I RAN A 5K AND DIDN'T DIE.

almost, but i didn't.

let me preface this by saying, I AM NOT A RUNNER. not even close. i think i would like to maybe some day maybe try to run more, maybe. but i'm not a runner now, period. i haven't been on a run in years and years.

but the school sent a flyer home about a 5k to raise money for teachers and it was a weekend dave was home and ya know, why not?

so i asked my mother-in-law, who is a runner, if she wanted to do it and yes, of course she does.

now, my mother-in-law is not your typical mother-in-law. the woman is in SHAPE. she runs FIVE MILES A DAY, people. it's just not natural. and rides her bike, and does jillian and a body former. she's not normal.

so anyway. i sorta started dreading the race the week before. and then i started questioning my sanity at the starting line. and then i started running. and oh geez, what was i thinking?

i didn't even try to keep up with barb. she sprinted on ahead of me while i just tried to keep pace with some dude in a red shirt in front of me. my goal was to finish. to try not to walk, only run. if i could do it in 30 minutes, great.

mile 1 - seriously, i've only been running a mile? two more???

mile 2 - i am a fool, a total fool. if i squint i can almost see barb's navy and orange workout pants ahead of me. way ahead of me.

at some point they passed out water, which was fun. it broke up the run a bit. and then i passed red-shirt guy, so that was cool.

finish line - i did it!! i didn't walk! i did it in 27 minutes! goals = met.

and then i went behind a truck and dry-heaved for a few minutes.

oh, and barb totally WON for the ladies 50+ division!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and beat me. by an entire minute.

shame, shame.

ALMOST CAUGHT UP.

having fridays off basically kills my blogging.

anyway.

friday/saturday night is the morgan county fair. it always falls on hallie's birthday weekend, which is nice because then dave is around. we went to the fair saturday after sound checks and he was able to ride rides with hallie.

and it was all fun and games until she barfed :). YEP - my "loves to ride rides" girl couldn't handle doing the elevator three times in a row. yikes.

we ran home, changed clothes and powered through for the rodney adkins show that night.

that's dedication.

BIRTHDAY PAMPERING.

whew! birthday celebration at the lake, family birthday party, kid pool party and lots o' pampering.

lucky, lucky girl!

i took miss thang to get her nails done on friday.

we had a girl's day, getting mani/pedis and getting the royal treatment. she felt so special.and was so shy with the ladies! she couldn't understand them and would look at me, panicked. we held hands almost the whole time.

if you ever want to get your nails/spa stuff done in jacksonville, i highly recommend alan nails! they were so professional and kind and treated her like royalty. they had fresh donuts and let her pick a different color for every nail. awesome!

NO MORE TBALL OR SWIM LESSONS. NOW SUMMER CAN START.

see also: eating on the front porch.

hallie's tball wrapped up last week and boy howdy was it hot. my mom and her hubby drove in from missouri to watch the game. it was sooooo hot and they stuck it out - even moved into the sun because they couldn't see well from the shade! yikes.

i  got to play helper-coach on the field since dave was gone. it was fun, but it was more fun hitting up the frozen penguin after for some fro-yo :) yum.

we also had one last swim lesson this last week and we are done now until august. yippee!

let the summer laziness begin!

ASHLAND COMMUNITY DAYS CELEBRATION THING OR BBQ?

i am honestly not sure what it's called. but we went and rode ponies and listened to  music and bought friendship bracelets.

and then hallie complained about being freezing cold the whole way home - and was burning up with fever later that night. awesome.

GIRL, YOU MAKE MY SPEAKERS GO BOOM BOOM.

i really hate that one lyric of the song. but i looooove that song. and the "you got your hands up, you're rockin' in my truck. you've got the radio on, you're singing every song." you know that one? it's soooo good.

anyway, i got to see luke bryan perform at the sangamon county fair and he was fantastic.

and then hallie and i went back on saturday night to see josh turner and it was cancelled due to weather. suck-o. but, we still rode some rides with dave, see the opener (casey james) and hung out on the bus. good times.

it's nice when dave is doing fairs like this, close to home. we get to hang out with him and see some fun shows backstage too.

this is not dave, but pretend that it is. it's jeremy.



because this is what all of dave's pictures look like.



casey james

secrets.

ANATOMY OF A BUSY WEEKEND.

it was recital weekend - woo-hoo! (?)

it was long. it was hot. it was a hard weekend.

i'm glad it's over.

hallie says she doesn't want to do dance anymore. we'll take the summer off and see how she feels in the fall. she was the cutest (and smallest!) one out there. so cute.

this little boy is my favorite in a white onsie. but he too had a hard weekend. teething is no joke and when you add a little cold on top, well, he certainly was off his game on saturday. like, way off his game.

he did manage to stay busy by knocking all of the magnets off of the refrigerator and playing some rockin' piano. oh, and he hung out on grandma chronister's lap quite a bit too.

finally, with recitals over we had memorial day to relax on chad and melissa's boat and get majorly sunburned. ouch. big time, ouch.

the girls had so much fun. we all did. it was a great way to end the weekend.