Gladiator Assault Challenge

About two months ago Chris found a groupon for a adventure type race. We looked into it and decided, why not? To be honest, I was pretty nervous. I have been saying for a while now that I wanted to get into racing. But I have always had a excuse, I was trying to get pregnant, I was pregnant, don't have someone to watch my kids, etc. So finally I decided that I needed to just sign up for some races and then I didn't have a choice. And since we could get a deal on this one (we love groupon!) we just couldn't pass it up. And we had so much fun! The course was 6.5 miles with 35 obstacles. We were hoping for warm weather since we have been having a really nice spring lately, but of course that didn't happen. It was 38 degrees! And about 5 minutes into the course you go down a tarp into a pond, so pretty much you are wet for the entire race. We were so cold! I don't think I have ever been that cold. So although we had a ton of fun, it probably would have been a little more fun if it had been even 10 degrees warmer. Anyways, the obstacles ranged from climbing over walls or hurdles, rope courses, going through ponds and rivers, and of course a ton of mud. In one mud pit I unfortunately found the deep spot and was stuck in much up to my chest. Good thing Chris was there to pull me out! Here are some pics, please be kind because I definitely am not looking my best.





We had so much fun! I am so glad I got to do my first race with Chris. He stuck with me the whole time so that he could help me with some of the obstacles. Now I need to start gearing up for our triathlon we are doing in May.

My Mini Diaper Drive

I just wanted to thank those of you who donated to my diaper drive. In January I decided I wanted to do a little diaper drive. I had recently heard that some moms have to ration the amount of diaper's they use which causes them to only let their child have one diaper a day. Can you imagine? There are many government assistance programs for food, health insurance, etc., but there is nothing for diapers. We all know that diapers get expensive very quickly so I decided I wanted to do something to help. I figured the Milwaukee Woman's Center would be the perfect place to donate these diapers. And they were more than happy to take them! So thank you for donating! I really appreciate it and I know the moms and kids at the Center appreciate it also. I am thinking that I will do this again next year so hopefully I will be able to donate a little bit more. This time we got around 800 diapers! Maybe we can make it 1000 next year?

Crazy Crazy Crazy

Sonja just started doing this cute crazy head thing. It is so funny so I had to post these videos. I posted both of them even though they are pretty much the same thing because I love how you can see how much she loves to watch Drake. They are so cute together!

My Kiddos.....

Car Show, etc.

Life has been pretty boring around here. It seems like we have been busy, but when I think about it, I don't really know what I have done. Does that happen to anyone else? Anyways, a couple weeks ago we took Drake to the car show. Chris took Drake last year and Drake loved it so when we saw a Groupon for it again, we knew we had to it again. Once again Drake had a blast, but all he wanted to do was sit in the red cars. None of the other cars were cool enough I guess. Chris and I also looked around and all we kept thinking was "one day .....".

Cheese!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Look at that crazy hair!

At the car show they were letting the kids drive these little cars around. Drake was so excited. But he did really understand that he had to stay in a certain area. I looked down to get my camera out and when I looked up, Drake was about to crash through the little fence they had up. Oops. So that is why you see Chris walking next to Drake, he had to make sure Drake didn't drive all crazy.