Awaiting a Homecoming...

Well, it is now Tuesday and I just wrapped up an amazing weekend with my best friend Heather. We have been fortunate enough to be able to fly to and from Charlotte-Seattle-Dayton-to wherever we may be to spend some quality time together and lucky for us we had just a great girls weekend. She got in on Thursday afternoon with her adorable "hammer" baby boy tummy and left on Monday morning, we were able to just relax and hang out all weekend. Very much needed! Christopher had the opportunity to spend the weekend with his parents which was great for all of them, since he just got back from deployment and it sounds like his dad may be on his way next. :( They left this morning and headed back to Mississippi.
I am on the countdown for Monday--Christopher is coming home on Monday and we will get to spend time together as a married couple! Finally. Five days to go and counting. :) what a wonderful feeling. I am full of excitement for my girls because we are now down to 1.5 months to go until the rest of the boys! Another deployment down.

Spending time with my Hubby in DC

Well, Christopher is in DC and is back from deployment and is getting treatment on his foot for his leishamaniasis. I was fortunate enough to be able to go and visit him this past weekend; I flew out on Thursday and came back on Sunday evening (they lost my bag) and was back to the grind. On Friday we went into downtown DC and hit up the Spy Museum, that was really cool and went over to Shaun and Nickie's for pizza. It was really good to see them and see how well Shaun is doing. I was lucky I got to meet little Trevor! Can we say adorable. :) He is a true Meadows. On Saturday my parents were able to meet up with us and we went and walked around DC to the Monument, White House, Reflection Pond and the new World War II Memorial; that was really neat as well. Then we met up with an old friend Greg McIlvaine and watched Vandi play and then were off to Rock Bottom to watch LSU get stomped by Florida (sorry baby :(...after a long day hit the bed; on Sunday we spent the day in Georgetown and were able to check out the National Cathedral--AMAZING! It is the 4th largest cathedral in the world and has a lot of history. After that hung out by the water and got some Ice Cream. His foot is nasty, but seems to be doing better with the treatment. He has to go in every day for 20 days and get an IV of steroids/antibiotics, it is starting to make him a little sleepy during the day, but the good news is that his swelling has gone down and they believe the sore is getting better and isn't as deep as it used to be. He will be home by the end of October and I cant wait to have him around, just spending three days with him was not enough. That is all I have for now--Heather will be here tomorrow for a visit until Monday! I am looking forward to seeing her and 6 month prego belly! :)

Heading to DC

We found out yesterday that Chris will be staying at Walter Reed for the next 20 days to treat the bacteria that he has in his foot. They have confirmed that it is Leisenmaniasis and he will be undergoing an IV of heavy steroids and antibiotics every morning for the next 20 days and will be watched closely to make sure that it doesn't get into his blood stream and that his organs are not affected as well. I will be heading to DC to see him on Thursday and staying through Sunday; I cant wait to see my husband! And lucky for us my parents may be driving down and staying with my Aunt Chris and Uncle Jack and we will be able to see them this weekend. Chris is doing well and has been fortunate enough to be able to hang out with Shaun all last weekend (who is doing excellent i may add). I am looking forward to a wonderful weekend with Chris, my family and the Meadows.

October Update...

October already! Can you believe it? Well, Christopher is at Walter Reed in DC for his infection and we will find out on Monday whether I will be heading there on Thursday to visit or if he may be coming home and taking care of things here...hopefully he will be able to come home, but the chances are few to none. So we will see, just playing it by ear at this point. Work has been busy and I have been slacking on the work outs, unfortunately I didn't stick to my plan and husband is home a little bit earlier than expected (which don't get me wrong, I am stoked!) but I didn't get to lose the weight I was hoping for. I do have something really special to look forward to this month and that is Heather is coming to visit me on the 16th! So, if Christopher does have to stay in DC we will still have a girls weekend and if he does make it home--we will be able to have a party and celebrate his homecoming together, so either way we win. :)
I am heading to be early so goodnight and have a great week.

My First 5K!

Well, this morning I completed my first 5k run; you would think that being a college athlete i would have mastered this by now, but I haven't. So, today I was proud of myself. I ran it in 26:32, averaging 8:34 miles :) and placed 38th out of the group and 8th in my age group. You know when this excites you, your life must be pretty boring :) I think this just gives me the motivation to continue on, b/c I know that I can do it, its just the getting out to do it is the problem. I owe huge props to my work friends Zia and Jesica who motivated me to do the run in the first place. Without them I would have slept in on this rainy, 47 degree day and never made it to the gym. I gotta say running outside on fun trails is much more exciting than the treadmill. With this being said I am going to look into other 5k's in the area, before it starts getting to cold. Instead of having a goal of completing the 5k running, I now have a goal of beating my time for the next one. Lucky me even got to speak to my husband this morning after my race, since he just happened to call me right after the race. It was nice hearing from him, since it had been awhile. For those of you that know about his foot he is doing okay. They did take a sample and send it off to Walter Reed for further testing; as of right now it looks like he may have leishmaniasis. This is a bacteria carried by disgusting, contaminated sand flies (which they have over there) and they get into sores. So from a mild spider bite to this infected foot, we are hoping they can figure out what it is before anything too serious comes about. Everything should be fine though. Overall, it was a great morning finished my 5k and got to talk to Christopher. :) The rest of the weekend should be eventful, I have a dinner at my DBO's home tonight, joining some friends to watch the Bengals play tomorrow and then off to see Counting Crows and Maroon 5 tomorrow evening. Fun times.

What I have been up to...

Overall, things are going really well with Christopher being away. I have been able to keep my head and stay focused, although my house has been extremely cluttered lately which just goes to show I pop in and pop out and am staying busy. I have just been trying to work out after work, get Kaya out on nice long walks and somewhere in between all of that I am cleaning up the house.

I was able to hit the bed around 9 this past Friday, can you say exhausted, which was awesome because I got some much needed sleep. Saturday we got to have a girls night out (whoo-hoo) which was a blast! We headed over to E9's for a few beers and Karaoke and then off to Masa for some Salsa dancing (i did not salsa) and I have actually forgotten what it was like to be around the male species (yuck). It is sad to say there are a lot of desperate men (boys) out there, either that or we were just lookin' good that night :) After an interesting evening getting home (funny taxi cab story) and being locked out (thank you Jody!!!) I passed out and laid around all day Sunday. Jessi I have posted a picture so you can see my hair, I think I may go darker.

I got to talk to Christopher last night and found out this husband of mine has a nasty bite on his foot from a month ago and now has an infection, so he is heading to get it checked out at the hospital. I was going to post the picture, but I don't think you all need to see it. I will keep everyone posted on the outcome, hopefully it wont be staph.
I didn't work out tonight, but am heading to the gym tomorrow for another fun spin class.

Another day down and one day closer to Christopher being home--its been a long week at work and after a nice long walk with Kaya I felt much better, relaxed.
Relaxed, something I have forgotten how to feel. I am going to focus on doing some things for me and learning how to just relax--I am really enjoying spin on Tuesday nights and am getting a kick butt workout, now if I could just continue to get my butt there the rest of the days. :)
After reading Jessi's blog and seeing that a lot of my former teammates are running triathalons and getting motivated, I feel as though I need to do this for myself as well. I am excited to start a routine and get moving. I will keep you all posted on my progress.