25 and lots of mud...

25 weeks! I've defintley seen/felt a big change in size this last week, outward and onward! She is also moving much more regularly these days, and it's the coolest feeling ever!  Sometimes it keeps me up at night because I wake up feeling it and I want to just lay there and feel her move.  I am noticing some shortness of breath, especially when I am walking and talking at the same time or walking up stairs, or even during eating, it takes me a minute to catch my breath.  My hands and feet are a little swollen by the end of the day, so I pretty much never wear my ring anymore.  It's such a crazy thing to experience the funny little changes in your body that you have no control over.  I feel great and can't complain.   

Last weekend we traveled to Beatty, NV(2 hours up through the mountains of Vegas) for Devin and his friends to run the Tough Mudder! These boys have been talking about and training for this race for months and the race did not disappoint the participants or the wives of the participants.  Basically it's a 12 mile race that has 24 obstacles, crazy obstacles, throughout the course.  We weren't able to watch every obstacle because the course is so spread out over the mountains.  Fortunately we were able towatch the majority of them...

 

Team Ryno: Devin, Shane, Trevor, and Matt

Shane and Trevor decided that some facial hair would be appropriate for the Mudder...

At the very beginning all the participants had to hop(or be hoisted) over this wall.

This picture says a thousand words...As spectators we were VERY unprepared for the race.  We didn't realize this until we got there but in order to spectate you had to run to all of the obstacles which were up hills and rocks and some times there was no telling when Teamn Ryno was going to come to a particular obstacle so it made for some interesting down time.  We had to wait at one obstacle for what seemed like HOURS, in the sun, with no shade, no breeze, no food, little water, and 1 year old(who I should mention was a trooper through the whole experience and was perfectly content to sit in the rocks and play in the sand).  Since we had no shade, a diaper was the only thing in Karly's diaper bag that she could configure into a hat for Harper! Priceless...

They were all smiles here but the smiles didn't last long...they had to run up to the top of that hill behind them  three times!

Crawling through some tubes into a mud bath..

Crawling out of the tubes covered in scrapes

Traveling across a pond on ziplines

Shane jumping into the Artic Enema which is a huge ice bath that they jumped in and had to swim underneath a wall in the middle of the tank...

Shane and Devin exiting the Enema as quickly as possible...

Matt and Devin making their way across The Gecko...

....unfortunately Trevor did not make it across....

Approaching Everest which was a huge, slick halfpipe that they had to climb up...

Matt running up Everest...

 

At the end of the race fueling up on bananas and the best $4 PowerAde I've ever tasted!
They finished the race in 3 hours...

It was such a fun weekend and it was even more fun becasue we were able to experience it all with our closest friends.  After seeing how much fun they had us girls decided that we would join the men next April for the Mudder in Vegas, sans baby belly!