Fun in the rain

Oh, rain! Today the rain cramped my style, but didn't stop us from doing what we needed to do. Justin called this morning to see if we wanted to meet him at the park for a run. Today's weather was supposed to be 63, cloudy with rain later in the afternoon so we thought a little fresh Air would be good for all of us! (max woke up at 5:30 again this morning - Wth?!) so we get to the park and it is super windy and looks like rain - we decide to run the parking lot so we could be close to the car if it started to rain. Sure enough 1.3 miles in, we start feeling drops so we turn around. It only ended up sprinkling for a minute or so, but we sprinted back just in case!
Since we were already out I decided to go to Target and Michael's to get some bday supplies. The rain seemed to be gone and I checked the weather on my phone - we were good to go....or so I thought! We made it through Target, but on the way back from Michael's it started to rain. This wouldn't be a problem except Max and Claire were in the Target shopping cart and had no barrier from the rain. (I parked in the middle Of the lot so I could be quick updating and loading.







So my solution was to throw my jacket over Max's head (Claire had a hood on her jacket) and book it across the parking lot!






Max thought it was more fun to ride standing up!!
We survived the rain with only a few drops getting on them!

I have also been wanting to paint our very outdated chandelier before their party this weekend. Well, to be able to paint outside, the temp has to be a minimum of 50. Today is the only day this week that would work to paint. Luckily, the rain held off!



This is just with the primer. It looks so much better in person.

I guess I should get some sleep since the babes have been waking up So early

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Not 2, 3, or 4....

....but 5 miles!!  I think I've said in a previous post that Justin gave me a running envelope for Christmas. (He did not do this bc he thinks I need to run)  This is supposed to be fun and keep me motivated.  If I run a minimum of five days, two or more miles, I get $10 in the envelope.  So far I've earned $30!  I actually had to get him to raise the ante a little!  I can (and do) run more than two miles.  When he set that minimum, there were days that's all I would do, because that's all I had to do.  Get my drift?!  So... he said if I run 20 miles a week, I can earn $15! Now were talking!! ha!

..... anyways~today I took the kiddos to the gym just planning on running my measly two miles.  But then I saw a friend and her husband.  The gym was packed and the only treadmill available was next to her husband. I am the type that if I am running next to someone I know, or someone just running fast and far... I feel I have to do the same.  He said he was running for 40 min so I decided I'd shoot for 4 miles or 40 minutes too.  Well by the time I hit 40 minutes, I was at 4.25 miles - what's .75 more??
So, 5 down, 15 to go!! That is totally doable!!

I really enjoyed that run.  Now I just need to find that kind of motivation every day :)

Mama

So I think it's safe to say Max's first word is mama! He started really saying it this weekend and this morning when he decided to get up at 5AM! He was whining "mama". It made it a little easier to be up so early when I heard that coming out of his mouth!!




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Splishing and a Splashing!

Max and Claire LOVE bath time!!

Today I took their 12 month photos.  I took them a week early so I could add "12" to their birthday banner.  I'm not going to lie, it made me sad to be doing these pictures.  Even though we have had rough weeks days, we are truly blessed and I have loved every second with our babies.  I want to bottle them up.

One more week

::tears::
My babies will only be babies for one more week :( I can't believe they have their first birthday party next Saturday.  Last night I did a practice round on the cupcakes I'm going to make and today I went to the bakery to order their smash cakes.  I can't wait to see what they do with their cakes.  My prediction is Claire will really dig into it, making a mess and Max will pick at it with his pincer grasp!

I've been a blog slacker the past week or so, but it's only bc I've been busy making their books on Shutterfly.  Since they were born, I do a book every three months...so I have newborn-3 months, 4-6 months, 7-9 months, and I am currently working on the 10-12.  I want to have them displayed at their party so that means I have to take their 12 mo picture early... not sure if I am ready to seem them in their 12 month pictures!

Almost Wordless Wednesday

I was weeding through my cell phone pictures today and found some blog worthy photos!

Sibling love!!

This is what happens when I take my eye off for a second

Bahahaha!!  Doesn't even look like Claire! haha

New Year's Eve

*update on our walker~Today Claire took 12 steps!!! 

Almost there!

The Bear has  no fear!  This morning while playing with Max, she pushed herself up to a standing position and stood for 12 seconds, then carefully sat down on her bottom!  I started clapping and telling her how proud I was.  So for the rest of the day she has been standing, then looking for me to cheer her on! Although it's not the best, I caught her first step on video!
I can find it on you tube, but when I search through blogger, I can't? This happens every time I try to upload something...what am I doing wrong?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDk2OVFNulE