8 Months 7 Days: Happy Two Years!

Yesterday was our two year anniversary!  Yay!  Two years went by so quickly.  I love you hubby!

So I took another "mini" vacation this weekend-worked a half day last Wednesday and then was off through Monday.  First day of classes is today, and audition sign-ups have been up since Friday...so of course some of the faculty started freaking out how I was going to be gone Friday, even though NO ONE comes in.  The chair wanted me to hire a temp for that one day; I suggested having a Department Assistant come in for that day since they know the music department better than a stranger, and thankfully a DA agreed to come in.  I found out yesterday NO ONE came in.  So all that drama over nothing.  Sigh.

Anyway, I had a wonderful long weekend though!  Here we go, recap in photos of the last couple weeks:

Saturday, August 23

In preparation for the Disney 10K, I've been running during the week at the gym and then around the neighborhood on weekends with Miles.  Before Rochester, I ran 5 miles for the first time, and then when I got back I was able to run a little more than 4 miles (not very fast, but at least I didn't stop!).  Yay!

Sleepy pup in his sun spot-he really enjoys our runs

Miles finally let Leif touch him!

Kisses for Miles

 That weekend my friend Christina drove up from San Diego to celebrate her birthday with her family, and she invited us to come out.  Leif wasn't his usual calm self, but he at least smiled for the camera!

After dinner at BJs, we stopped by Rocket Fizz, a fun candy-soda shop.  They had this crazy alien by the door, and Leif was fascinated by it!  I wrote on my Facebook how if aliens visited Earth, Leif would make a great ambassador (very French, with kisses and such...).

Thursday, August 28

So we've been letting Leif roam a little more around the apartment since now he likes to stand at the baby gate in the living room and whine.

He loves the door stopper

One happy baby

 Having the day off, we decided to have an adventure and drive down to Long Beach to see the infamous large rubber ducky.  We were a little skeptical as we drove into a very industrial area, but then we saw the large head and knew we were in the right place.

Not very impressed...

After the quick duck visit, we stopped by the Korean Friendship Bell in Long Beach.  No one was around, so this was a great opportunity for Leif to experience grass for the first time!

Happy baby! 

We were all starving so we found a Mexican restaurant on the water and had a late lunch.

Leif ate all his pouch food!

 Since we had no other plans, we stopped by a few parks on the beach so that hubs could take photos of the "large waves" due to the crazy weather (so....there were no crazy waves unfortunately).  But Leif had fun on a baby swing!

He isn't smiling in this photo, but he was having a great time.

Friday, August 29

I tried spending some quality time with the family since I had to drive down to Anaheim that afternoon to check in for the Disney 10K!  More photos of Leif being very curious about Miles, and Miles actually holding still.

So the Disney 10K sold out within about three hours, but Christina was able to buy a bib.  A week later she said she'd run the 10K through a charity which her work donated money for, so she gave me her bib.  When she picked the bibs up, she was able to just give me one with her name.  Yay!

On the way into the expo

Woohoo!

After the expo we decided to sit by the pool of our hotel and relax.  We had one happy hour drink, then an early dinner.  It felt like we were in Hawaii on vacation!

Saturday, August 30

Race day!  The previous night was the first night being away from Leif, and I thought it could go two ways: either I'd sleep peacefully through the night, or I'd wake up every few hours.  Well, the latter sort of happened: first I couldn't fall asleep right away, and then I tossed and turned all night.  I think I got maybe two hours straight of sleep?  We woke up at 3:15am to get ready and caught the 4am shuttle to Disneyland.  I wish I had more sleep, but I figured the adrenaline would get me through the run.

We arrived at the running area around 4:30am, and sat around waiting since the race didn't start until 5:30am.

Everyone had a letter to hang out in a corral, A-E...I was in letter E.  This is my view of the front, the lineup behind us was just as ridiculously long.  Over 10,000 people signed up for the 10K alone!

Here is my route!  

Quickest selfie in front of the castle ever

And I did it!  I ran the whole thing with a quick stop at mile marker 1-they have cute signs up for every mile, and we thought about taking a photo but there was a line!  So we ended up running the entire thing; I went ahead around mile 2.5 and waited for Christina after crossing the finish line.

This is my friend from marching band!  He was in my very first squad.  He lives in Seattle but he flew down with his partner to do the race!  

Mile 6 was in Downtown Disney; we ended up snapping a photo before they took down the sign on our way out.

We did it!!  I love the shirts they gave us-they're dry fit!  I sweat soooo much, but you couldn't tell in those awesome shirts.

At the end everyone got medals which I thought was pretty awesome (and deserving...for how much they charge to run, you'd think they would give you admission or discount admission to the parks...but nope.)  Every run has a theme, and this one was "Stitch"-thus the Stitch T-shirts and the medal was of Stitch!

The nice thing about running so early is you have the rest of the day to do anything you want.  It took me about an hour and fifteen to drive home (pretty much a work commute!) and after relaxing at home for a little bit, we decided to try a new burger place to have an early anniversary celebration.  :)

Bricks!  They were pretty good, but for the price, we don't know if we'll go back

Later I received a text photo from Christina of her dog with her ears on...so I decided to do the same. Mwuahahahaha.  He was very good and still for this photo!

Sunday, August 31

Look at this beauty!  It's CLU's baritone saxophone, but I'll be playing it mostly with a quartet set up by our orchestra/wind teacher.  It plays so prettttty.

What better way to celebrate the Puyallup Fair abroad than by making Fair Scones?  Thanks Mom/Nana!  I sure do miss the Puyallup Fair...maybe we'll go to the Los Angeles Fair when it cools down (please cool down!).

The rest of Sunday we went grocery shopping and hung out at home.  It was too hot to do anything!

Monday, September 1

We were super lazy bums...at least I went for a three mile run with Miles and Leif in the morning, but that was about it.

Every time we come home from a run, Miles sprints all around the apartment as if he had been locked up all day.  But then he passes out for the rest of the day.  We caught him in an awkward position...

Monday was Fuss Day for this guy...he threw fits left and right!  And forget rocking him to sleep for naps, he was not having it.  Poor guy, we think he was teething and having some growing pains.

Tuesday, September 2

Back to work, sigh.  Day went by fast though, and was happy to pick up Leif after work.  But it took almost two hours to get home due to accidents and traffic.  I seriously can't wait to move.

He loves standing at the baby gate, but most of the time he just wants to go beyond the gate.

Love this little face.

And for our two year anniversary, hubs bought me flowers which he brought after his first day of his new class.  Such a sweetheart.

So I've got the running bug now and I'm going to start looking for runs that include strollers and/or dogs!  I'm NOT running a marathon no matter what, but I will be doing up to 10Ks now!  :)