14.3

14.3 was the week of March 10th-16th. 

The 14.3 workout was:

For men:

Complete as many reps as possible in 8 minutes of:

135-lb. deadlifts, 10 reps

15 box jumps, 24-inch

185-lb. deadlifts, 15 reps

15 box jumps, 24-inch

225-lb. deadlifts, 20 reps

15 box jumps, 24-inch

275-lb. deadlifts, 25 reps

15 box jumps, 24-inch

315-lb. deadlifts, 30 reps

15 box jumps, 24-inch

365-lb. deadlifts, 35 reps

15 box jumps, 24-inch

For women

Complete as many reps as possible in 8 minutes of:

95-lb. deadlifts, 10 reps

15 box jumps, 20-inch

135-lb. deadlifts, 15 reps

15 box jumps, 20-inch

155-lb. deadlifts, 20 reps

15 box jumps, 20-inch

185-lb. deadlifts, 25 reps

15 box jumps, 20-inch

205-lb. deadlifts, 30 reps

15 box jumps, 20-inch

225-lb. deadlifts, 35 reps

This was by FAR my worst workout! I am not good at deadlifts and I don't like them in workouts, but this particular week even the first round felt heavy! I didn't do a redo... although I probably should have. I ended up with 92 reps so I only got two deadlifts at 185 lbs. I think if I would've even got 99 reps, I would've moved up to 2,416 in this workout and would've been up 230 spots overall in the open. 100 was my goal but I didn't make it. Colt got 138 reps. He got through his eighth rep at 315 lbs. 

Everyone in our gym stepped up on the box jumps. They timed it and it was about the same so they wanted us to just step up and save our legs. 

I thought this one was funny. He looks like he's growling!

14.2

14. 2 was the week of March 3rd-9th.

The 14.2 workout was: 

Every 3 minutes for as long as possible complete:

From 0:00-3:00

   2 rounds of:

   10 overhead squats (95 lb. men / 65 lb. women)

   10 chest-to-bar pull-ups

From 3:00-6:00

   2 rounds of:

   12 overhead squats

   12 chest-to-bar pull-ups

From 6:00-9:00

   2 rounds of:

   14 overhead squats

   14 chest-to-bar pull-ups

Then you just kept adding 2 reps following the same pattern until you failed to complete both rounds. 

Some pics of Colt from facebook courtesy of January Jones...

Here's a little recap of our scores and standings. I ended up with 85 reps so I made it into the 16's and almost got done with my sqauts. Colt ended up with 130 which means he was in his 18's on the pull-ups. If I remember correctly, we might've redone this workout because I know we both ended up going on a Monday afternoon before heading to a wedding celebration dinner for Blake and Victoria at Gloria's in Rockwall. 

If you would've seen him a while back, you would be amazed that he could get that low. 

Watching the clock

Face of exhaustion

 And maybe a little pain

House Hunting in Temple way back in March

Now that I have some down time, I figure I'll try to knock some blog posts out.
This one seems WAY late considering now we've already moved to Temple and been in our house for 3 weeks! My last post that was actually in order was my CrossFit Open 14.1 post.
That same weekend, on Sunday, March 2nd, we made a trip to Temple to look at houses. When we were in Temple for interviews at the end of 2013, they had put me in touch with a realtor that showed me the area while Colt was interviewing. Since we had decided we were going to be ranking Temple #1 for Colt's residency match and we felt pretty confident with the odds of him matching there, we decided to go ahead and look at houses prior to match day so that we weren't rushed afterwards trying to find a house. We assumed it would take two or three trips for us to find something, and due to tax season, we knew we wouldn't have a lot of free weekends available. The realtor had told us that if we happened to find one, we could make an offer on it contingent upon match. Prior to our trip to Temple, I had been sending the realtor homes that I had seen and was interested in. She was also sending me homes based on our preferences. She works a lot with incoming and outgoing residents so she had a pretty good idea of what houses were recently listed or about to be listed by outgoing residents. Prior to our trip, we were thinking that we wanted to live in an older, more established neighborhood with mature trees and a nice back yard. We were expecting to find a little less house and having to invest some money into a few updates to get the house the way we wanted it.

