Happy May!

Okay, once again, it has been a while. Busy times still. April was a blur of travel, racing, training and working!
We began the month participating in California 70.3. A 'B' race for us both, ended up being a tough day for me and a good training day for Norman. A few days after the race Norm took off to China for work and I made my way to AZ for Easter weekend. I had a ton of fun hanging out with my Dad and mountian biking with some friends!!! Once back from China, Norm and I were off to Mexico!! There we met a bunch of friends and did the Las Palomas Triathlon, that was a lot of fun!! They had a slip and slide at the finish line AND beer! A fun weekend with great friends! We made it back to CA late Sunday and by Thursday I was in Texas on business. Gail and I had 3 bike skills clinics to coach over the weekend and she loaned me her Felt TT bike to do a sprint Tri that Sunday. After that fun filled weekend I had no voice, full blown laryngitis! So, I returned from TX with no voice for 4 1/2 days, I think Norm actually enjoyed that!

While I was away working in TX Norm ran a marathon and a half marathon on back to back days!! I am not sure how he does that!

The next weekend brings us to May already!! Norm did the OC Marathon and I did the OC 1/2 Marathon on May 3rd. A great course! More work, more training, and on May 9th I got to race my mountain bike! Yay!!

Not much spare time, but we did manage a few date nights here and there and we did get to see "Monsters Vs. Aliens" finally!

Bailee is back on her exercise program and she is very, very happy. Joey, on the other hand, just cannot handle taking walks anymore, so one of us walks Bailee while the other stays home with Joey. We are all very sad about his aging, but he still has a very healthy appetite and loves to play with his blue squeaky ball, so that is his exercise for now.

While in TX, Kevin fixed me a marvelous homemade pizza on wheat flatbread. I have been trying to find a good flatbread and in the meantime have settled for some so-so wheat pitas. Anyway, I took some notes in TX and have begun "make your own pizza night". It is not a weekly event at this point, it still needs perfecting. I have Norm make the sauce and I chop up some fresh veggies, lean meat and grab the shredded mozzarella! Can you guess which pizza is mine and which is Norm's:
Here is the "make your own pizza night" spread:

Next, we are off to MN to see my sister and run in a local race there! So long for now.