Classic

Well we did it! For daddy's "break" from his big woodworking projects we all did a 5K on Sunday. Well, Luke did walk quite a bit of it. Just doesn't seem to want to stay in the wonderful double bike trailer/stroller we practically stole at Costco - such a deal for this thing. Anyway - he was in and out quite a bit. But he did enjoy holding hands and running with his basketball and Kid Kare buddy Aiden.










He did finally fall and scrape his knee which meant he yelled and rode in the stroller for the final mile. Mixed emotions about which was better Luke in the stroller or out.
When out - he ran or whined like a maniac.
When in - the stroller increased in resistance by 2/3 - poor daddy.
When out - the pace slowed:)
When in - meant that mommy had to run:(

enjoying pretzels with Aiden after the race...








Big O was such a trooper - never cried in that stroller. He loved having his big brother in there with him. He never napped though - really almost the whole day! I worked the nursery at church so Owen was busy watching all the big kids - no sleep. Brief nap on the way home to eat cram in lunch before the "race". No nap during the "race" and then too crabby and hungry to sleep after the "race". Very early to bed though:)











Now in the thick of a LONG work week - working everyday this week to cover vacation for an employee - ugh! It's hump day though:)

More to come...

party

well the good news is my house is clean. bad news is i'm exhausted from cleaning and from being social.
i helped a friend of our's and hosted a party for her business at my home. the stuff isn't amazing and a little pricey. i guess i am too much of a bargain shopper. the baskets would be useful though. nice to have a few folks over - mostly gals from work and only one of my new neighbors even though i'd invited lots of my new bunco friends. i swore i wouldn't have any activities at my home until we painted - everything is such a blah color. but since it's almost been a year since we moved and still no paint i had to give in. the food was easy - had leftover fruit cut up and fruit dip - i had brought it to Bunco on Tuesday of this week. also had amish friendship bread (thanks - brenda) made into a nice bundt cake. the party was at 1030 so no real food was required:)
joe took the boys for a few hours (nice to have my house so quite). he ended up having to take o back to urgent care - he still has his rash on his boy parts. turns out we were on track with it being a yeast infection so continuing with the anti-fungal cream - hate that i have to say that about an 11 month old precious little boy. he also has another ear infection (the original instigator of this rash business) - they gave us samples of antibiotics for the next ten days. kudos to dad for handling 2 little guys at urgent care for 2 hours on a busy saturday - then tackling walmart to fill what we thought was a prescription for o's antifungal cream but turns out it was just the over the counter equate stuff i had purchased on thursday - thanks for the tip j!
anyway we are all on the mend. joe and i ordered pizza last night and watched flicka - nice movie but i just am not crazy about horses but good story.
now daddy is off finishing the install of his current cabinet job and should be home by noon for a costco outing - what fun. i can't wait for the 4 of us to go do something together - it's been a lot of split parenting lately - i hate that tag team feeling. divide and conquer doesn't work for too long with me - i prefer the group approach to parenting. weather permitting daddy has softball practice this afternoon - maybe we will all attend???

gift

my baby will be one in a few weeks!!!!
what to get him??? he has so much already but i can't not get him anything.
i'm thinking of this
how to celebrate?
we have yet to have to give our oldest a birthday party so i don't plan on changing that tradition. probably just have nana and papa over for cake???
looking forward to church tomorrow, an Easter egg hunt at nana and papa's and a yummy meal - may get to 70 degreees!!! Was in the 60's today - got some gardening done. cut back some things that probably should have been done in the fall and a few weeds. now for some new mulch. tulips and daffodils are making there way through:)
sorry for the few and far between blogs but those that do read this most likely are updated plenty in the lives of the bilau's:)