We headed to Temple on Sunday morning and got there a little before lunch. The realtor that we had been working with had a family emergency so her partner ended up showing us around. We looked at new homes and neighborhoods with the possibility of finishing a home that had just started being built. We didn't really love anything and we still thought we wanted to be in a more established neighborhood since we've experienced the new home and neighborhood route. Then we went through the list that we had put together of existing homes. We looked at several houses and actually found a couple that we really liked and were deciding between. The one we ended up liking most was built in 2006 and an existing resident lived in it. It had a large backyard and a good floor plan. There was just a couple things about the home, we weren't 100% sold on. I do think we would have made an offer on it though. The other home was a recent build in a new neighborhood. It was a cute home but the layout of the home we decided wouldn't really worked for us. We kept looking at homes and right before we were about to wrap up, the realtor mentioned one additional home that he had just met with the seller about the night before that he didn't even have an MLS listing up for yet! He was going to prepare the MLS and put it officially on the market the next day. He said we could look at it if we were interested. We looked at it, and we loved it! It was built in 1996. The family that had lived in it the past three years had done a lot of updates on it. There had installed new floors, recently painted walls and cabinets, remodeled the bathroom, installed granite, backsplash and new appliances in the kitchen, and thay had added on an extended backporch when they put a new roof on. They had basically already done all of the updates we were planning on having to do. Plus, there was a large live oak in the front yard, two bradford pears in the backyard (one has since died and that was a bummer), and about three crepe myrtles.  An existing resident was selling the house so the timing was perfect as well. We ended up going back to the realtors office to draw up some paperwork and make an offer!

The weather had started to get bad as we were finishing our househunt. It started with just rain but quickly turned into sleet. I actually slipped while walking into one of the houses and busted it. Colt tweaked his hand trying to catch me and prevent me from falling! We had left the house very unprepared  because it was fairly warm when we left that morning. Luckily, I had thrown a jacket in the car but Colt had nothing! 

On our way home that night, the realtor called saying the seller had countered our offer. We agreed to it and therefore, we had quickly decided and had a contract on our new house! The option period started and Colt had to go back next week for the inspection! In the meantime, I looked up the seller's name and she was acutally a current resident in Emergency Medicine and Colt knew her. Evidently she made a call to see how likely it was that Colt would match in Temple!

We left Temple around 5 on Sunday. It started sleeting very bad on the way home... and of course we had went in my car instead of Colt's truck. Tires were spinning on trucks next to us, and we saw so many wrecks. It took us almost 4 hours to make it 80 miles to Hillsboro. When we finally made it to Hillsboro, we decided to pull off and take a break at McDonald's. We barely made it up the driveway to the parking lot. We tried going up and rolled right back down! We split chicken nuggets and as we were eating, we realized we weren't going to make it home and that we better starttrying to find a place to stay. Everywhere we called was full of course! Josh ending up finding us a room at American Value Inn online for us. We got one of their last rooms! It definitely wasn't the nicest room either! We turned on the heat and stuff flew out of the heater!  The next morning when we got up, everything was still frozen. I called into work. We ended up leaving our room around 9:45. Since the roads were still questionable, we went over to the Outlets and killed some time until the roads melted. We went to Reebok, Under Armour and Nike. Colt quickly changed clothes so he wasn't wearing his same clothes from the day before. Then we came home to a freezing house! Luckily we lived in the same town as his parents and were able to call them to get our dogs since we were making an unexpected overnight trip!

These were the roads on the beginning of our trip home that day. They got even worse. 

And this was our room in Hillsboro

Here's some pics of the house that I took the day we were househunting.
 Yesterday, I took some pics of the house with all OUR stuff in it, and I will post them too! Since I'm posting this so late, it's crazy now how much different our stuff looks in the house!

The backporch 

The kitchen

I didn't think I would ever really like white cabinets, but I really like the way they look in this house!

The living room

We were thinking we didn't want wood floors due to our dogs, but the seller had a dog bigger than ours and they looked to be in pretty good shape. 

The office

There is a built in bookself as well that covers the entire side wall. We were a little worried about our current office furniture fitting in this room. Luckily it all fits, but we did have to take it apart in order to get it in the room. It's definitely more full than in the picture below!

The master bathroom 

When Colt went down for the inspection, he videoed the whole house and yard for me because he knew I would want it. We ended up using it too to plan for furniture and decorations. 

All moved in and settled... and feeling better too!

