End of January

Hi All-

I can't believe it's already the end of January and you know we have been busy our Christmas tree is still up. LOL

So anyway the last couple of weeks have been stressful to say the least. Brad had found out after a lot of back and forth that he his contract will end on January 30. He's been in a mad scramble to find a job, I suppose the upcoming prospects of the wedding and having kids soon adds some intensity as well. He has had some good leads with some different recruiting companies, so all we can do is cross our fingers and hope for something good to happen.

Brad on Sunday got real sick with some sort of viral infection, he got real dehydrated and was running to the bathroom every 10-15 minutes. We decided to take him to North Memorial and try that hospital out, since we have had awful stories of Methodist Hospital.
This time around we were in and out of the hospital in about 5 hours. I think that's a record for Brad. He stayed home from work for a couple of days, I got a mild case of whatever he had and ended up staying home for one day. I can tell you I've been wanting a day off of work, but not that kind of day off. :-)

In other news, I am in training! Yes you heard right, I am training for the Tactical Strength Challenge in April. What that consists of is deadlifting, pullups and the kettlebell snatches. Now I can tell you I won't be doing any pullups. I wasn't able to do them as a kid there is no way I will be able to do them now. I've been training in kettlebells since August, so about 6 months or so I'm up to 3 days a week. My kettlebell instructor Fawn has been very happy with my progress she even made a video of me overhead pressing a 20kg bell, which I think is 44lbs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4QA_mr2Rp4
Brad is excited that I am doing the TSC as it's called, he will be doing it too. Mostly for the deadlifting. More to come on that subject....

My niece Kamryn celebrated her 1st birthday this weekend. She's starting to get the whole walking thing. Yeah for Kamryn!!!

Grounds hog's day is around the corner I'm hoping that the Groundhog doesn't see his shadow and we get an early spring. I don't know about everyone else, but I am done with winter and want it to be spring.

Have a good week!!
~Amy