Beeson Family with Grandpa Pete and Grandma Neola
Well, sorry it has been so long since our last post. There have been many times that I have thought about sitting down and updating friends and families, then those thoughts pass fleetingly by as I hurry Jack to the bathroom or ice down RJ's latest boo-boo.
We had a wonderful visit to Denver over Spring Break to Lance's grandparents, Pete and Neola as well as his Aunt Connie. It was cold but despite that the boys had fun playing with their cousin Connor. It was so nice to see Pete and Neola doing so well.
A couple of months ago Lance decided that we should do a duathalon. It was in Portland, we would make a weekend of it and it would be fun. I was shocked that Lance actually wanted to do any form of exercise so I readily agreed despite my working 11 to 12 days out of each 14 day span since the first of the year. the good thing was that we were able to write out a check in full for the costs of our new coming son, that bad part was a lack of time to train properly for the race, but I figured I was in good enough shape from my daily runs however to get me by. I guess I was wrong! Despite running my 5K heats in under 28 minutes (which is pretty fast for this slow methodical former marathoner) I was still almost last in the entire race! I got passed by every single person out there on the bike, no lie. I was absolutely the last person to come off the bike in the entire race! Talk about a little embarrassing, luckily I was able to catch a few people on the last run but I wasn't expecting to do so poorly on the bike. I mean there were much older people, even much younger people and a few people that hardly fit on their bikes, just fly by me like I was standing still! I guess I need a little more practice than just one 10 miler in the last 3 years on my bike if I ever expect to get any better. Lance did well for his first race ever and I think it has encouraged him to keep going, which I find great, because if you know Lance at all, you know how long it has actually been since he did any form of exercise and I am very proud of him for choosing a race and a goal and sticking to the training and doing it! You go big guy!
The race also gave us an excuse to get away to Portland and see some old friends, eat some good food and go see the Blazers vs Lakers game. I thought it was a lot of fun and it made me long for our "big city" days and got us both thinking about possibly moving to a bigger city again someday so we can have those opportunities to do those type of things again.
The boys had a very nice and exciting weekend as well. They got to spend the night at Grandma Jamie's. They had a great time watching movies, doing Easter crafts and going to Easter Egg Hunts. We do so love to having Jamelyn (Lance's mother) so close by and we do not know how we got along without her before. She is so wonderful with the boys and they love her so, it is truly a blessing to have her so near. We feel so blessed to have our familes so close by, I personally feel so blessed by all the things the Lord has chosen to bestow upon me. It actually brought me to tears this morning as I sat in church, singing his praises and thinking of how good God has been to me and my family and I hope all that read this can say the same.
Well, stay tuned, I am going to try so hard to post more often. We are started our 6-9 month wait for Trey (that is the name we have all decided on for Teepop, as RJ made me very aware that Cooper rhymed with pooper so that was not a very god name). So hopefully we will be going back to Thailand soon to get our new addition.
