Thanksgiving at Carriage Square

Went to Carriage Square to eat dinner with Grandma Betty last night. The kids had a good time. I got them a couple of new movies for the ride and brought their jammies along. Cousin Max and Mira are about the exact same personality. It was cute.
Someone had a PIT BULL puppy. It was named Dementia. Nice. Why do people think that's ok?
Griffin was a pill- he ate peanut butter crackers and 2 packages of gummies for dinner.
Partners in Crime.


Off to Albany today!

Lovin the weather!

We are loving this weather!! Today we went to the gym and then came home and ate our sonic outside at the table. The kids don't eat much, of course, but we still had a good time! Yay for sunshine!~

The 1/2

So....I went to the Gobbler Grind so that I could run the 5K portion of the race....I had already paid, and so I got a free shirt and such. The course is all the same, so I intended to quit after 3 miles....well, I didn't. I kept going. I ran the half marathon. 13.1 miles. In full. I took my friend Ryanne's advice and every time there was a water station I walked for about 1 min to 90 seconds to give my ankles and knees a break. It proved to help. My ankles and knees didn't act up a bit. My calf and quad muscles, on the other hand, are VERY sore. I can hardly walk and it's only been an hour. Woops. Before today I had never run farther than 8 miles. I feel proud. My total time was 2 hours 19 mins and 20 secs. Pretty respectable if you ask me :)

evening fun

I think I have posted the LEAST amount this month in the entire history of the blog. Sorry! I'll try and do better. Seriously- I haven't taken any pictures. Brooks took these the other night before I got home from work.
Griffin is finally starting to show an interest in books. He will actually sit for you to read to him now!


That's it before the camera batteries died!

Another busy week...

Well here I am again not posting for a week. I am working so much right now that I just don't have time to take pictures, let alone post any. I am just trying to make enough money that Christmas is easy this year and nothing is on credit. Very doable, but it does make life quite busy for these couple of months. Again this week I'll be working 4 days (if everything goes as planned) which doesn't leave much time to spend with the kids. Brooks is out of town this weekend- I had tons of things planned to do around the house and really get caught up, but it's already Saturday night and I don't feel even close. Only one more day off :(. The days just fly by.

I am super excited about M's birthday coming up. Her party will be Dec. 5th (if you want to come). It's more exciting than in years past because she really GETS it. She is looking forward to it and I know she'll truly LOVE some of her presents. In the last 2 years she likes her toys, of course, but toys are toys. THIS year though, is the first year she actually WANTS things- certain things, and it's EXCITING!!! I can't wait to get everything bought and wrapped for her. I was supposed to go to TRUS this weekend and price everything, but we haven't gotten there yet, so we'll see.

Well, I need to get to bed. I'll try and get some pictures taken perhaps tomorrow!

outside fun

Here are just a couple of pics of the kids- M's head is looking stupendous!
I love this kid but he is becoming a TERROR. The terrible two's are in full force.
So I gave in and turned G around today. I feel almost guilty, but he has been awful about getting in his car seat. I thought he'd be excited about it but he didn't care at all. This afternoon the kids and I went to QT and they got their own slushies. They were pretty thrilled.

Unseasonable

Lana and I took the kids to the park today. It's unseasonably warm now that November has come.
We took a picnic lunch which Griffin refused to eat, surprise surprise.

Nice hair, as usual.
My small guy.
Mira's stitches are getting better quickly. The mederma seems to be working well. She's got an awful cough though and it's waking her up at night, which in turn, wakes me up at night. I'm really exhausted. I have started working with Mira on preschoolish things each day. We are doing letters, animals, numbers, shapes, order, coloring, writing, gluing, cutting, etc. My only problem is where to put all of her beautiful creations! She absolutely loves the engagment between us and is constantly begging to do more. We do about 3o mins twice a day. I don't have any idea if what I teach her is appropriate in content or in the way I approach it, but it can't be bad for her and it gives us something to do together.

G was running a fever yesterday but acting fine and seems ok today other than he won't eat at all....not exactly abnormal. He is saying EVERYTHING now. Doctor, sorry, Grandma, grandpa, snack, drink, milk, diaper, etc, etc etc. Anything we suggest he say, he tries it. It's amazing.

I am in a funk. I wonder if some how I'm depressed, but I'm still taking my prozac, so maybe not. I am in good shape although struggling with some injuries as usual. I just get frustrated so easily and am constantly tired- I thought I was supposed to be over the stage of exhaustion now that they are older? I feel behind and often like a failure- my house is never clean enough, organized enough, my kids are never well-behaved enough, my laundry is never done enough, etc, etc, etc. Is this just how it feels to be a mom who works AND runs the household?? I wish that I could stick to some sort of schedule to keep it all done, but it never seems to work. So far, I am successfull in my workouts which keep me somewhat sane. I get REALLY agitated if I can't do that. So often is either the kids or the house- and the kids always win (as they should). It's interesting because lots of times if I can just get up and out of the house I find it so much easier now to take them places and do things with them. If we stay here though, they are so very out of hand. They were terrible at the store the other day too- really for the first time in a long time. They're starting to really play off each other. I wonder why right now I can't seem to get any energy or motivation to do anything at all?