Running My Little Tail Off!

So much for trying to update my blog more often huh? Well, here's an update...

After registering to run the St. Jude's Memphis half marathon, I have finally gotten serious about my training. I went and bought a Nike+ to run with, and that has really helped. It clips on my shoe, and the other part plugs into my iPod. While I run it tells me how far I have gone, and what my time is. I have been running 4 days a week, and strength training on the other days. I also purchased a new pair of running shoes at the Easy Runner store. I am up to 3 miles in about 34 minutes. I would like to shave off about 4 minutes, so I can run my next 5k in 30 minutes. I am registered to run the Easter Seals Walk With Me 5k on Sept. 12th. If you would like to support me in my run and help the children at Easter Seals who are living with disabilities you can donate on my Easter Seals webpage.

In other news, Laura started at the salon this week. She is doing a great job and providing me a lot of help keeping the salon clean, answering phones, and making appointments. I feel so lucky to have her and Kate as my co-workers. I can already tell she will fit right in!

After several weekends of digging up monkey grass and dead bushes on our flower beds, Gary and several other guys got started tilling our yard and laying sod yesterday. They worked from 7am till 8pm! 4 pallets of sod, 2 tillers, and 2 boxes of pizza later, it looks amazing! Today we got supplies for the flower beds, and got 2 of the 3 planted. We are almost done, come tomorrow evening, everything will be finished! All their hard work has paid off, it makes our home look so nice. I am so proud of all the weeks of hard work he put in to finishing this project. Maybe I will have some good before and after pictures to post soon!

Memphis here I come...

I am going to try and be better about updating my blog. 2 in a row, that's a start huh?

I had a busy day at work today. The weekends end too quick! Came home and cooked dinner. I got to use a lot of my new Pampered Chef stuff, so that was fun! After dinner I met Lyndsey and Brooke for coffee. Got to hear all about Lyndsey's honeymoon and new job. I'm so happy for her!

When I got back, Gary and I went to the gym. I haven't run in 3 weeks. I ran on the treadmill, not as good as running outside, but I did use incline. I did 3 miles, but my time was no where near where I would like it to be. To motivate myself, when I came home I went ahead and registered for the the St. Jude's Memphis Half-Marathon on Dec. 5th. Now it's real, so I have to train, right?

Our new bathroom!

Our bathroom it pretty much finished. We are just waiting on our shower door to come in and then it will be complete! We love it, it is SO much better! What do you think?

We found out the Kroger in the shopping center where the salon is will be expanding soon. Therefore, we have to find a new location. We went to check out a space this morning in Park Hill. I love the location, but it will be a lot of work and money getting set up. I have mixed emotions, part of me is excited, but part of me is disappointed. After all the work on the location we are at now, all the money we just paid back, we are back at square one. Oh well, I know it will all work out. Laura takes her state boards tomorrow, so she will be working full time very soon. I am really excited about that.

Went to yoga tonight with Meghan and my mom. We did 20 different back bends. I have a feeling I am going to be very sore tomorrow. Gotta get serious about my half marathon training soon!