Half Marathon

I was in a rut after my surgery and my friend Katie was doing this half marathon and I thought this is was what I needed to get back in shape. Thank you Katie so much! David volunteered to do it with me and I am so thankful that he did. I couldn’t have done it without him. He is such a motivator and supporter (even of all my crazy ideas and we all know that I have a lot). There were a lot of days training and lost Saturday mornings, but he stuck with me.

My expectation was just to run the whole thing at whatever pace, but my expectation was let down at mile 9 when I started getting this horrible pain in my left otter foot and I was walking by mile 10, what a disappointment. I have to look at the positives her and know that I did accomplish a half marathon. I will do another half marathon this year to redeem myself. It will not be about beating my time; it will be about running the whole thing.

As a side note, I went back to the store that I bought my shoes (just two weeks before the race) and explained the whole situation and they replaced my shoes with ones that fit. I am not trying to make an excuse for my horrible run but the lady said that I was in the wrong shoe and disappointed that the woman who helped me didn’t even fit my foot after my surgery…I have 30 days to figure out if this shoe is the perfect

David's dinner the night before

 

Pre-Race

Post-Race

Katie and I (my new hippie headband, love it)

Watch Out Cardinals

Palm Sunday

Benjamin and I went to church for Palm Sunday and he was so excited about his palm he wanted to show everyone...it was really cute! Later that day we had family dinner so we did a little Easter egg hunting with my dad's side of the family as we won't see them on Easter.

 

Easter Egg-Citement

This is the second year that I have taken Benjamin to Eckert's for their Egg-Citement and they didn't disappoint. We went on a tractor ride, pet some ducks, made a cookie, had a picnic, got a photo with the Easter Bunny, and of course some egg hunting...he didn't want to leave at all.

 

Tractor Ride (yes he still sucks his fingers)

"Mom, I don't want a picture, I want my cookie"

 

Frisco Fun!

This past Friday night Henry Haupt invited Benjamin to one of his favorite places to hang out, a train store. On the second Friday of the month they keep the store open for a small entrance fee to play with all the trains and tracks. They also give you a train cookie to decorate with juice on the side. It was a blast, Henry loves this place so much that he is having his 3rd birthday party here!

Watching the train go around on the track above

Choo Choo!!

Such good little boys

Opening Day!

Another opening day and it might have been rainy, but at least we won! After the game we went to scope out the new Ballpark Village with Katie and Jack...it was AWESOME!!!

Easter Activites

Yesterday Benjamin and I went to my sisters for some fun Eater activities. We made snacks and dyed eggs. We are all ready for the Easter bunny now...

Helping (making more of a mess!)

Nests!

Drawing on our eggs

Benjamin loves eggs so much he was trying to eat them

Yes, I took his clothes off so he didn't dye them :)

Our Easter baskets (so proud of myself on these!)

Fishing!

Granddad wanted to go fishing so we jumped at this opportunity to take Benjamin for the first time. We went to Maramec Spring Park in St. James this past Sunday and it was a perfect day to go, it was a little bit breeze in the shade but in the sun it was beautiful! Benjamin had interest for the first 15 minutes and then wanted to run around which was ok because I couldn't fish because I didn't have a license. Her are some photos of our fun...

Ready for the road trip!

Fishing with Kaleb!

Telling Great Granddad what color his line is

Showing daddy how to fish

Looking at all the fish

Walking with Grams

Family photo in the cave

Didn't even make it to the highway before he was passed out...