Five on Friday

I’m linking up today with the good life blog and about a zillion other bloggers for 5 on Friday!  It’s my favorite linkup!

One

                I got off my butt this week and did Days 1 & 2 of Couch to 5k.  I started on Wednesday and I plan to do these runs on Mondays/Wednesdays/Fridays through next week, then hopefully kick it up a notch and just go every other day.  I need to complete the training by November 2^nd, which will be my first official race.  My husband and two neighbor friends and I are all doing the Indianapolis Monumental Marathon’s 5k.  Someday maybe I’ll do that half marathon, but for now, just focusing on the 5k. 

Two

                Sleep has improved since Tuesday night.  THANK GOODNESS!  Cooper is still waking up in the middle of the night, I cannot figure out why and what to do about it, so I suppose we’ll just continue doing what we’re doing.  Katy has been sleeping much better also, so that’s a blessing!

Three

                My best friend Erica and her partner and my good friend Mel, completed their cross country journey on their bicycles!  Click here to read their day by day journey!  Tonight is the Raise the Roof fundraiser for the Looking Out Foundation.  This is who Erica and Mel were raising money for on their journey.  They are going to be speaking about their journey and their fundraising efforts tonight.  I cannot attend in person, but I did donate enough money to be able to stream the event live tonight!  I’m looking forward to hearing what these awesome ladies have to say!  I am SO PROUD OF THEM!!!

Four

                This weekend should be fairly low key and that is exciting!  I’m taking my kiddos to the children’s museum with my friend Shannon and her kids, and Tim is umpiring a couple of games on Sunday.  Other than that, we’ve got zero plans, woo hoo!

Five

                Katy.  She is so happy, and she brings me such great joy!  I’m so blessed and I thank God each and every day for her and her brother.  But look at this face!  Isn’t she just precious?!?

Happy Weekend Everyone!!!

You are my SUNSHINE, my only sunshine.....KIMMYYY nominated me for an award!!!

My dear Kimmy nominated me for a Sunshine Award!  What a sweetheart she is!

Here’s the scoop: The award is circulated to those bloggers to let them know that their posts brighten your day. Awwwwwwwww!!!

The Rules:

1.  Include award logo in a post or on your blog (above).
2.  Link to the person who nominated you – Kimmy @ That’s the Thing About Destiny
3.  Answer 10 questions about yourself.
4.  Nominate 10 bloggers to receive the award. Link your nominees to the post and comment on their blogs letting them know they’ve been nominated.

1. Favorite dessert recipe?

This is difficult for me!  I super pink puffy heart love desserts!!  I think my all-time favorite would be a nice, moist (sorry I used the word moist, oops twice!) chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting and a scoop of homemade vanilla ice cream!  YUMMO!!

2.       Song you could listen to on repeat for days?
Unfailing Love by Jimmy Needham

3.    What would your last meal be/?

Pizza!

4.    What is the 17th picture on your phone?
This little gem. I just happened to take this picture of a picture that hangs at my mom’s house last weekend.  It is my school pictures from first – senior year of high school.  Every awkward stage of Emily – You’re Welcome!!!  Let’s not discuss the fifth grade mushroom cut, okay?

5.    Must See TV show for fall you cannot wait to start?

Scandal!!

6.    Favorite sports team(s)? -  

Hands down, the Indiana University Hoosier Basketball team!!!  GO IU! J

7.   What did you do on your 21st birthday?
I hung out with my Mom, Dad and brother, in LAS VEGAS! My parents were awesome and took me to VEGAS for my 21^st birthday.  Like I said, they are awesome.

8.    What’s your favorite thing at Taco Bell? (don't pretend like you do not like it!)

Chicken Baja Gordita, amazeballs is all I can say

9.   Favorite Reality show?
It’s a Tie……The Real Housewives of Orange County & Big Brother

10.  Cats or Dogs?
Dogs! 

Here are the ten questions for my lovely nominees!

1)     Who gives you the most inspiration in your life?

2)     What is your favorite movie?

3)     How many cars have you owned since you started driving?

4)      Favorite Ice Cream flavor?

5)     What did you do for your sweet 16??

6)     What is one random fact about you that we don’t know?

7)     What is your best friends name and where did you meet him/her?

8)     What is the 7^th picture on your phone?

9)     Favorite Holiday?

10)  What’s been the best time in your life so far?

Now, here are my 10 nominations!

1.     Gina @ Running after Babiez

2.     Shannon @ Life After I Dew

3.     Amy @ The Story of Us

4.     Caroline @ Simply Smithwick

5.     Marianne @ This Mommy of Three

6.     Al @ Traffic Jelly

7.     Aly @ Analyze This

8.     Darci @ Strongly Feminine

9.     Lindsey @ A Plane Doctor, His Nurse & 3 Passengers

10. Shelli @ Beauty & The Baseball Coach

Thanks again for the nomination Kimmy!!! J

Just another sleepless night....

