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This month I got the kit a little earlier than usual and had a long weekend to play when my husband and son went to Florida shark fishing for a few days.
Here are my projects using the May kit
Some of my favorite pictures of Zach!
Ryan... at the zoo with ice cream melted all over him
Chelsea and Ryan - i'm really into these 4 X 4 pictures right now!
Yep that's me!
a few fun 3 X 3 cards
Chelsea and I recently went to her concert and what a great time we had! First our evening started at the Hard Rock Cafe where we decided to try a couple new drinks. Mine....Pickled Tink was our favorite, as in favorite drink EVER!
So much so that when we finally got our table for dinner we decided to order a couple more!
At dinner and on our way back we ran in to some interesting characters!
and the opening act was a little different to say the least... you can decide for yourself here, we just laughed most the way through this!
Then we spent an hour plus waiting... apparently there was some type of difficulty with the props?
But once she came out, she was amazing... what a great show, great performance! She is like the Madonna of my youth. The dances and acts they did were awesome! and I enjoyed every minute of it. You could say it was the best concert I've ever been to! Even though its been a while since I've been to any concert? In fact I can't think of my last concert? Might have to ask Lisa this one...
I had really hoped with Easter being so late in the year we would have a beautiful spring day, but it seems all we've been getting for the month of April is rain! But that didn't dampen our day celebrating with family.
We changed things up a bit this year as we try to do every year and made the Easter games a little different. This year we did the egg hunt like we do the dice game at Christmas and the kids had to roll a dice till all the eggs were gone, then we set a timer and they rolled to steal eggs from one another. Included in those eggs were 3 golden eggs.
I think the adults had as much fun watching as the kids had playing
this is one of my favorites as Zach dives across the counter to steal back his golden egg!
They had a blast doing this, down to the last second when Cameron got a golden egg from Chelsea right as the timer went off!
With high school and college students we knew what they needed most was money, we just had to find a creative way to give it to them. That's where my brother in law came up with wrapping the $5's around suckers. So that's what Deb did and they came out adorable!
It's too bad Ben had to work as he would have completed this scale of heights perfectly!
such a fun day we shared!
Happy Easter! Enjoying the day with family and friends!
Something I had been looking forward to since I heard of his Running with Regis and Kelly and heading into Springfield Ohio. Chelsea and I signed up right away since we've both been a fan of Dean's for a while now. Especially since reading one of his books... can you say inspiration?
We had recently been in Columbus to run the 10 mile race and just love visiting that area. This race was a little outside of Columbus but were weren't planning on an overnight stay.
Counting down to the race Chelsea finds out an exam she has to take was now moved to that day. She asked the teacher if she could take it another day but that was not an option. So now the decision was am I going to do this race by myself? The race alone wasn't an issue, but the almost 3 hour drive each way alone was a question... could I get a book on tape to pass the time alone in the car? While I was preparing myself for the drive alone my sweet son offered to go with me. Mind you he would not run the event, but he would drive with me. For a price of course... which usually involves food...
We headed out at 5:30 am and I probably still should have gotten that book on tape since the majority of the way the boy slept, lol. But that was okay - I was glad he dedicated a day of his spring break to something I wanted to do.
We arrived in plenty of time to get our packets (mine and Chelsea's) hit the restroom and wait for Dean's arrival.
He arrived a bit late, but can you blame a guy that's running 50+ miles a day? He had a lot to chat about including how much he eats on an average day... yes I said DAY
sorry for the turned video - I thought it turned with you like the iphone pictures do
I did my best time and even ran in front of Dean, even though he joked that nobody should pass him! I think this 3 miles is a leisurely run for him. They said he usually gets up and runs 15 or so before one of these 5k's - can you imagine!
It was a great race! I'm glad I went and I'm so thrilled that my son went with me!
Oh and my time 27:31
I did it! I saw an idea on Pinterest and I just had to try it...
They were actually pretty easy to do, although a bit sticky to work with...
the ingredients
putting it together
the nests
So fun and easy to make and I'm so eggcited that I made them!
My sister and I signed up for a class at Archivers called Daily Junque as we counted down the days until the class we found out that not enough people had signed up.
Our options were:
We decided since we already had it planned for the evening we would go ahead and do the self guided class at Archivers. We didn't want it to be one of those projects that you never get to.
turns out to be one of those "blessings in disguise" since we changed things up while working on our own and I'm quite happy with how things turned out.
Its funny how things don't go how we plan sometimes and we are angry or frustrated at the time, but then they turn out to be better than they would of had they gone that way in the first place... well it made sense in my head....lol
I guess what I'm saying is I'm thrilled with how this album turned out even though things didn't turn out like we had planned.
Another race, another challenge and oh so much more!
My challenge started with preparing for the race. I was starting to feel winded and tired and couldn't run a few miles, let alone pick up my pace. Finally my husband urged me to go get things checked out with the doctor. They ordered a Stress echo and a complete pulmonary test. I asked if I could get them done before the weekend of the race since I was hoping to still run it.
Getting this checked out and the thought of not running was a challenge. In fact driving home after the tests I was brought to tears just thinking of not running anymore, it has become such a part of me, I miss it when I don't run after a few days...
The stress echo came back fine, my heart is fine. They are now looking at exercise induced asthma? and I need to follow up with a pulmonary specialist.
I ran the race on Sunday and a tough race it was, lots of hills and while I didn't reach my goal PR running the 10 miles, I'm glad with all I've been going through recently that I was able to run it at all and finish it, now that was a challenge! My time 1:47:05...
You can check out more One little word captured at Jills blog
Another running adventure!
This weekend Chelsea and I went to Columbus to run another race. This race was different to all the others we ran since it was a 10 mile race compared to the usual 5k or half marathon. The Columbus 10 miler, known as the Cbus 10 miler was awesome and challenging!
I love Columbus so any chance I get to go there I jump at it or run to it! The Easton mall is amazing, it's a combination of an indoor mall and an outdoor mall (like our fav Crocker Park) They have a Container Store, a Pandora store and a Macy's that is the only one to come close to comparing to the one in New York City. I have fond memories of classes taken with Karen Russell in Columbus and oh yes now this race.
We got there in time to check out the Second Sole store and pick up our race packet and then we were off to check out the city of Gahanna... starting with the container store! By this time we were starved and started searching for who would host our pasta dinner. We ended up at a cute restaurant called Bar Louie and enjoyed a mac and cheese dinner - I don't think I've gotten Mac and Cheese when out to dinner EVER, but knew it would help my running.
Mac and cheese with chicken
Since I just finished reading the book "The Lincoln Lawyer" I suggested the movie as it would fit into our evening. The movie was great, tho the book was as usual much better!
After the movie we found our way back to the car and then to our hotel to get a good nights rest and be ready for our morning race.
to be continued...
