In NEED of a Running Mate!

And no I am not running for President. Today I am in Nebraska and we are going through and packing things for mom. It is raining so it is nice and wet outside. I have to run 4-1600m. For some of you that don't know what that is it is 16 total laps around the football field track. Then on Thursday, I have to run 8 miles. So whoever is up for a good run, let me know and you can join me on my quest.

Here are the pics....

I forgot to mention that for a week I also had 2 extra children. 3 of my own weren't enough. :) So here are some pics with my extra kids too.

Here is Lillie feeding Ethan. Now he likes big people food though so we just have to finish up the baby food he has and I won't have to buy it anymore! Yeah!

Josh pulling the kids.

Kids playing in the sprinkler, they loved it. Robert said Cameron told him he needed a house like Aunt Amy's, I bet it was so he can do stuff like this.



Here is Ethan and his new way of crawling. He gets on one foot and just uses the other one folded. We call it the crab walk, but he gets around.

Ehtan is eating a pancake.


Levi's first day of 3rd Grade!


He asked me why I had to take his picture. Then I thought since he was going into Intermediate school(3-5) he wouldn't want me to walk him in, but he did. I was worried this year my little boy wouldn't want his mommy anymore, but that's not true. I went and had lunch with him on Friday, and he gave me a hug in front of all his classmates. YEAH!!!

So here are the picturs, I hope you enjoy them and I will try(that's a big) to keep caught up. If only I could get ahead. Yeah right that will never happen.

Thought you were gonna get pics huh! Come back tomorrow, I will be posting again!

I just wanted to say hi, and sorry I have been a bit busy. I have had something go on every weekend this month. The first weekend I had to take a CPR-PR, O2, First Aid, AED class. Then the second weekend I had to do a YASA class, which is YMCA assistant lifeguard class. So I can help a lifeguard if something happens to someone in the water. Then last weekend Friday night, all day Sat, and all day Sunday, I took my water aerobics certification. So I am officially certified to teach water aerobics at the Y. Then this past weekend Levi had a football scrimmage and had 2 games, and then I had to work in the concession stand later in the afternoon. Then this morning I did it....my first 10 mile run. I couldn't believe that I actually made all 10 miles running! I had a 10:10 pace(min/sec) So I did 10 miles in 1 hour and 41min. VERY EXCITING! I am getting excited my half marathon is 4 weeks from today. Well, I have pics to add, but I have to get them on the computer downstairs(I am on my laptop upstairs). So I WILL work on that tomorrow.

Quick Post

Just a post to say HI and I will post as soon as I can a bigger one with what is going on. It has been crazy as a matter of fact I just realized I missed the 19th of July. I just had to beat mom!!! LOL next time don't tell me what you are doing!!!

WOW 2 Post in 1 DAY!!!

Well, how about them apples. Can you believe your eyes...yes it is true this is my second post today! I just wanted to update and let everyone know. Today Ethan got his first tooth. On his 9 month b-day!!! Yeah!! I would take a picture but he keeps putting his tongue in the way of it. Silly little boy.

Fireworks....BOOM!! "Says Lillie"

Since Levi is with us this week and for the 4th this year he has been somewhat of a Fireworks boy and has since "intrigued his sister" until they started going off in the driveway. All I have heard is fireworks..fireworks...fireworks. Either Levi or Lillie is saying it. However, once it began Lillie was not so excited! At one point she even threw the fireworks on the steps so that Levi couldn't set them off, she was tying to get rid of them.

Then this morning I got up and went and picked up Wendy(met her through the running club I am in). We went and did the 4mile Firecracker Run in Derby. I didn't do too bad but it wasn't as good as I had hoped. Well, I hope everyone has a safe and happy 4th of July. Thank you God for our Freedom!

Priceless Pics

I had some pictures on my camera and thought that I would go ahead and puts some pictures on here for you. (For the cyber bullies I am doing this at 12:59AM!!) Anyway, when looking at these pics you will have to see if these kids 1 in particular takes after her mother/father or both!

These first ones are from the church picnic we had earlier this month. Dude notice how close Lillie is...way closer than you would ever get. She was feeding them cheez-its. Levi had to ride the pony because Josh got a ticket because Lillie seemed interested till they were wanting to put her on it. No parents could be back there so we couldn't help ease her so Levi had to do it. Needless to say it was not the high point of his day! Then Ethan was just relaxing ....and thinking.



I bet you can't guess who she takes after! Well, it is the same person she is talkig to......her grandma!!
She thought Ethan needed to say something as well.
This girl is gonna rock!

Hope you enjoyed the pics, only a week and a half left before we get to see everyone!

Time flys when we are having fun...guess I didn't realize I was having fun.

I can't believe it is almost the end of June. I feel like I can't keep up for anything. The kids are sleeping and I really should be doing other things, but I am being bullied about posting. (you know who you are!) Well, let's see what has happend in almost the last 2 months. Levi finished school, we went to Nebraska for a week. Then I was just trying to keep up around the house and trying to enjoy summer and then last weekend I went to KC to walk Relay for Life, with Robert. We had a good time Ethan and Levi went with me and they did well. Went to sleep in the tent at 9:45pm and got up at 5AM!! I however didn't go to bed until 3AM! Yes I said 3 and right before I went to bed I ran 4miles...in a circle. I was waiting for them to say we could switch directions at some point, but they never did. I ran 2 miles prior to that at about 11:00pm. It was nice running though because there was no sun to beat down on me. The experience was good and I may even go up to the one that will be in Wichita in Aug. especially for the luminaria part. That was hard to say the least. They go through how people are related to those who have had/had/have cancer. When they say how you are related to it then you light a candle. After they went through all the names on the luminaria bags the we did a walk. People were then putting their candles by the luminarias. I had to search for Robert(in the dark, even though he is tall you can still miss him in the dark). We then put our candles by the lumanaria. I was crying but Ethan was screaming with Levi so I had to go take care of him. I do pray that one day cancer will be no longer and that we don't have to lose loved ones to it. Well, the next big trip will be in just over 2 weeks and going to TX! Yeah I can't wait. Wonder if Rick is ready for all of us rowdy ones? Well, let me see what I can put on here for picks, it seems as though I am missing some.

While in Nebraska we went to the zoo here are some pics. I really don't have any of recently guess I need to get the camera out more.

Pics of the relatives at the zoo!

Mom was looking good for her pic.


Robert wasn't cooperating so well, so I couldn't get a very good one of him.
As you can see Levi takes after his uncle Robert.

I think we wore Ethan out though. He was pretty pooped!


The best story from the zoo was from lunch. I had the kids in the stroller and Lillie was in the front where there is a tray. She was having peanut butter and jelly sandwhich. All of a sudden a bird swooped down on her tray and stole some of her bread. All of the older kids were crackin up, they thought it was funny that the bird had done that. It was a good thing it was Lillie and not Dude or we would have had a mess on our hands. I bet to Lillie the legs of that little bird were "this" big! LOL! Gotta love ya Dude.

What's been going on....

Here is the newest band member.

Here was Levi at his fun fit day.


Here is Lillie and Ethan at Levi's fun fit day. We rode the bicycle down to the school, about 2 miles each way. We were waiting for Levi to get out of school after being at the track.



Ethan is just too cute!!!

Here is my new diva!


This is from the zoo on Thur. Levi just took off with Lillie as soon as she was out of the stoller. He took her hand and away he went. It was so cute!

Then when we were in the jungle I wanted to take a picture of them in front of the waterfall, and Lillie was terrified. I am not sure why, but she clinged to Levi.

I will add some more pics in a bit, thought I should end this post before it won't let me post any more pics.

Running, Running, and still Running

Well, I had a good run, so now I want to add some pics. This first one is actually from the Derby High 5 which was the cold one, that was windy and cold!


Here is a pic of my friend Wendy and I before the race.
Here is a pic in action from the 10K, I am in the black top and black shorts in the middle of the group.

I finished my 10K in 1hour 3min. I was really hoping to be a bit faster, but I had a side ach the last mile. I think it was because I had taken a drink of water about half way through, and maybe swallowed air. It was still my best time. After finishing my 10K I thought I would do the 2mile. I am not sure why I was so crazy, but I was. As soon as I started it my legs felt like they were going to come out from beneath me. I think my body was like what are you doing to me. I finished both though and then went on to run with Lillie and her tot trot.


Here is mommy and Lillie and our medals for finishing our races!! YEAH! Go mommy, Go Lillie!

Well, I have a bunch more pictures I want to put on here, but it took a while to get the last one to finally load so I better end this post now. Hopefully I can get a chance tomorrow to add another one, there are some great pics to come! So check back!

Almost Here!

