a life beyond running shoes.

as of monday, i am through my first trimester with sweet baby #3. the sweet children will out number the adults come the beginning of march. as john likes to comment about my day to day coping skills, "her body is betraying her" as i adjust to pregnancy and surviving with two small children. i still can't find our flash drive to upload pictures....i'll work on it. it requires clearing off the computer desk which exists in the middle of the living room due to the plaster/drywall work being done to patch up the hole from the toilet leak. supposedly the new hardwood floors are supposed to arrive this week.....which means we could potentially move out of the office and back into our bedroom in a couple of weeks!!! the small pleasures in life!

If you're the "average" person, you've only read SIX, according to the National Endowment for the Arts. my friend, scribbling suit , has read 43. now that is impressive..those crazy english teacher types! So, here's what you do: Copy onto your blog. Bold the books you have read. Italicize the books you intend to read. Underline or change the color of books you love. Then bug those people who have only read six of these. 1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen 2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien 3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte 4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling 5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee 6 The Bible 7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte 8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (in two weeks i will have read for my book club) 9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman 10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens 11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott 12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy 13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller 14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (I'...

it is always more than we think it is going to be. here is the ceiling where the plumber fixed the leak.... we still have to fix the plaster. THEN there is our bedroom floor.... all those dark spots.... we think are cat urine... from the 20 that lived here before we did. heat and humidity don't work well with cat pee smell. we will be replacing it all including the sub floor. what fun, what fun.

cute kids. a special trip to the happiest place on earth... a place where baby brother did not come! sweet family olympics. g'parents & g'kids. (there are 8 g'kids)

so here are some fun facts from our vacation in florida..... we got home saturday. 19 days in florida. 14 days with daddy. 1 kitchen repainted (while the boys & i were gone). 1 living room painted. 6 days at the beach. 1 head gash. 2 busted lips (same child). 104.6 fever.... the high reached. 9 of 12 adults sick with cold (the other 3 got it later). 2 runs.... lame! 4 books read.... 3 by stephanie meyer. 2 hours of swim lessons spent entirely in tears. 7 cousins. 7 years of marriage - happy anniversary to us. 34 years of life - happy birthday to me. 1 game of tug 'o war. 1 egg in spoon race. 1 three-legged-race. 1 sandcastle building contest. 1 shotput. 1 game of holding your breath.... i was terrible. 1 water relay with inner tubes and all. 1 sweet family olympics. 1 hole in the ceiling from leaking plumbing.... welcome home! pictures to come!