We are all moved in and settled in our new home and new town! We moved in a week ago yesterday. Thanks to the help of my mom, we had everything out of boxes day 1! Just a couple days later, we were all organized and decorated! I will post more about our move and our first week in Temple a little later ...  and post some pics too! Surprisingly, we like our home here even better than our old home that we built in Forney. 

I also started back to work, working remotely, yesterday. I was a little nervous and dreading it, but I think it's going be good. I'm anxious to see what it's really like once I get caught up from being out a week! The thing I love most is not having to spend two hours in the car commuting. It's like I have an automatic two hours added to my day! It's also kinda nice to be able to wear workout clothes to my office! 

And on another positive note, in my last post, I mentioned that I had been sick for going on over a month. I am finally feeling back to normal! I ended up going back to the doctor (for a third time) the day of Colt's graduation on May 30th . Colt wanted me to get them to do a chest x-ray because he thought I might have pneoumonia since nothing was phasing me and I'd been sick forever. Come to find out, they said I had pneumonia. They did some more bloodwork to make sure I didn't have any other issues. Then they did a breathing treatment in the office that morning, and sent me home with about $300 of prescriptions!! Two of the three things that they prescribed were inhalers, and one of them was SUPER expensive. The joys of being on an HSA plan... but at least work contributes money to it so I just have to keep in mind that I didn't have to pay for it.  Even after I finished my seven day antibiotic, it still took me a couple more days to feel back to normal. Over the weekend, I FINALLY quit coughing and blowing my nose! 

Since I added a couple hours to my day and life just seems a little more relaxed here :) , I'm hoping to get consistent with my blogging again and get caught up! I really think our move will be good for us, and we're going to love it here ... or at least I think we will ... Colt has his intern year ahead of him and from the sounds of it, it's going to be a rough one! He starts orientation on the 23rd I think, and then he's in the EM starting July 1st to start his many 12 hours shifts for the month of July. 

Weekend and Major Catch-Up Needed

Well I've come to accept the fact that I will not be updating our blog for March, April and May until AFTER our move next Monday... and then some more time because I will be unpacking and making our new house a home...but it will happen eventually! I blame it on the fact that I've been sick the last month and life has just been crazy. And yes, I am STILL congested and not feeling great. The first time I went to the doctor was the end of April and here we are sneaking up on the end of May. I'm so ready to feel normal and like myself again! Colt started getting the same symptoms at the end of this past week. However, what has lingered on with me for weeks, he seems to be pretty much over it in about 3 days! To add to my "normal" symptoms of congestion and cough, Saturday I started feeling really flushed. My cheeks were super red and my back all of a sudden broke out like crazy from my shoulders to about mid-back. By Saturday night, I had bumps all over my shoulders and back. It looks like acne but also like a rash... I don't think it's normal. Colt thinks that it might be a reaction to the steroid pills that the doctor put me. Who knows?! Needless to say, it's been a funky weekend, and we've both been kinda sickly.  

Colt's parents did come over tonight. His mom brought dinner, and David came to watch the playoff basketball game with Colt, but that was pretty much the extent of our fun and interaction with others this Memorial Day weekend.

We did manage to do some packing and shopping though.

Colt had already done a lot of packing. Since neither one of us were feeling well on Sunday, we opted to not go to the lake with his family.and decided to stay home and pack the rest of our house instead. We're pretty much packed and ready to go with the exception of a couple more boxes. 

For our shopping, we did a little shopping on Thursday, Friday, Saturday and today...You would think since we're moving we would want to be getting rid of stuff but that hasn't been the case. This weekend we probably did more shopping than we have in years. We're not normally much on shopping or for really getting out of Forney in general!

Thursday we made a trip to Mesquite to Home Depot for some reason. We ended up stopping at Haverty's and looking at couches. Colt has never really liked our current couches. He misses our old sectional. He found a loveseat recliner he loved. We just weren't sure about it fitting with our current furniture so we had to come home and see if it would work.

Friday after I got home from work, we ran to Mesquite, yet again, to take a mower back. Then we went on to Dallas to get his phone fixed and look around a little at couches and bedding. Our bedding is about 5 years old.  After the move, we were planning to switch to more of a gray color scheme. I ordered bedding at JCPenney's on clearance, but when it came in, I wasn't sold. We were going to try and use it still but possibly mix it with some other stuff possibly from Pottery Barn so we did some browsing to see what our options were.

