year people make New Years Resolutions. I am not one to do this, because I am constantly making goals and changes, hopefully more for the better than anything. I would say this year we hope that Pedro get's hired for a Police Department and I am hoping for much better times in my races. Pedro is doing all that he can to get hired and I have created my own training plan this year, with hopes of making adjustments to the different type of athlete that I am compared to most. Meaning, most good triathletes come from swim or running backgrounds. Not many of them can say they played college basketball and at one point could bench 225lbs!

Anyway, I hope everyone has an Amazing 2009!

Long time without updating again. I have been busy working and training. I have officially begun Half Ironman training. I am training for a race in Orlando in May. Training for a half seems like a walk in the park compared to the training for a full. However, winter training makes this the worse training ever.

For instance, yesterday because of the cold and wind I had to spend an hour on the treadmill. Then today I had 2 hours on the bike and because I chose to do this ride at night during the Bronco game (which was horrible) I then had to do a short speed run inside. Since, I do not have a tred at home I decided to run the stairs for 20 minutes. Stella and Polar enjoyed this because they could run up and down with me and then at the most in opportune time they would stop right in the middle of the stairs.

Training is going well. I have created my own training plan so we will see how my next race turns out!

Pedro had an adventure, while he was on a "ride-along" with a department a car had rolled over and he had to basically pull the door off to get the driver out of the car. His muscles were put to good use :)

For Christmas we went to Kurt and Dena's house and had 25 some people at their house. Pedro got some of the best presents from my brother, which were ALL New England Patriot related! Too bad both of our teams are out of the playoffs now!

Besides that we have been working and working out. Nothing new there!

Pictures

We have waited awhile to have our film developed. Our camera isn't very good, but the pictures are still quite nice! Here are a few of our favorites from the past few months!