weekend recap and so on

• Dave and I went out for Mexican & a movie Friday night. We saw 42, which was really good.
• Saturday night we watched our niece go through grand march at the prom.
• We met my mom and brother in Huron for lunch on Sunday. 
• I started the couch-to-5k training again today.  I ran through each running session, with no breaks, and even ran an extra minute at the end.  Huge improvement from the other times I've started it.
• 83 days until we run The Color Run. Saying I should have started the C25K weeks ago would be a huge understatement.  I am so excited though and can't wait to cross this off my bucket list.

• We're a full month into spring and this is what it looks like outside today:

Yeah, not cool.  We got out of school at 1:30 today.  Third week in a row that we've had time off because of the snow. 

Spring has to arrive sometime, right?!

color run photo source

weekend recap

Dave and I headed for Mitchell Saturday morning to attend my godson's 8th birthday party.

We went to my mom's house that afternoon.  My brother was an usher in his friend's wedding so we didn't get to see much of him.  Just a quick hi and a picture and that was it.

We spent the rest of the Saturday and part of Sunday hanging out at my mom's house.  It was a relaxing weekend!

Hope you're having a great week!

Miscellany Monday

- I had an AWESOME weekend.  I rode home with my brother Friday afternoon and spent the whole weekend at my mom's.  I got in a lot of family time and friend time, which makes me a happy girl.  Some things I did while home:
  -- spent some quality time with my brother.  I laughed a lot and learned some things about him that I maybe didn't need to know ;o)
  -- went shopping with my mom
  -- went out for supper with my mom and dad Friday night
  -- had Sunday lunch and supper with my family
  -- visited my Grandma H. and listened to her interesting stories she had to tell that day (she has Alzheimer's)
  -- spent time with my friends Tasha and Trisha


-I took my camera home with me so I could get pictures while I was there.  It sat in the camera bag the whole weekend so I have zero pictures from the weekend.

- My flowers were looking pretty sad today since they hadn't been watered for three days (forgot to ask Dave to do that for me while I was gone).  So, I spent a good half hour watering them only to have it rain an hour later.

- Halloween candy is on the shelves :o)

- I ordered some shoes last week.  They arrived today and they are too tight :o(.  I have the hardest time finding shoes that fit right.

- That's about it.  Nothing too exciting around here.  I'm just enjoying the last couple weeks of summer break :o)



PS - I found out about Misc. Monday over at This Southern Girl's Nest and thought I'd start joining in too :o)

Misc.

My mom has been "on vacation" the past 6 days so she came up to visit.  My dad and brother are doing a job in the area so we went to see their jobsite (they build electrical substations) while she was here.  All I had with me was my camera phone so I couldn't get any close-ups.

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Why does the month of July drag on and on and on?  I feel the same way about January.
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28 days until inservice starts.  I'm kind of not ready for school this year.  Good thing I have 28 days to get used to the idea.
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It's way past my bedtime (1:08 am) and I'm still not sleepy.  I've spent the past few hours on Pinterest and looking at blogs.  Super good use of my time.  :s
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I ran across this tonight on Pinterest.  You must read this post (unless you're offend by swear words....if so, skip it).  So funny.

Source: thebloggess.com via Nichole on Pinterest

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Ohh...looks like tonight's episode of Teen Mom is replaying right now. Score! I spared my husband from that one tonight...totally made him sit through Pretty Little Liars though.
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And that's about all I got.  I was planning to show you our super awesome volunteer pumpkin plant this week.  But, some jerkface weed-eated it Monday morning.  Sorry.  I know you were dying to see a picture of a pumpkin plant.





PS -  Happy Birthday ARod! Yeah, that was totally for my husband  ;o)

Random Thoughts Friday

1. My brother has been working on restoring an ’83 Monte Carlo. He planned to take it to a track this weekend to drag race. He took the car out Wednesday night to check/test a few things. Something went wrong and the drive shaft came up through the floor board. Luckily he was able to keep control of the car and wasn’t hit by the drive shaft. I am very, very, very thankful for that.

This pic was taken this spring...it has a hood and bumper on now :o)

2. There are 9 days til we go in for inservice. 11 til school starts.  I'm pretty excited to go back but am really going to miss sleeping in.  I'm going to put myself on a schedule this coming week.....well, I plan to anyway.


3. I have a really good family.

4. Now that August is here it feels like summer flew by. July seemed like it would never end though. Try to figure that one out.


5. My mom and I are going to Sioux Falls next Thursday for a girl’s day. I’ve been looking forward to it for over a month.


6. There are 47 days until fall officially begins and 141 until Christmas. Why is it that 141 days til Christmas doesn’t seem very long but 47 until fall does?


7. The last four leaves fell off our plant this week. Now we just have sticks sticking out of dirt.


8. I’m going to make an honest effort to look decent when I go to work this year. That means put make-up on every day (not just eyeliner) and wear some sort of jewelry each day so I look a little more put together. I’m thinking Charlotte Russe for jewelry. I’m a fan of cheap jewelry for everyday wear. I’m hoping to find these when my mom and I go to the mall Thursday...

Hope you have a good weekend!

Photo Tag

I was tagged by Joanna from This Southern Girl's Nest for a photo tag.

Rules:


1) Go to your photo files…Select the 6th photo folder


2) Select the 6th photo in that folder


3) Post that photo along with the story behind it.


4) Then challenge 5 blog friends to do the same!





Ok, I haven't been on this computer very long so I don't have a whole lot of pictures saved on it yet. Let me go have a look.

Ok, this is a picture of my baby brother. Yeah, he's 26 years old but he's still my baby brother. He's usually not this dirty either. Well, ok maybe he is. He likes to "play" on 4 wheelers, work on trucks, and works as a geothermal heating/cooling installer type person (um, I dunno what ya'd really call it). But he cleans up nice :o).

Anyway, I took this picture last weekend while we were cleaning/packing/moving things from my grandma's house. I was trying to take his picture without being noticed but he happened to look over as I snapped it. Good thing I was quick or there might have been an obscene gesture in the pic. He was chatting with my mom (not that that would have stopped him) and was mid-word when I took the picture.

I'm tagging:

Nicolle at Boyd's Crazy Mama
Nichole at Heaven's Gift
Katie at My First Year as a Wallace
Annabelle at Simple Pleasures

Yeah, I'm only doing 4. It's Sunday and I'm being lazy. :o)