Our first graduate!

Jared takes his DAT on Monday... everyone please keep him in your thoughts & prayers. He has been studying so hard! (Which is why I am blogging at 10:30 on Friday night!) Here are some pictures from Colby's last day of Kindergarten... enjoy:)

Dance Recital

Thanks family for coming! It was fun to have you and it made Taylor feel very special!

Star Light, Star Bright

I plan on posting quite a bit in the next couple of weeks because the kids have had a lot going on with the end of the school year. Hopefully, I'll get some video up too if I can figure that out. Check back!

High School Friends

It was fun to see you guys! Congrats Marie on little Mason! I'm glad that mom & baby are doing well!

Slumber Party!

Posh Spice #2

Halle put this outfit together on her own - shorts, boots, & Taylor's glasses! I thought it was so hilarious that I helped her find a pose to strut her stuff!

Skating Palace, USA!

Hmmm.... Can you tell that I'm injured & can't run @ night any more? And, that I finally have a working camera?? I'm blogging like crazy now:) I went to Beaumont Bone & Joint today but received no official diagnosis on my knee. Without an MRI, it is really impossible to know for sure (& I'm not ready to pay for an MRI just yet). I'm going to stick it out for a little while and see if it gets better. Neither of the two possibilities I was given are great but I will survive... Possibility #1: Torn meniscus which will not heal on its own b/c no blood flows through cartilage to aid the healing process. I would have to get surgery... Yikes. I would still be able run eventually though. Possibility #2: My doctor thought it was more likely a bone bruise. This still takes a few months to heal but at least it will heal and won't require surgery. So for now, no marathon and Rest, Ice, & Ibuprofen. I'm not excited. Maybe I'll pick up biking after all... any tips Christy?!

Here are some pictures from Jared's cousin's 30th birthday party at the Skating Palace last week... sweet. It was good times with tons of family & friends.

Colby is 6!

I think I like creating new blog layouts more than I enjoy blogging! Enjoy my latest creation:) I found a blog that gives great directions on how to create your own cute blog! I used my scrapbooking software to do the heading though. Anyway - here it is if any of you are interested: http://sjhblogdesign.blogspot.com/.

So, Colby is 6! I can hardly believe it:) Here are some pictures from his funtabulous birthday party. His talent show performance was so fun last week! He made it to the school talent show so after he does that, I will post a video of him. Definitely cheered me up! I'm pretty amazed that he actually got up in front of his peers and sang... watch out Waldo & Darla!

Bad Day!

I'm really not sure why I'm posting this on here - I don't particularly want sympathy... it has just been a bad couple of days for me. And I really don't have bad days super often. I don't get down very easily and can usually manage a lot of stress well. I just woke up with some crazy hormones, almost like I couldn't control my mood and my normal crazy life all of a sudden seemed difficult. Mostly, I think it is the extra hormones from my IUD (which I made an appointment today to get taken out b/c I'm tired of its side effects). But on top of that, I hurt my knee last night and I am really really sad about it...

I've been training for a marathon lately (my second attempt after recovering from a previous injury the first attempt). I've been feeling great and have been very careful about taking proper care of my legs. Last night, I was supposed to run 5 miles & the group I run with was going to run 4. So, I decided to run the first mile on my road before I headed over to meet the group. It was 10 o'clock @ night and so I was a little freaked out about running by myself. But, I was staying close to my house and I had my car keys in my hand and Jared was in the playroom - so I figured that if anything happened... I could just hit the panic button on my keys and Jared would come rescue me, right? So, I had just done 2 of the 5 little loops that I needed to do. I was turning around to go back for a 3rd time and this teenage neighbor of mine was running full speed toward me and started screaming at me - "Who are you? What are you doing?" Needless to say, I panicked (all I saw was a tough guy in a tank top running as fast as he could toward me). I started yelling at him that I lived here - I was just exercising - that he scared the crap out of me. And the next thing I knew - I couldn't run even one step without pain. It turns out that this kid thought I was up to mischief by his house or something which is why he came chasing me. I have no idea what happened, but somewhere in that turn... I did something to my knee that has left me with sharp pains if I even attempt to run even one step. I have a friend who is a podiatrist and he looked at my leg tonight and he thinks that I tore some cartilage in my knee - I think he said the medial meniscus. Anyway, it is expensive to fix and takes weeks to heal. After just finishing two months of rest... I just can't help but cry when I think about not running. I am really sad about it. And I better stop typing about it so that I can stop crying about it. I hate hormones!!!

Colby is in the talent show tomorrow at school singing the Waldo & Darla version of "L-O-V-E" so I'm sure that will bring me out of this terrible, awful, no-good, very bad DAY!!!

And for tonight, I wasted a bunch of time seeing how many words I could type in a minute... does anyone else enjoy things like this as much as I do?? I am such a nerd! - AND, I don't type this fast all of the time... it took MANY MANY MANY attempts to get this score.

83 words

Speed test