someone just called me!!

 sometimes this whole blogger thing drives me crazy.  the formatting is too tricky.  ok, so not really, it doesn't have to be, but i am lazy.  so all of these photos loaded in reverse order and also in messed up order. so reversed messed up order.  the above photo is of me and mountain biking world champion, world cup winner and olympian catharine pendrel!she is totally bad ass and adorable (how is that possible?) and overall super awesome.  this past weekend was the annual LUNA summit in Ca where we all go down for a weekend of fun, lectures, workouts and hanging with the girls.  catharine came to seattle a few years back and lead us through a great mountain bike clinic at duthie.  it was so great to see her!

i got to share a room with this un named individual which was a super treat since she moved to the deep south.  on sunday after the long run, her friend came to pick us up and we went to lunch.  after lunch, we went and sat on a bench at sports basement for over an hour, loitering, waiting for the time to pass.  eventually it was time for me to go to the airport, and while in the parking lot, i mapped out the route to the airport and so did this lemon drop drinker.  i said turn right out of the parking lot, she said turn left.  i was like, well she did live here for like a hundred years so she probably knows what is going on so i shut the hell up and said i'd take a nap.  in a little bit, there were hugs and good byes and i was dropped at the airport.  i walked in, they drove off.  i went to the kiosk to check in but i couldn't find my flight, how odd!  and then it hit me!  i called the drinker and asked "am i at SFO?" to which she replied - "yes!" to which i responded "but i fly out of Oakland!" to which she screamed "turn around!!"  they speed back, picked me up and good thing that fancy car had some sport suspension and a former world cup winning pro cyclist driving it, because they got me to Oakland with plenty of time to spare!  whew!! after we landed and were waiting at seatac airport for our ride, i saved the day!!  a group of HS volley ball players got stuck on the escalator!!  one of the girls got her shoe laces stuck and everyone was piling up on her and it was crazy and very reminiscient of when sirus got stuck in the escalator.  that was much more horrible because we weren't paying attention and just walked away while the escalator was chewing him up, terrible parents!!  so this time, i dropped my stuff, found the big red emergency stop button and pushed it! an alarm rang, it stopped and then the girls thanked me and thanked me.  hooray!

i also got to hang out with danelle kabush.  she too is awesome.  she went to UW so she is familiar with our area, and she has two adorable little kids!!  her daughter is so cute that one time i showed sirus a photo and he gasped and if i remember correctly told me that he loved that little girl.  so funny.  danelle is a super runner and a kick ass mountain biker, and xterra racer.  one of the fun parts of going to the big xterra races is getting to see her, but since we have been out of it for a while, it was great to catch up this weekend!

and of course got to hang with shonny vanlandingham.  if you don't know who she is then you need to do some googling. she coached me through 2 xterra national championships and xterra worlds.  i learned so much from her and accomplished more than i ever thought i could!  plus she is very funny and quite beautiful, too!

London Bronze medalist Georgia Gould let me not only touch her medal, but she let me hold it!!  although i think in this photo she is like, okokok, you can give it back now!  georgia, too, is very funny, it must be a requirement to be on the team and of course she is one fast lady!!

and lastly but not leastly, Marla Streb let me hang on her for a little bit. we talked costa rica, social media, the pros and cons of pinterest, crazy times of our youth and dirtworld.com. 

my mom got a slide reader thing, so she is converting all of those old slides into digital images.  here is one of me.  and look!  you can see my mot!!  and that is my teddy bear blanket and that might be my don king baby, but i'm not sure.  the funny thing about that teddy bear blanket is that when i was in high school, i became friends with a guy named shane.  he went to a different school and he had a funny last name, and when i told my mom about him she was like - oh my goodness!!  apparently, his parents had given me that teddy bear blanket as a baby gift when i was born.  funny.

here is my head on april 1.  i've been going to the healing center every monday and this is what it looked like on monday.  grody, right?  but this was significantly better than the prior week.  but still gross.

we went out to yakima for easter.  it really is the best time to go there and the kids have so much fun.  there was egg rolling or course, but they actually had more fun throwing the eggs this year than rolling them. 

eric got a kite and we spent all easter weekend chasing the wind.  yakima is always windy but not this particular weekend.  finally on the drive home we stopped at a rest stop and found a little bit of wind.  it was an amazingly beautiful day, the snow covered mountains were amazing, although you can only see a tiny sliver of them in the below photo.  but the best part was when the kite actually went up into the air, the kids would run around below it screaming and chasing it.  it was so funny and almost like some involuntary response.

this is at eric's parents' house.  sirus went down the hill to find some of the thrown eggs that didn't break up as much as they were supposed to.  he was throwing them more and stomping on them.  those little black dots waaaay in the back ground are some of the loudest cows ever! and if you look closely and if i wasn't so lazy and would mark it out, you could see where we went on our run earlier in the morning.  i love running and biking in eastern washington!  we even caused a stampede of baby sheep!  the live stock does not trust the runners!

the egg rolling hill!  multiple tracks this year, with a jump and a tunnel even!

 

by the time you have come to this photo you have already maybe noticed that my hair is significantly shorter.  the other week at the healing center the head was terrible.  there was gore all over the place.  they finally said that yes, a buzz cut would probably be a good idea.  so right after the appointment i called up eric, and he met met a Rudy's Barber Shop in Redmond. the girl wasn't so sure, sounded like she had some very unhappy buzz cut customers before but whatever.  it was fine.  i did go around and point at the different guys who were there and was like, i don't want to look like him, or him, or him, and i turned to the cute guy behind the cash register and was like and i don't want to look like you either.  so she shaved it all off and this is what i got!!  within two days the wound on top of my head was significantly better!

we finally put up our bird feeder!!  it drives fuzy crazy!!  it took a really long time for the birds to finally come, but now that they found us, they come every day!

holy crap we had a snow storm!!  i was like two days after spring started and it was the only snow storm of the 2012-2013 winterish season!  in a matter of a few hours there were inches of crazy snow and then later that day it was all sunny and gone.  crazy!

infectious waste bin at the healing center.  totally artistic through instagram, of course.

AMAZING simmer from Evolution Fresh.  omg, i love that place. i want it in my kitchen.

the cats are cuddling!!  all three are actually touching!!  i see fuzy feet on seamus mccat arse!!

my beautiful little girl.  love her, can't beleive she is 9!

yeah, so this is gross, this is what my head was looking like before it was buzzed.  this was on a good day before it opened up yet again from yoga (which i have now stopped doing), but totally gross, right?