Happy Birthday!!!!

Yesterday....



After 364 days of being in an infant seat we thought on her birthday we'd switch her up!



She's a big girl now!! Don't worry massive birthday party post coming soon! It was pretty much amazing if I do say so myself!

Prom Pit crew

Well tonight was prom. Jeremy is the Junior Class sponsor so he was in charge. So I volunteered to help out. I conned my mom into coming down and helping as well. So she made plans to be here all week. Cousin Brennan decided to come a long. She was such huge help with the kids.



We made trees out of cardboard. Cooper even helped paint.



He loved painting.
My kids were perfectly behaved angels while we set up this morning. I started cooking for prom on Saturday....now I'm done. Here is what I made....



Pigs in a blanket (cheese smokies and puff pastry)



Sweedish meatballs (they didn't look this dark in person and they were amazing!)



Copy Cat recipe of Chili's Southwest Egg Rolls (the little company store fried these for me!)



Ham and Cheese and Turkey and Cheese on Butter Rolls



Chili's made chips and Salsa

Now for the good stuff....



Cookie Sandwiches, always a big hit!



Mini white and Chocolate cupcakes



Chocolate Fruit cups (so the wrappers were not supposed to be on these, but they kept breaking)



Mini Chocolate Cream pies, these were Delish!

I also had water, lemonade, and a cranberry grape/ginger ale punch.

Well, that's all.....I'd hate to follow this prom! So days of prep, 5 hours of setting up, 3 hours of fun, and 22 minutes of clean up. That 22 minutes is shorter then the time it took me to drive to prom. Crazy!

Easter 2011

Easter was so 2 weeks ago and all, but things have been a little crazy. Really I blog a lot from my phone, so I'm just now getting to posting some pics from Easter. I'm sure my Mom will love to see them....Mom, do you read this? She's actually coming tomorrow for a week to help with Prom and Maddie's Birthday party. (And anything else I can possibly rope her into this week!) So here is Easter in pics.....really some of these were just way to cute not to share, Maddie loved Easter!

Cutest thing ever

Well since I missed the half I'm going to maintain my Training with a couple of miles a day, hopefully that'll help me increase my speed. As we were going today I looked down and saw this....



Cutest.thing.ever.

More half convos

M: Well it's 6:40 about that time to get out of the car and go for it or go home.
J: I don't care.
M: your call, I am fine to sit this one out...
J: let's go home
M: yeah, we'll catch the next one

This is what happens after you watch it pour for an hour. Major props to all that ran, but I'm happy with Starbucks and Church!
Now, I'll improve my time and really be ready for next April or maybe I'll run in Tulsa in November.

Half Marathon

Jeremy and I were talking about the upcoming half marathon on Sunday....
J: "my goal is to finish in under 2 hours"
M: "my goal is to finish, still standing"
J: "that's setting the bar high"
M: "how many women are going to be out that had a baby via c-section just shy of 1 year ago?"
J: "eighteen"

Maybe I should've added on the part about that 11 month old still nursing and not sleeping through the night. Maybe that 18 would be 0?

But, in reality I'm ready for this, my real goal is to finish in 3 hours or under, time will tell!

(wo)man's best friend

Maddie loves watching our dog, but this is going a little far....



And this is trouble, she's not even walking yet.



Yes, I've got my hands full.
(I promise the next post you'll be able to see her face!)