Tuesday, November 23, 2010

For My Husband's Eyes: My Christmas List

Jody has been asking me for weeks what I want for christmas. I keep telling him I'm really not sure and the thing is I really don't need anything. Here is some items that I would that have been on wish list:
I love this ladies recipes!! If you want me to start cooking good, this would be a great stocking stuffer :)


This would really come in handy on some of my long runs in the near future.

I have tried on lots of boots and still can not get these beauties off my mind. I wear a size 7.


Gap Jeans...

I think this sweater would be super cute with those Steve Madden Roady boots :)
another gap sweater



Running shoes, running long sleeve shirt...

And there are 2 other items that are REALLY REALLY BIG but for some reason I can not upload the photos so I will just tell you :)


**~A tRiP tO dIsNeY wOrLd~**
***Tile in my bathroom***

There are other items on my wish list but maybe this will get you some ideas!! I love you :)

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Worst Mom of the day award goes to ME!!!

P.S.. I am being a negative Nancy today so please forgive me...

I started out my morning by getting Conner ready for school. I normally pick out his clothes (something that matches then I iron it). This morning I just picked up a brown and yellow shirt and a navy pair of pants. He was soooo not matching and was very wrinkled.  I thought, he is just going to school and who's going to be paying attention to his clothes. I know this is making no sense at all. Taking a few steps back to yesterday, Conner had his Ear nose and throat appt yesterday and found out he is getting his tonsils out and tubes in his ears. back to this morning... When I got to work, I found out that I will have to come up with about $1700 bucks!! This is what I will pay after insurance. I have to come up with half when he has his surgery which is December 15th (this appt was made at lunch by me!) Thats alot of money to come up with right here at Christmas or any other time of the year for us since we pretty much live pay check to pay check. And it will be like this until Jody gets out of school.  I must say that I am very thankful for my family and my husbands family. Without them, we would probably be living on the streets. They have offered to help us out with the cost so will only have to come up with a couple hundred bucks!! God is soooo good!! I could not ask for better inlaws and the rest of his family!! plus my family pretty much Rocks!! I love my mom so much! She keeps me grounded along with our mighty God and my Hubby!!
About five min before quitting time, I found out that i will have to participate in our companies christmas party! I have no talent what so ever or any type of talent that I would want to do in a talent show. My talent consist of running, which is really not talent.   Should I get out the old Saxophone and give it a try?
Right after hearing this AWESOME news I go pick up my child. He was sooo happy to see me. I love the look on his face when I pick him up. We get home and I look on the refrigerator and it hits me!!! My heart sank to the bottom of my feet and the tears started coming and I could not stop. Today was Conner's Thanksgiving feast at his school and parents, grandparents, family were attending. I signed up last week and paid for 2 tickets. Me and JOdy :( I got too caught up in planning surgery and money that I completely let it slip my mind!! Conner was probably the only kid in his class that did not have anyone there. I called Shannon (who is over highland) and she said that it was okay. I was not the first one to forget about it.  This is supposed to make me feel better but don;t think anything can help. I asked her if I could bake cupcakes and eat with his class tomorrow and she said that would be fine. I know that will not make up for yesterday but it sure will make my baby feel special tomorrow.
I know he will not remember this next week but I will remember it and will never forget it. LESSON LEARNED!! I will never let money and other things stress me out enough to forget about something like this again!
I know to some people things like this are not a big deal, but I want to be involved in things like this with my child and I will in the future. Like I said earlier sorry for being a negative nancy and will try to be positive in the future.
I just finished putting the sprinkles on the cupcakes and got my hot bath. I am hoping that tomorrow will bring lots and smiles and laughs and cheer. I am thankful for this day even though it was a bad day to me, I am thankful for the air I breath and thankful for the people in my life. I love my Conner so much and will do a better job from now on. :)

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Running Races...

no time for posting here lately!! To give an update I finished my 1/2 marathon in 2 hrs 13 min. THis is way better than I was expecting. I run the first 10 miles without stopping at all. At mile 11 my knee started giving me trouble so I decided to walk for a couple of minutes. This was probably a mistake, I'm not really sure what I was supposed to do but when I started back running my knee was aching some kinda bad. The last 2 miles there was a lot of walking that really hurt my time. I am hoping for my March 1/2 marathon for a 2 hour race. Thats my goal anyway. Today I had a 5k. This was the chillin and grillin 5k in Taylorsville. My time was awesome!!! 26:38 :) I did not place but was the 2nd overall female. They combined the males and females in each age division so of course the boys ruled! But that is fine because I am very happy with this PR I completed today. I wore a knee brace today thinking it would help. And it did while I was running but now I am in pain. Did I mention that I ran in freezing conditions. I think it was 34 degrees. Yep.... That is a little to cold for me. I believe I will find a race to run  in that is has some warmer weather.