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Race for the Cure!

What a WONDERFUL way to celebrate Mother's Day!

This was my second year running the "Race for the Cure" and this year there were over 50,000 people there!  It was an amazing morning!  Beautiful sunshine, perfect temperature, and a wonderful run!

This truly is a tradition that I am going to continue to do each Mother's Day!

"My mom" questions answered by Aspen

Today when I picked Aspen up from school she said to me, "Mom, I have some VERY SPECIAL for you, and I want to show you when we get home!"

I asked her about it and tried to guess, and she told me, "Nope, no guessing, you will see when we get home!" (followed by giggles and excitement)

We got home and into our house and Aspen IMMEDIATELY showed me what she made.  It was a Mother's Day Book!  I love it!

Especially the first page

Her teacher Mrs. Jeannie asked her questions and Aspen had to fill in the blank

Here are Aspen's answers:

My Mom

My mom is 91 YEARS OLD

My mom is the prettiest when SHE WAKES UP IN THE MORNING

My mom likes to make HAMBUGERS

My mom always says, I LOVE YOU

My mom is funny when she TICKLES ME

I just smiled!

I look pretty good for being 91 years old!

A wonderful weekend together!

My wonderful parents offered to take our two kids for the weekend!  As soon as I told Aspen and Titus they were so excited (as were Zac and I). 

So, we packed there bags and they headed to Papa and Grandma's house from Saturday to Monday. 

What did we do while they were gone?

Saturday morning I had a wonderful time chit chatting with some amazing women at breakfast.  Where did we go?

What a fun time!  Great food, great laughs, great time!  If you have never been to Jensen's cafe, you have got to try it...I know that I will go back!

After a wonderful morning with the girls I ventured over to my mother in laws for there neighborhood garage sale.  So many people and some very interesting people watching (does anyone else people watch?)  Did not get much from the sale, but did score Aspen a beautiful jewelry box, a beautiful sweater for my mom, and some cute little lamps for our living room.

After the garage sale I had a couple of hours until I met up with my hubby, so I went to Target (ALL BY MYSELF) and scored an AMAZING deal on a pair of jeans for my hubby!  Originally $30 but they were on the 75% off rack (and in his size) for $6.98! 

*I do not have a picture of them, but they are cool, and you would never guess that I got them from Target*

FINALLY it was time to meet up with my wonderful hubby, it was date night and where did we go?

Have you ever been here?  One word...AMAZING!

The atmosphere, the service, the food, and the best part...the company!  I had such a great time sitting with my husband and just talking.  It had been awhile since we had a date night and it was definitely the BEST time ever!  I love my husband so much and just truly enjoyed being with him. 

Definitely go to Enjoy!  You truly will ENJOY it (i know that sounded corny, but you truly will) and if you go, PLEASE try the Butternut Squash Ravioli, you will not be disappointed!

The rest of our weekend was spent at church, more time with his wonderful family, dinner at El Azteca, and a wonderful evening Sunday night with our small group. 

A wonderful weekend spent with my wonderful husband and we thank my womderful parents for watching our wonderful children!

A subtle change...

Tonight my wonderful husband helped me out...

I colored my hair!

It's not a HUGE change, but it is a nice subtle one.  I love it. 

I went to Walmart tonight and picked the Garnier Fructis Herbashine hair color

The color is Copper Mahogany Brown

Thank you honey for helping me out!  I love it!

Deceptively Delicious!

Do your kids like eating vegetables?

My kids, it really depends on the day.  But I do know that do need to get them more in there diet and so I have found the book to help me do so!

Jessica Seinfeld, married to Jerry Seinfeld, wrote this cookbook and there children were the taste testers.

Tonight, we tried a recipe.  It was not actually a recipe from her book, but we used her tips on how to puree and so tonight we pureed red peppers and put them in our spaghetti sauce and let me just say, our kids LOVED it and did not even know that we added just that little bit extra veggie in there meal. 

The sauce was delicious!  We definitely are going to keep on exploring with this and hopefully find more fun ways to incoporate vegetables in our children's diets.

Head on down to your library, Barnes and Noble, order online, etc...  You have got to check it out!

Frankie the Fish

I am sure by now you have seen this commercial, "Give me back that Filet of Fish" right?

Well tonight I was singing it (I know...kind of annoying) but I kept singing it because Titus would join in...it was really cute and I hope to get a video of it sometime soon.

But instead of singing, "Give me back that filet of fish, give me that fish"

He would sing, "Da Da Da Da filet of fish, Da Da Da fish!" and then he would laugh!

It made all of us giggle and was a fun way to end the evening, as they are now off to bed!