The cazy life of Bastian, Jadie & Kendelle Cowsert

I hope you enjoy the laughs, cries and fun enjoyment of our family adventures.

Friday, September 16, 2011

Red Rock Relay + ER room

So I realize that no one really reads my blog as I am still new, but I thought this past week was definetly one to go into the books. I have been training really hard for the Red Rock Relay in Zions for about 3 months now. I was running 3-4 times a day and about 20-25 miles a week. I signed up with my dad, Markie, Ramon, Bastain and my Uncle Joe. I was so excited to cross something off of my bucket list this week. Little did I know that was not in the plans. We arrived at Bryon Head and meet our team and that made me super excited. They were all like me just trying to make there life better, not really about winning but just succeeding. We started at 7 in the morning and the first runner Cevan was off. My van did not have to run until all six before us were done so we had a few hours to spare. Unfortunetly Bastian was not in our van, but my unlce Joe's sister Alice was with my family. ( She was a freaking fireball) after 6 hours in was our turn. My uncle Joe went first and conqured a freaking 5.8 mile hill that was a monster. Them Markie did like 4 hills in 4.5 miles and she freaking rocked my socks. My father did a 3 miler which was the top of the mountain at 10,000 ft elevation and blew the road away. I followed my father by running 6.4 miles straight down hill. I thought this would be super fun.... Let just say I would do uphill anyday instead. You can not slow down or control your speed, I have a pace for my short stubby legs and I like it. I could not keep that going down hill, it killed my knees and my toes got brused from being pressed into my shoes. It was a never ending road. At the very end I sprinted the last .25 miles when I saw everyone I was so ready to be done. I was so proud of myself for kicking that hills butt. This is where it gets fun, I had not felt great since that morning but kept pushing it off when ramon went to run after me I felt like my bowels where going to explode. I was sweaty and hot and could not relax at all. After Ramon and Alice freaking kicked butt on their trails we decided to go to one of our team mates homes in cedar city to crash. By then I had thrown up 2 times and lets just say had stoach issues. I decided to take a bath and try and get my muscles to relax. I felt great in the tub, then I go out.. biggest mistake ever. I fell straight to the ground I could not stand up and had to go throw up again. The pain was in my right abdomen and I knew this had to be more than food posioning. I had a gut feeling to go to the doctors, all I could think was this freaking feels like I am in labor. I finally made it to the ER and they got me in pretty fast. They told me it could be one of three things... Appendicitis, I could be pregnant, or cyst on my ovaries. My dad then walked in the door, and told me that it was just a stupid relay and he wanted to be there with me. I had gone bymyself because I did not want anyone to miss out on this experience. But when we walked through that door I was so excited I needed him there with me. 5 mins later my amazing sister had drove down from st george at 11 pm.. ( I freaking adore her!... most days :}) We called Bastian cause he had no idea what was going on, we told him the options and this was his very cleaver response... "It better be appendicitis!!!" Not ready to be a father again lol.. Anyways I am going to shorten this and spare all the details, but Saturday morning they did a cat scan and found out I had a cyst on my ovaries. Which to me was the best of the 3 options ( Cause if I was pregnant something would of being going wrong). I luckly made it to the end of the race to walk in with my team and to say goodbye to everyone. I was crying because I had worked so hard to do this and something came up that I could not control. I was so proud of my whole family. We were super cursed that weekend; Bastian knee swelled up and was in pain, Ramon sprained his ankle, Markie had a cold, and my father pulled his calf muscle a few weeks back and was hurting him! They all stayed strong and finished there runs. Markie was who I was amazed with, she was my running partner and they said she ended up running the harder of the legs and had the biggest hill that anyone ran and she kicked butt! I love you BOO!! I am so thankful for my family and all the support they gave me that weekend. They next week my mom took care of me and Kendelle from Sunday-Wednesday. Krista for driving up to take care of me. And for my Van and my Husband for finishing the race and having my back. I think that I am healed its been 1 day of no pain meds and I am feeling alot better. Sometime life isn't always what you plan for it. I am now going to start training for a half marathon in febuary and going to accomplish that task and cross it off my list! WOOT WOOT

Friday, September 2, 2011

Let's try this again!

Ok, so I have decided that it is about time for me to give in and follow the trends with blogging. I have decided it will be a great way to write about our life together as a family. Since I am not a great journal write I hope that this makes me write more. The last post I posted was about finding out that we were having a baby girl. That was more than a year ago! Here is a little update on our life so far.

Kendelle (our daughter) will be turning 1 year old on September 30th. She is her own adventure for just about anyone she meets. She is the light and joy of my life. She is a great beautiful smart little girl, with energy of a a baby dog on steriods. She doesn't just crawl around she speed fly's around the house. She is her own personality and I love it!

Bastian is my super hero he is taking 15 credits in school and working 30 hours a week so that I am able to stay home and be a mother to my child. This is his second year of school yet he is a almost a junior! He is the hardest working person I know. On top of all of that he is a amazing runner who is training for a 50 mile run in October and a 100 mile run in April. Talk about wanting to accomplish something huge!

I am a privelaged stay at home mom who gets to spend all day with her beautiful child. I also get to babysit my 5 year old brother Gabe every Tuesday and Thursday. I love to sew and do crafts and right now I am traing to run the red rock relay with my family next week. Then hopefully to run a half marathon.

This is my family and this blog will be about our life!