Mahokenatez: 2011

Saturday, May 28, 2011

Strava

I've added a new widget to our blog. Along the left hand side you will see a widget called Strava. Strava uses GPS and Kate's iPhone to track her rides. Now you can follow Kate on her commute to work as well as her training rides. It's a pretty cool little gadget that gives a lot of detail about the rides. If you have a little time check it out.

The Traveling Marshal

I should have posted this here weeks ago! Over the last 2 weeks I have been a Traveling Marshal with the Amgen Tour of California. I had decided that before I left I would blog about my experience. Here is the link to that blog.

http://thetravelingmarshal.blogspot.com/

Thanks

Friday, April 29, 2011

Oh Say Who You See!

I read "Oh Say Can You Say" by Dr. Seuss to Joslyn recently, and enjoyed it very much! I'm feeling inspired by it, so will try my own Seuss-like prose to tell the story of our April:) What do ya know? !? Here we go!

The month starts off zinging with our favorite Grammy bringing

her good friend Ernie

and fun new outfits for Joslyn, all sparkly and blingin'

So happy we were to have them both arrive,

Momma said zam! bam! work, see ya! I think you'll survive!

And happily skipped off for a week's worth of feeling alive.

So off we went, from the top of the city to the bottom.

If there were tourist things to do, don't ya know that we got um!

From the Fernbank Museum with the dinosaurs, unicorns, and groovy Nature Quest playground

--Watch out for the Chupacabra!--

To the Botanical Gardens speckled with tulips, lilies, and orchids so diverse it leaves you without a sound

--Oh man, did you see the plants that could eat ya?!--

Want to see water? Yeah, we got that too!

At the Georgia Acquarium, there's so much to do!

Dolphins

Penguins

Whales

and Big Sharks

Punctuated by the ugly eel fish that frown and throw sparks!

Still want more water? Well, hold on tight!

We spent an afternoon at the Chattahoochee River, hiking and enjoying the sites.

Geese

Pine cones

Rock caves and more

It was a day so fantastical, there's no way it could've been a bore!

But, what was my favorite part of the ten days?

The beautiful weather?

Well, while I certainly would've missed it

the number one thing, no question, was all the awesome time together.

So thank you Grammy, Ernie, for taking time to come!

For endless walks up and down the hill

And spoiling sweet Joslyn with candies for her little tum-tum:)

So great to see you, please do hurry back,

For there's many other great sites for us still left to attack!

Hugs & Kisses from Kate, Pete, Joslyn and Odessa!

Monday, March 14, 2011

African Drums and More Bike Racing

Hi All,

This past weekend took us to the city of Blythewood, SC. Blythewood is located just outside the capital city of Columbia, SC. We were in SC for the first of 5 race weekends that are associated with the We Race: Women's Racing Initiative. We Race: Women's Racing Initiative is a grass-roots effort by women, for women. Their ultimate goal is to grow the sport of women's racing by providing an environment that is both challenging and fun. As a result they can show promoters that women's racing IS strong in the Southeast, and that women deserve a place at each and every race. The next race will be The Sunny King Criterium in Anniston, AL.

Here are few pictures and 1 video of this past weekend.

Kate following the We Race leader in Pink.

Kate showing her sprint legs.

Woodpecker seen at the race.

This looks interesting.

Climb up high!

Drum Solo

Drum Circle

Jos in action!

Monday, March 7, 2011

Zoo Atlanta, Funny Faces and Bike Racing

Hi All,

Spring has started here in the South! We have been enjoying temperatures into the 70's over the past couple of weeks. So we been outside playing at the Park, Zoo, Chattahoochee River and most recently the start of Kate's bike racing season! Here are a few pictures of us doing what we like to do best, play outside!!!

Joslyn & Kate

Cheeeeeeeeese!

"what do you see?"

Chattahoochee River

Kate

Pete & Jos

Riding the big gorilla!

New friend

Tigger!

2nd race of the season!

Monday, February 14, 2011

It all Started January 29th...

It all started January 29th with a comment on FB "feelin' a little achey today..." That was the start a fever and a 17 day ordeal with blood clots. I have a varicose veins on the side of my right knee which normally do not cause me any pain. A few days after the fever I was feeling some pain. I Thought maybe during the night when I was down and out with the fever I hit my leg on something, no big deal! So, to recap Saturday the 29th through Tuesday the 1st I was dealing with my fever and Wednesday is when my knee started to hurt. The following Saturday the family all went for a bike ride. That night I started to experience pain in my quad. Sunday we watched the Packers win the Superbowl! and a couple days later seeing as how the pain wasn't going away, and the 24 hour nurse thought it would be wise for me to see a doctor, I made an appointment to see my doctor.

The appointment was set for 3pm on Tuesday but since I was kinda worried I went in around 11am hoping they could see me early. They did and my doctor said she thought it was a blood clot causing me some pain but the location didn't seem to worry her. So she sent me to a specialist to get an ultra sound and just get things checked out. This is when they found a DVT or deep vein clot behind me knee. This was cause for alarm! Since the office I was at didn't have a doctor on duty I needed to travel south to Sandy Springs. Once there I spoke with the PA. She told me to hang tight while she got the doc. My new doctor comes in and says we need to get you in the hospital. We also need to place a filter in your vena cava!

So into the hospital I went. The first night they did a CT scan of my chest to see if I have/had any clots in my chest. Sure enough I did! they think it was part of the clot in my leg which had broken off. They also think that the fever I experienced was from the clots in my chest. The next day they put the filter in and I was put on anti coagulants. The procedure was pretty easy and I was a wake for the whole thing. So for the time being I'm going to be on drugs that will keep my blood from clotting and hopefully after 6 months I won't need to take them any more!

All in all I spent 6 night and 7 days in the hospital! This was my first time ever in the hospital! I have to thank the National Geographic channels show Hard Time. They taught me that you have to have a routine to get through the time. So mornings were filled with reading magazines and news papers while nights were filled with a little Tv watching and visit from my family whom I love very much!!!

Thanks for reading and here's to better health in 2011.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! err Happy 4th Week of January 2011!

So what have we been up to? Lets go back to 2010 for just a moment. In December we went back to Wisconsin to celebrate Christmas and the New Year with friends and Family. We also took in 2 Packer games, which were wins! In all we spent 2 weeks in Wisconsin, split between our 2 families. The time went fast and before I knew it we were back in Atlanta.

Once back in Atlanta we were able to give Joslyn her Christmas present which was a new trike! She loves it! She is still trying to figure it out but she'll get it soon. As I mentioned before We went to 2 Packer games when we were home and because they won those 2 games the Packers made the playoffs as a wildcard. To make a long story a little shorter, the Packers won there first game of the playoffs. This meant that they would be playing in Atlanta in the second round! Kate and I scored some sweet end-zone seats to watch The Packers destroy the number 1 seeded Falcons! Kate and I also got to meet Former Packers QB Don Majkowski! His wife and family had seats 4 rows in front of us! Anyways I'm pretty excited because as you should know the Packers are headed to the Super Bowl! What a way to start the New Year!

Here are a few photos we taken over the last couple of weeks, Enjoy.