1st Day riding with dad!

So I left my house and rode my bike 2.2 miles to Dad's. We then rode from his house on Grady to fort to memorial to langhorne to old langhorne and got on the bike trail, did all 14 miles of Black water creek, and got back off at the Ed Page Cancer Awareness Garden eneterance/exit and rode the 3.1 miles back to dad's and I rode the additional 2.2 miles back to my house giving me a daily grand total of 24.6 miles! And dad a total of 20.2 miles!

by Bethany Sykes on Wed, Jun 17, 2009 @ 5:19 PM

Official 1st Day of Training

So I started my official training 3 days later than anticipated! I should have started the 1st weekend in June but instead I had to wait in line and get hubs a dad's day gift- Palm Pre cell phone. So I started Wednesday June 10th. It was getting dusk but what better time for a bike ride! So i started out down wards road and just kept going. I was like G I wonder if I can make it to the airport... that was easy enough so I wondered if I could make it to the next landmark.... that was doable so I was like I've come this far let's see if I can find Brandy's house! I hadn't been there since around the time of Blake's death- almost 6 years... Well I DID IT!! They were a bit shocked to see me... haha! And go figure my bike light batteries died on me. Lucky for me I had my camera with me so I swapped out batteries which was no easy task in the pitch black! I made it home in time for my 11pm news... so was biking about 3 hours. It ended up being 17 miles round trip! The trip back felt easier. Training this time round is feeling easier but only time will tell that!
In front of the airport, taking a break from the speeding 18 wheelers trying to run me over for their road kill supper!




by Bethany Sykes on Wed, Jun 17, 2009 @ 4:09 PM

Ironic?

So I have continually post-poned sitting down and mailing my sponsorship letter. I guess with all the economic bad news I was dreading asking for donations and well I am just lazy sometimes! So I look at last years letter and do some comparing and as I am reading I realived the date at the top "May 30, 2008" How crazy ironic is it that I would sit down and write my sponsorship letter the EXACT day one year later? I guess it is really meant to be!

by Bethany Sykes on Sat, May 30, 2009 @ 11:28 PM

Happy 6th Birthday

Christian Blake Clark, my godson would have been 6 on May 28th. I went to his grave and threw him the best party I could. I hope he had a spectacular Heavenly party. I love and miss you sweet baby of mine<3 I gave him a happy birthday sign, pin wheels, a new flag banner as his old one was way too worn out, a angel plaque that says Faith and a small Mickey from Disney! I was glad I was able to have this somber party with him. I remember a time I'd see him everyday. My baby would help me at work and even have sleep overs with me... although he wasn't too keen on the sleeping part! I wish we could have made more memories together for I think it is now those memories we never made that I grieve. The things you always dream of doing with your child and yet his life was cut short and they were never done. All the things I've done with my own two children I always imagined doing with him first. The playdates we'll never have. All those huge 1sts we've already missed and the ones we will miss. As I was at his grave it came to me... am I the reason he was meant to come here to be our sweet lil man and then to loose him? I mean everyone has a purpose they say and I have searched for so long for his purpose... what was the sence in giving us this very unexpected yet unconditionally loved little boy and just to snatch him away from us less than 2 months later? So as I was up there I wondered. Was his purpose to show me I could trust again, I could have a friend, that friend would be loyal and 100000x committed to being what a real friend is. She wouldn't stab me in the back and even when we may disagree in reality nothing would really ever come between us? After all I had already decided and completely resigned to being a loner and having no friends so I would feel no more pain no more back stabbing and the teenage drama and rejection I grew to know too well. Then out the blue I made a friend without really meaning to at work. We grew undenyable close like best friends do from that August until our baby boy came. She allowed me to be super involved in her baby's life and her pregnancy-- which is one of a very few hobbies I completely loved. So in all this rambling I want to thank you Blake for giving me the most precious and expensive and life long gift, a best friend a secret sister. I just wish it could have been different and that you could have grown up with a special aunt and an amazing mommy. I love you more than I can describe and now nearly 6 years since you died my heart still ached uncontrollably for you. I still miss you so much and that is how I learned to love unconditionally through an innocent baby who taught me more in life in his 8 months pre-birth and less than two months after birth than I have learned in my other 23 years combined! I love you Angel and I always will that will never change.
I did find it Ironic that I took my pictures all in order... didn't erase any yet when I go to view them, these pictures of Blake are all scattered throughout Anthony's graduation ones. I guess Blake was letting me know he saw it! He would have been graduating from Kindergarten this year.

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My graduate<3

So Anthony graduated for Liberty Christian Academy's Early Learning Center May 29th, 2009. Gosh can you believe I have a Kindergartner now? Aunt Chris should have fun with him next visit:-) Jayna and Anthony both sag songs and then the director, Dawna Stinson and Partor Jonathan alwell awarded the kidlets with diplomas! Afterwards they had a small reception where we got the kids' scrapbooks of their year- VERY CUTE! The theme was patriotic red white and blue "God Bless America"

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