(A More Real) Love Story

oh yes... how I relate!!!!!!!

YMCA Country music kids marathon

This yr, we had Reese participate in the country music marathon for kids downtown. And what an amazing experience that was. We trained with him at home (didn't quite make the 25miles that we were supposed to) but he worked hard getting a lot of miles in. He was one of 3 runners that signed up in his school.
Kids from all over the Nashville area come together to participate. They get tshirts and marathon numbers and they all run the last mile of the marathon together. I was probably more excited than Reese was for this. Just to see him run and enjoy himself and complete the marathon made me so proud for him. It was such an accomplishment and a great time for the whole family! He got a very cool medal when he completed!

Reese and his racing team- his coach, a 2nd grade teacher and a friend in his class.


Hes the little guy in the white running towards the back next to the guy in the pink shirt. Right before the finish line!

And he made it!!!!! We were all about this excited!!!

And as part of his running as well as my volunteering for big marathon the next day, we were all able to get tickets to the post race concert. We just stayed for 2 acts but we got to enjoy hearing Heidi Nufelt from Trick Pony rock it out! The kids crashed and Jons not a huge country fan so we went home but it was a great family weekend!!!


**here's some pics he got taken at the marathon that were uploaded to the website**








And just for fun.. I'm registered and ready to work on training for my own 1/2marathon in Sept!!

Sick Day

Jon was ummm... sick.. yesterday so we took the day and just spent it together and had a nice relaxing day with the kids at school.
We took a drive to Centennial Park and walked around there and just sat and talked for quite a long time. Then had lunch at quiznos and watched part of a movie that pretty much sucked (Funny People..blah).

When Reese got home, we took a little detour and instead of walking home, we walked to Happy Hour at Sonic instead:) ... it's abt .8miles each way so not too bad and oh so worth it!



Sometimes it's all about the little things that mean so much. A nice reminder about what is truely important. And it couldn't have come at a better time because our realtor after sending us an email saying we probably have an offer on the house then told us it fell through. So why tell us we MAY have an offer? So we told him don't even say anything to us unless we have a contract. This is now the 3rd time he has gotten our hopes up pointlessly. So I doubt we're relisting this house if it doesn't sell.... anyone in Woodstock need to rent a nice house at a good price??

Oh and tomorrow night Reese is running the last mile in the Country Music Marathon in Nashville. Very exciting so stay tuned!

What am I thinking?

http://www.active.com/running/nashville-tn/the-womens-half-marathon-nashville-tn-2010

I'm training for this bad boy....

Everything is Beautiful - Tyson's Song_

This has become my new favorite song.. Hopefully you can see it on here. My friend Tim and his group Due West sings it- it's on the soundtrack for the new movie "Letters to God" which if you don't mind a cheesy God flick, it's pretty good:) And if you ask me, I think Due West sings it better and should have been on the actual movie and not just the soundtrack. But then maybe I'm a little partial... no really they should have.

***Edited to add...

So Berta just told me this boy passed away:(

I'm glad this song was written for him- what a great tribute to his life.

Easter Festivities

Okay as promised... since I know you all have been on pins and needles waiting, here are the events of our lovely Easter Sunday.

Since Jon and I have been trying to get more in shape and active, we decided to go find a trail or track we can start jogging on. We found one and loaded up the kids and off we went. Reese is going to be in a country music marathon soon sponcered by the YMCA so we also figured we should start working with him. Win Win right? Yeah not so much.
Jon and Reese took off jogging and Reese did awesome keeping up. I stayed back with Rielly.. who after about 5 minutes started whining. She jogged with me for a few steps and then was too tired. Then her feet her. Then she was hot. And tired. And needed to rest. And was not having any fun. The boys were so far ahead of us that we just kept on walking the trail. Never having been there before, we didn't know that at a certain point, it split off. We could either turn or go straight. I figured either way would be a big circle and we'd get back to the boys eventually. Yeah again not so much. We went straight. And walked.. and walked.. and Rielly cried and whined and mommy barked and fumed because of said whining and crying. All the while I thought I'd catch up with the boys because it had to circle back. It just had to! Nope. About 1.5miles down this path, it ended. And no sign of my boys. Silly me also wasn't carrying my phone. So I was a little worried and stressed (because of the whining and crying) so we stopped to say a quick prayer so we would know what we should do at this point. Should we wait? Walk back? Leave Rielly there? (jk). So we started walking back. Rielly was crying harder because her feet hurt so bad. So I put her on my back. She's not light by any means. And I walked and huffed and fumed for about a mile and just had to put her down. So she walked in her socks until we got back to the turn off that we should have taken in the first place. Low and behold... there was Jon and Reese headed towards us. Poor Reese was freakin out because he thought we were lost :(. Moral of the story? If you have a phone, carry the darn thing and never go straight when theres the option to turn....

We spent the afternoon hanging out while I made a few cards and the kids played with their new Easter goodies.


My new Ketto stamp...



Easter cards


Then we went over to the Hawkins for an Easter dinner and egg hunt with them and the Gates. Good times with friends!!

No more toothless kiddo!

Our wonderful hostess Susie

Tim and Berta Gates w/Jon and the ham. That was dang good ham if I do say so myself! Oh and see that cake at the bottom of the pic? Monkey Bread-- made it myself. First time even!!! Oh the things I do for my friends

Reese, Zac and Brady

Man my camera on my BB sucks!!! But heres Rielly, Alex, Missy, Jaden, and the backs of Lainy and Timmy.

Rielly with her basket so excited about getting some eggs!

Jon, Tim and Susie watching the kids hunt.

Good ol Jack helping them out!

Thanks Jack and Susie for having us over! We had a great time!!!

The Easter Bunny came!

Happy Easter Everyone!!!!!

Remember the good ol days.. when all the easter bunny would bring was eggs filled will candy inside a fake grass filled basket? I think our bunny is a little out of control and my kids are quite spoiled (thank you again coupons!!!) They got a little candy but this yr, I- I mean the bunny- was able to score a lot of sweet deals and the kids were in heaven!!!! They even got Toy Story and Toy Story 2... each one had a free movie pass in it for Toy Story 3 that is worth a lot more than I paid for both of them!

I'll blog about our day after it ends. We had a fun jogging/walking/getting lost adventure and then tonight, dinner at the Gates.

Until then, I will leave you with this......

My fantastic hubby knows I don't like spaghetti so when he makes it for him and the kids, he makes me a meatball sub instead. This time, he used 94% fat free meat, Heart Smart sauce and cheese all on a bun made of what else.. biscuits!!!!

and this...

In case you thought about waiting, don't!!!