Saturday afternoon, after I did some grocery shopping and Colt visited his grandpa in the hospital, (his grandpa got bit by something and had a bad reaction and has been in the hospital a few days now) we ended up making another trip to Mesquite and Dallas. We ended up ordering Colt's loveseat that we had looked at on Thursday. Since he got a new loveseat, the deal was that I got the bedding I really wanted (just kidding but that is how it worked out)! We ended up going to two different Pottery Barns in Dallas and finding a quilt we wanted that we thought would look good with the bedding we already had. After much debate on price, we bought it. I think Colt nearly had a heart attack. I honestly did too! That night we also had to run a couple more errands and exchange our dishes and take back some other things. By the time we got home, we were exhausted. We ordered Papa John's and called it a night. I was also disappointed because our mix and match bedding try was not successful at all! It didn't look good. 

After a day of non-shopping on Sunday, we went back today to buy our bedding we had decided on. Of course one store didn't have everything we wanted so we ended up going to two Pottery Barns again today! We are officially done with that store for a while. On the way home, we stopped and got cheap pillows and a duvet from Stein Mart and grabbed some Chipotle. This is what we made it home with. It defintely doesn't look like someone that is moving OUT. 

And here is our final product. I love it! Colt did all the "design" work and pretty much picked everything out.  He's really pretty impressive :) He really did lay out all the pillows and decide on everything we were buying. What can I say... he's good at it and I'm not a decision maker! Our bedroom walls in the new house are gray so I think it's going to look great! We also plan on having this bedding for a lot of years to come, or at least we better.

Now off to bed to get ready for a short work week. This Thursday will actually be my last day in the office before our move and before I transition to working remotely. That's only three more days in the actual office, and I have a lot to get done before then!

Sick AGAIN & Birthdays

I am sick AGAIN... going on 6 days now! I still have no voice and can't seem to get rid of my cough and congestion. I feel like I've been sick pretty much the whole last month! I was sick just a couple weeks ago for about a week and a half with the exact same symptoms. I think it's all allergy related. I went to the doctor last time, and they thought it was and that it had led to a sinus infection. Last time I went to the doctor, I got a zpack, shot and cough medicine. I had just got over it when we left for vacation to Punta Cana. The whole time we were gone, I was perfect! Then a few days after we got back... I'm back to where I left off. I did run outside on the Sunday we got back so that's what makes me think it's allergies. When I was running,  I turned the corner and they were shredding in our neighborhood. At work this past week, I didn't have a voice most of the week again. I kept thinking I was going to get better, but Friday I felt worse and ended up staying home from work since it was a short day at work anyways. I slept pretty much the WHOLE day. I hadn't been sleeping all week because of coughing and the fact that Claritin D was keeping me up at night. Friday night was Colt's medical school graduation party that had been planned for a while. He said I didn't have to go, but I went and tried to be a trooper! Even though I wish I would've felt better, it was fun, and I will post more about it later. Saturday, I still wasn't feeling great but I was a little better. My parents came up to celebrate my birthday (my 29th and last year in my twenties which Colt is good about reminding me about!). We went to lunch at Oscar Delta here in Forney and then just came back to the house. We did start doing a little packing... or really my mom and Colt did some packing and I just observed and took stuff out of cabinets. My parents got me several sets of red fiesta dishes for my birthday. I've been wanting new dishes, and I've been debating classic white dishes that go with everything and match white serving dishes that I have or red. I still haven't really decided because I hate decisions! My parents just went ahead and bought the red for me and said that I could exchange them. 

Colt's mom also got me a present and gave it to me at the graduation party on Friday night. She got me two new Pandora charms for my charm bracelet! The first one stands for love, and the second one for love and family. 

After my parents left on Saturday, we just relaxed and I spent the majority of the night on the couch watching tv. We had cereal for dinner and we ended up watching the Vow together, which I have wanted to see forever, on TV later that night... and then I proceeded to cough my head off for a few hours! 

Lucky also celebrated his 7th birthday this month! I can't believe we've had him 7 years! We were in Punta Cana on his birthday so we missed it. I also didn't get him a present this year. My mom said that she told him Happy Birthday though!