TGIF!

It's Friday -hooray! It's been a busy week with lots of fun!!! We started off the morning today with our daily trip to the Y for my workout, and then we met Jamie & her kids at the pool for some swimming fun! The boys had a ball (well, until Josiah announced he was so hungry and "laid out" in the sun for the rest of the time). Ryan got to wear goggles and a life jacket for the first time - he was so cute! If only my camera had a battery....(it's on the list of errands today!!) The boys (Mine, not Jamie's) were a little whiny (hungry + we had a late band practice last night and didn't get home until 9:30), but we still had lots of fun. Oh, and the water has started cooling down!!!

Gearing up for a long weekend. David's band has a gig every night this weekend through monday night, so I'm not quite looking forward to the long weekend like everyone else is. They are playing at the beach on Sat. & Mon. night, so we'll get to go see him and that will be fun. Can NOT believe that tomorrow is September!!!

Here's The Girls!!!

Here we are!! Almost all the girls from our small group (we missed you, Natalie!) Thanks to Sue, for taking the group picture! (Her little tripod was the cutest!) Anyways, we really did have a great time at lunch yesterday. I was telling David about it and how many people we had in our little house and he just thought it was hilarious!! 12 children, 7 ladies = FUN!!! Thanks again everyone!!!

Today should be a much quieter day than yesterday! :) We are sort of "stuck" at home today because we dropped off our van yesterday for it's tune-up. That meant no running this morning, no pool later today, etc. So it will be a home day - a good day to catch up on some things (of course, errands will have to wait another day). Anyways, looking forward to just a regular day with my kids!

A GREAT day!

What a fabulous day today was!!! I DID end up going running this morning - I didn't bail out on myself (which I very easily could have done), so Kelli you'd be proud! The 3 miles felt a lot longer this morning running on tired legs from staying up so late last night, but I felt great that I did it.

But what a GREAT time all of the women from our small group had today. We were missing Natalie, but other than that, everyone was there!!! It was just so nice to be able to all get together and just chat and catch up and have our kids play! The kids, by the way, did AWESOME!!! They had such fun playing together - everything was just so much fun!! I had hopes of having a craft or some activity to do (Heidi - you set the bar so high after our fun Valentine's Day party at your house), but gave up on that and decided just for food, fun and fellowship. I know I enjoyed myself! Ladies - I am so thankful for each of you and what you add to my life! Thanks for your friendship!!!

PS - You'll have to look on everyone else's blog for the pictures, of course. My battery is still dead! :(

I Can't Catch up!

So it's just been one of those weeks where I feel like I can not catch up!!! I think it's a combination of factors - David heading back to school this week, a few fun play dates this week, lots of errands that need to be done after being on hold while David was home, etc, etc. So here it is, just after midnight, and I had to take a blogging break. So much still to get done, and it's already Weds. morning (technically) and I still feel like I have so much left. We had a fab day this morning at the Botanical Gardens with Heather Judd & co., so I'll blog about that tomorrow.

Tomorrow, I am looking forward to having some of the moms and their kids over for a lunch and play date - sort of a last hoorah before several of them start their various preschools and school. Looking very forward to that, some yummy food, and great fellowship.

Until then, back to the kitchen and off to get some more things checked off my list. And trying VERY hard not to talk myself out of running in the morning!!!

My 8 Things (I hope I can think of that many...)

Okay, so Beth tagged me over a week ago, and I'm just now getting around to it!! She wants me to post 8 random things about myself that people may not know. I feel like my brain hasn't been still enough to even process this request, but I'll give it my best shot!!!

1. My full first name is just Katy. Not Kathy, not Katherine, just plain Katy. I am constantly being called Kathy, because most people think that's what it should be when they see it spelled with a "y" instead of "ie". Bizarre. And my maiden name was Maxfield, and I was constantly called "Maxwell". Annoying that people can't just say what they see!!!

2. I wear contacts and am practically blind without them. One day I'd love to do the lasik surgery and be done with it, but I may have to win the lottery first. When I first started wearing glasses in 4th grade, I had ugly brown ones (I'm sure I thought they were cute at the time). The next year I had to get new ones and I picked these bright red frames that I loved! My favorite show at the time was "Life Goes On" - does anyone remember that? I thought I looked like Kellie Martin on that show with her red glasses.

3. I didn't lose my first tooth until 5th grade - and then I only lose 2 teeth. The orthodontist/dentist had to pull the rest of them because they were taking forever and it was time for braces!!!

4. By age 19, I had finished my Bachelor's Degree and gotten married!! Crazy, isn't it? I met David my first semester of college (he was there in seminary) at Liberty and knew immediately that he was IT! I called my family and told them and of course they thought I was NUTS! From their perspective, I was 17 years old, away at college for a month and already talking about marriage. I would have a heart attack if Callie did that to me!

5. My oldest sister, Kim, used to pay me to let her do my hair. She LOVED playing with hair, and I was a willing participant!! She did my first perm too (did EVERYONE get a perm in 7th grade?)

6. I often punch the bed/pillows when I am dead asleep. I've done this since I was a child (no hidden trauma, just bizarro!), and warned David about when we got married. It's totally random and I still do it every now and then. David's Master's degree in Psychology has done him no good in figuring this one out. He keeps telling me he's going to send me to a sleep center to be analyzed!!!

