Danville Half Marathon

 Jon and I ran a half marathon today in Danville. It's the first half marathon he has run and he did so amazing! I convinced my friend Jana to run and she also kicked my butt! 

 Here we all are starting out....I did the rookie mistake and started out way to fast and by mile six I was regretting it. It's so hard though to hang back with all the adrenaline and nerves.  

 Our wonderful friends Ben and Anisha came with us to the race which was early and about an hour away. They watched Opal while we ran. Luckily there was a nice path that they took a walk on an a farmers market close by that they passed the time at. I'm pretty sure Opal thinks Anisha is her second mom.

 The race was an out and back so Jon and I got to see each other around mile 5 for me and mile 7 for him. I yelled, "Hi honey! Good job!" There were two guys running in front of him and they both smiled and waved thinking I was talking to them.

 Running 13.1 miles is HARD! I could barley stand up straight let alone run towards the end. I remember hitting mile 10 and thinking...."you've got to be kidding me I can't do three more!" 

 So my time was around two hours and sixteen minutes....we haven't gotten our official times yet. I didn't  make my goal which was to beat my San Jose half marathon time: 2:09. But hey, I finished......and I wasn't the last one to do so which was my second goal! Jon finished around one hour and forty minutes........he is so fast! He was like the third or fourth guy to come in.....good job buddy!

I missed my girl after that long run....can't say she really missed me though. So after doing this run Jon and are wondering if are we going to be physically able to do the San Francisco marathon in July. I can't imagine running two of what we ran today....seems impossible. I guess we'll see. 

One happy baby...

Shopping with our little bear

I forgot to bring the carrier into the grocery store and Opal was so bundled up that she was stiff enough to sit in the cart.....first time ever.

Yosemite

So like I said before we went down with our good friends Ben and Anisha and their little boy Max to Yosemite a couple of weekends ago. On Saturday we did an awesome hike through the sequoias.

The reason I'm standing so funny is I threw my back out a couple hours before we left....and decided to go anyway. In hindsight.....probably wasn't the best idea to go camping let alone hiking, but I didn't want to pass up the opportunity!

This was a pretty cool tree although it makes me sad that they cut through it like this. I guess they did it a LONG time ago and the tree is still alive so that makes me feel a bit better.

Naughty people carving into the inside of the tree........but it actually looked pretty cool as a whole.

Max was so tired, but we weren't done hiking so Anisha rigged up a bottle holder with her sweater and laid him back as far as he could go so he could take a little snooze.

This tree is called the Faithful Couple. You can't see it very well but the tree splits into two half way up, or two trees grew together.......we don't really know which, but it's pretty cool looking.

Jon and Ben holding the kids

Anisha took a turn holding Max. It was really funny seeing her with this huge backpack and Ben with a little mini one on.

Opal of course slept through the whole thing. I guess that's good but I wish she could have seen some of it. She kind of slumped to the side of the Ergo but Jon was too scared to move her because he didn't want to wake her up.

Check out the base of this tree that had fallen! It's so HUGE!

Our campsite right next to the river.

One sleepy little baby....

...but a happy one.

This is part of her sleeping outfit. I had an additional sleeping sack on her over her bear. She was as stiff as a papoose.

It was so pretty seeing the Yosemite falls.

Me and Anisha.....I love this girl! She was a bit nervous to go camping with Max, but was a total trooper and they both ended up loving it!

Yosemite valley.

This was how Opal slept in the tent. She was bundled up so much she could barley move...is that why she slept so well? Since coming home we have tried to recreate this sleeping situation....but have failed. We dressed her up just like this and opened her window and put on river music, but it didn't work.

Oh man I can't wait to go camping again and get more than two hours of solid sleep!

Max is a big crawler right now which was a little hard because we didn't want him crawling all over the dirt. We sequestered him in our tent, which he tried so hard to get out of, but never succeeded.

I just had to get a picture of all of Opal's cute chins!

Me and Anisha were a little freaked out about bears. There are warnings all over and you have to put all of your food and ANYTHING that has a scent in a heavy duty bear canister. The first night we were there I heard a bear growling right outside our tent. I was momentarily scared out of my mind.......until I realized it was Jon snoring.

Four Months Old......today

I had to get a post run bear picture...

 Opal in action...

 ...am I a bad mother for taking pictures of her tumbling instead of catching her? It was such a cute tumble I couldn't resit.

Opal LOVES talking/yelling/singing...she does it in a really high squeaky voice...I'll have to put a video on soon.

She is very much into grabbing toys and trying to put them in her mouth.

She has starting rolling onto her her side from her back.

...loves laughing out loud and squealing with delight,

sitting in her bumbo with her toys on her tray,

taking naps with mommy in her bed,

and shoving both her hands into her mouth at the same time.

WE LOVE YOU OPAL MAE