Ragnar Relay

So a few weeks back (Feb 26th and 27th) Tyler and I participated in the Ragnar Relay...a friend of mine from nursing school and church somehow talked me into this crazy race last year in like August! Thanks Eevi...actually it went more like "If anyone's interested in running let me know!" (from her blog) So I responded with an emphatic YES!!! Since running was something I wanted to do to get back in shape after having Lowe and my distance that I ran added up to a half marathon which was something I wanted to do by Lowe's one year birthday...so there...it's done!!!

But this relay was from Prescott to Mesa, AZ. A 202.4 mile run consisting of 36 legs. 12 runners running 3 legs each. It was a pretty cool experience. I mean, how many people can say they've done something this outrageous, oops, I mean fun. Tyler was running number 1 and I was runner number 4. I talked my dad into lending us his 12 seater van and himself as our driver. My older brother Nathan came along for the fun also.

It was all sorts of fun trying to be comfortable being in the van for long long periods of time without really getting a chance to get out and move around. And than when you could, it was all sorts of cold outside!!! But all was going well until Exchange Point 18. This was a major exchange point where we switched from being active and having runners from our van run to the other van for our team being active. But there was a really bad accident where a runner got hit by a car and the race officials shut down 6 legs of the race. The entire race got re-routed to Exchange Point 24 and so that left us trying to figure out how the get 3 legs of running in for each runner on the team. We doubled up on our van's 3rd legs, having runners from our other van run with us. This way, we were done when we thought our van was going to be done on Saturday and the other van's runners got to run 3 times each as well.

It was pretty fun to get to run outside and in such a cool event. My longest leg was 5 miles and I made it!!! Woo hoo to that!!! I just can't believe how hard it was to move after doing this race...Literally it hurt to move at all!!! Thanks again to dad and Nathan for being there for our team and to Eevi for organizing all the fun. Can't wait to do it again next year!!! Hopefully I can be better on the training thing though...

2 Weeks Late...

We were out of town two weeks ago doing the Ragnar Relay...woo hoo to finishing that monster!!! And yes Eevi, we're interested in doing it again next year...well, I should say I am, not sure about Tyler and if we need to fill in runner spots, I'm sure we can convince Tyler's dad and maybe his brother to run with us too.

And now our internet is being way annoying and not working!!! So sorry I haven't posted in two weeks and don't have any more pictures to post just yet since they're on our desktop and there's no way to get the cable to that computer...

So if anyone was wondering, we haven't disappeared off the face of the planet or been eaten by giant squids or anything. Once that darn internet gets working again I'll super post lots of stuff that's been going on around the Goodrich House!

Nothing Much...

So I think I actually managed not to take any pictures this week...at least none that I can think of...so I'm going to post some funny video of Lowe being cute...

We didn't do much this week...I was at work for 4 days, Tyler for 5. So not a lot of time for eachother but we manage to get along ;) Lowe's growing as big as ever and is getting into everything!!! He loves to sit at our back window and watch the dogs run around. Louie makes him laugh and laugh. It's really funny...but as my mom always says: Kids always make liars out of their parents. So true! Every time we try to get Lowe on video or picture doing any of the impressive things that he does. Oh well, we know he can do these silly things!

Lowe somehow got himself into this little basket we have by our back door...silly baby!!! Look at his big belly!!! Yeah to the cutest baby on earth!

Happy Valentine's Day

So yeah to another week survived! To start off, we'll start with the end of the week...or today! Here's a picture of the Valentine's Day cake I made. It's a double layer chocolate cake with homemade cream cheese frosting and strategically placed sprinkles...it was yummy!!! I also made a really yummy roast with a mushroom sauce. We had spinich salad and homemade bread along with it too. Happy Valentine's Day to the two men in my life whom I love more than anything else!!! Tyler and Lowe!

Speaking of Lowe...these pictures kind of go in reverse order...here he is getting his bath a little earlier than normal...

And here's why...we let him help clean up after I made the cream cheese frosting and boy did he clean up that beater...he just transfered all the frosting onto himself!!! It was all over his mouth, his hands, his belly, his legs, his hair, his diaper...etc. It was so funny and cute though to see him copying his father when it came to licking off the beaters. Such a cutie pie!!!

Here's another shot of the messy man...yummy frosting...

Lowe discovered our clothes hamper this week while I was doing laundry. He decided to crawl right on it and it became the best new toy in the world! He played in that thing for over half an hour until I took it away from him. I would move it across the room and he's crawl over to it and climb right back in. He's tip it up so the opening was on the ground and he was sitting up inside. A few days after this, Tyler and Lowe were home and doing more laundry and Lowe got so mad at his daddy for taking the clothes hamper away when they were done with the laundry. Note to self: forget spending tons of money for his first birthday...buy him his own clothes hamper to play in...

So nothing exciting really happened this week that's not Lowe related...he's 10 months old today and I can't believe it. Time has gone by so quickly I can't hardly stand it! Slow down Time and let me have more to spend with my first baby...I only get the first one once!!!

A Day Late

So I finally got Lowe's room done in the last week. I can't really think of anything else exciting that happened!!! So here're some pictures of the finished room...9.5 months late but done!!!

And here's the happy boy helping me do the laundry...silly baby!!!

Yesterday was the super bowl...I made wings, 7 layer dip and some tortilla roll things that were really good. Tyler made some brownies, we mixed butterscotch chips into those...way good. We also had a veggie tray that had some little cheese blocks and tiny sausages. RBC root beer and cream soda also made an appearance...it was all sooo good!!!

Boys Will Be Cute

My mom, sister in law Lori and I went to a quilt show last saturday and Lowe and his cousin Caleb were being super cute and funny. I had to get it on my phone so I could put it up on here. Silly babies!!!

Growing Up Geeky

So I couldn’t wait until Sunday to put up this post…I got this chain of emails this morning and just thought “These are the things my brother do” ahh…what a great family to grow up with!!!

From Ben:
Fam,

When I take breaks from reading legal texts, I play TI Invaders on the computer. Maybe for 10 minutes a day.

Remember all the levels and aliens? Well, here is the lineup of aliens:

Red boxy guys
Blue roundy guys
Green pointy guys
Pogo stick guys
Light-blue wormy guys
Dark green/invisible octopus guys
Purple blobbies

Well, playing the actual TI at home, I never got past the purple blobbies.

Well, I got past the purple blobbies! The next aliens are green flappy bird guys. (see picture)

Anyways, so just in case you needed to know these things.

-BEN

From Ben:
. . . . Now I only wish I could hack into the program to get me a new tank every 2000 points instead of 10,000. . . .then I would live forever!! MWAHAHAHAHAAA!! . .. ..

From Dave:
Cool. And you got there in only 10 minutes of playing? Pretty amazing considering no one got that far when we were kids...

As for hacking the game, maybe you should consult the family software department (Dad). Now, get back to your readings!
--Dave

From Mike:
Nice!!! Maybe try google: “Hacking TI invaders”. I’ve tried to look around on the internet for information on what aliens are on TI invaders but I come up with nada.

Mike

From Nathan:
All you need to do to hack it is get a HEX editor and find where in the game ROM new tank points are defined and change the value. As long as you can do it so that the size of the ROM or it's lenght doesn't change, you can make it what you want.

Really boys?!?!?!? All if this about TI invaders?!?!? What’s next…were more levels to that Atari game where you had to beat that jumping jungle dude at the end to save the girl? You know…the game with the awesome music while you jumped and ducked under rocks and swung across the alligators?...it was my favorite…