I’m here today, but just barely.  It’s been a rough day so far.  My day started at 3AM after going to bed at 10:30 last night.  If you can calculate – that’s not too much sleep.  Four and a half hours.  It’s not enough for me. 

What happened?  Well, here’s how it went.  I awoke at 1:30 to my daughter fussing, but she went back to sleep, thankfully.  I decided to take Cooper to the bathroom since he peed the bed twice Monday night.  So, that worked out ok, and everyone went back to sleep.  Then I awoke again to Kate crying at 3.  She had a bottle, I pumped and I sure tried to get back to sleep, but she totally didn’t want to have that.  She finally got back to sleep and then Cooper got up and had peed the bed even though I took him just three short hours before.  ARGH!!!  Kate woke up again, and before I knew it it was 5am.  She wanted to eat again, nothing else would calm her down.  So I gave her another bottle and she finally went back to sleep around 5:45.  Then, I laid down in bed for about 15 minutes the alarm went off, and I hit snooze, but then guilt got to me and I made myself get up and get ready.  That guilt stuff sure gets me moving.  But – right now, I’m dragggggggggggggging. 

Moving on, today, I’m going to get started on the Couch to 5k program again.  I’ve done it once before – back in 2012, but after my foot was giving me problems and getting pregnant, I was told by the doc to stop running.  But I’ve been given the ok to start the program again, AND, I’ve signed both me and Tim up for a 5k in November.  Woo hoo!  I’ve got about 8 weeks to get my rear in gear for that race, and the program is 8 weeks, as long as I do it every other day, I’ll get finished with plenty of time – but I’ve just got to make myself do it!  I can though, right?!?  I cannot believe I’m actually looking forward to running.  WHO AM I?!?!

Lastly – please stop by Kimmyyy’s blog today to read about what her son’s baseball team is doing for one of their teammates who has cancer.  This little boy, Garrett, has gone through so much for such a young man.  Please take a few minutes and donate, say a prayer, repost, etc to show your support for #TEAMGARRETT!

The Tuesday after a long weekend blahs

I’m in a funk.  I didn’t track points at all over the weekend.  I wanted to eat some bad food and I did.  So, I don’t expect that scale to move much this week.  We’ll see.  Back at it this morning. 

Last Wednesday, I was home with the kids, which was amazing, because I got A LOT done around the house.  Poor Stephanie was sick and wasn’t able to watch the kiddos, but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise.  I got both kids rooms cleaned and swept, Katy’s new 3-6 month clothes out and washed, Tim’s and my bedroom cleaned up and swept, I cleaned out under the sinks in the bathrooms and I cleaned out some shoes so that I could buy new ones that I don’t want anymore.  I just kicked butt in the productivity department.

Cooper has decided what kind of birthday party that he wants – so I need to get busy planning.  He’s having two parties this year.  One down south where most of the family resides, and another up here for his friends and siblings.  Lucky boy, huh? 

The weekend was pretty good.  Friday afternoon we went out of town, down south to visit my parents.  It was nice.  Saturday night we came back home and had Sunday and Monday to get ready for the new week, thank goodness it’s a short one!   Sunday afternoon, I got to have lunch with one of my closest friends, Shannon.  We hadn’t seen each other much this summer, so it was nice to have a mommy’s lunch out without any kids!  The rest of the day was spent piddling around the house.  We cleaned some, relaxed some, did some laundry.  It was divine. 

Monday was even more relaxing for me, not so much for Tim.  The first thing we worked on after breakfast was to clean out Cooper’s toy box.  His toy box was overflowing, literally.  What we discovered?  It was mostly balls.  Balls, balls, and more balls.  Soccer balls, baseballs, basketballs, footballs…. Oh, and baseball bats, hats, baseball gloves, and all kinds of other sports stuff.  Once we cleaned that out, and put the puzzles and games where he could see them (previously they were down in the toy box and he never played with them), we had a toy box that was probably only one third to one half full.  Score!  The rest of the day was spent cleaning and laundry and taking care of the kiddos.  Another great day!

Heading back to work this morning was blah.  Hence the funk.  Oh well, leaving you today with a few pictures from this weekend, some are reposts from instagram, sorry about that.

Cute Cousins!

My babies love each other.

My Katy girl helping mama clean the kitchen.

Cooper as an umpire.  He’s obsessed with umpiring since Tim umpires – he takes whatever he can to make his shin guards, mask and shoes… :)