I am slowly preparing myself for my 10K & 2 mile tomorrow. I will be putting up pics from my runs, Lillie's run and Levi has a fun fit day today at the high school track, so we are heading there in a couple of hours. I know I have some pics on my camera that I need to put on here, but they are still on the camera. I have been so busy lately that I am not sure which way I am going. I will be taking pics of my new furniture too! I love it, I got a new couch and chair. I will have to take pics of my Mother's Day flowers I won from the grocery store in town. I kinda wish they would offer $$ for a raffle, I won a ham in Nov at Thanksgiving and now flowers. Maybe I am the only one that puts my name in?? Next week we will be heading to the zoo so I will be seeing many of you there! LOL I believe in the gorilla exhibit! I know Robert will be there (inside joke, mom you will understand in a couple of days). In case I don't end up back on here before Sunday. Happy Mother's Day to all the moms!!

Garage Sale and Running

Well this is what my past week has consisted of..getting ready for the garage sale and running. I started last Sunday so that I could have everything ready by Wed. night. Yeah right. Garage sales start here on Thur. I was still finishing up Thur. morning. We did really good though. So that was very exciting. I had such a good day on Thur., I pulled more stuff out of the house on Fri. So I was with the garage sale Thur and Fri. and Josh had it yesterday till about 1:30 when I got home from a race in Hesston KS. It is just north of Newton. It was a 5K (3.1 miles) and I had my personal best. Their clock said 30:00 minutes flat, but my garmin said 29:41, which I don't start my garmin till I hit the start line. When you have a 1020 women/girls walking,running, jogging this takes a bit depending on where you are at in the heard to hit that line. The youngest participant was 2 and the oldest was 90 and just had a hip replaced in Oct. Before that my best had been 31:48 according to the clocks at my last windy/cold race. So needless to say I was very excited! So now it is preparing for the 10K 2 weeks from yesterday. I would love to be down around an hour or so. I ran with a friend of mine last weekend and did it in just over that so I should be good. I hope. I think I am going to do the 2 mile that day as well with my father in law. Lillie is going to do the tot trot which is across the bridge so that will be cute as well! I will have lots of pictures from that race! I need to get some on here. I will have to try to fit that into this weeks schedule. Since I was in the garage this week the house went to pot! I have so much laundry I don't know what to do with and if I dont' wash my running stuff I will be running naked. That would be a site! LOL No, I wouldn't run naked but Britta probably wouldn't be able to stand the smell of me because I would be wearing stinky clothes. Maybe she would be able to pick up her time from trying to get away from me. Anyway, just rambling now. So when we go to Texas if anyone wants to run with me (early morning or late evening) I will let ya!

P.S I got rid of that post and updated some settings so hopefully that will help. That was the first time I got one of those. Glad nobody clicked on it.

Lillie is 2

I had Lillie's pictures taken and some of you have seen these but I wanted to update here with her.
I will be adding running pics as soon as I get them from my 2mile run in March and my 5K(3.1) run last weekend. I will also be running a 5K next weekend and a 10K(6.2miles)on May 10. I am excited about this one. I ran my first 10K ever yesterday and did it in 1hour 4min. I plan on working on doing a 1/2 marathon in September in Wichita. (13.1miles) So who knows maybe next year it will be a marathon. (26.2) :)

It has been a few weeks....

Therefore I had better post or I will hear it next week when I am in Nebraska. It has been absolutely crazy. I am trying to set up our books (Accounting) for our LLC that Josh and I own with his brother. We started it the end of last year so I have to get it done for taxes. Well, I know alot about Accounting as far as payables, receiveables, inventory..yada yada yada. However, starting the books with the equity and such I have figured some out, but some I am clueless. So I have been working hard on that, because none of us can do our taxes till it is done and I am running(literally) out of time.

Levi had a concert at school the end of February. So here are some pics from it.

Ethan was having a good time too.

However, Lillie was really getting into it and decided that Ethan needed to be a part of it. As the kids were singing she started swaying her hands, then she grabbed Ethans hand and was holding it and swaying their hands. It was so cute, I wish I could have gotten a better picture.

So here are some pictures from Levi and Lillie's birthday party (almost 3 weeks ago).


I bet nobody has a lamb this cute for Easter.


Here is my "new" dishwasher....


With all the warm weather, Lillie likes to go outside and blow bubbles, sometimes inside if mommy lets her.



Then as some of you know today Josh and I celebrate our 3rd Anniversary. We went out last night to a Japanese steak house. So we got dressed up for the occasion. We didn't have very good lighting so the picture is yellow, but you get the idea.