For Mother’s Day, we had my mom, grandma, and aunt visiting for the weekend. As usual, we did a lot of eating, some shopping, and enjoyed the scenery. It was a lot of fun having everyone here.
Here are a bunch of pictures from our adventure at the carmel river beach. We were hoping for some sun tanning, but it was a bit cold. At least we were able to exfoliate our feet :)
I finally got a smile. What a cutie!
On Saturday, May 1st my dad and I ran our first half marathon. Were we crazy?… Yes. What were we thinking?… I don’t know. We are both glad that we did it, but it sure was painful. The race was in Sacramento at the American River Parkway. Our friend Kristina (who is a veteran at these things) ran it too.
Here are some before the race pictures, where we are much happier and better looking.
In this one, my Dad is standing in the insanely long line for the porta-potties and Kristina is the one on the far right in the hot pink shirt.
Just hanging out before we headed for the starting line. I really don’t want to know what Ethan is doing.
There were about 3,500 people running the race, so it made for a lot of people while we were waiting for it to start. James was a little picture happy while we were waiting, plus it started 20 minutes late, so we were standing in the crowded area for way too long.
Here’s the start/finish line from the other side before it started. There was so much anticipation in the air, you could cut it with a knife.
We are finally off! You can see my dad and me on the far side of the path, in the middle of the picture. We were still happy at this point…
Now, please take note of what you see in this picture. Here we are, with about .10 miles left to go. We have just ran 13 miles and up ahead there is a hill!! In the picture it doesn’t look like that big of a deal, but let me tell you….it was!! What were they thinking?
The after race crash…
…it took a couple of days before I could even get up and down without being in severe pain. I walked like a 90 year old woman. Looking back, I’m glad I did it and I think it was fun, but those last two miles I swore I would never do this again…We will see :)
The most horrifying thing happened to me a couple of mornings ago. I was calmly flossing my teeth, listening to music, when all of the sudden the drain stopper popped out of the bathroom sink. I thought to myself, ‘that’s weird.’ Then a few seconds later black water came erupting out of the drain. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing. This has never happened to me before. It terrified me! About 5-10 seconds later more water came spouting out. It did this several times over and each time I was so scared I screamed. I felt like I was in the middle of a horror movie and I was about to be attacked by a poltergeist. To top it off, when it was finally done I kept waiting for it to happen again, expecting it at any moment. Then all of a sudden a nerf dart landed on my head (the boys shot some nerf darts on the bathroom ceiling a few weeks ago). It freaked me out. I was being attacked from all directions. Needless to say our bathroom was a disgusting mess afterwards.
Luckily the plumber said there was no sewage involved…still very gross.
Now for the best part of yesterday, which helped to lift my spirits after the accident...Ethan rode his bike without training wheels for the first time! He did so awesome. He was nervous at first, but picked it up pretty quick. I can't believe how much this kid has grown up in the last few months.
This week has definitely brought a lot of good and some bad, but each day is a gift and so much brighter when you look for that good you have been given.
After working on it for about 20 minutes I went back in his room to check on him. This is what I found... 
Atleast he finished half of his room before he took a break. I couldn't be too upset because he was reading. Something he needs to do a bit more of. Even though we are both ready for him to go back to school on Monday, I am going to miss his company during the day.
