It's been a while...

I haven't really had any earth-shattering things going on in my life. I'm running a lot to shed the pounds I've put on since my last show and am using the Salty's 1/2 marathon as my motivation. I've improved my softball game quite a bit. It's kind of sad that as the season is ending I'm finally getting better ~ but there's always next year. The kids and Ryan are back in school. Now that we're in the swing of things, I'm really enjoying the structure that their school schedule provides to my life. Parker is doing very well in school ~ not academically, but socially. He's still his weird little self, but his classmates see to accept him the way he is. I love that! So, life it good!

Food for Thought

Rock Band

Who doesn't love the lead singer in a band? (HOT) ~ or a guy that can play the guitar and poor out his love to you in sweet songs. My sweetheart is working on it. I saw this picture and I thought it was so fitting!

Sad day for One

I took all my kids to see our Dr. for a flu shot. We will be traveling quite a bit in the next few months and the worst thing that could happen would be someone getting sick. I got them all prepared that they would have a poke and it would hurt for a moment and then we would go get icecream. Bryce was the most freaked out about the whole thing, but I gave him the pep talk about how he has to be brave for his siblings and I knew he could get through it.
Our Dr. informed us that children over 2 get better immunity from the flu sniff (inhaler) than the actual shot ~ unless they have wheezing or asthma. Bryce has asthma and wheezing, so he was not a candidate. Poor kid. He did have the shot and he lived through it (although I'm pretty sure the medical assistant wanted to kill him after all the questions he asked).
We all got icecream. Bryce thought he should get more than everyone else, so the little ones got little cones and he got a big one ~ which is how we always do it, but no one needs to point that out to him....

Pigtails

Halea with her best friend Erica (Eka)

Halea's tiny pigtails and horrible rash

The day has finally arrived that my girl has enough hair for pigtails. Yes, they are very thin and I can probably count how many individual hairs each pigtail has, but that's not the point! I've waited two and 1/2 long years for this! And she even left them in for a couple hours!

Modest, not Amish

I heard from a friend about this company called Down East that makes modest, but cute clothing for women. I was impressed at their website, so I googled "women's clothing modest". Here's what I found:
http://www.hannahlise.com/
http://www.modestclothing.com/
http://www.modestapparelusa.com

but the AWARD goes to:
http://www.liliesapparel.com/

Peace-Making

I went for a 10 mile run with someone this morning. It was supposed to be 9 miles, but we took some "detours" and it cost us an extra mile. I'm not going to name name's, but someone complained pretty much the whole time. Of course I didn't let on how much the complaining was annoying me because I'm a loving, peace-making woman. I ate up the resentment and at times hatred. When I saw this, I thought it was perfect! The greatest part of the run was the drive home and realizing that I just ran 10 miles!