excuse the mess

working on a theme for a client and need a place to work out the glitches… so, the site will look crazy over the next hour or two.

Web Hosting for Devin

Devin, here is a good hosting company that is having a great deal ($4.95 a month) and you get your first domain free.

Asher’s Photography

So, the other day I gave Asher my old digital camera and he went crazy.  He loves taking pictures.  I decided to start a photo blog for him to post his work for the world to see.

He takes a lot of pictures, so I’ll try to keep it updated with a new picture each day.

Also, I’m still tweeking the page design, but I thought I’d go ahead and share it with everyone…

Enjoy: Asher’s Photo Blog - Life through the lens of a 3 year old.

Almost home

Almost home

Originally uploaded by w ryan burns

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The Mommy Suit

I forgot my bathingsuit. Now that we’re in a hotel with a pool (& one that i feel ok to walk around barefoot in) we decided this was a problem. Since my bathingsuit is technically ‘broken’ anyway, we decided it would be acceptable to run by target & buy a new one.

1) It has become increasingly more difficult to find non-bikini’s that are not uber-ugly or uber low-cut (i can only assume the designers are trying to fix the problem of tankini’s being somewhat modest by making them cover as little cleavage as possible).

2) Try as I might to prove my opinion wrong, conventional one-piece bathingsuits just don’t look right on me.

So after trying on about 5 suits….I settled on a “swim dress”. I only picked it up as a half-joke, but it ended up being pretty cute (ryan verified). Even as I was putting it on I said to ryan, “nothing says “I’m a mommy’ like the bathingsuit skirt”. To which he replied, “but you ARE a mommy”. While I definitely think this suit is not your typical “mommy/old lady swim dress”….it clearly says “swim dress” on the label. There goes any thread of hope that perhaps i’m still clinging to coolness.

Here’s hoping that I actually get to use it this weekend, now that we went through all that.

On the plane

Part II of the Burns mini-vacation video.

Airport and beer.

Airport and beer.

Originally uploaded by w ryan burns

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Gettin Ready to Pump (clap) You Up.

With my SNL reference out of the way, here is the deal.  Thanks to Joe Thorn I decided to take the 100 push up challenge.

Much to my surprise I cranked out 20 consecutive push ups.

Anyone want to join the challenge?

Jenn’s Running Stats

For those who’ve been missing them since we removed them from the blog, Jenn’s running stats are now back on the sidebar.

Back on the Wagon

or is it off? i can never remember.

A few months back, in regards to running, I hit a brick wall of reality that made me realize perhaps running the 2009 Disney marathon was not quite an attainable goal due to limited training time (I’m just NOT willing to run @ 5am so i have time to cross train after to keep my knees & back ’safe’…i just want to run & stretch. The end.) & knee pain when i pass 10miles a week (+/-). Not attainable yet anyway…. there’s always the nebulous “someday when…”

This also coincided with my Nike+ stats being removed from the blog…suddenly I found myself running much less….i apparently am highly responsive to external motivation. Then it all fizzled when I decided to take 2 weeks off completely to test to see if some nagging back pain was related (it is not)…this stretched to nearly 4wks. Last week i finally got off my bum & headed back on the road. I’m not gonna lie. it was NOT fun. It was a major chore. i was sad, thinking that i was pretty sure i remembered being rather fond of the sport in recent history…

Then this week I gave up trying to run with the kids in the jogging stroller & getting my lazy bum out of bed on time to run in the morning. not sure if it was the alone time, the fact that i had a week of running back under my belt, the fact that it’s physically easier to run without pushing 2 children in a stroller or all of the above….but this week has been fun again. In fact, each of the 3 runs were progressively more enjoyable. Culminating in today’s just over 4mi run that i honestly didn’t want to end when i rounded the corner towards my house. The first mile always stinks & i think about stopping to walk…but that magic 2nd mile hits & all is well with my soul. I won’t go into details about the feeling, but it was great. makes me want to run tomorrow. But i think i’ll be kind to my knees and wait till monday.

I also tried to incorporate a few posture tips from the Marathon Training guys…haven’t heard a whisper from my knees all week…think i may look into reading a ‘chi running’ book….i’d heard of it before but never really been in the mood for sifting through pseudo-spiritual athletics.

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