Remember this...
The books were OVERLOADED on it, it wasn't using the space wisely, I need MORE storage (hidden) for the boys' games and puzzles, etc. At SOME age we'll be able to get rid of some of this stuff, right?
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Obsession Confession
One of the blogs that I read just started a new series on obsession confession. Anything you love that you then become obsessed with. HA HA... this is so me. I don't do much half way. Here's my list of obsessions lately:
* blogs - seriously, won't even admit how many I follow
* running - e-mailing back and forth with a friend yesterday about my spring schedule and writing it all down made me realize I might be a bit insane ;) (schedule below)
* FroYo - well, except for February. I gave up sweets for the month of February and this is probably the only one thing I truly miss.
* Subway - First it was because it was $5 footlong February but now it's just because I love it, it's close to the house, and I don't feel guilty after eating it. Yes, I had a 6 inch for lunch today.
* My weight - Yeah... I go through spells of not caring and then obsessing... I'm currently obsessing (maybe I should lay off the Subway and FroYo, huh)
* Balego socks - seriously, don't wear anything else now
I'm sure I could go on and on... but I won't admit any more publicly.
Spring Race Schedule
4/14 - Rock the Parkway Half Marathon
4/21 - Garmin/Olathe Half Marathon (2:30 pacer)
4/22 - Kansas Half Marathon (2:25 pacer)
5/5 - Smithville 8 hour adventure race
5/13 - Mother's Day 5K
6/2 - Hospital Hill Half Marathon
Speaking of obsessed, Ross has now decided that he has to have a million things to sleep with. He has THREE blankets (four on weekends when his school one is home) and about 6 stuffed animals, etc. This morning when I went in to get him he was still SOUND asleep - unusual. I should have known then how the morning was going to go. He was GROUCHY! I got him dressed and off to daycare with pop-tarts in hand in record time... lol! Here's a picture of him all snuggled in with all of his "stuff"
Sunday, February 5, 2012
A room mini-makeover
A couple of weeks ago I went crazy and started re-arranging furniture. I moved our dark leather couch and chair to our front, unused living room (the loveseat went to our master bedroom). The beige over-sized furniture from the front living room got moved to the family room. The plan was then to take the beige to the basement and bring our sectional up but I've put that plan on hold. I LOVE the beige in our family room. For one, it's our most comfortable furniture and secondly, it just looks so much better where it's at now. That beige furniture set was our first furniture purchase when we bought our house in Olathe in 2001. We paid like $499 for a couch, loveseat, coffee table and two end tables... and they have held up better than most of our furniture!!
I also moved Ryan's easel and the train table to the front living room and surprisingly we've started using that room a lot more. Ross uses that room the most because that's where time out is... but that's beside the point.
Anyway, today I got my gallery prints of the boys and have taken down the picture collages I had up that were of Ryan at age 2 and Reid at age 5.
They look high in this picture but they don't look that high in real life. Here they are:
Ryan wanted to get a picture with his leap pad too...
This bookshelf is going away soon! Our friend, Paul, is going to come sometime in February to do a built in cabinet the entire width of the cut out. I'm thinking cabinet at the bottom and then shelves all the way to the molding!!
Our train table is also in the corner of this room. If you follow me on facebook, you know that I broke down and superglued the pieces together because Ross ALWAYS takes them apart. Well the little stinker... he has spent the last two weeks taking the pieces apart again. Now that they are glued it's like an extra challenge. He has to work super hard and then celebrates when he gets them apart. I put the track back together today and the boys did play with it for about 15 minutes as I laid on the couch recovering from my 10 mile morning run. LOL. I think I'm going to give up and just get rid of it... we'll see.Thursday, February 2, 2012
Playing with numbers
I have a huge deadline at work tomorrow... so of course I'm spending today doing anything but work on what I need to be working on. This post is for Suzanne, my weekend running partner.
I went back to this time last year (on my Garmin tracking - I LOVE technology) to see how my running was. Here were 5 runs in a row around this time:
Date Distance Time Pace
1/29/11 9.92 miles 1:45:04 10:35
2/5/11 9.74 miles 1:49:57 11:17
2/12/11 12 miles 2:08:36 10:43
2/13/11 4.31 miles 51:57 12:03
2/16/11 3.55 miles 37:29 10:34
*I'm assuming the weather was bad and I was doing some treadmill runs mid-week because there seem to be some huge gaps here.
And here are my last five runs this year:
Date Distance Time Pace
2/2 6.0 miles 58:34 9:44
1/31 5.54 miles 57:03 10:17
1/30 3.01 miles 29:04 9:40
1/29 9.85 miles 1:41:16 10:17
1/26 4.0 miles 37:52 9:27
1/22 10 miles 1:41 10:05
Last year I ran the Rock the Parkway half in 2:06:17 (my current PR). This year the race is two weeks later on the calendar. I had originally said that I didn't have any time ambitions. Now I'm starting to challenge myself... could I do a 2:05???
Ok, enough playing around... back to work
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Ten on Tuesday... Wednesday
It's been a while since I gave some McDowell updates so I thought I'd do my best today... er, yesterday. Yeah, I started this post on Tuesday and then had an issue blow up at work.
2. We're starting an allowance with Reid this Friday and going to get him his own savings account. We haven't decided the criteria or amount yet... any suggestions? Reid has now read ALL of the Diary of a Wimpy kid books except for the 6th one. The waitlist at the library is HUGE so I'm thinking that's something he can work on saving his money up for.
3. Ryan has kindergarten round up on 3/2. He's doing SOO well at school this year. He loves to write and draw and is starting to sound out words. He is doing pretty good on his sight words and loves to read books before bed. We've actually decided to keep him in "school" (his daycare) over the summer to keep up with his routine since he's doing so well. He's been at home the last three summers but I think he'll really like school too - they do a lot of field trips and splash days over the summer.
4. Ross... ugh, Ross. He's a challenge most days. Tonight we were debating whether we thought two or three would be more rough with him. He is Mr. Independent, wants to do EVERYTHING by himself and screams and throws fits when he doesn't get his way. He also hits and bites. Doesn't he sound like a joy? He's actually starting to get that we're not going to put up with it (I think)... after a few consistent trips to the time out room he usually improves... usually.
5. The big boys are all registered for spring sports. Reid chose to try flag football (he's been begging for a couple of years) and Ryan chose basketball (it's 3 on 3 for 4 and 5 year olds). They are also both going to do spring hockey (Reid is skating out). We're not positive what rink they are going to skate at yet. We're thinking Ryan at KCIC (Shawnee) and Reid at IEC (Independence) but we're waiting for them to release their season details.
6. The spring race schedule is SET! I have four half marathons this spring (4/14, 4/22, 5/12, and 6/2). Russ and I are also doing our 8 hour adventure race on 5/5 in Smithville again this year. Along with our adventure race, Russ is planning an obstacle run on 3/31. The weather has been gorgeous lately so I've been able to get several good long runs in - two 10 miler's already. I hope February is just as nice to us.
7. I broke up with about five of my "shows" this winter... it's actually been very freeing and nice. I even find on the nights that I have time to sit down and watch a show (like tonight - Russ took the boys to the basement to play) there is nothing on my dvr and nothing on tv that I even want to watch.
8. I just finished reading "The Devil in Pew Number 7." I highly recommend it... true story, good book.
9. I've done a decent job of staying up with my project life, weekly documenting for 2012 but I don't have any pictures today as I got a new phone today and all of my pictures from the last week are on my old phone. I got an iPhone 4S, essentially for free :)
10. Today is February 1.... it's going to be a LONG month. I threw down the gauntlet and challenged Russ that I could go ALL month without sweets. No chocolate, candy, Orange Leaf...Yikes! Of course we had Orange Leaf last night to get my last fix in :) Wish me luck! I survived day one :)
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Week 2
1/9 - 1/15
** Started the week off with boy scouts on Monday night. Reid got to throw a pie in a leader's face for being the 5th top sales guy on popcorn.... Sorry Jay Donley!
** The weather this week was fabulous... 50s, 60s. Just amazing for January. The boys and I spent some time outside in jackets doing some sidewalk chalk.
** Ryan and Ross' daycare e-mails out a daily sheet almost every day for their classroom. I love getting them and seeing how their day went, etc. This picture was on Ross' daily sheet one day last week and I HAD to ask the teacher to send it to me. His quote on the sheet was "I'm a princess."
** Ryan had his first Learn to Play Hockey class on Saturday. He did great, lasted the whole 45 minutes! Reid wants to skate out in the spring season so he's actually going to start taking the class with Ryan next Saturday.
** Reid started complaining at Ryan's skating that he had a headache and then complained as we were leaving for his own game Saturday night that he didn't feel good. He completely bombed! Had no energy, didn't try, looked miserable. We weren't sure what was going on. On the way home from his game he completely passed out in the car (which never happens) but then denied that he fell asleep. Surprise, surprise Reid... of course we took a picture! :)
** Sunday was an easy day for us. Reid still complained that he didn't feel good so we made him rest in his room or on the couch most of the day. Ryan had a birthday party but it was two hours and parents didn't have to stay so I took Ross and got my car washed and ran some errands.
Hmmm.. what else happened Sunday? Oh yeah, Russ beat the number one team in men's league hockey. He was pretty pumped. The game went to a shoot out and he stopped all of those shots. He's been playing real well lately. I wouldn't know as I don't go watch like I used to... it's just too hard with all three of the boys and Russ' games being so late.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
2012 - Week 1
* All good things must come to an end. We left Hawaii on 1/2. We flew, without problems, to Oahu but then our flight was delayed out of Honolulu so we missed our flight out of Dallas. So we spent about 4 hours in the Honolulu airport and then another two in the Dallas airport. It wasn't horrible but it was a LONG day (day/night) of travel. We got home mid-day on 1/3. After switching cars we drove the 1 hour, 30 minutes to Holton to pick up the boys, loaded them up and then drove the same drive home... continuing the long theme of travel.
The boys were really excited to see us and very hyper that night.
Thankfully we had taken vacation days on 1/4 as well. The original plan was to send the little two to daycare/school but since we got home later than anticipated on 1/3 we felt like we needed some more time with them. We ended up taking them all to see Alvin and the Chipmunks, Chipwrecked. This was Ross' first movie ever. The movie itself was pretty bad, and this is coming from someone that actually LIKES kids movies.
Ross did okay for about half but then he was tired and losing it so I took him to the entrance and held him and rocked him and he ended up falling asleep in my arms.
Thursday morning was hard. I don't think anyone was ready for the reality of going back to work/school/daycare but we did it and we all survived.
I've started a 2012 Project Life scrapbook so I'm trying to stay current week by week. Nothing major happened once we got home but here are some pictures from the week:
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