Kids of Steel Race Day

To say I'm proud of Lyla is a huge understatement!  She did the Kids Marathon today, a mile, in less than 12 minutes!  11:36 was her time today in really unfavorable conditions!  She loves to run and I love to cheer her on!

 

If you watch the video, Gary and Lyla are a little after the 2 minute mark!

St. Pattys Celebration - 2017

Also known as mom & dad's big night out!

We planned to take Lyla to the parade again this year.  But it was cold Saturday.  REALLY cold.  Too cold to justify making the trip down there to stand outside.

We were also supposed to meet Erin and Andy and the boys for lunch in Washington.  But Hendrick was sick.

And Ashley and Jeremy had a wedding to go....

So St. Pattys was a little different this year, but still so much fun!

We ended up meeting mom, Em, Gerald and Carter for lunch.  Which was great because we haven't seen them since Christmas!  And Lyla got all decked out just for the fun of it.  Another reason I just love her so much!

 

 

After lunch, Lyla went with mom and Gary and I came home.  Another couple we know from school came and picked us up and the four of us went out for the evening.  We had a blast, as always and definitely paid for it on Sunday!

 

 

Damn You Dr. Seuss

Let me begin by sharing with you this cringe worth email attachment:

Who I ask you.... WHO comes up with this stuff?  I know one answer... not the mom who works full time and has a perfectionist daughter that won't do anything half assed and wants to participate in every single school activity.... that's who doesn't think this is fun!!

So I tell Lyla, how about we get an orange shirt and some yellow felt and google eyes... we'll put a Lorax face on the shirt, it will be cute, cheap and hopefully easy.

Lyla says if I'm going to be the Lorax then we need to get glasses so the eyebrows and mustache are on my face!

A trip to the Dollar Tree, Five Below and Michaels.... and one burnt finger from the hot glue gun... and I give you Lyla the Lorax!

Then came "dress as your favorite book character".  Lyla picked Pippi Longstocking.  I (stupidly) assumed a couple mismatched tall socks and braids would suffice.....  Oh no... we need those braids to bend mom and I need freckles oh and we have to find my overalls from summer........  this child...

She has so much fun with it though... I can't even pretend to be mad! 

I think we have the rest of the days covered pretty simply.  We already did crazy sock day, this Friday is wear green - but also falls on St. Patricks Day - so that's EASY!  Then we have hats... the vacation shirt, well that's her problem.  I told her to get a t-shirt on vacation for just these kinds of days and she didn't want one!  I'll just make her wear her West Virginia shirt like last time.  Some people consider West Virginia a vacation!  ;) 

2017 is off to a pretty boring start....

I haven't posted since Christmas.... that's been almost 2 months now.  I haven't posted because there really hasn't been anything to post about.

I'll just share a few random highlights and a few random pictures and videos I suppose!

Lyla surprisingly stayed awake until midnight on New Years Eve!

We've had more nice weather than not nice weather the last two months.  That has allowed lots of trampoline jumping.

We've been busy painting and redecorating our house, which is really exciting!  It is finally feeling like our house is ours and not just a place we live and store our stuff.  It makes a huge difference when the paint and carpet and different things are what you picked out yourself versus what was there when you moved in!

Mom and I went on a little weekend getaway last weekend just the two of us.  Its been forever since we did that and we had a really great time!

I really can't think of much more to report on... but we are still here and all is well!