Easter Weekend + Spontaneous Duathlon

Easter this year was pretty low key. I did an Easter basket for Caden which included a new board book and some Easter eggs with mini Nilla wafers and Teddy Grahams. I had a hard time trying to find an Easter basket that I thought looked decent. They all seemed either too girly or just plain ugly. In fact this basket had a butterfly on it (don't worry, I removed it!).

Here's Caden checking out his Easter goods. He liked the Easter eggs the most and didn't seem that thrilled about the treats inside. He loves Nilla's and Teddy Grahams so I was kind of surprised about that. I don't know why he doesn't have pants on. I can't remember why I waited to put them on! He likes it this way better anyway.

On Saturday I participated in a duathlon with my sis-in-law Amber. I've known Amber since I was about 7 years old. She was the first in-law of the family! Anyway, 4 or 5 days before, Amber had asked me if I was interested so I decided to give it a shot! A duathlon is where you run, bike, and then run again. This particular duathlon was a 5k run, 15 mile bike, and then another 5k run. I knew I could do the running, but the biking part I was a bit nervous about. I don't have a bike and I haven't been training on one at all so I had no idea how that part would go. If you've never been on a road bike, it is a little different than hopping on any ol' bike (at least for me). It had been a good 4 years since I had been on an actual road bike and I only had a few minutes of practice the night before--mostly just getting on and off and switching the gears.

During the race I was petrified of the 2 turn around areas for the bike and I'm amazed I didn't fall off trying to turn--it was too sharp! During the bike ride I also felt me shoe lace catch briefly on the gears so I had to stop and tuck in my shoe laces to avoid a nasty crash. Needless to say, I was quite excited to finish the last turn around and be on my way to running where I knew I couldn't get hurt. Getting off the bike and then trying to get my legs to run was way harder than I had anticipated. Amber even warned me of this, but I didn't really know how it would be until I experienced it for myself. I was laughing at myself because I could barely get my legs to move. Eventually, after like 2 miles, I finally felt a little more normal.

Even though the weather was chilly and a bit rainy, I still had fun and would definitely do it again. I don't have any action pictures, but I promise that I actually did it! Here's a pre-race shot of Amber and myself.

Other randomness...

Here's a cute Caden moment from today: After getting home from the store, Caden started taking out groceries and opening the kitchen cupboard to put them away. Of course they didn't actually end up in the cupboard neatly put away, but were eventually scattered all over the apartment.

You can't tell he's putting them away, but here he is digging through the bag. At the store, the grocery guy commented on how good Caden was and how some kids that come through the store are crying and throwing fits. I was thinking to myself..."I've been in this store before when Caden has made a big scene! And lots of people were looking at me!" I was also thinking that in about 2 minutes when I get to the car I'm going to have to fight Caden getting into his car seat. Ha! Oh well, I'll let the man think my child is an angel all the time.