Active Weekend

We had a busy weekend running around. Saturday, the Little Gym had their "Open House". If you ask Tony, he would describe it in one word "CHAOS". They had vendors set up outside, but nothing that really interested us this time around. So, we headed inside to let Daniel play a little. You can just imagine how crazy it was inside with kids of all different ages running around doing their own things. The older kids were trampling on the little ones so that was a little crazy. He had fun showing his Daddy a few of the things he has learned.

We took last weekend off from running when the weather got bad and Daniel had a cold. This weekend, we jumped back into it. We ran about 4 miles on Friday, 5.5 on Saturday and 6 miles on Sunday! Saturday and Sunday, we let Daniel pick the route by telling us which park he wanted to go to. Sunday was tough with lots of hills, but we made it somehow! Overall, we had a nice weekend and had fun with the kids!

Running and more running

Well we put some more miles under our belt this weekend with 4 miles Friday, 5.8 miles Saturday and 6.1 miles Sunday. We didn't quite make 6 miles Saturday as planned, but I had to cut Tony a little slack since he had to get back to the house to mow the yard...wasn't that nice of me? We like running through different neighborhoods, but we seem to get a little "lost" lately. It seems that there are a lot of dead ends around here and it's easy to get turned around. I'm starting to think we need to get this GPS. Maybe that's a good birthday present for Tony in October... oh wait...didn't he already get some fancy Playstation 3 this month?? Hmmm...
Well much to Daniel's delight, we hit 3 different parks today and he got to see the ducks.

Peek a boo!
We can't forget the sleeping princess...
Practicing a little balance beam for class...

Checking out the ducks.

Tomorrow is another day...and another run!

Park Hopping isn't just for Disney!

When Tony and I got married eons ago, we used to run on the weekends. Over the years, we got busy or lazy or maybe a little of both and stopped running. We recently started running again on the weekends and at least for now, we're enjoying it. We put the kids in the double jogging stroller and head out on various paths. When we choose a route, we try to find at least one park for Daniel to play at which gives us a nice break and it's fun for him! Tony has been working from home on Fridays, so we've added early Friday morning to the mix as well. We started out running 3 miles each time and then went up to 4 miles. This past weekend, we ran 4 miles on Friday, 6.2 miles on Saturday and 6.4 miles on Sunday. We are running through different neighborhoods which keeps it interesting...but we've also been known to get a little lost! Here's our water girl making sure we stay hydrated...
Each of the parks have been a little different so Daniel has fun! He has names for each park like the green park, blue park, park with the hello (a thing you can talk into and it echos).

Last weekend, it turned into a little bit of a nature run as we saw a frog (the biggest frog we've ever seen...and a graceful hopper he was not), 2 rabbits and 3 ducks!

Can't wait to see where this weekend takes us on our running journey!