Weekend

Despite the somber nature of my previous post, we actually had a really nice weekend.  Casey has done well on his antibiotics so we have high hopes of avoiding surgery/blindness.  In addition, my husband and I spent some time discussing a "living will" of sorts for Casey so that we are all on the same page no matter which one of us takes him to the vet.  Lastly, we had some preparation discussions with the kids.
On the lighter note, my husband took me out for my birthday on Friday.  He took me to a restaurant located up on the mountain peak overlooking the city.  We had not dined at the restaurant since we first moved to the area so it was a treat!

Lastly, I ran my half marathon this morning!  The weather was beatutiful and the race was awesome!  As usual, I went out too fast the first half of the race and paid for it the last couple of miles.  In the future when I train I probably will train over the race mileage by 25% or so in order to account for the fact that I always go out too fast.  While I don't have my official time yet, I believe I came in somewhere right around 2hrs and beat my previous time of 2:07 from the half marathon I did back in 2001.  I can't wait to find out my official time to know for sure.  The best part of the race was having my husband and kids there to cheer.  There was nothing sweeter than hearing the voices of my two older kids hollering, "Go mommy!" when running and hearing "Mommy, you did GREAT!" after crossing the finish line. I'd love it if someday we did races as a family...wouldn't that be wonderful!?!  Here we are after the race.  I look pretty rough!  My daughter delicately stated to me after we got home, "Mommy, you look dirty and messy so please go take a bath".   I was happy to obey. ;)