Monday, November 26, 2012

4 Day Weekend and Week 28!

Lots of good, and a little bad in the past week; bad news first.  My Grandpa Jim passed away this past weekend.  He had been battling Parkinson's like symptoms, and overall degeneration of his mental and physical faculties for some time.  I am happy that he is no longer suffering, but sad that I wasn't able to get back to MN to say goodbye and be with family.  I'll miss you Grandpa Jim!

Despite the loss of a loved one, we still have an incredible amount of things to be thankful for!  We ran a Turkey Day 5k for the third year in a row, and celebrated Thanksgiving with our good friends.  Zane, Brendan, Alden and I ran, and Lexi and Alyssa "trotted" together.  We had great weather for the run, and also for the hot tubbin' afterwards!

I also took advantage of the warmer than average temps and got out for some good late season mountain biking!  Zane and I got a great ride in on Friday morning, and then got another solid group ride in on Sunday with Dan, Jesse, and Zane.  The trails could be under 5 feet of snow any day now, so it was great to get out a few last times.

Thanksgiving also brought the arrival of week 28!
 

I had my 28 week appointment this week along with the lovely gestational diabetes test.  It wasn't as bad as I expected but still not fun.  I also found out I've only gained 15 pounds so far which I'm very happy about!  Right on track although I may have indulged a little with all that fabulous Thanksgiving food.  I also get to start going in every 2 weeks for appointments...it will be nice to hear his heartbeat more often but work makes it tough.  Gotta do what ya gotta do! 

Other highlights of the awesome long weekend include hiking with Cali, a nice dinner and the new Bond movie and putting up the X-mas tree and lights on the house. 
Decided to get rid of the table this year.  Tree is a little smaller when it's not shoved in the corner :)
Looking forward to our 3D ultrasound on Wednesday and our 2 year anniversary trip to San Francisco this weekend!

Till next week!
Love,
Andy and Lexi

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