Sunday, May 15, 2011

Tangerines & Ladybugs!

I purchased a new zoom lens for my camera recently, and tried it out on the kids.  The first was a nice sunny day we were hanging out in the backyard eating tangerines off our tree.



This was the next day, Amanda & I tried to garden, and got disracted by a ladybug!

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Update of sorts

You know you haven't posted in a while when you start to type the address in the address bar and it doesn't automatically fill in because the history has already deleted it.  Oh well...

I have been utterly busy with so much going on.  We just finished another fundraiser at the kids' daycare.  As the President of the parents group, I basically helped run it with the director and we had a less than exciting turnout.  It really boggles my mind how NOT involved parents are these days.  It also boggles my mind how this has been going on for 2 years at the center, and they haven't raised tuition!  Instead, I get lectured about how important fundraisers are.  I know that, thankyouverymuch, that is why I am helping out!!!

I also started training for a 5k on May 21.  So far, so good.  I am using a "Couch to 5k" app on my phone which has been awesome.  I train 3 days a week for about 30 minutes.  Last night was the last interval training.  Starting Thursday, I have full 25 minute runs!  Ack!  We shall see how I do with that, because last night running just 10 minutes was hard!

We missed signing up Amanda for the next swim lessons at the Y.  We missed a week due to an Easter party at Church and when we finally found out what class to sign her up for, all the classes were full.  So we are going to have to skip a session and decide if we want to sign her up for the next one, which would be right in the heart of summer.

I have also been researching schools for Amanda and am utterly overwhelmed with choices.  What I really need to do is visit a bunch of schools and see which one I like best, because right now it looks like I have about 2 million choices and they all look good on paper!

We are getting the house tented for termites this weekend, which has been another source of stress for me.  We decided to go camping, so I have been slowly been working on getting the motorhome ready for the big trip as well as preparing the house for tenting.  Fun times!

Easter was fun.  Amanda participated in 4 egg hunts.  One at school, then a Church party, then on Easter morning and one more at my parents' house that night.  Kevin on the other hand, wasn't much interested at all.  He found one and just wanted to play "ball" with it.  oh well, next year!  I leave you with a picture of Kevin, after he found his one egg at the Church party.