It's written in chalk in France!

I got a message from Nike today that my message has been written in chalk along the Tour de France! If you look at the bottom of the picture, it shows you the coordinates. Sweeettttt........

Insanity PART TWO

Remember a blog post way back in April about my Insane life at the time? Well, I officially completed Insanity (the 60 day workout program straight from Hell). I accomplished my goal of completing it. It was hard. And sweaty. But I survived. I dropped inches (quite a few) and pounds (could be more) but I still long for my favorite jeans to fit just right. So....Insanity Part Two started on 7/10. 54 more days to go. The best quote from this workout program goes like this: I'm not trying to hurt you, I'm only trying to make you better. Sweet.

So, since I just patted myself on the back for finishing Insanity, I thought I'd break down and show you some "before" pictures and some "after" pictures (Jay is participating in Insanity Part Two, and I didn't want to leave Ella out, so I'll share all of our "before" pictures....

HAHA. Gotcha!

Celebrity this Baby!

So a few weeks ago now, I was reading a magazine on the bus to work and came across a little blurb about how babies are like celebrities. I thought it was cute, so I'm finally sharing (I know I've been sort of lacking in blog updates). Here goes:

• People are always taking pictures of them
• Girls loves to talk about how cute they are
• Hitting the bottle is just how they roll
• They have a personal driver, a chef AND a stylist...and
• Naked pictures!

HA!

So, I thought I'd catch a few pics of Ms. Ella celeb-style.

So....who's your baby celebrity?! Don't you love those glasses!

Tour de France - Write a message!

Hey, so Lance Armstrong is racing his final Tour de France (I think maybe he's in 4th place right now?) Anyway, LiveSTRONG is working with Nike via a robot that is writing messages along the roads in France that the bikers are taking. People can submit a message via the link below, and if that message is written (in chalk, by the robot, in FRANCE!) they take a satellite pic of the message & email it to you. Cool right? I've already submitted a message for Jay in honor of the 5 year cancer-free mark. I'm working on a few more. It only takes a few seconds to submit. Try it!
http://www.livestrong.org/chalkbot

Happy 4th of July!

6.20.2010

Does anyone remember what they were doing 5 years ago on 6.20.2005? Well, most likely not, unless it was your birthday or wedding or some other special occassion. For us, 6.20.2005 was the day we heard some very good news - Jay was cancer free. That year of our lives (2005) seems like so long ago, but at the same time, in some ways it feels like yesterday. I don't remember all of the details of the day, but I do remember waiting with Jay in the dr. office room...waiting....and waiting....for the dr. to come in and share the results of his latest blood work and CT scan. I remember thinking that since we were waiting for so long that the news might not be good. I was nervous and stressed but was trying to be brave and strong so that we could deal with whatever words were going to come out of Dr. Ducker's mouth.

And finally we heard those sweet sweet words of "cancer free"

WOW. Five years ago today. The first half of 2005 was a rough rough year (while we were planning a wedding no less!), but it was an experience that brought us closer together and made us really examine our lives and what was important to us. Don't ever take anyone or anything for granted. Live and learn. Be brave. Do hard things. And (our favorite) LiveSTRONG.

p.s. This photo was "after cancer" taken in July 2005

One year pictures

We ventured up to Baxter/Brainerd this weekend to visit our friends Steve & Gretchen (and family). Gretchen took Ella's one year pictures! Ella wasn't in the best of picture-taking moods, but Gretchen was able to capture some of those cute expressions that we love. See some more shots at Gretchen's photography blog: http://www.gretchenennis.blogspot.com/