Cast Picture

The shows are over and it was a big success. The kids always do such a wonderful job and they have so much fun doing it. Liv's on the left in the purple. Since my camera is broken I was at the mercy of others to take pictures so I'll post more as I get them.

Click on the picture to enlarge it.

ONE MORE WEEK!

Turn up the volume, this is my theme song for the week.......

Opening Night!

After months of hard work and practice the time has finally arrived. Tonight is the opening night of Liv's play. They will have 4 shows over the next 3 days. (What a terrible time for my camera to break) Judging by our last practice it seems to me that the kids could have used one more rehearsal but hopefully with the pressure of a live audience, they will pull it off. It really is a cute show. I think I already mentioned Liv being a Flower. A violet. Which is just so funny because it's her least favorite color and she has worn purple for every show she has been in since she has started. Should be fun, but will be a busy weekend for us.
As I was thinking about all the things we have to do this weekend, in my mind I fast forwarded through the next few months and realized we have something going on almost every week/end up until we start school again in July. I feel like my summer is over before it has begun.

Here's a run down.

• This weekend our play.
• Next week, my sister's here for our race.
• Father/son camp out and Mother's Day
• G-man and I leave for Pennsylvania
• Last week of school
• Whew! A break
• Twilight camp
• Girls camp, Oh, and I'm going! 4th year counselor and hike here I come!
• Family trip to Utah
• Back to school

See! It's going to go by so fast. =(

I better get a new camera!

Birthday Madness Continues....

Yeah, what in the world???!!! Can you guess?? This is the last picture my camera took before it broke. The culprit? My little, beautiful, stinker son, little A and his finger. I was on the phone, and he grabbed my camera off my desk and the next thing I hear is this weird noise coming from the camera and the screen saying Lens error! Now the lens won't close. It's stuck. I might try to see if it's worth getting fixed but it's not a priority right now. So these may be my last pictures for awhile so enjoy them! So glad it was after Liv's b-day.

Thankfully, we've had our last birthday until August. Whew! I'm wiped out. Although, I think that has more to do with my running than with birthdays! But I'll talk about that later. Of course, we've all been keeping busy and I'm having a hard time finding time to update my blog regularly. Besides birthdays, Liv is in a play, Alice in Wonderland, and next thursday is the opening night. I've finished the costumes and now I'm helping with the stage managing. Which means I have to be at all the tech rehearsals which are like 4 hours or more long. So there hasn't been much time for anything else. When I do have time, I've been lazy and have been reading I just finished reading Jane Eyre. By the way, that's my new favorite book. I watched the movie done by Masterpiece Theater and it was so good I then had to read the book. ( I know, I'm a little slow, I should have read this book in high school but I didn't do much reading then.) There's my plug, if you haven't read or watched the movie, go do that.

Happy Birthday Liv! Another teenager! This was a very exciting birthday for her. She was very anxious to turn 13, but I think that had something to do with me letting her sign up for Facebook!

Her friend had this giant cookie and balloons sent to her first period class! Ok, why didn't I think of that? Chalk that up along with all the other reasons why I'm such a lame mommy!

Breakfast in bed! Her choice... scrambled eggs, toast with ham and cheese on it. Yummy!

One of the things hubby took the older kids to do on Spring Break was to go to the highest point in Sacramento County. (ummm, don't ask me why, he just likes to do weird stuff) It's in this really pretty neighborhood and has a great view, although you can see it's not very high.

Of course, no break is complete without a trip to SF.

This was taken on Little A's b-day when we went bowling.

Lastly, is my running. We're down to the last 2 weeks (tomorrow) until our race. Last Sat. I ran 10 miles. Did great, felt great. My 5 mile run on Monday was ok. But Tuesday, I did 3 and was DY-ING. I felt like I was wearing cement sneakers. All day, again I was just drained. I think, I'm just ready to be done. My body is just exhausted. So I took an extra day off this week to prepare me for tomorrow because we're running 12 miles. We'll see how long it takes me to recover from that one. I know it helps when I eat good but after running those kinds of miles, all I want to do is go to Chick-fil-a and have their yummy chicken tenders, french fries and a chocolate shake!

Well, I think that about sums up the last week or so. Until next time..... Eat well, run hard!

Question?

I don't know what's going on but I can no longer hear my music on my blog. Can you? I can't even see my playlist anymore it's just a shell of where is should be. I can't figure it out. Any ideas? Thanks

Birthday Madness.

Another successful birthday! Little A's first birthday party with friends. Small and simple but enjoyed by all. Thanks to Liv and G-man who helped out with the games since they are on Spring Break. This afternoon we will head on over to Strikes to go bowling.

Little A was so excited to turn 5. This morning he was looking for his backpack and was ready to start school. After all, I told him he would go to school when he was five. I just hope he keeps his enthusiasm even after school starts.

April 1st

Normally this day passes without any typical pranks or tricks, at least to me, however this morning imagine my surprise when I woke up to G-man coming in to my room to tell me we missed seminary! I looked at the clock, 6:35am! I overslept! Or should I say, my alarm didn't go off. This is a first. What I love about my alarm clock is that I don't have to turn it on every night. It is automatically set to go off at 5:25am. every weekday morning. This clock is also a docking system for my iPod. Liv, last night, was the last one to take it off, although she claims innocence. As she doesn't benefit from me sleeping in I tend to believe her. G-man also says he didn't touch it. Since the alarm was actually never turned off, I can't explained what happened. (Except that I got to sleep in an hour which was desperately needed because I haven't slept well the last 2 nights due to my allergies/chest cold.) I am also mysteriously missing all my make up and deodorant. Someone really doesn't want me to go anywhere today!

Backtracking a bit. I'm still battling a chest cold. I took 3 days off from training last week. When I thought I was getting better the allergies kicked in. Now I am having sinus issues as well as a cough I can't kick. Not pleasant. I ran 8 miles on Monday and it completely drained all the life out of me for the rest of day.

Last Friday Hubby and I went for a bike ride. He borrowed a bike from my friend. I haven't been on a bike in years and it was so fun. Of course, now I want my own. I think it would be great cross training for my 1/2 marathon training. *hint, hint.*

A friend challenge me to give up sugar with her for Lent. Which would be from 25th of Feb. until April 11th . 46 days. I started the 26th of Feb. and went 10 days then it was Sweet Pea's b-day, I told myself when I started that I would have cake for her b-day. (ok, I had it the next day too) but then went another 26 consecutive days without sugar. I quit on the 29th when I found out that she had quit a week previous. Last week I was super grumpy. A different friend suggested that it was because I wasn't eating any sugar. I think she was right. I'm hoping that I have at least learned to be more disciplined and will be able control my intake a little better from now on. That's what I'm hoping anyway.

Here's to Better Days ahead.