“Sporty” Week

Such a busy week I’ve had!  And of course, it all revolved around my kids and their sports. 😉

Spring hockey is officially over in the Loud Redhead household—woo hoo!  Don’t get me wrong, you all know I love watching my boys play hockey (to a fault, perhaps ;)), but after 10 months of driving all over kingdom come for practices, games, tournaments, etc., I’m ready for my 2-month summer break.  🙂

We had DS#2’s end-of-season hockey party on Wednesday, and that was one of the projects I was working on last week—the CD of photos for each family.  Besides editing and publishing the pictures, I really wanted to have them all tagged with the kids’ names.  Alas, because this team was new to me, I don’t know all the kids by face, gear, skating style, etc., so it proved to be an impossible task.  Instead, I just put all 1000 photos on a disk, sorted by game, and made 15 copies for the parents to cull through at their leisure and search for their kid.  Believe it or not, that’s actually a pretty small amount of pictures for me, compared to what I take during the Fall/Winter season. I felt bad for not personalizing it, but they were all very appreciative nonetheless.

My next project was to do the pictures for DS#1’s team.  For this team, the total is about 3200 pictures. (They had almost twice as many games as the younger kids.)  There’s no way I can fit all those pictures on one DVD, nor would I want to ask parents to go through all of them, searching for their kid, so I’ve spent every spare moment of my life tagging these photos for the last week.  I finally finished tonight—yay!!  Now I just need to make an individualized DVD for each family, but since we don’t have our party scheduled yet, I’m ahead of the game on that one. 🙂

Besides all those picture projects, we had a hockey tournament this past weekend for DS#1, as well as a ton of baseball.  In fact, in the four days between Thursday and Sunday, that poor kid had three hockey games and three baseball games!  He even played catcher for 4 innings in the hot sun!  But he was a trooper and never complained.  He actually had a pretty good weekend, too…well, unless you count the little “incident” with a referee during game one.

 

He and the ref had quite a conversation after he supposedly punched a kid from the other team (I was right there, he didn’t punch anyone…it was just a light tap at best. ;)) I told him no more arguing with the ref. 😛

On Sunday, he had a baseball double-header, and he played very well.  He is not the greatest baseball player, and for some reason, he’s very insecure when he’s at bat.  He “goes down looking” a lot because he is so hesitant to swing at the ball.  On Sunday, though, he found some gumption:  he hit a single, a double, and had two RBIs!  The double was especially impressive—he really slugged it!

 

 

I keep telling him that he has the power to be a Prince Fielder if he’d just swing the bat.  I think he’s starting to believe me.  He was quite happy on Sunday. 🙂

With all this talk about my kids’ sports, you might wonder if I’ve been doing anything to keep in shape.  Heck yeah, I have!  As a matter of fact, this girl knocked a major milestone off her list last Saturday morning:

 

 

Ten miles, baby!  My first double-digit run!!  My pace is hard to gauge, because I had to do the first 5 on the treadmill while I waited for my husband to get home, but it doesn’t really matter, because the point is—I ran 10 miles!  My knee was sore, but not enough to stop me.  After I was done, I had to rush to the ball field for a 9am game, and then I had to drive 67 miles (one way) to a tournament hockey game.  It was a long day, let me tell you.  But I enjoyed my “treats” afterwards.

 

 

On Monday, I had a hard time getting out of bed at 6am.  I had quite the internal struggle before I finally dragged myself downstairs to run.  And after all that, I ended up having one of the best runs of my life!

 

 

Four miles at a 9:26!!  That’s almost my best four-mile run, but considering my best run (9:24 pace) was pre-knee-injury, I think I did pretty darn well.  When I was done, I did that thing I always think I’m going to do when I’m trying to finish a run, but rarely do in actuality:

 

 

Yep, I collapsed on the grass in front of my house. Thank goodness it was early and none of my neighbors were up to see me. 😉

If you’re curious to see how my weight has fared this week, well, don’t get too excited:

 

 

Yippee. I lost a whole 4/10ths of a pound. *eyeroll*  I’m still struggling mentally with the stupid scale, but I feel good (dare I say, even thin!), so I’m going to just let it go for a while and maybe wait 2 or 3 weeks before I weigh myself again.  I need to stop focusing on the number, you know?

I still have one more project I’m working on (yes, pictures!), and then I’ll tackle my next big project: my blog!  I’ve got a few planned updates that I’m kind of excited about, but they’re not quite ready for prime time yet. 😉  You’ll all be the first to know when they are!

Thanks for reading and for all the support!