The Hill From Hell

I've always been big into setting goals and achieving them. It helps me steer my life to where I want it to go. Now I'm not saying I always achieve my goals. I am only human after all. HOWEVER- I finally achieved a big goal of mine that I set a year and a half ago. To walk to the grocery store.


I've done the walk to Wal-Mart several times and it no longer holds any difficulty (other than keeping my double stroller from falling completely apart on me!). My big goal though was to go the opposite way down a large busy street near my home. This way looks very daunting, almost a straight shot down large HUGE hills.


To clarify though, it wasn't the walk to the store that I was concerned about. It was the walk back home. Now I can walk down hill all day long with only a slight tightness around my knees and thighs. Walking back UP hill is a completely different story. So when Rachel came over and we took our children out to go on our walk we decided to finally make this dream goal become a reality.

...And this is our journey!

Wednesday July 1st

Me and my babies walking up a hill!

The second hill down this busy road. What are we thinking? Will we make it back up???

We went shopping at QFC and bought ourselves a pic-nic redneck style! ... On the side of the road!

Rachel and her family!:

Me and my itty-bitty's!

Not going to lie... Aiden DID try to get run over.

Sad for him he ended up being strapped in for quite a while!

Rachel stretching for the big bad hill...

I had to take a picture cause her knee freaked me out!

HAHA!

So here I am trying to not bust out laughing.

Rachel MADE me take an awkward picture too...

OOOOH ...

Isn't it daunting?
Not only did it feel like a 90 degree angle-
it was a LONG walk-
and my stroller was probably a good 110 pounds
with all the stuff inside it!


OOH!- I'M SOOO SCARED!

Rachel-

after the hill.
She looks great doesn't she?


AND THEN....
There's me.
Not so pretty.

Pretty sure I almost died!


I may have not looked very appealing afterwards,
but I'm super proud of myself!

The only thing I would change was having a FAT old man
pass me up while pushing his bike.

Talk about an ego burn!

And to top it off...
he tried to give me tips.

I mostly just bared my teeth at him
while sweat cascaded down my face.

Probably the true reason as to why he passed me up,
eh?

NEXT GOAL!: Fred Meyer off of Alderwood Mall Parkway.
This route goes across three hills of this magnitude
and crosses the freeway exits twice.

I can totally do it!!!