First Race

I can't believe I haven't written a post about this yet!  The last weekend in July, the girls and I ran in our first ever race together :)  A friend of mine that I work with was in charge of a small 5k/1 mile family run in Walkersville.  So, the girls and I signed up.  To be completely honest, the girls were both sick and probably shouldn't have been out there running, but they were SO SO SO excited about it, that I couldn't keep them home!  So, we woke up on Sunday morning and went to the park where the race was!  The 5K was first, so I ran that and then when that was over, the three of us did the 1 mile fun run.  The girls LOVED it!  They were by far the youngest runners, and although they finished last, they got medals and were SO proud of their accomplishment!  They keep asking when we can do our next race!!

When we first got there...we all still look a little sleepy!

What the girls did while I ran the first race

Dancing as usual

Let me preface this next comment by saying that this was a pretty small race.  But, I got 3rd place overall and first place female.  The girls were SO excited about this because I got a trophy and they got to carry it around all day!

 

 

Waiting for their race to start!

My good friend Jen ran in the 5K race too!!

The girls at the starting line

Celebration Ice Cream cone!

Last Day of Summer School

Cesar and the girls took me out to lunch to celebrate the last day of summer school and the kick off to our three weeks of summer vacation!!  We went to Rio and had lunch at Rio Grande and then let the girls ride the train and went on the paddle boats.  It was a SUPER fun afternoon!!

 

CATCHING UP...

I have SO SO SO many pictures from my phone that I haven't put up here.  So, I will be trying to catch up the next few nights...some are just random like these and some have a theme (like the next post about the last day of summer school). 

 

Just a normal day playing after the pool

Every time Kai and Demi and Deanna came over for a pool trip this summer it seemed to rain.  This day we decided to have a bed picnic since we couldn't go to the pool...

Hanging in Mr. Alan's truck after the pool

Big Girl Room!

For weeks I have been waiting for this day!  We spent the last four days changing the girls room from a somewhat boring nursery to a fun big girl room.  We ordered them new furniture a month ago and it was delivered today.  So, since the girls were at camp for 3 hours every day this week, I have used that time (and a lot of late hours after bedtime and early hours this morning) to transform their room!  I had a vision of what I wanted it to look like, and throughout the last four days I have doubted it many times, but now that it is done, I love it!  And...I think the girls to do :)



BEFORE

After

 

 

I had to cut off the end of this video in order so send it to myself so I could post it.  Right at the end, Isabella said, "WOW, mommy, this is so cool...I love you so much!"  Love that girl.  I definitely am not taking things like that for granted.  I am sure there will be a day where I do something nice for them and they barely say thank you :)