McKinley is now done with preschool. sad. She loved it and misses her teachers and friends. Her favorite things were being “The Special Helper”, Curious George, the playground, girls in her class, her two teachers, parties, singing, dressing up, art projects…..the list could go on all day.
Now Kinley can hardly wait for Kindergarten to start!
I still have a hard time saying “I have 3 kids”. When did this happen? Didn’t I just get married? Wasn’t McKinley born only yesterday? Jon is tired of hearing me complain about how fast the years go, yet how slow the days go. Why is that?
McKinley LOVES planning a “party”. She plans one EVERY. SINGLE. DAY. Luckily for her, today she had a good reason to. The house was decorated in green (my fav. color) streamers, the table was set with all different colors of tissue paper, a nonfrosted cake from a box was made, 3 year old hot chocolate was served, and she topped it off with a Kleenex in the lap. She is serious about this hostess stuff. I smile every time she asks, in a mature, grown-up way “Do you need anything else?” “would you like more to drink"?” “Let me get you another Napkin”
Kinley got me some fake, fabric flowers she picked out at the dollar store. She was so excited and just KNEW I’d want them. I was even told I get them ALL to myself. So Back off.
Aspen picked out star-shaped ice cube trays which were wrapped in every color tissue paper you could imagine. She’s adamant on creating popsicles with them. I’m sure they’ll be used a lot once the Summer heat hits.
Zachary slept through the whole festivity.
Love you girls!! Thanks for the presents!
AND I love you, Mom!!!
It’s a official! Aspen has graduated from Joy School. Ladies and Gentlemen Jon here is your graduating class of 2012……
Weston was obvious voted Class Clown. I’m pretty sure he was trying to impress Bailey cuz she was the popular girl. Aspen, well I’m pretty sure she would have been voted MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED. Hey, you’d agree too if you could only hear her pure, her inferior, her immaculate reciting of the alphabet. Joking.
I’ve been wanting to check out Savannah for a while now and it finally happened. In fact, this trip has been on-call for a few months. Last Thursday, in the afternoon, I received a call from Jon saying “The trip is on. Start packing” Luckily, hotels/resorts are cheap when purchasing the night before arrival. Awesome.
I love OLD cities with LOTS of history. If you’re into antique shopping than this is the city for you. Rows and rows of shops.
Every heard of the “Tall Ship Challange”? Me either, until now. Approx. 14 ships races from Savannah and sail the Atlantic Coast to Nova Scotia . We met a bunch of pirates and even took a tour of Theodore the Tugboat (from Thomas the Train)
Even a little beach time…
Look closely on the amount of sand covering a small child’s body. At least he doesn’t seem to mind.
Restaurants we liked- The Lady and Sons (Paula Deen’s), Zunzis, SoHo South Cafe.
Hilton Head
After Savannah we spent a few days in Hilton Head. I LOVED HH. I’m already trying my hardest to convince Jon that we need to spend Thanksgiving there. :)
Right when we arrived Jon announced that he had a surprise for us. Of course he took us to a Forest/swamp preserve! Jon had a short 1-mile hike planned for us. Simple, right? Not when signs are hanging all around warning us of Alligators. ha. The mama bear came out of me and I wanted to get back in the car as fast as possible. Within the first 19 feet of the walk, McKinley almost stepped on a snake that was stretched across the trail. And then some sweet ladies told us to keep our kids close to us. AH!
We ended up seeing 3 alligators and 2 snakes in 20 minutes.
Than we spent the rest of the time Swimming…
Here is the only picture of me. Luckily, you can’t even tell. :)
That’s all.
Just 7 months post-baby and just one week after the mud run, Marci ran a half marathon today. We went to Les Mis last night (awesome) and had a very early wake up call, so were running on only 4.5 hrs of sleep. I would say Marci was excited but nervous.
Marci’s enthusiastic cheering section (Kinley and Aspen slept at a friend’s house so missed out)
At the start
Zach would have liked these galloping horses if he was awake
Still smiling and beautiful at mile 9
Sprint to the finish
Marci did great, finishing in 2:05 (beating her secret goal time of 2:06). Zach and I had a good time running all over cheering for her. Good job, babe! We’re proud of you!
I can’t even count the number of time when Kinley walks inside the house COVERED in mud. She gravitates to mud! Many adorable outfits have soaked in Oxyclean or Bleach overnight because of MUD.
SOOO…Why is that when we pay $5 for her to run in the MUD she hesitates??? Plus Aspen wouldn’t get get near it. Next time I’m sticking to the FREE mud we have in our backyard.
This was by far my favorite race EVER!!! I can’t even describe the Awesomeness of it. But I’ll try my darn hardest…
First of check out how amazingly CLEAN we are and Buff, of course.
We were team #544 hence the marker. The race started at 7am and a team left EVERY minute all day. Our starting time was 4:03pm! In all, there were 900+ teams and that was just Saturday, I have no idea how many teams ran on Sunday.
First of all, you should know we’ve been planning this race since December. I somehow convinced Jessica, Nancy, and Alicia that diving in mud, crawling under barb wire, and climbing 10 foot walls was fun. They all jumped right on it! We got serious right away…running as often as possible, jumping hurdles and tires, and even took up some Tae Kwon Do. Actually, we only ran. BUT then not too long after Alicia “Broke her Back” (at least that’s what she’s saying. I’m unconvinced. I’m thinking she was SCARED) SADNESS filled the air!!!! How are we going to survive without our Capoeira (Leesh, is that what’s it’s called?) teammate? STOP WORRYING!!! The delicate, soft spoken (BHAAAAA) Ryan stepped up to the plate. and Leesh the second your back is better we are doing it again.
The start of our 3.5 mile journey
here we are..Me, Jessica, Ryan, and Nancy. I can’t stop laughing when I look at Jessica’s face in this picture. Please click on it to blow it up. Oh and I have I told you that Jessica has a 3 month old?? That is hard-core. Oh and have I also told you that ALL of us have kid under 9 months??? That is PURE hard-core, people.
A few examples of our
……37 obstacles…..
See our faces? Either we are INSHOCK at the 8 foot wall we are suppose to climb ahead OR we’re glaring at the mean army dude. Take your pick cuz we did both!
After much difficulty we all made it to the top of the wall!!!
BEST PICTURE OF THEM ALL
(I LOVE Nancy’s face in the picture above)
WE DID IT.
WOW even with a little bit of dirt we still look HOT!
time- 1 hour 1 min 56 sec
GO TEAM MUDDER LOVIN’