It's May?

I cannot believe that April is already over. The weather has just now started to improve. We had some random days of nice weather in April, but for the most part they were gloomy, rainy and chilly. We had Easter dinner with my parents and Grandma on Saturday of Easter weekend. On Easter we went to my in-laws and had homemade Pizza. I liked this a whole lot more then your traditional Easter dinner.

I started a little garden, in my kitchen. I purchased a few little buckets and some seeds. I found out that I cannot plant any sort of garden outside, in the ground or in pots on the patio, so my ideas of planting tomatoes and cucumbers outside were quickly ruined - better to have found out before I purchased everything. So I'll stick with my little garden inside. I have strawberries in one pot, basil and oregano in another, chives in one, and the last one to have been planted is cilantro. So far so good, I say that as I knock on wood, I planted the seeds on a Monday and by Friday the basil and oregano were already starting to show through the dirt. The chives were taken from my parents yard, so they were ready to go.



My little garden about a week and a half after being planted.




Basil and Oregano about 3 weeks after being planted.

Last weekend, Matt was out of town, he went up to Madison with a group of guys for a Bike Camp Weekend. You can read more about on his blog - http://ironmancona.blogspot.com/ I spent the weekend at home, enjoying the quiet, well the little bit on Saturday before the storms. Saturday afternoon, we had a few thunderstorm cells roll through the area. They didn't even seem to be that bad, we've definitely had worse. I was at my parents house Saturday afternoon around 3:30pm we were out back in their sun room watching the Cubs game, and heard a loud noise and the TV went out, we figured it was the power. After realizing it wasn't, my dad went to check their computer and as he walked by their front windows he says "the tree" and so we go to check it out, and the tree in their front yard was struck by lightening. It looked really cool, we agreed that we would like to have seen it happen, since everything was fine (well, everything except for the TV in the sun room, is fine.) Unfortunatly, I do not have any pictures, yet.

My office has decided to start doing some events in the community, the first one was March for Babies, March of Dimes 5k. It was last Sunday at Busse Woods. It started of quite cold and about half way in it started to rain, and then the rain picked up. We were pretty soaked by the time it ended, but all agreed that it was a great event and that we would like to continue to do more. The March of Dimes is a great organization and I am glad I was able to help support them.

This weekends weather has been perfect, mid 60's and sunny. It doesn't get much better then this, especially after the weeks of cold and gloom. The rest of May and early June is a bit busier for us. Next weekend is Mothers Day weekend, then Matt is doing a Half Marathon, the following is Memorial Day weekend (already? really, time is flying) and we're hoping to get down to Bloomington to spend sometime with Doug, Amy and the kids, then June is here. The second weekend of June, we are road-tripping it to Kansas, for Ironman Kansas 70.3. Yes, Kansas in tornado season, you cannot beat that kind of excitement. The goal for Ironman Kansas is to get a spot to compete in the Half Ironman World Championship in Clearwater, Florida in November. We're going to go through Iowa to get there, I'm hoping for a detour to see the Bridges of Madison County, we'll spend 3 nights in Kansas and then come home through Missouri. After that it is exactly 13 weeks until Ironman Madison. I cannot believe how close it is. Matt has been spending a lot of time on his bike. We'll know in just 19 quick weeks if the dream of competing in the Hawaiian Ironman - World Championship is a reality.