Mission Accomplished.

We'll I set out about 6-7 weeks ago to run a 5k. At the time I couldn't even run hardly a quarter of mile. Even in training I only had gotten up to running about a mile and half but something came thru on race day to push myself to run the full 3 mile race. In the world of running this is such a small distance, but in my little world it felt like a really big accomplishment, I even surprised myself and felt super excited!

Here's us before the race. It was a night run which I enjoy, I'm not into the morning running thing.

These are my tired feet after, I learned early on in strating to run, the shoes can make all the difference:

The office

Well in the midst of re-decorating the living room. I also moved into new office at work. Its pretty much my dream office space and I just love it. Plus now I am officilly right next door to A.M. and closser to the printer!

Like a haircut...

Well what a girl I am. After living with the yellow for a couple weeks, I am now loving the yellow. I've decided its like a drastic haricut, you might cry at first and its so different your not sure but by the 2nd or 3rd week your loving it! I can always re-paint down the line for re-sale since yellow's not everyone's cup of tea but for now its here stay here's a video tour if you'd like to see for yourself:

The anatomy of a bad decesion...

Well the roller coaster continues. I finished painting the living room after working on it almost all weekend and every night since then and I do not love it, yea I don't even like it and my stomach is turning at thought of all the work its going to take to re-paint it but I don't think I can live with this color. So I find myself doing some self talk to re-group reminding myself its just paint and it can be fixed, everyone makes mistakes and there are much much worse things in life. So I keep coming back to how did I make this mistake? For two years I've been wanting to do a shade of yellow but somewhere I took a wrong turn just haven't figured out where, I would like to find out so I can avoid such a bad choice again but at last examining the anatomy of this decision has revealed no point I even considered not following through with this plan. Sometimes it just happens.

Allie and Chloe are staying the night and I just have to laugh when I asked 6 year old Allie what she thought, she sweetly said, "Well its not people's favorite color but it matches well". It might "match" but its not my favorite color either, back to the drawing board!

Pond Project.

Ryan's goldfish pond creation turned out great! The water gathers in this spot anyways and washes away the mulch so of course Ryan would never put something like this in unless he could also say there was a "practical" reason so that practical reason helped sparked the idea of the pond. The 10 goldfish cost us a wopping $1.27. They like to hid in the shade of the waterfall so you can't always see them out and about during the day, we will see if we can keep them alive. Overall a great project:




My painting project has been quite a roller coaster, I will post more on that when its finished.

Memorial Day Weekend and other updates

Well as always 3 day weekends are great! I enjoyed mine without having to do any paperwork for work, which is always nice. I don't have pictures yet for this post, but we will soon have some before and after pictures of the front yard to show. Here's the run down of weekend events:

Saturday was packed full: I got up early to join A.M. for a morning run by the lake, followed by a girls prayer brunch with some girls from my small group at church. I returned early afternoon to the house to help Ryan work on the yard to plant flowers and do other much need up keep to get ready for summer. That evening we grilled out chicken, asparagus and mushrooms. yum!

Sunday, I taught bible class and then headed out after church to B.A. I took the nieces to stay the night with my mom. We grilled out hamburgers and then slept in and enjoyed hanging around the house and visiting since to our disappointment none of the pools were opening till this coming weekend.

Monday we returned to OKC. I returned to a giant hole in the garden bed, Ryan and I had briefly discussed the possibility of a small gold fish pond before I left, thats a project thats been worked on every night since and I think is nearing completion, I must say I think its going to be pretty cool.

I am gearing up for plans to do a major painting project to start this weekend to paint my living room, dinning room and kitchen, yikes! I've wanted to paint it for two years so its time to do it!
Also Ryan got news he passed one section of the CPA!!! 1 down 3 to go!

Well that brings you to speed for now.

Fun in the Kitchen...

Chloe and Allie spent the night Thursday and Allie and I made home-made Pizza's, Chloe preferred to watch Sponge bob instead, fun was had by all:

I've been looking for raspberries for a while now to make some yummy raspberry lemonade, finally today Target had them in stock: