Vermont City Marathon

May 24, 2009

Start Off Slow Then Taper Off 

(Dad, Uncle Pete, Shawn, Shelley & Spuds)
~vs.~
We're Not Fat We're Husky 

(Selena, Doug, Michael, Aaron & Jeff)

This year, we were back to two teams for the marathon relay. We split the teams into what we thought were fair and pretty equal - boy, we couldn't have been more right on!

The day started out a bit chilly and rainy, and the first leg was off - Dad and Selena.  

Selena came in just a few minutes before Dad - letting Doug take a tiny lead before Pete for the second leg. Pete says he could see Doug for most of the run, but just couldn't catch him.

Doug handed off to Michael, who was off for the third and longest leg at 6.6 miles.
Pete couldn't find Shawn at the handoff ... come to find out, he had had his shorts on backwards and ducked behind a tree to fix them! But after the shorts were fixed, Shawn was off to try and catch Michael.
He didn't catch him, but made up a minute or two and the handoff for the fourth leg stayed in order: Michael to Aaron a couple of minutes before Shawn to Shelley.  

We're not sure where or when it happened, but Shelley passed Aaron at some point during this leg ... neither of them realized it! So Shelley made the switch for their team to take the lead and handed off to Spuds only a minute or two before Aaron came in to hand off to Jeff.
Here's where it gets good!
Jeff made up the distance and caught up to Spuds - he was trying to stay behind him, but his strides were a bit bigger than Spuds, so he passed him. Once Spuds noticed this, he knew he had no choice but to draft off of him. As they entered the park area, we saw this, knowing the win would go to whoever didn't kick it into the finish too early and had more in them in the end.  

Spuds says he saw Jeff start to pick it up and he held off for a bit, knowing he would tire himself out too much. He lost a little distance, but once he picked it up for the finish, made up those seconds and pushed it in, trying his best to catch him ... Jeff finished .............. then Spuds finished ONLY 11 seconds after!!!!!!! What a race!!!

(Next year Spuds ... next year!)

(Most of the two teams ... missing are Michael and Doug)

29 Weeks!!

May 22, 2009

Here we are at 29 weeks ... time seems to be going by fast now.  It will go even faster after next week - I have my 30 week appointment which starts the every-two-week appointments for 6 weeks!

Here is the usual photo along with a front view which a few people have requested - no big growth spurts over these two weeks.

27 Weeks

May 8th 2009

Well, at 27 weeks, I'm still feeling great ... or at least thought I was until my appointment this afternoon.  The nurse weighed me, and then had me go to another scale in another room to weigh me again.  She couldn't believe that I had gained 12 pounds since my last appointment 5 weeks ago!  I felt like I had grown a bit, but my goodness!  The doctor came in and couldn't believe it either ... she checked my feet and ankles to see if they were swollen (they're not), and looked me up and down wondering where it all went.  I told her it may be a big baby, but when she measured, I was exactly 27cm (which is right on for the way they measure - a cm for each week).  She was perplexed and thought there had to be a mistake, but I was there for both weighings and saw it with my own two eyes.  I guess reading through the blog I posted just before this, it MUST be the creemees! HA!

Here's the picture showing the growth since the last one two weeks ago.

(Man, now I could go for a creemee ... guess I need to find a local spot here in Manchester for some!)

Sheila in Vermont / Aaron in Milwaukee

April 24th - May 3rd

Aaron had to go to a training in Milwaukee this week, so we decided to set it up where he flew in and out of Burlington so I could spend the week at home. Time seemed to fly by, but I got to spend time with family and friends.

It's that time of year when the snack bars open - so before Aaron headed out of town, we hit up our favorite Big Hoss Dog House for some grub and enjoyed some creemees. These were the smalls my mom and dad ordered!!


I watched the Maple Festival parade with the Senesac clan ... and had the festival goodies I was craving - sugar on snow, fried bread dough and some maple cotton candy! The kids enjoyed the parade, and got SO much candy it was falling out of Anna's pockets and overflowing Selena's purse! They loved it when Nanny, who walked in the parade for the Elks, dumped a bunch of lollipops in front of them - they were cute when they stood up and started handing them out to other kids around them.

I finished a wedding invite job while I was home. Then I designed and finished some invitations for Cathryn's upcoming First Communion. 

I spent an afternoon with my old friend Kelly and her two kids; got together with Shelley and Angi (Thomas) for a dinner in Burlington; a Thai dinner with Colleen; and a lunch with Selena and her boys. Here's a couple of cute pictures of Matthew - he wanted to eat the lemon, so I took before and after pictures!

The weather was a bit strange - in the 80s at the beginning of the week, rainy and in the 50s in the middle, and then about 60 and sunny toward the end. We got some outside time with the Smith kiddos on Saturday morning.


When Aaron got back into town, we took AnnaBeans out to lunch at Big Hoss - it's a regular thing for her and I, and I had promised her at Christmastime that we would hit it up when the weather was nice. We enjoyed a lunch with the little comedian and then, of course, some creemees. (Yes, I highly enjoy creemees, and had even hit up Dukes for some during the week - once with Selena and once with Spuds!)

It was a fun week and great to see everyone, as always!