Happy Birthday Aydyn

Aydyn had her birthday party today. She turns 4 on the 21st. My favorite thing about Aydyn is how enthusiastic she is about the simplest things. She is easy to please.

I also celebrated my birthday this weekend. Tapie splurged on me and got me a fancy chocolate cake. We're going on a date tonight to get running shoes! I wore my other ones out and that's honestly all I want for my birthday. Sad I know. My i-pod was out of batteries so this morning on my run I had lots to think about. So here is a motivational quote for everyone.

"The miracle is not in finishing but having the courage to start."

Happy Mother's Day

My kids let me sleep in till 6:52 this morning! Tapie's normal Sunday morning meetings were moved to 9:00 a.m. as opposed to 7:00. Church starts at 10:00 so you would think an hour behind him couldn't be that bad. I suppose I had unrealistic expectaions that my kids would not fight on Mother's Day. I said to my kids- if laughing and playing together is my favorite thing, what do you think my least favorite thing is? Cody, smart as he is, commented that would be fighting with each other. In fairness to Cody, Aydyn purposely bugs him . I was in the girls room getting Callie dressed and Cody runs in yelling, "no Aydyn, no!" Then Aydyn runs in and shuts the door. "Ha! Ha! I locked you in Cody." The door locks from the outside. (It was that way when we moved in and we never switched it back.) So with Tapie gone Aydyn had locked us all in. But, after taking the door off the hinges we were able to get out. A couple more fights later we finally made it to church.
But as the sun always shines eventually, we had a fun ride home in the car racing Tapie. All three kids were laughing and having fun. Smiles.

Mud Run

What's the best way to recover from a marathon? How but running a 4 mile obstacle course at a Marine Reserve Center. It started out with a big mud pit and ended with a big mud pit and lots of mud inbetween. I ran with 3 other team members and we did lots of fun things like climbing over walls, army crawl under things, and climbing up cargo nets. Overall there were 35 obstacles.
While I was out Cody and Aydyn had their own kid version. Their pictures were cuter than mine so I'm posting theirs. Tapie said Aydyn ran the kids obstacle course until she literally had no more energy and could hardly move. She didn't appreciate the cold shower they had to rinse off. She didn't appreciate the warm shower and bath at home either. But we are all mud free. Our towels, shower curtains, and floors are not. Most of our clothes will probably not make it.