7. Although I don't do it as much as I'd LIKE to, I LOVE to read - especially Christian fiction. My favorite author as of late is Karen Kingsbury - amazing books!!! If you've never read any of hers, pick up the Baxter series and you won't be sorry!!

8. For someone that loves food and loves to cook, I'm sort of a picky eater. My mom always tells me I should have been a caterer, but I don't like enough "gourmet"-type foods. I love everything about food - reading about it, watching it, cooking it, even shopping for it - but just have a bit of a texture hang-up about certain things (for example, don't like watermelon! It's practically just water - I know!)

Okay, so that's 8 things. Probably everyone already knew that, but it's all I could come up with today. So now I'm tagging Jayne Hoare, Courtney Cassada, and Jenn Gorrie! You're it!!

I'm Back (but no pictures)

Hello!! So it's been torture all weekend being able to read everyone's blogs but not send comments! My computer was acting up anytime I tried to do anything "secure" online, it would kick me off! So I just spent an hour on the phone with my closest friends at Microsoft and am back on track! I'll be catching up on my comments to you all later...

No pictures yet though - something weird is up with our camera battery, so they want me to send it in for them to fix. No pictures for a while.....booo!!!

David's first day of school today - welcome back kids!

Ran 3 miles again this morning (nothing compared to your 6 Courtney, I still can't believe you girl!). Felt really good - wondered if it was a fluke or if I'd ever be able to do it again, so I was glad to be successful. (Sorry to keep telling all of you about this, but it's sort of forced accountability).

Other than all that randomness, just doing errands today, laundry, boys got haircuts, etc. Off to rescue Callie - she's in the johnny jumpup and was a trooper while I was on the phone with my buddy at Microsoft!

Girl time!!!

After my big workout this morning (yea, me!!!), we had our friends Jake and Sadie come over to play. Jake and Josiah are about the same age, and Sadie is 1 1/2. Callie let out the biggest squeal when she saw Sadie - I think she was thrilled to see another little girl!! Sadie seemed to enjoy the baby too - I think she thought Callie was a baby doll!! We had a great time - I enjoyed catching up with Mandy a bit and keeping the kids out of too much trouble! :) Mandy took some pictures of the kids (they were all in costumes again!!), and said she'd send some to me. My camera battery finally refused to charge anymore, so I've got to buy another one. Until then, text only blogs for me, I guess!! Bummer!

I finally feel like we're getting back into our normal routine. Jacob asks where David is about 10 times a day - we get very used to have him home more with us during the summer, and Jacob is having a hard time adjusting to him being back at work. Other than that, we're getting back into our routine. Storytime and biblestudy starts back up in 2 weeks, which we're VERY excited about. So another successful morning! :)

38 Elephants!!!

(I'll preface this by saying that this post is mostly for Kelli!!!)

So some big milestones for me with my workouts this week! When I got the Y yesterday, I had a message from my trainer saying how proud he was of me for being so consistent these last 8 weeks, meeting my cardio goals and strength training goals, etc, etc. Then there was another message saying that I had lifted over 300,000 lbs to date - which is the equivalent of 38 elephants!! Isn't that hilarious!!!

Then today I finally got past the 3 mile mark!! I got really close on Monday and have been pushing towards it all week. Today I finally made it - I was so proud I thought I was going to scream out loud!! I did 3.17 to be exact!! I think I'm actually going to look at doing a 5K soon. Who'd have thunk it? Thanks Kelli, for not giving up on me. I think I'm actually almost a runner now! :)

Heaven on a Plate!

While I was folding laundry this afternoon, I watched an episode of Paula Deen - anyone that knows me knows that I LOVE this lady!!! Anyways, she did an episode all about cheese (I mean really!!!) and she made the most remarkable dish - deep fried macaroni and cheese!!! I know - doesn't seem to go hand in hand with my new workout routine, but I was dying!! It looked so good!! She took a recipe of macaroni and cheese from her restaurant, chilled it over night in the pan. Then she cut it into squares, wrapped the squares in bacon (!!!) and deep fried it!! Holy cow - does it get any better than that??? Now you all know my guilty pleasure!! If I ever were to pop up missing, I may be in Savannah, GA dining at the Lady & Sons restaurant eating deep fried macaroni!

An "Off" Day

We've started off today sort of "off". I was very much looking forward to starting our week getting back into our normal routine. David headed off to school again this morning and I was ready to go! Unfortunately, Callie woke up at 6:30 AM (who knows why!), and then Jacob woke up with a fever of 102!! Not sure where that came from, but my routine went right out the window!!! Couldn't go to the gym for my workout this morning, but we've adapted. Jacob ate a good breakfast and says nothing else hurts, but he definitely got more sluggish as the morning went on. Callie took a good first nap, but only had a catnap for her 2nd, so who knows what the afternoon will hold!! This is the first time either of the boys have been sick at all in the last year (they weren't even sick at all last winter!), so I'm very thankful for that!! We're just going to muddle through and try to enjoy the quiet day and get Jacob healthy!!! I'm hoping to try and get to the gym tonight once David gets home, so that will feel good. We'll wait and see though!!!