My first 5K is this Saturday and I'm getting pretty excited about it. I woke up early this morning after a long break (call it kind of hanging off the wagon, not quite falling off...) and ran my 3.5 miles in 45 minutes. I'm hoping I can shave some time off by race day. Even though there will be no winners for this race, I will see the product of my hard work and persistance and feel like a winner.

I will also be achieving one of my goals by running a race before I turn 30, and what better day to run than on my 29th birthday? I hope that everyone will be able to come and cheer me on. That will be the best birthday present ever!

The 5K (3.1 miles) run and walk will start at 8:30am at a new start line. Both events will start on 300 W & North Temple heading north, and coming back to end near the Gateway Legacy Fountain.

Baptism Cookies

I had the pleasure of providing cookies to my good friend, Angel, for her daughter's baptism luncheon. They turned out to be a big hit and everything worked out as expected. Each cookie is individually wrapped in cellophane. I made about 60 cookies and everyone loved them. Thank you Angel for getting my name out there and giving me more experience with my new business.

Cousins

We've made it a tradition now to sit all the kids on Grandma and Grandpa Bevan's back porch for an Easter picture. Next year there will be at least one more making 9 grandkids for Kyle's parents. Go Julie!

My Easter Chickies

What makes a mother more proud than to see her children dressed up, clean and hair combed with smiles on their faces? Well, can't think of anything at the moment. This was taken after all the candy was consumed from the Easter Bunny and after all the excited giggles subsided from the girls. Nothing is more exciting than trying on a brand-new dress that has that perfect twirling feature. Even Zachary was excited for his new tie even though Kyle said it was a little "gay." I threatened Kyle that if Zach overheard him saying that that it would be the end of him!
We drove to my mom's to attend church with her. The kids loved being in their new classes and have asked since if they can go to Grandma Thompson's church. I was glad to see some old familiar faces and catch up with some childhood friends who also decided to visit the old ward. After church we hunted some Easter eggs at Grandma T's and hung out until it was time to go visit the Bevan's. There we also took part in hunting for some more eggs and eating dinner with Kyle's parents and brother and sister with their families. It was a good eventful day and I was happy to have gotten in a small lesson of the real meaning of Easter to my children. I am so thankful for my family and the smiles they put on my face.

I got it Paid Foward!

My sweet friend, Cricket, posted a blog that was titled "Pay it Forward" where the first 3 commenters would recieve a special gift. The catch was that you had to post your own Pay it Forward and gift your first 3 commenters. I got these cute little fridge magnets made by hand and they are the cutest things on my fridge next to the adorable pictures my kids draw me. Now I can stick my children's creations on my fridge in style with these cute squares. Thank you Cricket for taking so much time to make me feel special!

Yay, school is back in session!

I just endured a very long week of Spring Break with my kids and am so happy to be back to normal with kids off to school and everyone's normal routine back in place. This morning I woke early to run my 3.4 miles in a record time of 38 minutes. I am trying to push myself harder every day to either run further or faster. I used to hate running but now I love it. I found myself itching to get outside this morning after a 2-day break.
Thank goodness for my next-door neighbor, Brooke, last week when she suggested we trade off kids Friday so we could both enjoy some sanity building time. I think she took pity on me when she came home Thursday to see me standing on my front porch barking orders to my kids to run down the street and back to release some of their crazy energy since they were bouncing off the walls. I can't imagine what the summer will be like for me when the kids are home all day every day. Thank goodness for warm weather, swimming lessons and art classes!

I promise I'm still here!

I know, it's been over a month since I've blogged and I'm truly sorry. It all happened when we decided to move our computer to our upstairs spare bedroom and since then I haven't had more than a couple minutes to myself before I hear the usual "MOMMY!!" from downstairs. It's so predictable, I'm either in the bathroom, on the phone or now, playing on the computer and my children all of a sudden need me now!
So one of these days I will get some more pictures added and some more stories and I can stop hearing the complaints of me not updating my blog. But here's the deal: you all complain that I don't blog enough, but how am I supposed to know anyone is reading it if I don't see any comments at the bottom??? So if I'm going to blog, then you're going to have to send me comments, okay?