I Finished!

This last Saturday, I ran the "Run for the Schools, 5k! I actually finished and didn't need oxygen at the end. I did it in 35 minutes and 9 seconds. I didn't run the whole thing there were ALOT of HILLS. I speed walked part of it. But all in all I jogged at least 2/3 if not more.

In the first picture I'm the one in the navy beanie. This is us waiting to start. Don tried to get a picture of me after the first turn but only got the back of my head. The second picture is self explanatory. The third picture of me is after the race, don't I look pretty. And the forth picture is me doing a 3 and a 5 with my hands for thirty-five and not realizing I did it backwards.

For my next goal I would like to do another 5K, but jog the whole thing and drop about 5 minutes off my time. I want to do this some time in the fall.

Trip to California, in Spring

Eating out, eating out, and eating out some more!

Oma trying to teach Josh how to whistle with his fingers.

Holly building houses and towers with domino's. She is wearing the princess outfit, including the cape and purple shoes, the only thing that is missing the crown. All got from Tu-tu. She took us to a toy store that my uncle works at and bought Josh and Holly outfits. Josh is a knight including; shield, sword, cape, mail, and hat thingy (not a crown).

Swimming at the indoor pool at Oma's hotel (sorry the pictures aren't the best).

Tu-tu and I playing gin. ( I think she let me win).

We also got to see 2 of my uncles on my moms side and my aunts of course that was fun. When my Uncle Rob (or as Holly calls him Uncle Roc) he was surprised at how much she weighs. Holly looked at him and wanted to know what was that under his nose, he has a mustache. Uncle George and Aunt Denise were surprised to see us and my kids ran all over their house looking at everything. They have a lot of really cool art. We also saw a family that we were friends with when I lived in San Mateo. Their little boy I used to baby sit is now a police man with the San Diego Police Department and now sports a mustache.

All in all it was a good trip, we saw a lot of family, My youngest cousin is now taller and she is going to college. We were all really spoiled by family, grandparents (my parents came down) and great-grandparents. The kids loved having a tv in their room and pretty free to be loud ( my grandma is losing her hearing). Thank you Tu-tu for the trip, All my relatives that ate with us and spoiled us, my mom for being with us the whole week and my dad for driving down so many times, it was great!

Projects and punishments

Don has started to run new pipe in the basement, to get ready for enclosing another section. He only got to do some, because we ran out of money. Same goes for the framing. I must say that he did it faster than I thought he could.

One day Don and I were actually punishing the kids. They had gone out front without asking permission first. To some of you, you might think big deal. You would change your mind if you saw how fast people drive on our street that is a 35 mile an hour road. So after talking until we were blue in the face, I suggested they go in the backyard and pick up sticks, rocks that they had put through out the lawn, etc. Don and I did a project too. We cleared off the many many planters that were on out porch. Hung some of the hanging baskets and put some pots on our front porch. Now to get plants for all of them.

As for the children and there punishment, I don't think it sunk in. The next Monday, Josh was playing in the backyard, I was out front by our neighbors hanging laundry (I wanted to try it, I had never done it before) I came back in through the garage. A little while later, I went back up stairs and saw a little boy running up to my door. I thought that's odd. It was Josh! He wanted to go say hi to our neighbor and he didn't go through the front door, so he thought it was okay. Argghhh.

It actually fits

Well on this path to weight lose I have picked different goals, one of them being this shirt. My ward had a Swap night and I saw and loved this shirt. I thought maybe I could fit in that when I get to my ultimate goal. (the shirt being 4 sizes smaller than what I was when I started). For giggles I decided to try it on. The zipper actually zipped and I fit it. Wahooooo! I didn't realize it, but it is a petite. I then looked in my closet for some pants to go with it. I thought that these would be fine, but they are a little to big. Don says they are not flattering on the rear, a bit saggy. Time for some new clothes.

Well I was going to blog

I was going to catch up on my blogging tonight with pictures and all,but my computer decided that I was mistaken. So I will try later this week. Oh well.

What to do?

I had my Saturday all planned out, until my friend Kim called Friday and said, "Are you ready to garden?" A couple of months back she mentioned that she knew someone with manure that we could get for free and she and her husband have a trailer. If I wanted when they got fertilizer for their garden I could get some for mine. This was the first nice weekend in a while. I had been planning on going to a Women's Conference, so if anyone reading this went please tell me something you learned or inspired you. I weighed out the two things and the manure won. It's free, they had a trailer (how else would I get the poop over here) and they would help me and I could help them. Not only that, but I would get my garden in the next phase to grow food for my family. It was tough choice, but it turned out great.

I can't believe I guessed right!

On Friday night we went to a "Family fun Math Night" at Josh's school. They served pizza first and then you could go into different classrooms and do fun activities. We entered the guess the candy contest. I guessed 713 pieces, Josh said 25 so I wrote 425, and Holly said 3 so I wrote 303. Well we had to leave before they announced the winner (I had a meeting to go to). As I was running around the house doing baths and making and eating dinner (no I didn't eat the pizza) I heard Don talking to some women. I went to see who and it turn out to be Josh's teacher Mrs. Wolburg. I had guessed exactly right on the candy and won. Our house is on her way home so she volunteered to bring it to us.

So what does someone who is on Weight Watchers do with 713 pieces of candy, you may ask. Well, the kids have 3 birthday parties to attend in two weeks. Three good portions were divided among those kids. My kids have had a bit, but then the house goodie monster has eaten all the chocolate so all that is left is jelly beans. My new guess would be 68 pieces of candy left!