Changing the Outside

A picture of me and Erin from the George Strait concert


So for the past two weeks, I have been working out like crazy to get ready for the half. I signed up for 6 weeks with a personal trainer, thinking that after that time frame, I would be done. NOPE, I just love going up there and working out. It is funny how something you avoid for so long, can become a passion. The results are already noticeable, and of course once you make progress it is hard to stop.

The half is a month away. Oh yeah, One full month. I still cannot fathom running 13.1 miles in a huge crowd of others doing the same thing. I am excited because Chase is going to go with me, and Melissa and James and the kiddos are going to meet us there too. Which is alot of pressure, but it will be fun. I am trying to take more pictures to post on here. I just have not been in the picture taking mood lately.

A new Year

So hear we are, January 14, 2008. I have already decided that this year is going to be great. My race is getting closer, and that scares me to death, but I am now going to a personal trainer to get in top condition. I am not sure how well it will go, but so far after 2 sessions, things are looking good. We have had a busy few weeks in January. School started back up last Monday, and honestly, I was starting to think that we needed to move to wherever they have year round school. I love my girls so much, but wow 2 weeks is a long time, especially since Emma loves school so much. There was one day where she sat on the sofa and cried, because she was missing PE. I felt badly for her, but she soon admitted that she really was all of her buddies at school. I was missing cleaning the house without the girls fighting the entire time.

This past weekend was awesome. I have now been 33 for 3 full days, and it is not too bad. Friday (the actual day) started off nice, I went and ate lunch with Emma at school. Which was so cool, because the whole class knew it was my birthday, and when I went into the room, everyone yelled "Happy Birthday Emma's mom" I of course loved it. After that I took Abbi to play with Austin, so that I could take my Friend Carol to Walmart. I know that sounds odd, but Carol has progressive MS, and is confined to a wheel chair. She is basically a shut in, with some small trips out. So anyway, then I had to go to Kroger to pick up stuff to make dinner. This is where my day just went thru the roof. All of our kiddos were here for dinner. All 5 of them. Brandon had told me earlier that he would cook dinner(best gift ever) so I let him. Erin brought gifts for the kids(big hit) and Tommy played with the kids the entire night(big job) Then after dinner, they cleaned up the kitchen. Can you say Best Birthday ever? Chase got the best cake, but of course it is not on my lean out plan, so it was just a small piece for me. After we got stuff put up, we headed over to Glowgolf, to play miniature glow in the dark golf. So much fun. I have the greatest family. We spent the whole night just laughing and having fun.

Saturday night Erin and her roomie Allison took me to see George Strait for my birthday. I do not think I stopped smiling the entire night. It was so fun. I think that this years birthday will be so hard to top. But what a great start to a new year, I only wish that every year started off like this one.

Happy 2008

I cannot believe that the year is already over. We have had a rough couple of weeks, the girls have been sick since before Christmas. The nurse said that there is a viral cold going around, and the symptoms are fever for 3-5 days, and a cough for 2 weeks. Well, of course we got the full force of this one. Emma started off with it on the 22nd, and then Abbi came down with it last Thursday. The biggest deal of it though was that we were unable to go to mom and dad's for our family christmas. This is the first time EVER that we did not go to Texas for christmas. To say the least, I was bummed. Luckily my wonderful cousin and her husband live down the road, so we took them our gifts, and they drove them to Texas for us. They also brought ours back from Texas, and so we had christmas again at our house. Emma and Abbi got a WAD of cash from Vava, and Emma was very proud of it. She took that money today, and got her ears pierced. I was so proud of my sweet girl. She got up there and they double gunned her. She did not whimper or cry. She was so excited. She told me today that she wanted to do this so badly, that she would never ask for anything again. That lasted of course, about 10 minutes. We fully intended to buy Abbi a toy, since sis was getting earrings, so Emma(the one who never wanted anything else) decided that we should buy Squawkers Macal. That silly talking bird, which I was against before chirstmas(price tag of $60) but today at $15, it was a go. It is really cool, but I am glad that we will not be bringing anymore toys in this house until birthday time. Speaking of, I have 9 more days at my wonderful age of 32. I honestly think that I am going thru a mid 30's crisis. I just do not want to get old and older looking. So, what do you do? I got my hair high lighted to look younger, and of course I HATE IT! Why do I think that I can change the outside to make the inside feel younger? That is a good question, maybe some of you can answer that for me. So, Jodi take a stab at that one for me!